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Documents that they demand they turn over. >> these are 3,162 documents they had to peel aa part for months. they had the most difficult time because the doj and the fbi have not been forthright with the information. this information is explosive. why? it shows that even when brennan briefed reed and met with him and the gang of 8 in august 2016, early that month, jonathan working with the counter intelligence division of the fbi alonged it peter strzok and was probably peter strzoks supervisor,...

D.r.e.a.m.ers. in other words, no bannon. so this news is going to send both sides into a tizzy, but forget about the spin. what matters is how we got here and how things may change. facts first. lets remember why trump cozied up to bannon in the first place. mid august, 2016, trump picks bannon to be his campaign chairman, why? because bannon hated the gop establishment that was going after trump, encourage trump to be his most bombast i can, which trump liked, and he had a feel for a group of ...

Important issues. and, boy, did we pick the right day to start. anthony scaramucci is here. were going to be one-on-one in just a few minutes on a day where it seems everything has changed. steve bannon out at breitbart, and with word of that, it was like a spell was broken. president trump called for comprehensive immigration reform and a bill of love for d.r.e.a.m.ers. he held a meeting that was televised with both sides of the aisle. no hate speak, no faux populism. in other words, no bannon....

Think. >> chuck grassley wants to weigh in on all this. >> shannon: lets talk about chuck grassley. he did have a lot to say. he is raising the question a lot of people are. >> no doubt. what grassley is saying is, look, all of those text messages we have been talking about in the last couple of days, he sent a letter to the deputy attorney general come around rosenstein, and demanded, get to the bottom of one text. august 2016, they invoked a meeting in the office of fbi director andrew mccabe ...

Problem. he should have been more careful about who he hired. he has been conducting a sloppy investigation and thats atypical of him. im surprised. when you are going after the president you have to be caesars wife. you have to be above reproach. >> another democrat, mark penn who advised democrat bill clinton has just conducted thell that found 54% of public believes that mueller has conflicts of interest in this investigation. 63% of the public said the fbi is withholding key information abou...

Trump, yes, i think. so he says im not sure. omg, hes an idiot. remember, that was while the fbi agent was integral part of the agencys probe into hillary clintons email server. strzok was the one credited with changing the wording and then fbi director james comeys assessment from grossly negligent to extremely careless. then look at the second text you just heard about involving wal-mart august 2016. strzok texts just went to a southern virginia wal-mart. i could smell the trump support. repub...

The white house, the one that led to felony charges against the former national security advisor. until august, strzok was a f central member of robert muellers independent counsel investigation. like zelig, hes everywhere. peter strzok is a major figure in american political history. his fingerprints are all over events that will likely send people to prison, events your grandkids will be learning about years from now. so it is vital that peter strzoks ability and his integrity are beyond quest...

>> we are going to take seriously the concerns that have been expressed. we will never fail to monitor our people and we are going to insist on the high standards of behavior. everybody has to be accountable and responsible. you can have arrogant ccp into sometimes in the institution. and that is not acceptable. >> the powerful chairman of the senate judiciary committee chuck grassley wants more questions about the anti-trump text, exchange between peter strzok and fbi lawyer lisa page, includin...

This news this morning. lets talk more about who these men are and how integral they were in the presidents campaign and a lot more. with us now, our chief political correspondent dana bash. lets start with paul manafort. thats the name people know better. both important when it comes to trump world. lets go through manafort first. >> paul manafort was officially in the campaign for not that long of a period of time but he was there at a critical, critical juncture. you see on the screen there h...