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Got to look at whether any financial links between trump and the trump organization and the russians led to a relationship that made putin want to intervene on his behalf. and if mueller has to walk away from that or face some kind of action from trump, then trump is saying, i don't want to be investigated. >> john, the possibility next week of this thing becoming very public includes something we won't really be able to see, jared kushner testifying to the senate intelligence committee staff behind closed doors, but the cameras of course will follow him in and out of the building where he won...

Tougher on whoever trump chooses if this comes to pass. >> i want to take a moment before each of you go to turn to john mccain and the difficult news that he and his family have received tonight about brain cancer that senator mccain is now dealing with. john heileman, i know you've covered john mccain very closely, especially in the 2008 campaign and described vividly in your book, game change, played brilliantly by ed harris in the movie of your book. your reflections tonight on the john mccain who you know. >> look, he is, lawrence, i think you can lapse into cliche very quickly but he is ...

Sessions' confirmation hearing testimony and his forgetting his meeting with russians in his confirmation testimony. let's listen to what al franken said on this program about that. >> there's no other conclusion that you can come to other than that he was lying and was committing perjury. >> and now let's listen to what donald trump said to "the new york times" about that very same thing. donald trump said, jeff sessions gave some bad answers. he gave some answers that were simple questions and should have been simple answers, but they weren't. john heilmann, there's the president of the unit...

Mccain will be okay. >> lawrence, to reinforce your point that mcconnell seems to want to get rid of this, if he were absolutely trying as a maximum to get those votes, he would delay it for john mccain's presence. i don't think anybody would expect john to come from the terrible thing he's going through now to be there. that's one more example from mcconnell not wanting to do it. can i say one other thing that's very important? i'm indebted to donald trump for a long type, we've had this problem that people disliked government. the health care bill has shown reminded people and donald trump h...

Hours very much anymore. but john mccain, john mccain is one of the lucky ones. he does have a best friend in the senate. and that best friend is senator lindsey graham. >> i got a call from rick davis saying you know it's tough news and it is tough. talked to john. said yeah, i'm going to have to stay here a little bit longer. take some treatments and i'll be back. and we talked about five minutes you know, it's going to be a tough way forward but he says i've been through worse. and basically, then we started talking about health care and the nda. literally it wasn't five minutes until he tu...