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Occasion. >> you heard a death and discreet report quoting a senate gop aid who said the meeting that the white house had with senators was a cligsuster f. what does it say that to you that the white house wasnt prepared to sell senators on this? >> this has been a flawed decision-making process from the beginning. it was not a proposal that was thoroughly vetted within the administration clearly people in the white house did not understand. it was something thats fundamental. i think you do if ...

Well meet prince charles and thought i said vince charles and went over to meet prince charles, i said, wife, karen, sweetheart, for a person that loves the royal family so much, you missed out on meeting prince charles. what were you thinking? she said, john, i thought you said vince charles, not prince charles. so weve been laughing about that since it happened, and it was great. my wife, shes the best, and that one is a great story. >> we know that your wife is the best, and i would like to s...

Manage and own this problem for a period of years before they came to office. >> look, its plenty of speculation as to whats motivated the president to do this. i think theres some that obviously this issue bothers him constantly and hell get the daily reports about apprehensions and things like that. theres also the issue of robert mueller. its possible he wants to just send a message to his base. dont forget why you want me here. im the only one talking about that issue in way you like hearing...

Push it? >> i think ultimately theyre going to have to. it could be behind -- in a closed session or partially open and partially closed. but there are a lot of questions that you -- that stem right from the report. ive gone through it with a very fine tooth comb and i had a lot of questions. now theyll get some of the underlying evidence to answer some of those. but some of them will be the decision-making process to reach the conclusions that were reached in the report. and only mueller and hi...

We have a right to know what the government did here and why. >> they urged the judge now to unseal the file, citing the clients privacy. but smollett quote allegedly voluntarily stood in front of whose organizations and spoke about the case. these are not the actions of someone seeking to maintain his privacy. meanwhile, sheila obrien says she has questions about the state attorney kim fox. she wants a special prosecutor to look into her handling of the case. >> more remains to be done because ...

Right to know what the government did here and why. >> attorneys representing jussie smollett urged the judge not to unseal the file, they were siding clients privacy, the judge disagreed writing jussie smollett, quote, voluntarily stood in front of cameras from numerous news organizations in the courthouse lobby and spoke about the case. these are not the actions of a person seeking to maintain his privacy will be left alone. sheila obrien, retired illinois judge said she had questions about th...

>> bill: severe storms hitting the heartland, a series of devastating tornadoes in missouri. the flooding threat far from over as the rivers swell. the latest. >> sandra: a judge ruling to unseal the files of jussie smollett in his case there. what will these documents actually reveal? >> remains to be done because it is not the court file that is all important. it is ms. foxxs file and the decision-making process into how this case was handled. improve our workflow. attract new customers. thats...

Install a new chief counsel of the irs as soon as democrats took control of the house and were sworn in. he was sort of rushed through the senate right away in february at the presidents personal insistence. he had previously advised trump businesses on tax matters. he said during his confirmation process hed seek ethics advice whether hed need to be recused from any decision making involving the presidents own taxes once he was at the irs. we havent been able to get any word from the irs as to ...

We havent been able to get any word from the irs as to whether he actually did that or whether this person personally chosen by the president who has previous experience working for the president might himself have been involved with this decision-making process at the irs. is that something we should have a right to figure out, that you think we might be able to chase down somehow? >> absolutely. and recusal seems to have gone out of fashion in this administration with jeff sessions. but there ...

A book. it was called "drift, the unmooring of american military power." its a book about how the use of the american military basically got divorced over time from civilian politics, from our political decision-making process in this country. not exactly a screaming headline, tabloid topic, i know. but i had something to say about that so i wrote that book. and two things happened when i wrote the book that surprised me. number one, the book did very well. no one was more shocked about that tha...