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Of foreign interests. that would give you leverage over the president if you knew he had laundered money for you. >> do you think it would be readily apparent looking at that time tax returns? >> well, tax returns are the beginning point for asking questions. anyone whos been audited knows they say how did this number show up on this line of your tax return? under a 1924 law thats used all the time by congress the joint committee and other members of congress have the right to all tax return inf...

A discrepancy because earlier on the president said hes going to pool these troops, sudden troop withdrawal, this is part of the process, a beginning point. >> the president later emphasized the process would be orderly and would proceed along a logical timetable, that it wouldnt be precipitous in contrast withdrawal from iraq that president obama chose to make years ago and mike pompeo strongly criticized. heather: that is the next topic. some of what mike pompeo had to say in terms of the diff...

That with a boeing 757. the tax returns themselves katie are the beginning point of the investigation. its the books and records bind them that will tell you money money laundering, investments, dealings with the saudis, russians, and others. >> money laundering has not been an area of information that we have talked much about. we have not seen that investigators have found anything like that that. why do you bring it up? >> well it is not part of muellers fundamental charge, were just looking ...

America is the community of squirrel hill, that fabulous place which immediately came together in stunning acts of immediate solidarity. this is a town that, to my mind like most of america actually knows the tolerance is not enough. love of your neighbor and loyalty are really what youre aiming at and so often americans are achieving it day-by-day. i think tolerance is just a beginning point, squirrel hill did not have tolerance, it had love and it was very moving to see. i thought it was reall...

Preamble to the summit. traditionally there is legwork and meetings before the two leaders get together. >> historically presidential summits have been the cap stone of a long period of negotiation, not the beginning point. when they are the beginning point you end up in the situation we are in. if this falls apart where do you go next? how do you restort start things in it leaves everyone bewildered and becomes dangerous. its also why you dont set expectations high. donald trump has been shower...

This is why many of us cautioned that perhaps the best way to approach this summit would be to start at lower level negotiations, figure out what exactly they mean by denuclearization which they have traditionally always meant first you end the u.s. south korea alliance. you get rid of american troops. then we feel less threatened and dont need as many nuclear weapons, et cetera. >> thats traditionally the preamble to the summit. traditionally there is legwork and meetings before the two leaders...

This is a particularly worse case because sometimes they will defend each other, you dont see companies going after each other and it does spell out how bad things are for facebook. leland: fair to say mark zuckerberg is not the most easygoing guy and theres no congressional hearing that is shall we say the most conducive to making people feel all that comfortable when you realize both pressure and the format and the location, but beyond sort of embarrassing him or beyond asking him some tough q...

Anybody talk about there not being a strategy until we know what comes up? >> yeah, its funny how senator warren came out and said that. i think this is moving on very well. keep in mind, its the potential to sit down and talk. so its a beginning point. weve got to have the beginning to go anywhere. i think president trump will do quite well in this. >> harris: on the house foreign affairs committee, i imagine you talk about all sorts of scenarios and all sorts of things. is there a point that y...

But i think there is a good chance to get daca done if the democrats are serious and really want to do it. we didnt get one vote for massive tax cuts which turned out to be very popular. companies have stepped up and millions of people got bonuses. that was just the beginning point. we didnt get one democrat vote, not one. i think thats a big political problem for them, if you want to know the truth. they are going around saying they made a mistake because the tax cuts are unbelievable. unemploy...

We didnt get one vote for massive tax cuts that have turned out to be unbelievably popular. what came up which was even a surprise to us were the big companies stepped up and millions and millions of people have gotten bonuses. nobody knew that was going to happen. that was the beginning point. we didnt get one democrat vote. thats a big political problem for them, if you want to know the truth. theyre going around saying they made a mistake because the tax cuts have now -- you see what is going...