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Trump this he could potentially face civil liability in connection with his role in encouraging his supporters to march on the u.s. capitol. joining us from politico is betsy swan, former u.s. attorney and now law professor at the university of alabama, michael schmit, new york times washington correspondent, all msnbc contributors. i start with you and the new tranche of eastman documents. this is from the same judge who has already asserted in a prior ruling that donald trump and his lawyer john eastman likely committed felonies. talk about this new material. >> yeah. what this signals is th...

Slogan, i'm all about make america glareat again, but let' make america gracious again. in a rally like this when he's out there campaigning for matt rosendale to beat senator tester. let's talk about jobs, let's talk about the economy. let's talk about taxes which he did, but it got overshadowed by constant need for attack and criticizing people. it worked throughout the campaign, worked throughout his administration. if it ain't broke don't fix it, but i think it's time for this kind of conduct and insulting especially of war heros to stop. >> my friends, we do have breaking news, i had pape...

In terms of whether he obstructed justice. >> have we heard at all from juligiuliani with regard to the conversation how the interview would go with regard to trump? i know at one point they said they would not accept written answers from the president. >> there had been all sorts of things that have gone back and forth over the past few months about what an interview could look like. one of those things could be something like the president providing written answers, providing some sort of taped responses, but it seems that mueller wants to question the president to know whether he had crimin...

About an interview. and giuliani was trying to get some assurances that this investigation would be moved along at a decent pace. giuliani is very concerned about results of the investigation coming out around the election. citing what had happened around the 2016 election with hillary clinton as an example of how the justice department and its investigations could influence an electorate. >> did he talk to you at all about when exactly he received this information, michael and why he wanted to put it out there today? >> this came up in a conversation with a special counsel's office two weeks ...

Wrapped up before mid-term elections rolled around in november. first i want to go to jeff bennett standing by at the white house. you're hearing this breaking news as i am from the "new york times." talk about what you're hearing from your end. >> it's interesting because rudy giuliani as he often does on weekend making rounds. he talked to "new york times" and robert costa at the "washington post" and also talked to our friend and colleague kelly o'donnell. mr. giuliani shared this information that he shared with michael schmit to nbc news. what's interesting here is this note from kelly. mr...