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Agency and your dealings with potentially regulated sectors. i consider much of this narrative to be a distraction but one this committee cannot ignore. >> the attorney general jeff sessions testifying on the hill today as well. he's been recused from the mueller problem and the russia investigation but still facing questions about it from lawmakers. it's all that anybody on the hill is talking about today. we're about a half an hour away from the votes to confirm the next secretary of state, mike pompeo. republicans think there's enough democrat support to get him through. doug jones from ala...

Yield something faster than the mueller probe. if the mueller problem has him putting out results and congress saying okay, whatever, the justice department has to go and look at the campaign finance violation. it is very possible this could be more of a headache for him in the long term and is going to keep going. if somebody in fact made a illegal contribution or unreported contribution to the trump campaign in furtherance ambition to be president, that's against the law. >> let me ask you to button this up with just some analysis and even personal observations about how much time the media ...

>> what do you make of ken dilanian's analysis at best it is a campaign finance violation, at worst it's jeopardy in the mueller probe? it's pretty dangerous lane to be driefrmi drief driving in. >> it's possible this could be yield something faster than the mueller probe. if the mueller problem has him putting out results and congress saying okay, whatever, the justice department has to go and look at the campaign finance violation. it is very possible this could be more of a headache for him in the long term and is going to keep going. if somebody in fact made a illegal contribution or unrep...

There's a little bit of magical thinking going on with what i reported today. he thinks if i could bring in new people, say an adviser like jason miller and maybe corey lewandowski we can just push back enough to get this mueller problem go away but you can't wish the mueller probe away. >> olivia, this happens in book writing or in tv or things, people are in a bad situation they're like "if i had an agent who was a real shark." the agent is not your problem. >> that's true to an extent but i think this was true during the campaign, when somebody would leave and somebody new would replace him...

This is a president that is increasingly acting like he is boxed in and we see this fight with his lawyers, he wants to talk to mueller, his lawyers don't want him to talk to mueller. this is clearly a president who sees his options narrowing and there's a little bit of magical thinking going on with what i reported today. he thinks if i could bring in new people, say an adviser like jason miller and maybe corey lewandowski we can just push back enough to get this mueller problem go away but you can't wish the mueller probe away. >> olivia, this happens in book writing or in tv or things, peop...