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Oppression,, then often it is thought that there is a moral imperative to believe them. i make these kinds of hoaxes more successful. and p also provides people, attract sympathy, fame, support. my to give them individual benefits, and also help them advance to political power. >> tucker: you. grotesque. and sad. and we are going to see more of it. for exactly the reasons that you just outlined. thank you very much. kim jong un on of north vietnam is arriving in vietnam by train. maybe not surpr...

Special counsel from bringing cases, he has substantial authority. but look, we have had the former acting director of the fbi on a book tour saying that he opened the case specifically against the president of the united states because the fbi was concerned that the president was compromised, was an asset of a foreign hostile power. robert -- bill barr and everyone else involved in this decision has a strong imperative to clear that up. whats the story there? and secondly, i think the hanging q...

It. they have acted on it. >> dont you think theres more of a gulf now between what republicans say publicly about this president more so than that gulf and other presidencies? >> theres an imperative from damaging the leader of their own party. that happens with every political environment. but the fact that this president is such a departure has been demonstrated in how republicans reacted to charlottesville. have a dozen incidents were republicans were freely critical of this president. >> we...

Capabilities, suggesting such an accounting would be a necessary outcome of any second summit. as recently as november, pence called such an accounting, quote, imperative. have a listen. >> i think it will be absolutely imperative in this next summit that we come away with a plan for identifying all of the weapons in question, identifying all of the development sites, allowing for inspections of those sites and a plan for dismantling a nuclear weapon. >> reporter: not so fast. administration off...

To hold his second summit with north koreas kim jong-un, we are getting some reporting on the u.s. demands of said summit. lets go to our anchor and chief national security correspondent jim sciutto with more on this. what are you learning? >> reporter: thats right, brooke. and that is the trump administration considering softening one of the key demands. my colleagues, colleen atwood, jeremy diamond and i, told by multiple officials that the trump administration weighing backing off an earlier ...

Important can be subject to criminal process. and that the os one of the mem sited for the proposition. when it was written, it was a very close question and the professor in charge of the office of legal counsel wasnt clear how to answer but got answered against the imperative of dealing with the agnew heart beat away problem. >> got answered against the imperative heart beat away from the presidency problem and that is sort of critical for then and now. what the dixson memo said in 1973, what ...

The issue of whether a president can be indicted and the context of watergate, they believe that nixon really it was about agnew and specifically trying to get to an outcome where the answer would be yeah, you can bring charges against agnew. what j.t. smith is saying here and again, he was there when it was written is in the course of expressing the view that a vice president can be indicted, which was the imperative of the moment, robert dixson opined on the presidents ameanbility to the indic...

And the way that the history of it has been remembered since then is that that 1973 olc memo was written specifically with the richard nixon watergate problem in mind and it was a definitive look at whether a president can be indicted, and even in the context of watergate they believed that nixon -- really it was about agnew and specifically trying to get to an outcome where the answer would be, yeah, you can bring charges against agnew. what j.t. smith is saying here and, again, he was there wh...

Acceptable for the president to be subject to criminal process while in office, but by distinction the vice president, whose duties are nowhere near as important, can be subject to criminal process. and thats one of the memos now cited for the proposition. but when it was written, it was a very close question and the professor in charge of the office of legal counsel wasnt clear how to answer it, but it got answered against the imperative of dealing with the agnew heartbeat away problem. >> got ...

I said i dont hold him responsible but i believe he has a responsibility to be -- to deal with this in some way. >> everything you said about the military is why the commander in chief is supposed to say its wrong. the silence is deafening in situations like this. >> for sure. >> where you have these concerns. people are -- this is growing in silence, not stopping. >> i have to say im skeptical about whether or not congress is going to pounce on this. and the reason for that is because of the sh...