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That scott pruitt is facing? >> he speaks directly to his base. if you look at people who have been ousted, they dont resonate with the presidents base. as you have heard me say consistently on your broadcast and others, this president is 100% focused on re-election. this is a president thats looking to not expand the base because he cannot. hes looking to suppress the votes. he wants less people to come to the polls. the way you do that is by demoralizing the competition and by keeping people l...

The inspector general to whom this investigation has been given has no subpoena power. he has no authority to interview anybody outside the department of justice or fbi. he cannot interview fbi and doj employees who have left. he cannot interview clapper, brandon, sally yates. the bottom line is you have to have a grand jury. its fascinating. we have a grand jury and special counsel in russia gate where there has been no crime in here with the fisa violations where there have been huge numbers o...

That. >> he cannot. he needs confirmation. but needs it from a strictly diplomatic perspective. let me give you an example. lets say the national security agency goes in and disrupts something in the kremlin, they dont advise the white house, the vladimir putin calls president trump and says i thought we were trying to patch things up. and the president says what did the national security agency do? you cannot do this. thats the technical people dealing with this and not coordinate with the whit...

Bob muellers interest and im sure he doesnt want to, if he can avoid it, to force the president into court and litigate over the question whether the president must comply with a subpoena. the way a prosecutor normally would approach a situation like this is to work out some sort of compromise, negotiated agreement in which the person comes forward, testifies voluntarily, interviews with agents, and gives them the information they need, without having to litigate. i dont think bob mueller wants ...

Fema will officially stop sending food and water to puerto rico. they say the government is going to hand out the food and water still left until it runs out. they add there are plenty of supplies already there. you members of congress asking them to reconsider. >> larry nassar is back in court today for another sentencing this time in michigan where he pleaded guilty. 57 women haare expected to spea again this week. it follows the sentencing last week after 156 women confronted their doctor. th...

Which he has knowledge, but as to which the president has not asserted executive privilege. so when he goes in, hes like any other person, but because he was a senior policymaker, in the administration, the president retains the right to assert executive privilege as the specific questions or lines of questioning. he cannot blanketly say i am not going to answer that question because the president may in the future want to assert it. it has to have been i am not answering that question because t...

For the president to take ownership of that, its completely statistically dubious because he cannot. the president, obama, was the one who started this trend. the second of all, when it comes to trump, he hasnt done anything tangible that we can point to to say that he has helped african-americans. it was really important here is causation does not equate correlation. if just because he is in the office does not mean he caused things to happen. >> laura: who does cause things to happen? >> we ca...

Numerous rather strident tweets -- or not tweets, but texts, commenting adversely on the president, what was it? >> if i said that, congressman, it was inadvertent. the decision to remove mr. strzok off that case was made by director mueller, based upon the circumstances known to him. its important to understand, though, that -- those text messages were uncovered in the case of an inspector general investigation thats not complete. so we wont be able to make a determination about what, if any, d...

Chief lawmaker under the constitution. your thoughts? >> we have heard before from richard nixon that the president is above the law. that didnt work for nixon and its not going to work for trump. and this is just an extension of the trump administrations attitude. he said a number of months ago the president cant have a conflict of interest. thats wrong, too. the president is not above the law. we live in a democracy. we have a constitution. and if he doesnt want to comply with the constitution...

Switch press conference. he has done that before as we know. don, i dont think the attorney general sessions wants to leave the job. he is trying to put his imprint on the department and has been one of the more aggressive cabinet officers in trying to fill the vacancies, and really does have plans that a lot of people would not agree with that he has had his eye on for a long time so i think he would be very reluctant to take this option unless the president really forced it on him. and the pre...