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Variety of ideas about healthcare reform, shep. >> shepard: mike, thanks. president trump about to award medals of valor to first responders from the shooting at the republican baseball practice in june. lawmakers that were there say police saved lots of lives when they shot and killed the gunman. the shooting wounded four including steve scalise. yesterday doctors announced hes out of the hospital and starting rehab. back to mike. this ceremony to begin presently. >> absolutely, shep. should be...

Stance. this is a bad deal for america and for our allies, and our partners. nothing has changed. this is a technical requirement on a bad deal, we inherited. we did not close this. remember, this is the obama regime deal. >> bill: did rex tillerson talk to the president? >> we were in a conversation together. the president, myself, various principles. we do not talk about the internal mechanics, but we had a very, very robust discussion, and the president maintains his stance. >> bill: last que...

Present. and thats certainly a very important fooct oact to our investigation. >> reporter: you also said you believe jared kushners security clearance should be perhaps suspended? whats your basis for saying that? >> if he didnt disclose on his sf-86 that he was having knithi meeting and renewed clearance are t forms still didnt disclose it and didnt disclose the true purpose of the meeting, in a absolutely should be disqualifying in terms of a security clearance. those are the allegations. we ...

Jim? >> brian, hes like a character out of a novel. spy novel, absolutely. sur getting a sense that sergey kislyak was directed by the kremlin to stir things up to provoke the trump team into getting into some trouble? is there any evidence of that? >> reporter: jim, we are getting different takes on that from veteran diplomats and analysts in washington. some believe kislyak was doing what russian ambassadors have to do. when trump became a front runner he simply had to get more information on ...

Pledge to keep the fbi from any political interference or influence? >> absolutely, senator. >> i was a prosecutor at the time of j. edgar hoover. i never want to see us go back to that either, where the fbi director did things that we know were illegal, improper and done for his own political motivation. i know senator grassley made some comment about that, too. the intelligence community -- this has been public -- including the fbi, cia, nsa, concluded with high confidence that russian interve...

Investigation and i would view the fbis role in providing whatevers appropriate support that is needed so he can do a thorough investigation. if it were to occur and some other context, absolutely, the fbi -- i take obstruction of justice, deathly seriously because they go to the integrity of the process and as i said, i think in response to questions from some of your colleagues, it is the integrity of the process that gives the american people confidence that the outcome of the investigation i...

They were faulty, we should know that. >> well, senator, i share your concern about having forensic science done appropriately. cases stand or fall on that and we cant have innocent people convicted because of flawed science. im not familiar with the particular problems that occurred in this particular arena but its something i want to get briefed on early on and see what other appropriate action might need to be taken. >> thank you, mr. chairman, ill have a follow-up about the question raised o...

Conducting that investigation, i would view the fbis role as providing whatever appropriate support is needed so that he can do a thorough investigation. if it were to occur in some other context, absolutely, the fbi, i think -- and i take obstruction of justice, perjury, false statements, offenses like that, definitely seriously, because they go to the integrity of the process. and as i said, i think in response to questions from some of your colleagues like senator klobuchar, that its the inte...

Political interference or influence? >> absolutely, senator. >> i was a prosecutor at the time of j edgar hoover, never want us to see us go back to that era today. did things illegal and improper and done for his own political motivation. and i know senator gres grassley made a comment about that too. the intelligence community, and this has now been public, concluded with high confidence that russia intervened in the 2016 election in order to den great secretary clinton and help elect donald t...

Very, very important topic, obviously, andrew. and the question is will these two leaders be able to do something about it? how do they get along? >> absolutely, natalie. there is a lot on the table for these two to talk about but north korea looms large given what happened over the last week or so. this is the most important relationship in the world, u.s. and china. but the relationship between president trump and president xi has been rocky, take a look. >> a man ive got ton like atend respec...