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And hating and wreaking havoc and fear? is that what -- is that the recommendation? i think we are living in a time that proves that point even more so. so its not about the politics for her. its about the principle. >> thats right. you know, she talks about really not liking politics in the book. you know, so im sure the question is going to come up, is she going to run for office. she says emphatically in the book that shes not. that ten years spent in the spotlight in public life in the polit...

Im loyal. to a fault, im loyal. >> loyalty. you know, some of these people have like a 10% loyalty meaning if they sneeze in the wrong direction theyre gone. >> whitaker reportedly has no intention of recusing himself from the russia investigation. if he did, its hard to imagine how and why he would have gotten the job in the first place. so lets talk about it. john barrett is a law professor at st. johns university, and john dean is a former white house nixon counsel. perfect gentlemen to talk ...

Come from under because of the deep seated racism in this country. he understands exactly what hes saying and doing when he uses those types of terms when referring to african-americans in general and african-american women in many particular. and it was just to hear what he was saying to abby, all of it was bad from the first lady to april to yamiche, but that clip that you just played about what he said to abby made my skin crawl. it made me cringe. he is doing these kinds of things deliberate...

Journal" reporting that the feds have evidence that president trump was directly involved in paying off stormy daniels, karen mcdougal. do you get the sense that campaign finance laws were violated here? >> it certainly would appear that way. as i read that "wall street journal" story, i could just envision the indictment that could come out of all that, a conspiracy to violate the federal campaign laws. whether that will happen or not since michael cohen has pled is a good question. i doubt the...

Job or any current job that he holds confirmed by the senate. under the appointments clause, theres a serious constitutional question involved. the d.c. circuit in a federal grand jury case involving the mueller investigation has just called for supplemental briefing on that question. a lot of smart constitutional lawyers think that there is a real serious doubt that hes lawfully in office. >> i want to read this because trump just tweeted on matthew whitaker tonight from paris. take a look at t...

What does this tell you, especially that photo? >> well, we have a virtually the exact same photo from yesterday, him doing the same thing to jim acosta. and hes also called jim and john karl and many others stupid and dumb question, and that photo right there is chilling for a lot of reasons. i come from the news world, but i also have worked on communications for presidential candidates. and there needs to be a lower temperature with regard to this administration, how the press is handled. it ...

>> well, he might be protected from criminal indictment, but a misrepresentation and on series of, you know, not just petty matters, but substantive, potentially criminal matters on which a president is lying to the american people it becomes a question of political oversight. weve just gotten access to the road map that the watergate grand jury sent to the house of representatives in 1974. it was unsealed after all these decades through litigation. a big part of the road map is president nixon ...

Oversight of muellers investigation, one of them being rod rosenstein, urged sessions to delay the date of his resignation but trump wouldnt allow it. how does this look to you? what do you read into that? >> well, its hard to know legally how this is all going to shake out. mueller is very smart. probably will not take any preemptive moves and watch how this plays out before he decides what to do. but we dont know how its going to play out. as john barrett mentioned, you know, a lot of legal sc...

And she shouldnt be. >> you want them to rein in robert mueller? >> what a stupid question that is. >> what a stupid question. but i watch you a lot. you ask a lot of stupid questions. >> okay, so he says for april, he think cnn but then he tells abby -- he says i watch you a lot and abby is on cnn. so anyway. but i digress. there is, nina, theres a method to the madness and the vicious tone from this president to three journalists trying to do their jobs. >> absolutely, don. theres a lot to unp...

That is very simply what this is about. no one should support tough questions not being able to be asked anymore. >> you can hate jim acosta. you can love him or hate him, but you have to respect his ability to be there. the point here is that its not about acosta. its about the white house trying to choose who gets to cover the trump administration. and thats not going to fly. look, jims still doing reporting, still doing the work. you dont have to be at the white house to do parts of the job, ...