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Constitution, its a bad idea for the department of justice and frankly its a bad idea for the president of the united states. >> is corker and lindsay graham the majority or is ben sasse the majority, are they on the trump side or are they on the side of jeff sessions? >> i think theyre standing there with their finger in the wind trying to see which way all this blows. republicans are divided on this, but ultimately it will come down to them, it will come down to whether or not they will draw a...

Example. does it hurt the office of the attorney general? is he -- >> those are two very different things. >> lets look beyond the fight going on here. long term, does it say something about what this office does going forward? >> i think as long as sessions is executing on the presidents law and order agenda, hes going to keep his job. thats kind of what some of these tweets imply. but the law and order part of it is going well. lets face it, every member of the cabinet serves at the presidents...

Read. meaning hes being compelled to testify, under penalty of contempt, if he lies, perjury. thats what i understand his circumstance is. hes probably a reluctant cooperator. all the documents will come to the government and what theyll identify, or not, is that there was a lot of goings on that had nothing to do with journalistic enterprise and that these organs of ami, particularly "national enquirer" were being used as part of the election and not being declared on any filing. on top of it w...

Pardon power for his own personal political benefit. the fact that he was willing to consider it before there was even a verdict in the case shows a certain contempt for the process of justice that he is supposed to oversee as the nations chief law enforcement officer or commander in chief, i should say. its astonishing but not surprising. the white house was saying at a press conference, sarah huckabee sanders, i had no knowledge of these discussions. well turns out there were discussions. >> t...

Manafort, put him on the stand in any trial he pleases and introduce every single document and other item of evidence through paul manaforts testimony against the defendant. >> and lets be clear about that. if hes pardoned and loses his fifth amendment rights and bob mueller puts paul manafort on the stand and asks him a question that bob mueller knows to be true or has evidence about, paul manafort is then again guilty of a different k m crime. >> exactly, if he lies, hes guilty of contempt, pe...

And its not -- it doesnt even require an impeachment investigation. remember, congress has very broad jurisdiction to investigate whatever they want. they could be investigating campaign finance violations. congress has the power to give immunity to people that they want, who are citing their fifth amendment rights. congress generally refrains from doing so if its going to interfere with a criminal investigation. but here, that criminal investigation is over. theres no risk of a case against mic...

>> right. and its not -- it doesnt even require an impeachment investigation. remember, congress has very broad jurisdiction to investigate whatever they want. they could be investigating campaign fninance violations. congress has the power to give immunity to people that they want, who are citing their fifth amendment rights. congress generally refrains from doing so if its going to interfere with a criminal investigation. but here, that criminal investigation is over. theres no risk of a case ...

Account and they may or may not pay dearly in terms of their political lives, but this is a moment of truth for the republican party. they do not have to condemn or come to the aid of donald trump but people on capitol hill in the republican party need to say we are for the rule of law and this president has shown in the last week particularly his utter contempt for the rule of law. >> i know that viewers at home see the developments, legal cases, and are asking where do we go from here? >> i th...

All of that is sealed. so we dont know why hes fighting to subpoena. a judge held him in contempt when he didnt show up. so that is still ongoing. and there are probably other parts of this investigation, financial. the whole russia collusion thing we believe is ongoing. there are grand juries that are still active and hearing from witnesses. so theres really, really a lot thats still ongoing, and we really dont have any idea about when this is going to end. and then the big question really, wol...

Have been ripping us off, in brackets. treated the nato leaders with tremendous contempt and disrespect. i said no, no, no, they disrespected our country, they werent paying. [applause] now theyre paying. how about if we got into a c conflict because a country was attacked. were in world war 3. were protecting a country that was attacked and didnt pay its bills. i feel so stupid. were protecting a country that wasnt paying its bills. i got them to pay $100 billion, its going to be much more than...