chris. he is represented by same attorney who is representing don mcgahn. this is interesting because mcgahn is the white house counsel who is a serting executive privilege. so you have an attorney representing one client hosteling another client that they can t testify. it tells me one, they re working together. but it s also i think one of the greatest conflicts of interest i ve ever seen in the law. also, this ultimately someone s going to have to rule on this. you re going to have to press the case on your committee or he s going to win and you walk away. or you keep going but what he s asserting my understanding is quite a radical interpretation of the scope of this privilege. certainly. he has asserted that again, even in his time after leaving the white house, if he talked to someone who never stepped foot in the white house that he can t talk to us about that. that happened a number of times today. so it s really on us. it s whether we want to be a serious investigation or
him because he came in voluntarily they can compel him to answer and find out what they talked about. and, the area that you were exploring, was that the area where donald trump jr. was conferring with his father about what to say publicly about that meeting once that meeting had become public? yes. and that s important because we really need to know and i think the public needs to know what exactly was donald trump sr., the father s knowledge of the june 9th meeting and appear that is one of the only persons in the world to tell us that is donald trump jr. and now he is trying to shield he and his father from being exposed on that by asserting and making up essentially a privilege. and there s a report tonight indicating that when donald trump jr. was speaking to the white house about this he was speaking to hope hicks and hope hicks, of course, no conceivable definition of privilege.
tax returns. reporter: late sunday walking back her comment, asserting the president is still under audit and has been advised not to release his taxes but still didn t clarify whether they will ever be plealeased. a conflict of interest lawsuit alleges mr. trump is violating the constitution by receiving illegal payments from foreign governments. we have a first 100 days alert, learning what will be the first executive order we expect the president to sign today. it will be to withdraw the u.s. from the transpacific partnership. that s the 12-nation trade deal so important to the obama administration but president trump ran on a promise of drawing from. a clear promise of trade on this first monday in office. athena, thank you very much. as an expression, will what got you here get you there? the president s lack of transparency helped him during
30 jets and 20 airstrikes. i mean, that s i think this whole. arizona much to do with assad as it has to do with the united states. russia is clearly insefrt serting themselves into the world calculus here. it s been successful so far. if russia is successful in decimateing these rebel groups that support al-assad, what do you think that means for the future of syria? as president obama said, he used the word quagmire, frankly it s already a quagmire. i m not sure how much worse it can get. the nsa the pentagon came out and said we re not quite sure nsa is fighting isil. they ve taken their weapons and chosen to fight primarily against assad. i m not sure exactly what the russians will change. let s not forget, they only have 30 jets. we have twice as many. we have the ability to turn the tide aagainst isil with twice as many assets.
and, you know, his supporters were very upset about the overthrow and they re nervous that the ukraine is going to move closer to the west. this is just a way of asserting you know, asserting their interests. i don t necessarily think, though, they re going to go further into the ukraine. i do not think so. jenna: do you agree? i don t want to disagree with angela merkel but i do disa grow with this not being his right mind. this is what he does. now they ll be urn the umbrella. jenna: the crucial 24 hours and really the next 24 hours are particularly crucial. we had this threat from russia they re going urther into the area which you re seeing on the screen right now. what s the best way to go? economic sanctions? is that the way we address this? what do we do? the time to address this