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Also mean a foreign government? >> exactly. and if it's a foreign government, it goes right back to this idea of foreign influence in the elections. and that can also, if they had resources monetary helping with this, that could also be another campaign finance violation. and there's also the intriguing aspect of if a mchmi was gettin resources from the saudis or some other government that they're also acting as an agent for that and we saw that with the manafort and gates situation. that's an area that the justice department has become much more rigorous about enforcing. >> carl bernstein, th...

Campaign finance violation. and there's also the intriguing aspect of if ami was getting resources from the saudis or some other government that they're also acting as an agent for that foreign government, and we saw that go on with the skmarc manafort and gates situation. that's an area that the justice department has become much more rigorous about enforcing. >> carl bernstein, thank you very much. shan wu as well. obviously we'll be keeping a close eye on this story. appreciate it. much more ahead. "the new york times" columnist thomas freedman. joins us and whether he thinks bezos should w...

Gates situation. overtook too much to the side. >> something terrible on that though. he said cop -- i don't know anything about the facts but the cop acted stupidly. this is a lawyer who said that and who holds himself out as a constitutional law. he clearly took sides there. i mean, clearly right from the get-go. >> right, i think the point is now they are gun shy. they don't want to do that again. they tried a little bit more with trayvon martin when they said he looked like trayvon. that was seen as going too far by some. though don't want to do anything controversial. this is the safest r...

Political operatives out there who genuinely believe that not only can they polarize the american communities based upon race, but they can use race as wedge issues for certain investigate opportunities in the fall. >> let me go to cynthia tucker. following that line of argument from professor peterson, is it possible to assume here that people around the president during the last hours as this has gone to fruition now with secretary vilsack apology and him taking the bullet for this that along the way people around the president are saying let's not have another henry lewis gates situation wh...

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