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Dick durbin. was that a satisfying experience of interviewing sessions, and did you get what you wanted? >> of course not. if i thought sessions was sitting there instead of attorney general sessions. i asked the attorney general, did you have any conversation with the attorney general of the state of texas before you made the decision to repeal the daca program. that was not an executive privilege issue, but he refused to answer. he said that was part of my work product. what is he talking abou...

47 days since the last trump tweet on comey. why now? why today i wonder. >> well, because comeys firing is front and center again with jeff sessions testifying. and the key -- one of the key issues that these senators were asking the attorney general about was the circumstances around comeys firing. and so, you know, trump as we know is watching television, and comey is back again. and hes on the presidents mind. and so now now trump is reverting -- i mean trump as well is reverting to this hil...

So thats another zig-zag. but, you know, its striking to me -- ken mentioned the executive privilege issue. and i do think that its -- that is an interesting moment because there is a school of thought in the trump team that says you want to show as much cooperation as possible with the investigation. you want to get, you know, get this over with as fast as you can and signal that you have nothing to hide, among other things, at least the line coming from the trump camp of course is that he has ...

All of these other irregularities and of course, conspiracy to obstruct justice is what was the charge. but the executive privilege issue was the issue that stopped them cold. so this issue of whether or not they could go after a sitting president for any other criminal reason was never decided. it was stuck in advance because they had what they wanted, the tape. >> heres what is likely to happen. lets say he comes across information in the kennedy assassination. im trying to pick something craz...

But with bill clinton, the public stuck with bill clinton. >> and they are not sticking with mr. trump, and thats a really interesting and political problem. because part of this is political should it ever get to up people. . impeachment. >> but prosecutors stumble across some financial irregularity that has nothing to do with russia or even the election, would they pursue it, i mean, from a legal standpoint? gloria, would they? >> it really depends on what it is. what happened with the nixon y...

Officials not disclosing or forgetting to disclose. with each reveal its starting to get worse and worse for them. we need to wait for the special prosecutors report to know definitively what is going on. in the meantime, there exists a vacuum of leadership when it comes to our russia policy. you mentioned the russia sanctions act that was recently passed through the senate. its now over in the house. so far the house is dragging its heels. but im hopeful that it can get some momentum and they w...

Seemed eager to have it go away. a few of them, senator rubio, perhaps senator mccain felt like there should be more answers available to the public, especially given the flood of leaked news stories weve seen about the various claims on both sides of this dispute. >> shepard: i dont remember seeing anything quite like it, josh. what were talking about would be discussing cannot classified. were not going to talk about it. whether you ask us or not. they could be held in contempt of congress, co...

>> so, jay, i want you to be able to respond but as someone whos not a lawyer, im asking you on a legal standpoint, could the white house make the claim its inappropriate for director comey to be discussing that he and the president talked about privately based on executive privilege? >> where mean it certainly is an executive privilege issue. james comey is going to testify in public but hes not going to testify with a senate committee why? why in the world if we have a senate investigation, a ...

The oversight committees top democrat. >> i think that if mr. boehner takes this to the house, he will be seen as one of the most extreme speakers that ever took charge of a house. >> domenico monenaro joins me now. this eric holder fight has become the talk of washington and its interesting, because on the hill im hearing from democrats that say, fine, let this go forward. a lot of folks associated with leadership saying theyre concerned this could take the messages the republicans want to have...