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Was the decision process in not talking about that alleged pressure from the white house? >> well, i mean, i think in their defense, it would have been a little awkward because of the content of what the story was going to be about. it was about their relationship. so im not sure how they would have disclosed that without raising all sorts of questions about their relationship at that time. so i dont know that youre obligated necessarily to disclose every single thing that happens. in this case,...

The potential that it was actually fake intelligence, or fake potential e-mails that motivated then fbi director comey to essentially take the decision process over whether to prosecute, or the announcement of the decision on the clinton part of e-mail investigation, to essentially take that away from the justice department and what is, the "washington post" and cnn are reporting that it is, that they thought it probably wasnt true. that there was somehow justice department collusion with the cl...

Impacting the election, that person should be held accountable but it didnt come from the president or anyone im associated with. >> tucker: was the president aware that the active attorney general was going to appoint mueller? >> i dont know what the decision process was from the acting attorney general and how it was moving forward. i dont know. i know the president has had a full schedule. he gave a commencement speech at the coast guard. i think with the president is doing is putting people ...

To fire director comey is troubling. he should have recused himself from that decision process because it had to do directly with campaign issues. something that he had broadly recused himself. from. >> right. its almost -- its almost as if you were trying to do this decision in the sloppiest, most contradictory way possible that would invite the most potential investigations thereafter. this would sort of be the way to do it. >> well, you also dont know what was driving that. so if the presiden...

Because were going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business. clayton: our next guest called her out on it watch. >> you can say you are going to put a lot of coal miners out of jobs and then come in here and tell us how you are going to be our friend. >> what i said was totally out of context from what i meant. because i have been talking about helping coal country for a very long time. i do feel a little bit sad and sorry that i gave folks the reason or the excuse to be so...

With the number of missiles that were going that airfield, 59 is the count says there are certain targets you can hit. theres been a lot of discussion about why didnt they crater the runway. what ill tell you is evidently they didnt want to for whatever reason. i wasnt in the decision-making. but those kind of damages needed to be done, the military effort could have done that. it just must not have been part of the decision process. >> so they hit what they wanted to hit. they didnt hit what th...

That said, if you look at the success of this administration in this week thats happened, three bilateral discussions. a meetings with the president of china. having neil gorsuch confirmed as a supreme court justice. this administration has had a very good week. plus, responding to a dictator in syria, you know, this is a week that most of the media isnt focusing on. what they want to do is focus on what is supposed to be the palace entry. is reince predisin or out. he is the chief of staff toda...

Committee. thanks for being with us. >> good to be with you. >> you came out of a briefing on the attack. what more can you tell us? >> we did sit down with general dunford who gave us an overview and time frame of the events as they occurred and also good discussion about who was involved in that decision process in advising the white house. i think the president did make a good assessment, a good call on the situation, and it was a very surgical strike on the assets that were in syria that wer...

With the information they obtained? >> same answer. >> okay, i understand that. how did the administration determine who to sanction as part of the election hacking? how familiar with that decision process and how was the determination made? >> i dont know. im not familiar with the decision process. the fbi is factual input, but i dont recall -- i dont have any personal knowledge of how decisions were made of who to sanction. >> looking forward, what -- and this is for both of you. what is the n...

Government officials. do you know what the fsb did with the information they obtained? >> same answer. >> i understand that. how did the administration determine who to sanction as part of the election hacking? how familiar with that decision process and how is that determination made? >> i dont know. im not familiar with the -- i dont recall. i dont have any personal knowledge of how the decisions were made about who to sanction. >> looking forward -- this is for both of you what is the nsa and...