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House oversight committee. kurt, is it okay for ivanka trump to make money off the trump name? >> no. you remember republicans exhaustively talked about thered a nexus of interest between the state department and the clinton foundation. this is that on steroids. the idea that someone who serves actively in the administration is profiting from a private enterprise where it has been reported and known and documented that there were foreign interests who stay at these hotels specifically, actually ...

Our democracy, you have the president of the united states saying hes not subject to the law, not subject to the rules laid out in the constitution. thats unacceptable. if he is not willing to comply with the mandates of this democracy, he should be checked and held accountable. thats why ive shifted over recent weeks from someone who said, lets take our time, lets do an investigation before we get to the conclusion of beginning impeachment, and ive changed my opinion, because here is a presiden...

Administration officials tell me theyre going to be involved in decisions the justice department makes about what underlying evidence from the mueller investigation, members of the house judiciary committee get to see. the white house very much feels like when the executive branch is in question, they have a huge amount of leverage and control over what democratic executives get access to and thats something theyre banking on going forward. theres so much democrats want they have zero appetite f...

Theres no doubt in my mind that iran did this. >> any chance that the revolutionary guard did this without the ayatollahs consent? what do you make of that argument? >> its possible, but i tend to think the good cop bad cop approach with rouhani talking to the prime minister of japan is part of a strategy. they need more leverage probably in their own minds. they use violence to get leverage. theyve done that for 40 years. theyre in a tough place. the united states is squeezing them so hard econ...

So that you can have a debate on this. the final thing i add, if im president, i wouldnt have had us in this situation in the first place because i would have stayed in the iran nuclear agreement, which is the thing that has basically ignited all of this. and it has basically put the leverage in the hands of china and russia, where we dont want it to be, because they are still in the agreement, as well as leaving the bag in the hands of our european allies. so those are the people that you work ...

Escorting the ship, we sank, ended up sinking several iranian ships and eventually they backed down. >> dana: president trump was asked about the state of hormuz and the possibility of the iranians trying to close it. listen to what he said. >> they arent going to be closing it. if it closes, it wont be closed for long. they know it. theyve been told in very strong terms. we want to get them back to the table. im ready when they are. >> dana: president keeps saying hes willing to talk. do they d...

That gives that country leverage over the president of the united states. do you understand what im saying? we know because after they had that meeting at trump tower they went out of their way to not disclose what the meeting was about. the whole press release was edited. they didnt know what that was about. that gave russia leverage and that what makes this so dangerous. now china is going to line-up. people in iran will line-up and stop giving information. the elections are supposed to be by ...

It has leverage. it has equities in all -- lebanon, in the persian gulf. in syria, in iraq. it often shows you that you know what? we have ways of raising the temperature too. we can raise the price of oil. we can make things difficult for your allies. the u.s. has troops in iraq. the u.s. has interests in the middle east. i worry the administration has not played this out. it does not have a clear strategy or end point with iran. its raising the temperature in a very volatile part of the world ...

Going to happen? they made it absolutely clear the best deal they were willing to give was the one they gave obama. but when you push them that hard, look, iran is a major player in the region. it has leverage. it has equities in all -- lebanon, in the persian gulf. in syria, in iraq. it often shows you that you know what? we have ways of raising the temperature too. we can raise the price of oil. we can make things difficult for your allies. the u.s. has troops in iraq. the u.s. has interests i...

Also, thats just wrong. >> absolutely. i think what is so dangerous about this, the president as the leader of our country should be saying just the opposite. making it clear that not only is it illegal to do this, but really dangerous to our national security because its allowing foreign influence to have some input into the outcome of our elections and theyre not doing it because of what they believe is in the best interest of america, foreign adversaries believe it is what is in their own bes...