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Maxine waters, jerry nadler, pretty radical person at the judiciary committee, and adam schiff, we see house until committee, the gavel, the chairman of the house intelligence. >> the president i assume. >> some committees where a chairman has unilateral subpoena authority, some committees have to have votes but there are three committees in the house where a chairman, you could unilaterally issue a subpoena. >> a list of likely investigations of democrats when the house and there are a number o...

Confirmation testimony, there was a missing witness, angela wright. she was someone who worked at the eeoc and willing to testify that the same kind of use of pornography in the workplace, commenting on body parts, pressuring for dates had occurred with her. she was never called. in this case, theres a pitfall marked judge as a missing witness. he is someone that dr. ford named. how unusual is that for someone to name a friend of the accused assaulter as a witness. and hes turned in a piece of p...

Senators. this was a concern that senator grassley brought up in a radio interview when he was asked if this was a proposal and having the third party doing the question, if he would be okay with that. they got around that concern. the senator would be more willing to do the proposal. >> one of the key senators whose vote is the decisive vote. senator flake on the committee and senator corker and senator murkowski are four so far who said i do not want to vote until professor ford gets to tell h...

Friends among republicans in the senate. they certainly behaved that way during his confirmation. they got him through the challenges to his confirmation testimony, which some people thought included perjury. >> yep. >> and here is another piece of "the new york times" reporting tonight, which i think it contains a new fact that maybe we believed but did not quite yet know. >> right. >> it said mr. trump complains to friends about how much he would like to get rid of mr. sessions but has demurre...

>> thats right. with both our allies and adversaries, it under minds a number of efforts. when were saying, china, you take care of this or we will, the chinese have to believe that that is the message from the president. i think the other thing, secretary tillerson had this real focus on this kind of corporate shake-up at the state department. youre seeing a lot of our most talented diplomats leave. that takes any agency could operate more efficientsy. any government agency. but the expertise w...

Committee. senator, your reaction to the breaking news this evening. "the washington post" reporting that according to current and former u.s. officials, there are intercepts in which the russian ambassador sergey kislyak in 2016 described conversations he had with then senator and trump campaign adviser, now attorney general jeff sessions in which they did in fact discuss campaign-related matters, discuss president trump, then candidate trumps position on his issues having to do with russia, de...

But thank you for that reminder of the nixon example. i want to listen to something al franken said about jeff sessions confirmation hearing testimony and his forgetting his meeting with russians in his confirmation testimony. lets listen to what al franken said on this program about that. >> theres no other conclusion that you can come to other than that he was lying and was committing perjury. >> and now lets listen to what donald trump said to "the new york times" about that very same thing....

Sessions confirmation hearing testimony and his forgetting his meeting with russians in his confirmation testimony. lets listen to what al franken said on this program about that. >> theres no other conclusion that you can come to other than that he was lying and was committing perjury. >> and now lets listen to what donald trump said to "the new york times" about that very same thing. donald trump said, jeff sessions gave some bad answers. he gave some answers that were simple questions and sho...

This particular issue and everyone has their right to be outraged about whatever they want. im curious as a veteran how you see it. we dont get the same outrage about nuclear north korea. we dont get the exact same outrage about a terror attack in man chester that killed a little girl. im curious your thoughts on that. >> look, jenna, im looking at this through the lens of national security. and the defense department, a number of admirals and generals, even secretary mattis in his confirmation ...

Our borders which is why we consolidated them all in one cabinet level department. now, because isil has effectively outsourced terrorism to home-ground bound extremists, we need to focus there as well. i hope that this administration will do that. i know my successor believes in that. he said that at his confirmation testimony. but i think that needs to be a major, major focus. >> before i let you go, mr. secretary, you still hopeful that donald trump can be a great president two months in? >> ...