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Which he has knowledge, but as to which the president has not asserted executive privilege. so when he goes in, he's like any other person, but because he was a senior policymaker, in the administration, the president retains the right to assert executive privilege as the specific questions or lines of questioning. he cannot blanketly say i am not going to answer that question because the president may in the future want to assert it. it has to have been i am not answering that question because the president or his white house counsel or his private counsel somehow haveinstructed me that the p...

For the president to take ownership of that, it's completely statistically dubious because he cannot. the president, obama, was the one who started this trend. the second of all, when it comes to trump, he hasn't done anything tangible that we can point to to say that he has helped african-americans. it was really important here is causation does not equate correlation. if just because he is in the office does not mean he caused things to happen. >> laura: who does cause things to happen? >> we can point to obama. >> laura: the chief executive in other words. if you want to give obama credit. ...

Numerous rather strident tweets -- or not tweets, but texts, commenting adversely on the president, what was it? >> if i said that, congressman, it was inadvertent. the decision to remove mr. strzok off that case was made by director mueller, based upon the circumstances known to him. it's important to understand, though, that -- those text messages were uncovered in the case of an inspector general investigation that's not complete. so we won't be able to make a determination about what, if any, discipline is required. >> let me go to the inspector general now. this is michael horowitz, right...

Chief lawmaker under the constitution. your thoughts? >> we have heard before from richard nixon that the president is above the law. that didn't work for nixon and it's not going to work for trump. and this is just an extension of the trump administration's attitude. he said a number of months ago the president can't have a conflict of interest. that's wrong, too. the president is not above the law. we live in a democracy. we have a constitution. and if he doesn't want to comply with the constitution, he needs to get out of there. and the constitution does not say that as the chief law enforc...

Switch press conference. he has done that before as we know. don, i don't think the attorney general sessions wants to leave the job. he is trying to put his imprint on the department and has been one of the more aggressive cabinet officers in trying to fill the vacancies, and really does have plans that a lot of people would not agree with that he has had his eye on for a long time so i think he would be very reluctant to take this option unless the president really forced it on him. and the president is not subject to the hatch act, and he could say out there i want mr. sessions in this job ...