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He pleads guilty to making false statements to the fbi. well then a few months later in march all these lawmakers are saying, mr. comey, we want to be briefed what happened. what exactly happened? we're hearing different stories. and what's new this morning there were sources inside the meeting comey said to him, he didn't lie to the fbi. steve: what is curious about this, they heard from the guy running the fbi. my people talked to them. we didn't hear anything the matter with it. yet, a couple of weeks later, what happens? michael flynn is in bigç troub. byron york broke this story yesterd...

The government thinks is not true. >> but ross, isn't that the point? mike flynn didn't take the process seriously, he felt a need by his own guilty plea to lie about sanctions pleas and other things. but people who do know better, who know how this works, pretending that that problem would be the investigators fault for asking questions in a proceeding where you would get in trouble. that's not the investigators fault, is it? >> not necessarily the investigator's fault. you're a lawyer, i promise if initiate sitting in front of you, if you had unlimited time and resources to prepare, would sa...

Legal argument say well the president was defending himself, he was just fighting back against an investigation that he didn't think was substantive? >> so anyone who is under investigation, and let's assume that the president himself is under investigation l has a legal right to defend themselves. and if he wants to defend himself in the press by saying that there was no collusion and no obstruction, that's his right. what he can't do is interfere with the investigation by witness tampering or evidence destruction or seeking other law enforcement agencies to interfere. >> or instructing aides...

Running for president and the left wing of the party. a lot of criticism of this, the left side of the party, the left wing of the party controlling the party, creating the shutdown over something the moderates didn't think was necessary. 30 democrats voted to of the government back out, they lost their backbone in this deal, the decision from the party saying this is not the hill we should be dying on to shut down the government over illegal immigration. >> i don't think it was tied to one certain thing, democrats made a bad habit of selling out their base. it will be hard to get turnout up i...

Non-violent prisoners with skills and a second chance. it is the latest responsibility on jared kushner's growing list within the white house. that also includes middle east peace. but this is somewhat personal for kushner. his father, a developer charles kushner, served a 14-month federal sentence. jonathan capehart is an opinion writer for "the washington post" and msnbc contributor and tim o'brien is executive editor of bloomberg gadfly and bloomberg view, also an msnbc contributor, and the author of a donald trump biography. jonathan, let's first get to prison reform. this is something tha...