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Caucuses with the democrats, he says, yes, theres alarming intelligence but he adds this. >> i dont think its faulty intel. i think the intel may be accurate but unanswered question is are they reacting to our assertions of action in the middle east, or are we reacting to them? think the president is absolutely right, according to the reporting that weve heard this morning to slow this thing down and express a little restraint on some of thinks advisers who seem to be getting us into a position ...

Attorney general william barr working for you. so, i mean, clearly thats not the way america is set up, right? thats what theyre trying to argue now. clearly thats untenable. but it just means that we are in an untenable situation right now, which means there will be change. weve got these assertions from the white house. weve got these subpoenas from congress. weve got the judiciary now getting involved in the first time, trying to handle these remarkable claims from the white house about how t...

Summed up why the behavior of re the trump white house is so dangerous.it >> the white house is making the outragious claim that a president cannot be held accountable in any way through the american people. a the justice department cant hold him accountable since a me sitting president cannot be indicted and now theyre saying congress cannot hold a presidens accountable. this would make the president above the law.th we of course totally reject it. >> a member of two committees trying to conduc...

With iran. are they under control? say a group of people from the shia militia attack americans. is that an iranian attack or something that could trigger an escalation by us versus iran and suddenly we are on the ladder. thats worrying me. thats why i think the president is right according to the reporting that we have heard this morning to slow this thing down and express a little restraint on some of his advisers who seem to be getting us into a position where something pretty awful could hap...

Side. if you have ever, ever personally had truly epic, truly wicked criminal ambitions for yourself, now you know what the job is for you. i mean if you were so lucky as to get elected president, you could not only by definition not commit any crimes, you could not be charged. you could not be investigated. youd be the freest criminal on earth if you were lucky enough to be elected president of the united states and if you had attorney general william barr working for you. so, i mean, clearly t...

Presidency. i dont expect donald trump to be thinking a lot about that. i do expect people in the white house councils office to decide whether they have a strong claim or not. >> its going to have to be done with specificity and not just broad brush general assertions of executive privilege. its going to have to be done with specificity to hold up in court. >> appreciate it. coming up next, hes not running yet and he may get into the race very late but theres new reporting on who joe biden, for...

Are barr, now all eyes on barr. he has several enormous decisions to make. first, is he going to give an advanced copy to the white house and give them a chance to object on executive privilege. white house lawyers have said they expect to have that opportunity. >> of his report that is bill barrs. >> barr will send muellers report over. do you object to anything here. then if they do object, and i think they will, is barr going to agree with them or will he fight them. if he says i disagree wit...

Him to release his tax returns and he thumbed his nose at that. the last point is on executive privilege. the courts do exert deference but if you put a weak claim forward you can harm the presidency. in the clinton case the president decided not to exert executive privilege because he thought this might weaken the presidency. i dont expect donald trump to be thinking a lot about that. i do expect people in the white house councils office to decide whether they have a strong claim or not. >> its...

And thats when you might start seeing hand-offs. we dont fully know what the scope is. im hoping that the process becomes a little fully more illuminated as well. but youre right, theres certainly opportunity for factual assertions to be put in this report that make it at least politically harmful if not legally harmful. >> shes at all justice department. laura, youve been doing so much reporting on this. youre now reporting hes in his office, the attorney general bill barr, reading the report a...

To the most sensitive intelligence, not just from american intelligence officials but if he wanted it from our allies, who would have access to other classified information. but some of the questions we have are born from the helsinki moment created by your question. and weve had to swim around in the stream of what has been publicly facing from this president. the public facing conduct certainly makes it legitimate to ask whether hes not acting on some information or some flow of information ab...