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Say that. And did he ask you to pledge loyalty and there would be nothing wrong if i did say it according to everybody that i read today but i did not say that. And did he ask for a pledge of loyalty from you. Thats another thing he said. No, he did not. He said those things under oath. Would you be willing to speak under oath to give your version of events. 100 . I didnt say under oath. I hardly know the man, i didnt say i want you to pledge allegiance. Who would do that . Who would ask someone to pledge allegice under oath . Who would do that. It makes no sense. No, i didnt say that, i didnt...

Democratic. these district are engineered for republican victory. it may not matter what this administration does, but it may only matter what voters turn out. >> i keep hearing because this campaign was built in a non-traditional way, there are campaign volunteers who are going to have to have legal fees despite receiving no compensation. but because they had exposure to things that will get them called for questioning? >> yeah, which is sort of a sad side to all of this. even lower level staffers at the white house will likely have to lawyer up. probably anyone who rode on a plane with micha...

For questioning? >> yeah, which is sort of a sad side to all of this. even lower level staffers at the white house will likely have to lawyer up. probably anyone who rode on a plane with michael flynn during this election. that's the way the special counsel probes work, especially when the questions are as broad as they are here, when there are as many people involved. the tentacles kind of stretch out. it's unfortunate that lot of people who probably had very little to do with the russians and didn't have any meetings that they didn't report are going to have to ep up larry king lawyering up ...

Campaign volunteers who are going to have to have legal fees despite receiving no compensation. but because they had exposure to things that will get them called for questioning? >> yeah, which is sort of a sad side to all of this. even lower level staffers at the white house will likely have to lawyer up. probably anyone who rode on a plane with michael flynn during this election. that's the way the special counsel probes work, especially when the questions are as broad as they are here, when there are as many people involved. the tentacles kind of stretch out. it's unfortunate that lot of pe...

White house press corps right now. let's welcome jemile smith, senior national koerpent for mtv news. notely an msnbc veteran back in the day. and sima rhetta, political writer for the los angeles times. welcome to you both. >> thank you. >> sima, let's start with the politics of it. well several people in the last 24 hours have said maybe he's just going to become a 40% president. >> he is clearly speaking to his base. this isn't really any surprise because at campaign rally after campaign rally last year he was very clear about what he felt about the paris agreement and that he planned to ge...