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Dick durbin. was that a satisfying experience of interviewing sessions, and did you get what you wanted? >> of course not. if i thought sessions was sitting there instead of attorney general sessions. i asked the attorney general, did you have any conversation with the attorney general of the state of texas before you made the decision to repeal the daca program. that was not an executive privilege issue, but he refused to answer. he said that was part of my work product. what is he talking about? everything we are discussing was part of his work product as attorney general. he really dodged a...

47 days since the last trump tweet on comey. why now? why today i wonder. >> well, because comey's firing is front and center again with jeff sessions testifying. and the key -- one of the key issues that these senators were asking the attorney general about was the circumstances around comey's firing. and so, you know, trump as we know is watching television, and comey is back again. and he's on the president's mind. and so now now trump is reverting -- i mean trump as well is reverting to this hillary clinton context for the comey firing. it would seem to be the implication of that tweet and...

So that's another zig-zag. but, you know, it's striking to me -- ken mentioned the executive privilege issue. and i do think that it's -- that is an interesting moment because there is a school of thought in the trump team that says you want to show as much cooperation as possible with the investigation. you want to get, you know, get this over with as fast as you can and signal that you have nothing to hide, among other things, at least the line coming from the trump camp of course is that he has nothing to hide, he did nothing wrong. these indications of executive privilege clearly do sugges...

All of these other irregularities and of course, conspiracy to obstruct justice is what was the charge. but the executive privilege issue was the issue that stopped them cold. so this issue of whether or not they could go after a sitting president for any other criminal reason was never decided. it was stuck in advance because they had what they wanted, the tape. >> here's what is likely to happen. let's say he comes across information in the kennedy assassination. i'm trying to pick something crazy. the special counsel knows this is outside of his mandate. he goes to the deputy attorney gener...

But with bill clinton, the public stuck with bill clinton. >> and they are not sticking with mr. trump, and that's a really interesting and political problem. because part of this is political should it ever get to up people. . impeachment. >> but prosecutors stumble across some financial irregularity that has nothing to do with russia or even the election, would they pursue it, i mean, from a legal standpoint? gloria, would they? >> it really depends on what it is. what happened with the nixon years is that as they were investigating nixon, they found all of these other irregularities and of ...