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Do. let's bring in our lead-off panel on a wednesday night. maya wiley, former fed, former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york, now a professor at the new school. jeremy bash, former chief of staff at cia and the pentagon, former counsel to house intel. and michael crowley, white house and national security editor over at politico. good evening to you all. jeremy, now that everyone's had 24 hours for this to sink in, lay people, folks in the news media included, white house staff, what's in here do you think that gives them the most concern? >> well, these documents t...

The saudi lobbyists started reserving blocks of rooms at trump's hotels starting december 2016 within months of his election. and within 2016 and february 2017 they reserved 500 rooms at trump's hotel. >> to put that in perspective, that must stand out on the balance sheet of a hotel, right? presumably not a lot of other people are booking 500 rooms at a time. >> that's right. and especially, you remember what was happening in january 2017 when four of these big trips happened, president trump was being inaugurated. it's a busy season for any hotel. but then you're talking about the inaugurati...

Information about the content and context of interactions between the transition team and russian government officials. those include michael flynn's phone call with the russian ambassador in december 2016 asking russia to help defeat a u.n. resolution on israel. flynn admitted he lied to the fbi about that conversation. he also told the fbi he contacted the russian ambassador at the direction of, quote, a very senior member of the presidential transition team. we know based on nbc news reporting that that very senior member of the trump transition team was jared kushner, donald trump's son-in...

Far as i've seen. jamal khashoggi was banned from speaking publicly and writing publicly in saudi arabia in december 2016 after he spoke critically about donald trump here at a think tank in washington. so it's just interesting and important to point out in addition to trump's conflicts of interest with saudi arabia, which you pointed out in the beginning and which are significant, but khashoggi was a critic of president trump and of mbs. he was a critic of these aspiring authoritarians, and in the case of mohammed bin salman, an actually thoritarian living out his authoritarian dreams. but it...

What we can't know at this point is what is in those redacted sections and how it may relate to other individuals and any future criminal prosecution in the coming days or weeks, sean. >> sean: catherine herridge in washington. we will get back to her later in the program tonight. >> sure. >> sean: when weam talk about process crimes, wouldn't it be normal, when you look at the date, december 2016 incoming national security advisor talking to his russian counterpart. this is way over the line. look, i'm going to go through this slowly. if you believe in this constitutional republic, equal just...