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>> joining me now in new york is staff writer for "the atlantic." what we heard as part of that conversation, i'll start with, the simple question. are we supposed to pretend the buzzfeed story never happened or is there still something in there? >> one of the things the buzzfeed report did was revived the conversation about the trump tower moscow deal and how the president was pursuing this throughout 2016 and the way it did that, of course, that rudy guiliani, the president's lawyer, was out on tv today and speaking to the "new york times" and seems to be trying to get ahead of something. he...

Conversation surrounding the buzzfeed report and not enough on the implications that while russia was attacking the election the president was pursuing a deal and hiding it from voters. i have spoken to many, many counterintelligence experts, national security experts, who say that's perhaps the most concerning part of all of this. that russia knew that trump was trying to pursue this deal in russia, and the american people did not. so at any moment if russia wanted to pull that out of their pocket and exposed fact trump was saying he had no business ties to russia when in fact he was tries to...

Intelligence information that there was an investigation in play against putin and russia. at that point he'd been briefed by the cia and the other agencies. he was the candidate. he was briefed as hillary clinton was, and he was calling for sanctions to be lifted against moscow and making all sorts of pronouncements about vladimir putin. >> two kind of legal significance. the first would be if he actually had directed as the buzz feed report suggested, then cohen's potential crimes, he would be completely on the hook for so there would be -- so he would be the mastermind of a conspiracy again...

President, then candidate, to lie to them about what he was doing. >> more morale, a lot of questions, few answers. waiting impatiently for robert mueller's report to it be completed and questions after william barr's testimony, the likely new attorney general whether we'll actually see that full report. but is it sort of the risk for democrats that they focus so heavily on impeachment? is that the message from americans in the midterms? what's the message to democratic lawmakers? >> what americans want is for them to hold the executive branch accountable. whether impeachment and i hear from p...

. that is all for tonight. we will be back tomorrow with more "mtp daily." "the beat with ari melber" starts right now. hi, ari. >> hi, katy. thank you very much. we are covering a lot of stories this hour. donald trump getting panned by the left and the right for his offer to try to end the shutdown on his terms. we also have a special report that we've been working on for a while on "the beat" tonight. i'm going get into new evidence about what trump actually does throughout the day, why it's so problematic for america, and why his calls for executive time need more scrutiny. we're also go...