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Thats where his defense is going to lie and where theyre going to take it out of the willful intent to deserve or withhold information and in sessions mind hes going to say look, i didnt think this was covered. this was a hello/good-bye meeting and didnt discuss business. in my mind i didnt consider it a meeting or contact under this question. thats where his defense is going to be. >> all fascinating. richard, avery, thank you so much. appreciate it, gentlemen. good to see you. >> all the best....

Believe that president trump is making the right decision in pulling out of the paris accords. >> its a very, very fair question and let me answer it quickly in two stages. we put out a statement essentially saying we were disappointed with the tactic that the president is using, although he said hes going to engage and he wants to negotiate a new, better deal, i appreciate that. i would have preferred, since we, america, are leading in that reduction of carbon, were down 7% in 12 years, yeah, i...

Circumstances and the circumstantial evidence and did he willfully intend. theyre going to play games, fred, with the interpretation of communication and contact. what does that mean? communication and contact. what did it mean to sessions. thats where the defense game will be played. >> so avery, how will willful intent be proven? i mean, if anyone is to know that rule of only answer the question that you are asked, an attorney knows that, you know, better than anybody else. so, how will that d...

Wild yonder on the franken question and if the issue surfaces you get to the issue of credibility. if you deal with intent youre going to examine was the witness credible. in order to gauge that youre going to look at whether his statements have been inconsistent which they have here, or is there an explanation for why they were inconsistent. so credibility, the question of intent, turns on the totality and the question of credibility. >> okay. and then richard, if in that press conference follo...

Is the reason that were doing all of these investigations, and you come before a board -- and by the way youve had written questionnaires before you testify for the senate committee. >> thats right. >> and you failed to answer this question. then you go before the senate committee and every lawyer tells their client, listen to the question and only answer the question. and here, the franken question was not the answer that sessions gave. sessions went on a ramble and he went on a prepared questi...

Of a messaging firewall between them and this russia investigation. they need to make sure theres someone on the other end of the line answering the phone. were hearing from reporters and those in the press corps that theyre calling those people and no one is answering the calls. it is important to let another team respond. let mueller do the investigation and the house and senate do theirs. lets not jump to conclusion and speculate on what outcome will be and let the facts play out. spicer and ...

Then, of course, there is the issue of whether the president could even be successful in exerting executive privilege and theres some debate among experts among that because the president himself has already spoken about and tweeted about some of his conversations with the former fbi director. so theres a question there of whether he could now later on assert privilege. legal experts saying the president cant use the issue, use executive privilege as a shield in one context and as a sword in ano...