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The other is the behavior of the president was so screamingly alarming that these people are running around saying what if this man is compromised? >> and in rod rosensteins defense and my enthusiasm for him is all together under control, i assure you, but in his defense, the president had just done something quite awful to him which was to sort of use him as a set piece for something that he meant to do anyway and he kind of used him as a pretext for this. rosenstein had fallen into this trap a...

Making up a pretext to fire you. is that what youre suggesting? >> i read that report closely myself. ive been writing and reading investigative reports for over 20 years and that report was not like anything ive ever read before. i disagree with the conclusions they drew. thats something ill be raising in a civil lawsuit ill be bringing against the department of justice. >> harry, his critics would say he had the right to leak to a "wall street journal" reporter a correction to a story that was...

President and are attempting to subvert the will of the voters and take down the president and the other is the behavior of the president was so screamingly alarming that these people are running around saying what if this man is compromised? >> and in rod rosensteins defense and my enthusiasm for him is all together under control, i assure you, but in his defense, the president had just done something quite awful to him which was to sort of use him as a set piece for something that he meant to ...

Welcome back. the presidents national emergency declaration, well, it is now facing its biggest challenge yet. last night 16 states, including california, new york, maryland and new mexico filed a suit arguing that the presidents plan to redirect federal funds in order to build his border wall is unconstitutional. it is worth noting all but one of these states had democratic governors and most have democratic controlled legislatures. in that suit, the states argue, quote, contrary to the will of...

Journal." do you think that he has credibility? >> well, i think its difficult in this situation to assign credibility to him because the department of justice office inspector general, as you mentioned, has found specifically that he lacked candor, which is the kiss of death in the fbi. agents can do a lot of things and others, but when you lack candor, especially under owning, i belieoath, i believe it was t times that he was determined to lack candor, then he would be not qualified as a witne...

It was used as the pretext. we dont know what the president wanted the deputy attorney general to say there. as for the 25th amendment and the wire remarks, rosenstein has said that mccabes characterization is inaccurate about lindsey graham is looking into this and says he wants to call for an investigation and get to the bottom of exactly what rosenstein has said. >> absolutely. great to see you. thank you so much. i really appreciate it. a lot to get through on this. joining me now is cnn law...

Number they said was 230, why would it take two years if this is an emergency? >> looking at it from an attorneys point of view, its such a flimsy pretext and i think this could hurt the emergency deck cla in the courts on a couple levels. datas just not there. the basis for this is people are pouring over the border. >> its an invasion is what they claim. >> right. but the data doesnt bear that out. antidotes arent going to hack it in court, you have to have real date. also this notion that ill...

President said. here was the president frid aay and millers explanation. >> i could do the wall over a longer period of time. i didnt need to do this but i would rather do it much faster. >> i didnt need to do this, how does that justify a national emergency? >> what the president is saying is that like past presidents, he could choose to ignore this crisis, choose to ignore this emergency as others have but thats not what hes going to do. >> so whats your response to steven miller there, and th...

The number of things that he said trump did publicly to try to explain why the fbi was so troubled by his behavior, including not skrust the firing of former nib director james comey, but he also described, we believe for the first time, that the president tried to pressure rod rosenstein to include the topic of russia in his memo that was used as the pretext to fire comey. he wrote a memo how comey has behaved and how he flouted doj protocol and according to mccabe, he tried to pressure rosenst...

Significant but legally, does it matter? >> i think it does. the question -- it does go to the larger constitutional question about whether or not the president should be doing this. so congress has allowed the president to declare a national emergency. lots of prior presidents have done that, even in cases where there isnt a very strict or clear case of a national emergency. that said, prior presidents have attempted to observe the form. theyve attempted to make the case this really is an emerg...