>> well, you talking about koen or the presidents?should the president -- >> should he be saying stop this merger? i don't think the issue is whether the president takes a position on the merger. i think it's the why that is of more relevance and that may be harder to pick apart. but again i think he made clear in the campaign that he was going to take this position. do i think that was good idea? well, no. i look at antitrust as a very hands-off approach and i think he was being aggressive and inappropriately. >> it's all about the why. every time he said it, when you look at it contextualy, he was tikd off at cnn. >> he didn't just mention in the campaign. he also issued a press release from the campaign saying president trump would never allow this particular merger to go forward. and the answer is quite simple. should the president ever weigh in on an antitrust when he's not motivated by consumers but instead by a vengeance and ax to grind? absolultly not. if he's supposed to be a conservative or republican, which by the way are n

to the military they would send them to the form climate zone in only in the berlin destructively koen in the past two years it's been mostly syrians who have moved here. one of them is twenty eight year old abdul rahman he fought for the free syrian army and survived several arab fences his foot was injured in an attack and has not since healed. i don't know saw i'm injured and i don't have anyone to care for me but my foot still hurts i'm not allowed to walk on it but i still do if i'm to ramadan has undergone several operations on his foot and is deep in debt he says he's never really been able to integrate in the three years he's been in germany and on the ferry so there's no social life here there's no life here the people are like machines like machines that just work nonstop you can't understand them. to make to family on abdul rahman has decided to leave germany and go back home he already has his niece and for iraq he'll go overland to syria from there he wants to leave when the month is he afraid of being caught or even killed. if you must be religious saying that death comes

i did a poll at a luncheon about how they felt about koen and his credibility and after his testimony believed he was kr credible. befear that they didn't. and if they had read the transcript, they wouldn't have believed he was credible. >> want to brin in executive director of move on civic action. you've been doing parallel work. there's been a lot of activism, whether it's child separation or health care and also you've organized movements around saving mueller. i wonder where you see -- your organization of progressive grass roots at this moment >> it's one of those moments where you have to walk and chew gum and juggle and fight for the soul of our democracy at the same time. it's very clear what the next step is. there's a broad base set of people across the political spectrum who have been very clear for a long time now that we need to fight for the soul of our democracy, that we need to find out the full truth of what has happened, what trump and his associates have done. we saw 100,000 people march two days after the midterm election when jeff sessions was fired, who is no on

i did a poll at a luncheon about how they felt about koen and his credibility and after his testimony, they believed he was kr credible. befear that they didn't. and if they had read the transcript, they wouldn't have believed he was credible. >> want to brin in executive director of move on civic action. you've been doing parallel work. there's been a lot of activism, whether it's child separation or health care and also you've organized movements around saving mueller. i wonder where you see -- your organization of progressive grass roots at this moment >> it's one of those moments where you have to walk and chew gum and juggle and fight for the soul of our democracy at the same time. it's very clear what the next step is. there's a broad base set of people across the political spectrum who have been very clear for a long time now that we need to fight for the soul of our democracy, that we need to find out the full truth of what has happened, what trump and his associates have done. we saw 100,000 people march two days after the midterm election when jeff sessions was fired, who is

but at a minimum, it seems that koen michael cohen was being cute in his testimony before the house oversight when he said he never asked for a pardon and i think it's going to be difficult to figure out exactly who is telling the truth but there's a lot of untruths floating around this entire white house and this entire set of individuals. >> i got to tell you, cute is no way to address congress. when you address an investigative committee, what's the sense how this will play out, whether or not he perfejur himself. >> you're right. he is battling against the criticisms that he lax credibility. it is why he is going to prison three years, because he lied to congress. you would think he would be especially cautious in terms of this testimony and being extremely accurate. his lawyers said he only asked for a pardon before they agreed to release the joint agreement when he was actually working with the president's lawyers and then after that he didn't. but i think at the end of the day, it is important to remember this investigation does not live and die with michael cohen. what michael cohen h

the special koens was originally tasked with looking into russian interference in the 2016 election.ald trump or anybody on his campaign colluded with russia. those questions remain unanswered. but it is significant. and potentially telling that robert mueller ended his investigation without charging anybody in trump's orbit, with conspiracy. there's also the open question of obstruction. did president trump intentionally try to hamper the investigation? we don't know if this report will address that. the white house has not yet reviewed the document, and it is possible there is something in there that the president will not want to be released to the public. if so, that won't sit well with congressional democrats who are currently holding a conference call on their next steps. they are ready for a fight, they say, with the white house over the public release of the full report. it is anyone's guess as to how that will end, and how much of the report will be seen outside of washington. joining me now is nbc news justice and national security reporter from julia ainsley. from the whit

that goes to michael koen and all that other stuff too i mean, there's all these people that have all these axes to grind, and you don't know which axes are grinding at any given time you know, bezos got mad and said i'm not going to be blackmailed. if you hadn't taken pictures of yourself and sent them to meet e people, which most people don't do, i don't think, anyway. maybe millenials where, i'm not sure in my day and age, that's not something you do >> they didn't have cell phones in your day. >> bezos also -- >> you didn't have the option. >> i missed. it was a table -- >> no. >> where is my selfie stick? >> where is mine when i need one where. >> my arms aren't long enough. >> there's so many different nuances and angles >> if you are an amazon shareholder, what is going through your mind? why are you having a relationship with someone whose brother is selling information that could be held hostage over the ceo of the company >> right the original sin is bezos put -- i'm not saying i don't feel bad for him, but he put himself in this position, did he not? >> the thing i take out