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Decision was to allow fbi officials to speak critically of hillary clinton. the final fate reports to jeff sessions as his reports of his dismissal continue to surface. more what donald trump is up to, harry lipman in the department of justice, former attorney general. this is the entire conundrum of this president. on the one hand, an internal review that seems to indicate mccabe may have misled investigators about allowing his people to the press and should be fired for it, on the other hand, ...

He had his final review and opr issued disciplinary recommendation. that recommendation was lowered. that is part of the process here. there is no way they can force him out by sunday which is what theyre trying to do. unless they short circuit that process and that means no way they can do it unless its by political pressure from the very top based on spite and mean spiritedness. >> thats interesting. what im hearing from you you view this as a jam job. that trump tv has been railing against mc...

The russia cloud hanging over the white house getting darker and more threatening with the indictments of two former campaign aides and the guilty plea from a third. and now there are rumblings from some republicans who say president trump should issue pardons for anyone involved with the russians. my next guest says the president could do that, but he shouldnt. joining me now is john yu, who was a u.s. deputy assistant attorney general with the bush administration. i want to get all of that, bu...

And now there are rumblings from some republicans who say president trump should issue pardons for anyone involved with the russians. my next guest says the president could do that, but he shouldnt. joining me now is john yu, who

And tax evasion. and the second case the framers had in mind, the one thats more important in the federalist papers, is the idea that you might have a rebellion or a riot, and you need to pardon people in order to restore peace, like the end of the civil war and reconstruction when president lincoln and president johnson issued blanket pardons. thats not even close to -- >> you dont think there would be a riot now considering how divided the country is, if he pardoned all of those people or if h...

And just, if you remember, just the security costs to try them in manhattan, in new york city, would be millions of dollars a year. plus, guantanamo bay is a safe and secure facility which we can prevent al qaeda attacks, trying to demonstrate or even trying to free people like that, but i dont think thats the issue with the saipov case. as far as we can tell from the reports weve gotten in the first day, after tech, he seems like a relatively low-level, lone wolf person inspired by isis or al q...

Is really the answer for the most dangerous terrorist leaders who are captured abroad, and its because we dont really have anywhere else to keep them. i dont think thats the case with this saipov guy. >> so, should we keep guantanamo open? >> i think we have to because we do have the core of the original al qaeda leadership. and just, if you remember, just the security costs to try them in manhattan, in new york city, would be millions of dollars a year. plus, guantanamo bay is a safe and secure...

Disorder and you need to, you know, pardon people to restore order, to end a conspiracy. >> right. >> here, theres nothing like that going on. >> john yoo, thank you. >> thanks, don. and when we come back, lawmakers slamming silicon valley executives for their slow response to russias ad buys on their social media platforms. were going to dig into the ads that we now know russia wanted you to see.

Approving, anything of that sort, any memo from john yu on this topic. later in 2004, when i was assistant attorney general, the criminal division did have a fairly surgical role which was not -- underline not, in approving any interrogation technique but commenting on a public general interpretation memo by dan levin about what the statute -- what statutory standard means. that opinion, as you know, was rescinding prior interpretations that had occurred. again, i had not seen. i did not think i...

Anyone in the white house. my only discussion on topic was deputy attorney general ros rosenstein, was that now special counsel mueller had been appointed. >> that was it? >> that was it. >> let me go flto the things we discussed in my office. my understanding is you served as the deputy attorney generals most senior adviser when the office of legal counsel issued the so-called torture memos in 2002 and 2003. john yu, one of the authors of the memos, testified in 2008 before a house judiciary co...