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Want to give the state of the union, it would be enough to get him to open the government. it's also inappropriate to be doing this when people aren't getting paid. i'm sorry. this is outrageous. >> i think that's the real issue here. >> asking them to come in and work for free. >> can we start adding to our reporting that the president signed a bill today to give everyone back pay. when we say people aren't getting paid, they're not getting their paychecks and it's difficult but they will get their -- >> they cannot pay their bills right now. >> of course. >> and that's a serious issue and a ...

They might try to exert executive privilege over the translator's ability to testify. again, i think they would lose. >> kirsten? >> i think what's so astonishing about this is forget about sharing them with congress. he doesn't even want his own staff to see these. the fact that the information wasn't made available to his own staff which is what typically would happen, that you would even have access to the notes and would know what happened in the meeting. and so the fact that he seems to be concerned that even people within the white house shouldn't know what he's saying in these meetings ...

Where that blast happened. are you -- can you, first of all, talk about where it is and how -- is it a surprise this occurred in this town? this is a town, as i understand it, liberated from isis a long time ago. >> reporter: that's right, anderson. the town was liberated from isis in september of 2016. it's been under the control of kurdish-led, u.s.-backed forces since then and we were, indeed, in that town just a few days ago. we were shooting video at the mark which is just a couple hundred yards away from the restaurant where that explosion took place. certainly a surprise to see an attac...

Learn from it, to tell congress about it, to tell the american people about it. >> when i'm sitting there, i have to meet with an insurance guy, i have a witness. the idea do you it with your biggest adversary. any sensitive thing you would always have someone there because you wouldn't want -- >> mike, does it make sense to you that the president would have done that? >> no. i don't know why he would do that. i do know that -- >> the counter argument is the concern about leaks. >> leaks and here is a unique approach to everything. the president -- >> one way of putting it. >> he's a different...

I'm not going to let him up. >> the trump administration certainly did not agree sending treasury secretary mnuchin up to the hill to lobby against the measure. a story on the fbi back in 2017 launching a counterintelligence investigation of the president's actions and the other first reported in "the washington post" on the lengths president trump and putin went to in hamburg, germany, also in 2017. that is the summit where, in case you're wondering, we learned after it was over the president told a "new york times" reporter he believed putin when he said russia didn't attack the 2016 elected...