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Hes never going to say who the source is. but because of the fact that woodwards been doing this for so long and because so many of his books have withstood the at kind of criticism that come in all administrations of deep background books, because his books have held up so well to scrutiny for so long hes in a position of extraordinary power and although there are white house officials coming out saying i didnt use this word, i didnt use that word, what theyre not doing is quibbling with the gi...

Recollections, the pressure it puts on the reporter is that you are never going to be able to do what donald trump is trying to play the game with bob woodward about. who told you that? woodaward has said with these people he will never say i got this directly from jim mattis, from john kelly. the likelihood is he spoke to all of them. but he will never come out -- the reality is in many of these situations hes going to have that same quote knowing how bob works, hes going to have it from the sp...

Hysterical, there is a whole line of discussion and writings and how the word hysteria has been used to talk about women owning their power. putting that aside, i will say this is a hearing that was held today that we were given 15 hours to review 42,000 pages of documents. 100,000 pages of documents that no other president has done this, but this president has applied executive privilege to deny us to have access to these documents. and this is a nominee who has a long history of being a politi...

Were in crazytown. i dont even know why any of us are here. this is the worst job ive ever had. and theres more. the secretary of defense james mattis, also a retired four-star general says, the president has the understanding of a fifth or sixth grader. how alarming is this picture painted by bob woodward in this new book? >> today were going through the usual -- ive been watching these books for decades, the usual washington ritual of all the people quoting scrambling around saying i didnt say...

Traditions of the department of justice. you know, i used to be a u.s. attorney. if i went to my supervisor and said, you know, we shouldnt indictment or investigate a member of the presidents party because hes a member of the presidents party, i probably would have been suspended if not fired. the sentiment at the core of that tweet is so contrary to the mission of the department of justice and such an insult to the decent people who work there, the career prosecutors who work through democrati...

Speaks to what harry is talking about, does it not? >> it certainly does. talks to the whole idea of having a check on power, what we have seen over the past couple of years and seen this in past administrations as well. democrats enjoy this as well. barack obama did in the first couple of years of his presidency. youre talking about a washington that is run entirely by republicans. that in itself causes independents a little bit of heartburn and you add in donald trump to the mix who has seem t...

Patrol agent. one caveat is that this is at a time where the president is lobbying for stricter voting rights laws. >> thank you. i want to continue this conversation now with michael wild. he is an immigration attorney and author of this book. so good to have you with us. im glad to get your expertise and perspective on all things immigrati immigration. there is a lot going on. what we heard is that the passport denials have happened under past administrations. it is complicated. its nuanced. i...

This under prior administrations. is it illegal for the government to ferret out fraud? no. it has a policy interest in making sure that if there is fraud that they mark it down. but there is certainly an escalation now at the border on those that are more vulnerable. this is an unprecedented power grip compounded with the building of the wall, the muslim ban, the children being stopped at the border, clients of ours being arrested in green card interviews and the denaturalization unit that the ...

To apples comparison. everyone plays politics around these. >> sure, they take two, they both worked for administrations and worked all of these individuals worked in the offer. it is a true attorney-client relationship. but these -- now justice kagen and chief justice roberts have turned back. and from the hw white house and

Speak of 5-year plan, we dont have a 5-month plan, they close one area and we are done. >> fishing in the waters at least 200 days a year but thanks to regulation you cant call it fishing anymore. >> we are not fishing, we are avoiding. >> thats because the government has institution uid quotas on the amount of fish allowed to be caught per day, take the black sea bass. according to national administrations 2017 stock assessment the black sea bass in mid atlantic is not overfished not subject to...