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Returns, i cant answer that question because there may be things in there that are devastating to him. theres a reason that -- theres obviously a reason why hes been resistant to releasing them. so -- now, one thing we ought to mention in this whole flynn discussion, though, and it may be related to this, is he extended his lawyers approached the committee and congress asking for immunity in exchange for his testimony and that hints at the prospect that he had information relative to others, tha...

Of law has shown himself unfit for office and they have had to defend him and they no longer do. so theres a who new rule of law mechanic mechanism in place, and thats what happened in watergate, is that the rule of law prevailed. >> it will be interesting to see if president trump resists the impulse to criticize the special counsel, late at night or early in the morning. what do you think would have happened back in the 70s if president nixon would have loved twitter? >> i think richard nixon ...

Theres whole new rule of law mechanism in place, and thats what happened in watergate, is that the rule of law prevailed. we now have a structure this which that might happen here. >> it will be interesting to see if president trump resists the impulse to criticize the special counsel, to tweet about it late at night or early in the morning. what do you think would have happened back in the 70s if president nixon would have loved twitter? >> i think richard nixon would have had trouble operating...

Report it to his colleagues what had happened and made a record of what had happened during the conversation. >> well, apparently, i should just put a footnote on that, that comey is, according to his source and cnn reporting is, quote, not worried about any tapes and if there is a tape, theres nothing, he says, hays worried about. let me ask you about this. weve just received word in the last hour that these two members of congress, democrats, have sent a letter to the white house asking for an...

Service community made of that bizarre meeting. >> those, again, were images that took peoples breath away. the counterintelligence problem of having a russian official photographer with god only knows what in his camera equipment marched into the oval office was shocking to people. the fact that those were the images the american public and the world saw was just one more bizarre footnote to this. i think as people watched this, they have been -- they have been troubled by each piece of it. my ...

Int interventionist or non-interventionist. president trump was more pragmatic than he was ideological and that lends itself to being more mallable on these issues. >> a lot of people vote forward him because they saw him as essentially the savior of the economy. am i over the top in saying that? thats what they believed. now with this tax proposal people came out and said this is a tax cut proposal not a tax reform proposal. to that you say what? >> i would default to the reagan years, 92 month...

Dont think theres any question that somebody around him failed. >> can i just say, to say the obama administration screwed up when it was flynn who did not disclose that he had been to russia and had received these payments -- thats the reason why he is being investigated. it would be -- they didnt have information. certainly by the time the year went by and all of this stuff about russia and the picture of him sitting at the table with putin appeared, by that time, that was the point at which h...

Legislative achievement and he goes back to neil gorsuch. >> which is huge. >> its a huge deal. but after a footnote, this has been the first president since 1881 that theres even been an opening. >> yes. >> to have that base. >> i actually do think -- i think donald trump both radicalizes the right and some to the left. the idea that a president wouldnt use the 100-day mark to take credit for things that are half -- the governor -- part of that is politics. it doesnt have to do with donald trum...

Youve had with a foreign government or working as an agent of a foreign government which clearly the media has determined michael flynn was doing fore he took the potionf national surity adviser. on the other hand, you have your sf 86 which is your top secret information form, where you have to declare all of your foreign contacts with foreign powers and we understand that michael flynn did not declare these in the sf 86 which is the security clearance document. so you have this, you know, you h...

The anti-china went away. hes quoted him a few tiemmes, seems like that meeting stuck in his head and really changed and sort of gave him more views about what chinas role and why china bashing is not done by presidents. >> we dont know how all this is going to turnout out. it could be were looking at good relations with china and deescalation with north korea and we can look back and say all of that tough talk was his initial negotiating position and look where it ended up getting. we dont know...