and prosecutors are now saying they are going to call mike flynn's son, mike flynn, jr. as a witness in the trial even though they are not calling mike flynn, sr. because they consider him a coconspirator. the keion trial, the second jury trial of the mueller investigation started today and nobody knows where it's going to go. the question of the resolution of the case, the key figure in the campaign, mike flynn, is suddenly absolutely wide open and we expect revelations in court. jury selection was today and opening arguments were today. this is going to be a drama over the next week. and now on top of that tonight, cnn just broke a remarkable new story that appears to fill in a key part of the plot that we had not previously had about what happened in the elections and it has to do with -- >> wikileaks. >> wikileaks. >> wikileaks. >> wikileaks. >> this just came out. this just came out. wikileaks. i love wikileaks. >> the hillary clinton documents released today by wikileaks. >> exposed by wikileaks. >> we all talk about wikileaks. >> they're got it all down, folks. wi

now mike flynn, president trump's national security adviser, is in the unenviable position of having his business partner convicted for something flynn aeady admitted to prosecutors that he, himself, did. and in a failed effort to prevent that conviction from happening, flynn has just blown up his own position as a cooperating witness for prosecutors. which was his best bet for avoiding a prison sentence for himself. and now his business partner is looking at a potential 15 years in prison. and flynn still has his own sentencing in his own case ahead of him. which, again, will hinge on just how valuable he has been to prosecutors all this time. the same prosecutors he just double crossed and changed his story on and tried to kill their case against his business partner and he failed in that effort. oops. good luck at your sentencing. i mean, it's weird. it's like the whole anti-robert mueller t-shirt arguments don't work as well outside of fox news. well, tomorrow robert mueller himself will be answering questions from the judiciary committee and then from the intelligence committee i

here's the part that trump national security adviser mike flynn swallowed his tongue. >> individuals can be subject to black mail if they lie about their interactions with foreign countries, correct? >> true. >> for example, you successfully charged former national security adviser michael flynn of lying to federal agents about his conversations with russian officials, correct? >> correct. >> since it was outside the purview of your investigation, your report did not address how flynn's false statements could pose a national security risk because the russians knew the falsity of those statements, right? >> i cannot get into that, mainly because there are many elements of the fbi that are looking at many aspects of that issue? >> currently? >> currently. >> many elements of the fbi that are looking at different aspects of that issue. that's in response to questions about mike flynn's lying about his voflment with the russian government and whether that could pose a national security risk to the united states because the russians knew about the falsity of his statements, therefore compr

and the judge who is about to sentence mike flynn supposedly on the basis of how good he's been cooperatings, that judge is now demanding an explanation for what is going on with flynn and what is changing with regard to his relationship with the u.s. government. whatever is happening with flynn, we do expect some clarification to -- to his sentencing judge at least by the end of the day tomorrow. we think that those filings may be public-facing, so by this time tomorrow night we may have more clarity on whatever is going on with flynn, but it feels like his case is blowing up. >>> i mentioned it sort of feels like the news is being shot out of a cannon today. i should also tell you today the judiciary committee in the house announced plans to issue subpoenas, new subpoenas to a dozen people named as witnesses in the mueller report including the president's son-in-law jared kushner, also former attorney general jeff sessions, former deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, also former white house chief of staff john kelly, not to mention david pecker from the "national enquirer." those subpo

one issue is mike flynn getting fired which unfolded while you were general counsel. he publicly lies about it and ultimately he lies to the fbi about it. that's interesting and becomes part of a guilty plea in court. another thing we came to learn about his case. sally yates is acting attorney general and goes up to the white house in the administration to tell them not just that mike flynn has been in contact with the russians, but there is a problem because flynn had that contact and the russians know he had that contact and flynn is lying about it publicly and the russians have something on flynn. they know about his contacts with them and they can leverage that against him. he's in a compromised position with regard to the russian government which is dangerous when he is national security adviser. that countered. we learned the criminal part of what flynn did, including lying to the fbi. that counter intelligence concern is what leads us, the american people, to understand why it was so important that he had to go. i feel like we have a similar situation with tru

