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Is ultimately prosecuted. >> what do you make of the argument made out by general flynns lawyers made out in the lengthy letter to congress? >> we have to respect the first amendment right against self-incrimination, and i suspect his defense counsel, his lawyer is making an argument that given the current environment and the range of allegations of missteps or misbehavior by general flynn that hes at some real legal risks so i think frankly any court would respect the argument being made by his...

Against him. multiple members of congress have demand that had he be investigated and even prosecuted. he is the target on nearly a daily basis of outrageous allegations, often attributed to anonymous shoreses in congress or elsewhere in the united states government which, however, fanciful on their face and you be substantiated by evidence, feed the escalating public frenzy against him. the letter adds, additionally, in the intervening time since the committee issued its subpoena the department...

Pleading the fifth? hes saying hes not going to testify unless you give him immunity. you are in line with your chairman, youre not going to give him. >> i dont think theres any reason for us to go down that avenue. we still have contempt to be used if need be. that, well all have to concur. our committee has to concur we have done everything we can, except immunity. if they believe, overwhelming believe immunity is necessary, that discussion will be have. we dont have that right now. i dont kno...

Reporters and analysts, including the reporter behind that "new york times" piece, but lets begin are hans nichols who is at the white house. hans, the president is about to leave on this foreign trip and hes going to try to be leaving behind a number of controversies, a little bit of a reset, the white house hopes. >> reporter: ill try to talk over the sound of the helicopter just about to take off from outside the rose garden. this is a foreign trip, and you can sense white house aides eager t...

With executive branch will take this in. this is wholly consistent with what donald trump said for months. the same issue with the birther nonsense law that launched him into the campaign and the issue with hillary clinton. i remember being in the spot saying he marinates in authoritarian thinking. he is meeting with erdogan. he has nothing but show of contempt for the idea that russia could manipulate america and electoral system or him. he could be subject to it, too. he just is thinking about...

Say something before he was fired. his friends say comey did not want to affect the ongoing russian investigation. he believed he had the issue under control. he also insured the presidents comments did not get back to agents conducting the investigation. >> thank you, evan. we have our panel. analyst david gregory. legal analyst jeffrey toobin and reporter and editor at large chris cillizza. when you look at this situation, a lot of law in the air. you have politics in the air. what do you thin...

Reckless disregard and contempt for the checks and balance system. the issue where he can sweet talk a deal. they have to get around the agenda which is completely thrown overboard and if they had any opportunity to work with democrats, that is really gone. as well as providing oversight. jason chaffetz. get in the game. he is now mr. independent. play it out. >> he is one of the few. he asked for documents to be contained and delivered to the oversight committee. chris cillizza, to davids point...

That it should be in that this is a national security concern, that we should get to the bottom of this. this is something that could really put our own relationships overseas that weve spent years building at risk. >> senator, is this reckless when you add this on top of unfounded wiretapping claim, when you add it to the tapes tweet from president with no evidence of tapes from the comey conversations and now this. are we at a point of this president acting reckless? >> you know, look, the ame...

Be the worst choice because he has no idea what the fbi is all about. today, he has almost no management experience. fran townsend, she belittled the fbi. she referred to agents with contempt and said they were incompetent. thats widely known in the bureau and it still is today. we need someone who is going to protect us. >> heather: youre looking for someone with experience that doesnt have to learn the job from the very beginning, but when youre talking about the acting general, mccain, he has...

>> yes, and i thunk ink it goes the utter contempt that donald trump holds for the american system. this is a man who has never read the constitution. he seems to think it has 12 articles rather than 17. so in everything he does, in the way he fired comey, in the way he got rid of two other high-level officials digging into the russian connections, he is continually showing us exactly what he promised on the campaign trail. he spoke of the presidency as a dictator, and hes doing everything he ca...