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Agency and your dealings with potentially regulated sectors. i consider much of this narrative to be a distraction but one this committee cannot ignore. >> the attorney general jeff sessions testifying on the hill today as well. hes been recused from the mueller problem and the russia investigation but still facing questions about it from lawmakers. its all that anybody on the hill is talking about today. were about a half an hour away from the votes to confirm the next secretary of state, mike ...

Yield something faster than the mueller probe. if the mueller problem has him putting out results and congress saying okay, whatever, the justice department has to go and look at the campaign finance violation. it is very possible this could be more of a headache for him in the long term and is going to keep going. if somebody in fact made a illegal contribution or unreported contribution to the trump campaign in furtherance ambition to be president, thats against the law. >> let me ask you to b...

>> what do you make of ken dilanians analysis at best it is a campaign finance violation, at worst its jeopardy in the mueller probe? its pretty dangerous lane to be driefrmi drief driving in. >> its possible this could be yield something faster than the mueller probe. if the mueller problem has him putting out results and congress saying okay, whatever, the justice department has to go and look at the campaign finance violation. it is very possible this could be more of a headache for him in th...

Theres a little bit of magical thinking going on with what i reported today. he thinks if i could bring in new people, say an adviser like jason miller and maybe corey lewandowski we can just push back enough to get this mueller problem go away but you cant wish the mueller probe away. >> olivia, this happens in book writing or in tv or things, people are in a bad situation theyre like "if i had an agent who was a real shark." the agent is not your problem. >> thats true to an extent but i think...

This is a president that is increasingly acting like he is boxed in and we see this fight with his lawyers, he wants to talk to mueller, his lawyers dont want him to talk to mueller. this is clearly a president who sees his options narrowing and theres a little bit of magical thinking going on with what i reported today. he thinks if i could bring in new people, say an adviser like jason miller and maybe corey lewandowski we can just push back enough to get this mueller problem go away but you c...

I would also think people around him are worried for themselves at this point. also with us washington bureau chief for time magazine. this weeks "time" cover is trumps growing mueller problem. >> were going to blow through brakes here. we have too much to talk through. have either you in the past gone to the london school of economics? >> neither. >> none of purely d.c. based. >> d.c. based. okay. >> the only two people not claiming that in your resume. i want to ask you something because its "...

Too hard -- when mueller was first announced as special counsel, a lot of us on the beat realized this is a very smart move by rosenstein and the doj. mueller is the only one that could have been picked and potentially show the rift between trump and republicans on the hill. they are so supportive of mueller. so as far as the strategy of going after mueller, that could backfire pretty easily. >> shepard: you write about how the different investigations, house and senate, are really splitting in ...

Respect the chain of command, but then feel that you have to go rogue because that completely violates the chain of command. but does that mean even if james comey is labelled insubordinate in this final version of the report, not the draft, what does that mean? are there any legal charges that follow? is it a wrist-slapping? hes already done with the government part. >> its really damaging to james comeys credibility, which he damaged on the book tour. hes been attacked for his statements there...

Everyones face yesterday. there was some real concern i think about the workload going forward, about what this was going to mean practically. you bring up john kelly. this obviously comes, theres been a lot of questions about john kelly, about his future, particularly in the wake of the rob porter scandal. lot of people within the white house, within the administration, he has stabilized the shift. tensions between him, between jared and ivanka and a lot of focus on jared kushner right now as w...