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Former trump associate is set to testify today in front of congressional investigators looking into trump's ties with russia. while other trump allies have been very reluctant to answer any questions from congress, he could be the most cooperative witness yet. he tells "the washington post" he will answer every question without exception. joining the conversation former u.s. attorney and msnbc legal analyst, and back with us tim o'brien who knows the role sater plays within the trump orbit very well. "the washington post" says he plans to discuss previously undiscussed details about his effort...

What is their calculus? who is recommending what to their senior leadership? and so if i'm the president i'm pushing my senior national security team to give me some answers not just about the next 48 or 72 hours but how do we manage our way out of this in a way that gets us what we want through some combination of diplomacy and coercive force if necessary? >> how do others look at the president's actions -- as thoughtful or weak? >> that's hard to answer. there are certainly some across the broader middle east who will say the president blinked and question, well, are the americans again not ...

President obama and staying true to his own principles of generally being anti-intervention. but with some, again, very notable exceptions. it is a real debate and deliberation not just in the advisers around the president but even within the president's own gut and impulses. >> all right. thank you all so much. we're going to dig deeper on iran with someone who knows how president trump thinks maybe better than anyone. and a man who has seen the most highly classified intelligence on iran for years. and later, not one but two pulitzer prize winning journalists tell us the one question that co...

Libya in 1981. he did that again in 1988 when there was a one day naval battle in which we sank about half of the iranian operational fleet. what trump has done and i wrote this in my klum last saturday was demonstrate to the iranians he is a twitter tiger. this is a guy who likes to speak loudly, is full of bluster, but the fact is he is not only a very cautious president but he's an extraordinarily disorganized president. tim is exactly right. you just have to ask yourself the kind of extraordinary breakdown in normal american governance that a president orders a strike but only asks the fol...

Executive all of his aides stand in his shoes and similarly cannot be called to answer questions about anything during the period of time she worked as an aide in the white house. there is one court opinion that i'm aware of that studied this question and rejected it. it is that there is qualified executive privilege which means on a question by question basis you may be able to invoke privilege to refuse to answer a question if it might reveal sensitive deliberations so as not to chill future conversations within the white house. but to blanketly say i'm not going to answer anything about the...