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former aides will be testified towards the house intelligence committee. comes at the end of a landmark week, a guilty plea to indictments. new insight into contact during the campaign and hints the strategy the sperls mueller may be following for the investigation. the president just landed in hawaii on the way to japan. before he left he again called for the justice department to investigate the rival he defeated. >> i'm really not involved with the justice department. i'd like to let it run itself, but they should be looking at the democrats, they should be looking at podesta and all that dishonesty and a lot of things. and a lot of people are disappointed in the justice department, including me. >> he also said he had no memory of the meeting last month in which george papadopoulos pitched a meeting with vladimir putin. joining us is a member of the house intelligence committee.
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in terms of where we are tonight at the end of this pretty incredible week, is there any more clarity on where the investigation is going in your mind? >> there's new energy in the investigation. if you think back to ten days a my republican colleagues were already talking about trying to shut down the investigation because there wasn't enough there. this is despite don junior's meeting and the firing of michael flynn. and then george papadopoulos, a guy admitting to lying about contacts he had with the russians for the purpose of helping donald trump. so that, of course, raises all kinds of questions what happened there, what the follow-up was, but it certainly gives new energy to all the investigations in terms of finding out what happened. >> in terms of the investigation, though, we're only seeing a tiny -- the tip of the iceberg here? >> that's right. give bob mueller his due. he kept that under wraps.
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we didn't know until paul manafort walked into the courthouse and the fbi released the george papadopoulos plea what was happening. >> was papadopoulos somebody who was on youon your radar? >> he was and we wanted to interview him and he end up not interviewing him. that may have been deliberate on the department of justice. >> he was cooperating at that point? >> he was because he had been cooperating for months, which points to us chapter 2, that along with the fact that are sealed indictments still at doddoj. now part of now paul manafort has incentive to come totally clean about his contact with the russians if any. the president wasn't wrong when he said paul manafort's commercial dealings don't necessarily point to the campaign, but this guy has a long track record with working with pro-russian entities so we're going to want to know whether there was any followon.
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>> carter page apparently told the committee that he had mentioned to jeff sessions at a meeting or in passing that he was going to go to russia. are you willing to cut jeff sessions slack that this might have been something said in passing and not something he should have remembered in his multiple it means? >> being in had a room with carter page is something. when the transcript comes out, usually the transcript will be out -- >> i've interviewed him. >> and the fact he would come before a congressional inquiry without a lawyer. >> it went on for six hours. >> pretty much all day. >> he didn't have an attorney? >> he did not have an attorney. he try to play one on tv. the transcript will be interesting in that regard. to answer your question, just given the nature of carter page and given the nature of these
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kinds of receptions, a senior guy on a campaign when they are sort of speaking about any sort of contacts, it probably pays to be a good deal more careful than jeff sessions ever was on this stuff. >> as far as jared kushner and don of don jr. are concerned, how do you fit them in? >> one of the interviews was one of the russian individuals who was in that room. i don't want to get into the details of with what was said, but this was the first time that at least on the house side we got a first-person account of what occurred in trump tower when don junior had that infamous meeting. joining us is ryan nobles who's covering the president in hawaii. what did the president have to say? >> he spoke briefly with reporters on air force one, anderson, and he described this trip to the asia pacific region
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as being important. they alt altered his schedule a little bit. he's going to spend an extra day for the philippines for the east asia summit. he described the second day as the most important day and that was why he was going to stay a little bit longer. he also told reporters he will represent the citizens of the united states well skpelsds reminded reporters he's going to be spending time with them over the next couple weeks. this is a very important trip for the president. he currently is in a meeting with the pacific command getting a briefing from them about what's happening in the region and then he will tour the u.s.s arizona at pearl harbor. he will head to tokyo tomorrow to begin the asia trip. >> he seems to have been pleased by the president's past foreign trips. they feel he's benefit from those trips. in that sense, it could possibly distract from a domestic news
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cycle. is there expectation that will happen this time? obviously this is a very important trip for this president. >> you would think, anderson. the president has performed pretty well on these foreign trips in the past, but leading up to this particular trip, he hasn't spent a lot of time talking about it, instead talk about the democrats and hillary clinton and an election that's already taken place and spent very little time talking about this particular trip. that could change now that he's actually on the trip and he's going to be meeting with some of these very important foreign leaders, particularly when it comes to this issue of north korea. this is something that the administration ranks as one of its top priorities. he's going to be meeting with a number of the leaders in this region that are key to this particular issue. leaders from china, south korea, and japan, so the white house is hopeful that the president will walk away from this trip with some success, some measurable goals they can point to to show this trip was worth it for the american people. >> i want to bring in the panel.
