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Restraining orders, theres documentation a picture and mcgahn let him have one of the most sensitive jobs in the white house. >> ive done vetting for two different administrations, there were two things you looked for. things that could be politically embarrassing. and two, things that suggested that someone didnt have the character to hold the public trust. and the latter was always fatal. the fact that it wasnt in this administration tells you what you need to know. >> thank you both. really a...

Welcome back. the trump administrations crackdown along the mexican border isnt just limited to people trying to come here illegally. now a growing number of hispanic americans are being denied passports because the government is questioning their citizenship. "the washington post" reports the trump administration is accusing hundreds and maybe thousands of people of using fraudulent birth certificates since they were babies. the government alleges that some midwives and physicians along the bor...

Fired special prosecutor cox ended up not being appointed to the supreme court or being not confirmed because in large part he had fired cox. >> and ron, in the presidents tweet just parenthetically he refers to trying to get a supreme court justice confirmed as if thats not as important as firing his white house counsel. thats the important thing. and what does this do to the point man trying to run the confirmation process? this is a job you have had. >> yeah. >> in other administrations, demo...

Congress. the more likely scenario, jon, is that youll see oversight committees moving aggressively and putting forward some subpoenas to get information. the question is whether the president is going to change his strategy. up until now, if you distinguish his rhetoric from his actions, hes been fairly cooperative. they have actually turned over a lot of information and theyve turned over people like mcgahn. thats actually a fairly good record in comparison to some prior administrations. the q...

Democratic administrations. before he stepped down from the justice department in february of this year, he served in the national security division at doj. he was the chief of the counter intelligence and export control section in the national security division. now, in that capacity he oversaw investigations you might have heard of like the hillary clinton e-mail investigation and before special counsel was appointed, he helped oversee the investigation into russian meddling in the 2016 electi...

If you call him back today, might say something completely different. so i dont want to overcommit here. id be a little surprised by a subpoena. these are fights that have happened in other administrations. there was a fight with george w. bush talking to the 9/11 commission. there was a very long fight between bill clinton and the starr grand jury. wait and see how this plays out. >> and was he calling from the golf course or coming back from scotland? >> to be fair, i just got a text, and giul...

At least stay at the table. >> right, and theres a political component to all of this, which is that president trump did get high marks from the public for attempting diplomacy with north korea, which came after a long period of saber rattling that made a lot of people nervous about potentially the worst happening. i was in tennessee some weeks ago, and the democratic candidate praised the president for trying something new and different. but the polls show that the presidents handling of this i...

And its a deal. i think its important that north korea knows that we are not willing to sign a bad deal and we wont get something that is okay with us. >> i think its also important to remember that in june of last year, they stood together with the united states flag and the north korean flag and donald trump said north korea is no longer a threat. and that has set the record straight with the american people and put in place a diplomatic process that will actually yield the results that we wan...

Piece about bruce ohr read like a defense brief. the story here is not just about president trump and whatever crimes he is alleged to have committed. if the is about the obama administration and whether or not one administration spied on the opposing political campaign using our intel agencies. why wouldnt the press be anxious to know more about that since it sets a pretty troubling precedents precedent for future administrations? >> it does. if the whole idea was what was the obama administrat...

Youve seen a few administrations come and go. yesterday he gets this phone call and wants to talk about blowing up nafta. part of it, i think, was bringing the reporters in, getting their minds off of john mccain. the next morning hes not trying to move that a step forward. instead hes talking about conspiracy theories on google. how in the world does the white house staff keep up with this and keep up with the volatility from moment to moment and a volatility that actually seems to keep getting...