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Far from the truth.. and geraldo rivera, you called it preposterous. >> it is preposterous. you have to be at war with the russians in order for treason to kick in. war against the united states, aiding and comforting the enemy. we are not at war. it's so stupid for senatorst tim kaine and others to say it. it's just not. they also say collusion. there is no collusion statute except an antitrust. there's one statute that says you can't conspire to disrupt a government function which would be an election. this involves taking informatios from a russian lawyer. that's not deceit and dishonesty. ...

Constitution. it is leveeing war against the united states or aiding and comforting the enemy at a time of war. others have said this is collusion. point a statute that makes it a crime to collude in a foreign government with american political campaigns? doesn't exist. you won't find it there. maybe there should be a crime and maybe congress will some day pass a line and the president will sign it. so far it's not a crime. the only possible crime would be conspiracy to defraud the government or obstruct a government function. an election is a government function. that statute requires deceit ...

That's a fairly normal government function. to get them say things that weren't true or exonerate the president or things where the facts don't support it yet, that's not really okay. >> can i just say, what i'm worrying about, do you think it would be staff, then, at the agencies who would know about the white house staff interventions? meaning, their phone calls or their interventions might not be directly to the director, it might have required a couple of staff steps along the way, there by, widening the possible list of witnesses who would know about this. >> i think that's right and what...

Shut down because we can't get our act together and pass these appropriations bills to make the government function. >> do you agree with senator mccain that the president's budget proposal is dead on arrival? >> it's just a proposal. a recommendation. it points to a direction, the things i like about it, there's more money for the military. it doesn't cut veterans or homeland security but does focus on some of the domestic perhaps that are expensive and we are at a point now where we are addicted to spending in the united states. it's not we're taxed too little. we spend too much. i wish it w...

Jim comey to let go of the michael flynn issue and then, of course this idea that he may have asked coats and rogers to claim that there was no conclusion, the case for obstruction of justice against the president of the united states keeps growing stronger and stronger literally almost by the day. >> and there are reports in the washington post that white house staff, in dition to the president, were making similar efforts to get similar -- to get these kind of statements out of the cia and so forth. will you expect that to take place more at the staff level. >> i think you would, staff will ...