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What the president said today, would you see that as an order from the president to launch an investigation? >> i don't think so. i oversaw an office and would not direct them to start commence investigations by issuing a tweet on a social media platform. i would call them to my office and discuss going forward or not on a case. so i don't know if the president separately called attorney general sessions. my understanding is they don't speak much and they're not very cordial with each other, but i would do what a former colleague said today. issue a one-word statement saying no, i will not do ...

Each time the president shatters a norm about the use of executive power of the independent administration of justice. i think he has correctly taken the message that no matter how far he goes, they will paddle after him. >> you know, susan and laura, you're both lawyers, so you appreciate the president saying to these two is that right , cre laws. if you're right, you win. create some, he wants the senate to create the whole issue. >> when ever he talks about bulking up or create iing new liable laws, he's talking about an assault on the first amendment. we by fifurcate it. private and public...

During this hour, wolf. certainly though paying very careful attention to bob mueller's case. >> as they should. thank you, jeff. joining us now, preet, who was fired by president trump as the u.s. attorney in new york. thanks so much for joining us. is there any legal basis for the president's demand that the attorney general jeff session open a full scale investigation into who mowrote this op-ed in "the new york times"? >> no, zero. if you can contribute a number less than zero, you would have to use a number less than zero. no crime was committed here so there's no crime to be investigated...

>> we will impeach him, but he didn't do anything wrong. it doesn't matter, we will impeach him. but i say how do you impeach somebody that's doing a great job, that hasn't done anything wrong? if it happens, it's your fault because you didn't go out to vote. >> so far, that's all the president has said about sentencing of papadopoulos and he was a former foreign policy aide. we've seen that famous photograph of them from the campaign. and the president was telling reporters earlier today on air force one that's the only time he saw him. he said i don't know him. i distanced myself from him. i...

Suggested in that tweet was that somehow, this was a an ol standing obama era investigation of two republican congressmen. i can't speak to duncan hunter. i happen to be the united states attorney in the southern district of new york during the o pbama era. the basis for the charges against chris collins as you can read in the public document was based on conduct that was committed. actually on the white house lawn in june of 2017 which was not the obama era. the person who brought the charge ss the president's open republican hand picked successor to me and to june kim in the southern distric...