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Other subpoenas issued. and also, and this is important, there have been requests made or demands made that no documents can be destroyed. that documents have to be preserved. >> right. so, walk me through this process. so, for instance, paul manafort, roger stone, have turned over some documents. you didnt make a subpoena yet to them. you made a request. is that how this has worked? you make a request. if you deny the request, then you vote as a committee on whether to subpoena? >> generally th...

Doesnt know about you already like the documents exist or that you control them. that usually doesnt work. its kind of a hail mare ary pass by defense attorneys. so i think at some point, mr. flynn will be compelled to turn over those documents and you start talking about immunity. >> what is usually happening when you get to the point legally when youre throwing a hail mary pass? what could be happening? what could they be responding to? what kind of pressures could be bearing down on their tea...

Some sort of special ability. you know, the problem that most analysts look at is that he doesnt seem to have any plan or any strategy to get there. and when you ask white house officials about it, they always say the same thing. they say, well, listen, we have to try. how can you not try? and that is an appealing sort of idea. its an idea thats not unlike an idea that we heard from president obama and secretary of state john kerry, who pursued a very sort of similar ideal. but the details matte...

This is a confession -- >> yeah. let me quote from the "new york times" it says in the document that they obtained it says, i just fired the head of the fbi and then he went on to say i faced great pressure because of russia. thats taken off. so go ahead with your thought, richard. >> well the pressure is taken off, he thought, because he fired the fbi director. he fired the fbi director to take the pressure off the russia investigation. its not going to work out that way. obstruction of justice...

Eye roll scandal so he definitely does not need this. i think you had katie bodine the other day went ballistic on carl higbie saying they should check the sources. theyre starting to melt down it seems like. >> ive got a new name for him, anderson pooper. >> when you gotta go, you gotta go. it would be defensible. >> what has happened here? >> were out of control. >> its turned into south park. >> think about it. this the conversation has changed lets be honest in the last quan months. - - . in...

By communication staff or senior advisers, he may sit down in an interview and say something that blows the whole thing up, as he did last week. the idea of bringing the wise men in, people who can steer m, he is always going to be donald trump. >> who is the perso you can talk to and come in and stop you and make you think twice about it? and he said i am that person. and i said -- >> that doesnt work. >> and i said to him, thats unfortunate. he said i know you dont like that but thats how ive ...

Director, how do they work together, who oversees who and can the special counsel direct fbi agents to do things? >> the way it works, mueller will be in charge of the investigation. he will go to the fbi and say i need the following resources, i need 10 agents, and the fbi will almost certainly say well give you what you want. but the fbi director doesnt work for bob mueller. mueller will be in charge of the investigate shub. -- investigation. but he can draw on the resources of the fbi, and --...

Investigation. that is not something that is focused on prosecution, its focused on protecting the country from foreign intrusion and stealing of secrets. its my understanding that what we have been talking about with respect to the russians, for example, is a counterintelligence investigation. so saying that there was obstruction of justice in the counterintelligence investigation related to russia is like saying youre out under the infield fly rule in a football game. youve got the procedures ...

Why are there something the public could see right away if theyre not classified. . i dont want it to be shown to the other party or the public. its a delicate and different type of procedure than one is normally engaged in in these sorts of matters, but the main thing is to get the basics clear. they are not clear in virtually 95% of the discussion. >> i want to drill down credibility, though. lets take a listen to an interview that james comey did on "60 minutes" a few years ago. >> i believe ...

>> meghan: this is a policy pinpoint that i get stuck on with people like geraldo who got excited about this on the couch. they think we should be doing business with russia to fight isis. my argument is that aiding and abandoning the state-sponsored terror and all these things was a big old to go on the internet and look at what it looks like, no we dont have the same interests. we have a long history of trying to reset with russia and it doesnt work. by the way, this entire mess wouldnt have h...