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. who's taking office. the president has spent eight consecutive weekends away from the white house at his various trump resorts including what has been deemed the winter white house, his palm beach resort mar-a-lago. it is also the name now, the fow legislation the democrats have just rolled out. they want to know who's meeting with the president when he's away from the white house. here is the actual name of the legislation for you. prepare yourself. it is the making access records available to lead american government openness act. yep, that's it. it would force the white house to create ...

To leave american government in openness. that's the legislation you've introduced. the acronym, mar-a-lago, if you will. that would require the publication of visitor logs to the white house, other trump organizations, properties. >> if someone has the president's here, in the white house, trump tower or in south florida. the american public has a right to know, who's attempting to influence the democratic progress. i introduced this to three straight congresses. it didn't get much attention before, probably because president obama voluntarily released that information, as one of your reporte...

Time, they didn't want to give us a second shot. >> do you think the chairman, devin nunes, should resign? should he recuse himself from this investigation? should he allow for a special investigation? where do you stand? >> i think we need a special investigation. after 9/11, there were a series of different investigations. and they all have different abilities. at this point in time, i would respectfully tell the chairman, he ought to look into his heart. can he serve two masters? how much damage has been done to the credibility of this investigation. attacking the credibility of that invest...

Press secretary, maximize the political appeal of the president of the united states or do you view it as balancing two competing interests, which is maximizing the president's political appeal and dpa guaranteeing some public access which is to say sometimes doing things that might not make the president look good because you also have a role as being a defender of the public's right to have access to the president? >> well, i think you have to do -- to be successful and to not cause this to be a story literally every day, you have to do obviously some of each. obviously my job as press secre...

Another president or another president adviser, but instead of ten outlets the white house is dealing with, there's 600, right? and so now you have to make these choices sitting in your role formerly as the head of the white house press secretary of who gets that access. my first question to you is what is the thinking? literally how do you go about making that decision? there's not to be some spread sheet that here are the four million outlets that want to talk to us and what does that meeting look like where you say him, him and her. >> chris, you're right. i used to keep and my assistant us...