" describes multiple meetings taken in the final weeks of the campaign between george nader and mike flynn and his campaign manager steve bannon and his son-in-law, now white house senior adviser jared kushner. i mean, at a point in the campaign -- in the final weeks of campaign when guys like that should have had time to meet with no one, they were taking multiple meetings with this guy george nader. and then after trump won but before he was sworn in in december of 2016 there's george nader again, meeting at the four seasons hotel in new york city with the ruler of the united arab em rats, mbz who went out of his way to inform the obama administration he was making that visit despite the fact he was the ruler of a foreign country and that's the thing you're supposed to let the government know about. he did not tell the obama administration he was here at that secret meeting in december 2016 during the transition. the cast of characters reportedly involved george nader, the crown prince of the united arab em rats and once again, mike flynn, steve bannon, jared kushner, and this time anoth

mike flynn, he is well-known to everyone who has followed this saga.n kelly is of course the former chief of staff, as i know you have covered him very closely. corey lewandowsky, the campaign manager. robert porter, who left the white house in disgrace amid domestic violence allegations. rod rosenstein, jeff sessions. you also have david pecker, who of course ran the nation"nation enquire enquirer", who was embroiled in some of this stuff as well. this potentially sets up a difficult set of decisions for some of these folks. some of them will obviously have executive privilege on their side for some of these issues. john kelly would be somebody that might come to mind. there has been a long tradition of, you know, officials that work in the white house in official capacity. that way being able to rely on that. tphoeurbgs core kwr hraou wanow lewandowsky spent amount of time on the campaign. whether they line up with obstruction of the special counsel investigation, which obviously launched in the wake of the firing of jim comey, that's another questio

ambassador that the russians knew what they were talking about so they were exposing and compromising mike flynn and also you're making a big real estate deal in moscow and no business dealings and associates like michael cohen and congressman ryan. the russians knew they were lies. out one - - and when they were very close to putin, the russians knew in great detail and that gave the russians leverage over donald trump and the administration and what is so compromising about this that the negotiations went on long after to the middle of the campaign and that had e-mailed the kremlin and called the kremlin and issued a statement and said we never responded to that. that was aau lie. here it was covering up so that when the president was confronted to say i might have lost the election. for their again is the standard for the investigation. but then he said why should i miss out? we still don't know where he plans to build moscow trump tower. is still could be his motto why do i miss out on those opportunities? so the project worth hundreds of millions of dollars so that ought to concern every am

. >> mike flynn lied. george papadopoulos? so far as to encourage other people to lie? >> accurate. >> rick gates lied? >> that is accurate. >> michael cohan lied? >> true. >> when president trump called your investigation a witch hunt, that was also a lie? >> i'd like to think so, yes. >> your investigation is not a witch hunt? >> it is not a witch hunt. >> joining us, a reporter for the "washington post." i'll start with you on this one. we just watched the exchange with chairman schiff. some would argue that was some of the most effective exchanges for the democrats. give me your take on it. >> i think what congressman schiff was trying to communicate that donald trump and his association cannot be trusted. they've created lies and miss truths before the american people. that is their approach to governing that they will take into 2020 and continue if supported by voters in this next election. this was definitely about russia and 2016. for these democrats, this was also very much about 2020. >> there seems to be a lot of ba

. >> mike flynn lied? >> yes. >> george papadopoulos? >> true. >> paul manafort was convicted of lying? >> true. >> paul manafort went so far as to encourage others to lie? >> that is accurate. >> michael cohen, the president's lawyer was indicted for lying? >> true. >> he lied to stay on message with the president? >> allegedly from him. >> when donald trump called your investigation a witch hunt, that was also false? >> i'd like to think so, yes. >> your investigation is not a witch hunt? >> it is not a witch hunt. >> from your testimony today, i gather knowingly collecting assistance from a foreign governmeduring a campaign is a crime. >> it is a crime. >> rudy giuliani was gleeful in sending text messages with emojis that the president was not exonerated for obstructing justice, that the president can be charged with a crime after he leaves office, that the president can be charged with obstruction of justice after he leaves office, that's president gave, quote, hope and a boost, a boost to illegal activity, that paul manafort tried

former attorney general jeff sessions, rod rosenstein, john kelly to trump's now awaiting sentencing mike flynn, campaign manager cory lewandowski and david pecker from the national enquirer and editor there as well who helped the president with his hush money payments to cover up alleged affairs before the elections. a lawyer named keith davidson is uk subpoenaed. michael cohen was the other lawyer involve and he is already serving federal prison time for his in them. jeff sessions' chief of staff who has been the man at the center of this huge debacle for the trump administration over this census thing which we will talk about in a moment. jody hunt and rod porter who was gently nudged out of the trump white house after domestic white house allegations from both of his ex-wives put flesh on the boness to why he couldn't get a security clearance despite the fact that you need one if you are staff secretary to president of the united states. a nice bunch subpoenaed today by the judiciary committee. a nice bunch whose subpoenas have been authorized by the committee. the judiciary has been cloddi

