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Mr. comey clearly dolphin yates those three occasions in his testimony. >> yes, he absolutely did. now, i want to ask you when you said you think thats a bit of a stretch just to ask you about some other parts of the testimony that we have. the fbi director serves a 10-year term expressly so that the director is not a political arm of a president, of any president. comey said the president did something highly inappropriate. he says the president asked him to dinner, a dinner that the fbi direct...

Iran respond to this carnage in the heart of its capital. >> its likely that iran will use this attack as a pretext to continue its support for the ie sad regime and houthis in yemen. but the reality is in enlisting the support of shiite radicals like hezbollah to kill sunly radicals like isis tends to exacerbate the problem of extremism. >> iran is of course the victim of todays attacks but is considered itself to be one of the worst state sponsors of terrorism by the united states. in fact, th...

Another pretext by this president to cover up who he is really trying the do, discriminate against muslims coming into the united states. >> richard, whats your take on the ethics of what you see coming from the president? >> well, i certainly think the travel ban makes no sense. the united kingdom has had experience with this before, with the irish republican army terrorist attacks. you had protestant groups which were also launching terrorist attacks. but they didnt impose a travel ban on cath...

Auto memo, give them a pretext? are both of those two things scandalous? >> one is much worse than the other obviously. if he knew it was over russia, then that is much worse. that is a major scandal because it shows the deputy attorney general, one of the people to protect the dojs independents is helping the president trample on it. if they knew president wanted to fire him, thats a bit less of a scandal, but its hard to believe even if he didnt have direct evidence, even if he wasnt aware of ...

And its different when hes president. what this shows is that it is not different when hes president. he is still doing the same thing. when he talks about political correctness, it is really just a dog whistle for trying to keep muslim out of the united states. hes really going back to the exact same thing that he has said on the campaign trail. and if i were the solicitor general and i had to argue this, i would be absolutely beside myself. he has totally undercut it. and on too much it all th...

That was a separate issue. this had to do with the integrity of the election. as late as late october or early november, there was hacking attempts. we dont know how successful yet, but there was hacking attempts. did you know that then? and if so, why not tell us? >> chuck, im going to disagree with the pretext about there being something new. i obviously cant comment on a classified report of any type even that is leaked publicly. i will say this. as a general matter we were very concerned las...

President. what this shows is that its not different when he is president. he is still doing the same thing when he talks about political correctness it is really just a dog whistle trying to keep muslims out of the united states. he is really going back to the exact same things he has said on the campaign trail. and if i were the solicitor general and i had to argue this i would be absolutely beside myself. he has totally undercut it. and on top of it all they claimed in the beginning it would ...

It would be the biggest scandal in the departments history. so what i think you see rosenstein doing is sending this public signal that will probably see him do at the hearing on wednesday and come up and say, look, i know you have questions whether i knew about this whether comey briefed me on his concerns, whether i saw his memos, whether the president said anything to me. but because of this ongoing investigation, im just not able to answer. and that would be a dodge that really i think gets ...

Trumps tweets impact this executive order? this travel ban? >> its a good question. i can only imagine the level of exasperation among the presidents lawyers at the justice department. which he directs and where they serve. he is making an increasingly already difficult case increasingly difficult to defend. lawyers sometimes have defiant unruly clients who are their own worst enemies, but it has to be special to have their worst enemy the president of the united states. >> explain why you think...

Uncomfortable. and we know that did he this in february after an oval office meeting in which he says president trump asked him if he would consider ending the investigation into michael flynn who was of course president trumps first national security adviser. i think the senate will be very interested in that and i think former director comey from start to finish. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> we turn now to nick ackerman, a former watergate special prosecutor with quite a bit of experience in...