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Leaked a couple of memos. this is what the president said. james comey illegally released classified documents to the press therefore the special counsel was established based on illegal act. does everybody know what that means? what he is trying to argue is that entire special counsel investigation is fruit of the poison tree, in other words, if comey broke the law then anything that happened after that is irrelevant. is there any possible case for that? >> no. it's unlikely for it to be found. at the time the information was handed over to the columbia law professor the fact is it was classi...

Illegal act. fair point? >> well, the special counsel was based on russia interfering with a united states election. and i believe that every reasonable person clearly knows, by now, that russia interfered with our election. every american should be upset by that and should want to get to the bottom of it. the unanswered question is how -- if the trump campaign was involved and particularly if the president of the united states was involved in colluding with russia, that is why the special counsel was created and we need to take every step necessary, and we know that the american people also w...

Himself mired ever since his campaign began, but certainly since his inauguration. so this would deepen his crisis if mr. cohen were to begin to testify in various ways about the kind of thinking within the campaign and a lot of its activities, the kind of business activities and financial connections that the trump organization has with a whole range of institutions internally and externally. >> well, let's look at mr. trump's latest tweet talking about this investigation. he plant been a fan of it from the start. he tweeted this, james comey illegally leaked classified documents to the press...

Night james comey illegally leaked classified documents to the prez in order to generate a special counsel. therefore, the special counsel was established based on an illegal act, really. does everyone know what that means? that from the president. back with me are my legal experts larry noble and james schultz and also a cnn political commentator and assistant editor for the washington post informal we're going to try to delve into a lot of topics that cover a wide range here. first, jim, did comey who testified that he shared his notes with a friend, so as to make it public and encourage the...

Kind of whole idea of, ah, i won. democrats, you get the irs, the fbi, the cia. it was an assault on democracy in a fundamental way. >> it's hard to imagine even in this day the criminality that was involved. >> it is, but what's so interesting to watch the trump situation is another president assert that he has these extraordinary powers and has an authoritarian bent, certainly in his words, that are suggestive of being willing to do all kinds of things. he might pull back from an illegal act, but the words are really dangerous in terms of what he advocates and what he -- >> but he does have ...