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jeff, we learned keith schiller is going to be testifying. this is somebody who obviously has been with not only president trump since the beginning but with donald trump when he was a citizen for a very, very long period of time. >> he's what's known as the body person. he is the person who was with a candidate, real estate developer donald trump and then president trump for the first several months of his presidency. to the extent that the investigators want to know who was in the room, he's going to be an excellent source for that. and he will also testify about what he overharder because there's nothing privileged about anything he heard, so he's going to be very serious. >> this is someone who's very close to president trump. he has to tell the truth or there's problems. but it's got to be difficult for someone so close to somebody to
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then testify. >> absolutely, but this week of all weeks, the week of george papadopoulos is a week that you are reminded that lying to the fbi is a crime, and one that robert mueller is highly willing to prosecute. if you're inclined to say things in one direction or the other, i think the papadopoulos example should steer you straight. >> michael, as someone who used to work with mueller, do you expect mueller will want to talk to keith schiller? >> yes. he's going to want to talk to everybody in that inner circle. we're moving in. we started with people who are no longer in the white house. now we're going to people in the white house. now we're going to get to the key players like trump eventually and kushner, and they'll be under oath and they'll have to tell the truth. >> what all these people will be asked about is the talking points, the setup for the
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response when donald trump jr.'s meeting in june of last year was disclosed because mueller is obviously interested in whether a false story was played out. >> the air force one discussion? >> correct. all those people we were talking about were on air force one and participants in those conversations. later, how someone at twitter pulled the plug on the president's twitter account and exactly what happened with that. we'll explain ahead.
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a landmark week in the russia investigation. back now with the panel. jeffrey, you're on the judiciary committee. what are the outstanding issues that you would like answers to that most interests you? >> what's clear is we have 17 different intelligencing agencies that russia colluded. russia was attacking our democracy, several high-level associates of donald trump seem to be in regular communication
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with these russian spies. we also know that these donald trump allies and associates like paul manafort or donald trump junior or jared kushner or jeff sessions or michael flynn were all untruthful about their contacts with russia. and so real question is, it's just one big coincidence or is there had something more inacidous that was involved? i'm confident robert mueller will get to the bottom of it, but you have to wonder, anderson, why were so many folks closely associated with donald trump d trump. >> do you think it's fair to say that? >> let me first correct one statement. you have 17 agencies that say they attempted to. >> i did say they interfered
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with her democracy so alter the result and to elect donald trump. that was the prem. >> they certainly attempted and it's up to debate if that attempt was effective. what we know is as this investigation goes forward, i'm of a different opinion. i think it's coming close to an end. you're getting towards the president's inner circle. you start on the outside and work in. there's not that many more people for mueller to interview going forward. there's not 20 years of documents for mueller to review. you're talking about a year and a half span or six-month span of documents from the campaign a year and a half span of documents between -- >> you think he's only focused on the campaign? >> no. he's probably focused on obstruction of justice as well, but if nothing took place during the campaign, obstruction of justice is irrelevant. we still look at the facts and we can say there's only been one campaign that hired a foreign national, that's been documented, that was the clinton
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campaign. you have a lot of conjecture with what we've done, but we're getting close to the end. we feel confident as the end approaches there's going to be no demonstration of any inclusion. >> michael, is this the beginning of the end? >> no i don't think so. maybe the end of the beginning. i think there are three broad areas mueller's got. one is financial crime generally. manafort represented the first step in that. you have manafort representing step one. probably flynn in step two. then they're going to look at the trump business empire and the kushner business empire and cohen. i think there are lots of pure financial crime stuff, maybe connect, maybe disconnected. they expect then you have obstruction of justice, that's it's own sort of work stream. and then you have the broader conspiracy to interfere with the federal election and conspiracy to acquire and disseminate
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stolen computer-based information. that's the analytica stuff and the roger stone stuff and the peter smith stuff and all that stuff that hasn't been clearly analyzed in mueller's sort of determination about whether a crime has been committed. i think that's wishful thinking and maybe on the pure simple collusion point, maybe they're closer. >> alice, do you see it? >> i think we're the beginning to scratch the surface. what muffler did intentionally with the charge against papadopoulos is you can't lie to me. you're not going to get away with providing false statements. as the inner circle gets closer, they understand mueller's serious when he's asking these questions. i think it's important we're following the money trail now. things that happened before the campaign, but the real crux of what a lot of people are focused on is russian collusion, and
