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President do in response to this getting closer to him? that's the real fear. it's always been the fear. we saw what he did with comey. there were signals at certain points to back off session. those signals have changed. the question of how the justice department and the investigation are insulated from the president's pressure becomes now a primary one. >> right. so he has two different pressures on him. one is, i'm sure, he would love to get pardons to everybody and make sure nobody can be touched so they're not going took about him. >> you're saying you think the president would like that....

And then what happens? what irrational thing will he do? >> okay. so this is why i think, and brian boyler wrote a piece about this, quick spelled that out, elliott, is that the lame duck session is very dangerous for precisely that reason. right now the electoral effects of major actions are enormous. >> yes. >> and i think you're right. he doesn't want to do that. the day after he enters a period in which he is going to have a lame duck majority in both houses, whatever they do, that seems to be a very dangerous period. >> and to back up what the congresswoman said, you're talking about cons...

She knows whether it's going to go through or not. if you have a genuine critique about why a broken washington can come together and pass something in the interest of big companies but not regular people, then that's the issue for you. >> brian boyler thank you as always. >> iraq on the brink gone. a leading scientist asking what is u.s. foreign policy now in the middle east? do you know? that's next. new york state is reinventing how we do business by leading the way on tax cuts. we cut the rates on personal income taxes. we enacted the lowest corporate tax rate since 1968. we eliminated the...

The new release comes in an interesting time, 2016 candidates debating iraq and supporting claims that the u.s. misled the public about the bin laden raid and didn't get good intel from his compound. brian boyler here to break it down. >> how are you? >> i'm doing well. given the new allegations that the u.s. might have covered up a pakistani plot to protect bin laden while troops were fighting and dying looking for him, why do you think republicans aren't talking about that instead of iraq? >> i think you're right, i'm not so sure how much it has to do with the ongoing debate about iraq in th...

Role is she serving? she is a public servant, and those e-mails need to be available to the public and that shows bad judgment. i'm not qualified to say whether that would be more secure than any other e-mail service. >> did she use an account from a former aide that was hacked. >> he hacked an e-mail she sent to somebody else. and she didn't violate the letter of the law as her spokesperson told the times, but the law on the books now became -- came on the books after she left -- a year and a half after. >> brian it seems that did you focus on this and you're her opponent, you focus on this y...