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Having been a special trial counsel to an independent counsel in the past, i think its important that the justice department exercise its oversight in these matters. >> ty cobb speaking today just a couple of hours before it was announced that he is out of the white house. he also said that those 49 questions for the president that appeared in "the new york times" this week, he said its his view that those did not leak from robert muellers team, despite any aspersions to the contrary cast by the...

Start the investigation. he got pulled in by rosenstein, and was given an assignment. you know, he had been working that. people can argue about whether or not there is a lot of sprawl. i understand those arguments, but at the same time, again, he didnt -- he didnt launch into this on his own. he was given an assignment. i think its important that having been a special trial counsel to an independent counsel in the past, i think its important that the justice department exercise its oversight in...

A full-scale exercise to plan for this kind of an event if -- and if so, how soon are you -- what are the full scale exercise among principals and government? >> when we look at response, we answer to response network, we test that different with different scenarios, we did have a deputys committee, deputy secretaries of the department exercise in december specific to the threat and we had already planned to have a principal cabinet level exercise if you will, early next month, so we will contin...

Administration has not conducted a full-scale exercise to plan for this kind of an event if -- and if so, how soon are you -- what are the full scale exercise among principals and government? >> when we look at response, we answer to response network, we test that different with different scenarios, we did have a deputys committee, deputy secretaries of the department exercise in december specific to the threat and we had already planned to have a principal cabinet level exercise if you will, ea...

A full-scale exercise to plan for this kind of an event if -- and if so, how soon are you -- what are the full scale exercise among principals and government? >> when we look at response, we answer to response network, we test that different with different scenarios, we did have a deputys committee, deputy secretaries of the department exercise in december specific to the threat and we had already planned to have a principal cabinet level exercise if you will, early next month, so we will contin...

We test that frequently using different scenarios. we had a deputies committee, the deputy secretaries of the department exercise in december and we had already planned to have a prince fl cabinet level exercise early next month so well continue on that. >> nielsen talked about a concern that the fcc and lawmakers have that this error could have people lose faith in the alerts. called an unfortunate mistake but went on to say dont draw the wrong conclusions. these alerts are vital and can save l...