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Trump. >> you supported the president during much of the campaign. thank you so much for being with us, sir. just moments ago kellyanne conway, senior adviser to president trump, she was on tv and she would not rule out the president using executive privilege to keep james comey from testifying. do you think theres a valid claim of privilege here? >> absolutely. i mean, i think one of the things that many people would love to hear for news purposes or just for the intrigue, those types of things...

Traditions and predictable responses and everything said at that podium from the press secretary, everything the president says publicly in his twitter feed is included in that. its viewed and interpreted by all of washington, by american citizens as well as entities around the world. of course the democrats were going to jump on that and want production of supposed tapes. completely predictable. yet theres no sense that the white house had a chance to game out that likely scenario. >> im going ...

Jack would get some time. carter page was on the radar after he made contact with a russian intelligence agent in new york. are you surprised that someone with his background could get so close to president trump? >> well, don, not -- not really. to me, the information thats come out of the washington post reporting today as all the hallmarks of a russian intelligence operation where you try to identify somebody that is going to be close to an important policy maker and then you identify what hi...

Come out of the washington post reporting today has all of the hall marks of a classic russian intelligence operation where you identify someone you hope will be close to an important policy maker and identify what his involvements are, you have saying hes a guy who is willing to pass dock iuments and is looksing for money. hes been in moscow and they have all that information on him. this is nothing more than classic russian human inside intelligence operation and looks close to being successfu...

Individual, i would have been derelict. so there are certainly legitimate reasons and very routine reasons for an analyst or for a policy maker to request unmasking. unmasking is not akin to leaking, and in fact it is a routine process. >> ned price and david corn, thank you both for joining us. i really appreciate it. >> sure thing. coming up, the president made a huge mistake. unbelievable bad rookie mistake, and rookie speaker paul ryan made the same mistake with him after their health care...

Legitimate reasons and very routine reasons for an analyst or for a policy maker to request unmasking. unmasking is not akin to leaking, and in fact it is a routine process. >> ned price and david corn, thank you both for joining us. i really appreciate it. >> sure thing. coming up, the president made a huge mistake. unbelievable bad rookie mistake, and rookie speaker paul ryan made the same mistake with him after their health care bill collapsed in the house of representatives. and now theyre...

The position clients were telling him, end quote, to take. not only did he not answer my question, he raised an additional concern. i strongly believe that when you work for the government either as a lawyer or a policy maker its important to comment on the legality on the issue you advisor write. to say i did what they wanted isnt enough particularly if the legality is contradicted by both law and treaty. i also believe its important to remember the context. at this point our country was involv...

Have advocated for a slam alrea already. >> senator, my recollection is that mr. bieby was long gone from the department before i er showed up and tha by the time i got there, the department and the president were willing to work with congress to try and establish a regime that would govern operations at guantanamo. thats my recollection. and my role was a lawyer. and predominantly overseeing litigation filed by others against the government. i had a role as a lawyer, a significant one, but i wa...

>> and the procedures and protections you talked about are required and approved by the fisa court; is that correct? >> yes, sir and the attorney general. >> and you mentioned in your opening statement for that kind of information to be disseminated outside of your agency and the nsa that, that dissemination would be strictly on a need-to-know basis; is that correct. >> we use two criteria, is there a nee to know in the course of the person or group asking for it is there a need to know in the c...

Required and approved by the fisa court is that correct? >> yes, sir and the tattorney general. >> and you mentioned for that kind of information to be disseminated outside of your agency and the nsa that dissemination would be strictly on a need-to-know basis. >> theres two criteria, the need to know in the course of the person or group asking for the identification is there a valid need to know and the execution of their official duties. >> who might that be? >> another element within the inte...