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Subpoena the president, i wish we could follow-up on that. i have an issue with time being the main concern and if they knew the president was going to stall forever, why didnt they issue a subpoena after two months after he wouldnt cooperate for two months. also on -- i wish he answered my question on compromise or leverage that the president may be under. there is just so many questions that are still left unanswer and still work for the intelligence committee to do. >> thank you for joining u...

Others, given the tremendous leverage that they have over him due to his debts and so forth. and yet in his particular case, not only has he not been held accountable, but he has actually been given top secret security clearance that makes no sense. >> as far as i can tell, he is running american foreign policy. >> oh, among other things. i think he has domestic and foreign policy possibly. so this is an individual with a wide portfolio. >> i guess on a scale of 1 to 10, congressman, how worried...

Also on -- i wish he answered my question on compromise or leverage that the president may be under. there is just so many questions that are still left unanswered and still work for the intelligence committee to do. >> thank you for joining us at the end of this important day. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> well be right back with more with our panel after this. ♪work so hard give it everything you got♪

Security clearance and you are filling out the questionnaire, youre going to have to respond to a number of questions about if theres anything going on in your life that could cause you to be subject to compromise. >> what is the remedy for that, when somebody that has implications for national security, has been compromised. what do we do as a country to fix that? having a secret real estate deal with russia is not a crime, but if it is potentially a point of leverage and a fulcrum for extortio...

Spilling into the streets of san jua juan. >> and good day, everyone, im andrea mitchell in new york. the morning after robert muellers testimony, all eyes are on nancy pelosi, the speaker of the house has complete control over members of her caucus including judiciary jerry nadler can get their way and proceed to impeachment hearings. if only because they say it would strengthen their leverage with the courts to get critical witnesses to testify like white house counsel don mcgahn, president tr...

That too was a counter intelligence nightmare because it gave the russians the ability to expose something about a leading candidate that could potentially extort him. >> anything a foreign power could exploit that they want to keep a secret creates a vulnerability and the national security of the united states that has access at risk. if you are joe blow or jane doe and filling out the security clearance questionnaire, you are going to have to respond about whether there is anything going on in...

Russians do, but we can control what we do. if we can control what we do from foreign intervention, got help us. >> i didnt expect as much detail as we got, but him talking about the relationship between hidden financial ties and compromise by a foreign power. he talked about how financial ties that are elicit and potentially illegal that are hidden and being lied about is perfect leverage for a hostile foreign power to extort a number of different people in the presidents orbid and indeed, the ...

Donna edwards and ben willis. donna, has speaker pelosi run out the clock? >> well, i think unfortunately, the clock is tick. yesterday, with robert mueller, it wasnt pretty, it was sometimes confusing, but he laid out all of the elements for obstruction of justice. he laid out the case for russian interference in the election. and he laid out a clear case against president trump for committing behavior, if he had done it and he didnt have the cloak of the presidency, hed find himself indicted a...

But if that appalling display of racism over the last two weeks wasnt enough to move people, is there anything that bob mueller can say that will? >> congressman castro, do you think hes right? do you think there is anything mueller could say that could actually move peoples opinion about the president one way or another? >> i hope so because bob mueller will be talking about things that are fundamental to our democracy and potential obstruction of justice by the president of the united states. ...

>> i actually do think that some of the platforms dont have enough accountability to public officials. that said what we saw in 2016 is the incredible influence of facebook and the abuse of that platform by russian trolls and a russian intelligence operation meant to influence the election. in response facebook took steps to deal with that. particularly foreign influence. as he pointed out a moment ago, trump and his allies believe that facebook, twitter and the platforms are against them. what ...