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Correct? >> soft zero policy being permitted. >> the of the family separation policy. >> there was no family celebration. >> there was tolerance. >> i am going to tell you you're the chaff of staff at the time. >> senator merkel released a leaked draft letter and outline landing policies separating their children from their family. were you aware of this memo at the time? >> no. >> you were not aware of what your boss was doing? >> bus the memory ro. you are talking about a leaked memo? you were the chief of staff, i would think you would know and you would be a senior official if you would kn...

Working. there's this draft letter that's been circulated by sent tryst democrats that believe one way out of the impasse since the president's not budging on the government shutdown is to make a promise to the president athat f he were to open the government that you all would agree to debate the border wall and border security funding by a date certain in early february and that that might be one way to break the impasse. do you agree with that draft letter that we've seen? >> well, i actually haven't seen that draft letter but i agree with the first part of the letter which is reopen the go...

Right now nobody's seeing an end to the shutdown at any point in the near future. right now the gang of bipartisan senators has put together a draft letter they're circulating. inside that letter it says quote we respectfully request that you join us in supporting a resolution of three weeks to give congress time to vote on a bipartisan agreement that addresses your request. that letter was addressed to the president. it's still unclear how many people will sign it or whether it gets sent at all. there's no newly scheduled meeting of this group to meet. the idea of a short-term continuing reso...

Won. >> in the second instance, a draft letter the president intended to send to comey listing the reasons he was firing him. but his lawyer successfully blocked trump from sending it according to "the times." the white house is calling this bombshell report absurd. and it's also sparked an angry tirade from the president this morning via twitter. cnn's erica ordin joins me right now. what more can you tell us about the investigation and the status of it? >> well, this is really two elements of one investigation. one is the obstruction, the obstruction of justice probe, which is a criminal mat...

Comey's firing to the russian investigation which helped spark this counter intelligence probe. here's one of those moments. >> regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey knowing there was no good time to do it. and in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made up story, it's an excuse by the democrats for having lost an election that they should have won. >> a second instance, a draft letter the president intended to send to comey listing the reasons that he was firing him, but his lawyer blocked him fr...