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Those russian sanctions, kind of force the president's hands to sign it. i think the president's question is are they going to do that again or has he sort of successfully brought the republican majority in line behind him, this close to the primaries for the midterm elections? so the next step really is in the house republican's court about what do they do? do they help him or do they say, hey, we already voted to let this thing go, we're going to make sure this in large form gets out. that's where the debate lies now. >> all fascinating. all right, fascinating, confu confusi confusing, you k...

Sources say senior white house officials including white house counsel don mcgann learned more than a year ago about porter's alleged abuse. rob port, the secretary of the white house, his alleged abuse. civil rights professor avery freeman and criminal defense attorney richard herman, both professors, may i remind you. richard, you first, if don mcgahn, the white house counsel, knew about the allegations of domestic violence but didn't act, does he face any legal issues as a lawyer? >> well, fredricka, don mcgahn finds himself behind a rock and a hard place. with his legal education and his m...

Supported roy moore. and this administration is not dialed into the -- >> all right, so, really quickly, avery, you are disputing all or which part of that? >> h well, i mean, look, you want to assign significance to the women who accused trump and this is legitimate but to tie it all in is troublesome when it come t comes to this particular event. the president was not sympathetic to the vick are tims, and that is true, but in dealing with porter and what you do on the one hand where he said well, i wish him well, and on the other hand he said off of the record, he is bad garbage and at best ...

Tells the president, how he tells him, and how he interprets the law for him. because clearly now the president says allegedly he didn't find out about porter until a couple weeks ago. >> right. >> it just seems insane because mcgahn knew at least a year ago. he was briefed by the fbi on this. he saw the pictures of the black eye when porter beat the crap out of one of his wives. he even got direct phone calls from girlfriends of porter. i mean, he had all this information. >> in november, right. >> yes. any other administration, fred, white house counsel, under those terms, would be terminate...

And then now playing a part in crafting a statement about rob porter. she's dating him. she's now -- it's also being reported now that she was told about these allegations. it did rattle her. but then fast forward, somehow she was involved in crafting the statement which was very complimentary about him and she's also dated corey lewandowski, who was also accused of, you know, roughing up a few male reporter. so what is this, you know, is the president upset about the relationship? is he upset about her crafting of the statement? is it he's upset that she is now front and center and often that...