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Underpinnings youre going to see probably on display today, bill barr, hearing today that the president has ultimate power in certain areas. the theory of the executive. there are office of legal counsel memos. i think a big question for our democracy, for our constitutional system is does the president have the limit, the unlimited pardon power? does he have a limitless power to fire an fbi director whos investigating him? thats sort of core to the obstruction matter? why is that important? bec...

People in prison and it will still keep on coming. i always felt -- and i support an adjustment to these sentences and the safety valve and so forth. to me, the corollary is we have to really start thinking and using all our national forms of power in the sense of our diplomacy and our economic leverage and so forth to get better results overseas. for example, now fentanyl is sort of the new crack and theyre coming in from china. so across -- >> across the mexican border? >> correct. >> at ports...

There was concrete achievements from these secretive meetings and we got a breakthrough with the russians for things that were good for us, i would support it. the truth is, he hasnt had a successful meeting with vladimir putin. hes had no successes with the russians. hes had a luf setbacks, things i think are not in americas national interests. that suggests hes doing something else. i dont know. i want to be clear, theres lots of circumstantial evidence about the money they took in 2008 and ma...

>> well, the worst case scenario is that donald trump is a wholly owned subsidiary of the kremlin. that he is not only in debt to the kremlin he is aware and it is made clear to him that that debt is going to be used against him and it will be leverage and that he will -- will do the bidding of vladimir putin. vladimir putin is a kgb human intelligence officer. his job was to turn people into traitors and to run agents into west germany to steal technology. he knows what hes doing. his senior st...

Unitary authority of a president such that he is there to do the presidents will. >> and this assessment of a person that could become muellers boss comes amid the reporting that the fbi looked at donald trump as a counterintelligence observation because they were concerned he might be a russian asset. was that true? >> i cant go into what we were initially briefed in terms of the fbis interest concern. was it criminal, was it counterintelligence, who were they looking at? i cant go into the spe...

Making concessions and making a deal with the president? >> according to my reporting, no. y they dont see an incentive to give the president money to open the government. our poll showed 53 percent of the country blames it on trump and 30% or less blames it on the democrats. they see as having more leverage than the president. there is concern about federal workers and supporters. i dont see them right now making a deal. no. >> im just wondering on that point, we had katie hill on, freshman dem...

Weakened our relationship with our laong-standing allies. russia could not have asked for a friendlier president. >> when did you first learn about this investigation into the present? >> it is something that obviously because im on the intelligence committee that i cant discuss but i can also say it is something in terms of our work we have not gotten a conclusion i conclusionive answer to. it was run in such a way that it was taken at their word investigation. we would bring in witnesses, ask ...

Leverage leverage, right? remember sally yates and michael flynn, they knew michael flynn lied about his conversations with the russian ambassador. one reason thats a concern, they knew the russians knew what took place in those conversations and they could then use that as leverage against michael flynn who was then the national security adviser. if the russian leader, russian intelligence knows what took place in those meetings and the president and putin discussed things or made promises to e...

Without having this shutdown fight for the border wall. they didnt feel like there was any leverage for republicans and that there was any way they could force democrats to come to the negotiating table. this is why they didnt want to do it. but trump, he listened to the far right corners of his base. i mean we call conservatives calling him. he was getting hit on talk radio and he couldnt take the criticism and thats why were here. going back to the poll numbers, its interesting because even as...

States opposes the project and make clear to the companies involved that they could very likely suffer harsh consequences but lets bring up a quote from the litter that he wrote here it says i therefore request on behalf of my government that your company consider the danger this product represents to european energy security as well as the reputational costs and sanctions risks associated with our i guess the key word there is saying sions right i mean why would the us want to slap sanctions on...