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He or she doesn t retain any residual power, we re not a monarchy. if trump were permitted to gainsay that, there would be an incredible erosion of the power of the presidency. that s the opportunity that the congress has offered to the supreme court, for them to go ahead and act quickly. let s play devil s advocate, joyce. what argument could the supreme court use to grant donald trump s request not to release those records? i think it s less likely that they would outright grant that request and block release than that they might decide that they would hear the case. you know, the real options here are procedural. either saying, no, this case is done, the lower courts ruling ....
Accurate. i think most likely let s play play devil s advocate here. let s say someone who is a connecting analysis who has intelligence sharing agreement with ukrainian government is told they should no longer share that information. that person goes back and asks why are we no longer sharing information? as a result of that request it comes down to this is being ordered by the president and the justification as to why they want this done is made available to this person and that becomes the basis for the i.g. complaint i don t think that the person saw the transcript of the phone call or was in the room with the president. rather it s more likely they were involved in actually the subsequent action, the order that the president gave to support this and they were told to do this because of this additional phone call. so what could be the motivation then of this whistleblower? some voices on the left have called this person a hero and courageous. trump allies say the person is so ....
It s a partisan whistleblower. shouldn t even have information. i ve had conversations with many leaders that are always appropriate. have you read the complaint? no. i just tell you it is, everybody has read it, they laugh at it. president trump taking on the whistleblower who filed a complaint about the president s communication with a foreign leader. the washington post reports that complaint involves ukraine. let s dig deeper with a former fbi double agent, navid jamali is the author of how to catch a russian spy. great to have you here. who could this whistleblower be, given the people who have access to the content of the president s phone calls with foreign leaders? what s your best guess? i don t think that the whistleblower is blowing the whistle because specifically of ....
Let s see what in the transcript to see if there s any wrong doing. until then, the washington excuse me, the wall street journal reported there was no quid pro quo. until we see the transcript, no one should be calling for impeachment on this. we will certainly look forward to seeing what we can find out in the complaint. thank you for joining us on this saturday morning. thank you for being here. and at the top of the hour, it s up with david gura. among his guests, peter welch. i m dara brown. thanks for staying with us. daran thanks for staying with us i am royalty of racing, raise your steins to the king of speed. ....
$30 million. the president is using that extra money that i guess he says he now has on fighter jets, right? well, probably. there s going to be a new f-35 contract coming soon, but i don t know if it will be that clear cut that they ll move it directly over to buying new jets. let s talk about privatizing the war in afghanistan. nbc news had some exclusive reporting today that president trump is showing new interest in erik prince s plan to privatize the war in afghanistan. prince wants to replace troops with private military contractors and contractors would work for a special u.s. envoy who would report directly to the president. this would completely circumstancircumvent the pentagon, completely circumvent james mattis. of course and this isn t the first time we heard this plan surface. last summer when there were weeks and weeks of discussion about the south asian strategy, it was how to deal with the ....