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Theyre monitoring me, theyre surveilling me obviously. im not going to get away with it. >> you know the stakes are high. they tell you at the moment youre released a judge or someone in the clerks office looks you in the eye and says if you commit another crime while on release, your bail is subject to revocation. youll wind up in custody. i can think of someone who was arrested driving 180 miles an hour on the george washington bridge. he went right into jail. youre not allowed to do this. its...

Theyre monitoring me, theyre surveilling me obviously. im not going to get away with it. >> you know the stakes are high. they tell you at the moment youre released a judge or someone in the clerks office looks you in the eye and says if you commit another crime while on release, your bail is subject to revocation. youll wind up in custody. i can think of someone who was arrested driving 180 miles an hour on the george washington bridge. he went right into jail. youre not allowed to do this. its...

Investigate collusion, things mueller finds investigating collusion, and prosecuting people obstructing the investigation. muellers authority is becoming the touchstone for big fights in the next phase of the case. trump defenders say mueller overstepped his mandate. >> it is a threat to every american to have this kind of power in a prosecutor. >> mueller is out there, basically abusing process everywhere, he is clearly outside the scope of his authority. >> what does 2005 have to do with the 2...

Republicans, your republican colleagues in the house, could potentially support impeachment proceedings against this president? >> certainly not right now. i think the republican house right now is divided between those who want to impeach rosenstein and those of us who think mueller should be allowed to do this job, let the investigation run its course. but to the fair to the president, theres nothing at this moment in time that demonstrably proves that hes done anything that would give rise to...

Unfolding here today with this new lawyer? >> i look at it as kind of circling the wagons, maybe bracing themselves for possible impeachment proceedings down the line. not next week or next month but in the days to come. one, hiring of mr. flood. two a rudy giuliani coming onboard. he is not a practiced trial lawyer as of these past few years. but he is a well adept in the political arena. thats what impeachment proceedings are. you have a political environment, congress ultimately decides. fina...

Presidents testimony was sought directly not just documents or tapes. and it would be the first time that the presidents testimony was sought in a case involving his potential behavior. that would have been the same issue in the clinton case as well. weve been in uncharted territory. its not at all clear. the courts suggested without saying it that a president has to comply with the subpoena just like anybody else, even though accommodations can be made to suit a presidents schedule, interview h...

Looking at donald trump saying, this is my guy. hes truthful. this is a witch-hunt. now circling wagons using people from the quote/unquote washington swamp you spent more than a year campaigning against. so youre also going to have a political problem with the president saying that. hes going to have to defend himself and say the reason i hired this lawyer is because of x, y and z, and his base will be i think listening closely at what his defense is in this. >> sure. >> to that point its impor...

Everybody just coming in to this breaking news, what you all are reporting and what the significant is. >> sure. what were reporting is that ty cobb, the top white house lawyer, his title was actually white house special counsel, just to keep things confusing. ty cobb is leaving, and is going to be replaced as you said, with emmet flood from the law firm williams & connolly certainly part of the impeachment defense team during the clinton administration. this is significant, because ty cobb came...

That the president makes his decisions about whether he wants to do an interview or not. theres not some kind of grand guru here really creating a legal strategy. it is a lot of different people trying to work with the president who feels like he is under siege. >> did you get the sense that lawyers on the outside, giuliani, sekulow, feel that emmitt flood is going to be more in line with the way that they would like to see the would you push forward with this response? >> there is a lot of frus...

Hat at a rally. he is clearly more of a political figure than a legal one. but what does giuliani see as his role on this legal team as compared to these other figures is. >> he sees himself -- hes told me this several times -- a person who can be in the room with robert mueller and be there as an equal in stature. giuliani sees himself as a veteran of the justice department. he sees himself as someone who can push back against mueller. >> in your assessment, bob mueller is something of a legend...