cohen or other potential witnesses, that is obstruction of justice. the president has pardon power. but i think that power is limited when it relates to an investigation where he s a subject. did pardons come up today? can t go into that. you can conclude that what was discussed in the public hearing in pardons were discussed. we dived deeper. again our job is not jump to conclusion yet. it s to follow the evidence. and there s more evidence to follow. thankfully because cohen was cooperative. obstruction of justice when it comes to that testimony. talking specifically. part of the reason he is going to prison. he lied. about when the trump tower moscow discussions ended. right? so he s admitted that he put that lie on himself. saying under pressure. to fit with the narrative there s nothing to see here. he also says his adviser is
interventions against bias. there have been so many acts of bias and bigotry coming from the right that he hasn t spoken out against enough. so it s unfortunate you have a commander in chief and president who doesn t have the moral credibility to denounce these things without it having this kind of response from people. at the same time i think inside the democratic party, we re having a bunch of challenges ourselves because there are legitimate concerns and grievances about the way the government of israel conducted itself at times with the palestinian people. ho you talk about that is very tricky. you don t want to give aid and comfort to antijewish bigots. the younger generation tries too raise concerns it keeps burping up against bumping up against the problems. and so the president is taking advantage of the internal
after reports the if the grant td them. over ruling the recommendations of top aids and security officials. white house firing back. refusing to hand over documents calling the request unprecedented and untrucive. i want to bring in james clapper. director, great to have you. you have said the president has the right to give clearances to anyone he wants. that s true. that s part of why with think about who we vote for. you want somebody to make good decisions. how serious of a problem does it have to be for the white house personnel security officer the chief of staff and white house counsel to say no to someone s security clearance. great question. unfortunately, we don t know exactly the nature of the reservations that came up. that the fbi or cia had. about particularly jared kushner
his claim he made publicly last week that one of the president trumps lawyers jay sekulow made changes about the projects time line. accusation he calls completely false. now this is crucial. this all comes down to whether the trump family and cohen negotiating on trump tower through the election. rudy giuliani said they were. cohen claims the 2017 statement was reviewed ahead of time including an attorney for ivanka trump and jared kushner. the hearings went very well. i believe that all of the members were satisfied with the statements and the responses that i gave to them. i told them that any additional information that they would want they should feel comfortable to reach out to counsel. and i would continue to cooperate to the fullest extent of my capability. now the intelligence chairman
messenger matter. the messenger is so flawed. that s said so many things on the regular. i have lived in the country for a listening time. i never experienced open antisemitism until trump ran for president. my e-mail inbox and twitter account started filling with this garbage of pictures of me in on oven with trump in an ss uniform pulling the lever to kill