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Morning. >> thanks very much. all right. for the full scope of what today's hearing actually means and what consequences it could have, let's bring in former watergate prosecutor and partner at the law firm of dorsy and whitney, nick aker man. thanks so much for helping us work through this. >> sure. >> some will put emphasis on the idea that this was not sworn senate testimony. but for purposes of telling the truth or not telling the truth, which is with important in the case of donald trump, jr. because we now have four implicating and evolving statements, depending on how you want to phrase...

Policy and academic circles than the white house. >> yeah. by rolling out jeff sessions at 11:00 eastern, you expect the rule of law argument, the overreach by president obama. that certainly appears to be the way they will phrase it. congress back in session today, as well. what do you think they take up first, and can they push through harvey relief and the debt ceiling being raised in time for the deadline, end of the month? >> if you gave me a top hat upside down with 18 pieces of paper, something scribbled on each, i think i might grab that and read it and see if we can river off of that ...

>> or dropped the ball, however you want to phrase it, he stumbled coming out of the gate on saturday. presidents use that pulpit to their advantage. to unite us, to lift us out of situations of despair. think of the space shutting, it just goes down the list. this was a presidential moment. >> san bernardino, for example. new town. >> and maybe he knew what he was doing when he came out on saturday and said both sides were to blame. >> but did he know, as he walked away he had a perfect opportunity to say white supremacy is not okay. neo-n neo-nazi, not okay. instead he chose to just walk

Reform legislation?and where do the democrats fit in? >> well, i think on tax well, certainly for them tax reform or tax cuts however, they want to phrase it. they will definitely be in disagreement again.you have the house real caucus who does not want to see some of the leaders and the border tax and part of their plans, some of them want some corporate tax cuts. there's a lot of disagreement on cuts. >> what about his of the democratic party? >> i would say ends of the democratic party it will be continuing to make sure that we are working to restore as many jobs in the economy as possible....

Repeal has failed as well. a lot of people thinking the only thing that could pass is what we're calling the skinny repeal where they take away a few parts of obamacare, the medical device tax, the individual mandate, employer mandate and pass something so the house has passed something, the senate has passed something and maybe they can work something out. they have to have a resolution to this probably tomorrow or friday. this special process they're using only allows 20 hours of debate. that's debate time only. we expect a very lengthy night tomorrow maybe when they try to finish this or in...