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that's where we need to find out in that meeting back in march, what did george p. have them do? he's what happened. i talked with gordon and he said, look, this young kid who was on the foreign policy team, he brought this up, tried to suggest a meeting between the president and vladimir putin. jeff sessions says, absolutely not, that was shut down, it never came up again, but he took it upon himself to go around their backs and go to other people within the campaign and try to get this going. right now we're seeing a younger people were not volunteers. these were unpaid people that were advisers on the foreign policy. but who gave them the authority to move forward with these conversations? that's the question, the crux of whether or not there was any kind of russian collusion. right now i just don't see it. >> abby? >> i think one of the most fafbt questions about george papadopoulos is why he was kept
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in the campaign circle even while he was freelancing. that's an important unanswered question, the fact he was working with federal investigators for three months after his arrest. and i think we should remember the may 7th trial date is pretty far from now. it's about seven months into the future. a lot is going to happen in that time, and i think that, you know, i think alice is right. this is not the end. this is just the beginning because we have a lot of investigation that's left. frankly, i don't think that the mueller team has been leaking profusely about what's going on. we didn't know who was being indicted until monday morning, and so there's likely a lot of investigation happening. we don't know how cooperative papadopoulos was with the investigators. there are others, people like carter page who seem very eager to talk to anybody and
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everybody. >> that's an understatement. michael, you don't think it's actually possible that flynn has been flipped? >> he's been quiet for a long time, and he has, i think, and jeffrey can tell me, he's got similar problems to manafort except the source of his funds is from turkey. and i think if he looks at the manafort indictment and he says i didn't right, i have the additional failure to do my disclosure form correctly. i have income that i didn't declare on my taxes and i mafia f bar issues for accounts held overseas more than $10,000. >> and he has a son. >> and the reason he still the imperative to cooperate is he's got a son. much more to talk about. we're getting breaking news, new information about what carter page told the house intelligence committee behind closed doors, that is next.
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breaking news. what carter page told the house intelligence committee. joining us is mark who shared the byline. carter page always denied in
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public interviews that he met with government officials in russia. what's your reporting? >> we're reporting that he told the house intelligence committee yesterday that he indeed met with russian government officials. this was after repeated questions that were posed to him by the committee. and that he met them during his july 2016 trip to moscow. he's done numerous interviews including with your show and "the new york times", but he's never admitted to having direct contact with russian officials. >> he was flown there on economy seats by this university in order to give the commencement or i think it's a commencement address at this russian university and he only met with scholars. there was always questions like, well, is that somebody who may
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be somebody who has connections with the kremlin, but he has said to the committee that he did meet with more than one government official do you know? >> it's unclear. when i spoke to him earlier today he indicated there was more than one official and including one who was senior. but identities are still unknown. some of this emerged during the committee hearing yesterday when he was apprehend with an e-mail he sent to the campaign after the trip saying that he had meetings with officials and government business executives and legislators, and these were his insights from the trip. this came partly because of production in e-mail in the course of the investigation. >> do you know who he had sent the e-mail to in the trump campaign after the trip? >> we don't know that yet. >> my memory, this is just from my memory of my last strange interview with him, was he said that lewandowski or someone on
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the campaign, he asked for permission if it was okay to go and he was given perception as long as he wasn't representing himself as part of the campaign. >> right. there's been a lot of scrutiny of this trip and a lot of different stories about the trip. it's been really unclear and hard to pin down exactly what happened and who he met and what became of it. this was significant because it is the first time he's acknowledging that he did meet with russian officials. but there's obviously still more to learn. >> appreciate the reporting. fascinating. back now with the panel. jeff? >> you know, can we just step back and ask how many members of the trump campaign met with represents of the russian government? george papadopoulos, carter page, donald trump junior, jared kushner, paul manafort, jeff sessions. what's going on?
