those lawyers tonight aren t consulting with counsel. let me read you something really short, lawrence. it comes from the aba s rules of professional conduct which are pretty much in effect in every state in the union. a lawyer shall not counsel a client to engage or assist a client in conduct that the lawyer knows is criminal or fraudulent. now, that means that not only do those lawyers have potential criminal exposure but they have exposure in terms of their licenses to practice law. we will see how this pans out and whether there are some cracks in that. if they re not worried tonight, they re not wide awake. joel brenner. thank you for joining us on this breaking news night. thank you. you bet. and after this break we ll hear from two of the potential jurors in the impeachment trial of
unease with what the president is doing, and in extreme cases like the one we ve been discussing, even the possibility that the president has betrayed his oath of office. when you think of some of the shall we say marquis leaks of this administration, you get that sense, leaking top secret information to the russians in the oval office. going to meet vladimir putin without a note taker. without a translator and discussing a whole series of issues with him and you can go down the line of leaks that illustrate the people, even those people closest to the president are profoundly disturbed by what he has done and what he tried to do. ned price, larry pfeiffer, thank you very much for joining us tonight. really appreciate it. thank you. we re going to crash through a commercial break to go straight through joel brenner. joel brenner was the head of the u.s. counter intelligence and the office of the director of
they re predicated not on this in fighting bow a profound unease with what the president is doing, and in extreme cases like the one we ve been discussing, even the possibility that the president has betrayed his oath of office. when you think of some of the shall we say marquis leaks of this administration, you get that sense, leaking top secret information to the russians in the oval office. going to meet vladimir putin without a note taker. without a translator and discussing a whole series of issues with him and you can go down the line of leaks that illustrate the people, even those people closest to the president are profoundly disturbed by what he has done and what he tried to do. ned price, larry pfeiffer, thank you very much for joining us tonight. really appreciate it. thank you. we re going to crash through a commercial break to go straight through joel brenner. joel brenner was the head of the
let me read you something really short, lawrence. it comes from the aba s rules of professional conduct which are pretty much in effect in every state in the union. a lawyer shall not counsel a client to engage or assist a client in conduct that the lawyer knows is criminal or fraudulent. now, that means that not only do those lawyers have potential criminal exposure but they have exposure in terms of their licenses to practice law. we will see how this pans out and whether there are some cracks in that. if they re not worried tonight, they re not wide awake. joel brenner. thank you for joining us on this breaking news night. thank you. you bet. and after this break we ll hear from two of the potential jurors in the impeachment trial of donald j. trump in the united
congress and the acting director of national intelligence about the reported now promise that the president allegedly made to a foreign leader. tonight we will talk with someone who was inside the closed-door house intelligence committee briefing today with the inspector general who is at the heart of this controversy. we re also really lucky to be joined tonight by two intelligence community experts who have a lot to teach us. joel brenner is the former inspector general at the national security agency. he was quoted in the original breaking news report from the washington post last night. unique perspective on this story. and tom donilon, you have seen him dozens of times in situations with president obama including that memorable photograph from the situation room during the killing of osama bin laden. and harvard law school s recognized authority on constitutional law, professor laurence tribe, will join us later in this hour.