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Canadians as much as anything and the prime minister referred to this is that we use this provision of the law designed for national security emergencies only used before during the oil embargoes in the 1970s against one of our neighbors to whom, by the way, we export more steel to canada than we import. >> thats why the trudeau interview is really important. >> our closest ally in so many respects. >> we did this unilaterally and the fact that we used national security, it sets a precedent. any...

>> listen, theres no way that will happen and the reason it wont it then becomes a political problem, george. if the president were to pardon himself, hell get impeached. >> one of the reporters on the by line tremendous story matt apuzzo, matt miller former chief spokesman for the justice department, joyce vance, former u.s. attorney law professor at the university of alabama, with us at the table frank figliuzzi, former fbi director counter intelligence. matt apuzzo, take us through this memo ...

Rosenstein. before any subpoena was executed it would have to be approved by rosenstein, the deputy attorney general. if you look at the way this memo is written, it very plainly talks about the fact rod rosenstein wrote the memo that justified jim comeys firing. it mentions he edited the presidents termination letter firing him. if you take that and the fact this memo has become public now, look at whats happened the last few weeks where there is constant pressure from the white house and the p...

Lawyers try to write these sorts of memos, you know, privately and confidentially because they dont want to -- they dont want to put down the marker and say this is where i think the boundaries of presidential authority are, and that sort of murkiness has benefited presidents of both parties, you know, since the beginning of the republic. we all -- whether there is an investigation or whether its congress, kind of -- it always works out best if everybody kind of works it out and we dont have to ...

A couple days later and reported that the president had personally signed off on this. everybody at the white house and the legal team kind of went ballistic at that. and then the washington po >> mark corallo quit over this. mark corallo was the presidents kind of p.r. guy on the legal team. he quit over this. he felt perhapstion of justice was happening in front of his eyes. this is one of the central flash points in robert mers obstruction of justice investigation, right? >> yeah, and of cour...

Meeting. on tv, he says, no. he may be facing state bar issues, jay sekulow and someone should bring this up for investigation at the state bar. >> joyce, let me let you jump in on that. so, jay sekulow, as frank points out, is one of the authors of this memo, we believe, or he was at least co-counsel with john dowd. he wrote in this memo that the president dictated the statement when he media started asking. we now know that he was lying at the time that he made those statements to the press. w...

He said no one ever talked to any russians. they were awash in russians. they were bathing and showering with russians. there were russianseverywhere. hes been charged with gazillion counts ofiolation andthis and that. his son-in-law or former son-in-law just did a deal. whats the worry with paul manafort? >> you know, paul manafort was also charged with a crime conspiracy. thats a conspiracy to defraud the unitedstates. and mueller could but not necessarily will broaden that conspiracy and that...

Broad a view of the presidents powers as possibl to sort of say, hey, look, this is who we think we are. this is what we think the facts are. you dont need to talk to him. you should back off and you should end the investigation. >> all right. yesterday trumps lawyer rudy giuliani was asked to explain the shift from denial to acknowledgment and said it was a case of changing memories. >> this is the reason you dont let the president testify, our recollection keeps changing or were not asked a qu...

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It cant be illegal the president fired jim comey, an action as president. if he moves forward and terminates this investigation by either firing bob mueller or reaching in the justice department and ordering it be halted or exercising s pardon authority to pardon people close to him, that cant be structio justi either. theyre really kind of ting to the most narrow argument they can make to defend the president. >> matt apuzzo, i want to drill down on some of the substance because one of the thin...