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Do it. >> there was a show of unity at the state of the union. kelly, kasie, thanks to both of you. with us to talk about all of this, mika oyang, now vice president for third ways national security program. richard painter is former white house chief ethics lawyer during the george w. bush administration. so a lot to get to. but let's start with the fact that one of the things the turnover from the republicans to the democrats in the house has resulted in is that the special prosecutor now has transcripts of, you know, behind closed doors interviews that were done. and some of the people th...

Could potentially hit the united states in the future can be attacked by the president without a congressional vote. that is a pandora's box that has no end to it. >> we should note that piece that the senator is citing is february 28th of this year. that's not an old view of john bolton. that was published, i guess, less than a month ago. three weeks ago. senator chris murphy, always a great pleasure. >> thanks. joining me now, richard painter, who served as white house chief ethics lawyer under george w. bush, and sam seder, host of majority report and longtime john bolton watching critic....

Nevertheless, republicans are not concerned, not planning on having a revote in the committee which means that if the president does, in fact, agree to release it tomorrow then the house intelligence committee probably's going to end up releasing it, brooke. >> okay. thank you. dana bash, come back. i want you part of this conversation. i have with me norma eisen who's a former white house chief ethics lawyer under president obama. mr. ambassador, first to you, bring this all back to christopher wray who was let's all remember in the wake of a comey firing, this was who the president chose to ...

>> it's pretty amazing. this is what richard painter, chief ethics lawyer for george w. bush, had to say about the idea of donald trump trying to use a lawsuit threat to keep the book from being released. >> there is no way they're going to be able to stop publication. no way. this is not russia. the president of the united states cannot stop publication of a book that's critical of him simply because he believes that's what's said is not true. >> and isn't that the key? because there would have to be discovery, even if he could get a lawsuit going, he'd have to prove that each and every one o...

World will want to hear. >> we see charlie pierce, writer at large for "esquire." donald trump has threatened to sue before, threatened to sue tim o'brien, threatens all the time, doesn't follow through that much. if you're omarosa, who knows donald trump, she knows he makes threats, she says she's got a story to tell. do these threats and does this book incentivize someone like omarosa to be next in the door with a book? >> absolutely. and one thing to keep in mind, this guy hasn't been president for a year yet. he's being snowed under by tell-all -- my 35 minutes in donald trump's white hous...