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Troubling. but now were hearing for the first time from a republican member of the senate, lisa murkowski, who is saying basically that based on her understanding of events, she said we may need to begin thinking about an independent commission or special prosecutor. thats a significant crack in the senate right now on this topic, as we go forward. specifically as for the comment regarding that memo, i spoke to a white house aide this morning, who didnt dispute again the memos existence, but dis...

Traditionally do. but there at the white house, peter, what more are officials telling you about these claims in the comey memo? >> late yesterday, the white house said in a statement, in effect, saying this was a, quote, not a truthful or accurate portrayal. they said the president has never asked mr. comey or anyone else to end an investigation. i had an interesting conversation with an adviser to the president this morning, who said in effect, theyre not disputing even the language, fr fra fr...

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Russians that hes got the pressure off because he has fired comey? is it the fact that he fired comey? is it the fact that comey has all these memos that say that i was asked to turn off the investigation on flynn there is a number of possible things that could turn the public against the preside and lead to further action. so i think we have to look for whats that particular smoking gun. in watergate, of course, it was the tape in which the president is saying we can use the cia to stop the fbi...

Traveling with the president on board air force one. he said the president has been clear. to be fair, the president hasnt addressed this in any way, not on twitter, he hasnt said any statements publicly. he said this important trail was not accurate. it told beyond that wasnt truthle, that the president never asked mr. comey or anybody else to basically end an investigation at his request. i did have an interesting conversation with the senior white house official today. made the point. theyre ...

With people in russia that wound up being connected to the attacks on the election. i think that is the $64 million question. we know he has this affinity. we know he did that december 2015 rt dinner where he sat at putins table. and we know after being turfed out at the defense intelligence agency he became a prime target for golden financial opportunities he could get in russia and obviously with turkey. so his business dealings made him vulnerable. and i think you understand that paul manafor...

Treating the then soviet union. this is the period when vladimir putin was an active kgb agent. so you start to put the dots together. donald trump has this affinity. then he has a need. and if you are russia and youre the spy services, who would you target that would be vulnerable? it would be something who is needy or greedy. theyre not just cultivating donald trump. ross perot was on the same trip to go and meet gorbachev. you have this active according to being done of the potential american...

Whether or not he communicated with people in russia that wound up being connected to the attacks on the election. i think that is the $64 million question. we know he has this affinity. we know he did that december 2015 rt dinner where he sat at putins table. and we know after being turfed out at the defense intelligence agency he became a prime target for golden financial opportunities he could get in russia and obviously with turkey. so his business dealings made him vulnerable. and i think y...

Was trying to express his personal affinity to james comey for michael flynn saying dont pile on her, and they are trying to push back the idea that james comey sat on this information saying if he had it for so long, why didnt he communicate it to the acting fbi director who testified about this last week saying tlfls here was no effort impede the investigation. was he keeping memos because he was trying to write a book or advance an investigation? >> a quick question about the fact that netany...

Compel the white house to produce these documents. thats, you know, code for subpoena. but at this point its not clear that republicans would support that. the chairman would have to support that kind of a request. that would be a big deal. jason chaffetz, the chairman, actually just started a few weeks of medical leave. hes going to have foot surgery that will take a while for him to recover from. we will not be hearing as much from him in the next couple weeks. >> michael steele, my apologies ...