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Down to the real important issue here and that is russia trying to intervene in our elections, i think everyone acknowledges its a problem but we cant solve it as long as we are mired in all of this mess. arthel: excuse me, are you concerned at all about the assertions layed out in the mueller report that the president obstructed justice? >> here is what we know and what i tried to summarize, we know that the president vented, he was frustrated about the investigation that drug on for almost 2 y...

Thumbs his nose at the congress and courts and saying i dont need to show up to be interviewed by mueller. i dont need to give him answers even though there is damming evidence against him. i dont need mcgahn as you talked about the start of the show, his top lawyer doesnt need to show up even though there is a subpoena against him and things like that and, you know, this is the cull men nation of that line of thinking. i am effectively the king. you cant indict me and i have such immuity i can ...

I have no idea. were allow today know that one thing. who is this? why is this less important than the stuff -- all of the other paragraphs in that section, all -- everything else in the report about the russian government casing our voting systems and the elements of our voting struck toor, researching them, suss them out, i mean, i dont think what was expected from this report -- its intriguing, frustrating depending on your mood. but even with all of these myriad redactions, the senate intell...

This president is saying and thumbs his nose at the congress and courts and saying i dont need to show up to be interviewed by mueller. i dont need to give him answers even though there is damming evidence against him. i dont need mcgahn as you talked about the start of the show, his top lawyer doesnt need to show up even though there is a subpoena against him and things like that and, you know, this is the coull men nation of that line of thinking. i am effectively the king. you cant indict me ...

Loins reports for you, the you want and his allies are claiming victory. >> reporter: president trump is brushing off damning assertions by robert mueller and touting his testimony as a victory instead. >> phony cloud, thats all it was. >> reporter: visiting the new defense secretary at the pentagon today, as soarses say had hes clearing vindication. >> excuse me, its might time. >> reporter: one day after the testimony felt short what was democrats were hope for and exceeded republicans expect ...

The president is unsurprisingly unmoved by all of the days events including some of the more damning assertions conveyed by robert mueller from questioning from democrats. and a couple of republicans. and one of the ways we know that is because one of the first things the president said to reporter whats to call the russia investigation a witch hunt and a hoax, even though robert mueller said today explicitly to lawmakers that the russia investigation was no such thing. so, yes, the president is...

Busy two weeks. >> tell me about it. >> before the mock hearing today each of us had mock interviews with judiciary staff. we reviewed the relevant parts of the report. were ready to go. >> a doj told him to stick to the whats in the report. schiff sent a letter objecting. it attempts to present yet another attempt by the trump administration to obstruct the authorized over sight activity and legitimate activity of the committee. the committee rejects the departments expansive and assertions of ...

The claim that it is detaining 17 cia agents. >> having had the chance to lead that great organization, the central intelligence agency, i would urge everyone reading that story to understand they have a long history of lying. i would take with significant grain of salt any iranian assertions about actions theyve taken. >>he i read a report today abou the cia. it is another lie. they put out propaganda or lies. i dont think pakistan would ever do a thing like that. >> definitely not. >> pakistan...

>> bill: escalating tensions are iran new this morning. happened again over the weekend raising the stakes. tehran announcing earlier today the arrest of 17 iranians accusing them of spying for the c.i.a. mike pompeo a bit earlier today on "fox & friends" urging caution about those claims. lets start there. roll it. >> its part of the nature of the ayatollah to lie to the world. i would take with a significant grain of salt any iranian assertions about actions theyve taken. >> bill: mike pompeo ...

>> wikileaks. >> wikileaks. >> wikileaks. >> wikileaks. >> this just came out. this just came out. wikileaks. i love wikileaks. >> the hillary clinton documents released today by wikileaks. >> exposed by wikileaks. >> we all talk about wikileaks. >> theyre got it all down, folks. wikileaks. >> the president promoted wikileaks and their release of stolen democratic and clinton documents more than 150 times on the campaign trail in the run up to his election. it became clear that those materials t...