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Keeping confidential, high-level diplomatic conversations. the nixon decision from 1974 when the court said yes, executive privilege exists but no, it doesnt apply to this position. what they did say in 1974, its intended to protect military secrets, national security secrets. there may be a creative argument that trump could make that we need to expand executive privilege to cover this kind of conversation. >> as we bring in david gergin who many of you know at home has worked in four white hou...

Coming clean here and revealing more details about who exactly he distributed this memo to, and it was a rash of the presidents lawyers, no doubt, democrats will be pouncing on that. wolf? >> will be a rather lively hearing tomorrow. jessica, thanks. s shimon, jim, thanks to you guys as well. lets go to capitol hill for more on possible subpoenas for the presidents interpreter and others. i want to go to our congressional correspondent, manu raju. house intelligence and foreign affairs committee...

Committee for the house wants to get a hold of these notes, the interpreters. where do you see this headed? >> its going to be a difficult thing. i think that this has renewed the sense of urgency among some in congress to try to get to the interpreters. they are the only american witnesses to some of these conversations between trump and putin. and so they are the only ones you can turn to aside from the president himself to figure out what happened. but theres a difficulty because interpreters...

"fox & friends" -- we are going down a very tough road for the future, if you have to get the nose of the interpreter and interview the interpreters. they are there to interpret, not to analyze. all the sudden youre going to put them on the national stage to tell everybody what they believe the president met when he was talking about president president xi or president modi, or about a mere prudent? i think its terrible. also, theres little bit of a pattern. what is the thing we have in common w...

Manipulated, are they seeking to influence him. at minimum they have to do that. >> lets talk about the jonathan post reporting as well. this is of great concern that the president says its normal. it is not actually normal to take your interpreters reports and do something with them. so we just dont know where they are. but the idea that theyre districted to not talk to seep your administration officials. >> i have been in meetings with both presidents for phone calls and leaders with foreign l...

Investigative foreign affairs committee to investigate the meetings with putin and what has happened on those occasions. its a sensitive thing. interpreters are not the presidents guides or aides. theyre there for a function. theres concern about dragging a interpreter it seems a bit ridiculous to even asked sk but we need to check it off your list as well. have you ever heard of a president having a one-on-one meeting without any aides and only have an interpreter with him and then having that ...

But with russian diplomats to say this has eased the pressure off him and only allows the russian press to cover it. its overwhelming when you put it all like that. maya, thank you, and stay with me because i want to bring you on one other item later in the show. joyce vance, thank you as well. appreciate it. what i want to do now is turn, as promised, to an interview with a house democratic chair. the dems are in the majority. eliot engel, the new chairman of the house foreign affairs committee...

This report that the president was trying to hide his -- the notes from any meetings with putin. and there are reports that two house committees, foreign affairs and intelligence are considering issuing subpoenas to not just one but two interpreters, which is also unprecedented but at this point it may be what happens to find out what happened in those meetings. here is president trump on the phone with his friend judge jeanne pirot when asked about trying to hide these notes. >> why not release...

Suddenly it so clear. woo you can see the president is already destabilized as he thinks about how hes going to have to deal with it. >> greg miller, your reporting at the "washington post" brought to the american people the fact that this president, who had already made a lot of americans and foreign policy leaders uncomfortable with wanting to meet alone with vladimir putin, except with an interpreter, after the meeting seized the interpreters notes so even tell us about the story and the poss...

Lack of explanation today from the president or the white house. is there a reason why the president would confiscate and kill ann conways words, the notes from this meeting? there may be but we havent heard it. and not hearing it and the absence of an explanation, were left as frank said to take our suspicions as to why is the president being so careful here? and what is his motivation? >> greg, let me give you the last word here, can you tell us if theres any chance with democrats control of t...