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Dont believe this constitutes a gift and therefore this is legal, this is his personal money hes spending, not taxpayer money. but it has the appearance problem of making it look like someone who is working for the government is getting something that the average citizen wouldnt and then the condo owned by a couple, owned in a corporation, but its linked to this energy lobbyist who has had a lot of business before the epa, is there any potential for influence there. they have been friends over t...

Holdings. again, we dont know that thats happened, but this is why people sell off their stuff before getting into these powerful position. >> you hit the nail on the head. thats why the process is in place for most people who become staff or any sort of senior administration or even congressional ly want to divest yourself of any appearance of conflict. they put themselves and the administration in a difficult spot. you have two fthings, loans and meetings. ive met josh harris, i find it hard t...

Legal. there are upset with reversing the policy that exempted the states from federal prosecution season embattled man had i think he will be embattled with the attorney general from day one. >> you cannot say specifically of theres a group of lawmakers that are putting the pressure on the attorney general. just in general what is the follow-up. >> theres a lot of pressure. sessions has already offered his resignation station several months back. and trump rejected it. even if he doesnt like wh...

You know, his own behavior. but all i can say to him is, welcome to america. no one is above the law. >> to the point of answering questions, if we shift here for a minute, fbi deputy director andrew mccabe, of course, being grilled yesterday for a number of hours behind closed doors by the house intel committee. it is no secret, i think, how trey gowdy feels, raising concerns over these taxes. but michael, does grassley want him out? >> its looking that way increasingly so. i mean, i dont belie...

On their staff, he removes him immediately so as to avoid the appearance issues that can raise it. so theres a bit of a red herring here with respect to this agent as it relates to the mueller investigation itself. >> michael, youve got to concede that was the end of july and technically, again, i completely agree with you. if mueller doesnt know something, he cant act on that information. right? so he learns about this agent, he removes him from the team. but this is no ordinary prosecution. i ...

Special counsel." we won last night we broke the story about the texts between the officials. a lot of folks so they werent too happy about what they saw and they are questioning about whether they can be impartial. what kind of reaction today? >> it was pretty intense of the house judiciary committee, as you can imagine. he appointed a special counsel and the russia probe and try to claim he does not see an appearance problem with people on robert muellers team donating money to democrats like ...

Something he cant act on that information. so he learns about this agent, removed him from the team. but this is no ordinary prosecution. i mean weve got both the house and the senate bringing people in and asking about the same issues at the same time. i mean when you have this kind of appearance problem and surely youd agree its at least an appearance problem i grant you, ill grant you that what rosenstein said may also be true. just because someone expresses these opinions strongly doesnt mea...

Its scope and she would spark a special counsel." we won last night we broke the story about the texts between the officials. a lot of folks so they werent too happy about what they saw and they are questioning about whether they can be impartial. what kind of reaction today? >> it was pretty intense of the house judiciary committee, as you can imagine. he appointed a special counsel and the russia probe and try to claim he does not see an appearance problem with people on robert muellers team d...

Congressman trey gowdy joins me live in a moment. first, ed henry at the white house tonight with the top story. hi, ed. >> good to see you, martha. gas lean on the fire that was already raging with lawyers for president trump saying there should be a second special counsel appointed to investigate the fbi and career officials at the justice department for an alleged bias against president trump. in the hot seat today as you noted the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein who appointed the spec...

Selecting a team because of political affiliation is simply something thats not done because its all about the facts and the professionalism of the investigation. so its not something that really enters in and when you do find some bias and twice in my career and only twice in my 25 year career i did remove agents from corruption investigations when i thought there might be the appearance and merely the appearance from the outside looking in that someone had some bias and that it could undermine...