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Was for it. it was a 540. jesse: you must have been a skater back in the day. >> if you are going to plagiarize, plagiarize fdr, maybe jfk. when you plagiarize avenatti. jesse: beto said it first. something that bothered me this week. abc gets into the oval and they start trying to trap the president. some thee receipt cal scandal -- so theoretical scandal. watch how stephanopoulos tried his best to get trump to say something controversial. >> if china, russia, someone offers your campaign with information, do you call the fbi

Son's position but i think he was also being defiant. he didn't want to give stephanopoulos what he thought was a politically acceptable answer. >> that is his answer to fight against the media always. to be in opposition to the media. but also stepped on positive aspects on how they handled this media coverage. and they also found there several times made by a russian government that were -- he could about that appear across the president got press this week about a new york times story which said that he had told his aid not to acknowledge or to live according to the times, a devastating str...

Can't get involved in that stuff. >> and what penalty does mitch mcconnell pay if the senate actually does this, just the wrath of the president? >> i was going to take this segment in a different direction, the fact he's sitting with stephanopoulos, i believe that trump is going to do a pivot forward. he is the ultimate transactionallest, survivalist and to me if all of a sudden to your point just walking things back, if all of a sudden he comes out with some health care thing, some big opioid thing, that we saw it last week when he just gave a normal speech and was presidential. so credi thi...

"value" instead of "information," which is the word the president uses. is there any difference? >> well, there could be a difference, but in the context in which stephanopoulos was asking the president, he was essentially asking if you received from a foreign national something which was essentially opposition research, negative information about your opponent, would you accept it? and he said yes. that would be a violation of the law because opposition research is something which can easily be valued, and so it would be a receipt of a thing of value and a vilgolation of the law. that is the ...

She's been -- she's just a great person. they had have tried to take away her speech and i think you're entitled to free speech in this country. >> yeah, they just say if you're working for the white house, you shouldn't be involved in criticizing other candidates or other politicians and she has. will you encourage her not to do that going forward. >> but it doesn't work that way. >> i am joined by david korn from mother jones and msnbc analyst, barbara mcquade, and maria teresa kumar president and ceo for voter latino. david, what do you make of it all. >> plenty to pick from on a friday. >>...