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Libel suits that christopher steele did meet with yahoo! in that time frame. however, according to senator grassley, the fisa court that gave permission to monitor carter page was told the fbi did not believe that steele had directly given the information to yahoo!. that was actually in the fisa application. so hes raising questions, did steele lie to the fbi to lead them to that conclusion. and, you know, were told that this has been particularly dismaying, this notion that these actions to kin...

Represents hillary clinton and the democratic national committee. >> tom, you mentioned senator lindsey graham there. there has been this effort by senator graham and senator grassley to refer christopher steele to the justice department for possible prosecution and you have a striking report on that tonight. im going to quote from your article "friends and former colleagues say steele has been dismayed by the attacks on him, particularly about a criminal referral that two u.s. senators made to ...

One of the things we were struck by is how they seemed to be gathering around christopher steele, a person that they know, his record is considered quite credible during his many years, 22 years working for her majestys secret intelligence service. and so the idea that a former intelligence official who has been -- who is considered both credible and reliable and did honorable service would be charged or have a criminal referral just somehow seemed to be an affront. and we talked with one member...

Expected that i dont understand how people in the media, people who normally want to expose everything, people who want to make sure that the pentagon papers got published. people who have wanted to make sure that we knew everything about iran contra. people who wanted to make sure that we knew everything about every implication of watergate, and now they suddenly say nothing to see here, lets shut this down. we dont want to see that memo. i had one person respond to me on twitter, a reporter an...

Republicans going after the fbi? we have a portion of "the washington post" op-ed. once a bipartisan responsibility that lawmakers treated soberly, as they still do in the senate, oversight under mr. nunes is another an -- affront in mr. trumps assault on law enforcement. >> those are strong words. this is not oversight. this is a partisan attack. this is an effort by the republicans with the republican memo to discredit the investigation. thats why you hear are strong words from "the washington...

Investigators. as the special counsel appears to be approaching the oval office, with the news he wants to interview the president himself, the fbi and the justice department are under fire from the president. the white house and the justice department are at odds. in an affront to our system of government and a precursor what could become a constitutional crisis. john roberts is live at the white house. >> good afternoon to you, shep. marine one just departed. as the. walked in, questioned shou...

Moment. we know he christopher wray, a trump appointee, has pleaded with the white house not to release it. do you think if the white house releases it against his wishes, the fbi director, that could or should even prompt a resignation? >> it would certainly be a very serious affront. and again, kind of an assault on the principles of the fbi. the thing that struck me first, good on director wray for make go it, good for no other reason than to try to defend the great men and women of the fbi. ...

Confirm the russian investigation. now the targeting of rosenstein. >> well, yes. >> thats a purge. >> well, the question is whether that is happening because the president st. trying to get around or conceal sort of actual real criminal wrongdoing that he is aware that will come down, or if its because of some other reason that he just doesnt like being under sort of scrutiny, that he doesnt like this investigation, that he feels like its an attack on him and an affront on his presidency. we do...

Because it potentially undermines the credibility of bob mueller. i think that it does speak to this. he is still in his job and clearly republicans feel as though the best way to potentially mitigate the effects of whatever it is he finds is not necessarily to fire the special counsel because that would blow up but to very carefully convince the people that voted for president trump that this entire thing is a charade and thats dangerous. >> we should focus on what we know and what we dont know...

Which the republican party put party over country. >> chuck, what is the -- memo. we talk about this memo written in the house intelligence committee. why is that important? because it potentially undermines the credibility of bob mueller. i think that it does speak to this. he is still in his job and clearly republicans feel as though the best way to potentially mitigate the effects of whatever it is he finds is not necessarily to fire the special counsel because that would blow up but to very ...