if you look at mike flynn, for example, as sally testified the concern with flynn was for people in theadministration and the president and vice president ms. of the country about whether he was discussing sanctions with russian ambassadors and the risk that sally yates explained that the russians knew what they had been talking about and the russians knew the ministration would rip and they could expose it if they chose and that means they had compromise and we also know that the president was seeking to make a big real estate deal in moscow and he was denying it to the country and had no business dealings with russia what is -- is what he was telling people. his associates like michael cohen were coming before congress and lying about it. the russians knew those relies because the russian were on the other end of that transaction. when michael cohen had a lengthy conversation with someone who worked for dimitri pass cough, someone close to put in the russians knew in great detail about this and of course the truck people knew the russians knew and that gave the russians leverage over

the first hand knowledge of firing of james comey, john kelly, former national security adviser, mike flynn, the president adviser jared kushner as well as you mentioned david pecker from american media who is connected to the so-called hush money payments. meantime, republicans accused democrats of putting the cart before the horse and issuing the subpoenas absent significant negotiations to secure the witness testimony. >> this is not a new issue. the courts consistently back the presidency. that congress tried to subpoena them after they left the white house and the courts say the same immunity implies. if this is an impeachable offense, every president since i've born would have been i'm peached. >> special counsel robert mueller's testimony next week. the logistics remain in flux. as it stands, mueller is scheduled to testify before the house intelligence committee in the afternoon. there is a sticking point of house rule 11 which mandates that every member is allowed five minutes to ask questions. with a two-hour time limit, that will be impossible in the judiciary committee. the repu

one of the things that emerged has to do with mike flynn. palestine flynn admitted to having been illegally acting as an agent of the government of did you worky. keion is on related charges. that may be causing this prosecution of his business partner to go wobbly. this has all right produced interesting witness testimony about how flynn was getting basically calls from his pay masters in turkey during the trump campaign. they were arguing with him that they were not getting their money's worth from the trump campaign in terms of trump's public positions on turkey while flynn was on the payroll. it has been lurid stuff, but the defense stars we think on monday and that's worth keeping an eye on. see you again tomorrow. it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. >> good evening, rachel. we might have heard more from amy klobuchar tonight than in the debate because there are so many people up there. >> everybody is going to try to maximize their word count. >> then all the interruptions and all of that. julian castro will join us in

. >> mike flynn had been fired as the national security adviser after questions were raised about histh the russians during the transition. >> according to comey in volume 2, page 40 of the report, the president said i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting flynn go. >> comey does not commit to any of the investigation, but when he goes home that day, he writes a contemporaneous memo about his meeting with the president. >> trump was more direct that spring. the report says the president asked comey to publically announce that he was not under investigation by the fbi. comey didn't oblige and trump fired him in may. >> firing an fbi director is politically a very difficult thing to do, especially because the fbi director is supposed to be in his post for ten years. and free of white house influence. so here was trump in the middle of an investigation into his campaign trying to get rid of the person leading that inquiry. >> i don't know whether the president was motivated by an entirely legitimate pure reason, an improper reason or a mixed motive. all i know is

one of the things that emerged has to do with mike flynn. admitted to having been illegally acting as an agent of the government of turkey. kion is on related charges. that may be causing this >> good evening, rachel.

has to do with mike flynn. palestine flynn admitted to having been illegally acting as an agent of the government of turkey. kion is on related charges. that may be causing this >> good evening, rachel. we might have heard more from amy klobuchar tonight than in the debate because there are so many people up there. >> everybody is going to try to maximize their word count. >> then all the interruptions and all of that. julian castro will join us in this hour. he might just get more time here than at the debate, but it's fascinating to see even with the constraints that julian castro and others have been able to have their moment and the spot where they pop in the debates and the pressure is all the greater. >> even with just the first debate, we have already seen the impact that that debate can have on the fortunes of individual candidates. the stakes couldn't be higher. >> two weeks away. thank you, rachel. presidential candidate julian castro will join us tonight. this week he has given the strongest and clea

