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Committee of the house -- chaired by henry hyde, wisely concluded that president clinton's doing so should not be considered an impeachable offense. here's the idea. it is not an impeachable offense for the president of the united states to defend the asserted legal and constitutional prerogatives of the presidency. this is, and i am quoting here from page 55 from the president's trial brief, a function of his constitutional and policy judgments. not just a policy judgment but a consequences tuitional judgment. -- constitutional judgment. i would guide this court as it's coming through deliber...

Result of that executive privilege is something very important. however, the issue applies to people working in the government to protect the internal deliberation process of the government. when you are talking back to your original question about someone who was an informal adviser and not a government official, then the privilege does not apply. and so again the president will obstruct in terms that he does obstruct and that is not have anyone go to congress and don mcgahn and hope hicks it will not work with cory lewandowski. >> stand by. a quick break. there is more we need to discuss and...

Command, the decision making, the response with regards to iran now going to change considering the president's nominee, mark esper officially taking the helm? >> yeah, that's a really good question, and i think, you know, potentially under the obama administration, a logical assumption, patrick shanahan was a civilian leader. sometimes when you're an acting official, your word and decision making carries left heft, you would think es pper, trump's opinion as commander in chief, he is the ultimate decision maker here, and i think that the process, the deliberation process and things like, you ...

Derogatory information, he's not going to get into the deliberation process of prosecutors. that's going to be up to us to figure out and try to figure out why certain decisions were made. the thing here is there is a process for the department of justice to explain to the american people why it is they did not bring charges or why it is they did bring charges. >> there is an obligation. >> i do think the attorney general, if you read this letter that he sent to members of congress on friday, i do think he understands that and that's why he's trying to do it as quickly as he's doing it and tha...

To appearing in a racist 1984 photo and insisted it was not him in thepicture. ryan nobles has more. are we getting inkling as to what is happening in the meeting and whether the governor might be changing his opinion on whether he stays or goes? >> reporter: not as of yet. i just checked in with a source close to the governor's office and there has been no specific read out as to what the conversation is behind closed doors between the governor and his closest group of associates in virginia government. we need to emphasize the role of these meetings and this deliberation process for governor...