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White house. is that the sort of thing that on the foreign relations committee, you would expect to have input in if he tried to go through with visiting pack substantial, with having the philippine president come to the white house? >> i think here in lies the problem, we still have 48 votes in the united states senate as democrats, and that does and that allow us to have a discussionen policy. the checks and balances don't work as well when it comes to foreign policy. he has the ability to trachlt anywhere he wants. he has certain abilities to enter into treaty negotiations, to impose lift s...

This invitation he's extended to the president of the philippines, who as you said, is implicated in thousands of killings since he's been in office, who also, incidentally, called the president of the united states very recently a son of a whore, and the president-elect has now invoighted him to come to the white house. is that the sort of thing that on the foreign relations committee, you would expect to have input in if he tried to go through with visiting pack substantial, with having the philippine president come to the white house? >> i think here in lies the problem, we still have 48 vo...

That very seriously. take the input in, but then ultimately make his own decision. >> reporter: you heard him talking about stake holders. some of the stake holders are the fbi. tuesday afternoon, before the president left for the state of the union address, five career officials from the fbi, including officials from counter intelligence, came to the white house to read the version of the memo that was transmitted by congressman devin nunes to the president. this is a little different than the memo that those same people and the fbi director christopher wray had read up on capitol hill. mare ...