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That included a plan, that i now know today, he was developing with colson to file against licensees to try to get their broadcast licenses, and particularly "the washington post." indeed they would have conversations in some detail about setting up what today became fox news. not in that particular conversation. >> jeff, president trump obviously loves to go after the press, loves to bluster. how seriously should this threat be taken? is this something he actually could do? >> i think the answe...

President nixon. john, you were actually in the room with president nixon when he discussed doing almost this exact same thing, explain what he wanted to do? >> well, what happened is, i was in there to to report on the indictments he had handed down. he was happy it hadnt gone higher than the men atwater gate. he rambled on what he was going to do to his enemies. and that included a plan that i now know today he was developing with colson to file on -- against licensees to try to get their broa...

Thats might be revealed. >> and last question, of course, i have to ask but private, personal e-mail accounts. it just never goes away. in this case, jared kushner set up three of them. how about the timing that he was setting up, forwarding and doing white house business on these accounts after hearing inquiries from the federal prosecutors? >> well, it depends whats in them. i think it is likely that kushners own lawyers may be eager to turn stuff over and share them with the special counsel, ...

Security, are americans ready for that? it works, but are americans ready for it, dan? >> i dont think so, tucker. if the problem you have with setting up, say, bag checks are not a bag, bad idea but magnetometers defined with bag checks, you have a clean area, sterile and devoid of all weapons but then you have an area right outside where you can just engage people lining up either at a bank check or magnetometers. i think one practical step we can all agree on going forward is police departmen...

On the ground in texas in the positioned over here behind us middle of the most extreme rain that appears to be an area where they are setting up, ambulances, event in continental u.s. history, coming from someone first responders, fire trucks, whos been sitting in the studio right here at this intersection for the past few days, our near sixth and clay, a little bit north of clay road. journalists have been doing a and this neighborhood, like you great job, but at some point said, has just been...

Chief of staff, general kelly, can you talk to us in broad strokes about the calls and outreach hes made so far, any governors, that sort of thing. talk to us broadly about the message hes sending and the people hes talking no insito i and outside of the administration. >> i know hes spoken to a large number of individuals within the staff. hes taking time to get to know everyone here in the building that he hasnt met previously through his other role and working through setting up, you know, ne...

Havent checked it in the hast couple days. where are they going to end up coming down on this? >> i think theyll carry the water for trump as they always do. like everybody, theyre just waiting to see kind of where this really falls, will this happen, will the vote happen. if anything, breitbart is ademocrat at setting up whos to get credit for it or whos to blame if it doesnt happen. if for some reason it doesnt happen, i think theyll go after leadership and blame them for not delivering for pr...

Who is supposed to stop donald trump from the hiring of michael flynn when they have information that he has done things illegally? who is supposed to stop people close to him from their failure to disclose meeting powerful foreign leaders and business interests? who is that person that keeps failing? >> we discussed before, white house counsel don mcgahn. in a normal administration, all contact with this kind of stuff goes through the white house counsel and the white house counsel is supposed ...

To that because he seems to be setting up, well, these other people were talking to the russians. >> lets aseem thats true. show me the criminal statute. i still sit here. i dont want us ever to become what russia became when he was told show me the man and ill find you the crime. what is the crime? >> well, what the president has said is there was no collusion period. >> i understand that. >> theres a difference between there was no illegal -- >> i agree with you, but it doesnt give muller juri...

I have to leave it there. but its interesting. the 18 that weve been focused on all took place according to our sources between april of 2016 and election day. but we also report, and they included six telephone calls with the russian ambassador to the united states. we know that one of the people on the trump side was michael flynn. but we also reported that there were contacts after the election between the russian ambassador, mr. kislyak and michael flynn after the election. these dealt with ...