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Senate intelligence committee, a widely-anticipated event, about alleged collusion between the trump campaign and russia. this as the white house sets up a special unit to handle investigations. kristin fisher is live at the white house. kristin, im curious, what are you hearing? will the president really try to stop the former fbi director from testifying? >> reporter: "the new york times" is reporting that two senior administration officials said on friday president trump will not invoke execu...

Saying pro tip that if you want to invoke executive privilege, dont fire the person. it makes it a lot easier. >> exactly. comey doesnt work for the government anymore -- leland: and even if they invoke executive privilege, conceivably he could come out and hold a press conference or give an interview, im available. im sure you are as well. >> exactly. and there are people around him who can share information, and weve already seen that happen. weve seen people close to comb come out and tell re...

And not answer any other questions because of the investigation. that would be a hit job on president trump, and i hope that hearing doesnt become a hit job on president trump. >> reporter: but if president trump does invoke executive privilege and does try to muzzle comey, well, that just looks bad. it looks like hes trying to hide something as democratic senator edward markey alluded to last night. >> the president attempts to invoke executive privilege, that would just continue to raise the q...

Comey and wanted to get rid of director comey because director comey was escalating the subpoenas into the investigation of donald trump. rod rosenstein, in fact, any deputy attorney general would not have the authority to make a recommendation or decision to fire an fbi director. its just not done. j. edgar hoover wasnt fired. william sessions s was fired because of his own ethical problems. dont fire an fbi director particularly for the sole reason because that person is looking into the presi...

Car was told to stop and didnt, the normal practice in most person cities by most police departments is that you dont fire at a fleeing vehicle unless its an imminent danger to people in the area. now, maybe as more of the facts come out it will appear that she narrowly hit people. but around the u.s. capitol its a different situation. and if theres any sense of threat or danger, weve seen this before a couple of years ago when a woman tried to run the barricades at the white house and then barr...

Ambitious agenda into motion, withdrawing president obamas trans-pacific partnership, and banning tax deals helping fund abortions overseas. and put a ban on federal hirings, except for one deal, the military. warning that they will pay a new price if they shift jobs overseas. >> they will have a substantial border tax. somebody is going to say trump is going to tax, there is no tax, none whatsoever. and i just want to tell you all you have to do is stay, dont leave, dont fire your people. >> in...

Freezing the hiring of federal workers with one caveat. >> except for the military. >> except for the military. >> reporter: meeting with u.s. business leaders, the president warned american companies will pay a new price if they ship jobs jaejob s overseas. >> a tax to pay, a border tax, substantial border tax. im not going to tax. there is no tax. none whatsoever. and i just want to tell you, all you have to do is stay. dont leave, dont fire your people of the united states. >> we think we can...

They charge a lot of tax. so i dont call that free trade. what we want is fair trade. fair trade. well treat countries fairly but they have to treat us fairly. if they charge tax to our country. if as an example we sell a car into japan and they do things to us that make it impossible to sell cars in japan, and yet they sell cars to us and they come in like by the hundreds of thousands on the biggest ships ive ever seen, we have to all talk about that. its not fair. its not fair. never was. i ju...

Regiment, meeting their first test at the battle of rhode island, a desperate clash in the aftermath of the failed attempt with france to force the british from newport. >> a large american land force would move south into newport, and then a french fleet would arrive in newport and then basically contain the british and hessian troops. but as the french fleet were arriving, there was a great gale, and it damaged significantly a number of the ships. the american army were outmatched and outnumbe...

Have a say in the direction. i think that were moving our way towards th that. but i also mentioned a couple weeks ago coming out of our first caucus election to confuse any one leadership election with something that is a much broader problem going back eight to ten years in our party. that is the tremendous challenge and decline that weve had among blue collar voters and blue collar americans. >> that was it tim ryans messa message. i have a large portion saying you supported tim ryan. ill be ...