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But there are still a lot of questions. and house democrats, if you go through the 81 document requests they made to people in the white house and in trump world, 52 out of those 81 document requests asks for information and documents that ivanka trumps ties, foreign governments and her business interests. >> so why does gary cohn -- >> the democrats are looking at emolument questions. >> but why did gary cohn and dina powell have to say out of their shares of goldman sachs, their former employe...

And my opinion. >> for hes the attorney general, he oversees them all. >> thats one of the things that has gone under the radar. everything about this. whether or not he is going to follow ethics guidelines and follow what the recommendation was by the ethics committee. he is going to decide whether he agrees with it. its about do you trust william barr and the man who served 27 years ago and the man who wrote this memo about the fatal flaws. or the president of the united states. >> im taken ab...

A federally authorized, federally owned cell phone protects your right of exercising your political free speech? >> look -- >> yes or no? >> i think it was bad jumtdgmen. >> lets say you took a federal car. >> i believe it is protected speech. >> the same way the protected speech would be then if you used your federal vehicle and put a hillary clinton sticker on it. >> if you read the ethics guidelines -- may i answer your question? >> please. >> that the use of or display of any bumper sticker ...

Right of exercising your political free speech? >> sir -- >> yes or no. >> i think it was bad judgment. terrible judgment. >> lets say you took a federal car. >> i believe its protected speech. >> the same way the protected speech if you used your federal vehicle and put a hillary clinton bumper sticker on it. why not? >> if you read the ethics guidelines -- >> thats what im doing. >> the use of any bumper sticker -- believe me, after this started, ive been through the ethics and the hatch act. ...

That in fact, the fbi did not believe he had any conflict of interest in the clinton investigation and handled all matters with the clinton e-mail investigation and his wifes candidacy. he handled them within fbi ethics guidelines. we knew about the republican attacks on the fbi deputy director. we did not know until this evening what lengths the president and attorney general had been going to to get rid of the fbi director including direct pressure on the current fbi director so uncomfortable ...

Two at the fbi, andrew mccabe, theyve attacked him as compromised in the fbi investigation of hillary clinton and e-mails, they think hes compromised in part because his wife ran for office in virginia as a democrat. republicans have kept on attacking him month after month despite the fbi recently releasing records that showed that in fact, the fbi did not believe he had any conflict of interest in the clinton investigation and they say he handled all matters related to the clinton e-mail invest...

Do have after you know having experience donald trump as a public figure and as an aspirant to the highest office in united states they do have opinions about him they do have perceptions about him theyre kind of baked in and everything flows from those pre-determined perceptions so he might have a point but the truth is is hes approaching the entire role of governance in an orphan orthodox way and that is leading to heavy criticism because people are used to for example people following ethics ...

>> and the rule of law, such that he was going to follow the ethics guidelines. i take your point, which is this president has shown he can break the seal on things and norms and perhaps get away with it because its so shocking. but here theres a level of sabotage that the president for of his own administration because he wants fierkts because presumably he thinks hes right and hell take on all comers. sessions is a perfect example, i agree with you i think he wouldnt cause a stink if he were f...

Someone who believes in president trump, not just as a leader on these issues but also the president as a leader, as a person and bought into this whole movement that we were behind. general sessions is very loyal, and if the president were to ask him to go, then he would go. and that would be the end of the story. but i do think that general sessions, i would not expect to see him quit under any circumstance. i think hes loyal and dedicated to the cause. and thats why i think so many folks like...