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Explaining this new cnn reporting and the transcripts. lets bring in cnn political analyst david gregory ar asha and former clinton white house secretary joe lockhart. asha wrarnt asha, i want to start with you. its fascinating to read these transcripts just so you could hear the fbi thinking. there were too many strange and suspicious things that had piled up that it sounds like from the transcripts, they couldnt do anything but open an investigation into what was happening with then candidate ...

>> its unthinkable, david, its unthinkable to imagine what would be happening if this were hillary clinton or barack obama. of all the suspicious things that have piled up over the past two years, this reporting in "the washington post" and "new york times" has picked up on it is beyond head scratching in the is a jaw-dropping moment. people in president trumps own administration dont know what he discussed with vladimir putin. here is another paragraph, this one from "the new york times" this w...

Arent in hiding, arguing that, oh, this is just rogue fbi agents. americans should hope that one of the theories when you start an investigation is someones innocent. you dont go into the investigation knowing -- >> and the transcript proves thats what they said, maybe hes innocent. >> and i think asha rightly points out that this may come down to a question ultimately of did the president act as a foreign agent or is he just a rub? w rube? but the problem is that will all get sorted out. he has...

Democracy, hes gone against democracy. >> look at helsinki. look at what he said publicly in helsinki. thats just the public part we know about. >> when it comes not just with russia, with other places in the world, when it comes to trusting a foreign authoritarian leader or his own staff and intelligence community, hes gone with the authoritarian. so the damage is done. what what we have to sort through now, is how bad is it from -- for trump personally? >> and also what happens next with this,...