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I can tell you its extraordinarily rare. and the reason is when you have an open investigation, it has to remain sort of cloistered. you want very few people except you want the people working on it to know everything about it, and you dont want anything else to know anything about it. as weve seen many times, chris, when stuff goes to the hill, it gets made public, and thats not the way you conduct a sensitive criminal investigation. >> theyre almost certainly going to either leak all or parts ...

Correct to send these memos over to congress, where do you come down on that? >> bad idea. >> you think its a bad idea? >> yeah. so i dont know that its literally unprecedented, meaning its never, ever happened. i can tell you its extraordinarily rare. and the reason is when you have an open investigation, it has to remain sort of cloistered. you want very few people except you want the people working on it to know everything about it, and you dont want anything else to know anything about it. a...

Governme government. it will support law enforcement, is what it will turn out to be. >> thank you. ill ask tamron and josh to hang out. we want to do a thought experiment for a second. if your boss said about you what the boss is saying about you, how would you feel? well talk about that coming up. my moms pain from

Involved in collusion in any way. but i think any responsibles prosecutor would have to take that step. weve all heard reports about it, finally someone is looking at it very carefully and will resolve one way or another whether the contacts happened and whether they were appropriate. >> gene its another moment that underlines how important it was for jeff sessions to recuse himself, something that the president doesnt seem to understand. >> it was, especially since he never resolved the questio...

Means that theres truth to them. it means that jeff sessions was involved in collusion in any way. but i think any responsibles prosecutor would have to take that step. weve all heard reports about it, finally someone is looking at it very carefully and will resolve one way or another whether the contacts happened and whether they were appropriate. >> gene its another moment that underlines how important it was for jeff sessions to recuse himself, something that the president doesnt seem to unde...

Up? that this will end soon? i got a very direct answer. it was not so fast. stay tuned. >> what do you think of the presidents statement that hell let the white house chief of staff decide whether jared kushner, his son-in-law and senior adviser gets security clearance? >> i dont think there is any other answer he could have given. if you look at the polling this week, theres been -- significant unease about the way they have handled this entire question of temporary security clearances. partic...

>> lets start with the gas tax. we have a chapter about infrastructure and what the mechanism might look like for infrastructure and talk about the challenges for the current administration and you can imagine, for example, the thought experiment. suppose everybody in this room, everybody in all of society had an electric car if were all driving around in teslas, how will the gas tax pay to use fix the pot holes because no one is paying for gas anymore. the president has basically instructed eve...

Teachers but he uses john kelly as an example when he talked about it. does the president really believe there are up to 20% or 40% of teachers in schools who are add deputy as someone like john kelly wield ing a weapon? >> weve talked to teachers and folks in communities. i think there are a lot of people who are willing to get trained. that is very complex problem and we need serious solutions. that is a big step. i understand what you guys are saying. but i think if we really want school safe...

Chapter on infrastructure. we talk about what a 21st century financing mechanism might look like for infrastructure and talk about the challenges for the current organization that are presented by innovation. you could imagine, for example, the thought experiment. suppose everybody in all of society has an electric car, how is the gas tax going to pay to fix the potholes? as we approach the 21st century, the president has a very ambitious infrastructure agenda. hes basically instructed everyone ...

Justify those warrants. i think in this instance very frankly, that the devin nunes charges against fisa, particularly without looking at the entire application. without talking to the judges who actually make these decisions. i think thats irresponsible. >>chris: lets play a thought experiment. if you were donald trump white house chief of staff right now, what advice would you give him? what should he do going forward? >> i think the president of the united states has to focus first and foremo...