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Word with lawrence o'donnell." >> so tuesday who will the national security advisor be? will john bolton get the ethics clearance and take the job or will h.r. mcmaster sit there until bolton clears or never clears? what's next? >> if it were any job other than national security advisor or any potential conflicts other than hey, maybe you're in the middle of the mueller counterintelligence investigation you might expect they clear whoever it is through. i think the prospect you have a counterintelligence problem for two of your three national security advisor while the flynn one is still reson...

The transition when there's no legitimate claim to executive privilege. >> i think a question a lot of americans have right now is what's the point of having congressional investigations right now, particularly the house intelligence committee, if they're not going to push for certain answers given that robert mueller is doing his own investigation and has already heard from hope hicks? >> i think it's important to separate the different roles of the rob mert mueller investigation on the one hand and congress on the other. what robert mueller is investigating is basically a counterintelligence...

Administration with respect to reporting requirements, whether what we call the sf-86, the national security questionnaire or testimony before the hill and their confirmation hearings, everything that continually seems to be omitted has to do with russia. so that is the definite counterintelligence problem and it's a credibility problem for sure. and it keeps tracing back all the way up the chain to the president. >> does it strike you as it did a lot of people yesterday, and i thought it was one of the biggest swipes comey took against the president, he said he never once asked about the stat...

Service community made of that bizarre meeting. >> those, again, were images that took people's breath away. the counterintelligence problem of having a russian official photographer with god only knows what in his camera equipment marched into the oval office was shocking to people. the fact that those were the images the american public and the world saw was just one more bizarre footnote to this. i think as people watched this, they have been -- they have been troubled by each piece of it. my worry is that they're listening to arguments about how terrible trump is and not focusing on the co...

Requires documentation, and he would have gone through immigration, and so it is not possible that he would have been secreted into the country by the intelligence authorities. frankly, wolf, he had to have some relationship to agree to come into the united states, and he changed the mind. i think it is pressure on the family. if he came here without them, they are in the most danger by virtue of his video. >> well, if he had gone back to cooperate with the u.s. intelligence community, the iranians may throw him in jail or worse. >> right. but there is also concern on the american side, wolf, ...