Collusion's No Big Deal? That's What Some House Republicans Say | The 11th Hour

>>> AND THIS WORD COLLUSION IS ALL OVER THE PLACE.
I MEAN EVERYBODY CLUDS IN THIS CITY, RIGHT.
>>> I DON'T THINK DEMOCRATS COULD FIND RUSSIA ON A MAP UNTIL
THEY FOUND OUT -- OR CONCLUDED THAT IT COULD SOMEHOW BE USED
TO -- TO BEAT UP DONALD TRUMP. >>> IF I MEET WITH -- WHETHER
IT'S A -- A CITIZEN OR A NONCITIZEN AND THEY GIVE ME
INFORMATION OR AN IDEA OR TALK ABOUT POLICY, THERE IS NOTHING
WRONG WITH THAT. >>> THE ONGOING EFFORT TO
NORMALIZE RUSSIA AND MORE SPECIFICALLY NORMALIZE THE
MEETING THAT TOOK PLACE IN TRUMP TOWER.
THOSE WERE REPUBLICAN MEMBERS OF CONGRESS RESPONDING TO QUESTIONS
ABOUT IN RUSSIA INVESTIGATION. AND THAT MEETING INVOLVING
DONALD TRUMP JR. AND THEN SOME, A RUSSIAN LAWYER, A LIST OF
OTHERS THAT GREW TODAY. THANKS TO OUR OWN KEN DELANEY.
ALL THAT HAVING BEEN SAID JOINING US TONIGHT TO TALK ABOUT
IT BLOOMBERG WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT SHANNON IS BACK
WITH US. LATEST REPORT TONIGHT AND ASKING
HER ABOUT IT THE SECOND ROLE AT TRUMP JR. MEETING AND RAISES
QUESTIONS NEW TO THE BROADCAST POLITICS I HAD FOR FOR THE ROOT
JASON JOHNSON IS WITH US AND LONG-TERM LIBERTIARIAN RADIO
TALK SHOW MOTIVATE. JASON YOU GET TO GO FIRST.
WE SAW JUST THAT RELATIVELY SMALL SAMPLING OF GOP MEMBERS OF
CONGRESS. BUT WE KNOW THEY REPRESENT A
LARGER GROUP. WE ALSO KNOW THAT THE RUSSIAN
OBSESSION IS NOT SHARED BY THE TRUMP BASE.
SO ARE THERE REPUBLICANS YOU ARE WATCHING WHO WILL BE IMPORTANT
IF THEY TURN A LITTLE BIT IF SOMETHING COMES ALONG THAT MAYBE
MAKES THEM ANGRY AT ALL OF THIS EVEN IF IT'S JUST WE'RE NOT
GETTING ANYTHING PASSED? >> YEAH, BRIAN, I THINK MOST OF
THOSE THINGS ARE LIKELY TO HAPPEN.
NUMBER ONE, THE REPUBLICANS IN THE HOUSE AND SENATE RIGHT NOW
THEY'RE STILL JUST REALLY TRYING TO GET AN AGENDA THROUGH.
THEY'LL TOLERATE THIS UNTIL THEY THINK IT'S GOING TO HAVE SERIOUS
ELECTORAL CONSEQUENCES. I DO THINK THIS IF WE'RE
PERFECTLY CANDID I THINK OOLTS OF THE LEAKS ARE COMING FROM
PEOPLE WITHIN THE ADMINISTRATION.
THEY'RE LIKELY COMING FROM REPUBLICANS.
THIS ISN'T SOME MYSTERIOUS CONSPIRACY DEEP STATE.
THESE ARE VERY LIKELY LOYALIST REPUBLICANS WHO SOLD THEIR SOULS
TO BE PART OF THE ADMINISTRATION.
THEY'RE DISAPPOINTED IN DONALD TRUMP AND THAT'S HOW THE
INFORMATION IS GETTING OUT. I THINK THE LEAKS THEMSELVES AND
THE FACT THAT WE FOUND OUT ABOUT IN MEETING IS AN INDICATOR THAT
SOME REPUBLICANS HAVE ALREADY TURNED ON THIS ADMINISTRATION.
>> AND SHANNON, SOME OF YOUR REPORTING TODAY THAT I FOUND
VERY INTERESTING AND IMPORTANT. YOU DOUBLED BACK WITH THE
CLINTON CAMPAIGN BECAUSE THEY'VE BEEN NAMED THROUGHOUT IN THIS
STORY. BUT NOT DWELLED ON.
SO TELL THE GOOD FOLKS IN OUR AUDIENCE WHAT YOU FOUND OUT.
>> THE QUESTION I HAD WAS, SO IF THIS LAWYER AND THIS LOBBYIST --
LET'S SAY THEY WERE GOING AROUND TO THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN TRYING TO
TO SAY HEY LISTEN IF YOU'RE ELECTED THERE IS THIS IMPORTANT
MAGNITSKY ACT AND ADOPTION PROGRAM WE WANT YOU KNOW ABOUT
IT WE'D LOVE YOUR SUPPORT DOING LOB DWRING WORK LIKE ANY OTHER
LOBBIEST IF THEY'VE BEEN DOING THIS DID YOU GO TO THE CLINTON
CAMPAIGN AND TALK TO THEM ABOUT IT?
