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The white house to invoke executive privilege that parnas hired giuliani as his own lawyer at the same time giuliani was working for the president. giuliani has denied any wrongdoing. in a tweet wrote in part this, with all of the fake news, let me make it clear that everything i did was to discover evidence to defend my client against false charges. dems would be horrified by the attacks on me if my client was a terrorist but they dont believe@real donald trump has rights. justice will prevail....

Has a position that bill barr doesnt need to recuse position or it is not bill barrs fault the president talked about him on this phone call, whatever the case is, there is a question and many times when people recuse themselves from something in a legal setting, it is not that there is wrongdoing, it is that there is a perception that something may not be fair. >> that is exactly right. and what the attorney general owes the country at a minimum is an explanation for why he continues to be invo...

>> i agree that that is what the democrats are doing and i agree that is what the republicans are doing, but lets not forget that trey gowdy took a lot of heat for having hearings behind closed doors. so if you are the party seeking on defend whomever is being alleged to have done wrongdoing, you will be frustrated that you cant provide a more substantive defense. >> and in looking at what is happening in congress, this idea that when im in power i can do it and when you are in power you cant do...

Equal protection until florida. and theyll come up with this thing, the trey gowdy, and they just pushed that aside now with trey gowdy saying the secret hearings are the way to get good testimony. >> of course, during the russia investigation when republicans controlled the house intelligence committee they had dozens of depositions of jared kushner and others they did secretly and never had public hearings. at least the house intelligence committee now says we will get the public hearings. and...

North korea, so i think we would be in almost every country where different activities are happening. >> said that when it comes to politics and elections, its awfully hard to please everyone when the entire world is your customer. a lot of tech insiders had told us this hearing today was going to kind of kick off the facebook apology tour for all the problems theyve been having about zuckerbergs attitude today was admitted to trying to do better and more the future but dont admit to any wrongdo...

Government when it comes to looking into wrongdoing. >> harris: ari fleischer, thank you very much. good to see you today. >> thank you, harris. >> harris: is the uproar over president trumps remarks in a tweet yesterday beginning to backfire on democrats? a certain word he used. >> we need to get him out of the oval office as quickly as possible. unfortunately to me the fact that he uses shocking language should not surprise us anymore. its barely newsworthy. so every veteran can save $2000 a y...

Rowing recruits. the university now confirms both daughters are no longer enrolled >> any time a federal criminal defendant proceeds to trial, it is a massive gamble. the stakes are so high a federal criminal defendant has to consider pleading guilty before proceeding to trial. >> reporter: denying any wrongdoing in court, tonight the question for loughlins team, will she change her plea or go to trial, believing a jury will buy her story? miguel almaguer, nbc news, new york there were some an...

Ewi ukrainians to secure domestic political advantage, thats the ball game, whether what trump does obliges the senate to remove him from the presidency will be up to republicans in the senate to decide at the trial that will follow what i think is now inevitable impeachment. the fact that the aid to ukraine has, in fact, gone through despite trumps illegitimate temporary suspension may be the straw the gop will grasp to prevent his conviction in that trial, but thats no defense of trumps action...

Aid, how can you claim wrongdoing? the ukrainians were well aware, however, that a white house visit was pending these investigations that president trump wanted to see, and that ultimately, what the president wanted involved this military aid and holding that up. so, thats going to be the argument of democrats. but going back to your initial point, a lot of what taylor said yesterday seemed to contradict what sondland had to say. so, will he return to capitol hill? that remains an unanswered qu...

Far as you want to take it but he said it is the first time i realized the security assistance not just the white house meeting was conditioned on the investigation into burisma and hes talking about hunter biden and his ties and this is what the whistle-blower complaint had to say which corroborates another aspect of the white house and now this person is very credible and the document does it again. >> and mary katherine, i want to raise the issue of hunter biden and this is the point that int...