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as jeffrey's just pointed out, when asked about it, virtually all of them, let's charitably dissembled. why did they all not tell the truth when asked about it. >> congressman? >> jeffrey is exactly right. the legal process will run its course, but the average american can reasonably ask the question, why was so many high-level members and associates of the trump campaign meeting with russian governmental officials at the same time they were attacking our democracy and then lied about it? let's take a step back and catalog the individuals who were involved. paul manafort, the campaign chairman, michael flynn, the national security adviser, jeff sessions, the attorney general, donald trump jr., the son, jared kushner, the son-in-law, carter page a foreign policy adviser,
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and, of course, there's the ever lovable roger stone who was involved in a variety of different ways in tell graphing something was coming at the clinton campaign. these are all extremely close trump associates who've been disgeneralous about their communications when donald trump continues to maintain nothing happened. it's all a hoax. so why can't they just come clean? >> is it possible there's another explanation to this? this is all just -- i think you and i have talked about there's an idea that trump didn't expect to win and was looking for possible future business dealings and jared kushner and manafort also had financial interests in maintaining contacts with russia, that a lot of these people had some sort of -- it wouldn't have hurt to continue business in russia? >> i think actually at the outset a lot of the outreach to russia was business driven.
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trump wanting his hotel and trump getting money from russians when no one else would lend money to him. donald trump george w. bush said russia was their source of funding, they had a lot of ga s oligarchs living in trump tower. and i thought then, perhaps, as we moved into march, april, may, june in this key summer period when things are looking a little bit better for them, they're thinking maybe we have a chance here, what is your october surprise? what is it that we can do that will put us over the top, that can't be responded to? and the dirt, hillary e-mails is what they latched onto. it was a fevered pace to acquire that information in order to take them politically. >> what you just outlined, there's no evidence for that
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yet. >> it's a theory. >> let's stake to the facts. that's a theory. >> when we come back, what carter page told me about this very trip when we spoke. where's gary? 'saved money on motorcycle insurance with geico. goin' up the country. later, gary' i have a motorcycle! wonderful. ♪ ♪ i'm goin' up the country, baby don't you wanna go? ♪ ♪ i'm goin' up the country, baby don't you wanna go? ♪ geico motorcycle, great rates for great rides.
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how'd that go? he kept spelling my name with an 'i' but it's bryan with a 'y.' yeah, since birth. that drives me crazy. yes. it's on all your email. yes. they should know this? yeah. the guy was my brother-in-law. that's ridiculous. well, i happen to know some people. do they listen? what? they're amazing listeners. nice. guidance from professionals who take their time to get to know you. you heard a "new york times" correspondent talk about carter page's testimony and how it differed from the one he gave publicly. listen to what he told me back in march. >> let's talk about what you said to judy wood rough and what you said on nbc. zebs did you have meetings last year in russia, anywhere, you said no meetings. you repeated it three times.
