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>> when talks about withdrawal from afghanistan intensifying, the president says the country cannot be, quote, a laboratory for terror. >> we've really got it down to probably 13,000 people, and we'll be bringing it down a little bit more and then we'll decide whether or not we'll be staying longer or not. i'm not trusting anybody. look, i'm not trusting anybody. it's a horrible situation that's going on in afghanistan, it has been for many years. >> the president's remarks coming after a suicide bomb attack at a wedding in kabul this weekend where 63 people were killed. almost 200 others were...

It's an intelligence community that the president needs to be able to depend on to be able to get the information he needs to make important national security deep signatur decisions. what the intelligence community cannot be and what the director of national intelligence cannot be is a loyalist for the president. we simply cannot have that. i think this is another example of the president nominating someone who he believes will be loyal to him. look, i want to give much like with regard to dan coats, i want to give radcliffe an opportunity to prove himself. but i think that the performance th...

>> can you say, deputy attorney general -- can you say whether you or the department main justice played a role in that final conclusion? and secondly, can you say whether the olc memo that the president cannot be indicted played a role in this as well. >> i don't have anything to add to what i just said. >> that's kind of interesting, isn't it. now the chair of the house oversight committee elijah cummings is demanding answers writing in a letter to the district attorney office for the southern district of new york the committee is seeking to determine whether the internal department of justi...

Against president trump. >> and as set forth in the report after that investigation, if we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime we would have said so. under longstanding department policy a president -- a president cannot be charged with a federal crime while he is in office. that is unconstitutional. even if the charge is kept under seal and hidden from public view, that too is prohibited. the special counsel's office is part of the department of justice. and by regulation it was bound by that department policy. charging the president with a crime was therefore...

Prosecutors who looked at the law and the facts and made their conclusions on the merits. >> can you say, deputy attorney general, can you say whether you or the department main justice played a role in that final conclusion? and secondly, can you say whether the olc memo that the president cannot be indicted played a role in this as well? >> i don't have anything to add to what i just said. >> that's kind of interesting, isn't it? now the chair of the house oversight committee elijah cummings is demanding answers, quote, the committee is seeking to determine whether the internal justice polic...