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Williams. thank you both. matt, let me start with you. in terms of flushing out this reporting, the idea here of the deputy attorney general talking about tapes, talking about invoking the 25th amendment, you are saying may 2017, what is the reporting here on who he was talking about this with and on what came of this? >> this was said in a meeting among senior justice department officials, my colleagues and i have been chasing this information for quite some time. and it was actually memorialized in the contemporaneous memo, one of them, by then acting fbi director andrew mccabe who was being...

Poisonous things were being said by various parties. what the truth of this is we'll have to see how it finally shakes out. but it does indicate the very odd situation, the very unusual chaotic situation that our government found itself in in these early days. >> all right. pete and matt, thank you both for joining us. and now to the other major story we are following this hour. take the vote. that is the president calling on the senate in all caps right there to vote on confirming his supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh, that a shift in tone and posture from previous comments that he was op...

Special counsel robert mueller. flood replaces ty cobb. he's been in that position since july of last year. he'll retire, they say, at the end of this month. there are major legal and political implications that stem from this move, say nothing of what rudy giuliani said tonight. the switch was first reported by "the new york times" matt opuso who will join us in just a moment. they write, quote, mr. flood is expected to take a more adversarial approach and mr. cobb who voluntarily turned over white house documents to mr. mueller. mr. flood is seen as a possible eventual replacement for mr. mc...

Philosophical collisions that probably didn't get enough attention other than folks who cover the legal side of this, don mcgahn was never for what phil and matt have described, he was never for this sort of accommodation of bob mueller's requests on document production and witness participation. don mcgahn wanted and needed an ally on executive privilege. my questions today that have gone unanswered is how do you put the toothpaste back in the tube. don mcgahn has spent two full days with mueller's investigators. if you were going to exert executive privilege, i don't know with whom you do it...

Exposes the president and the white house press secretary to have been telling falsehoods to the american people. they've not been truthful in saying that the president didn't know about this payment. in fact, he did, according to rudy giuliani, his lawyer. that $135,000 -- or $130,000 rather raises a lot of questions. was this some sort of arrangement that he had with other women? how was this arrangement arrived at? rudy giuliani in the fox interview references a retainer that michael cohen had for this sort of work, described this as part of their standard agreement. sort of the way they di...