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Opening for democrats to say why do you remember some things. What was happening that triggers your memory on these items that wasnt. What do we need to do to get there . I just think it gives them an in. And all he simply has to say is he doesnt remember. Unless he can tell the whole context of it, i dont know if it gets us moving forward. It just seems like they are not going to give up the dog bone on this. I did think it was interesting, too, how many different roads that these lawmakers are allowed to go down. Look at Sheila Jackson lee. She was just all over the place. Sandra you can see...

See beginning right after the 2018 midterms. Dan, to be continued. Please come back. That does it for us. We are out of time. Heres ali and stephanie for velshi ruhle. Thank you. Have a good rest of the afternoon. Good afternoon to you. Im ali velshi. Im stephanie ruhle. Its wednesday, october 3rd. Lets get starter. 36 years ago this happened. I had one beer. Right . I had one beer. Well, you think it was nope. It was one beer. Oh good. How did you get home . I dont remember. How did you get there . I dont remember. Wheres the place . I dont remember. How many years ago was it . I dont know. I...

>> well, it has to be after hours, has to be on their own time. they cannot use their official position to do tmpit. he cannot talk about his position as adviser to the president. and, you know, frankly, it's difficult. usually what happens in these cases is the person leaves the government service and goes over to the campaign. and that is normally what you're supposed to do. but, you know, trump has shown already that he's not going to follow any of the normal rules. >> and, in fact, he also has found -- we have seen with kelly ann conway found in violation of the hatch act and still has a j...

Investigate whether kushner is in violation of the hatch act. citing a "new york times" report that kushner has been involved in fund-raising for trump's 2020 re-election campaign. larry noble is here, federal counsel for the election commission. larry, what is legal and what isn't legal when it comes to someone in kushner's position? >> right. well, the hatch act is an 80-year-old statute that prohibits federal employees, except for the president and vice president, from doing political activity on government time or using government resources for doing political activity. so if jared kushner...

Conflict, they would be very sorry about that. >> adding to the strain, today iran announcing a major escalation of its nuclear program. iran's atomic agency says it is ramping up production of its low-grade uranium. but doing this increasing production and stockpiling this material would be a violation of the 2015 iran nuclear deal, be an agreement that the trump administration has worked for the past year to dismantle. cnn's senior international correspondent, fred pleitgen, is in iran. fred, what more did we hear from that iranian official? >> well, one of the things he was saying, somethin...