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Some of your questions? >> so, no. it actually -- i had more questions. there were three firearms recovered from the set. one was a live weapon, which why that was on set is beyond me. the other he said was not a live weapon. so we dont know, was this a blank firing weapon, a replica where it cant -- theres no firing pin, you can sometimes load bullets in them but they wouldnt fire. the third one was a plastic dummy gun. that should have been probably what alec baldwin was drilling with. apparen...

That it was clear to defend the travel ban, we were going to have to argue that it had absolutely nothing to do with religion. and that was in the face of the statements that the president had made both on the campaign trail and since the election about his intent to effectuate a muslim ban. it seemed like thats exactly what this was. that put us in a quandary here because that would put the department of justice in the position of having to advance a pretext that there was a reason other than r...

I mean, before, chuck, we get all mooged up, i think we need to wait to see what happens. look, i think the president said in his tweets the president likes to think out loud, as the president said earlier today. the president clearly grows anxious when he has an unexpressed thought. thats his management style. but he hasnt fired mueller. i dont expect him to fire mr. mueller. >> okay. >> the presidents lawyer said sunday night that he wouldnt fire mr. mueller. and i dont think mr. mueller will ...

>> all that might be an impeachable offense. >> it aint a hoax and it aint a witch hunt. this was real. he owned it. he has the proof and it could be, as we heard yesterday, just the end of the beginning. gentlemen, thank you very much. cowboy, good mask. president trump, seething over these criminal charges even though the president said he wouldnt fire the special prosecutor. that was on october 16th. were in a different world today. is there an effort under way to undermine or remove muelle...

Conversations that yates had with counsels office, all of that stuff is leakd and its illegal and no wub is saying lets investigate that. >> is that not a separate investigation from this one? >> it may be but why is the fbi and others not interested in pursuing those investigations. >> because i would not know. im not with the fbi. but wouldnt the fbi have a -- >> you look like fbi. >> i like very official. wouldnt the fbi have a legitimate reezb not to pursue leaks. maybe they know something w...

Great integ reitary, it will not go down in history fourth, how about an independent commission, not a special prosecutor not done by congress but by people appointed by congress. they can then decide whether to apoint a special prosecutor. so we have to separate that out. >> whos to say he wouldnt fire this person too? sally yates gone. pete berar atold he was going to stay. gone. james comey, gone. all three of whom had the potential to trouble the trump presidency. >> all three appointed by d...

He wouldnt. he resigned. so the deputy stepped in and he wouldnt fire archibald cox so he resigned. so then the acting attorney general, richard borke. ♪

J strategic piece. now that sessions has recused himself, the deputy will appoint hopefully the special prosecutor that we need except the deputy is going to be one of thereirs. nixon ordered attorney general elliott richardson to fire the special prosecutor. he wouldnt. he resigned. so the deputy stepped in and he wouldnt fire archibald cox so he resigned. so then the acting attorney general, richard borke. >> robert borke. >> bourque says, okay, ill fire him but then im quitting. nixon talks h...

Sally yates was a profile in courage. >> donald trump fired acting attorney general on sally yates after she refused as you heard to enforce that executive order barring immigrants from seven majority visiting countries from coming to the united states. joining me now is mark alexander, dean of villanova law school. ryan riley, at the huffington post and john dean former white house counsel to richard nixon. john dean i have to start with you. that story is sort of striking. i love watching that...

Awful. >> yes. that was in a sneak peek. they took a page out of my book. as you can see with the lindsay lohan reference, my book is a little bit tongue in cheek. i would be a psycho if i was addicted to hair plug surgery. i guess i am addicted to the result of it, but its a barbaric, awful procedure. when i went under, they put a cuff down my throat. it holds the breathing tube in place. and it was misplaced. it sat in my laryngeal nerve for six hours. when i woke up the nerve wouldnt fire and...