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Constitution tells us that the president can be impeached, removed from office and then prosecuted for any potential crimes he may have committed while in office. >> so, general mccaffrey, i think this brings us to the chain of command question which you know quite a lot about. the key that a lot of people are looking at here, was trump aware of flynns contacts with the russians. what do you say to that? based on what you know, the way white houses work, the way chain of command works. >> look, ...

Controversial, actually. i think its so sensible. therefore, today, on the recommendation of secretary zinke and with the wise counsel of senator hatch, senator lee and the many others, i will sign two presidential proclamations. these actions will modify the national monuments designations of both bears ears and grand staircase escalante. [ applause ] as many of you know, past administrations have severely abused the purpose spirit and intent of a century old law known as the antiquities act.

And the white house says theres no bargain and diplomats are saying that kushner is trying to push a lot. well see that first test this week the president is consulting about announcing that hes going to move the embassy in jerusalem. and now in israel, going to recognize jerusalem as the capital 6 israel. well see how the saudi s react chris. >> thats a huge issue. its been side stepped from other administrations for a reason. president trump very much in the news this morning. he just gave h...

Controversial? they all told me no. how did that happen? i dont think it is controversial, actually. i think it is so sensible, therefore today on the recommendation of the secretary and with the wise counsel of senator hatch, senator lee and the many others, i will sign two presidential proclamations. these actions will modify the national monuments designations of both bear ears and grand staircase escalante. [ applause ] as many of you know, past administrations have severely abused the purpo...

Morning. listen. you cannot charge a president with obstruction of justice for exercising his constitutional power of fire comey and his constitutional authority to tell the justice department who to investigate who not to investigate. thats what thomas jefferson did, lincoln did, what roosevelt did. we have presidents that clearly establish that. >> so much to dig into here. im joined by stanley pottinger from the civil rights division under nixon and ford administrations, involved in the water...

Kelly, they all served under the previous administrations. didnt he warn the trump officials about general flynn? and that maybe he might not be the best guy for one of these jobs in the administration? >> yes. and also basically -- he didnt actually -- >> mike flynn was fired by the joint chief of staff. career professional, all military officers. and because of incompetent. donald trump is making that charge there that he went to moscow and was paid for that trip. thats true, but the probl...

There was no communication between the trump camp and russians. >> well i know mike pence is a man of the greatest integrity and honor and if he said that thats what he meant and thats what he understood. i have no doubt about that. consider the context. first of all, incoming administrations try to sort of lay the ground work for some of the key foreign policy issues and if you look at mr. flynns calls when he called the russians after mr. obama had politicized the situation and put sanctions a...

Country and did, saying now that hes going to do whats right for his country. do you think this is a guy capable of getting back on true north and truly serving the muller staff and rooting out what went wrong? >> i think part of the answer is yes. emphatically. add something i said at the time when general flynn was fired after his three-week stint. i worked directly with several advisors at the white house in three administrations. there is no way that he wasnt daily hourly reporting his conta...

Administrations, there is no way a national security adviser one giving hourly updates. they call them at night and wake them when there is an issue. he has to explain who knew what about the contacts and why would he have lied to the fbi? they have toen cover what they were trying to figure out. >> positions customarily held by civilians, are you still concerned about that? have you concerns about that lessens approaching the one-year

Team is trying to undermine u.s. policy towards an adversary at a time of crisis. and thats whats so unusual and i would argue unprecedented about what general flynn did who worked with him on this. we have yet to find out. but the president obama decided before leaving office to send a message to president putin -- you do not intervene in our elections. thats a message that i suspect all americans would like to be sent to an adversary. the trump team at the same time sent a different message wi...