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Direction. that's what he's doing. >> and yrichardson said he had full support and full carte blanche. do you feel the same way? >> i want him to carry out this investigation and finish this investigation. >> attorney general richardson also testified the relationship between the president and the justice department should be arm's length. you've said similar things about the importance of shielding the department from political influence. can you make a similar commitment to us to maintain an arm's length relationship between the justice department and the president regarding the special coun...

Like, three different functions generally that the attorney general performs. i think on the enforcement side, especially where matters are of personal or public interest to people at the white house, there has to be an arm's length relationship. the white house counsel can play a constructive role in that, as well. >> let me ask -- if the president asked for information that could will be used to interfere with the special counsel investigation, to curtail in the way, would you give to him? >> there are rules on what kind of information can flow, what kind of communications can go between the...

That robert mueller and that investigation had full cooperation and carte blanche. could he expect a similar level of support from you as attorney general? >> i'm going to carry out those regulations, and i want them to finish the investigation. >> i'm encouraged by things you've said about this and want to make sure we've had as clear a conversation as we can. also testified the relationship between the president and justice department should be arm's length. you've said similar things about the importance of shielding the department from political influence. can you make a similar assurance ...

The table and i think all 200 and however republicans do agree that it's within the president's rights so they're all buying into some sort of daca fix. and it's the enforcement side and perhaps not enough in the way of guest worker programming for some of the middle but i think we can get there, certainly the addition of an agricultural guest worker program was important for a lot of moderates and a lot of members from form states like california, but we are doing this from no help from the democrats which is just wrong because they want so much of what's in here including the daca fix. >> me...

Listening in. what are your thoughts tonight? >> my first thought is the child unaccompanied minor is nothing new. the town hall published photos from inside of a processing center showing these children coming across the border and being detained in these facilities under the obama administration. there were a number of journalists who were doing this work but he did not blow up into this national narrative. fast-forward to today and there is a lot of focus on the enforcement side of this policy. i know that zero tolerance sounds harsh, but zero-tolerance simply means enforcing the law and ma...