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Say the least. the american president for seven deck ha decades has been the most powerful leaders in the world. other leaders don't make fun of you. its didn't happen to president obama, or other presidents. it's now. president trump has had a good relationship with the chinese president, with the saudi king, with the crown prince. authoritarian leaders he's shown respect and deference. where he's gotten into trouble is in the democratic world. he had that very -- that famous disagreement, public disagreement with the australian prime minister early in the presidency. president trump went thr...

Him. so this is taking a major turn and it's potentially much more dangerous for donald trump than what this started with and that is the russian issue. >> jeff toobin, dan coats and nsa director admiral mike rojs, they're cooperating with the special counsel, as i assume james comey is, but coats and rogers came under a lot of criticism about not being forthcoming with the president. the president didn't invoke executive privilege, they just said they didn't want to talk about it. is it possible that now one of the reasons they didn't want to talk about it is because they knew this was being ...

He rattled off a number of spy novels and action films and he said thank you for that opportunity. this is absurd. that you're going after me. there's nothing. there's no there there. trying as hard as he could to protect himself and his boss. on one hand he said the president didn't invoke executive privilege but he might in the future and so i'm not going to say anything because he might down the road want to invoke executive privilege. at one point, it sounded like he was publicly, if you're listening, you might want to invoke executive privilege. >> i want to ask you about that because he ...

Said thank you for that opportunity. this is absurd. that you're going after me. there's nothing. there's no there there. trying as hard as he could to protect himself and his boss. on one hand he said the president didn't invoke executive privilege but he might in the future and so i'm not going to say anything because he might down the road want to invoke executive privilege. it sounded like he was pub lackly if you're listening, you might want to invoke executive privilege. >> i want to ask you about that because he said he didn't invoke executive privilege, right? and yet he refused to ans...

Has the president invoked executive privilege in the case of your testimony here today? >> he has not. >> then what is the basis of your refusal to answer these questions? >> senator king, the president has a constitutional -- >> i understand that, but the president hasn't asserted it. >> well -- >> you said you don't have the power to assert the power of executive privilege, so what is the legal basis for your refusal to answer these questions? >> i am protecting the right of the president to assert it if he chooses. >> that is the best answer we got to the question that hung over attorney ge...