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Alex Witt hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. You cant on its face determine whether its unlawful or its within the law. Thats for prosecutors and factgatherers to decide, but, boy, it is something people will be looking at seriously. David . Kelly, very quickly. Youve been in contact with Rudy Guiliani over these last many weeks, talking to him about the grounds by which he might agree to have the president sit down for an interview. And we saw Rudy Gu...

Look ahead to subsequent elections after that. im sure you heard the president say something totally different afterward. give us your read on that, the risk that we face here as we head to the mid terms when you look at the electoral system in this country. and what that instance tells you about the relationship, the dynamic between the president and his advisers. >> i agree with the presidents advisers. senator coates, i think, is doing a terrific job, and the other advisers, as well, have ind...

Reference to a letter that he sent out, the letter of dismissal to mr. comby in which he specifically says that he sought and received or at least he received, so he says, on three separate occasions assurances from fbi director comey that he was not under investigation. its not at all clear certainly whether thats true. that may be. that may not be, but one way or the other he would put that out in a letter is the undisciplined and self-defeating approach thatty hes taking here. >> according to...

House counsel don mcgawn. >> its impossible to know without knowing the substance of the relationship or the exchanges of information and advice between the two, lawyers can be advising completely accurately, completely correctly, very sagely and clients are not listening, or its possible that something is getting lost in the translation. its hard to say. certainly as i mentioned earlier with the letter and certainly with these reported known calls, you know, to comey to seek reassurance, to sen...

>> senator, were showing shots of general dunford as he approaches the white house yesterday. who else spoke? what was the roster of speak? >> it started with the vice president, the president, h.r. mcmaster, general zun ford, dan coates, the director of national intelligence, rex tillerson and secretary mattis. that is a strong foreign policy team by any measure. >> director pom pie i dont from the cia was not there? >> no. the dni oversees the director of the cia. senator coates was there. >> ...

Of time talking about how we handle encrypted devices for americans and for encryption here in the united states. my effort to be will to understand it more fully, to make sure i understand its impact on my role to keep america safe and to work alongside you to develop a set of policies to achieve that goal while still developing all the other goals we have here in america. >> spending some time in house intelligence seeing the relationship between the dni and the cia, what do you think you can ...

Intelligent man and he will not in any way allow someone like vladimir putdin, whom hes merely saying this guys smart. in a sense saying, hey, watch out, lets be more careful. this administration wasnt particularly careful, meaning the obama administration. what we need congress to do is actually rapidly approve the very forceful people whom the president-elect has -- >> who might that be? >> general mattis, congressman pompeo, senator coates, people who are smart, people who are deeply patrioti...

The biggest jobs still open and the incoming trump cabinet is the director of national intelligence and we can now tell you that former senator dn coates of indiana is the leading candidate for that job according to multiple sources. senator coates who did not run for reelection was a member of the senate intelligence committee. he served in the house and then senate in the 1980s and 90s, left the senate and then was elected again in 2010. he served on the senate intelligence committee in the 90...

Way this isnt chaotic and theyll be appreciative. the senator is trying to make this very political. he wants to stir up emotions. use these kind of words and it frightens people and i wish that he wouldnt because we dont to want frighten the american people. we want to assure them right now. >> congressman chris stewart, republican of utah, nice to have you with us. thank you so much. on the same day that trump will be sworn in as president, more than 1,000 general motors workers in ohio are ...

May of chuck schumer earlier today. i want to get your response to this. >> okay. >> republicans are plotting and soon will be executing a full scale assault on the three pillars that support the american health care system. the affordable care act, medicare, and medicaid. the republican plan to cut health care wouldnt make america great again, it would make america sick again. and lead to chaos instead of affordable care. >> thats the argument theyve been making all day. your reaction? >> well,...