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22 1/2 minutes long. trump has already prepared his remarks, already labeled it a success, and by the way, its a gigantic success for kim jong-un. this thats transformed him prothe despotic leader to a global statesman, all because donald trump said yes without any preconditions. >> and ambassador mcfaul, that goes to something that a lot of folks are debating, hey, is this dialogue, whats wrong with that? why cant this president, who is unusual, go out and have his unusual style of diplomacy? v...

Anticipated. 50,000 come through -- came through in may? steve: big number we are talking about today is 50 million, because yesterday the house of representatives passed a version of the senate bill by the final vote of 394 to 13. to fighting ms-13 gang crime and violent crime in various communities. and now goes to the presidents desk where he ultimately will sign it because he has made this a campaign pledge. >> one of the big things the country has been debating is sanctuary cities. the pres...

Investigation. then comes a case which was interesting involving former agriculture secretary. the case was back in 1997. and in that case, and this goes to something everybodys been debating, they said that in order to subpoena the president, you have to show a really specific particularized need, number one, and number two, you have to show that you cant get the information from another source, which tracks back -- we gave you all this information. arthel: theres a lot in there doug. >> yeah. ...

>> he is loving the theater and the drama of this. hes loving the theater and drama of this so much that it makes you worry hes really attending to the substance of it. we have no way of understanding what has happened, why the goal posts have moved. why suddenly its a good idea to meet when it wasnt a week and a half ago or whenever that was. we have no answers for that and it seems more than anything else like donald trump just relishes the theater of this. when were talking about this or when...

? so lets -- >> is that sacrilegious and do something that most people dont do. the players are such better athletes today, et cetera, et cetera. im telling you, if michael jordans bulls teams from the 90s -- >> i thought you were going to do the news. >> if michael jordans teams, or magic lakers teams from the 80s or larry birds celtics team from the 80s would have played, they would have destroyed them. >> so magic is lebron, but magic is passing to kareem abdul-jabbar or james worthy. some of...

Will be outlined in such a way that it talks about the conspiracy with other people who were in his administration. >> if that goes on to congress, i mean, the identification, the classification of the president, an unindicted co-conspirator, what would congress do with that? >> well, theres several things they could do. they could take it and say, well, were not going to do anything. depending on what control of congress is at the time. they could use it as a basis and outline of charges to mov...

Into a police state, but we have got to do something different. >> we have been debating whether or not to arm teachers in class, one in seven districts in -- allow teachers and staff to carry on campus. it does bring up practical questions about how does that work, so if you are carrying a gun and youre in a classroom every day, if its locked in a box? if its locked in a box, can you get to it if you need it? if its on your person, can a student wrestle it away from you? >> im not a nuanced guy...

If he wants to figure out who that blocked number that donald trump, jr. called afterwards, he can. >> dont you think he has that information, though? >> he probably does. at some point or another, we may actually know the actual answer to this instead of debating. with this, i think its like with anything in america today. if you are a trump supporter, you live in this alternative world of suspended disbelief. and i think scott is almost too good for these folks because donald trump has no qual...

What do you think? >> it reminds me of the song, "it wasnt me." it wasnt me. >> shaggy. >> the shaggy song he got caught red-handed, it wasnt me. thats what this entire thing makes me think about. listen, donald trump, jr. couldnt remember. i think the washington post put out a report today. there was something like 54 things he couldnt recall. i mean this boy needs to take himself some coq 10, some gingko biloba, something that helps memory loss. he has a serious problem. either that or hes lyi...

Rudy giuliani. tell us what he said. >> well what he said is that the special counsels team has informed the presidents legal team that they have concluded that they cannot indict a sitting president. now it has been the -- along with the guidelines of the justice department since the nixon era, the office of legal council said back then because of the rigors of the job, that a president cannot be indicted. it was reaffirmed during the clinton years. however, during all of this investigation, th...