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Said, you know what, regardless of how this informant was released to talk, they do want to talk. they do want to get to the bottom of it. >> if there is something -- >> if there is. exactly. >> the transparency is good. its the process thats political. >> and thats the whole thing here. if the goal here is transparency, lets put it all out there. and i think we have to also go back and remember, this is back during the time we were working on the russian reset. there was different times with us...

A republican congress once impeached a president for far less. yet, today, people in congress and his own administration know this president is a clear and present danger who is mentally unstable and armed with nuclear weapons. and they do nothing. join us and tell your member of congress that they have a moral responsibility to stop doing whats political and start doing whats right. our country depends on it. tonight, the presidents military service or lack thereof is in the spotlight after s...

President trump without ever mentioning his name. he was on c-span and said this about the draft. >> in one aspect of the conflict, by the way, that i will never ever count enanswer is that we drafted the lowest income level of america and the highest income level found a doctor that would say that they had a bone spur. that is wrong. that is wrong. if were going to ask every american to serve, every american should serve. >> now, again, he didnt mention the president by name but it is a fact th...

>> and on a related matter, in terms of donald trump and military matters, we have seen john mccain interestingly sort of move out on the issue of the presidents failure to serve in vietnam and possibly getting some kind of helpful possibly fake help from a doctor to get out of it. lets listen to what john mccain said on c-span. >> one aspect of the conflict by the way i will never, ever continue nance is that we drafted the lowest income level of america and the highest income level found a doc...

Devon nunez of california joins us tonight from statuary hall. thanks for being here. >> always a pleasure. >> what are you looking for? >> we want to find out whether or not the fbi or doj or both had an open investigation. that this deal was approved by several government agencies. basically it had to have approval from several cabinet level people, including secretary clinton. >> she still on her book to her. she was on c-span and asked about this and the potential for an investigation. heres...

The president in a newly released interview with c-span about the vietnam war. >> we drafted the lowest income level of america and the highest income level found a doctor that would say that they had a bone spur. that is wrong. that is wrong. >> president trump, a child of privilege, was granted five deferments to avoid the vietnam war, including one for bone spurs. mccain, who said today his comments on bone spurs were not directed at the president, was of course tortured during his five and a...

The facts after the former british spy who gather the information refused to cooperate. >> the committee has hit a wall. >> reporter: and obama era dealing with a russian backed company with that in the us, with the house oversight committee, hillary clinton dismissed the story. >> the same thing they have been peddling for years, there has been no credible evidence by anyone. >> reporter: the deal, the secretary of state with some investors working to contribute to the family foundation. callin...

Presidents failure to serve in vietnam and possibly getting some kind of helpful possibly fake help from a doctor to get out of it. lets listen to what john mccain said on c-span. >> one aspect of the conflict by the way i will never, ever continue nance is that we drafted the lowest income level of america and the highest income level found a doctor that would say that they had a bone spur. that is wrong. that is wrong. if were going to ask every american to serve every american should serve. >...

To the all volunteer force. >> yeah. >> thats fine. someone wants to serve they should be able to. by the way, that is now down to about 1% or 2% of the american public. >> isnt it kind of -- >> so chris, maybe a little nuance there? >> yeah. i mean look, is there any love loss between donald trump and john mccain? no. does john mccain still feel some level of anger related to donald trumps comments in july 2015 he was not a real war hero he liked his war heros not captured of course. think abou...

Ask, some republicans will say benghazi wasnt necessarily worth all of that public display. others say that it definitely was. >> look, congress has the right to investigate these things, but they also have the responsibility to be curious about matters around the world. lindsey graham, you know, should make it his business how many tro troops are in niger, as well. i want to shift gears to john mccain, who had some choice words that seemed to be directed at president trump. he was doing an inte...