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To force him. he cannot sort of pretend to be claiming executive privilege. only the president can do that. and the president has not done that. and as you pointed out, that would make him look guilty. so he doesn't want to do that. and sessions is just sort of pretending like, well, i have to protect my rights and not answer the questions, and that's wrong. that is just wrong. and if they were discussing anything that was criminal, which would include a false reason for firing comey, then he can't do it. that would be invalid. >> ken delainian, if you're mueller, if you're either one of the h...

Intelligence and national security reporter. so ken, you'll get the first one tonight. what was your take away from all of the sessions' testimony including some of the nonanswers? >> well, brian, i was first struck with jeff sessions' story seems to have evolved once again whether or not he had any substantive conversations with sergey kislyak. he then changed the story to yes, i did have contacts but we didn't have any substantive discussions about the campaign. today he seemed to open the door. he said he couldn't recall, couldn't rule out he had some discussions about foreign policy issues...

And i do think that is an interesting moment. because there's a school of thought in the trump team that says you want to show as much cooperation as possible with the investigation. you want to get this over with as fast as you can and signal that you have nothing to hide among other things. at least the line coming from the trump camp of course is he has nothing to hide, he hasn't done anything wrong. these indications of executive privilege clearly do suggest to many observes there are hiding something. i saw the aclu tweeted today, echoes of watergate. and the more that trump officials tak...

Batters box, can he be compelled to answer in some other form? >> well, first of all let me say i agreed completely with what ken said on all of your questions on the first part. and yes, he can be compelled. but the question is will he? and the answer to that is probably not because the republicans control the committee. and they are not likely to try to force him. he cannot sort of pretend to be claiming executive privilege. only the president can do that. and the president has not done that. and as you pointed out, that would make him look guilty. so he doesn't want to do that. and sessions...

What's the difference between or the concert between a hearing like the one we saw today, the concurrent hearings going on on the house side and something like the mueller, what seems to be the overarching mueller investigation? >> well, the hearing today was technically an oversight here hearing. it has oversight with sessions the attorney general is head of. so conceivably they could be asking about anything. they did ask about other subjects including the enforcement or the protection -- democrats asked about protection for the glbt communicate and whether sessions was doing anything to sor...