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Blackwater founder travelled to the say chehali at theequest of a trump team to meet with a russian oligarch to set up back channel with president putin. so this begs a question why are they not going through the front channels? why are they not going through the state department, and what is it they're trying to hide with all of this? >> and steve clemens, why does the president in general just favor russia so much? and the back channel issue is so fascinating. jfk would have loved to have a back channel to nikita khrushchev during the cuban missile crisis. they tried to figure out how to get...

Get james comey to back down in this investigation, it was a one-word answer that he wanted to say more than once, no, no. >> no, no, no. next question. well, you're right, lawrence. he -- that's the only restraint he has shown in the last day. he was quiet for, let's say, 12 hours after the announcement of the special counsel. and as you said that very presidential professional statement was put out clearly written by his staff. but he couldn't help himself. in the morning, he came out with this tweet in the morning calling this is the greatest witch hunt of a politician in american history, ...

And they are things that trump is doing that as indira said are self-inflicted, and give the special prosecutor more fodder, more things to look at. he may be right. the initial fbi investigation into the sort of core animating question, which is whether there was collusion between his campaign and russia may ultimately absolve him. it may not absolve people in his campaign. and that raises questions about what he knew about the people who he welcomed in to his campaign and his transition, including mike flynn, including paul manafort. but nonetheless, he is adding fodder and adding potential ...

Have stated many times, a thorough investigation will confirm what we already know there was no collusion between my campaign and any foreign entity. i look forward to this matter concluding quickly." it was a perfectly reasonable presidential-sounding white house statement about a situation like this. but everyone knew that would not be the president's last word abt the investigion. everyone knew we would havto wait for the early morning tweet to find out what he was really thinking. and of course the early morning tweet completely contradicted last night's written statement. in the early mor...

The initial fbi investigation into the sort of core animating question, which is whether there was collusion between his campaign and russia may ultimately absolve him. it may not absolve people in his campaign. and that raises questions about what he knew about the people who he welcomed in to his campaign and his transition, including mike flynn, including paul manafort. but nonetheless, he is adding fodder and adding potential angles for the special prosecutor to look at when he comes out and says these things and when he tells james comey in private that he would like james comey to either...