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Joining me for his take, neal katyal. neal, do you agree with senator schiff and justice blumenthal that the justice department needs to reexamine its guidelines that a sitting president cant be indicted? >> i do. lets put this in context. so, you know, i think as your last guest showed, theres kind of been a sputtering defense by %-p had nothing to do with those payments. that was proven false. then his second defense was i didnt have the criminal intent to do so but now michael cohen and today...

With michael cohen was sentenced to three years to prison for his crimes. as we mentioned earlier, cohen spoke about the president telling the judge, "i thought it was my duty to cover up his dirty deeds." joining me for his take, neal katyal. neal, do you agree with senator schiff and justice blumenthal that the justice department needs to re-examine its guidelines that a sitting president cant be indicted? >> i do. lets put this in context. so, you know, i think as your last guest showed, ther...

To make the announcement. chaffetz and cummins do differ on one key issue. last month the two sent a letter to the white house requesting documents related to flynn. they got nothing in return. while chaffetz maintains the white house is acting in good faith, cummins sees things differently. >> the white house has refused to provide this committee with a single piece of paper in response to our bipartisan request, and thats simply unacceptable. >> more on that including sean spicers sputtering d...

To provide this committee with a single piece of paper in response to our bipartisan request, and thats simply unacceptable. >> more on that including sean spicers sputtering defense in a moment. but its worth pausing here to remember who exactly were talking about. flynn received nearly $34,000 in 2015 to speak at a gala celebrating russian state tv where he dined with vladimir putin. he was also paid more than half a million dollars for lobbying work on behalf of the increasingly authoritarian...