as you know it's only regarding the ig, and we saw on the valerie plame case that protections are muchker than we all thought they were. >> you mentioned the valerie plame case as one, bush administration officials. she was outed when her husband was a state diplomat official. so tell us how the privacy act applied to her and may or may not apply here. >> she was a covert agent, so there were special protections in place for covered acts, but in this case it appears that the whistle-blower is not. again, there isn't a sufficient executive branch check if the president or other government officials violate the privacy of this whistle-blower, and it takes an ever to investigate those concerns, and that whistle-blower is bailey hanging out in the wind for that due process to occur. >> thank you so much for that. >> thank you. >>> here's what's to watch today. sneer into coming up, they are among the newest members of congress and perhaps the most vulnerable for re-election. now they are torn each the impeachment inquiry. welcome to emirates, mr jones. just sit back, relax and let us enter

the conflict intensified when i took back on merchant from plame and arrived in namibia and 883. he helped to find natural resources such as copper and minerals which he planned to sell in europe at a great profit ringback. i don't pfluger this was a man of dubious reputation his tobacco plantations in mexico had failed as had his attempts to establish business operations in west africa now he had his sights set on the bay of picking up he began negotiations with a local number of people. their negotiations specified english miles but the purchase contract specified german miles 4 and a half times as much land as had been agreed. this fraud accounted for i don't have to go it says enormous estate german emperor villa one of the 1st issue to rid of protection and on august 7th 1904 the imperial flag was raised over the navy and coast. i grew up it was renamed you know its base. this was just the beginning soon the german protectorate encompassed one and a half times as much land as germany itself. like elsewhere in europe the population of germany was growing rapidly as was the de

alberto gone saltz and jab ashcroft recused themselves for the valerie plame case.aw is -- no one is above the law and the law will be applied equally. the most famous thing with barr is the summary of the mueller report, that said it cleared trump, when it clearly did not. >> the attorney general is appointed by the president. it's part of the executive. is it naive of us to think that the ag will truly be independent and impartial when he's a political appointee? >> the post-watergate norm is if the president is i want to crack down on drugs, the attorney general enforces that policy, or i want to track down on pharmaceutical companies. what the attorney general should not go is go at that specifically pharmaceutical company's ceo who didn't give their president the campaign contribution they wanted. there should not be individual tailoring of prosecutions to benefit the president political politically. i notice that's sort of complicated, but that's become the norm for the last 40 years, so the american people trust our police, our whole system. >> i mentioned er

plame's hot spots and smoke continue to move through healdsburg as the kentucky fire grows. >>you know, it's wind driven fire and it's just jump in ahead of itself because of the winds they're concerned about >>28 here you see burned vehicles and other items in the are looks li destroyed most of the outdoor furniture. but if you take a look this way you can see the fire fighting hose and it looks like firefighters were able to stop this fire before needed to the home. across the street, another structure burned to the ground that's a concern as you have grass goes into heavy brush and it just ahead in structures and they have a lot of structure about 1500 people on the line today, 3,000 total. >>for structures trying stop this is just down the road from another damage property on chalk hill road you can see firefighters. >>working to put out those flames in hot spots here there are several concerns on this part of the road, not only are the flames moving down this hill towards a home, but also there's concerns about the fire jumping this road here behind me they're grass a r

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>>> one of president trump's former advisers for the white house says, the white house staff is to plamepeachment inquiry going into the house. . >> president trump's former chief of staff john kelly said he advised the president against hiring a yes man as his replacement, saying it could lead him to impeachment. in a statement to cnn president trump said kelly every said anything like that. and if he had, he would have been thrown out of the office. kelly, former general, said he did not do enough to rein in the president's impulses. pepperman has been scheduled to give a deposition tomorrow. he asked the judge if he had to comply with his subpoena. >>> a first saturday deposition questioning phillip reeker. it went on eight hours. house intelligence chair adam schiff said he believed they were making progress. republican scott perry sounded unimpressed with the testimony. take a listen. . >> well, it's the same old situation. honestly, i haven't heard anything that has been earth shattering or really anything different than what we have heard over and over again. so we're just going t

lots of smoke and bright orange plame flames light up the night. middle town seems safe, though. the winds are not blowing here. it's calm here and very cold. if you look at the map that cal fire has, an interactive map, it shows that the fire is four to six miles from middle town. we have been told that firefighters were taking an aggressive stance to do everything they could to keep it from coming here into lake county. as far as we can tell, right now we just arrived here on the scene, it looks like their efforts have paid off. we still have a few hours to go of this wind event that everyone has been talking about and forecasting and watching. they're worried about it, but right now as of 5:00 this morning it looks ferocious up there on the hill, but down here in town everything seems calm and okay. amy hollyfield, abc7 news. >>> pg&e says because of good ware conditions it will not cut the power to customers in alameda, contra costa, can't is a clara, san mateo and santa cruz counties. good news this morning. thousands of bay area customers are still in the dark. i will pull

the aing ta initially plamed on saudi arabia before iranian authorities clawed back on those allegationsit is still unclear what happens of the tanker and who may have been responsible. last month saudi oil sites came under drone attack. houthi rebels said they were responsible. a very tense situation. now one into which the russian president vladimir putin is stepping. russia has good relations with iran. but also growing ties with saudi arabia. as president putin prepares to begin a state visit to saudi, he's issued a tenor warning. if anyone believes the seizure of tankers or attacks on oil infrastructure will affect russia or our arab friends, all of them are wrong he said in an interview with russian state media. that is set to take place monday. there is a growing, you know, personal bond between the two countries's powerful leaders. that is an interesting context in which to see the u.s. support for saudi arabia. because if that were to decrease, there would be plenty of others led by russia willing to fill the vacuum. matthew chance, cnn, riyadh. >>> matthew, thanks. a new poll s

operations and so forth even before 2000 so this is has been ongoing and if it's just about really taking plame i personally profiled bin ladin in 19941940 but but this is not something you say just the morning after you actually have a great victory against islamic state by the assassination of its leader so really this was a major diversion from what is the agenda of the day which is the united states special forces have just taken on. the idea they had of isis after totally and utterly defeating isis on the ground. all right. with the with the word there from london thank you mara we'll be bringing bringing you back in shortly let's go now to eric hamm is the u.s. policy analyst joining us from washington d.c. so. all right so the president touched on a lot of things he started off the press conference and lacked confirming what what many had already been reporting that that baghdadi was was killed and then proceeded to use a lot of colorful language to talk about it. i guess how big of a moment is this for for the trump administration and particularly as it is in regards to their policy in