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Including the russia investigation. but on cohen, there is a lack of clarity about whether in this case, he should also be recused. f or if he is recused, should we even know about it? there's sort of been reporting in both directions. there's been arguments from the justice department that the michael cohen case doesn't fall under sessions' recusal from all matters related to the campaign. it's also been argued that part of what prosecutors are going after michael cohen for are campaign finance violations related to the 2016 presidential race. so is that close enough to make this something th...

He is not involved in the michael cohen case. we learned that right after -- we learned recently right after he took over the southern district of new york's job in january, mr. berman notified justice officials in washington he had a possible appearance of a conflict of interest in the michael cohen case. those officials at d.o.j. in washington reportedly determined that jeff berman shouldn't oversee the cohen investigation even as he took this job in the southern district of new york. now, what that conflict of interest is specifically, we don't know. again, the recusal process is opaque in ...

The person lindsey graham and chuck grassley today told the justice department to investigate for potentially maybe having possibly committed a crime. they released had this cover letter. but not a classified document. they said it was attached to it. they are apparently alleging that former british intelligence agent christopher stiehl miff mixed up some dates when describing to investigators when exactly he had off the record conversation was reporters about his intelligence reports, the one he handed over to the fbi. you know it is not unheard for for conversions to make a referral to the j...

The public mind that this is something you do, especially, what are we, seven months into a term, that he didn't go through the usual just department process we've learned tonight, this was just something cooked up in the west wing. there are counsel at the just department for pardons. they didn't get a piece of this. >> right. one of the things we're learning is, we believe in our constitutional system of government there are checks and balances. but really, it is kind of an honor system when you think about it. the system assumes the president is an honorable person who will use that power i...

From what went wrong in our election and what seems to have worked well in the macron campaign is speed. and decisive action. >> russian backed hackers used a email stealing strategy against john podesta who testified for the house russia probe. >> i think the president and the entire administration were dealing with an unprecedented incident of the weaponization of russian cyber activity. >> in a separate development former trump campaign chairman paul manafort retroactively registered as a foreign agent for his work on the ukraine elections. a spokesman said he started the justice department...