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Econo economy, the presidents numbers, given what we thought we knew about how this works is pretty darn low. if were hearing the notion that the tax cuts were a sugar rush, that we wont have 3% growth next year, that his most loyal supporters in the farm belt are still going to be clobbered by these tariffs, then youre talking about a situation where its really hard to see how he, even with the electoral college, how he can pull this off. i do remember again in philadelphia, every democrat i ta...

Were in this time of people making assertions of fake news and truth is truth. we talk about trump all the time. but for purposes of the book and the country, sometimes it makes sense to take a step back and look at first principles and figure out what it means to do justice and be fair minded. how do you get just results? and we dont do that enough these days. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. >> appreciate it. >> the presidential town hall we elizabeth warren is minutes away. she will be ans...

That has swirled around him since the first day of his presidency. as one source close to the white house put it, there has always been tension between what looks best politically and what events the interests of the institution. but preserving executive privilege trumps political optics and the white house view. executive privilege allows the presidents conversations with other officials be kept confidential if he chooses to assert it. justice lawyers could advise him against certain assertions...

Conversations with other officials to be kept confidential if he chooses to assert it. justice department lawyers could advise him against certain assertions, if they dont feel its legally defensible. but if president trump does assert executive privilege, the decision could be litigated in court, if its challenged, which democrats would almost certainly do, anderson. >> yeah. pamela brown, thank you very much. for more, i want to go to cnns chief white house correspondent, jim acosta. jim, what...

As one source close to the white house put it, there has always been tension between what looks best politically and what represents the interests of the institution. but preserving executive privilege trumps political optics and the white house view. executive privilege allows the presidents conversations with other officials be kept confidential if he chooses to assert it. justice lawyers could advise him against certain assertions if they dont feel it is legally defensible, but if president t...

Giuliani, suggested that executive privilege could be used to keep parts of the report from public view. its not up to the presidents personal attorneys, though, its up to the white house? >> the presidents outside personal attorneys do not decide whether to assert executive privilege. thats up to the president and the white house counsels office. and we should note, executive privilege allows the presidents conversations with other officials to be kept confidential if he chooses to assert it. j...

Investigating a financial executives for securitys fraud and pinched the guy and the guy decided i have some other information to give you and gave them this college bribery scandal so it turned out that the first motivation for looking at someone ended up being something different. that happens all the time. it doesnt mean its inappropriate. >> you say the world called out for people that care enough to be exacting even when no one is looking and diligent enough and embracing and owning the res...

Executive privilege allows the presidents conversations with other officials be kept confidential if he chooses to assert it. justice lawyers could advise him against certain assertions if they dont feel it is legally defensible, but if president trump does assert executive privilege, the decision could be litigated in court if it is challenged which democrats would almost certainly do. back to you. >> pamela, thank you for that. we could learn a lot more about the events leading up to the mic...

Amounts to a coup against the president, referring to mccabes assertions they talk about the 25th amendment or those willing to go along with it. >> me first? it was a remarkable, dramatic episode and maybe we do need to learn about it. it is politically slanted. wasnt just the two of them. johnson appreciate this atmosphere of crisis all over the department and real concern about the irregular behavior of the president and comey. and stunning as this was, it is going to be a real battle about w...

Fact whatever assertions of privilege the executive makes wont prevail in this will see the light of day. shannon: the senator wants to know everybody in the meeting. and other names float around. he was given until march 29th to turn over all the info. >> harry can talk to the whole show. i feel bad interrupting him. anyone who thinks there is a lot of controversy and disruption of the justice department after