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Temporarily wrong impression that he couldn't fire james comey because he hoped the president wouldn't figure out the legal truth. are lawyers allowed to do that with clients? >> they are not. lawyers have an absolute duty of candor with clients. a point that i don't think changes the answer one bit, if you work in white house counsel's office, your client is not the president of the united states. your client is the office of the president, the institution. the president, of course, represents that office and so you have a duty of candor to the institution and of course, then to the man who r...

The justice department to open an investigation. longstanding analysis of presidential power says the president does not need grounds to fire the fbi director, mr. dillon is a veterans department lawyer and had been so before joining the trump white house and assigned a junior lawyer to examine this issue. they determined the fbi director was no different than any other employ ne the executive branch and there was nothing prohibiting the president from firing him. but mr. dillon who had earlier told mr. trump he needed cause to fire mr. comey never corrected the record withholding the conclusi...

Investigation. >> great point. we have a timeline of all the different things. so there's many pieces to this puzzle between asking comey for loyalty, asking comey to publicly disclose that the president wasn't somehow involved or under investigation. here's another thing from the book we want to read to everybody, john, before we get to you. this is from the "new york times". says. it says, special counsel has received handwritten notes from mr. trump's former chief of staff, rhines bree bus, showing that mr. trump talked to mr. priebus how he had called mr. comey, then head of the fbi, to ur...

The fbi of bias more broadly. then you have trump's transition lawyer questioning whether bob mueller got thousands of e-mails from the trump campaign legally and then jim jordan and rand paul and other house republicans saying stuff like this. they are not denying there was a coordinated effort and it's all coming as the russia investigation is giving signs it's heating up. >> how do you see it? >> it's interesting that you have seen an effort by republicans to undermine the mueller investigation. there is nothing that unusual about it. the interview with congresswoman spear is what democrats...

Left behind, they want to say separated from his unit. regardless, for 48 hours they didn't know where he was. they found his dead body 48 hours later. why is that? why did those evacuation planes take off without him? secretary mattis said don't blame the troops on the ground. i have no intention of doing that. but it's reasonable to ask the pentagon why did that happen? a french plane came 30 minutes into that fire fight with no ability to fire on the ground. it flew over to disperse the troops, scare them away. couldn't fire. then it was a french aircraft that evacuated them and a private c...