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we just played that. then all of a sudden you say to chris hayes that you do not deny talking with russia's u.s. ambassador at the republican convention. that sounds like you were misleading. >> anderson, a great analogy is, you and i were members of the same health club here in new york previously. and i remember walking by you even though we didn't know each other. and i said, hi, anderson, and you said hello and we had a nice little exchange for half a second. does that to you constitute a meeting? >> i guess we met, but it's not a meeting. >> exactly. thanks a lot. i mean, i will not talk about anything that happened in off the record meetings. there's plenty of people in washington i know -- >> when judy said did you have any meetings last year with russian officials in russia outside russia, you could have
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just said, well, i did attend a conference and was in a meeting with the russian ambassador at the republican national convention. that sounds like more than saying hello to him. >> it was literally, the amount of time you and i walk by each other and greeted each other. again, i don't talk about off-the-record confidential information. >> i think the public has the right to know about this health care meeting. >> i wasn't even aware of this health club meeting. >> what the reporting is, that was about a meetings during the summer at the conventions. this is what he's now testified to and what he had denied on that same broadcast was that in his trip to russia he only met with scholars, professors, not with government people. he's now according to reporting by "the new york times," has said in fact he did meet with government people. >> this is the kind of thing
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that makes the white house nervous or at least ought to make some people in the white house nervous. when they see public things happen and it doesn't hit them directly, some of them say it's fine. paul manafort, that's not related to campaign activity. but then carter page goes into a sworn testimony environment and says something completely different from what he has been saying in the public, and that's where the danger zone is in this situation. you have people who are going into -- they're swearing to tell the truth, so they're going to tell the truth so they don't go to jail. >> he was presented apparently by the house committee with an e-mail that he had sent back to the campaign describing who he met with. >> who that person was remains to be seen. as you know, he did ask permission to go and they said
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you can't go as someone from the campaign but your free to go. the concern for him, in the article they say he spoke to the fbi, has his story changed. and he told them the same thing he told the house committee this week. if "f" his story changed fall, going to have a george p. number two. >> carter page, this is what he said in multiple interviews. he's never met president trump he says. he claimed in a press conference why he had a press conference in moscow, we're not clear, but there were reporters asking him questions, that he had been in meetings with donald trump. he then now claims he was using the term meetin"meetings" in th russian definition of the
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meaning, he went to a rally the president spoke at. he was in an auditorium with tens of thousands of other people and he was calling that being in a meeting with the candidate. >> that's what i call a meeting too. i went to a meeting with the new york mets this summer during the game. >> it is equivalent. >> evidencely y'all had a meeting at the gym. >> i think what's important is we're going to speculate who he communicated with, but what we know from the testimony is it paps he's telling the truth, and that's an example to everybody else who's going to go to any investigation. >> underground the impression from carter page that he was telling the truth? >> in this article. >> the latest version? and you think this is final version? >> this is under oath. >> judy wood rough was not under oath? if anyone believes we've heard the last and final version of carter page, i think you are not paying full attention. >> he's the meaning of is-is
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. tonight we're learning new details on claims the democratic primary was rigged in hillary clinton's favor. this stems from be careful be careful's new book where she accuses the dnc into entering an agreement that benefited clinton. the document does not give the clinton campaign outright authority to make staffing decisions to the dnc but gives her some say in positions. all this news was breaking tonight and i spoke to her
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former campaign manager since the allegations came to light. >> your campaign got to weigh in on who the communications director was before the campaign. was that fair? >> first of all, anderson, i want to underscore some things that were said. >> my understanding is that communications position actually had to be filled even before the primary races? >> that's correct. this is a perfect example -- >> that wasn't just about the general election, right? >> no but it absolutely s. the purpose of the dnc with while a primary is going on is to hold republican candidates
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accountable and no one was filling that post. it's something every democrat should have been worry about. we asset date where they have to hire someone because we were distressed that there was no lead voice out there speaking out against donald trump and ted cruz and everyone else. >> clearly jeff weaver and the sanders campaign believes that things were rigged against them. >> here's what i'll say about this. politics is politics, people have to go out there and say what they need toc say. it's dangerous to say it was rigged. >> elizabeth warren is also saying that now. >> elizabeth warren and bernie sanders are important members of our party. they're an important part of our politics. we can't make the case to working people in this country that we're going to stand up for them and fight for them if we're fighting each other. we can't do that. hillary clinton won this primary with almost four million votes, that's a bigger lead that barack
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obama had over her when she conceded in 2008. the idea that the dnc can rig a contest, frankly, is laughable. the caucus contests within the larger primer are the the contests that are run by the party. the primary elections are run by secretaries of state. bernie sanders won overwhelmingly those caucuses. if we look at what the party managed in this process, bernie sanders won those contests and we won only three of them and we bearable won iowa. there's no evidence to back this up. i understand it's convenient and people want to be angry at what's going. >> back with the panel now. what do you make of it? >> i covered hillary in the campaign and this is an issue that has dogged her for a long time. you kind of have to separate a couple things here. there's this document that donna brazile referenced which is not as she characterized it.