in the final weeks of the campaign between george nader and trump's national security adviser, mike flynn and his campaign manager, steve bannon and his son-in-law, jared kushner. in the final weeks of the campaign when guys like that should have had time to meet with no one, they were taking multiple meetings with george nader. after trump won and before he was sworn in december of 2016, there is george nader again meeting at the four seasons hotel with the ruler of the united arab emirates who went out of his way to not inform the obama administration that he was making that visit despite the fact that he was the ruler of a foreign country and that's what you are supposed to make the foreign country know about if you are visiting the united states. he did not tell them he was here in that meeting in 2016 during the transition. the cast of characters involved george nader, the crown prince of the united arab emirates and steve bannon and jared kushner. also rick gerson because of his in funneling a putin-approved document that he obtained from the head of a russian investment fund connec

in fact, just yesterday mike flynn along with trump's former deputy campaign chairman rick gates missed their subpoena deadlines to turn over documents and testify before the house intelligence committee. it's pretty clear the trump white house and his allies are intending to run out the clock here. it's also clear the house leadership has made it a priority, perhaps over any other priority at the moment to avoid impeaching the president, even though there are over 80 members of congress who are in favor of opening an impeachment inquiry right now. as the president continues to violate and acts and flaunts his lawlessness, there is one remedy given to rein him in, one, really, and that's impeachment. joining me now from the office of information of regulatory affairs under president obama and author of "impeachment: a citizen's guide." if facts point in that direction, congress must. cass, you are not -- i think your reputation is not as a kind of like fire-breathing radical. i think your temperament is fairly moderate in temperament and judicious. but you seem to come down on the impea

one of the things that emerged has to do with mike flynn.tine flynn admitted to having been illegally acting as an agent of the government of did you worky. keion is on related charges. that may be causing this prosecution of his business partner to go wobbly. this has all right produced interesting witness testimony about how flynn was getting basically calls from his pay masters in turkey during the trump campaign. they were arguing with him that they were not getting their money's worth from the trump campaign in terms of trump's public positions on turkey while flynn was on the payroll. it has been lurid stuff, but the defense stars we

i have no sympathy for mike flynn.en a lot of rank or within the democratic party about a lack of oversight. for those who believe he should be moving toward impeachment, this is exactly what they want to to c. "if we are going to go along with your plan, nancy pelosi -- which is to see what we find our lease committee hearings -- have the committee hearings." this and talk about the impeachment hearings for alex acosta. for president trump. >> harris: who is pushing that in your party, though? she is right. so would newt gingrich tell you that she is right. he sat on the couch and said the same thing. history would tell us that impeachment does not usually mean you exit. >> jessica: no. >> harris: nixon quits. so then what you do this you have come up with bill kochan for an example, somebody who actually then martyrs themselves politically to get things done even though they've been impeached. "i'm not going anywhere." so then you've created somebody with more power. i don't know the democrats have really looked at t

hearing begins revealing plans to subpoena some of the mueller report's biggest witnesses, guilty mike flynn, ousted attorney general jeff sessions and of course, son-in-law jared kushner. plus others linked to the hush mobe payments from the 2016 campaign which is part of a crime that michael cohen confessed to. as the house prepares for this mueller stand off, the issues here are broader than even that next set of subpoena skirmishes or whether the house ultimately opens a formal impeachment probe. i want to tell you tonight, the question is whether the mueller hearings will finally take up one of the most important documents of this admittedly gonzo political era and bring it to life for americans. because this report is damning. it is exclusivive. in some ways it is scary. we've read it. i've read it more than once. it details a foreign operation to kneecap our democracy as we know it and also finds no chargeable election conspiracy by the trump campaign and it also finds substantial evidence that president trump committed the crime of obstruction more than once in office. it's important

director after that director failed to abide by the president's request, did he see to it to let mike flynn, the president's national security advisor who admitted to lying to the fbi with the russian ambassador go? why did so many people around donald trump tell so many lies about the very same thing? their contacts and communications with russians. how can members of congress best utilize their time, with the man who knows the answers before all those questions when he comes before them tomorrow. there is no one better suited for that mission former fbi director, former attorney general, author of the book, "higher loyalty," jim comey. with us at the table, chuck rosenberg, former senator, claire mccaskill and now an independent, david jolly and the prosecutor for the southern and eastern districts of new york, an embarrassment of riches in terms of experts. mr. director, how did we get here? >> we got here in terms of the fbi's investigation because we learned in late july of '16, from an allied ambassador who had a conversation with a trump foreign policy advisor about that advisor's co

