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Giuliani to manufacture dirt on the president s political opponents and arrested trying to flee the country. Maybe ill ask rudy to say a few words. Tonight what we know about the two men. Is Rudy Giuliani now under investigation . And what did the president know and when did he know it . What conversations have you head with lev parnas and igor fruman . I dont know those gentlemen. You were in pictures with them. And Hillary Clintons Campaign Manager john podesta what he makes the push to impeac...

Come to the best of your ability, how many cases you are following, not what the cases specifically are about. and of what that youve been given or that need to be given to do with these individuals including revocation of their parole which of course is an executive prerogative. but, thats one that we would like to know. and they begin the deportation process. >> we will try to get back to you on what we are able to sell you one. and we are happy to accept it in an environment where its not dis...

To be asserting any executive privilege over those documents. >> thats really significant. kaitlan, thank you for breaking that news for us. congressman schiff is with us. let me get your reaction to what we just heard. >> i think its very, very positive that the biden administration recognizes that these are unique circumstances. where the privilege, if one indeed were ever to apply, needs to be waived in the public interest, given this was a violent attempt to overthrough the government. its n...

Interaction between rebellious states that must be stopped." a dozen states have deployed troops to confront the surge of migrants, critics say it left them no other choice. listen. >> this administration cannot pretend to be serious about the crisis at the border if they refused to secure our border! that means enforcing our border policies, it also means and daily policies that are taking people here in the first place. im glad to see there are governors because they need to. they need to prot...

Dont have kings in the united states, suggesting that don mcgahn and maybe others need to testify, that there is no absolute immunity. well, president trump has now tweeted three times in a row in the last hour or maybe much less than that. let me go back to hans nichols at the white house. what is the president saying? >> reporter: the president is making an argument on executive prerogative and hes saying hes trying to defend the presidency from these investigations, and what he says are total...

First i need a favor. and whats the favor? to investigate my principle opponent or a principle opponent in an upcoming election. asking them to directly interfere and intervene in the election. and i think that is an abuse of power and something that obviously the congress is going to need to look into. you know, nancy pelosi was reluctant to go down this path but i think once the whistle-blower complaint came out, i think she had no choice and i think the right thing to do is to investigate thi...

But is the issue then the evolving and the changing explanations to why director comey was fired or does it not matter? >> well, i think the presidents lawyers are positioning of arguing it doesnt matter. as a constitutional issue, you can take, i think with some support, that the president can fire any of his subordinate officials for any reason or no reason and merely looking at the reason the president did it is infringement on the executive prerogative. i think that is probably where they wi...

Is somehow never trickling down into any other thing. and thats really not the truth of the matter. >> that isnt what i said either. >> im not going to quote you verbatim, but the gist of what you were saying is in fact that. but i think the larger point we all can agree the president of the united states certainly does have executive prerogative to do a lot of things but what he cannot do is usurp the authority or try to undermine confidence in the system that he is supposed to be leading. >> o...

Hire. >> and so he should be able to fire her because shes not and it didnt have -- >> yes. >> -- anything to do with the fact that she said flynn was dirty. and he had to resign that same month. he did it the day after she briefed the white house. >> i wish we saw this indignation -- >> i think you see it in mueller. >> gentlemen, gentlemen, if i may. there is an adult in the room. if i can say this to you, he also fired yates not simply because of michael flynn. he fired yates because she refu...

Because of michael flynn. he fired yates because she refused to back an executive order, which is really many people argue those can be legislative authority, ken, and the idea that the executive order was unconstitutional in her mind about the travel ban which ultimately never actually saw full implementation. >> right, which was totally out of line on her part. >> well, let -- that may be your interpretation, but your statement was that the president of the united states in his executive prero...