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On then candidate trump? >> and its a judgment call. bob mueller might be saying exactly what you did and say, look, this is a logical outgrowth. lets assume for purposes of this discussion there was no substantial evidence of collusion. in fact, i think the indictment of the 13 russian nationals and three companies saying no collusion. >> why? >> because the russians developed this enormous operation out of st. peters berg and sent operatives in the united states to sow discord and spend millio...

Theyre pretty tough over there. the israeli police. >> weve seen an israeli president put in jail. weve seen an israeli prime minister put in jail. the results will be given to the state attorney general who has been involved with this all along who will then make a recommendation to the attorney general. then the attorney general will have to make a judgment call. >> president trump has a long history with prime minister benjamin netanyahu. what do you think this means for their relationship? t...

Clearance. who cleared him to see all this stuff? it is disturbing and unprecedented enough that this president decided to have blind faith in his son-in-law and agreed to give him access to classified information. it was his judgment call. but here this is not clear that this was the presidents judgment call. this is a systemic problem. if the president didnt know there was a problem with this guys clearance, that means somebody provided that guy with classified information without him being cl...

Want to say advantage, but an arrow in his quiver, that he has cooperating witnesses now and the primary one with regard to the president would be michael flynn. >> yes, indeed. and trump has no idea what flynn has said, what flynn has recorded, his own set of self-corroboration in his e-mails what hes told others. so, yes. and we have something -- ive described earlier, a natural-born liar in the president. and so he has difficulty. hes often truth-challenged. so i understand why his attorneys ...

The president as you know from our experience last week has five days to decide whether to declassify this document. ultimately thats a judgment call by the president and there are political implications. any legal requirement for the president to put this out there now that the house has voted, or rather the committee, has voted unanimously to put it out there? >> no, my understanding is that classification issues reside solely in the executive branch. and theyre a prerogative of the president....

For a busy restaurant. you want to be seated when youre next in line. likewise, you dont want people picking and choosing who they go after based on whether the political people in power are going to disfavor you or blow you up publicly and challenge your integrity. we have to remember, what does the fbi do? counterterrorism, foreign espionage, cyber crime, violent crime, white collar crime. as americans, we want to have a safe country. we want this stuff done. but if career public servants are ...

Addresses the russia scandal or does he stay away from it all together? >> judgment call. i think its a gray area. every state of the union has a time and place and a passage. i think this state of the union, craig, perhaps has a little more weight, a little more importance than some other states of the union. theyre all important. this is kind of an inflection point in the trump presidency. how he will handle that particular issue. i just dont know the speculation. im pretty confident that he w...

>> jon: the government shutdown is over with president trump signing a spending bill last night but it just sets a new countdown clock in motion. here is arkansas senator tom cotton. >> i think what we learned is that the american people dont want to have the government shut down for illegal immigration. were now on the back side of this shutdown, thankfully. what weve seen is that the democrats obsession over amnesty for illegal immigrants is not popular and i think that strengthened our hand g...

Request for documents. when i was because counsel, we were never privileged in any ongoing investigation. but the fact that president trump did ask don mcgann to do that, is that obstruction of justice? >> it depends. im not in a position to answer that question without knowing a lot more information. i dont know whether or not don mcgann put it this way. listen, the president wants you to think hard about not recusing yourself. we know its a judgment call. we know you will exercise your own bes...

Months before we see anything in court. >> sandra: what can you tell us about this lawsuit against twitter? >> its very different. so the plaintiff there charles johnson is a conservative activist and former breitbart reporter. twitter banned him in 2015 after he asked for donations to help take out a civil rights activist. he said the tweet was taken out of context. the lawsuit filed monday johnsons attorney claims twitter banned him for his political views and the suspension was a judgment cal...