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>> mr. miller is a high government official close to the president of the united states, and i am not at liberty to reveal that nature of conversations that we may have had. >> are you claiming executive privilege? >> i am not claiming that. a long-established policy policy of the department of justice. >> the president has not invoked executive privilege, and i understand -- >> opponent inquiry. >> is our authority in this community to have a witness refused to answer a question without properl...

We think it is a very reasonable thing. may still be some conditions on those grants from previous administrations. >> right. >> but thats the one i think that we have added to it. >> yeah, well i can tell you thats not the one that im concerned about. >> okay. >> in fact, the sheriffs and chiefs that i have spoken to support that whole heartedly. >> all right. well thank you, and i will be glad to look at that issue then. >> but the other issue dealing with -- if they can force you to be nims c...

That will be way triple that number in a fairly short period of time. i think much more importantly, weve explained that the united states is open for trade, but we want reciprocal trade. we want fair trade for the united states. because with past administrations, as i said in china and i said very loud and very clear, the united states has been taken advantage of. theyre very giving. and they dont get it in return. >> joining us now live from manila philippines, national correspondent peter ale...

>> no, no, no. >> had this been 10 or 20 years ago when there was still some control, some respectability of the republican establishment, these kinds of candidates would not have come through the woodwork. >> i dont think this is political. this is somebody who has harassed women -- >> but noel, how about by compa compareson, were talking about moral compare here. show me somebody in hollywood besides woody allen who backed harvey weinstein after that, nobody. show me somebody in government who...

>> hes given us a time line on when hell make this announcement. he says he wants to give the press at least a day to recover and then hell make this announcement so stay tuned, stephanie. >> all right, and here in the state, his attorney general jeff sessions considering a pointing, help me through this, a special counsel to investigate the clinton foundation. matt miller who is with us earlier. last night i saw him on twitter saying something like this is as absurd and lawless as trying to fir...

Think many of the people around the table there with you are as well. our view is that these institutions are important, they bridge between presidential administrations, they are sort of the life blood of our democracy. theyre laid out in the constitution. the president talked about judges who overturned his immigration ban. he fired the fbi director when he didnt like the fbi director would not take a pledge of loyalty to the president personally. so these are very dangerous precedents. i thin...

May still be some conditions on those grants from previous administrations. but thats the one i think that we have added to it. >> well, i can tell you, that is not the one that im concerned about. >> okay. >> in fact, the sheriffs and chiefs that ive spoken to have supported that whole heartedly. >> i will be glad to look at that. >> the other issue, if they can force you to be nims compliant, they can force you to carry revolvers versus semiautomatics, it goes down a slippery slope. more impor...

Tony podesta worked for lobbyist and john podesta worked for obama and clinton administrations, why does it seem that any ties with democrats are looked past in terms of the mainstream media but if youre tie today republicans, then you have big problems? >> its remarkable because paul manafort was in partnership with the podesta group on the very issue for which hes being charged by by the mueller people. mueller is prosecuting manafort for improperly lobbying but the podesta group isnt being ch...

Day and still putting the two on par, former cia director leon panetta called this incredibly damaging to our intelligence and cybercapabilities. what does this do to the nsa ability but the u.s. ability of u.s. intelligence to work with our allies on the most, you know, most imminent dangers our country is facing on this front? >> well, the first thing is it makes allies less confident about sharing their own most sensitive data with us. because were clearly having trouble protecting our own co...

Said in recent days about what putin said in response to russian meddle z. let me explain why this is significant from a national security perspective. we have the president of the united states encouraging wikileaks to publish stolen information. we have the president suggesting a couple of days ago that he believed a russian dictator over the u.s. intelligence community. as we go through other electoral cycles in this country when we know russia wants to engage in meddling to destabilize ameri...