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One question here, why couldn't they close the clearance? i assume there was something in the file that's really nasty. maybe the information as to the two ex-wives. is there a standard as coats testifying yesterday said we will shut this one down. this person is not getting a clearance. why sit there and say we still can't a adjudicate an expedited case, a senior white house official. that ought to take two weeks. we can't a adjudicate it because we are sitting on a firecracker. they say if we can't close it, shut it out. >> i don't know if you remember this but during the 2016 election there...

Action if robert mueller did something that was against the law? >> well, i think they would argue they're informing congress of what the gsa did here. and that congress should look at the laws that govern gsa to make it more clearly going forward. there had been some talk late yesterday that the trump campaign was going to do something, was going to send a letter to mueller and try and, you know, adjudicate that with him. the curious part about that is the white house itself, which has produced a lot of documents to mueller, has not cited privilege on any of them, the white house officials ha...

Generals, namely of texas before they were going to file the daca suit. it's important because sessions, you know, founded that daca was unconstitutional before and so didn't defend the executive order before any case had been filed. it was a highly unusual thing to do. he declined to even answer the question which is, you know, bizarre and inappropriate and shows contempt for the committee. it goes along -- he had earlier tried to sort of half invoke executive privilege where he wouldn't talk about conversations with the president and get the benefits of invoking the executive privilege witho...

Justice, if you're a white supremacist, there's no such thing as a difference between equivalency of black lives matter and black kids were being killed and people were being killed in the street versus white supremacists whose idea is to subvert and undermine the very patriotism that this country supposedly rests on. this notion that the president has to come and adjudicate between completing claims, black lives matter on one land and on the other hand white supremacists is nonsense. the reality is either you're part and parcel of an american society that reenforces justice and democracy or y...

So it will be difficult for a congress to go forward. but at the same time, there are some questions that fall squarely in congress' lane. for example, anything that involves the president himself that is a matter for congress ultimately to adjudicate. >> you hit on the point that some might be asking, what are the obligations of congress and these committees' investigation versus what the obligations are for the special counsel? >> yeah, that's right. so the special counsel -- the department of justice has long taken the position that a sitting president cannot be indicted. he's part of the e...