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Now, ambassador pickering has said he's been given all of the documents and access to all of the people. well, we haven't and we're the coequal branch. he was simply acting as an appointee of the secretary. >> what did secretary of state hillary clinton fail to disclose or fail to do that makes her a target for you? >> hillary clinton's not a target. president obama's not a target. the target is, how did we fail three different ways? fail to heed the warnings of an impending attack, fail to respond properly during the attack. at least we certainly could have done better, and i think everyone k...

Hiding by using this privilege. gregg: sure. >> so we have to beg the question, what is he hiding now? and also is he really fulfilling the campaign promise having coequal branch and having a transparent government. gregg: hold the thought. on the left-hand side of the screen, representative clay. we'll go back into the committee as it warrants. gretchen and juan will stick around. we'll squeeze in a quick break here but a fast-changing series of events on capitol hill and the white house as the president of the united states invokes executive privilege to protect documents of his attorney gen...

That as a member of a coequal branch -- >> jack, i hear you, and i think that most people in the audience, most rational people would agree. but we know that over the course of the last few years nothing has been normal when it comes to this -- starting with this candidacy. let me get doug in forsake of time. i understand what you're saying, but it seems to me, doug, president trump's presidency is historical in a number of ways. campaign, election, what he said, breaking of norms. now he's going to have a lifelong impact on this supreme court. and chances are -- this is just me -- he's probab...

The executive branch being critical of a separate but coequal branch. the opinion of the so-called judge, which takes law enforcement away from our country is ridiculous and will be overturned. so typically, you would find although there can be disagreements between the executive branch, the white house, and many different rulings, it happens quite often in fact. the tone here is very classic trump. we saw it during the primary season with litigation that was a part of his personal business with trump university. he went after the judge in indiana calling him a mexican judge referring to his h...

Seen by the branch. i'm one of those people that very strongly supports that the deliberative process in the ordinary course is not something we should be asking for. but when the wheels come off, when in fact, people make a decision to give us something that's false and it's shown to be false and then particularly if there's false statements to congress, of course we have an obligation to look at it and then does appropriately include those e-mails, and in this case, you've got 12 changes. ambassador pickering has every right and obligation to look at every one of them and we have every oblig...