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To say. but it is par for the course. it is something he has been repeating publicly and privately for months. and he has a real problem with the leadership there. and thats sort of the thing that, you know, causes these rumors every few weeks. the president is actually in a position to do something about it. theres a number of people he could fire. there would be deep political ramifications if he did, but when you hear rhetoric like that and you hear the things hes mused about privately about ...

Exactly being handed off with a vote of confidence. >> the problem here is that the president still really wants to go in and talks and they realize that he has to talk to bring an end to this. that if mueller is going to be done, they think the president is going to have to do this. the problem was dowd was not going to allow him to do it. he was not going to allow him to go in. he knew that it was a disaster waiting to happen. he knew the president was someone that could easily get distracted,...

Appreciate his help. whether the wall comes down entirely or not, well see. the prosecutors have another argument to advance to the federal judge, that he is they should rule in their favor. >> what is the legal jeopardy the president has on the payment to stormy daniels? >> another interesting question. so, if you take the president at his word, that campaign funds were not used to pay ms. daniels, lets say thats true and set that aside for a minute. it doesnt answer the other question. what if...

Presidents deposition. we have yet to see. frankly, mr. cohen has to invoke the 5th on a question by question basis formally in order to assert the right. so, i dont think its going to have a huge impact on our ability to dee positive him in connection with the civil case. >> and you still believe -- i know i got in a lot of trouble saying bob mueller, you make me regret those words every day. do you believe youll at some point depose the president in your case as well? >> i like making you regr...

Member of both the campaign and the administration who was there, what was said about it, what were you thinking, and what does all of this mean? >> he did testify in front of the house intelligence committee, famously and in november, you had the ranking democrat on the committee, adam schiff, who came out disturbed after that testimony. here is one reason why, i asked the attorney general whether he was ever instructed by the president to take any action that he believed would hinder the russi...

Which he has knowledge, but as to which the president has not asserted executive privilege. so when he goes in, hes like any other person, but because he was a senior policymaker, in the administration, the president retains the right to assert executive privilege as the specific questions or lines of questioning. he cannot blanketly say i am not going to answer that question because the president may in the future want to assert it. it has to have been i am not answering that question because t...

Technically their boss, if you lie to them, youve already committed an offense. you can get busted for that, separate and apart from any underlying conversation that was going on. so, jeff sessions knows this better than anybody. used to be a u.s. attorney. so it is a very different conversation. it is not one where there is a lot of bargaining, give and take, one where you actually have to do what we so often hear, tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but. >> stand by for one minute, ill...

The question. brian fallon raising an interesting point here on the timing of all of this, which is that the attorney general was questioned last week in the special counsels probe and this morning, were learning that he was pressuring the fbi director christopher wray to fire the department t deputy, pressuring him so much that he threatened to quit if he kept that pressure up. is that appropriate, given he was facing questions himself by presumably fbi agents and the special counsel probe, is ...

>> well, unless mueller advises him otherwise, and says to him, were you to do that, i would view this as an interference with my investigation. generally speaking, a witness is free to talk to whom ever they want about their testimony, whether in the grand jury, or privately unless hes instructed by mueller otherwise. i would expect that these guys are talking to one another, we saw that earlier when flynn backed out of the joint cooperation, the joint cooperation agreement, that led us to know...

Would want to drill down on? >> right, so as shimon referred to earlier, you know, sessions really is involved in a number of different threads here. one he was part of the trump transition team, part of the foreign policy team, so he was involved in meetings in which contacts and overtures with russian officials were discussed. he himself had undisclioed contacts with russian ambassador sergi kiey kislyak. thats one of the reasons he resigned. there is the question of the obstruction of justice...