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Joining us now, seth waxman, a former federal prosecutor under the clinton and obama administrations. i want to get your reaction to this new backtrack by orrin hatch. >> i'm glad to see him do that. his initial comments were troubling, a sitting senator saying the president can act with impugnity, whether that's breaking the law or not. for him to walk that back, it's not surprising. hopefully he'll wait to see the evidence, when he says mr. cohen isn't a credible witness, that may or may not be true but there's a lot of corroboration we seeing on mr. cohen. there's an entire picture that nee...

It doesn't help him much if comey says i would like to appear in public and then as soon as he is in public he says well, i can't discuss this because it's classified. i can't discuss that. so, i think it parlays the question of what the topics are going to be. as a general rule, i think it's always better to have the american people involved. the more they can learn, the more capable they are of rendering judgment. so it's a question of what issues are coming up. again, if you always have this question if they tape it and release it unless they release all of it people are going to say did yo...

Strategy during a one-on-one interview with chuck todd in this week's meet the press. >> if the president now has a syria strategy, i would like to see what it is. he has not had a strategy, but if he's come up with a strategy, we need to see exactly what it is that he's proposing and then make judgments. >> do you think he's authorized to do this without congressional approval? >> i want to see what he's proposing before rendering judgment. >> luke russert, we have been playing what has been said over the last 24 to 48 hours, criticism seems to be coming from all sides. what's the white house...

Like to have a authorization of sorts for what the president is doing. but leadership in congress has been afraid of allowing that debate to happen. >> if this means the president has a serious strategy, good, i want to see what it is. he doesn't have a serious strategy. that's part of our complaint. if this means he has a comprehensive strategy, let's hear it. let's see what he's proposing and then makes judgment. >> so you think he's authorized to do this without congressional -- >> i want to see what it is he's proposing before rendering judgment. >> by the way, i also talked to the new spe...

Also acknowledge they weren't prepared for the strong backlash you're seeing against sargeened bergdahl himself. you have some of his former army members coming forward saying that as many as six soldiers may have died searching for him. you have, again, other people coming forward with death threats and then of course you have lawmakers on capitol hill questioning his service. some even saying that we know enough now to actually punish him, to call him a dezwaurter. the defense department is saying it's important to hold off on rendering judgment because they're in the process of investigatin...