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mentorship and s.t.e.a.m. opportunities and how to develop opportunities for the work force and leverage the programs that the small business administration as well as other government agencies have for small businesses. let s talk about what you expect to come from this. shirley, let s start with you. it is one thing to be on a listening tour. it s another to put it in action. did you get the sense there s going to be something within this administration to help small businesses that is different than what we have seen before? i think, probably, just a greater awareness that we are out there. we are out there doing good work and the women who own them are serious and dedicated to the work we are doing. what do you think? i m very encouraged for two particular reasons. number one, ivanka trump was also at the table. she said it s one of her priorities. i think she is going to work closely with her father to make sure there s a positive impact on. she s very well spoken ....
special counsel? eventually can he fire everyone? i mean, it s going to be fascinating tomorrow. we re going to hear every one of those questions. what we don t know is how many answers we re going to hear. yeah. that we re not sure of. yeah. this question of executive privilege and what they re going the call executive privilege and such a i mean that s a difficult legal theory anyway. that s not a cut and dried thing even in the best of circumstances, i think we re going to get into appeals court territory pretty quickly tomorrow. and i have a feeling that jeff sessions isn t going to rely on the feelings pleading that we heard last week from dan coats and the director of nsa. it is my feeling that i shouldn t talk about this. i have discomfort. yeah. yes. i have a gavel. we will seattle. thank you, rachel. thanks. when president nixon fired the special prosecutor investigating him, he did it on a friday night and shocked headline writers who immediat ....
it gave no means of tracing this back to the source, but it had a lot of information in it about things that had been happening in trump tower. and it appeared to be from somebody inside the transition or inside trump tower who was concerned about what this person was seeing. and a lot of what s written or conveyed in this letter has sort of come become true over time. it s taken a while for a lot of this stuff to surface, including this detail about this discussion over a back channel or a private channel of communications with moscow. again i just want to i m trying to sort of bend over to read this as charitably as possible. so i mean is it possible that they were setting up lots of different back channels with lots of different foreign leaders? well, we don t i mean i suppose it s possible. clearly they were in communication and meeting with a lot of leaders, a lot of foreign leaders. most of them, as you point out, were coming through the front door, not the bac ....
there are a terrible a lot of lies going about in the world of the worst of it is is half of them are true. that s our story, thanks for sharing it with us tonight, tucker carlson coming up next. tucker: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight, president trump is watching yesterday, he has rendered his verdict. he said a former fbi director james comey s testimony is a major victory for the administration s side of the russia story, in effect a complete vindication. president trump: yesterday it showed no collusion, no obstruction, that was an excuse by the democrats who lost an election that some people think they shouldn t have lost because it s almost impossible for the democrats to lose the electoral college as you know. you have to run up the whole east coast and you have to win every thing as a that s just what we did. it was just an excuse. james comey confirmed a lot of what i said. tucker: you might be able to find some overstatement in there but ....
so what have you learned? reporter: well, anderson, u.s. officials tell cnn that last year the u.s. intelligence used a dossier as part of a justification to get a warrant to secretly monitor carl as one of the sources of information that the bureau has used to defend or to support its investigation. this includes approval from the secret court that oversees the foreign intelligence surveillance act known as fisa, to monitor page s communications. the fbi and the justice department would have had to present probable cause that he was acting as an agent of a foreign power, mobile engaging in foreign intelligence gathering for a foreign government. comey and other fbi officials would have had to sign off on russian spies. pai page denies he knew these were russian agents. page says he took a trip independently, that he expressed his own views and overall, he has disputed anything was illegal in his interactions with the russians. he sent us a statement that reads in part, i ....