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Conversations, wolf. not to my knowledge. and i have consulted with former colleagues in the obama administration as well who share my recollection that calls were not recorded. that said, there are human witnesses to the call, professionals that work in the situation room as well as perhaps the senior director for europe, white house, national security adviser and secretary of state who again are human witnesses to what was said at the call. i will flag, wolf, president trump is meeting with pr...

Whistle blower recently left the national security council where he or she was detailed from the intelligence community. so this person still was an intelligence community employee but was actually resident on the white house complex. and so if that is in fact the case, it is quite possible that he or she could have either sat in as a note taker on a phone call or could have seen a transcript. the trump administration has been alluded to did cut down but you still have to have permanent records ...

Administration withholding witnesses from the so-called impeachment hearings. now you have this issue. again, congressional oversight is a staple of our divided government, divided government system. the trump administration has made the determination its not going to participate in a lot of this oversight. thats going to be a problem for house democrats. you can see this clash, you can already see it brewing and see more tensions rising here on capitol hill. >> ken, do we know how many people e...

National security council where he or she was detailed from the intelligence community. so this person still was an intelligence community employee but was actually resident on the white house complex. and so if that is in fact the case, it is quite possible that he or she could have either sat in as a note taker on a phone call or could have seen a transcript. the trump administration has been alluded to did cut down but you still have to have permanent records in order for the read out to be t...

The democrat-run committee. joining us now, vicki ward following the details. you broke this story before it was made official by the house democrats. but now here we are. they have issued the subpoena. how likely is it to go anywhere in. >> well there is a pattern of resistance from people who worked in the white house. but if the end with the exception of don mcgahn, the white house chief counsel they have complied to varying degrees. i think rob porter is of particular interest to house democ...

Into a joke. so some of that is sort of the presidents posture that continue to confuse a number of americans, certainly an amount of lawmakers and people in his own administration, he is often just very reluctant to be krit kain public. people in the white house will claim that hes critical in private. we just dont know because we are not there for these moments and sometimes especially with putin, theres not each an interpreter there or a notetaker. so you really are relying on the presidents ...

We will make those decisions. >> who goes first, intelligence or judiciary? >> my expectation is that he will hear from the judiciary committee and shortly thereafter from our committee and then we will have closed session with the staff and both committees will have the opportunity to meet with the staff in closed session. >> have you finally by the way gotten some of the not only redacted report, but have you gotten information about the parallel counter intelligence investigation? this could ...

Why wouldnt president trump confront vladimir putin over election interference? the only logical explanation is he doesnt want it to stop because he views it as helpful to his 2020 election campaign. when kicking off any potential encounter with vladimir putin, president trump should lead with intelligence related to what we know about russias ongoing attack on our country. a failure to do so is acquiescing to making the american people victims again. president trump should also know putin is pr...

Yes, a number of mueller investigators contribute today hillary clinton. some gave to gop causes. robert mueller is a republican, so is rod rosenstein, who is also a trump appointee. we dont know if they went to the clinton election night party. but its a fairly moot point. this, on the other hand, is not. >> it turns out im the most -- and i think most of you would agree to this. im the most transparent president probably in the history of this country. >> if you havent noticed this by now, whe...

Thats what he does. keeping him honest, he might be the most transparent president ever, if transparency means no longer having white house press briefings or having a note taker in the room when you meet with vladimir putin or if transparency means letting the public know about the meetings you had a day after you fire your fbi director, or it means speaking to robert mueller in person or not even answering written questions from mueller on obstruction of justice, if thats what transparency mea...