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With this. thinking about the role of executive privilege it is not protecting the president but the presidency and so they're contemplating whether or not to extend it and the former president in unchartered territory trying to asesert tha which he has abandoned. he can't veto or command the u.s. armed forces. can't sign legislation and pardon and wants to have this one be the one he keeps and the courts are not likely to find that to be the case. >> and it's also interesting that the former doj officials he let them talk to the committee and trying to assert this in this case. gloria, we saw...

Candidate trump didn't think so in late october when director comey reopened the probe. >> the fbi -- has just sent a letter to congress. -- informing them that they have discovered new e-mails. -- pertaining to the former secretary of state hillary clinton's investigation. >> i have great respect for the fbi for writing this wrong. the american people fully understand her corruption and we hope all -- all justice will finally be served. >> so there's candidate trump applauding the fbi for the very decision many clinton's supporters say tipped the election in his favor the same fbi he is now d...

Good option for them. the other thing they can do is they can decide not to count that ballot and change their opinion that it is an over vote. >> this is remarkable from the beginning, almost regardless of the turn out. more than 23,000 voted in this election. did you ever imagine this would all come down to a one vote and potential tie-breaker. >> i knew it was going to be close but i never imagined that it would be tied and honestly i think the process for the recount went really smoothly. during the recount if they said okay it's a tie i'd be much more accepting of this coin toss game of c...

And polling. people complaining about his tweets his asset style, his divisive nature and the kind of thing we were talking about at the top of this discussion this need to exaggerate his own accomplishments and belittle everyone else in order to enlarge himself. those kinds of things have created enormous problems for him and will dog him going into the mids term election. >> once again the idea of bipartisan legislation comes to the floor and again it's infrastructure. it was talked about earlier in this year that republican and democrats working together and infrastructure one of those. do ...

This? >> it's possible. the environment has been so poisoned by this first year. now we're headed to a competitive election year which i'm sure democratic leaders are not eager to hand victories to the president. they remember for six years president obama proposed major investments in infrastructure and for six years republicans refused to do so on the grounds that they said it was unaffordable and now having passed a tax bill that added $1.5 trillion to deficits that will be ringing in people's ears and you will find republicans on their side arguing that now, having done this on the tax bil...