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Because im getting all these rumblings that comey is in real legal trouble now. any truth to that? >> heres what were hearing on the hatch act. thats an internal -- if youre a government employee there are prohibitions on engaging in politicala campaigns. there was a report from the office of special counsel not to be confused with robert mueller. that was investigating or is investigating james comeys activity for exactly what you just said just moments ago, this kind of intervention in the cam...

Rumblings that comey is in real legal trouble now. any truth to that? >> heres what were hearing on the hatch act. thats an internal -- if youre a government employee there are prohibitions on engaging in political campaigns. there was a report from the office of special counsel not to be confused with robert mueller. that was investigating or is investigating james comeys activity for exactly what you just said just moments ago, this kind of intervention in the campaign last year, and that coul...

President had to begrudgingly sign off on with no fan fair, no cameras, no real signing ceremony about this, but adding his own words to talk about he was unsatisfied with this and even the tweet that said, you know, thank congress for this and the problem with russia. jeff sessions that hes called weak as the attorney general, we now have kelly reaching out to him to say his job is safe. you made that point about, you know, unless the general is really the president, nothing is going to change....

Combat with him to publicly shame him, all this tension stays and all the leaking continues. >> tone comes from the town. thats the point a.b. is making. this is all about mimicking the presidents own memes and actions. trying to shame his internal, not enemies but challengers. what scaramucci may have done to priebus last night mimics what the president is doing to jeff sessions on twitter. none of it is healthy, none of it is normal. none of it speaks to leadership that puts a cohesive team on...

Just barely two months after they started with this new task of helping provide guidance to the president. this comes following the hiring of an internal, an inside legal counsel, mr. cob who is supposed to guide the president and his team on all things related to the russia investigation. separately in terms of the white houses messaging, a couple of months ago, the communications director stepped away. he left his post here. sean spicer, the press secretary was overseeing those roles. this mor...

And david shulkin is saying veterans are seen on a same-day basis. the va secretary did acknowledge much more needs to be done. and that hes committed to being very open about fixing wait times at the va. victor, christi. >> drew, thank you so much. now, representative steve scalise has been released from the intensive care unit of a hospital after being shot at a baseball practice. scalise is in fair condition. earlier medical reports said he was shot in his left hip and suffered significant da...

Very hard to get some commitments from sessions who has recused himself but still to kind of oversee and provide the independence for the internal -- for the counsel probe to continue. >> let me ask you a question in the abstract never good to ask of a lawyer, but if there are contradictions here and two men going to be under oath does that necessarily mean that somebody is lying, is somebody perjurying themselves. >> perjury is a knowing and intentional falsehood. i forget the meeting is differ...

And we have a president who has dismissed this as fake news. i noticed today, dismissed this as fake news, its appalling. >> why is that? they call it a witch hunt. the president called it a witch hunt. why do you think they call this russian meddling, russian interference, internal, a witch hunt. >> there is a benign explanation and ma line explanation. >> what is tom friedmans? >> i dont know. we have this bizarre set of meetings between election officials. when did you see one party have all ...

Loans, congressional democrats investigating the alleged ties between trumps campaign and russia, seeking this information from deutsche bank, writing to their ceo. five legislators looking for results from internal reviews the bank conducted on russia. one involves this trading scandal. by the way, deutsche bank paid $630 million in fines for that and person accounts for trump family members at the bank. those not as quote/unquote exciting as some of the personalities. but youre saying they cou...

We talked to the white house earlier today and after our story published they said the laare wyers t actually doing any of this. >> does this mean that the president needs to hire an outside lawyer? has he, do we know? >> well, we dont know if he has yet. thats certainly a discussion thats being had in the white house at this moment. theres a broader internal effort to bolster the presidents legal defense which has become more complicated with the justice departments appointment of a special cou...