area of the law and he in a campaign, he bragged about he could kill somebody on fifth avenue and get away shoot someone on fifth avenue. yeah. and so, you know, this is he has michael s absolutely right, he has no authority to determine the subject matter of this investigation. he has no ability to draw a red line around what can be investigated and what can t be. and the red line that he would like to draw has already been crossed, i think. about his about mueller investigating his finances. absolutely. let s talk about this. speaking we were just talking about jay sekulow, his attorney earlier. jay sekulow reported to the bloomberg report about mueller scrutinizing the president s business dealings. they re talking about real estate transactions in palm beach several years ago. in our view, this is far outside the scope of legitimate va investigation. he was referring to this back in 2004, donald trump bought a beachfront mansion in people
special counsel or his team were accessing or attempting to access evidence or documents that were beyond the scope, they could say something about it. i should the flip side is true, too, which is that if the special counsel during the course of his investigation discovered additional areas that he thought were worthy of investigation, the regulations in place deal with that scenario and that possible and the special counsel then have to go back to the attorney general and in this case it s the acting attorney general for this matter, rod rosenstein, and ask for permission and additional grant of authority to broaden the scope of his investigation. but i don t think he would need to do that to seek tax returns assuming, again, that his view is that the tax returns are relevant to the topic he has already been mandated to investigate. matt, i want to ask you about what the president told the new york times about how he sees the role of the fbi director. this is a quote, he said th
end of his presidency but by that point, lawrence walsh, for whom i worked, had mostly completed his investigation and did file a report but how that would work on this, i don t there s still the congressional investigation, the senate intelligence investigation, the counterintelligence investigation, beyond the special counsel investigation. that is true. there are whistleblowers inside the government that are ensuring some of this information gets times are dog great work. that s a great thing for americande moxie. would that present a crisis if he did try to pardon himself? it s really interesting to me, listen, yeah, i m guilty but i pardoned myself, therefore i think it would be the crisis. it really would because the validity of it would be up for grabs and also look at how it sounds. yeah. taking yourself off the hook. i mean, it just it s terrible. hang on, brian. like a judge presiding over
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okay tom, thank you. thank you. breaking over night a tragic story out of brooklyn new york. a house fire has killed seven children and the youngest just five years old. it appears that the victims were all related. so one family here losing seven children. it s not clear what started the fire, and of course there s an ainvestigation under way right now. critical situation in yemen. isis declares this latest terror strick is the tip of the iceburg. if it s true, are the attacks around the world? secretary of the state says that there s process regarding the attacks in iran. we will bring that to you live when he steps up. despite this being the start of