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Of these presidential conversations. let me get your reaction to what "the washington post" is reporting tonight. >> sure. its obviously another instance of something thats highly unusual and deeply troubling. if these records are being restricted beyond even those with the need to know. so normally these would be handled in a classified manner, and even beyond that, only those that truly have a need to know the information would have access within the security white house system. but putting th...

Tess, let me start with you. you are an expert on the internal white house process for these records and/or transcripts of these presidential conversations. let me get your reaction to what the "washington post" is reporting tonight. >> sure. its obviously another instance of something thats highly unusual and deeply troubling. if these records are being restricted beyond even those with the need to know. so normally these would be handled in a classified manner, and even beyond that, only those...

What the whistleblower is alleging. not all of those allegations of obstruction of justice and other allegations of criminal wrongdoing by the president but specifically on the ukraine issue, to keep it as narrow as possible and presumably to push to impeach this president by the fall. so this is just the beginning of an aggressive effort by democrats to try to move to impeachment in just a matter of weeks, as republicans overwhelmingly are dismissing what happened today, calling it politics and...

That subpoena was not served on donald trump. it was served on the accounting firm mazars, which is prepared those tax returns and has copies of them. the manhattan district attorney is conducting an investigation into potential criminal wrongdoing by donald trump and his company in the hush money payments to stormy daniels in the last month of the presidential campaign, which federal prosecutors in new york called a criminal conspiracy against the united states, which was designed to affect the...

Thus cannot be subject to criminal process for any conduct of any kind while he is serving as president. so according to the presidents lawyers, donald trump could commit murder, he could commit murder on fifth avenue with the whole world watching on tv, and there is nothing law enforcement could do about that as long as donald trump is president. the presidents lawyers are suing the manhattan district attorney to try to block the district attorneys subpoena of president trumps personal tax retu...

I think the answer is its not clearly as broad as sipilone says but its never gone to the courts. we dont have an answer yet. somebody has got to litigate this question weve gotten closer now than weve ever gotten before to having that actually settled by the court. eventually i think well get the answer to that question, but we dont know yet. >> regardless of how broad it is, it does not cover discussions of criminal wrongdoing, does it? would it extend if -- and is the essential allegation -- ...

Have about this incident. on august 19th, 2014, about a month after mr. garners death, the staten island district attorneys office announce they had would impanel a grand jury and present evidence on that matter. on december 3rd, 2014, 23 staten island residents voted no to the indict officer pantaleo clearing him of criminal wrongdoing. that same day, the united states attorney general announced the u.s. department of justice would conduct their own investigation into mr. garners death and will...

Guide allows officers to use reasonable force when necessary to take an uncooperative individual into custody. what the patrol guide did not allow, however, even when this individual was resisting arrest, was the use of a prohibited chokehold. as you know, a number of external authorities have asked many of the same questions we have about this incident. on august 19th, 2014, about a month after mr. garners death, the staten island district attorneys office announced it would impanel a grand jur...

Of course, there were ten, but democrats are choosing pfeiffer to really focus in on -- choosing five to really focus in on because they believe theyre the ones that show the most in their view criminal wrongdoing by this president. they want robert mueller to show a narrative that there was clear evidence in their view of obstruction. and some believe enough to impeach this president. ultimately, the question is going to be whether or not it changes the dynamics on capitol hill to move further,...

Beast in 2011 when they were investigating part of this, and a lot of it tracked with what he said today, but not all of it, because at that time he was making a much bigger deal about what they were up against in terms of the power of epsteins attorneys. you know, thats probably a less convincing argument to make politically like how could we stand up to alan dershowitz and these two other lawyers. >> kenneth starr. >> it was this assault and we couldnt withstand it. its a pathetic excuse. that...