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attorney for the southern district of new york elly honing. julia, start with you. did somebody tell the president he could take over this investigation? where is it coming from? seems to just be coming out of his ad-lib interview as he frequently does. sort of spins from the cuff here. seems that this is coming from a place of increased rhetoric from president trump. he wants to show that he has control over the situation. in fact a lot of times likes bringing up the russia investigation. perhaps that plays to his base who thinks this is part of the witch-hunt he describes treating him and others like paul manafort unfairly. it could be that he s watching what the coverage of the manafort trial, that s getting to him. could be he sees people like don mcgahn, his white house special counsel speaking to robert mueller and heard a lot about the fact robert mueller could be preparing a slew of indictments to giv
one of the moms in that picture saying, quote, my baby would have died if she had stayed in venezuela. important reminder of the struggles that country is still facing. the photographer here, nachos doche from reuters. you can send me a snapchat or instagram. more news nor from ali vels who only has good things to say. good afternoon. i ll probably catch you later this afternoon. thursday august 23rd, let s get smarter. michael cohen, tell me about your relationship with him. he was a lawyer for me for one of many. they would say the lawyer and they would add the fixer. i don t know if he was a fixer. yo i don t know where that term came from. he didn t do big deals. small deals. turned out he wasn t that good,
frankly. did the funds come out of the campaign? they didn t come out of the campaign, they came from me. it s not even a campaign violation. if you look at president obama, he had a massive campaign violation, but he had a different attorney general. almost
facebook and twitter at your screen to show you how the longlong mitchellreports. and here is velshi and ruhl. little longer on the floor. sorry for the delay, we had a little longer on the floor than i had anticipated. stefnight on assignment. custody custody of the border of the border. friday, may 24th. it s important to note that in moments ago president trump the ten years before this, not a spoke at the white house weighing in on the possibility single child died in the custody in the custody of the border of robert mueller testifying before congress and the attorney patrol at the border. general s probe into the everyone started making counterintelligence investigation into his 2016 sending signals. the plan was as we agreed at the campaign. they want to do a redo, like meetings a few weeks ago, the even the fact that they re president wants to present his asking bob mueller to come and proposals at yesterday s testify. he just gave them a 434-page meeting. w
so, you know, as claire was saying, there are so many more substantive allegations now including this misuse and abuse of a highly classified intelligence community computer network system. and for people to say that this didn t fall under the dni s purview is wrong. the dni is responsible for maintaining the integrity of those systems. and if it is being used to cover up political corruption, that requires an investigation. and whether or not the senior official was asked to hide that material inside that computer system. so i do think that donald trump and his associates are in a heck of a lot more political trouble right now than they were 48 hours ago because of the substantive flow of these allegations coming through,
again all reinforcing the theme that this is a corrupt white house that will stoop to doing anything in order to prevail in elections as well as to cover their krucht trackcorrupt track. weigh in on the idea that president trump took all of the conduct detailed
number of significant procedural protections where the president even on the house side, as you know the role of the house is to act as the grand jury and the prosecutor and the actual trial takes place over in the senate, but still, we had significant procedural protections we invited the president and his counsel to attend, we provided the president s counsel the opportunity to cross examine witnesses and object to the admissibility of testimony, and we provided the president s counsel it make presentation of evidence before the full judiciary committee including the chance to call witnesses. the president chose not to avail himself of any of those opportunities. it reminds me the president blockading witnesses saying you don t have enough people with direct firsthand evidence. first of all, were those rights provided only in judiciary committee. you re not the principle committee of impeachment. you re sort of the final stop. did the president get those
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