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>> hans nichols for us at the white house. as the investigations into president trump are ramped up were chemoing a close watch on special councils report that could be filed any moment. lets take a moment to review what will happen. according to the author of those rules, mueller will first submit a summary report to the new attorney general that will give a overview of the investigation laying out what angles the investigation took and why, which ones it didnt, and why. this happened to me now...

Democracy. what is your take on this? >> so i agree with cynthia. the rules are one thing. they are subject to change and revision. i dont think bob mueller would stand for a process that would ultimately bury important information that the public not only wants to know but has every right to know with respect to what, you know, our elected officials have been up to. i dont happen to think barr has any interest in burying information that is going to be really important for the people to assess ...

Requesting documents from 81 individuals and entities connected to the president, his campaign and russia. all right, joining me now to talk more about this federal prosecutor, former federal prosecutor and a former federal prosecutor with the u.s. attorneys office in d.c. thanks to both of you. cynthia, let me start with you. this public interest thing. >> right. >> how does that determine who gets to decide that and what is -- how do we determine the information about this president and what h...

Clearing out reading time, as i have been doing to comb through the vast wide ranging and gripping publication like the warren report after the kennedy assassination or the star report in the 1990s. right? well, hold on a second. lets look at what happens after the special counsel files in this instance? according to special counsel rules, and former acting solicitor, the author of those rules, mueller will first submit a summary report to attorney general william barr. the summary will give an ...

Shooting in ferguson or the martin luther king investigation that renas ag office did through the civil rights division even though there was grand jury material, what happened was, the prosecutors and the grand jury went to the federal judge and said, who is in charge of the grand jury, we feed some -- to be able to reloo es the special grand jury material the 6e materials we call it. the judge says yes. then they write a report and they release it in the public interest. so he has wide latitud...

It is a very difficult process in virginia as well as in washington >> democrats dont play by those rules. essentially theres been a lot of conversation right now about how democrats check themselves on race. they check themselves on sexual assault on how that is not something that the party stands for. justin certainly wants to protect himself. he wants to defend his good name. but i think it will come to a point where he is going to have to decide whether this is hurting the party at large, th...

Drive the economy without government control. if you look at all of these policies, tax policies, regulatory policies. democrats want control of the policy. they want to remake it in their image of whats moral. they hate the fact that entrepreneurs dont play by those rules. they create, they innovate and has nothing to do with washington, d.c. thats the real issue here. and thats why they are pushing policies that are all about centralizing power and decision-making in washington, d.c. ed: thats...

But washington has insisted you go forth, all in, and then we will follow. thats not working. >> yeah. and that dynamic, north korea is not playing by those rules, right, because this promise to take down the new clear facility they kay comes only with corresponding measures by the u.s. side. north korea hasnt specified those measures yet. and that also does not meet the u.s. standard, right? the u.s. is saying you have to take concrete steps first. >> jim, youre right. it is a very significant ...

>> yeah. >> because there wasnt, in my opinion, there wasnt a cohona in that group. >> and also all of them behaved in hawaii that con froformed tot the standard debate was. trump doesnt play by those rules. he plays by his own rules. he understands television and he has no sense of decorum about what he says, and that in ha weird way gave him ha big advantage. just turning to obama for a second, how much of that was routed in race, in your view? >> i think a lot of it was based in race. do you ...

Decimated. thats an internal feeling, and he will attack back harder, and he said that many times, i am a counter puncher. if you challenge my value, i will challenge yours. >> john kelly, mattis, tillerson, they dont play by those rules. why do they sdo that? >> he is the president of the united states. they have no choice but to go along. you can see with tillerson, who you were talking about earlier, what is going on behind the scenes is teeth grinding and anger and frustration. you know, its...