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They like to associate themselves with positive pr efforts that purportedly make them champions of the fighting climate change. on the other hand as the lobbyist details in the video, they fund efforts to question climate science. they fund efforts to kill legislation. and you know, basically the purpose of our investigation is to expose this so that the american people know exactly what they're doing even as we're trying to move forward in an urgent way, legislation to battle climate change right now. >> your investigation of the fossil fuel industry has earned comparisons to congress's attac...

What do you make of this? >> it's a sign of how far the democrats have turned. in the case of israel and sympathy toward israel and the palestinians, dana, this is further evidence of the growing anti-israel movement in the grass roots of the democratic party. in 2001, there was a poll by pew. it asked do you sympathize more with israelis or palestinians? 55% of republicans said they sympathized with israel. 38% of democrats said they sympathize with israel. 12 point gap. today that gap is 52 points. 79% of republicans sympathize with israel more than the palestinians. only 27% of democrats se...

I want to go back to her. what have you learned? >> we are looking through these filings and it says manafort has contacted two people. they worked in pr efforts when it came to his work with ukrainian politicians, as jeffrey toobin was just laying out. manafort sought to secure false testimony concerning the activity of this of the influential group of european ukrainian lobbying, this seems to be what they are alleging. saying he is continually in contact with these folks. again, this seems to have to do with his work with ukrainian lobbying, more so with anything directly involved with the ...

Ben? >> i mean, i think that's exactly the right move. one of the rare times i have seen the white house say listen we may have made a mistake here. buy an awful lot of credibility from the press and public when you say listen we didn't have all the information. as we got all of the information it's clear we jumped the gun on this. that should have been their first response we are gathering all of the allegations these allegations are disturbing. the reason john kelly is in some trouble here because he made such a strong defense of rob porter and had to go back on it acknowledging when you mak...

Interviews with white house officials, helping to provide documents to mueller's legal team. so that may keep the president for the time being from going after mueller or firing him, but any sort of pr efforts being pushed out by the president and his spokesperson have zero bearing on what mueller is actually doing. and as the indictments from monday indicate, mueller's taking a broad view of his probe, looking at crimes committed after the election, crimes unrelated to russia, unrelated to campaign issues whatsoever. that means it's pretty safe to guess that he will have some questions about ...