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Today the alignment is republican control in the house and senate and in the white house. so i do question not bob mueller. he's doing the intelligence and criminal investigation but i question how much inaerng there is in the congress because the partisan fervor or advantage or at least the partisan instincts not to be a lap dog is absent today. >> you think that's why we're seeing people who are coming in front of the committees and refusing to answer the question or put it in even john dean who was poort of -- during the watergate special counsel to the nixon administration saying this is s...

Has a chance to -- >> what is the legal base for your refuse tool answer the question snz. >> i'm reserving the right of the president to asert it if he chooses and there could be others that apply in the circumstance. >> so is he trying to have it both ways on executive privilege, john? >> this is called, from the nixon era, stone walling as he was accused of today. he was obskating and delaying and using a very weak excuse. there are apparently memos in the department of justice from the regan era that call for this kind of privilege but it's not anything that is regular order in the departm...

My panel is back with me. but first i want to bring in a utah republican, a member of the house intelligence committee. i've got to get your response to what john dean said. you know he was a nixon white house special counsel and he said what jeff sessions what he did today was a definition of stonewalling. how do you respond? >> i'm not sure i agree exactly. i think he was trying to be as forthcoming as he could. there's a couple constraints. one is with the classified setting. but also this executive privilege. i'm not an attorney. but i do believe there's some merit to that and he probably ...

Stonewalling. just following policy. are you aware of the policy? >> no, i'm not. if the policies exist we have to learn a lot more about them. i would think that my republican colleagues in this business thoug though. some day there will be a democratic president and they will want to bring them into n front of congress and get answers. if you're not going to answer because some day in the future the president may decide to envoc executive prij ledge, we may shut down. i think . >> you also heard the attorney general discuss that third supposedly undisclosed meeting he may have had with the r...

For the president. >> a lot of questions still going unanswered. >> reporter: that's right, erin. that left democratic senators going so far as saying the attorney general was stonewalling. he refused to go into detail about the one-on-one meeting between comey and p the president. all of those wrestles made for several contentious exchanges. >> thank you very much. >> attorney general jeff sessions grew angry and frustrated with the continued questions about a possible meeting in april 2016 with russian ambassador sergey kislyak. >> i recused myself from any investigation into the campaign fo...