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Lieu wen down s lieu encow dy. >> he came to testify yesterday he said on fox he would answer every question we had. today however he refused to answer questions, like steve bannon, that referred to anything after he left the campaign. now, he is not an administration official, never has been an administration official, there's obviously no privilege that applies here. those questions included by the way, did you have a conversation with the president of the united states within the last 24 hours where you discussed your testimony. that is a question he would not answer. >> and ron, that last ...

States within the last 24 hours where you discussed your testimony. that is a question he would not answer. >> and ron, that last question is something that lawyers ask all the time, depositions, in courtrooms, who have you talked to to prepare your testimony. but the lewandowski refusal to answer questions is just inconceivable grounds for that. >> it goes back to what john said a minute ago. the trump administration has invented the i just don't want to answer that privilege. kind of a toothless republican congress seems generally inclined to accept that i don't want to answer that privilege...

There's a lot of places in the country like that. places like ohio, wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania, that are not trump country, and they are going to -- that is where you are going to see this down-ballot effect where there's going to be the blue wave well into the industrial heartland and a lot of other places if we keep heading this direction. >> ron, the speaker of the house, paul ryan, his home state, wisconsin. he's trying to lead the house of representatives, the republican side of the house of representatives, and he won't tell them he himself will run for re-election this year. and ...

People will probably be reminded of the rules and say man this is going to be really serious. at the same time, things have not changed politically. my guess these things will probably continue. >> and to ron's point, there has been selective oval office outrage about the leaking of classified information, but only when it is embarrassing to them, not when they are among -- >> look, it was just said, i mean, we might still have mike flynn on foreign government payrolls as the president's national security advisor if it wasn't for some of these disclosures. a great service to protect american's...

Have to appear before a grand jury if called. >> continuing here at the table with michael schmidt and ron clane. let's talk about leaks. some of the leaks scaramucci were complaining about were politically embarrassing leaks. what really is of concern to the attorney general and dan coats are classified information. i was curious about the way they seem to be throwing the intelligence community, which is familiar target of candidate trump and president elect trump and now president trump under the bus, but the fact is it's not at all clear that any of this has come from the intelligence commu...