which is sort of made up of former generals who get in touch with former national security adviser mike flynn and there are later introduced to tom barrack about a plan to export american technology overseas to help build nuclear reactors. and the original plan is pretty broad. it's to build over 40 nuclear reactors in a couple of different countries. and it isn't until much later that that plan gets sort of honed down to saudi arabia. and that's where barrack really comes into play, because he has connections in saudi arabia. he has connections in the uae. so barrack -- as flynn leaves the government, barrack becomes ip3's point person to try to help push through the plan and to get trump administration officials to recognize that this is good for american businesses. that's the plan on ip3's part. as we know from the report we've seen come out yesterday, there are a couple of ethical concerns, and more importantly, there is some national security concerns along with this plan as well. >> what are the national security concerns? >> so it's a little complicated. but a government needs -- the

you might notice former national security adviser mike flynn, trump's son-in-law jared kushner, former staff john kelly and ag jeff sessions. a that comes as they prepare to talk to the man behind the report itself, robert mueller. he is expected to appear on the hill a week from tomorrow. and although attorney general william barr insists it's mueller's choice to testify or not, he says if he change his mind that would be all right. >> i said all along that i had -- i would not object to be bob going up to testify. but after i said that, he indicated he was not interested in testifying. i was disappointed to see him subpoenaed because i don't think that serves any purpose dragging bob mueller up if he, in fact, is going to stick to the report. it seems to me the only reason for doing that is to create some kind of public spectacle. and if bob decides that he doesn't want to be subject to that, then the department of justice would certainly back him. >> we have ken vogel. ken volg, we played you a clip of the world according to william barr and barr told us he wouldn't mind but nor he

. >> mike flynn lied? >> he was convicted of lying, yes. >> george papadopoulos was convicted of lying? >> true. >> paul manafort was convicted of lying? >> true. >> paul manafort went so far as to encourage other people to lie? >> that is accurate. >> deputy, rick gates, lied? >> that's accurate. >> michael cohen, the president's lawyer, was indicted for lying? >> true. >> he lied to stay on message with the present? >> allegedly, by end. >> and when donald trump called her investigation a witch hunt, that was also false, was it not? >> i would like to think so, yes. >> your investigation is not a witch hunt? >> it is not a witch hunt. >> when he said the russian interference was a hoax, that was false, wasn't it? >> true. >> when he said it publicly, that it was false? >> he did say publicly that it was false, yes. >> and when he told it to putin, that was false too, wasn't it connect >> that, i'm not familiar with >> when the president said he had no business dealings with russia, that was false, wasn't

of talk about financial efforts by the trump campaign and financial gains on paul manafort and mike flynn. efforts for trump moscow, all of that. they didn't establish there was any quid pro quo in those moments. mueller, as you said, struggled with the world collusion, which is that is what that is about. which is whether or not there were deals made or deals or promises made to say if we're elected we'll lift the sanctions. they were not able to square the circle on any of that. i think that leaves us pretty much where we started here at the beginning of this morning. i thought one last thing with nunes and ratcliffe, basically at some point it's like we're in a courtroom. they said thank you, i rest my case. they didn't need to hear mueller say anymore that he couldn't answer their questions or it wasn't in his purview. >> they exited the stage because they thought they won perhaps. >> absolutely. >> we're back with our panel now. juan, katie, andy, trey gowdy. katie, your 30,000 feet view of both hearings. >> first off, the lawmakers accepted him saying this is not in my purview. they

rod rosenstein, former white house chief of staff john kelly, to trump's now awaiting sentencing mike flynn, campaign manager corey lewandowski. also david pecker from "the national enquirer" and an editor there, as well. these are guys that helped the president with his hush money payments to cover up alleged affairs before the elections. a lawyer named keith davidson is being is up pinaed. of course, michael cohen was the other lawyer who was involved in those hush money payments, as well, but he's already serving federal prison time for his role in them. also jeff sessions' chief of staff, jody hunt, who is still at the justice department, who has been the man at the center of this huge debacle for the trump administration over this census thing, which we're going to talk about in just a moment. jody hunt has been subpoenaed, as well. as has rob porter, who was gently nudged out of the trump white house after serious domestic violence allegations from both of his ex-wives put a little flesh on the bones of the story as to why he couldn't get a security clearance despite the fact that you

