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Perfectly well why you cant do that kind of thing. >> does a cabinet member like mattis have a responsibility to ignore an unlawful order like that to kill another world leader, and is there any responsibility to report that type of order? what is the legal bearing for officials who are given unlawful orders? >> well, i think in that case like this, its incumbent upon the cabinet secretary in this case, the secretary of defense, to talk to the president why something like that is illegal under u...

Midterms. hes going out and campaigning for candidates. but one of the up sides is that these rallies where the president appears in front of thousands of devotees, screaming fans who chant lock her up when hillarys name is mentioned are a place that buoy president trump. behind the scenes, he would go in these rallies, as jonathan said he it would change his mood on a dime. he could take that anger and grievance and make it show man like and fun. >> well talk a lot more about that. greg bauer, ...

My panel. joining me on set political reporter to axios, jonathan schwan. greg bauer, former u.s. attorney and fbi assistant director. ken dilanian who covers security and intelligence for nbc news. and white house correspondent for bloomberg news, shannon petty piece along with ashley parker doing white house duty for the washington post at trumps summer get away in new jersey. thanks to all of you for being here on this sunday night. i want to set the stage with you first, mr. brower, about ...

For candidates. but one of the up sides is that these rallies where the president appears in front of thousands of devotees, screaming fans who chant lock her up when hillarys name is mentioned are a place that buoy president trump. behind the scenes, he would go in these rallies, as jonathan said he it would change his mood on a dime. he could take that anger and grievance and make it show man like and fun. >> well talk a lot more about that. greg bauer, thanks for your insights. ken dilanian, ...

Schwan. greg bauer, former u.s. attorney and fbi assistant director. ken dilanian who covers security and intelligence for nbc news. and white house correspondent for bloomberg news, shannon petty piece along with ashley parker doing white house duty for the washington post at trumps summer get away in new jersey. thanks to all of you for being here on this sunday night. i want to set the stage with you first, mr. brower, about the potential legal jeopardy the president is putting himself in o...

Court fight, its not clear trumps team would win that fit. it coo protract the entire mueller investigation which mueller wouldnt and certainly trump wouldnt want it either. >> i wouldnt put it past trump to say no to a subpoena and test it. >> then he has to deal with it month after month. whs sitting down, he doesnt have to do that. >> he might as well go after the supreme court. thank you eric swalwell and greg bauer and phillip bump and kate republican senator bob corker of tennessee says hi...

Like they are taking a very big step here to go after information that was sensitive and not classified. >> julia annesly breaking that down. thank you for joining us. joining me here is greg bauer, assistant director for the congressional affairs at the fbi. betsy and josh are here. greg, talk tloi through, i want to play you senator richard blumenthal and what he had to say about the process the doj used to take these reporters records. >> seizure of reporters records have to be an ultimate la...

But, look, if the president wanted to put this whole issue to rest about how he could use his pardon authority to means that would, you know, really be problematic, he could have left it at no ones above the law and full stop. and instead every time he discusses this, he adds this part about but i have the absolute pardon power to pardon myself. thats what has so many folks on the hill and elsewhere in washington concerned that if push comes to shove, whether it be with mab abfor tnafort or th p...

Grabbing leak investigation thats come out of the sessions justice department involving a reporter. and that sends the signal that theyre willing to take steps that would be considered by many advocates to be extra order snaer to go after leakers. >> im going to ask both of you to stay where you are. greg, its always a pleasure to have you on this show. we want to talk about some of the devastating news for a lot of folks this morning. anthony bourdain dead at the age of the 61. cnn has report...

>> lets just -- >> you read that in this op-ed and were seeing that expressed sentiment in books that have been written about inside the white house. >> well, let me say this -- >> what about addressing that is really the question. >> well, this cowardly peep squeak who is probably not even a staffer. it could be a staff turf battle for all we know. ive seen those in washington where people take to tactics like this. if they really were a serious person, if this person was a patriot, if this per...