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With veracity so i could go home after 49 days in this country. on this battlefield i'm afraid isis cannot be declared. >> we hear the fighting going on in syria. the white house is facing questions about the president's daughter and son-in-law. in a letter to the administration, house oversight committee chairman elijah cummings said a senior adviser has been using what's app, a popular application system, to communicate with foreign leaders. he also says that ivanka trump, also a senior adviser, may be in violation of the privacy records act with her use of e-mails. we have the author of the...

Exposed and investigated and potentially prosecuted. the problem is, and one of the reasons i wrote the book, is we seem to be at a higher decibel level of that kind of attack than we ever have been before, and you have these statements by the presumably serious people who are close to the president saying things like there are alternative facts or truth is not truth, and sometimes you have to take a step back and talk about the ways in which you can have a fair system, what fairmindedness means, how you keep an open mind, how justice is done, how truth is discovered. so in the series during m...

Security clearance documentation, i think it's a real problem, and i think we're going to see, as you pointed out a second ago, a real investigation in the house of representatives. >> so this morning, talking about -- i want to pivot now to the mueller report. the president seems to be p prebuting it. he called this a witch hunt and clearly trying to undermine his presidency. you talked about prosecutor's thoughts of crime, punishment and the rule of law. what is your argument and why did you think this book is needed right now as you talk about having faith in the justice system? >> look, it...

I am ashamed of my own failings and publicly accepted responsibility for them by pleading guilty in the southern district of new york. >> michael cohen is perhaps the most high-profile cooperating witness of the past several years although he didn't enter into a formal agreement with the southern district of new york. he did provide the southern district, in effect the justice department's manhattan office, with information on individuals in the trump organization. he also spoke with robert mueller's team at least seven different occasions last year. former u.s. attorney for the southern distr...

Different occasions last year. former u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york preet bharara highlights the troubling twilight zone cooperators pose for law enforcement. in the new book he's written called "doing justice" he writes, "cooperators assist cops and as a result may literally get away with murder. they operate as double agents against the people closest to them. it is a bit fantastical and murky, this partnership between criminal and law man lurking at opposite ends of the legal spectrum. it requires a reciprocal leap of faith and forces a bond in which each side is count...