watergate it's not the crime that is you in it's the cover up and the president's decision to fire james komi and then participate in a dissembling dishonest explanation for the meeting that took place in june of two thousand and sixteen where there was a conversation about the russian government representative sharing incriminating information according to the e-mail to donald jr president trump himself participated on air force one and denied in a misleading report that constituted potentially a cover up so the subpoenas from mr mueller seem to me to be starting with the outer layers of a conspiracy to cover up or obstruct and when they if they ever do get the collusion evidence they still have a crime in obstruction of justice potentially and conspiracy. beginning to look like it looks like that that sounds like adults. well what we're seeing is is with the turn over documents just a critical necessary and ordinary in the sense part of an investigation you can't really speak to the key witnesses until you have every scrap of paper of e-mail of anything so that you've got all the informatio

watergate it's not the crime that is un it's the cover up and the president's decision to fire james komi and then participate in a dissembling this honest explanation for the meeting that took place in june of two thousand and sixteen where there was a conversation about the russian government representative sharing incriminating information according to the e-mail to donald jr president trump himself. participated on air force one and denied in a misleading report that constituted potentially a cover up so the subpoenas from mr mueller seem to me to be starting with the outer layers of a conspiracy to cover up or obstruct and when they if they ever do get to the collusion evidence they still have a crime in obstruction of justice potentially and conspiracy kendall is this he getting to look like it looks like that that sounds like adults. well what we're seeing is is with the turn over documents there's just a critical necessary and ordinary in the sense part of an investigation you can't really speak to the key witnesses until you have every scrap of paper of e-mail of anything so that

prosecutor james komi what do you make of that kendall well let me first about the president's alleged we'll call it spinning the statement that his son was to issue about the meeting and trump plaza it as we know it's a crime to mislead federal investigators it's not a crime to mislead the press so that'll be the key issue but what's going to be fascinating is when the day comes and the f.b.i. and mall are interviewed trump what is the president going to say about that or lenny apparently we've had some technical difficulties a tween here in los angeles and a fiber connection to miami so if you could pick up on what i was talking to kendall about and we apologize to kendall coffey we hope to have him back soon at another date but lanny what about the what he was commenting on and about the white house claiming that it's only gave false information to the justice department should prosecute him. well first of all kendall has it right it's no it's not a crime to lie to the public. otherwise we have a lot of prisons in jail but it is a crime to make false statements when you're questione

watergate it's not the crime that is you in it's the cover up and the president's decision to fire james komi and then participate in a dissembling dishonest explanation for the meeting that took place in june of two thousand and sixteen where there was a conversation about the russian government representative sharing incriminating information according to the e-mail to donald jr president trump himself participated on air force one and denied in a misleading report that constituted potentially a cover up so the subpoenas from mr mueller seem to me to be starting with the outer layers of a conspiracy to cover up straw.

going is a good first step believe in the night on sixty minutes steve benen said the firing of james komi was the biggest mistake in modern political history he said of komi hadn't been fired there would be a special counsel. i agree larry i think it was a big mistake to fire call me you don't fire the head of the f.b.i. you've got something worse a special prosecutor so i think it was a colossal mistake that is going to hurt the president and his team and this whole russian best a geisha will stay right there we'll be right back with more politicking after this break. about your sudden passing i phone lee just learned you worry yourself in taking your last bang turn. to caught up to you as we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry i could so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each pair. but then my feeling started to change you talked about more like it was again still some more fun to feel those that didn't like to question our arc and i secretly promised to never be like it said one

in the united states chris ray replaces james komi he was fired by president trump in may ray was formally a high ranking justice department official during the george w. bush administration neither trump nor komi attended ray's swearing in. twitter has emerged as u.s. president on trans preferred method of communication you may have noticed despite many calling for him to stop uses it to promote and defend himself and bypass traditional media to speak directly to americans and the world. looks at the history of how us presidents chose to communicate. ladies and gentlemen the president of the united states when president franklin roosevelt wanted to urgently speak to the american people. he took to the radio. but we welcome and open in one thousand nine hundred seven president ronald reagan harness the power of television to give a historic speech at the berlin wall mr gorbachev tear down this wall. and when president barack obama wanted to talk to the american people about climate change and everybody he chose to do it on his first ever facebook video post my backyard for the last seven y

people at night it's a day than the former white house strategist steve benen said the firing of james komi was the biggest mistake in modern political history when you go off far. why i think it led to the appointment of robert muller and alan's point you have there are really two questions here what was the extent to which russia meddled in our election and congress should have a role in that i think i agree they should appoint an independent commission that takes the politics out of it but then there is a question of was there criminal activity was there collusion though that night might not be the perfect legal term was there coordination of some sort and that is what is currently being investigated i think banham was right listen trump made a lot of moves that only raise suspicion as opposed to knocking it down the big question where since tax returns doesn't that is one of the biggest questions right now that the president could settle whether or not he had dealings with russia or not whether any of his corporate entities had dealings with russia or not the president if you will coope

congressman gaudi is adding to the call for james kelly to testify before congress. he is seeking answers from koming the investigation of hillary clinton's e-mail. this is after transcripts came to light showing he cleared clinton before interviewing her or other witnesses in the case. here is former attorney general alberto gonzales on whether that constitutes a crime. >> as to whether or not any of this raises criminal wrongdoing or the leaking of the memo and prejudging the case, whether any of that raises to criminal activity, it really, from the public record, i think it's a stretch. there are serious consequences that may arise. for example, the inspector general of the. [inaudible] they will come out with a harsh indictment of how jim exercised his authority as fbi director as interjecting himself as the prosecutor when in fact, as head of the fbi, they are in the investigators. >> he testified in june regarding allegations to shut down the russian investigation. bernie sanders criticized the democratic party after the loss of the 2016 election. >> the carbon model of the democratic party i