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You report to tim morrison, correct? >> in my -- >> your direct report is tim morrison, correct? >> just to clarify, only in my advisory capacity. i advise up through the chain of command. that's what i do. >> and the chain of command is tim morrison to ambassador john bolton, national security adviser to the president of the united states? >> right. >> and do you agree the president sets the policy as commander in chief as you testified previously? >> absolutely. >> thank you. my time has expired. >> mr. swalwell. >> thank you both. lieutenant colonel vindman, i think the followup question th...

Know why he's there. maybe he's chatting with the president about who should ultimately become the permanent replacement for jeff sessions. >> we know lindsey graham is a friend of the president or some would call a trump whisperer. he may be there in some kind of advisory capacity, talking about the options that the president is looking out for attorney general. he could be encouraging him not to do anything to end or influence the mueller probe. that said, he could also be doing a job interview. >> lindsey graham is also in line to be senate chair of the judiciary committee. he could be the ...

Porter. this was a real personal issue for kelly for some reason. they ended up leaving when the president took a phone call. kelly yelled that he wanted corey taken out of the white house, lewandowski yelled something back. john kelly grabbed his collar and tried to push him up against the wall, lewandowski my understanding is did not do anything back and i'm pretty sure that's true considering john kelly is a secret service -- they ended up working it out between them behind closed doors for a few minutes and returned to the oval office agreeing to deal with each other, but it speaks to a co...

There as like a bystander, if she was just only witnessing the whole thing and not actually working in the white house. >> we know a little bit. this is an issue she talked about behind the scenes with her father. we know her position on this behind the scenes is as she describes it there, that she didn't agree with the policy. but how did she go to the mat? what effect did it have? did it have more to do with the public backlash? those are the sort of things we don't know. this just reflects the kind of nuanced position that you have when you have family members serving in either an official ...

Impact and influence her father? >> this was some of the highest scrutiny she has received since she joined the administration in this advisory capacity because a lot of people expected her to come out and sort of denounce her president's comments and that didn't happen. ivanka trump's purpose along the way since she has been helping her father seems to be to protect the family brand from some of the more controversial things that her father is a ha said but that didn't really happen in this case. is there a question as to why, why jared kushner and ivanka trump happened object on vacation whe...