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>> walter dellinger, thank you very much for helping us understand this, sir. i really did not get the voter intimidation part of this before you walked us through this. appreciate you being here tonight. >> thank you. >> well be right back. stay with us. i love you so much, thats why i bought six of you for when you stretch out. i want you to stay this bright blue forever, thats why youll stay in this drawer forever. i cant live without you, and thats why ill never ever wash you. protect your c...

A whole new avenue by which we might learn through the discovery process whether the trump campaign worked with russia deliberately on the part of the russian attack that was the hacking and the repurposing of all those e-mails and documents from the dnc. joining us now is walter dellinger, former acting solicitor general under president clinton. thank you very much for your time. >> thank you. >> i know that you are not personally involved in this lawsuit. i also know that you are an important ...

Of all those e-mails and documents from the dnc. joining us now is walter dellinger, forming acting solicitor general under president bill clinton. its an honor to have you here. thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> i know that you are not personally involved in this lawsuit. i also know that you are an important and busy man. can i ask why you think this lawsuit is important, why you feel its important to talk about it? >> well, you know, when you have something as unprecedented and audaci...

If they run away from him or are they safer if they cling to him. >> and walter dellinger, play out this drama a bit. if this does happen and lets say we see something like what we saw in the saturday night massacre with the attorney general not either quitting or not being involved in it at all through his recusal, rod rosenstein possibly resigning as you predict he might do, the next person in line, isnt that the old job you had, solicitor general? >> it is, lawrence. but the question is the s...

Up next, ill ask former assistant attorney general walter dellinger how much trouble marc kasowitz can get in for giving that kind of advice around the white house. and david cay johnston who knows donald trump well will also join us. thats why i have the spark cash card from capital one. with it, i earn unlimited 2% cash back on all of my purchasing. and that unlimited 2% cash back from spark means thousands of dollars each year going back into my business... which adds fuel to my bottom line. ...

Works. he needs distinguished counsel. and he needs to segregate 24 from the work of the white house and not continue to mix public interests and private interests in a way that doesnt respect the appropriate boundaries. >> well, we go into tonight with the suspense of not knowing whether we will have a special prosecutor tomorrow. walter dellinger thank you for your unique experience and guidance. david k. johnston thank you. always appreciate it. >> thank you. well be right back with tonight...

Districts. the great calculation the republicans are all making is as they look with increasing dismay at donald trump, are they safer if they run away from him or are they safer if they cling to him. >> and walter dellinger, play out this drama a bit. if this does happen and lets say we see something like what we saw in the saturday night massacre with the attorney general not either quitting or not being involved in it at all through his recusal, rod rosenstein possibly resigning as you predic...

Connection to these issues. if they did, think the answer undoubtedly should be -- should be yes, that they should. you know, there was mention of creating a war room to deal with the russian investigation within the white house. but there war room the people suggested for it were going to be people who ought not be talking to each other about some of these matters at some point. i dont each understand how that works. he needs distinguished counsel. and he needs to segregate 24 from the work of ...

That it was not yet necessary. according to another person with direct knowledge. now that part about telling the white house staff that its not necessary to hire lawyers could get him in serious trouble you. might recall that its been some weeks since i first advised everyone in the white house to get their own lawyers. marc kasowitz is a member of the new york bar. the new york bars rules of conduct say, quote, a lawyer shall not give legal advice to an unrepresented person other than the advi...

Their constituents and say, we are doing something completely unprecedented, it has not happened before, to rein in obama. at the end of the it, boehner can lose, or he can win, in which case he scored this victory against obama. but either way, it stops republicans from doing something he thinks would be a genuine disaster, which is impeachment, which is, of course, how speaker newt gingrich ended up losing the 1998 midterm election and ultimately his job. >> yeah, and thats a fair assessment. ...