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Comments. do you believe he is acting like someone who has something to hide. >> he is acting as though he has something to hide and acting like someone who has utter contempt for the rule of law. he has a right to fight back if he means the right to present arguments and evidence and a legal defense. he has no right to fire james comey or bob mueller. hes already fired comey, he said because the russia thing is nothing. but in fact, if he fires mueller, because he similarly wants to stop an inv...

Country. this is part of a bigger set of he revelations this week of republicanss apparent contempt. when you have liberal democrats coming on to defend the fbi, something has gone way off the rails in america. >> i do want to get to that point. the context of everything thats been going on this week, this is part of it. but there was some good staff work here. walter schwab doesnt want to give the him credit for stopping the president. >> people who understand the constitution, checks and bal...

Statements and allow him, on his own, to hang himself. and hes entirely capable of doing that. if you directly assault him, he will tighten up, hell do what you see him do when he crosses his arms, and youll see him in the white house doing this. it is getting him to relax and go into bluster mode and hell hang himself just fine. >> stuart taylor -- >> hell seek insurances in advance that it wont be about obstruction, and mueller cant give that. >> stuart, lets go to that question of does this r...

Also taken a tough position and fought this kind of testimony up to the end. they usually relents. bill clinton fought it quite a bit. to your question what would happ happen, you would have a clash with the branches. nixon took his fight to the supreme court. you could have someone appeal it under various grounds. but ultimately when the courts order you do something, the president and the administration have an obligation to comply. and if you dont comply, you can be held in contempt. i dont w...

It is getting him to relax and go into bluster mode and hell hang himself just fine. >> stuart taylor -- >> hell seek insurances in advance that it wont be about obstruction, and mueller cant give that. >> stuart, lets go to that question of does this recommendation change trumps opinion about whether hell cooperate and give an interview, and if he chooses now not to give an interview, then what happens? >> he might. then what happens, i think, is that mueller moves the court to hold him in cont...

Hes still obsessed with people describing how good of a candidate he was. there are larger ramifications for this, which is its just a window into the way trump thinks and a reminder of the way trump thinks so much more broadly which is in so many aspects of his presidency and his policy making including on foreign policy which i focus on, you can see this desire to be the anti-obama or the anti-hillary. the degree to which he defines himself against other people. hes the one who is taking the a...

Talking about how grateful they were to be working for him, mattis was the only one who said im grateful for the men and women who serve this country. he is the only one who hasnt been a sycophant and hasnt been kowtowing to the president. for some reason, the president seems to lay off him. and maybe its because he is not a sycophant, and the rest of them are. >> he is not in the building. >> what sallys saying, its really true on the one hand trump has tremendous respect for three and four-sta...

Though in that dear leader meeting at the white house with all the cabinet where they were talking about how grateful they were to be working for him, mattis was the only one who said "im grateful for the men and women who serve this country." he is the only one who hasnt been a sycophant and hasnt been kowtowing to the president. for some reason, the president seems to lay off him. and maybe its because he is not a sycophant, and the rest of them are. >> he is not in the building. >> what sally...

But when you start -- why would they be meeting off the agency area? why would they have meetings away from the office? it says that they must have had something other than justice in mind because if it was real justice, they would have been meeting at the department of justice. these people need to be investigated. we know from the other texts, the other messages, the circumstances surrounding them that they could not be fair. that they wanted to keep trump from being elected and then an insura...

Insofar as james comey testified the president cleared everyone out of the room or had him over for a one-on-one meeting, asked had i am for loyalty. when he did not offer loyalty, he asked him to see his way to letting flynn go, thats the first person. then andrew mccabe, brought in for a get to know you and asked essentially out of loyalty who did you vote for, lo and behold the president calls for him to be fired. we now have reporting he pressured wray to fire him and mccabe ultimately retir...