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What the president said today, would you see that as an order from the president to launch an investigation? >> i dont think so. i oversaw an office and would not direct them to start commence investigations by issuing a tweet on a social media platform. i would call them to my office and discuss going forward or not on a case. so i dont know if the president separately called attorney general sessions. my understanding is they dont speak much and theyre not very cordial with each other, but i w...

Each time the president shatters a norm about the use of executive power of the independent administration of justice. i think he has correctly taken the message that no matter how far he goes, they will paddle after him. >> you know, susan and laura, youre both lawyers, so you appreciate the president saying to these two is that right , cre laws. if youre right, you win. create some, he wants the senate to create the whole issue. >> when ever he talks about bulking up or create iing new liable ...

During this hour, wolf. certainly though paying very careful attention to bob muellers case. >> as they should. thank you, jeff. joining us now, preet, who was fired by president trump as the u.s. attorney in new york. thanks so much for joining us. is there any legal basis for the presidents demand that the attorney general jeff session open a full scale investigation into who mowrote this op-ed in "the new york times"? >> no, zero. if you can contribute a number less than zero, you would have ...

>> we will impeach him, but he didnt do anything wrong. it doesnt matter, we will impeach him. but i say how do you impeach somebody thats doing a great job, that hasnt done anything wrong? if it happens, its your fault because you didnt go out to vote. >> so far, thats all the president has said about sentencing of papadopoulos and he was a former foreign policy aide. weve seen that famous photograph of them from the campaign. and the president was telling reporters earlier today on air force o...

Suggested in that tweet was that somehow, this was a an ol standing obama era investigation of two republican congressmen. i cant speak to duncan hunter. i happen to be the united states attorney in the southern district of new york during the o pbama era. the basis for the charges against chris collins as you can read in the public document was based on conduct that was committed. actually on the white house lawn in june of 2017 which was not the obama era. the person who brought the charge ss ...

Investigation to unmask this author. but we are learning that at least aides close to the president believe they are narrowing down the possibilities. wolf, it is just possibilities. we may never know exactly who wrote that. so it is an open question if aides to the president are trying to appease him by saying, we may know who it is or if they have a lead on this. but certainly the president has been stewing about this all day long and talked to reporters about it on air force one and now flyin...

A pr exercise by the president of the united states who deoesnt seem to understand how the first ament works although he exercises his on on a fairly regular basis in a way thats destructive. so the idea he would have someone investigated is intolerable in a democratic society. i would like the know the identity of the person. i would prefer they actually identify himself or herself and come out publicly and resign in that way, but thats not the same as saying that person should be investigated ...

Elaboration of course. we presume he is talking to the cost of this investigation. at $28 million, but that is in fact incorrect. the entire cost of the whole russia investigation is about 17 million or so. the entire cost of bob muellers was around 7 million or so this summer, but the despite that, it was interesting the president weighing in on this. earlier today when flying aboard air force one, he was asked about george papadopoulos. he said i dont know him. i barely know him. he distanced ...

Which is permitted. theres no basis for an investigation here. and i dont know if the president has separately in the proper course of how you manage agency issued a directive, but i would not take it as an order if it was on twitter. >> the president goes further, hes throwing out the word, treason. clearly, theres nothing treasonous about criticizing the president ooempb if you work for him. treason is a major crime. >> just reich like the president doesnt seem to understand what the rule of l...

Athe athena, we can expect to hear more from the former president as we get closer and closer to the midterms, right? >> hi, wolf, thats right. todays event is one of several planned for the next couple of months. an aide told me the president worked on the speech up until the last minute. he was making edits on the flight here. and after months of staying out of politics, he seemed eager to reingauge in a pivotal moment in american democracy. he eulogized senator mccain last weekend, but went m...