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Today the alignment is republican control in the house and senate and in the white house. so i do question not bob mueller. hes doing the intelligence and criminal investigation but i question how much inaerng there is in the congress because the partisan fervor or advantage or at least the partisan instincts not to be a lap dog is absent today. >> you think thats why were seeing people who are coming in front of the committees and refusing to answer the question or put it in even john dean who ...

Has a chance to -- >> what is the legal base for your refuse tool answer the question snz. >> im reserving the right of the president to asert it if he chooses and there could be others that apply in the circumstance. >> so is he trying to have it both ways on executive privilege, john? >> this is called, from the nixon era, stone walling as he was accused of today. he was obskating and delaying and using a very weak excuse. there are apparently memos in the department of justice from the regan ...

My panel is back with me. but first i want to bring in a utah republican, a member of the house intelligence committee. ive got to get your response to what john dean said. you know he was a nixon white house special counsel and he said what jeff sessions what he did today was a definition of stonewalling. how do you respond? >> im not sure i agree exactly. i think he was trying to be as forthcoming as he could. theres a couple constraints. one is with the classified setting. but also this execu...

Stonewalling. just following policy. are you aware of the policy? >> no, im not. if the policies exist we have to learn a lot more about them. i would think that my republican colleagues in this business thoug though. some day there will be a democratic president and they will want to bring them into n front of congress and get answers. if youre not going to answer because some day in the future the president may decide to envoc executive prij ledge, we may shut down. i think . >> you also heard...

For the president. >> a lot of questions still going unanswered. >> reporter: thats right, erin. that left democratic senators going so far as saying the attorney general was stonewalling. he refused to go into detail about the one-on-one meeting between comey and p the president. all of those wrestles made for several contentious exchanges. >> thank you very much. >> attorney general jeff sessions grew angry and frustrated with the continued questions about a possible meeting in april 2016 with...

Sessions, dont leave me in the room with that man again, that man being the president. what does sessions have to say about that? more importantly, why was he involved in the decision to fire comyn the first place if if a, she was recused from anything to do with russia and trump says he was firing because of russia. then questions about this third meeting. did it take place in the mayflower hotel april of 2016. he will be under oath tomorrow. we have to see whether he answers under oath the que...

Advisor, michael flynn is going to provide documents. why do you think hes begood inning to cooperate? >> i think hes between a rock and a hard place. he has a lot of explaining to do. he failed to make disclosures on a security clearance forms and to disclose moneys he had received, failed to disclose it to the department of defense and others and i think hes made strategic decision with his lawyers that they have to show some degree of cooperation with the intelligence committee in order to st...

Democratic national committee of the russians intrusion in their systems in august of 2015. but the dnc turned down the fbis offer to get the russians out and refuse the fbi access to the servers. instead, it evidently hired a private firm in the spring of 2016. wikileaks began releasing the hacked dnc e-mails last july. it took roughly 27,000 e-mails released were e-mails sent is after the fbi b thoet if ied the dnc of the breach. mr. chlapper, would you agree oe of the lessons is that people s...

The fbi notified the democratic national committee of the russians intrusion into their systems in august of 2015. the dnc turned down the fbis offer to get the russians out and refuse the fbi access to their servers. instead, evidently eventually hired a private firm in the spring of 2016. wikileaks began releasing the hacked dnc e-mails last july. it took roughly 27,000 of the 27,500 dnc e-mails it released, or e-mailed sent after the fbi notified the dnc of the breach. mr. clapper, would you ...

When notified of foreign hacks instead of stone walling? >> yes, sir. i think thats a very good idea. >> mr. clapper, you sent the russians -- you said the russians did not release any negative information on republican candidates. the i believe thats not quite right on. june 15, 2016, 2.0 released to gawker and the smoking gun more than 200 pages of the dncs opposition research on mr. trump, hundreds of pages of what i would call dirt. this happened just two days after the "wall street journal"...