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Trying to find out anything that might be untoward. is that fair? >> well, first -- no, its not fair at all. look, the judiciary committee has institutional responsibility to hold the administration accountable, whoever the president is. to do oversight. all of these requests for documents are based on information that has come to the judiciary committee that requires us to begin to collect evidence to do appropriate investigations. weve hired outside consultants to assist us in this work. there...

Colleagues, we have a 500-page document, which lists all the times we attempted to do oversight under republican control, but they would not do it, so we have a lot of work backed up, but this is a core function of the judiciary committee. were doing it while were doing our other work, too. but this is one of our responsibilities and we owe it to the american people to do it. >> one of the things we heard a lot the last two years was kind of a new invention of executive privilege, where the whit...

Stormy daniels and karen mcdougal and the apparently deceptive way in which he was paid for his work, which may have violated campaign finance law with the presidents knowledge. >> that was in order to hide what the payment was. i obviously wanted the money in one shot. i would have preferred it that way. but in order to be able to put it onto the books, allen weisselberg made the decision that it should paid over the 12 months, so that it would look like a retainer. >> and did mr. trump know ab...

Have the opportunity to testify about that under oath. i mean, that cries out for an investigation by congress, that whole exchange about the merger. >> jeff toobin, thanks very much. neal katyal, as well. coming up next, how a tough-talking president and a hardline national security adviser both end up bending over backwards to not hold a dictator accountable for the death of an american. theyre not keeping them honest, but we will. each day justin chooses to walk. at work... and after work. ...

Investigation. but i talked to one of the targets of this probe, one of the names on that list who didnt want to speak on the record, but was basically saying, listen, you know, if theres one cautionary tale in all of this, if youre going to go work for a campaign or an administration, its best to hire a lawyer beforehand. and anderson, i would suspect, if youre a white-collar attorney here in washington, dealing with government corruption, defending clients who have been accused of government c...

Things out and perhaps flood the zone with as much documentation and information as possible, as a way to jam up this. but i talked to one of the targets of this probe, one of the names on that list who didnt want to speak on the record, but was basically saying, listen, you know, if theres one cautionary tale in all of this, if youre going to go work for a campaign or an administration, its best to hire a lawyer beforehand. and anderson, i would suspect, if youre a white-collar attorney here in...

Done in two years, i know it may look like a new exercise, but we ought to have been doing this for the last two years. we pleaded with our republican colleagues, we have a 500-page document, which lists all the times we attempted to do oversight under republican control, but they would not do it, so we have a lot of work thats backed up, but this is a core function of the judiciary committee. were doing it while were doing our other work, too. but this is one of our responsibilities and we owe ...

>> well, of course -- no, it doesnt work. and of course, we have the responsibility to collect evidence, to listen to testimony, and people have the obligation to answer. if we were prohibited from collecting information or hearing from witnesses or having documents produced because people thought it would make them look bad or they were uncomfortable, the president might not like it, we wouldnt be able to do our oversight as were required to by the constitution. so, if people are going to claim...

In, and just, you know, grind this for another two years, trying to find out anything that might be untoward. is that fair? >> well, first -- no, its not fair at all. look, the judiciary committee has institutional responsibility to hold the administration accountable, whoever the president is. to do oversight. all of these requests for documents are based on information that has come to the judiciary committee that requires us to begin to collect evidence to do appropriate investigations. weve ...

And that doesnt work. ainsley: one of the most famous book "the case for christ." and you wrote a book that comes out today "the case for trump." >> you said that not me. ainsley: thank you so much. >> thank you. brian: see you on radio. >> yes. steve: meanwhile, speaking of the political left, bernie sanders says he wants to get rid of private health insurance and give medicare to everybody. but will that plan actually work? were going to talk about that. ainsley: plus, we love our janice dean ...