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Sure they will save it. every candidate that i ve spoken, to that s as no-brainer. this is not simple gathering of opposition research. this is committing a crime. this is going after the heart of our democracy and shame on all those republicans like mitch mcconnell who have a sock in their mouth. their appalling silence on this issue is another absolute indicator that they are just off the rails and have lost their understanding of what democracy is and what you must do to have a fair election. that s mind-numbing and that s why we re going to make sure we re going to work with our partners as best as we can. we should have a partner in the federal government, and you ll remember the former secretary nielsen who was told you can t bring up this issue of cyber security and hacking in a meeting with the president. it s forbidden. when we are at war as we are now in this cyber war, the commander ....
Express concern, and, by the way, one thing in his interview he said that congressmen do this all the time. i have not met a congressman, democrat or republican, who said that they ve ever done this. i think this is really unusual. some of your colleagues have said that you all need to pass a law prohibiting this. aren t there already laws prohibiting this? there is a campaign finance law which basically says you cannot accept something of value from a foreign power and special counsel mueller talked about this law within volume one of the mueller report in connection with the meeting at trump tower in the summer of 2016 when a russian-connected individual, russian intelligence services connected individual offered dirt. there are two issues that need to be clarified within the law, one is that opposition research is something, quote/unquote, of value and then secondly, you know, you have to knowingly ....
Year which said that the trump tower meeting was totally not about getting dirt on hillary clinton. that statement from july of last year, again, as dictated by the president, said that his campaign, quote, primarily discussed a program about the adoption of russian children and it was not a campaign issue at the time. compare that to the president now saying that it was actually a meeting about getting information on his political opponent. guys, this is no ordinary meeting we re talking about. by all indications, the special counsel s office is investigating this meeting. they re investigating all of the statements about the meeting and they re probing the president s tweets, so you d think mueller is keenly interested in this development. bob bauer was white house kowbe counsel to president obama. bob, it is so good to see you. the president s statement, do you read it as an admission that ....
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My heart i know, we ve spoken about it. did that come up? when? in the meeting with that was the primary thing that we had spoken about in the meeting. that was that s not the premise that got them in the room and then they started it was essentially a bait and switch to talk about that. everyone has basically said that in testimony already. it was a bait and switch. so it s again don junior saying i took the meeting because this was political dirt and then they wanted to talk about adoptions. and he was disappointed and who knows what else was said in the meeting. that doesn t help us very much but what else do you have which would be illegal solicitation of support from a foreign national. the late charles krauthammer wrote last year bungled collusion is still collusion. don junior keeps saying nothing came out of it. does that mastter? no. it could be an illegal this ....