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Trump organization for comment but has not received one. let's bring in the experts. joining me now, jill former assistant watergate special prosecutor and msnbc contributor barbara mcquade former district attorney for the eastern district of michigan and also an msnbc contributor. barbara, let me start with you. what do crow make of this latest depu development? it can't be underscored that the didn't you u country didn't know the name of weisselberg, first got familiar with that name when the recording was released in which he talked to donald trump about consulting with weisselberg. what do...

Knowledge of what the president has done over the past year and a half is it relates to the russia investigation than the white house council don mcgahn. according to "the new york times" report, we've known that he sat down, but we didn't know about the 30 hours of conversation between mcgahn and the special counsel robert mueller and his legal team. what's interesting about this "times" report is they say it was actually trump's criminal lawyers who initially suggested that mcgahn cooperate with the special counsel but that it was mcgahn's personal lawyer who thought there was a chance that ...

That you've got knowledge of, for the benefit of the government, sometimes, you've got to walk into a sensitive, compartmented facility. to do that, you have to have the clearance, just to talk about things in your head, not even to look at particular documents. having key people maintaining their clearances, there is value to the government long term, kristen. >> malcolm, let me read what jeremy bash told axios earlier today. he is, of course, an msnbc contributor, as well. my concern this morning is that trump will strip the clearances of bob mueller and the investigative team. it is critica...

Lack of press briefings. you know, the president himself still hasn't directly answered questions about why his campaign lied about their involvement in trying to buy karen mcdougal's rights -- the rights to her story from a.m.i., which the campaign claim they had no knowledge of, they knew nothing about the deal, nor has he answered any questions about your reporting that he allegedly knew about the trump tower meeting in advance. >> this president and this presidency and this white house has no interest in the truth, as we have known it in every other presidency. this president and this pres...

Reported that are inconvenient to him, he can dismiss them as political in nature. and that to me is a very insidious thing. that's really, you know -- that is the stuff of autocratic states. and so while i agree with carl that the reporting has been aggressive, it's been thorough, it's been critical, there is still concern about a president who doesn't really believe in a free press. >> and carl, it is not just the lack of press briefings. you know, the president himself still hasn't directly answered questions about why his campaign lied about their involvement in trying to buy karen mcdouga...