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Think the fact that that didn't dissuade the justice department and the special counsel from moving forward on the time schedule that they thought appropriate is a real show of strength on their part. i thought it was interesting that rod rosenstein said today that he had briefed the president on it which -- and that he did that so that when the president goes and talks to vladimir putin he knows the truth about what russia had done and that he was armed with appropriate information. i thought that showed an appropriate, a, deference to the president in his capacity as the person who has to co...

It's one of the most startling successes of recent times. what does this mean for vladimir putin going forward? i think it means that this technique of trying to identify where out of a mixture of inertia, inability to recognize threats and of partisan blindness, america has left doors wide open into its national security. there was clearly no serious locks or serious defenses placed in this sort of cyber dimension. we see another one, which is the doors of the united states are wide open into its financial systems for dark money to flood in through anonymous companies. >> and what's the react...

Really tried to get me and the fake news media, as we are here being called, can you imagine reported it during the time that i was meeting with the queen. so there's a lot of ways that donald trump the showman and the alpha male to present it to his benefit in his meeting with vladimir putin. of course for vladimir putin, this indictment can also be a wonderful thing. you think it's going to embarrass him. no. these people are going to get medals, they're going to be at the service of the nation, and he's once again can be more united in trump in saying the world doesn't understand the great ...

James comey because of the russia thing. the president said he wanted russia to find hillary clinton's e-mails. oh, no, no, don't listen to him, we hear from donald trump's staff immediately after when the comments proved to be problematic. ben, what do you make of the timing of the indictment? this comes a day after the hearing on the hill with peter strozk and a couple of days before the president will sit down with vladimir putin. >> yeah, i think it is an enormous show of strength on the part of federal law enforcement, frankly. you know, yesterday we had -- we actually saw the real witch ...

At the time i left in 2004, about 93%, 94% of all criminal defendants resolved their case in a plea and virtually all of those with some element of cooperation. so think about that. add to the mix, katie, that to get a search warrant, which is what happened here. to get a search warrant for a lawyer's office and a lawyer's home, definitely not a mickey mouse kind of thing. you had to go through all kind of hoops to establish that you basically had the guy dead to rights. so they definitely got a case on michael cohen. the only question in my mind is when they're going to announce the plea agre...