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Informal process where people wouldnt ask a lot of questions about what does the campaign finance laws say here. so if the investigators were to decide to take on this case and really prior into the trump organization, what weve seen from other instances is that they are not likely to find the very rigorous law based decision making process within the trump orgt orl organization. >> and you are also reporting on the pleading guilty to federal tax fraud, so of course the state would look into tha...

The president of the united states -- josh gurstein writes for politico, one of my reptorial mentors, if you will, writes, its not a matter of if the president will pardon paul manafort, but a matter of when. do you feel like thats the signal being sent by the president? >> i absolutely agree with that. i think it could happen at any moment. the president has shown, he does not need any paper or any decision-making process for it. it could happen at 1:00 a.m. in the morning with a tweet. so i th...

Its interesting to -- i mean this is totally circumventing the pentagon. >> well, in some ways its not surprising that this idea has surfaced again. if you think back to last summer, the summer of 2017, there was a lot of reporting about the decision-making process by which the president decided to extending and in some ways enhance our presence in afghanistan. it was enclosuclear that the pr wasnt happy with the choices that were in front of him. one of the out of the box ideas that surfaced at...

Shareholders versus stakeholders. one of the stakeholders? employees. the environment. maybe some consumers. in other words, these folks should be part of the decision-making process and be rewarded as much as shareholders were taking the risk of the first place. i will tell you i love this topic because i think a couple things are happening here. first we have tried this in this country under the banner of conscious capitalism. there was something striking in her op-ed in "the wall street journ...

Consideration about cost savings. the issue of cost savings and the $115 million that would be saved annually is something that we saw in the proposal as part of the reasoning here. that is one factor. of course, many are wondering, is that cost savings at the end of the day worth the potential risk. >> whats tsa saying? >> we took this question to him. we asked them about the decision making process. we do know that they have told us that this is not a new issue, which we have reported. this id...

>> dagen: that is what is behind here, talking to andy bigs about this, and the decision-making process is the frustration with the doj, the fbi, slow rolling the process, you look at text messages that popped up and to the reports that were never given to congress, you look at the doj claiming that things are of national interest, and finding out that they arent. so congress is incredibly frustrated. and what other options are on the table for republicans in the house or in congress to try to o...

The job that he would change a little bit when he got into the white house? >> to some degree i guess. we always thought, everybody thinks that the office weighs heavy on an individual. and every president has talked about how the office changes them. you see things and become privy to things that you never knew and it weighs heavy on your decision-making process. but i think to your point, we and in particular approach this in a very traditional sense. i talked to my predecessors on a bipartisa...

Again, it is a dangerous situation for the united states. our government is being infiltrated by a foreign adversary. it is important that administration do what they can to protect our country, until we get president trump out of there. that is the job of congress. >> i have to ask you, someone who worked with the national security council, i know the president does not have to seek advice from anyone in his decision making process. how unusual it is for the director of national intelligence to...

Meeting with putin and thered be a quick debrief with his top intelligence officials or staff and that might get disseminated to coats indirectly. >> thats certainly the conventional manner in which these things are done, first, the national security team would be a part of the decision-making process to have a summit. work out the details for the agenda and the objectives and rules and all that sort of thing. as we have come to know, with this president, whos not conventional and very unorthodo...

Back to the kitchen table and -- >> do you, though, go impaback - again, if youre new, if youre one running for the first time, you only get the chance to make a first impression. but republicans are going to be asked by this local tv stations, newspapers, can they get away with the easy answer with the foresight of the intelligence community or do they have to drae address the elephant in the room? >> i think they can get away saying donald trump was wrong. >> thats different than saying i supp...