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Majority leader tom delay. welcome to you both counselor. im start wg the presidents new hire went out and got another lawyer under the category of you cant make this up, sports fans will recognize the name. ty cob a modern day distant relative of the baseball star. ty could be hired to oversee the white house and media response to the investigations. tom energies officials want someone to enforce dplin? the white house regarding russia matters. that includes the president who frequently events ...

Did you ever meet with any other person from russia that you know. >> i dont even know ive probably met with people from russia not the context of actual formalized meeting or anything like. why would i. >> that was donald trump jr. earlier this week. now we know he did in fact meet with additional people from russia as did white house senior adviser and son-in-law to the president jared kushner and former trump campaign chairman paul manafort. so what are the legal ramifications of this changin...

Donald trump being murdered. how much does that contribute in your view to some people who may be already on the edge? >> these are not people on the edge. i doubt whats his name -- >> the shooter? >> i doubt he is crazy. no. hes a mad, angry political operative that is part of this whole notion. its part of a world view. these people, those people that tore down berkeley, theyre not crazy. theyre mad. they hate people. in order to get their way, theyre going to the -- >> trish: theres a differe...

Choice, though, where the president went with a manhattan street fighter who defended him in litigation, in his personal and business life, the vice president chose someone with a very different pedigree. >> he absolutely did. he chose a richmond, virginia, based lawyer named richard cullen, a former attorney general, former u.s. attorney. has represented a number of high-profile clients. including in -- well, first of all, he worked on the bush recount in 2000. he worked on -- he defended someo...

They determined that to capital police officers, and a gunmen barged into the u.s. capital and then was turning toward the offices of the then member tom delay, and a member of his police detail shot the gunmen and basically ended that. there is a plaque right by that office occupied by kevin mccarthy who is the majority leader in the house of representatives. >> bill: capital please on the hill have a robust presence.

Protection or is this relatively new? >> no, thats correct. back in 1998, there was a shooting at the u.s. capitol building. and there was a detective gibson. he was killed defending then majority whip tom delay. this is pretty standard that the leadership members of congress receive a security detail as well as any members that have a threat against them. a credible threat i should add. >> and its also normal i take it when lets say a leader shows up at a baseball practice with his two capitol ...

>> if you want to get technical, then he may have affected the last presidential election, fine i guess. brian, lets talk about attorney/client. if your client was donald trump, who we all know is going to be tempted to in effect live blog the comey testimony on twitter, how do you control your client and impress upon him the importance of silence? >> you know, thats one of lifes unanswered questions. brian. when somebody comes around to be able to answer it i want them to call my cell phone whe...

Two attorneys of counsel for us tonight. joe wine banks is back with us, one of the special prosecutors during the watergate scandal. former general counsel to the united states army. and vie yawn wise is with us who helped turn over the decision of tom delay as well as other courtroom achievements. tom, i want to start with you. can you give us the briefest explanation for folks who havent heard the term since the watergate era, perhaps, or are new to it of executive privilege. and is it that e...

How do you control your client and impress upon him the importance of silence? >> you know, thats one of lifes unanswered questions. brian. when somebody comes around to be able to answer it i want them to call my cell phone when i get off the set in the b block. if im advising the president, and don mcgahn, who was tom delays personal lawyer who is a bright guy -- certainly not his first rodeo, should be able to do what any good lawyer does, thats exercise client control. but we have a presiden...

Courtroom achievements. tom, i want to start with you. can you give us the briefest explanation for folks who havent heard the term since the watergate era, perhaps, or are new to it of executive privilege. and is it that everyone is saying president trump has lessened his own possible executive privilege claim because of what he has said and tweeted about comey? >> first of all, you should never ask a lawyer for a brief answer. >> i know. >> i will try. >> i could hear -- as it came out of my m...