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This was a spy effort greater in national significance than watergate? >> at this point, mayor giuliani and president trump, what their assertions, they are functioning with limited knowledge, it appears, because by using the word "embedded" or these kind of words, it doesnt really seem to line up with our reporting. however, we still need to learn a lot more about this source. and what were finding out is that this was not a mole. this was not someone who was working inside of the campaign. but...

About what coats warned about, these attacks mostly russian, on the united states. >> speaking of that hacking, your dni dan coats said that americas digital infrastructure at a critical point right now. similar to what it was like in some ways before 9/11. and that were susceptible to a large-scale attack. do you agree with that? >> i dont know. id have to look. >> i dont know if i agree with that. even inclined to give the president the benefit of the doubt on this, no, to a reporter asking if...

Tweets already this morning, many of which are filled with unproven assertions, most of which i think can be characterized as full throated attack on comey, as he is set to embark on media blitz which tanl taints many in the inner circle. the book isnt out, it is available to journalists and political watchers, all of us who have been voraciously reading it and looking for details. in the book, comey compares the presidents behavior to that of a mafia boss, explains time explaining his decisions...

Is. >> peter baker here we are, more 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 have visitors and issues ev day. the constant the mueller. >> thats right. 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 conference where hell take questions. y...

That haspel ran a so-called black site in thailand while a top al qaeda terrorist was being water boarded there. reports like that had charges that she was the "torturer in chief" and should be denied a job. one problem, and investigative group is admitting haspel did not oversee the waterboarding of al qaeda terrorist abu zubaydah at that site. other news organizations had made that claim, not just democrats, but some republicans, in the case of paul, he claimed that she showed "lethal enjoymen...

Based on the assertions made in this letter, do you believe that a court battle over a potential subpoena of the president is more likely now? >> i really do, victor. this is why. the fact is that it remains an open question whether you can subpoena the president. now people may be yelling at the tv saying what about nixon? he was forced to turn over the tapes. as it relates to nixon we are talking about documentary evidence and the supreme court answered that question and where the president pr...

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It does. >> if are you in a shreder, your life is taking a turn. >> the feds were citing their assertions, thats what they are. they havent been proven in court. part of the probable cause they went in on cohen in the first place. they said look, absent a search warrant, these very records could have been completed without recourse for law enforcement. you see the redaxs suggesting in that filing that there were things going on that made the feds move because they thought there was either destru...

Is just plain old wrong? clearly the white house will not be letting the truth get in way of this narrative right now? >> hey, katey, the white house not letting the lack of evidence take the wind out of their sails. sarah sanders not backing down from the presidents conspiracy claims despite the assertions made by trey gowdy, a republican on the intelligence committee who has seen the underlying evidence. the truth that the president is spinning into this conspiracy claim. we should point out, ...

Have you seen any evidence of that? >> i have not. thats an espionage term, not a law enforcement term. >> you believe the fbi acted properly in this matter? >> based on what i have seen, i dont know what the fbi could have done or should have done other than run out a lead that someone loosely connected with the campaign was making assertions about russia. >> rudy giuliani also saying that trey gowdy has drunk the cool aide, hes drinking the kool-aid when he decided to say that. have you been f...