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the more important thing is the money. the reason that document exists is because the clinton campaign said, yes, we are going to fund the dnc through these joint committees, and bernie had a joint committee but didn't use it. the clinton campaign did and that gi that gave them a lot of pour over the institution. they might have said we have to hire a communications director , but underlying question a lot of bernie democrats have are war that implicit ways the campaign controlled the dnc. were there efforts of people within the dnc to help bolster her standing in the primary? >> let me point at donna brazile. she's the won who through someone who doesn't work at cnn your toe one town hall question and sent an e-mail to someone in the clinton campaign to give them a town hall question, which
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is completely unethic cal. she wasn't doing that for bernie sanders. >> i wouldn't be surprised that the clinton campaign operated without ethics. they've been doing this their entire life. how about a debate when nobody's paying attention. >> this is exactly why it's important. >> let him finish. >> they wanted the votes of the progressives but they didn't want their voices. >> it's funny to hear trump campaign talking about the voice of progressives that need to be heard. >> we won michigan, wisconsin because we appealed to working class people. >> i got great respect for donna brazile and she's done a lot for the democratic party and for progressive politics over several decades. it's obviously a messy situation in terms of what happened or may have happened in 2016.
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we need to figure out what occurred, why it occurred, and how we prevent it from happening again. i think that will be important to try to bring about closure because we have too many important issues to tackle on behalf of everyday americans here in washington, d.c. and throughout the nation. we cannot be successful in the midterm elections if we've fighting amongst each other when we have a president, donald trump, that many of us believe is an excess tential threat. >> does anybody really believe the dnc didn't want hillary clinton to be a candidate? >> that's clear. the takeaway from what donna has written, this was an unethical agreement. there were things for hillary clinton that weren't there for bernie sanders. the dnc was in bad financial
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straits. the key is this jfa was unethic cal but in no way did the dnc tip their hand on the scales for her. i find that hard to believe. if they're coordinate winning fundraising, that is the a finger on the scale. >> this is actually the document. it gives hillary clinton the right to participate in the naming of the director of communications for the dnc. can anyone here at this table name anyone in history who's been the director of communications for the dnc? this is a minor job, an unimportant person, and the fact that she got a voice, not even the chance to name them, but it's so minor. what advantage does she get? >> the jfa is not in and of itself an unethical agreement. bernie signed an identity jfa, they just didn't use it.
