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To the nfl. whitaker is a tough guy. he is no shrinking violet. can he defend himself, make that point directly to the face of those lawmakers and perhaps he should. but the idea that were going to have brinkmanship now on everything, brinkmanship on the wall, on the budget, on hearings, it doesnt make any sense. >> start with nadler having a subpoena ready to not go get a subpoena. he moved the first chess piece. >> i feel like im talking to my children most of the time. he started. no, he star...

>> yes. >> reporter: so youre not some little shrinking violet whos home cowering under her husbands direction. >> but when it came to being home and opening that door, i was that shrinking violet. that you how things were. he ran the show. it was two different ellens, two dint lives. >> reporter: detective wilson interviewed ellens old boss, a man named james cassell. he told the detective he remembered an incident when ellen came to work with bruises. >> she was wearing her sunglasses. i said ...

Shrinking violet whose home cowering under her husbands direction. >> when it came to being home and opening that door i was that shrinking violet. thats how it was. two different ellens, two different lives. >> they interviewed ellens old boss. he told the detective he remembered an incident when ellen came to work with bruises. >> she was wearing her sunglasses. i said why are you wearing sunglasses. she finally took off her sunglasses and she had a nice big old shiner and i said what happened...

She was by all accounts a workaholic who loved what she did. no shrinking violet either. melissa loved those boozy, splashy office parties just as much as the other lawyers. shed found herself a nice slice of the american pie. and thats the thing about 38-year-old melissa lewis, even as she raised her voice and glass with the senior partners, her sad end wasnt far off. and her unexpected death would get caught up in a chain of events right out of a john grisham novel. murder, betrayal, and billi...

Private. thats how things used to work in washington. perhaps this is a house of how things are going to work now. if there was a sense that this meeting was designed to reach a solution, boy, that department sound like that at all to me. you have a couple new yorkers in there. nancy pelosi is no shrinking violet at all. she may be one of the few not intimidated by the president. the only silent person was the vice president. if there was a tie in the senate, he will have to speak. i didnt hear ...

Job at a big company. >> yes. >> so you are not some little shrinking violet whose home cowering under her husbands direction. >> when it came to being home and opening that door i was that shrinking violet. thats how it was. two different ellens, two different lives. >> they interviewed ellens old boss. he told the detective he remembered an incident when ellen came to work with bruises. >> she was wearing her sunglasses. i said why are you wearing sunglasses. she finally took off her sunglasse...

Saying, listen is there any reason to believe this was not an article 2 dismissal, in fact, one that is tied to some other criminal investigation, and his own words indicate that. i think mueller is acting independently, i do still however think, as i said before, that mccabe, you called him very aggressive. i would not expect a deputy fbi director to be a shrinking violet. they should be aggressive in trying to understand whether there is a criminal violation. >> one of the things that got mcca...

Everyone to just evaluate and look at you and take the benefit of the doubt. they are arguably looking at this from the benefit of the doubt saying, listen is there any reason to believe this was not something that was an article 2 dismissal? in fact, one that is tied to some other criminal investigation. and his own words indicate that. so i think that mueller is acting independently. i still think as i said before that mccabe, you called him very aggressive. i would not expect the deputy fbi d...

Were you instructed on how to use them? i cant remember. she should never have been allowed to run for the presidency based on what she did with e-mails. >> lets be clear the "she" is hillary clinton, not ivanka trump. it is -- it doesnt seem more ripe than that, right? she doesnt remember whether she was instructed. theres no one in the trump family who would not be aware that using personal e-mail was the wrong thing to do. >> reporter: certainly not, or no one in public life after the preside...

The east room of the white house, you stand up and ask your question, it can be a very tough question, the president might not like it, very often they dont but ive never heard a president respond the way this president did. >> no. look, if the president has an explanation for his use of the word nationalist, i dont mean it that way, im trying to reclaim it, i just mean it in terms of i am not a globalist, i am about the united states, then make that explanation. you know, that is a perfectly lo...