it was not only about the extent of mike flynn's compromise with russia as he was lying about his interactions with the russian government while he was holding a very sensitive national security position in the u.s. government. it also includes the basic question of whether or not the president is or was compromised by russia because of his hidden financial dealings with them that they could expose at any time. apparently to the extent this stuff has been looked at, it was never a mueller matter, it's an fbi matter. it was and is an fbi matter. in some cases he said explicitly, it is an ongoing counter intelligence matter at the fbi, or presumably a matter otherwise for the intelligence community. well, the intelligence committees and house and the senate have oversight over the intelligence community. they're the only ones who do. and now they have just been given an open door from robert mueller inviting them to find out what is going on with those investigations because mueller says, yeah, those are real investigations and those are serious real national security issues for our country. and

example, directed fbi director james comey to end his investigation, former national security adviser mike flynn, also how he ordered don mcgahn to fire mueller. how he attacked jeff sessions in the press and dangled pardons. all of this, norah, paints a damning picture. one point that they could not clear the president on this, nor could they charge him. the justice department said you cannot charge a sitting president. mueller felt while he couldn't clear him, he couldn't charge him either because if he couldn't go through a trial, he had no way to clear his name. we cannot lose sight of, this did not start out as an investigation into candidate trump or president trump, but russian interference into the 2016 campaign. and mueller's report found that, in fact, russia interfered in a fashion. the first volume of his report lays out how they did that. trying to sow misinformation and sow discord between people on controversial issues like guns and race and disseminating emails they believed would hurt candidate clinton but ultimately, ultimately, mueller said there was no coordination or collusi

son-in-law jared kushner, former attorney general jeff sessions, former national security adviser mike flynn as well. i want to bring in frank, nbc news national security analyst, former fbi assistant director. who stands out to you most on that list? we will put it on the screen. it's a number of names and faces. i want to make sure folks can take it all in. who would you be most interested in talking to? >> there's a dozen names on the list. i don't know whether to refer to them as the dirty dozen or soon to be 12 angry men. there's at least three that pop out. jared kushner, obviously represents very close proximity to the president. with regard to obstruction, he could speak volumes potentially about the trump tower meeting. go to michael flynn, former national security adviser. he could speak to how much pressure was on him to wait it out and to maybe wait for a pardon that might have been dangled in front of him. then attorney general sessions who could talk about incredible pressure to make the special counsel go away and to recuse himself. for those on the list who say this say futil

members of the gop to be a bit more lenient on turkey and, remember, it was just two days ago mike flynn'scted of working with the turkish government, do you think voters care at all about these corruption issues? not just the mueller hearing or really it is all about their kitchen table issues, supporting their family, having health care, making sure their schools are good and making sure they're safe? >> i think iowans very much care about all of those issues that were talked about yesterday and all of the other issues that you just brought up. and the list can go on and on and on. people know who this individual is. democrats certainly abhor what he stands for. i think the public understands it. the question democrats have is, why should we elect someone else? why should we elect a democrat? can you win? and if you don't win you'll have four more years of this type of presidency. they are aware of it but how are you going to handle the economy that it matters to people in their own states and health care, education, and climate change? they got to have -- they want to hear from candidat

officials it, chairman nadler pursuing a who's who have mueller witnesses from guilty trump aide mike flynnred kushner to john kelli toy mueller's old boss rod rosenstein who is key because he supervised mueller for most of the probe and ultimately sided with bill barr's assertion the mueller report did not amount to obstruction by trump. he left the doj amid several reports he assured trump he could land the plane for him. a cnn reporter spotted him dining with current white house official kellyanne conway. the two told the reporter they're friends and the discussion was off the record. i'm joined by former clinton labor secretary robert reisch, author of "the common good." he says congress has a constitutional duty to impeach this president. thanks for joining me. >> well, ari, you know, there is a constitutional dite to begin an impeachment inquiry. there's no question that this man donald trump is not going to be impeached in terms of removed from office because of the senate republicans. so i think that when and if democrats actually begin there impeachment inquiry, the public ought to

