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Witnessed, there were early whispers within the cabinet of invoking the 25th amendment which would start a complex process for removing the president but no one wanted to precipitate a constitutional crisis so we will do what we can to steer the administration in the right direction until one way or another its over. as you know -- >> for those at home. >> -- who dont know, theres the impeachment process, but theres also the 25th amendment. >> which has never been invoked. it is a provision basi...

Service and none from this period of time when he was serving in the white house. so, had we been given the documentation, im sure there would be a different conclusion. >> yeah, what he points out and what the republicans point out is that the white house, the justice department, they make those kinds of decisions on executive privilege, attorney/client privilege, on occasion, what can be released, what cant be released. so that debate is clearly going to continue. bottom line, though, he looks...

Request to the president to sit down with bob woodward. >> can i tell you about that? i talked to bob, so im sure hell quote me accurately. the bottom line, i talked to bob about obama and almost every other president since ive been here. the bottom line is, i told the president playing golf that woodward was writing a book about him like he does every president, im sure hed like to talk to you, he said, thats interesting, it literally took a minute, and we moved on to whether or not i was going...

Cannot avoid the fact that the shadow of this investigation and the shadow of the criminal investigation thats going full force is really over his nomination hearing. >> but he has a good reason why he doesnt want to speculate about what he might do if the president were to pardon himself or if the president ignored a subpoena from mueller, the special counsel. because he might have to consider that if it went all the way up to the supreme court, like the other justices, the eight justices who s...

President has been enraged and on something of a witch hunt over who was talking to bob woodward. now he wonders whos writing about him in "the new york times." new signs tonight of a war within president trumps white house. an anonymous op-ed in "the new york times" written by a senior trump official offers a blistering look at how people inside the government are trying to protect the nation from the president. "we believe our first duty is to this country and the president continues to act in...

Doesnt understand the degree to which people are trying to restrain him or he just doesnt want to acknowledge it. throughout his career hes never backtracked, apologized. he doesnt have a reverse gear. i dont expect him to back off. if i can just make one more point about the author of this article. they said towards the end, the author, he or she, said that the country has been brought low to the presidents level, not true. 66 million people voted not for president donald trump. those people ha...

This op ed to list all of the good things the president has done except that if the good things are a tax cut and regulations being stripped away, jeb bush could have done that. marco rubio could have done that. >> i want to know where the republicans are. you read something like this and you just interviewed lindsey gra graham about this. where are the republicans responding to the criticisms in this saying, for example, we have -- whats our foreign policy? we have a two track foreign policy. y...

Really break me when it came to the trump administration. if theres credible evidence that this president or his team, and he should have known about it, colluded with the russians, to get a benefit from their attack on our democracy, that would be hit. >> we dont know what mueller, robert mueller has -- >> no, but ive seen -- >> you want him to finish the investigation and you would prefer that the president of the united states stop going after him, calling it a witch hunt and all of that. >> ...

More confidence in, i will support that choice with the understanding, ethey have to be highly qualified, confirmable, and well make sure that mueller is not impeded. >> you know, im going to play a clip. this is what you said a little bit more than a year ago about firing jeff sessions and what you said more recently and then ill give you a chance to elaborate. >> right. >> if jeff sessions is fired, there will be holy hell to pay. clearly, attorney general sessions doesnt have the confidence o...

Graham one of them who is blunt on several of these issues. all of this news comes, as you know, as the president is poised to get another supreme court justice confirmed. it looks like brett kavanaugh has got the votes. he only needs a simple majority. he needs 50 votes if its a tie. then, of course, the vice president will break that tie. what are your thoughts on how brett kavanaugh did in his testimony today? >> well, i can tell you that he avoided some of the tougher questions. senator blum...