The air force association hosted this onehour event. Gen. Holmes well, good morning. This has to be the best job in the world that somehow i fell into, when i look across the room at our air force family. Its incredible. Believe me, the chinese would not like what we are talking about, what we are doing, getting together here today focused on defending this nation, all of us together. So a special thanks to everyone in the room attending, and of course our sponsors, our Defense Industry partners. When we can put Defense Industry in the same room as our warfight good. Hats also, thanks to the media for being here. You all it criticized sometimes, more than you deserve. If we dont tell the story about the most lethal combat, conventional combat force in the world, were going to miss opportunity to defend this nation. So the medias directly involved here. The good news, this morning we have the leader of the most lethal conventional combat force in the world, general mike holmes. Incredib
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Thompson our chief Environmental Affairs correspondent, bill neeley chief global correspondent, eddie glaude an msnbc contributor and professor at princeton and david jolly a former congressman from florida. Peter, start with you, the president has the right to try to invoke executive privilege. A lot of argument about whether or not this would apply in this situation, but are you hearing from the white house that they might try to do that . Thats a good question. We havent heard that from this white house just yet although i am told by associates close to the president that when he came back from his foreign trip he did becomeimately aware of the growing severity, the significance, seriousness of this investigation to that point, so in terms of his executive privilege we dont have any new details on that but be clear this investigation is expanding, five current and former u. S. Officials now telling nbc news about the fact that they are looking into the fbi and congress is looking in