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With us, guy lewis, and paul putlpu butler, thanks to both of you for joining us. guy, maybe you can clear this up, because this 60-day rule, theres a memo we quote, ive heard its an informal guideline, its not written on paper. i remember covering politics in new jersey where there was one or twotician politicians. is there anything that will guide robert mueller here? >> steven, its an informal rule we followed at the department of justice. and it makes sense. its a common sense rule, that you...

The purpose of affecting any election. the memo doesnt include any dates or windows of time. so far there is no indication the mueller investigation is nearing its end. with us, guy lewis, and paul butler, thanks to both of you for joining us. guy, maybe you can clear this up, because this 60-day rule, theres a memo we quote, ive heard its an informal guideline, its not written on paper. i remember covering politics in new jersey where there was one or two federal investigations of politicians. ...

Great legal scholar, i think he must have meant steven. ive never taken that position, this is a lawful position but in my view, misguided. >> if the president is watching this live or tivo later, mr. alan dershowitz, a great scholar does not think its an illegal investigation. maggie, to you, the president was flat out asked many different ways if he would fire jeff sessions. he seemed to rule it out until election day and seemed like where we were headed all along. he wouldnt give him one minu...

Article arguing the case of special counsel and giving him the ability to rule without the senate is illegal and plausible situation and here i agree with jeffrey toobin. i always said i thought the appointment of special counsel was lawful. i thought it was unnecessary and the southern districts and other districts could handle it. i thought it raised serious policy questions, theres really no check and balance effectively on the special counsel. ive been critical of special counsel. if the pre...

I hear its a good read. thank you gentlemen for joining us. steven, the deputy white house counsel responsible for policing ethics leaving by the end of the summer, you worked in the white house ethic office. whats your reaction to the news? >> i didnt actually work in the white house. we worked with the white house. the government ethics is separate and really, you know, the guy is a very nice guy. somebody youd want as your neighbor but like all of them, this is not somebody that should be doi...

Isan, author of the book "the last palace." i hear its a good read. thank you gentlemen for joining us. steven, the deputy white house counsel responsible for policing ethics leaving by the end of the summer, you worked in the white house ethic office. whats your reaction to the news? >> i didnt actually work in the white house. we worked with the white house. the government ethics is separate and really, you know, the guy is a very nice guy. somebody youd want as your neighbor but like all of t...

A boogieman. you should chin-check your president on what he is regularly doing. that is, using his language, irresponsibly and calling for violence on people or at least, you know, teasing it out there that violence will -- there will be a violent uprising. thats dangerous rhetoric. hes saying that. >> when did he call for violence? >> im sorry. when he says there will be violence. >> steve -- >> he called for violence so many times in his campaign rallies. >> when? >> oh, my god, when? are you...

>> slap him down. so many times, steven, if you dont know this. i dont know what youve been drinking before you came on this show. but it is laughable when you talk about violence or when the president talks about violence. when he is the one who has been talking about violence at his campaign rallies. what he said, don, to me, what don -- what the president said during his meeting with the evangelicals, i think betrays a huge fear on his part that democrats are coming in the november elections,...

Internal pressure with the combination of the public pressure that he values most, which is cable news, that eventually made him to make this fairly small concession. >> i did watch some fox news on saturday night and even his favorite network fox news celebrated american hero john mccain. that must have driven him mad, mad, mad. general david petraeus, thank you so much. its a pleasure to have you here. please come back. >> pleasure to be here. >> ashley packer and steven, thank you soar spendi...

Here, thats causing a lot of these incidents, killing innocent people, shooting innocent people. and not affecting just the lives of the people involved with their families and relatives and friends. you know, its happened before to other people, and you always see the people on tv say, you know, you feel really bad. and youre glad it doesnt happen to you. but it seems like the law of averages today, sooner or later, youre going to be affected. >> steven, i appreciate the time. and i want to say...