SO MY COLLEAGUES AND I MARGARET WENT THROUGH A NUMBER OF OF
CLINTON SOURCES AND WE FOUND THAT NO THE CLINTON L CLINTON
CAMPAIGN WAS ABLE TO DEFINITIVELY THEY WERE TERP NOT
CONTACTED BY THE TWO INDIVIDUALS AT THE TRUMP TOWER MEETING THEY
DID NOT MEET WITH THEM THEY DO NOT KNOW THE PEOPLE THEY HAVE NO
CONNECTION. SO AT LEAST WITH THESE TWO THERE
WAS NO EFFORT BEING MADE TO ALSO TRY AND REACH OUT TO THE CLINTON
CAMPAIGN AND SWAY THE CLINTON CAMPAIGN IN SOME WAY TO COME OUT
AGAINST IN ACT OR TO DO ANY SORT OF KWID PRO QUO IF IF HILLARY
CLINTON WAS TO BECOME PRESIDENT. >> JIM, WHICH WAY OF WELCOMING
TO YOU THE BROADCAST BEFORE I COME TO YOU I WANT TO TO PLAY
SOMETHING. I KNOW YOU'VE SEEN AND HEARD
THIS. AND MEMBERS OF OUR AUDIENCE MAY
NOT HAVE. THERE WAS A MOMENT- -- A GENUINE
MOMENTS ON FOX NEWS SHEP SMITH WAS TALKING TO CHRIS WALL STREET
TWO OF THE STRAIGHT NEWS GUYS TALKING ABOUT THE MEETING IN
TRUMP TOWER WITH DON JR. AS NEW DETAILS BROKE DURING THE
CONVERSATION. IT WAS NOTABLE IF YOU WITNESSED
IT. HERE IT IS WE'LL TALK ABOUT IT
ON THE OTHER SIDE. >> FOX NEWS CAN NOW CONFIRM NEW,
MORE DONALD TRUMP JR. JARED KUSHNER PAUL MANAFORT, THE
LAWYER FROM RUSSIA, THE INTERPRETER, THE NEW GUY WE
FOUND OUT ABOUT TODAY. AND A MYSTERY PERSON.
JOHN ROBERTS CONFIRMS THERE WAS AN 8th PERSON IN THE MEETING WE
DON'T KNOW THERE MAY HAVE BEEN MORE BUT THERE WAS AN 8th.
JARED KUSHNER FILLED OUT HIS FORM I THINK IT'S AN F 86 SAYING
WHO HE MET WITH AND WHAT HE HAD DONE VERY IMPORTANT STUFF.
YOU CAN GO TO PRISON FOR MESSING IT UP YOU KNOW INTENTIONALLY.
HE WENT BECOME AND ADDED 100 NAMES AND PLACES.
NONE OF THESE PEOPLE MADE IT. WE'RE STILL NOT CLEAN ON THIS,
CHRIS. IT'S -- IF THERE IS NOTHING
THERE -- AND THAT'S WHAT THEY TELL US THEY TELL US THERE IS
NOTHING TO THIS AND NOTHING CAME TO IT'S A NOTHING BURGER WASN'T
MEMORABLE WASN'T ANYTHING SO I DIDN'T EVEN REMEMBER IT WITH THE
RUSSIAN INTERPRETER IN THE ROOM AT TRUMP TOWER.
IF ALL THAT OF WHY ALL THE LIE SNS WHY -- WHY IS IT LIE AFTER
LIE AFTER LIE? IF YOU CLEAN -- COME ON CLEAN
YOU KNOW MY GRANDMOTHER USED TO SAY WHEN FIRST WE PRACTICE OH A
TANGLED WEB WE WE'VE WHEN FIRST WE BRA TO DECEIVE .THE DECEPTION
CHRIS IS MIND BOGGLING AND THERE ARE STILL PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO
BELIEVE WE'RE MAKING IT UP AND ONE DAY THEY'RE GOING TO REALIZE
WE'RE NOT AND LOOK AROUND AND GO, WHERE ARE WE AND WHY ARE WE
GETTING TOLD ALL THE LIES. >> IN THE CONTEXT OF CABLE NEWS
I MUST SAY ERIC WIFRPLE OF THE WASHLT PZ THOUGHT THAT WAS A
CRONKITE MOMENT WHAT DID YOU PLAYBOOK OF IT JIM AND WHAT CAN
WE DRAW FROM. >> WHEN YOU'VE GOT SHEP SMITH
QUOTE ATTENTION HIS GRANDMOTHER HIS PERPLEXED A LOT OF PEOPLE
ARE PERPLEXED. THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS THAT I
THINK DONALD TRUMP AND THE ADMINISTRATION COULD BE TALKING
ABOUT THAT ARE POSITIVES AND UNFORTUNATELY THEY HAVE NOW
FOUND THEMSELVES IN THE SITUATION WHERE THIS IS ALL THEY
ARE TALKING ABOUT. AND WHETHER THERE IS ANYTHING
THERE OR NOT, WHETHER TELL US THIS IS A NOTHING BURGER OR
SOMETHING BURGER AS I HEARD IT DESCRIBED EARLIER A DOUBLE
WHOMMER WITH CHEESE, THEY HAVE MADE THIS LOOK AWFULLY SKITTISH
AND WEIRD. JUST GET OUT THERE.
I DID CRISIS COMMUNICATIONS AS PART OF MY CAREER.
AND THIS IS SOMETHING I WOULD NEVER EVER TELL ANYBODY TO DO.
AND THAT IS CHANGE YOUR STORY. SEVERAL TIMES.
IT JUST DOESN'T LOOK GOOD. IT'S ALMOST LIKE WE DON'T KNOW
THAT AN ARSON ACTUALLY HAPPENED. THERE IS ALLEGED ARSON BUT
THEY'RE BASICALLY SAYING I WAS HOLDING A MATCH AT THE TIME OF
ALLEGED ARSON. IT REALLY IS JUST MIND BOGGLING
THAT ONE SO SUCCESSFUL IN LIFE AS DONALD TRUMP HAS BEEN IN A
LOT OF AREAS YOU HAVE

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