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Standard selectively. >> no, i'm not applying it selectively. i'm just saying i don't think it's appropriate -- >> you can clear an awful lot up by saying it never happened. >> i don't share -- i do not share with the general public conversations that i have with the president or many of my colleagues within the administration that i believe are -- should not be shared. >> i think your unwillingness to answer a very basic question speaks volumes. >> it's not a matter of unwillingness, senator. it is a matter -- >> it is a matter of unwillingness. >> it is a matter of how i share it and to whom...

Repeating myself, sir. >> harris: you're having a reaction. >> meghan: him saying your feelings don't matter. it's like my mom chastising me. it's a point you're making. we are learning nothing from all of this. politicians on both sides are grandstanding because they want to go home to their constituents and say i'm fighting for x agenda. i have very little faith we learn anything tomorrow with the comey hearings as well. i think we probably know everything that he is going say already. he is already testified. i don't know the end goal is other than what i said, did president trump put press...

Special counsel which i think you discussed in great detail, but that's primarily to investigate potential criminal acts and counterintelligence activities. is it not? >> the answer to that is yes. the idea that the russia investigation heads much broader significance to you then we are referring to. >> when people speak generically about the russia investigation, i think they are also including things like our responsibilities as the intelligence committee to do oversight of the intelligence and of the counter measures we might undertake to deal with the active measures campaign of the russia...

It's not involving discussion with the president, esther involving discussions with director comey. director coats and admiral rogers, i think you testified that you did discuss today's testimony was someone in the white house. >> i said i asked the white house intended to invoke executive privilege with any interaction between myself and the president of united states. >> it was the answer question rick >> to be answered in this >> why are you not answering these questions? is there an invocation by the president of the united states of executive privilege? is there or not? what you feel isn'...

>> chairman, they should be allowed to answer the question. >> it's a long question you posed. i'll get to the answer. my quibble with you is pat fitzgerald is a very independent person. i have respect for him. pat fitzgerald could have been fired by the president because he was the united states attorney. robert mueller cannot because he's protected by those special counsel regulations. although it's theoretically true but there are circumstances where he could be removed by the acting attorney general which is me, your assurance of his independence -- go >> if i may. their greater assurance ...