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Ultimate arbiter. but when you take something like that and s.e.c. rete it to the media. >> i would disagree. >> the term leak has a very -- >> i know. thats parcel. >> youre in two different businesses. >> he put himself in another business when he decided as a private citizen, as he points out, josh, to leak this, and he did it through a third party, that is a bad fact or for james comey. he should have done it himself if it was so clean and honest. >> can we stipulate for a second get the wor...

A -- >> preposterous that rudy giuliani thinks he is the arbiter of whether mueller has an open mind and acting within good faith. he is doing a job he was asked to do and doing it well by most accounts and thoroughly and the idea that rudy giuliani of all people who we know was under some kind of fbi investigation for what he knew about the new york fbi leaks, james comey told us that, that he is going to somehow be the one to look into the eyes of mueller and sees that he is a decent man. this...

I hope we get some kind of public accounting. were not sure what the final product is going to be of the mueller investigation. it is not clear if hes going to be able to issue a comprehensive report that sees the light of day in public. >> havent we just said hell be the fair arbiter of justice on this? >> i think so. it will require congress calling him up to the hill and who knows if republicans will go along with that to allow him to have that say. there is an important fact finding that nee...

>> im dave briggs. it is noon in moscow. 10:00 a.m. in london. we start with the battle over evidence seized on michael cohens office, home and hotel room. the issue has moved to federal court. lawyers for the president, personal attorney, michael cohen and the federal prosecutor arguing over how to handle the material covered in client/attorney privilege. >> the prosecutor wants a walled off internal tank team to go through the material. cohen wants an independent arbiter. the presidents lawyer...

Argued over how to handle the material covered in client/attorney privilege. >> the prosecutor wants a walled off internal tank team to go through the material. cohen wants an independent arbiter. the presidents lawyers want to make the decision themselves. the judge rendered a split decision. offering something for all three parties and what the prosecutor is calling a fast-moving case. it triggered a big courtroom surprise. the latest from brynn gingras. >> reporter: dave and christine, a lot ...

Cohen wants an independent arbiter. the presidents lawyers want to make the decision themselves. the judge rendered a split decision. offering something for all three parties and what the prosecutor is calling a fast-moving case. it triggered a big courtroom surprise. the latest from brynn gingras. >> reporter: dave and christine, a lot unfolding in court. the lawyer will hand overall of the seized documents to michael cohen. the judge said they need to filter through them and how much material ...

Trouble getting there. >> nikki haley has explaining to do. welcome to "early start." im dave briggs. >> im christine romans. 4:00 a.m. in the east. 11:00 a.m. in moscow. 9:00 a.m. in london. today is the day. the battle over the evidence seized on michael cohens home, office and hotel room moved to the federal courtroom. lawyers for the president, personal attorney, michael cohen and the federal prosecutor arguing over how to handle the material covered in client/attorney privilege. >> cohen ...

Internal controls that we have on -- on how people administer themselves inside of government. not only does he make the charge but then offers a trail of evidence to back up his assertion. but i think one of the big dangers here for comey is that he always enjoyed a reputation as an arbiter of information and of truth and facts and very much now because he is taking this directly on to the president, and directly criticizing the president, he is become a political figure. and so much of that is...

What can they do? >> thats what it is, building pressure that the administration would ultimately have to be the arbiter as to whether this pressure is too much or whether its offset by the things from their perspective they think scott pruitt is doing in terms of rolling back regulation. so far, those things and the support scott pruitt has within the konz moconservative movemen conservative group, as well as conservative donors. so far that support is outweighing this scrutiny this mounting sc...

Privately not being willing to do that. that always struck me. i think that would strike a lot of americans too. >> i think comey needs to read the constitution. he clearly thinks there is four branches of government and hes the fourth one. and hes the arbiter of what these things are. the reality is president trump wants to have a good relationship with all the world leaders, whether it is russia or china. were in major economic conflict with china. the president is doing very serious things to...