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Inept, theyre frustrated with him and sometimes that comes out privately, as it did with raj shah, sometimes it spills out into the press with quotes from -- background quotes from rex tillerson and what we know about what his epa straighter scott pruitt said about him. kellyanne conway during the republican primary supported ted cruz and in doing so criticized donald trump pretty aggressively. so its no surprise the president is -- in the words of someone i talked to after the story came out su...

question with invocation you have his fifth amendment rights. i worked on the whitewater investigation. susan mcdougal refused to answer three questions and held in contempt and jailed for 18 months for failure to answer those questions. theres not an option if theres a subpoena for the president to sit back and say i plead the fifth and not doing anything. thats not an option on the table for him. >> a political friend of mine moon in philadelphia once said if youre not going to run again fo...

This, some justice, i dont think its the worst thing hes done but he somehow got passes for the other acts." the spouse responded that rajs skill as press secretary are only surpassed by his stellar character. with me is the woman who wrote the piece on raj shaw. i start with you, is it possible that raj had those views and they changed since hes been in the white house or is it your understanding there are many people who work in the white house who genuinely think that way about the person the...

Reported today in my "vanity fair" piece, trump -- this is a two-way street. he has in many ways contempt for the people that work for him and so hes constantly mulling about shaking up his staff, bringing in outsiders, and this is a president who does not have a close counselor in the white house. he doesnt rely on people for political advice, hes calling to friends and advisers outside the white house to plot strategy which is one of the reasons theres so many leaks coming out of this white ho...

Former advisers to president donald trump that people certainly do hold a lot of contempt for the president. they criticize him as being unintelligent, they think he is ine inept, theyre frustrated with him and sometimes that comes out privately, as it did with raj shah, sometimes it spills out into the press with quotes from -- background quotes from rex tillerson and what we know about what his epa straighter scott pruitt said about him. kellyanne conway during the republican primary supported...

They issued a subpoena asking him to come back and respond to the questions. well, it turns out hes not going to show up. tomorrow is the deadline, erin, for him to come back to the house intelligence committee. an appearance has been delayed twice already, and were told that -- keira skinell and i are told from a source familiar with the process that bannon will not show up tomorrow, hes not expected to show up for this appearance, raising the possibility that republicans and democrats could po...

On the transition, his time at the white house, and even all the way up to present day. thats unlawful, actually, to assert that youre not going to testify, but not being able toy assert any legal privilege. >> what will your committee do if bannon doesnt comply with the legal subpoena? >> i hope, one, we hold him in contempt, but i also hope that as others come forward, we show the same willingness to doggedly get their testimony. that mean ifs they try to stand on these bogus privileges, we su...

Will not appear before the house intelligence committee form, risking for being held in contempt for failing to comply with a subpoena. back now with the panel. on a night we learned that president trump is likely not to testify or want to testify before mueller, also steve bannon not testifying. the reporting is apparently that his attorneys are still waiting for clarification over whether or not executive privilege can be used for things that happened during the campaign. does it make sense th...

White house, including the firing of james comey, and efforts to talk about the trump tower meeting that occurred in june of 2016 and the statement that came out afterwards that gave a misleading impression of exactly what happened. well, bannon would not answer that last month. he angered lawmakers. they issued a subpoena asking him to come back and respond to the questions. well, it turns out hes not going to show up. tomorrow is the deadline, erin, for him to come back to the house intelligen...

Participate. >> what lengths should the committee go to, do you think that the committee should hold him in contempt if he doesnt agree to sit? >> im going to let that be referred to the principles on the investigation and make -- let them make that determination. >> how important is it to you to hear what he has to say? >> i think it is important. i think that because each side of this has brought forth a witness list and he was one of those individuals on the witness list, and we agreed to tha...