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Investigations related to president trump are still unfolding, including in the southern district of new york. right now were joined by preet bharara, who was the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york until he was fired by mr. trump. hes now a cnn senior legal analyst. preet, thanks so much for joining us. >> sure. >> as you know, the new attorney general, bill barr, he will decide how much congress will see of robert muellers report once he gets it. what will go into that decision...

So lets let this committee, this joint committee do its work. lets bring an agreement out. might be a two-step process. we might have to bring something out and go to the administration and go to leadership and say okay, what else has to be in here to get this over the finish line. this is what were supposed to do. lets do it. lets make it happen. i think the president is trying to push the process along. >> neil: so if he does go the emergency route and democrats on this committee, senator are ...

Step, two step process. first they get the wires -- >> there are tight aso tsociate that have offenses about lying. i wonder if muellers team is trying to send a signal with these kinds of indictments, charges of lying, saying look, we mean business. this is serious, and well get you on not telling the truth. >> thats right. and not telling the truth to duly constituted criminal investigators is a serious crime. you know, you just cant poo poo this and say i was just lying to the fbi. it just do...

Appeal to a minority of people? >> yeah. empathy is not this administrations strong suit but i think youre right, fred, looking at the airport slowdown and some other government dysfunction did eventually trickle its way into the white house and say look, weve got to do something about this or we at least have to take a step back. in the last "the washington post" poll and last cnn poll, the president dipped in the high 30s in terms of polling which is not good, but it is not that far below wher...

Iran hostage. this is a two-step process. the president has to declare a national emergency first. then he has to cite specific emergency powers hes activating in order to redirect money thats been put in a certain pot. jeff bennett is at the white house keeping an eye on this. jeff, we know the president has not declared a national emergency yet. it is one of the only options for him to be able to say im out of this thing. im going to build a wall but reopen government without looking like im b...

Person of immigration. pete, youre outside the supreme court wearing multiple hats. i want to ask about what youve heard about whether the president has the authority to declare a national emergency. i just spoke a democratic lawmaker who says she believes its illegal. is she right? simpli. >> i doubt it. i think the president has broad powers to declare a national emergency, but its a two-step process. the law is pretty blank on what constitutes a national emergency and what authorities the pre...

A peace deal with the after gani government. the taliban is responsible for many terror attacks in the region. there is no confirmation yet who is behind the attack today. isis has also carried out a series of bombing attacks in afghanistan. a few months ago 34 students were killed at a university when isis did detonate a bomb there. moving forward witnesses on the ground, bill, say that thousands of people were inside the venue when the suicide bomber detonated. they are worried the death toll ...

Health concerns. joining us is the democrat candidate in mississippi. thank you so much for being with us. overtime, how does that feel? >> good morning. good morning, john. overtime, well, we all knew that this would be a two-step process. now we moved now, if you will, to the second quarter past our halftime. we are crunching the numbers and we really like what we see. we brought the incumbent senator to a virtual tie. i think that favors us. we have seen that 60% last night, 60% of the voters...

Investigation and the relationship to russia. it wasnt. he wasnt out of character today. to suggest that he meant to say wouldnt as opposed to would doesnt really make sense to me. >> everything katy said, as usual, is correct. brilliantly put i thought. the only thing id add is something i wrote back in 1988, a book called "hard ball" about technique and explaining how spin works. spin is a two-step process. the first thing is you say i made a mistake. oh, hes being honest with us. in that mome...

Responding to this little world game. that wouldnt be much time. even if trump amends one word from yesterday, the news tonight, what matters to america is this foreign policy crisis is the same because his policy remains the same. trump invoked putins denial of meddling, and undercut the cia and attacked mueller, and he wants everyone to talk about this. you can see it in some of the headlines in the coverage. and make it about "would" versus "wouldnt." if that sounds stupid, its because it is ...