so he we know it's true. >> ron klain, what are the restrictions now on what james comey can come out and publicly say and not say? for example, when the president does an interview with lester holt and starts describing these interaction was james comey, does that open it up, then, for james comey and allow him to come out publicly and say no, i did not request a dinner with the president? this is what happened at that dinner. this is what was said. he asked -- he basically demanded loyalty of me. how much of that can james comey now say? >> well, i think he can say all of that, lawrence. he obviously can't reveal any classified information. but i don't think classified information is the question. if he is going to put words within james comey's mouth, it's within his rights. the american people, an accounting of what actually happened. did he actually say throw times you're not under investigation? did he actually -- was he summoned to this dinner and asked for loyalty or ask for loyalty? i hope he will answer them. i hope congress will ask them. i hope congress will finally after

and back with us ron klain. sam, lest people think we become the dirty talkers about this very important thing, the long-term strategy that the democrats see here is if the house republicans pass this bill tomorrow, that will help the democrats retake the house of representatives and protect this health care. so what can sound like some kind of dirty political calculation about this is really a calculation about how do we protect the affordable care act long-term. >> yeah. there is two schools of thought that i've encountered when i talked to democrats about the politics of this. let's just put it inside the politics. the politics of this. one is there is eerie echoes of sort of the mentality they had in the 2016 presidential election which please, god, let the republican party nominate donald trump because that would ensure that we will win the campaign. so obviously that turned out in the way that was unpredicted. and not advantageous for democrats. in that sense they don't want it to pass. they would like to

in 1979, c-span was created as a public service byformer hillary advi adviser ron klain and ron christy, among others. this is about 90 minutes. >>> my name is morris levy, assistant professor of political science here. and thanks for everyone coming. differen dennis and bob for all their hard work. political science research has shown that judges' sentencing tends to be harshest right before lunch. i assume that similar patterns hold for political discussions. so my pledge to you is that we'll make up some time in the air and aim for a safe landing by 12:30 and hopefully you won't have to throw anyone offer the flight along the way. oh, no. let me begin by introducing our very distinguished panel, which in the spirit of this conference combines some luminaries from academia, with people who have really rich experience in the political world. so, to begin, going, again, from left to right, not necessarily in ideological order, matthew khan is a professor of economics, spatial studies and environmental science, ron christie, a former special assistant to george w. bush. jane dunn is poli

bush, and former hillary clinton campaign advisor ron klain. this is just under an hour and a half. >> my name is morris levy, assistant professor of political science. thanks to everyone for coming, to unruh for helping set this up, to dennis and bob for their hard work. research shows that judges' sentencing is harshest before lunch. i assume that similar patterns hold for political discussions, so my pledge is we will make up some time and aim for a safe landing by 12:30, and hopefully won't have to throw anyone off the flight along the way. let me begin by introducing our very distinguished panel, which in the spirit of this conference combines some luminaries from academia with people who have really rich experience in the political world. academia with pe really rich experience in the political world. to begin, going from left to right, not necessarily an ideological order, matthew khan is a professor of economics, spatial studies, and environmental science. ron klain is former chief of staff to joe biden and al gore and a former clinton

. >> i will use the chair product.in a quick follow-up to ron klain and ron christie about what indication do we get an indication of the presidents personality from what we see in the media and to what extent is there a very different picture behind the scenes, not necessarily pertaining to trump but to your experience? >> i do think there are presidents who are different in private than they are in public and i'll say the president, one greatexample is al gore . >> they know that actually he's kind of funny, likable person in person even though thereputation and robotics . >> all the thousand pop psychology things that are being thrown around come in the end there's a bottom line, performance is not meeting the bottom line standard. >> i was always fascinated looking when we came in on day one of george w. bush, dick cheney as darth vader calling the shots behind the scenes and you get in the oval office and you recognize how powerful the president is and his command of the facts and his command of the step and of his cabinet. one of the funniest stories i love to ship is in early cabine

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a senior advisor at the state department, ron klain, and michael schmidt. michael, your paper was the one that first reported that this intelligence came from israel. elaborate on that. >> well, obviously the zerldz a israelis are very important to us in that region because they can do things that the united states can't. they have proximity that the united states doesn't. but the interesting thing here is actually if you look back at the campaign, the issue of the disclosure of classified information that mr. trump and his national security -- early national security advisor mr. flynn made about hillary clinton, there was never any evidence that anything that hillary clinton had, her mishandling of classified information, was ever disclosed publicly. and now this administration's forced to explain how it disclosed this information. so it is a bit embarrassing. >> michael, you're absolutely right. it was a key component of donald trump's campaign, that hillary clinton might have leaked or inadvertently leaked through hacking classified information that she

in 1979, c-span was created as a public service byformer hillary advi adviser ron klain and ron christy among others. this is about 90 minutes. >>>na

bush, and former hillary clinton campaign advisor ron klain.his is just under an hour and a half. >> my name is morris levy, assistant professor of political science. thanks to everyone for coming, to unruh for helping set this up, to dennis and bob for their hard work. research shows that judges' sentencing is harshest before lunch.