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♪ rachel: good morning, it's 7:00 here in new york city. come on, christmas. will: never heard it. but sounds familiar. pete: come on, christmas. rachel: how would you like me to say it, pete? pete: i don't know. come on, christmas. you were like, come on christmas. yeah, we're saying come on, christmas. come in. will: felt like we're talking about the state of the country. come on, christmas. pete: do better. rachel: when we have racist christmas parties and satan displays, come on, christmas. will: oh, yeah, christmas. pete: somebody took care of that satan display in the iowa ca...

themselves as well as on their families, having to withstand the demonstrations and threats of violence of those inspired by the former president who are often quite literally outside their doors. >> some of the most personal and damning testimony heard today came from arizona's republican speaker of the house. rusty bowers is his name. he was one of those officials who was pressured directly by the former president's legal advisers. he offered more evidence today that they all knew their scheme was illegal and he spoke of his refusal to help not only in terms of law but also his fai...

Biden but there's a demonstrable difference in terms of commitment to democracy. joe biden, whatever you think about him and there's certainly plenty of criticisms to be made, he's not trying to undo elections. >> absolutely. and republicans if we don't get this right, if we don't get democracy right, if we don't convince the right and the middle and the left for that matter that we can control democracy in a way that the constitution spells it out for us, then we have no chance to really do anything important. but my assumption is americans are ready to turn the page. republicans are ready to...

Well, here's what we know at this point. when it comes to mueller, so far four people have been sentenced to prison. there are seven guilty pleas. 36 people or entities have been charged. one person, paul manafort, convicted at trial. and 192 criminal counts have been filed overall. let's discuss with cnn political analyst david gregory, jeffrey toobin and garrett graff. the fact that there is more to come, that this is not just, hey, we're not going to do this anymore, it is we are cooperating from here on out. and jeff d, one of the question is this meeting in 2015 and there was another camp...

A certain something there. gary, the other thing that i think you have pointed out that is interesting, you know, we have heard the narrative for so long from president trump, from the folks around him about how they view this investigation. the mueller team, obviously, is keeping quiet. but they're moving forward with people against whom they have overwhelming evidence. because when you look at it nearly every person targeted has pleaded guilty. that says something. >> it really does. and it shows, actually, the opposite of the witch hunt that the president says is being conducted. mueller is...