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Look, pruitt has refused to answer the "new york times" phone calls. he has frozen out environmentalists from meetings and told them that he really isnt interested in what they have to say. and that is leading to a huge backlash and maybe some of the nitpicking about his spending is a little bit partisan and maybe someone else wouldnt have gotten into as much trouble over it, but i think its an object lesson that you can have strong views and you can have an ideological point of view, but if you...

Lets not forget about rear admiral ronny jackson, prumesidt trumps pick to head the v.a. joining me is a prior chairman of hud. how much expertise matters in washington d.c., as you look at the presidents cabinet, all the scandals swirling around it, whats your reaction to it? >> well, david, look, i think ultimately its a reflection of the leadership at the top. as a conservative, i would argue that when you think about conservatism, at least in the age of donald trump, it an ideology that is i...

Whether an obstruction of justice case has been made. >> did you see it as a threat, professor dershowitz, or a possible brick in the road of obstruction of justice? >> i do not. i think it would go down a very bad road for us to start parsing the presidents words to determine whether or not the president of the united states is exercising his authority under article 2 or violating the l law. obviously, if the president were to say this is a message to you, mr. cohen, if you dont testify against...

Now, obviously, if a president were to say this is a message to you, mr. cohen, if you dont testify against me and youre held in contempt i would pardon you. that would be an obstruction of justice. nut the pardon but an offering of the pardon. >> professor dershowitz, dont you think its skiend of surreal where were like dont listen to the president because hes like a person on a park bench with an onion tied to his belt mumbling c coherently. youre essentially saying dont pay attention to the w...

Their average texts from the other periods were almost 12 text as day. from the production we got over a key six month period it was less than two texts a day. unless they just magically had radically different texting habits for that particular six months, there is a lot more that needs to be received by the congress and were going to have to go back to rosenstein and go back to these guys and say produce the goods. steve: i know some members of congress are talking about maybe they should try ...

Barking and he said, whats that? and somebody said hillary clinton. and he laughed. so thats something thats concerning. a positive tell, a leader that can laugh at himself. >> good evening. in your experience with the trump administration, what did you feel is the attitude of the administration towards established government institutions such as the fbi? did they feel these institutions were antagonistic towards the goals of their administration or some willingness to cooperate in your experien...

Did they feel these institutions were antagonistic of the goals of their administration or some willingness to cooperate in your experience? >> both the five months i worked under president trump and since, they view the institutions of justice with contempt. as just another piece on the board. when that piece is doing somebody that the leadership doesnt like, it should be knocked over and dirtied up and that is a terrible place for us to be as a country. the fbi is not politicized. the fbi is b...

To compel through a subpoena to actually have him held in contempt. thats never been done before of a sitting president to either ask to be held in contempt. bot partiesre trying to come together. but ultimately mueller has the upperand because he has the grand jurys subpoena power, assuming the president will respect it. >> this probe will end without the president being enter is viewed? >> im going to say 5% to 10%. he has to be interviewed. he is the person if hes not a target of the investig...

Contempt. if you have to move to impeachment, do that. as mark just said, as mr. meadows just said, i do believe that the president at this point should step in, should take his authority as the executive officer of this country, and make sure that the united states congress has provided all of the documentation immediately. thats only because,s just look at all of the examples that are out there that go back a year and a half now that we were stalled on. tonight you broke news again,lff its tru...

Clinton investigation and lets go to the strzok and page text messages. why is it that congress has to make threats, threats of contempt in order to get these documents?ea they have been looking at these documents for some time now. turn them over to congress. let the american people see what they have. what the department of justice has. i know i have repeatedly called the department of justice today. i received no call back, no information whatsoever as to why they have not turned this over. i...