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Judiciary committee for his nomination for deputy attorney general. i am urging him at that hearing to say that he will appoint a special prosecutor to look into this because it's on the executive side that any investigation is done and any criminality is put forward. >> let me ask you about this specific charge, what you were just talking about with president trump, this idea that there may have been a court order surveillance of some form or another. you're part of what's called so many gangs on senate side and you're one of the gang of eight on intelligence matters, the most sensitive intel...

Feet to the fire and they have said they will look for another alternative if he doesn't fully pursue this. but there is another point to this. the other of course is whether the law was broken and whether the trump campaign was complicit in working with the russians to influence the election. that needs a special prosecutor. rod rosen steen, he's a career man. he will be before the judiciary committee for his nomination for deputy attorney general. i am urging him at that hearing to say he will appoint a special prosecutor to look into this because it's on the executive side that the full inv...

>> great question. the office of legal counsel is lawyer for on the executive side, on the day of the order saying they approved it in legality and form. what they did not release was a full legal analysis. the question about whether jared kushner could be able to serve in the white house, they issued 14 page memorandum on this. they didn't do this on this. -- without knowingly brokieakin precedence. there's very good precedent for strong national security power. that's the argument they made. we are seeing that set back. proceduresal ruling not on the merits, greta.

Court and argue that's not what is driving his policy. >> talking about leaving everything on the table, it may not work when you talk about the bureaucracy there in the beltway. we have been getting a lot of leaks. this is all of those underneath in this federal bureaucracy. all those who may not support what he's doing and they can do something about it because they're plugged into the processes. will this bureaucracy adjust to him or adjust to them to get something done? >> i think civil servants throughout the government have been trying to make the decision about whether they are better o...

Disappointed conservatives were with chief justice roberts after the obamacare decisions. many of them abandoned him and were more critical of roberts and that liberals have been on other decisions. so this pick has to meet a lot of check points for that party. >> absolutely. and it's different i think than some of the other choices donald trump has made on the executive side where steve bannon drew a lot of criticism. we have a system of government that has a lot of white house aides selected without any oversight from any other branch or congressional. this is the opposite. this is the first...