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His son signed the lease. we picked a very specific example. but his son signed a lease and the lawyer had the lease and that wasnt what happened. so he said, oh, okay, i did. that may sound like a small thing, but i brought up the point because everybody that ive spoken to has mueller has the same thing, they anyhknew t answers before they asked the questions and had it all lined up. >> yeah. >> so if i were giuliani or the president, i would be terrified theyll have six other things like this,...

Someone who can sort of legislate with strength, can make deals, can keep the trains running on time so absolutely this is what he wants to talk about. he called it a ban originally, that is how he saw it and that intent is really clear. >> lets shift to thursday, james comey bfg before the senate intelligence committee. the white house is still using the word "if" alex burns. kellyanne conway was on tv saying this whether or not the president would use executive privilege. listen. >> the presid...

How far this goes in a public forum because im sure most of this will happen in closed session. >> although you do get the sense he wants to get some things off his chest, wants to go public with information in a way not to maybe defend his firing, but to defend himself against claims by the president himself about the nature of the conversations, where the president has tweeted that james comey told him about the investigation he was not being investigated. >> john, no doubt about it, this has ...

Shadow of russia. if they were to try the executive privilege route, it would prolong this issue. as i said, it will be a terrible week. it may be better to deal with whatever comey says to discredit it, his testimony, and comey himself in a preplanned p.r. operation rather than stop it. in the end, it will probably happen. it may be good to take the hit now rather than two hits. one over the legal strategy and one over what comey says before committee. >> and lets talk about what the former dir...