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Don't believe this constitutes a gift and therefore this is legal, this is his personal money he's spending, not taxpayer money. but it has the appearance problem of making it look like someone who is working for the government is getting something that the average citizen wouldn't and then the condo owned by a couple, owned in a corporation, but it's linked to this energy lobbyist who has had a lot of business before the epa, is there any potential for influence there. they have been friends over the years, that is what we are told. so it is a political problem more than a legal one at this p...

Holdings. again, we don't know that that's happened, but this is why people sell off their stuff before getting into these powerful position. >> you hit the nail on the head. that's why the process is in place for most people who become staff or any sort of senior administration or even congressional ly want to divest yourself of any appearance of conflict. they put themselves and the administration in a difficult spot. you have two fthings, loans and meetings. i've met josh harris, i find it hard to believe he'd put a company he basically put in jeopardy for a white house job as suggested, it...

Legal. there are upset with reversing the policy that exempted the states from federal prosecution season embattled man had i think he will be embattled with the attorney general from day one. >> you cannot say specifically of there's a group of lawmakers that are putting the pressure on the attorney general. just in general what is the follow-up. >> there's a lot of pressure. sessions has already offered his resignation station several months back. and trump rejected it. even if he doesn't like what he has done there is an appearance problem. if they fire just sessions it won't look good.

You know, his own behavior. but all i can say to him is, welcome to america. no one is above the law. >> to the point of answering questions, if we shift here for a minute, fbi deputy director andrew mccabe, of course, being grilled yesterday for a number of hours behind closed doors by the house intel committee. it is no secret, i think, how trey gowdy feels, raising concerns over these taxes. but michael, does grassley want him out? >> it's looking that way increasingly so. i mean, i don't believe the fbi is fundamentally politicized. i really don't. but at a minimum, all of these texts and ...

On their staff, he removes him immediately so as to avoid the appearance issues that can raise it. so there's a bit of a red herring here with respect to this agent as it relates to the mueller investigation itself. >> michael, you've got to concede that was the end of july and technically, again, i completely agree with you. if mueller doesn't know something, he can't act on that information. right? so he learns about this agent, he removes him from the team. but this is no ordinary prosecution. i mean, we've got both the house and the senate bringing people in and asking them about the same ...