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Republicans and is it good enough? >> it's not the best, but i'm not going to let perfect be the enemy of good. jim recognizes the oversight function of congress and has respect for the institution. what he wanted to do was not a disservice to the public and he didn't want to engage in a disservice to a lot of the witnesses, he wanted to be transparent. if you want to know about these investigations, great. let's talk about it publicly. that's what this fight was about. what we achieved, we're running into an uphill battle, and that became clear to us, particularly in the hearing on friday. so...

Considering to invoke executive privilege to block him from testifying. is that even possible and how would it work? >> wolf, there's two big problems with trying to invoke executive privilege here. number one is james comey is a private citizen. he does not work for the president anymore, and so the president would essentially have to send in a lawyer to court to get this done, to order comey officially not to testify, a pretty big and unprecedented move and courts have routinely found that if there's any sort of xhl or governmental misconduct then the privilege doesn't apply. the second issu...

Through former agents or not. the president order comey -- >> cannot just fire comey? >> for set cause. >> he is insulated for political payback like this. >> he violated all the guidelines and put his thumb on a scale of an election, whether it was decisive or not is a different question and prosecute the people in the fbi in new york who are deliberately trying to use the fbi to influence the election by leaking damaging information. >> that's why you think she lost because of jim comey? >> i said that may be why she lost. it certainly hurt whether it was the key factor or not. >> in the pol...