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Know, michael wolffs talking to all of these people and you find out most sources are people d disgrudi disgruntled and dont work at the white house any longer. >> and do you think there are concerns about the presidents mental fitness? >> i do not. >> karen, so maybe repetitiveness is for effect. maybe not recognizing people who he supposedly knows, maybe thats happened to all of us. maybe he was tired. do we need to be wary about jumping to the conclusions that, frankly, many people are talkin...

Is hours of testimony, 21 hours in total and they would like the transcripts released. is that something you would support. >> i think what we have to do is get their story out. that is something that well wok through, whether it is -- we dont normally release prior testimony because it might impugn further witnesses from coming forward. but if they have additional story to tell, i think they ought to have a chance to tell it. >> lastly, the deputy attorney general rod rosen stein and chris wray...

Testified before my staff, our staff, but not before the members and for that matter not before the public. >> you want the gps founders back to testify publicly. they say that theyve -- there is hours of testimony, 21 hours in total and they would like the transcripts released. is that something you would support? >> i think what we have to do is get their story out. that is something that well wok through, whether it is -- we dont normally release prior testimony because it might impugn furthe...

To perform the office of the presidency. >> a lot of these questions are being raised right now even as we speak, mr. secretary, in part because, as you point out, the presidents tweets and because of this new book by the author michael wolff. when you have read the accounts from inside the white house contained in this new book, what is your reaction? >> its obvious, from what were seeing, from the excerpts about the book and obviously the book itself, that in many ways it seems to me that it c...

Hillary clinton, remember? they did it first with obama. they won. this is the pendulum. lastly, you said wolff is a good writer. he is. the reporting is strange. it feels like hes forcing observations and conclusions to fulfill the good story writing. he has a great story. he writes an active voice. but the reporting is in the passive. its as if things are happening without a reason. i think thats weird. part of me says yeah, a lot of this could happen but its like he is shoveling it into a way...

Issue competing reports. with very different conclusions about the probe. thats really bad news. it could mean people dont trust the answer. it could mean americans dont get a definitive answer on whether the trump campaign colluded with russia. manu raju is on capitol hill. its a damning thing, really bad news. what are you learning about this collision course between democrats and republicans? >> republicans on the committee say they have interviewed dozens of witnesses, including major player...

Hoping and believe thats critical, again for those of us on the committee but also for the public at large, is that the principals, people like donald trump jr., jared kushner, michael cohen, mr. trumps lawyer, the fusion gps folks have a chance to come back and testify before the committee. so that we as members have a chance to ask them questions before we reach final conclusions. as wet eve seen from your reports today, when you have people like the presidents top political advisor making the...

I want to go back to the book for a moment the spokesperson for the legal team believed the trump tower meeting on air force one represented a likely obstruction of justice. and ultimately he quit. thats my second part. how significant is that tidbit of information? >> i dont think robert mueller would accept anything in the book as necessarily true or it reaches any legal conclusions. but i think it could give him potential leads. the statements by steve bannon and others would rise to the leve...

Kind of a spontaneity and free flow of people talking about their authentic conclusions. and its horrifying. >> mr. president, you have made it perfectly clear you dont intend to release the tapes. >> perfectly clear? >> perfectly clear. >> it would be up to the supreme court to make the decision. on july 24, 1974, the court issued its ruling. >> the supreme court has just ruled on the tapes controversy. and here is carl stern, who has that ruling. >> it is the unanimous decision, doug, 8-0, jus...

Closer to a clash between the white house and the congress and the courts which will be unprecedented in american history. >> it became clear he wasnt going to produce them voluntarily. theres a reason why hes drawing the line. hes taking all this flak. there must be some damaging things on there. i was concerned. we were concerned that he might dispose of the tapes. that in and of itself could be a criminal offense. burning the tapes, destroying the tapes. >> nixon never thought the tapes that ...