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Here is the clip in question with janine pirro of fox news for an interview to air saturday. Are you moving so quickly that your Communications Department cannot keep up with you. Yes. Thats true. What do we do about that . We dont have press elliot necessary found it so hard the believe that he would have reassured the president that he is somehow not under investigation note once, and certainly not three times. Lets bring our Kickoff Panel on the, the veteran New York Times chief White House C...

Trumps lawyer rudy giuliani. hes undeniably a central figure in a lot of these efforts following the 2020 election. hes currently not a subpoena target for the committee. why is that? and do you expect that will change? >> the committee has said over and over that pretty much anyone is on the table as far as who they want to talk to. and just because they havent subpoenaed guiliani yet doesnt mean they wont in the future. weve seen other folks that were in these willard hotel war room situations...

Amendment privilege then and chose not to do it. so this is sig nifnificant on a number of levels because he would be the first subpoena target, the first witness to use the fifth amendment as way to not answer questions. the big question -- i want to make this last point, erin -- now, what does the committee do in terms of whether or not the full house votes on this resolution? that was something that we thought could happen as soon as tomorrow. do they hold off on bringing it to the full house...

Ill give you the last word. everyone loves a season finale. >> this reminds me where the president invited the reporters into the cabinet room and says welcome to the studio. he sees his presidency as an extension of his reality tv style approach to politics. thats something were seeing play out with the way he dismissed rex tillerson via tweet, the way he got rid of his former chief of staff via tweet while the cameras were rolling. this is a president who sees this as a grand production. hes l...

Perhaps. michael, i know lbj wanted in part for leverage to remind people what they had said or promised to him over the phone he always had the transcript if he needed it. if this current president is recording private conversations in the white house other than making himself a huge subpoena target, is there anything wrong with it? is there anything illegal? >> illegal is a question. in terms of shattering precedence and shattering things that presidents have been doing before ever since that ...

Subpoena target, is there anything wrong with it? is there anything illegal? >> well, illegal, thats a question. but in terms of shattering precedence, you know, shattering things that presidents have been doing before, ever since that day that you just showed with alexander butterfield in july of 1973, nixon had to immediately stop taping and pull out the system. and later presidents have all said, i would never do such a thing because, a, it reminds people of nixon who behaved badly but, b, be...

Nixon felt that to record all of this conversations essentially wall to wall because it was not a system with a switch as johnson had. he could use this to protect himself. >> the early system used a dictaphone recording mechanism. it was pretty primitive. today the president says tapes in quotes meaning recordings perhaps. michael, i know lbj wanted in part for leverage to remind people what they had said or promised to him over the phone he always had the transcript if he needed it. if this cu...