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Shannon: are we heading to war with iran? he said we hope not. mike pompeo said absolutely the opposite of what we want. there's a lot of talk that the president is telling his aides i don't want this to escalate. you know during the campaign he talked about getting us out of places we don't need to but today this was on the senate floor. he described the situation as serious and potentially imminent threat to us forces and the trump administration is right to reposition the very axis should iran lash out at us interests in iraq or the middle east. knowing the president was dead set against th...

Trying to remember the last time we saw something like that. we have not seen as much of it, live events on the campaign trail in the coffee shots certainly since the 2016 race and it was donald trump getting that coverage at the end. >> yes, and what you saw was the president lash out at beto o'rouke the way donald trump would but he standed making fun of his hand gestures saying he's someone that is essentially just weird. i think it's right to say the president is feeling this pressure and wants to be the sun everyone revolves around. but i think there's an idea he can't help himself when h...

Discussing either of those things especially with a man at least nominally in charge of them raises questions about whether the president was trying to gabe influence unlawfully. last month whitaker refused to discuss what the president said to him but he did address one very specific question. >> did the president lash out at you after michael cohen's guilty plea for lying to congress about a trump organization project to build a tower in moscow? >> the president specifically tweeted that he had not lashed out. >> i'm asking you, mr. whitaker, did the president lash out at you. i'm not asking...

According to committee chairman jerry nadler, a democrat, whitaker talked about what the president said to him in the wake of michael cohen's guilty plea about his former fixer as well as the southern district of new york's investigation of cohen and the man known as individual one in court documents, also known as the president. however, the top republican congressman, doug collins, said that's not what whitaker said. discussing either of those things, especially with the man nominally in charge of them, raises questions whether the president was trying to exert influence, perhaps unlawfully....

>> did the president lash out at you after michael cohen's guilty plea for lying to congress about a trump organization project to build a tower in moscow? >> the president specifically tweeted that he had not lashed out. >> i'm asking you, mr. whitaker, did the president lash out at you? not asking what he tweeted. i zrient lot have a lot of comp the veracity of his tweets. >> congressman, that's based on an unsubstantiated -- >> sir, answer the question, yes or no, did the president lash out at you about mr. cohen's guilty plea? >> no, he did not. >> okay. now let's listen to what jerry nadl...