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Effective group really. >> so, peter, my theory is that he's smelling there, because he's like, have you seen these guys? i mean they're dopes. i was in charge of running a foreign policy team that was some version of the "star wars" bar. this was a common line against establishment figures that sort of parachuted themselves into the general election existence of the trump campaign. they often came out of it with a look on their face like what jeff situations just had on his. >> well, in fact, we saw steve bannon say just last week in an interview with my colleague here at the time, he said my...

>> he brings us back to -- donald trump does such a volume business it's easy to forget just 48 hours ago the president went out and revealed his true feelings which was he believes putin when he says he didn't interfere in the 20american election. >> the president represents our highest ideals and highest values, that's why they insist that the american free press be able to ask questions, even in front of dictatorial leaders. -- i wish i was in that system. it would be so much better. than all these restraints on my power here in the united states. he has a fetish for these autocratic leader...

Collusion question has been asked and answered. if you can speak to where bob mueller will focus. he's looking at where crimes have taken place. where could crimes have taken place in those nine points of contact? >> collusion might not be the word, knowledge of the trump campaign that russia was interfering in our election is sufficient for bob mueller to look at whether computer crimes were used in aiding and abetting it in violation of federal election laws because foreign governments cannot provide contributions to a u.s. campaign. and assistance by a foreign agent which we already know th...

Stymied in their efforts or desire or anything pertaining to the clintons, what is this about? >> it's about a couple of things, one of course is a way of changing the subject. president trump promised repeatedly in last year's campaign that if elected he would have his attorney prosecute mrs. clinton, remember the chants at the campaign rallies, lock her up. and then he said in an interview after the election that it wasn't going to pursue that. then come summer, things started looking a little hot and heavy with his own investigation and you gbegan to see these kind of tweets and these inter...

Think many of the people around the table there with you are as well. our view is that these institutions are important, they bridge between presidential administrations, they are sort of the life blood of our democracy. they're laid out in the constitution. the president talked about judges who overturned his immigration ban. he fired the fbi director when he didn't like the fbi director would not take a pledge of loyalty to the president personally. so these are very dangerous precedents. i think it's also important to add that this latest spasm of clinton, clinton, clinton, is really not ab...