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Theyre doing. they have had some issues, the fbi has had some issues with this memo, because they did see the republican memo certainly as being politically motivated. some were arguing that this was too discredit the mueller work, the work that mueller was doing and the fbi was doing in this investigation. but the overall impact should be zero. there should be no impact on what mueller is doing. politically, thats a whole other question, fred. >> all right, shimon prokupecz, thank you so much. ...

Investigation would further delay the security clearance process of senior adviser jared kushner. according to three people familiar with the discussion, the post also reports, quote, the justice department officials said rosenstein did not provide any details to the white house about the matters that need to be investigated related to kushner. with me to talk about this is ken thomas, white house reporter for the associated press, my former colleague, and frank figliuzzi is back with us. frank,...

Where it says that this could have had partisan purposes. its much different if you say that it was done actually by the presidential opponents. that was left out. other than that, if they had so much evidence on carter page why do they have to wait till he got the dossier before they applied for the warrant? carter page -- i dont know anyone takes him seriously as a russian agent including the russians or the fbi, because he worked against the russians back in 2013 and he never played a real ro...

Unfold. can you just kind of explain why, how unusual is it for a clearance to take this long? >> despite some white house assertions to the contrary, this is unusual. it is way too long and there are issues. when the attorney general picks up the phone and calls the white house and tells you there are issues, its going to take longer. then isnt because jared kushners neighbor said he plays his music too loudly, this is likely because of foreign financial entanglements they cant figure out. and ...

For the associated press, my former colleague, and frank is back with us. frank, thank you for sticking with us. im going to start with you because you have an understanding of behind the scenes of how the processes unfold. can you just kind of explain why, how unusual is it for a clearance to take this long? >> despite some white house assertions to the contrary, this is unusual. it is way too long and there are issues. when the attorney general picks up the phone and calls the white house and ...

>> peter baker, here we are. mueller is the constant in this presidents life were going to talk about in the broadcast he has the australian prime minister coming in tomorrow and new visitors and issues every day. the constant the mueller. >> thats right. hes hanging over this president. just last week we had the indictments of the 13 russians and three russian entities. we havent had a chance to get at him, we are tomorrow with the australian prime minister, there will be a joint press conferen...

You can imagine the questions will include issues along this line. and he said he saw last weeks indictments as vindvindication. not a lot of other people elsewhere did, they didnt indicate any campaign but they did contradict his assertions that russia interference was a hoax. now he has to explain in a public setting with the prime minister of australia most likely what he thinks of that russia interference, what hes prepared to do it, and how it impacts his presidency. >> our thanks to our le...

Resuscitation of the domestic industry thats getting the protection, but instead immense consumer cost, retaliation by foreign trading partners, a net loss in american jobs. most importantly here, not even the long term resuscitation of the industry giving protection. >> dana: let me ask the other scott. i have two scotts on. it is reported that senior staff to the president, cohn, mattis and tillerson are all against this. they are afraid this would harm the global economy and damage relationsh...

Benjamin netanyahu says iran is seeking to dominate the world through aggression and terror, and he claims its developing ballistic missiles that would reach deep into europe, and the u.s. his comments made just moments ago in front of top diplomats attending the security conference in munich, germany. cnns nic robertson is also in munich covering this story for us and hes been following developments at the conference. and now we have benjamin netanyahu making very strong assertions about iran. ...

Graham and grassley, their letter of inquiry is more important. why? >> yes, here is why. frankly i found the nunes memo to be underwhelming. i read it, this is it? the grassley/graham criminal referral of christopher steele from a senate committee related to me was much more compelling. it confirmed a number of the assertions in more detail made in the nunes memo suggesting questions about how that fisa warrant against a former trump aide carter page was made and renewed. i wrote a piece about ...