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Is as well. And cnn politics reporter to koppen. Former business partner, manafort, rick gates maybe called this week. He is considered a star witness. In exchange for his guilty plea. What is to be expected from him . Yes, thats right, fred. I mean, in many ways, this is sort of what everyone has been waiting for the trial to build up to. He was the man who is sort of on the inside so to speak on all of these different pieces of the puzzle that have been being put together by this testimony from, you know, from accountants, from the various sort of external factors in manaforts world. But thi...

Senator john mccain. It will head for a funeral home tomorrow and the senator will lie in state at the u. S. Capitol, just the 31st person to do that. Joining me now, president ial historian, Douglas Brinkley and retired general mark herling, doug, this is a week long week for senator john mccain the likes we havent seen. You dont see this for anyone other than a u. S. President , perhaps Robert Kennedy, the one exception to that. Maybe not sense Robert Kennedy have we seen this outpouring of emotion for u. S. Senator. I think thats exactly right. The fact Senator Mccain will be lying in state...

He made a recommendation, highly respected. very good guy, smart guy, republicans and democrats like him. made a good recommendation. regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey knowing there was no good time to in fact when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story. >> so now more than a year later, the president says lester holt fudged the tape. there's of course no evidence of any fudging. repeat, no fudging for the part that is potentially damning, the president is on camera in the middle of a sentence. no cu...

Barker giuliani and other people to interpret for us what the president says. we can understand his words. >> why do you, avery, disagree that that kind of overt expression of opinion is not obstruction, it is not an order? why do you say this is far more complicated? >> i think it's much more nuanced than that. there's no order. i understand how one might interpret it. but legally speaking, it is a reflection of intent, fredricka. that's what's so important. you follow the tweets along here. you have a sense especially on the question, the legal question, of obstruction. and you look back to ...

Here. that's like asking a comedian to be funny. it's unprofessional. >> you got to have it within the context of the game. >> you don't ask jimmy buffet to play "margaritaville." come on. >> no, we don't. >> final thoughts? >> my final thought is reflection on what you were talking about in terms of how congress used to operate, used to operate more in the premise of friendships than partisanship. too bad we don't have that today. >> the president's tweet just a few minutes ago saying russia did not play a factor in the firing of james comey. easily refuted by the sound bite with lester hold ...