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Made himself. and so this has to be cutting him today because he does not like anything to suggest -- >> and the question is does it matter. if you dont like trump, you say i knew this all along. he is a fraud, it is a myth. he ha he was born on third base. if you like donald trump, you beat up the "times," does it matter. >> so there is nothing that we can say that would do justice to the 13,000 word piece. but here is why it matters. this provides more ammunition should democrats take over one...

Advancing their own personal agenda, thats probably true, and he said there is no basis for invoking the 25th amendment, so apparently the report said he got called into john kellys office and that produced denial number two which was more specific i never pursued or authorized recording the president and any suggestion that i would ever advance for the removal of the president -- advocate for the removal of the president is absolutely false. thats evolved. >> it has. i think at the end of the d...

Agenda, thats probably true, and he said there is no basis for invoking the 25th amendment, so apparently the report said he got called into john kellys office and that produced denial number two which was more specific i never pursued or authorized recording the president and any suggestion that i would ever advance for the removal of the president -- advocate for the removal of the president is absolutely false. thats evolved. >> it has. i think at the end of the day, you have new york times n...

Michael: said you are doing a really bad job. i know i am not paying you but you cant make things. there is more to this story. >> greg: dino, i want to stick to the cnn thing. cnn said larry davis didnt -- lanny davis didnt make comment. i am quoting glenn greenwald. he is right. cnn says lanny davis refused to comment so either cnn lied to its audience about davis or davis is lying now. >> dana: over there -- they were trying to protect him at the time. thats five people disagree with using ba...

President trump has repeatedly said theres no collusion and labelled the investigation a witch hunt. so now the uncomfortable position, katelyn owens is in. shes a reporter for axios. reporters dont give up their background sources. we dont know and cant say whether these are the same person. a little complicated, isnt it? >> it is. lets talk about this in two different things. so we have our report of mueller and the subpoena and who he is discussing -- >> shepard: that was the interesting part...

Court of public opinion thinking there is bias against him and therefore questions of credibility of the whole russia investigation. then you have the fisa issue, theres lots of different titles in the fisa bill. we talked about this the other day, where you have foreign terrorist calling into americans and you get a warrantless wiretaps, thats one part of the fisa program. when i understand is that the concerns about possible abuses or inappropriateness is in a different title, title i, which i...

To change the work that reporters are doing, which is using whatever access and research tools they have to get the best sourcing they can possibly use to bring important information to the people. i mean if we didnt have background sources, we would just be reporting on the record statements, we would be living in a world of spin and that would not serve the american people. >> we would be a state sponsored media. >> exactly. >> it would be like, you know, the very -- the very -- >> like russia...

Difficult to respond to you are shooting at almost a ghost. i think we, we try to minimize the use of and i would say anonymous sources, but background sources to make sure people see the individuals, theyre there, reading stuff. i think for a lot of folks in government theyre there to work hard to work on a particular issue. they dont necessarily want to have their name and the family particularly exposed to some of the -- >> but ive we heard the complaint coming generically from the white hous...

Ghost. i think we -- we try to minimize the use of -- and i wouldnt say anonymous sources, but background sources, to make sure people can see the individuals and know that theyre real. but for a lot of folks in government, theyre there to serve the american people, to work really hard, to work on a particular issue and dont necessarily want to have their name and their family particular low exposed to some of the -- >> ive heard the complaint coming generically from the white house, from people...

With his pace but maybe with other americans. >> and maybe release the confidentiality of others as well. maybe do that when saying that background sources not worth the paper theyre written on or television set theyre played on. >> worth thinking of. just ahead, calling for investigation into the conversations between white house officials and the fbi. is that likely to happen? talk about this next. m capital . with it, i earn unlimited 2% cash back on all of my purchasing. and that unlimited...