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Comey is he firing comey in his position as president of the united states because comey is not doing a proper job for the country or is he firing comey because comey is getting close to him personally. >> a great point. >> you have an overlap between those roles and i wonder if there is some kind of an attorney/client privilege that white house counsel might have with respect to something where there is overlap. im not sure. i dont know it has ever been tested in the courts. >> caroline i want ...

Presidency not the president. so hes a government attorney. he and mueller are on the same side. his oath is to the office to maintain the integrity of the office. >> it wouldnting attorney/client privilege which is applicable it is executive privilege. >> thats correct. >> the trump legal team waived executive privilege, and jim acosta is reporting they are trying to yank it back, a retroactive waiving of executive privilege. can you even do that? >> i think wants you have waived the privilege....

Remarkable. think about a couple of summers ago when you saw the national security officials writing a letter to oppose the endorsement of, including most of the republicans who said they would not serve in the administration and not a huge amount of overlap of that group anti-trump starting in the campaign in 2016 and this group. it is telling you u that the president has managed to alienate intelligence professionals and many of whom probably i think that they were perfectly happy to see him t...

Sees as an unfair investigation of himself. >> well be watching to see if he answers reporters questions today. dan, i want to ask you one more question, which is about the upcoming trial. we know that whatever happens in this case, robert mueller is going to be bringing a second case against manafort. he has over 1,000 pieces of evidence. what do you make of that? what are you expecting there? >> well, theres certainly some overlap, but it is going to be a very different trial. first of all, th...

Can say how is it that 37% of people still believe him? >> thats the million dollar question. the answer is just a theory that i have. there is a portion of the population that is viewing facts through a very tribal basis. they are not coming at things for the first time, but who gave me this information. if you trust donald trump. >> or distrust the media. >> i think there is a lot of overlap there. thats what you are seeing. you are saying i believe whatever he says, meaning the president. >> ...

Are. can say its not working or one can say how is it that 37% of people still believe him? >> thats the million dollar question. the answer is just a theory that i have. there is a portion of the population that is viewing facts through a very tribal basis. they are not coming at things for the first time, but who gave me this information. if you trust donald trump. >> or distrust the media. >> i think there is a lot of overlap there. thats what you are seeing. you are saying i believe whatever...

Speak up and defend it. >> i wonder, ambassador, how you think it all relates to the fact that donald trumps only consistent vector is whether someone is being helpful or hurtful to him in his own estimation, a story that we dont have in our rundown tonight because theres not much to it is the ongoing omarosa feud, but theres an overlap in the sense that jeff sessions has received different treatment from trump only based on whether hes doing things that trump thinks are good for him personally,...

Taxpayer. >> a lot of this speaks to chief concerns that you have in the administration. close long standing ties with many of these billionaires. the question is does that get to overlap. you know, or can be spoken to by the american people. that seems fairly undemocratic, but this is part of what democrats are trying to do in painting this administration as people who are grifters and only about their fellow elite. >> it is interesting too, nick, the question is how many people are going to no...

From silicon valley. we had some similar overlap when it came to reform ideas. there is a movement bubbling up of people saying business as usual in washington, d.c. is not working out well for either party. how do we change it? even if we get the best people in congress, if they meet the bus saw of a broken process they cant get anything done. >> steve: thats good. which is just get new people in who support a more populist agenda. coming up, our swamp watch on china last week had an overwhelmi...

From silicon valley. we had some similar overlap when it came to reform ideas. there is a movement bubbling up of people saying business as usual in washington, d.c. is not working out well for either party. how do we change it? even if we get the best people in congress, if they meet the bus saw of a broken process they cant get anything done. >> steve: thats good. which is just get new people in who support a more populist agenda. coming up, yogi is confident. yoooogiiiiiii!! but when it comes...