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He said he would follow justice department guidelines but democrats want to hear more. they want to hear that he will not interfere with the investigation whatsoever. one thing he did say, brianna, he would not allow the white house to assert executive privilege. i asked robert blumenthal if that was enough to reassure him. he said it was not. >> i find no reassurance in renouncing executive privilege, because that's only one of the excuses that could be given to forestall conspiracy. all of america deserves to know not whether just laws were broken but criminal action that may not have been c...

Didn't have any substantive discussions about the campaign. today he seemed to open the door. he said he couldn't recall, couldn't rule out he had some discussions about foreign policy issues, which the senator pointed out can be campaign issues. the other thing that struck me is that jeff sessions was simply unwilling to talk about his discussions with the president. and he wouldn't answer the question about whether president trump told him that he fired fbi director james comey in order to get rid of the russia investigation. now, i understand, you know, that he is trying to reserve the righ...

Question about whether president trump told him that he fired fbi director james comey in order to get rid of the russia investigation. now, i understand, you know, that he is trying to reserve the right to assert executive privilege. but it seems to me he could have found a way to communicate to congress in some fashion that president trump didn't make that inappropriate request or statement in his presence and he wasn't able to do that today, brian. >> ken, in plain english it was just so weird. he was a talking point behind. you remember when the story came out we were running around comey ...