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Be moving quite fast. the kind of strip that isis control seems to be about 1 1/2 miles wide so about 3 miles long. and the question now is, of course, do they manage to cut them in the middle, do the forces join up some way through, splitting isis in two and how long does it take to fight through those dense urban streets of raqqa? how much underground defense work is there by isis? how much ammunition and will power do they have to hold out? these are questions we can't know the answer to but what is clear from seeing what we've seen in the past few days, they're moving very fast indeed on t...

>> absolutely is his own worst enemy. a lot of people who have pointed out in many ways the biggest threat to president trump going forward is going to be his behavior in the wake of the investigation. how he responds to it. every single lawyer that i know who has ever done defense work, just cringes openly whenever they see him talk or tweet or anything else because what you're supposed to do as a client is shut jur your trap so you don't get involved in a perjury trap or obstruction of justice rap, the types of charges that come on about your behavior afterwards, not necessarily about the un...

>> it doesn't appear in the constitution. it's an implied power under article 2 that defines the president's authority. its high point came in the nixon case where the supreme court said, yes, a president can invoke an executive privilege to protect the communications he needs to remain private to be president. the problem is, it's not what is called an absolute privilege. it's a qualified privilege. both mark and i do defense work and we often get our clients not to discuss things to waive privilege. to go on twitter is discussing it a lot. it's like playing poker with your cards facing the o...

Do so. >> certainly the conversation being discussed is covered by executive privilege. and in that sense this is not an arbitrary or capricious assertion of executive privilege. >> can you explain executive privilege for folks who don't follow these things as closely what is it. >> the executive privilege don't appear in the constitution implied power under article 22. the article defining a president's authority process. it's hiept came in the nixon case where the supreme court said yes a president can invoke executive privilege to protect the kmiengss he needs to remain private to be presid...

President in office, you impeach him first, and then you indict him. and by the way, that's no favor for presidents. it's the worst possible situation to be in. so, yeah, if he did something as gross as that, it would be grounds for impeachment. >> the quote from "the new york times," and again, we don't, we haven't seen the actual comey document, somebody read it to "the new york times" we understand," reads thus. "i hope you can see your way clear. "to letting it go, he is a good guy, i hope you can let this go. that sounds like one friend kind of advocating for soft treatment of another, it...