inspector general at the national security agency. he was quoted in the original breaking news report from the wsht washington post wsht last night. and tom donnelln, 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 lawrence tribe, will join us later in this hour. on the day when the president s lawyers finally said donald trump can indeed commit any crime that you can think of and no prosecutor in america can ever do anything about it as long as donald trump is president. the trump lawyers filed an extraordinary document in court today saying that in effect president trump could shoot someone on fifth avenue and the manhattan district attorney could do nothing about it.
intelligence activity covered by the operations of the director of national intelligence. and so it doesn t matter where that person actually lies, whether it s inside or outside the intelligence community. ned price, i just want to give you a wide open opportunity here because you just kept throwing things at us last night that i hadn t even thought of in my questioning. so i m just going to give you the floor. where do you see this on day two? well, i think what we ve learned tonight, lawrence, is that it has something to do with ukraine. we don t know what precisely. we don t know what this promise may have been. but i think, lawrence, it raises the prospect even more so that what we re really talking about is a quid pro quo. and now, of course quid pro quos are part of statecraft. they are part of diplomacy. it s what presidents do all the time. president obama sent 4,000 troops to west africa to fight