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Saved. and the reason we have this law is for transparency, anderson, precisely for the reasons you say. if there are potential financial conflicts of interest, and if congress wants to conduct oversight, then there is a record that the american people can consult. if they do it privately, and that information isnt available, then the american people wont know if there are conflicts of interest. so thats why its deeply problematic that they arent preserving these records or that theyre conductin...

Conversations, and in some cases having no one except for interpreters having access. but that is a consequence of some really reprehensible people committing acts of crime and perhaps even treason and divulging to the world private conversations between the president and other world leaders. >> kerstin, i mean, john bolton, the secretary of state, there are people who could have been in the room. you would think hopefully the president would at least trust them. >> yeah. and also, just to what ...

>> all right. joining us right now is cnn presidential historian and former director of the nixon presidential library and was a consultant on the series "tricky dick." good to see you again. so this series, i mean, were all looking so much forward to this. weve heard from so many viewers. it really lets us hear richard nixon in his own voice from media interviews to candid moments caught on camera to this secret recording. so how impactful is it to hear him, to hear his thoughts? >> well, fred,...

>> it was many reasons, you those materials not the clinton foundation. ed: we asked the clinton know, to serve my country, foundation for comment. we never got comment on that afghanistan. to be fair u was the and help americans rebuild afghanistan. because we were tired of ignored. >> that insurance policy text messaging we saw back taliban and the fighting and and forth. ed: page and strzok. we will make sure is he not so i wanted to, you know, do elected. >> thats right. what was this so-cal...

Like never before store. the xfinity store is here. and its simple, easy, awesome. ♪ >> harris: house speaker nancy pelosi is voicing her support for lowering the federal voting age to 16. pelosi is arguing the change would be a boost for voter engagement, and drive interest in politics among young people who are learning about it and i school. house lawmakers last week voted down an amendment to the democratic voting rights bill that would have lowered the voting age at that point. today is t...

And oversight committees you sent letters requesting details communication between president trump and vladimir putin. you want the documents, interviews with knowledge of the context, translators. do you think youll get everything you want? have they responded? >> we havent gotten a response yet. i would hope we get a response. look, its been several months, a long time since helsinki, when putin and trump met. we still dont know what went on there. theres all kinds of conflicting reports about...

Interpreter to make sure that they have all of their facts correct as they are taking notes for a possible memorandum of conversation that could be filed some where after that meeting takes place. >> would you ever hold on to notes that were not taken? just for your own personal -- just so that you have them in case something comes up again? >> no. do i hold on to some notes, afterwards, yes, not necessarily from classified meetings. im very circumspect about that. it doesnt matter if im working...

Individual republicans out, so interesting meeting here but nevertheless interesting point the president is making complaining privately about these democratic investigations what it could mean for him and his administration going forward. erica? >> and it seems things are just getting started, thank you, manu. we have more on the big news from the white house rejecting democrats demands for documents over security clearances in what is a clear first sign that the battle is escalating and doin...

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Undermine our ability as interpreters to do our job in these settings and other settings, and it can also hamstring the state department and other parts of the u.s. government to be able to carry out foreign policy and to interact with foreign counterparts. >> youre saying they wouldnt be as free to speak. in this letter that we saw that was put out yesterday after the white house, it was sent to secretary pompeo, part of the case that was made by lawmakers was the fact that theres reporting tha...