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Group of people who made their voices heard. there were a few tense moments. police in riot clear clashed with protesters a few times. more than 30 people were arrested, most of them for disorderly conduct. in memphis, tennessee, activists tried to cover a stooatue. the city council has called an executive session this week. and in los angeles 200 people marched along to celebrate racial unity and protest the racially twinged incidents of the past week. lets go live to boston. pretty special mom...

You are a loyal guy. was that if difficult? yeah, it is hard. very difficult. it was hard. i had kwn the clinton for many, many years. but i had to make a decision. i have what i call, an executive session with myself. ha-ha. i said -- self. self, listen. >> well that is an expa dish us way to get to a conclusion. having an executive session with yourself. another guy who walked, with you, arm in arm, in selma couple years ago, president george w. bush.boycotted his inauguration as well. yet you...

An actual group of one instead of two parties split in two. >> lets talk about dan coats who is going to testify before the senate committee tomorrow in closed session, executive session. listening to all the reporters here tonight from the post and the times and john mclaughlin from the intelligence community, they think hes the key because hes probably going to be a -- if there is any obstruction of justice, the witnesses would be somebody like mike rogers or coats, who were certainly in those...

Hadnt -- theres no executive privilege. >> if the president told me, jim, were talking about in here last friday, ask you about a question about it in the congress, dont hesitate to talk about it, all right. i wouldnt -- i worked for four presidents, and im not going to do that just to answer a question. ive also been general counsel of the senate armed services committee back in the 70s and we would work these things out. if a witness had a problem, absolutely sure it was classified, sensitive,...

The end of the testimony that was executive. an executive session. and then wed have that reviewed by the classification people to see when maybe it was put out sometime in some parts of it excised we compromised. >> professor, doesnt seem like its classified information here. >> no, no. they did everything wrong. they started to talk, describe a conversation with the president. >> right. >> and then refused to go further. >> right. >> only thing they didnt say is im now going to hold my breath....

Account. and so, therefore, again, some decisions had to be made about it. but i am unaware that anything was intentionally excluded because of intelligence that was for some reason one of the agencies didnt want in there for a reason that was not a very legitimate intelligence reason. >> we can discuss that in executive session. mr. gowdy, i yield the rest my time to you. >> thank you for my friend from new york. last time we were talking about the inception of your investigation in 2016. i wan...

So therefore again some decisions had to be made about it. but i am unaware that anything was intentionally excluded because of intelligence, that is, that was for some reason one of agencies didnt want in there for a reason that was not a very legitimate intelligence reason. >> we can discuss that in executive session. mr. gowdy. >> thank you. director brennan, last time we were talking about the inception of your investigation 2016. i want the next question to include the inception up until yo...

Finding -- >> executive privilege. >> an executive session. there are answers to these questions that we dont know. we dont know about the underlying evidence. we dont know about what they were going to take a quick break. we will pick up the conversation when we come back. that and more when we continue.

>> one of the questions to that is, i believe there either was a learning curve they didnt understand or they wanted to move past this. michael flynn rolled himself under the bus and stayed there. if you want to talk about the bus. he did. the unfortunate thing is is that if he had not lied to the vice-president, michael flynn could still actually be the national security adviser. the issues are -- >> if he had not lied or if he lied and there had not been a leak about it. >> exactly. >> what wo...

I think its -- i dont feel comfortable deciding what he should do. but i do think it was a mistake. and as i say, i think its compromised the ability of their committee to come out with a credible report and he has to weigh that. >> are you making any pledges to folks about the amount of testimony you want to remain public, in open session, that we can look at, that we can televise as opposed to what really, because of secrets, must be in executive session? >> i think we you had at to have as mu...