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i also think there are a lot of democrats who believed that at the top people like debby wasserman schultz were clinton supports a supporters and wanted her to win. the jfa itself, i think that agreement is in and of itself pretty boilerplate. they did it in 2012, bernie did it in 2016. >> why does donna brazile say -- >> i think this is exactly why there are a lot of people raising questions about the conclusion that donna came to. i think the facts out there, you know, it's sort of weird that they would agree to do this whit the jfa, by the way, this separate agreement. i don't see any clear evidence that that separate agreement led to tipping the election. it's just not there. >> and i think we have to separate things. so you had the process and what was taking place underneath the roof of the dnc, and that's one thing. but you've got primaries and
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caucus in 50 states, and our election rules provide that those primaries and caucus are largely run on a state by state by state basis. and there's no evidence that the dnc reached in artificially shaped the results. bernie sanders won some states. hillary clinton won morement bernie sappeders won some caucus. hillary clinton won some caucus. there's no evidence that there was any outside interference in the actual electoral results. >> i just find it funny. i mane, you know, half an hour ago you were saying that the russians change the votes to help it for president trump. >> that's not what i said. >> you implied it. >> no, no, no. >> there's an ongoing criminal investigation by someone who is well respected by democrats, republicans -- >> i just think it's funny they're talking about there was no votes changed because of this agreement in the democratic party. here is what happened is the democratic party shut out bernie sander votersment the reason bernie sanders didn't -- >> how did they do that? >> they didn't encourage the
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debates. they limited the debates -- >> that doesn't stop anyone from voting. you said -- >> no. i said scourge -- >> because they had a debate on saturday. >> don't you want access, don't you want a debate. don't you want a winning of the policies of ideas or do you want to have nothing? >> if you want to -- >> they shut out -- >> they absolutely shut down the process for bernie sanders voters. >> by having a debate on saturday is shutting down the process. >> they are limiting who can participate by -- we both know that the at this time is driven from debates. they're watching the debates. they realize there's an election -- >> i find your sympathy for bernie sanders voters so touching. >> i mean, bernie -- >> defend their right to have a voice. >> bernie supporters were always more enthusiastic than clinton supporters for a vast majority of the campaign. it's hard for me to believe there was an effort to suppress -- >> also as the polls we want on,
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time now for the ridiculous frmgt and tonight we've got to talk about the is 1 minutes last night when people saw this when they tried to check the president's twitter. twitter says, devote, through our investigation we have learned that this was done by a twitter customer support employee who did this on the employee's last day. we are conducting a full internal review. now, we don't know much about this employee, anything really except that he or she kind of went out in a blaze of glory or shame, depending on your political perspective. a lot of people on twitter drew a parallel to peggy olson strooding out of the office smoking a cigarette on mad men. >> i thought i remembered you saying that you wanted to express yourself. >> yeah. you know what? yeah. i do. i do want to express myself. okay? now, i don't need 37 pieces of
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flare to do it. all right? there's my flare, okay? and this is me expressing myself. okay? there it is. i hate this job. >> for a spectacular quits in real life there was, of course, the flight attendant who had finally had it with rude passengers, grabbed a few beers from the beverage cart, deployed the evacuation slide and slid light out of there. then there was the shift manager who quit after being denied the fourth of july off after working it 22 straight days. smiley face is kind of a nice touch. and who can forget the reporter in alaska who quit live on the air to pursue medical marijuana advocacy. >> aand as for this job, not that i have a choice but [ bleep ] it, i quit. >> all right. we apologize for that. we'll be right back. pardon for us. >> wow.
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that's painful. you can put it bluntly or you can strike a different note like this guy who quit his job at a hotel. >> congratulations. all of you out, right now. >> jared, i'm here to tell you that i'm quitting. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the live bapd, that was pretty unique. but it is a long held truth that music makes everything befrt including dancing your way to including dancing your way to including dancing your way to ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i quit. i quit. i quit. i quit. i quit. i quit. i quit, i quit. oh, yeah, you can take this job and you know. you can take this job and you know, chick aboom. >> was he in the middle of the country? what job was he quitting out in
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the middle of the forest? >> so to the twitter employee who on your last day did whatever was possible you earned the all time quit stories and the ridiculous. that's it for us. time to turn it over to don lemon. cnn tonight starts right now. this is cnn tonight. i am don lemon. and this has been a week of one big revelation after another in the russia investigation. so many that you may have trouble keeping track. though it all -- through it all the white house are denying, deflecting and distracting here. but don't for a moment loses sight of everything that has happened in just the past five days, because the facts do matter here. so let's go through the facts first. okay? monday morning we learned that former trump campaign chairman paul manafort and his deputy rick gates were indicted on 12 counts. their trial proposed for 2018 including money laundering and improperly filing disclosure forms about foreign lobbying. that surprised virtually no one. but thi