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. >> attorneys frank petri and michael kelly were appointed colead counsel to accord the cases of several thousand fire victims. >> i really don't think the cal fire thing takes anything off the table. >> they say pg&e could still be found liable. because the utility did not cut off power. >> they certainly can't immunize themselves by saying, well, it was a senior citizen, living in a farm up on the hill, who is responsible for this. they're the ones that decided to keep pumping power through those lines, knowing there was going to be a fire. >> you cannot have a fire without a sparking event. if you have no fire, you have no spark. >> the company gave no indication thursday that it will follow plans to file chapter 11 bankruptcy. they said, quote, resolving the legal liabilities and financial challenges will become enormously complex. >> they still have a big shortfall from their insurance coverage. maybe not as big as it was previously. but there's still a shortfall there. and they may still need bankruptcy protection to address that. >> bankruptcy attorney ben young says a chapter 11

i want to talk about this and a lot more with frank bruni, david gergen, and michael d'antonio, the author of "the truth about trump." gentlemen, good evening. i'm so glad to have all of you here in studio with me. this is great. let's go over this, frank. roger stone is in court, right. 2020 democrats lining up against the president. top republicans are signaling the president to stay out of budget talks. mitch mcconnell says he's open to legislation to avoid shutdowns. intel chiefs are contradicting the president on multiple global threats. it's trump versus everyone else, once again. >> and i think when you add all of that together, he's as weak as he's ever been. you know, the chaos is normal. people coming out with books saying it's a chaotic white house, it's an unethical white house, that's not going to hurt him, because we've all become scarily inured to that. but the government has just been shut down for the longest period in history, he got nothing out of it. nancy pelosi got the best of him. he's giving the state of the union a week late. the people who admired him and thought

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michael schmidt.ni pulitzer prize winning washington correspondent for the times. barbara mcquaid, former u.s. attorney, eastern district of michigan.he, chuck rosenburg, former senior fbi official and with us by telephone, frank figliuzzi, former fbi assistant director for counter-intelligence who worked for others like robert mueller in the past.ce michael i would like to begin with you. what have you learned about this extraordinary step the fbi took, opening a counterintelligence inquiry into the president?co >> well, sort of our collective understanding or conscience about the mueller investigation, everything related to trump, has been about criminal obstruction. did the president obstruct justice? and the information we had tonight shows that the investigation is much broader, at least initially it was. it was looking at the president's ties to this foreign adversary, russia. what was it?y, what was that relationship all about? t why was the president doing the things that he was doing?th that was the original focus of this. now, what this does is allows us to see the world the way that the fbi agents saw it right after comey was fired. they had just had the deputy attorney general provide a rationale t

. ♪ >>> that was frank from god father part 2. it is from michaelooperates with the fbi and recants claiming that the fbi told him to lie. we learned that roger stone has been charged with instructing a witness in the mueller investigation to quote pull a frank which means to lie. stone has been there for more than four decades. now his sleazey approach might actually land him in the slammer. >> i'm roger stone. rog roger. >> stone plauflaunts as proudly he flaunts his nixon back tattoo. his wrap sheet goes back to the nixon campaign when the then 19-year-old donated nomoney to x on oes opponent. it didn't get anymore ethical from there. in 1980 stone began a lobbying firm that catered to human rights abusers. stone once boasted they lined upmost of the deck taters in the world that we could find. never the less it is for. >> political adviser to donald trump. >> while working for bob. he was forced to resign of a to be laid revealed they placed abd. >> in 1999 he helped with the first short-lived campaign. >> mr. trump makes the decisions. >> a yea

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. >> i mean, just watching that right now, to frank's point that strikes me, i remember back in 1998 when michael dukakis was asked, what if your wife had been murdered, would you support the death penalty, that's a valid point. but remember, while this was a speech that, as usual, included falsehoods, lies and statements which were not accurate, the biggest argument that he made, which was false, was this argument that these immigrants who come into the country illegally are inherently dangerous. and that's the point he was making there. he said, you need to worry about them, they're going to come and they're going to kill your family. that, itself, is not a true statement. certainly there are incidents. >> it's interesting, it's something he's clung to forever. >> exactly. >> he's been consistent, if not nothing else. this is the same donald trump who came down the escalator at trump tower and said mexican rapists. he's right back there, and really, he's never left -- >> for me, that was american carnage, from the inauguration. >> right. >> i want to get to again, it's important to point out th

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michael chess that, auburn police officer ron tarantino, and state trooper thomas clarity, all gave their lives protecting the people of the commonwealth. we've been joined here today by yarmuth police chief frankrederickson, weymouth police chief, richard grimes, auburn police chief -- andrew, you're skru screwing me up here, buddy. and superintendent of the massachusetts state police, colonel kerry gilpin. [ applause ] we owe it to them, to their brothers ask sisters in law enforcement, and to our citizens to ensure that we're doing all we can to keep dangerous people off our streets. [ applau [ applause ] massachusetts is also a national leader in health care. we're one of the healthiest states in the nation. we have the highest rate of health care coverage. our health care cluster is a wonder. economically and clinically. it's constantly delivering solutions to some of the most challenging and complicated problems facing patients and their families. the flip side is the price we pay. small businesses in massachusetts have among the highest health insurance costs in the country. the price for the same medical service can vary by as much as 300%, depending upon where it's provided. our commun

frank -- i want to ask david about this. the article's a remarkable read. it's full of detail. michael schmitt, one of the authors of it said they've really been working on if for a year and a half because they've had bits and pieces of this information for a year and a half. it says as the fbi officials debated whether to open the investigation, some of them pushed to move quickly before mr. trump appointed a director who might slow down or even end their investigation into russian interference. here is the key sentence to me. many involved in the case viewed russia as the chief threat to american democratic values. and david, ultimately that's what this comes down to. >> yes. you know, we use the word meddling, interference, intervention, russia attacked american democracy in the 2016 campaign. they attacked it with social media. they attacked it by hacks and releasing material that arguably had an impact on the election itself. they did so with -- to disrupt and cause american democracy to look messy and at some point they also decided helping trump would be part of their aims as we

frank, thank you. an investment club for the ultra rich he joins us from the club's annual conference. great to have you with us, michael the members are investing in just a moment but whether or not your members are worried about what seems to be an assault on the wealthy with all these tax proposals wanting to tax not just what they have when they're alive but now when they're dead >> first, thanks for having me great to be here yes, our members are concerned about some of these confiscatory proposals but most of our members are also concerned about a trillion dollar deficit. so there has to be a balance clearly, we can't run these kind of deficits and there's going to have to be some change perhaps in tax policy, but to tax hard work and try and redistribute wealth has never created wealth and finding that balance is really what we need to do. >> so for the most part, your members are against all of these proposals? >> well, the extreme levels of all of these proposals i think many members would say the current tax regime is not sustainable if it's going to continue to drive trillion dollar deficits. that's going to

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