if you remember mike flynn was on stage texting about a nuclear deal with a client of his.ng they've been doing since day one which is monetizing the presidency. every single one of them whether their name the trump, kushner, manafort, or barrack. tom barrack is a little different animal because he is so familiar with donald trump. you know, shannon alluded to it. the way he met donald trump was he sold the plaza to donald trump and fleeced donald trump. it was one of trump's worst deals. my point is tom knows, barrack knows how to push trump's buttons and he knows how to make money for himself. that is a very dangerous combination. he is also a very polished guy. if you look at the people hanging on to this administration to make money he doesn't stand out but you go back and i think when this is all said and done, the inaugural committee, which he ran, will be a real focus of where money came from and where it went. that was all tom barrack. this is no different than jared, you know, what's happening with his buddies in the middle east. they are making money and they are

. >> mike flynn lied? >> he was convicted of lying, yes. >> george papadopoulos was convict fd lying? >> true. >> paul manafort was convicted of lying? >> true. >> in fact, went so far as to encourage other people to lie? >> that is accurate. >> deputy rick gates lied? >> that is accurate. >> michael cohen, the president's lawyer, was indicted for lying. >> true. >> he lied to stay on message with the president? >> allegedly, by him. >> when donald trump called your investigation a witch hunt, that is also false, is it not? >> i like to think so, yes. >> your investigation is not a witch hunt, is it? >> it is not a witch hunt. >> when the president said the russian interference was a hoax, that was false, wasn't it? >> true. >> when he said it publicly, it was false. >> he did say it publicly that it was false, yes. >> when he told it to putin, that was false, too, wasn't it? >> that, i'm not familiar with. >> when the president said he had no business dealings with russia, that was false, wasn't it? >> i'

. >> mike flynn lie? >> he was convicted of lying, yes. >> george papadopoulos convicted of lying? >> true. paul manafort convicted of lying? >> true. >> paul manafort encouraged other people to lie? >> that is accurate. >> manafort's deputy gates lied? >> that is accurate. >> michael cohen's president's lawyer was indicted for lying? >> true. >> he lied to stay on message with the president? >> allegedly by him. >> and when donald trump called your investigation a witch-hunt, that was also false, was it not? >> i would like to think so, yes. >> your investigation is not a witch hunt? >> it is not a witch-hunt. >> could you charge a president with a crime after left office? >> yes. >> you can charge the president of the united states with obstruction of justice after he left office? >> yes. >> what about total exoneration, did you actually totally exonerate the president? >> no. >> now, in fact, your report expressly states it does not exonerate the president? >> it does. >> it sure does. just in the last hour robert mueller finally shedding some light on one of the most important

. >> mike flynn lied? >> he was convicted of lying, yes. >> george pap drop louse was convicted of lying? >> yes. >> paul manafort went so far as to encourage other people to lie. >> that's accurate. >> rick gates lied? >> that's accurate. >> michael cohen, the president's lawyer was indicted for lying? >> true. >> he lied to stay on message with the president? >> allegedly by him. >> and when donald trump called your investigation a witch hunt, that was also false, was it not? >> i'd like to think so, yes. >> well, your investigation is not a witch hunt, is it? >> it is not a witch hunt. >> when the president said the russian interference was a hoax, that was false, wasn't it? >> true. >> when he said it publicly it was false? >> he did say publicly that it was false, yes. >> and when he told it to putin, that was false too, wasn't it? >> that i'm not familiar with. >> when the president said he had no business dealings with russia, that was false, wasn't it? >> i'm not going to go into the details of the

. >> mike flynn lied? >> he was convicted of lying, yes. >> george pap drop louse was convicted of lying? >> yes. >> paul manafort went so far as to encourage other people to lie. >> that's accurate. >> rick gates lied? >> that's accurate. >> michael cohen, the president's lawyer was indicted for lying? >> true. >> he lied to stay on message with the president? >> allegedly by him. >> and when donald trump called your investigation a witch hunt, that was also false, was it not? >> i'd like to think so, yes. >> well, your investigation is not a witch hunt, is it? >> it is not a witch hunt. >> when the president said the russian interference was a hoax, that was false, wasn't it? >> true. >> when he said it publicly it was false? >> he did say publicly that it was false, yes. >> and when he told it to putin, that was false too, wasn't it? >> that i'm not familiar with. >> when the president said he had no business dealings with russia, that was false, wasn't it? >> i'm not going to go into the details of the