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Attorney, was at both of these briefings, something george washington law professor jonathan turley said was a blunder of the first order. was it appropriate for emmet flood to be there at both briefings and set the tone? >> look, i think it was a bullying tactic to send a message to the fbi director, to rod rosenstein, that he wanted them to give congress what they wanted, that he was watching, that he had the power to do that, that this was his justice department, he has the right to send anybody he wants. there was no reason for emmet flood to be there. rudy giuliani, who has these sort of ...

President is impeaching is investigators and begins to threaten them with firings? >> we are in a really interesting gray area here because in fact, the independent counsel as we were just talking about has gone away. that law is gone. this is a special prosecutor, a different thing. and robert mueller reports to the justice department, the justice department reports to the president under the constitution, he does have a good deal of authority to run the executive agencies. however, as a matter of custom and tradition and politics, certainly since watergate, it's been seen as inappropriate fo...

There is a mann of publicly available forensic information that was made public back in june of 2016, about russian hacking the involvement against the dnc, crowd strike released that information. and then the intelligence community assessment that says with high confidence, that's the intelligence community way of saying, we're positive. it makes pretty clear that they're not just relying on that public evidence. they actually have their own sources and methods. they have signals intercept. they've heard and seen things that the rest of us haven't. really, this is not -- this isn't sort of an...

And why i am directing all executive agencies to use every appropriate emergency authority to fight the opioid crisis. this marks a critical step in confronting the extraordinary challenge that we face. as part of this emergency response, we will announce a new policy to overcome a restrictive 1970s era rule that prevents states from providing care at certain treatment facilities with more than 16 beds for those suffering from drug addiction. [ applause ] a number of states have reached out to us asking for relief, and you should expect to see approvals that will unlock treatment for people in...

Under federal law and why i'm directing all executive agencies to use every appropriate authority to fight the opioid crisis. as part of this emergency response, we will announce a new policy to overcome a restrictive 1970s rule that prevents states from providing care at certain treatment facilities with more than 16 beds for those suffering from drug addiction. the number of states have reached out to us asking for relief and you should expect to see approvals that will unlock treatment for those who need it and those approvals will come