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Anti-trump as has now been evidenced, and they laundered this campaign document into the justice department and it may have been used to spy on the trump campaign. it still may be being used by robert mueller. so the dossier is still being used by mueller is a real ethical concern, because of where it came from. >> mark: no, i agree with you on that tarp, it is a little bit to like in hollywood, alfred hitchcock used to call it to the macguffin, used as their pretext to set the game afoot. in ot...

Like a zombie, you cannot drivea a stake through this piece ofke garbage thing that they cooked up for the democrats, it is running around like a mechanical hare across town. >> according to the reporting on the testimony of andrew mccabe, the number two at the fbi, they could not confirm anything, he refers to confirm any beyond that carter page adviser to the trump campaign, may have traveled to russia. other than that, there is nothing they have been able to confirm, but we have been able to ...

Of the same -- very same quotes. >> wait. so this is really remarkable. so the campaign puts out a document drawing together the collective judgment about the mishandling of the clinton matter by james comey by a bunch of people who have worked in the justice department. >> yes. >> those quotes are then put into a campaign document, and those quotes then show up in the deputy attorney general, rod rosensteins letter when he is coming to the conclusion why comey should be fired. >> yes. >> hes ci...

Criticizing the former i guess now fbi director comey at the time. and then 100 former, you know, senior members of the justice department put out a letter, which we actually also re-released. and so the quotes that are in the letter from the acting -- from the deputy attorney general to sessions actually cites some of the same -- very same quotes. >> wait. so this is really remarkable. so the campaign puts out a document drawing together the collective judgment about the mishandling of the clin...

It was the most conventional traditional thing the campaign did in the entirety of the campaign. thats what candidates normally do, is they say heres the list of things were going to do. it was very untrumpian during the cape. now thats coming back to bite him a little bit. having said that, you know, not to give him a pass at all, but we all -- those of us who have covered many of these contracts during campaigns also know that this is a campaign document and it is aspirational though maybe not...

>> well, it was very contentious, of course, and he had very strong words for the intelligence community. i have a lot of friends in the intelligence community so i know this is a difficult time for them. i think donald trumps choice of dan coats, former u.s. senator and ambassador dan coats to be the director of intelligence to work with the agency is going to have a soothing and helpful effect going forward. but right now its very contentious. >> rick, trump criticized the intelligence agencie...

Them, about you you know, i have to question, if this were a campaign playbook or correspondence that were physically stolen from a campaign headquarters, we have to treat it like that. these are things that were hacked out of, you know, whether it was the campaign headquarters or peoples private e-mail accounts. and i think we have to look at the source and question it. >> well certainly its the biggest threat of campaign document than watergate, certainly much bigger, thanks so much for your t...

Rather than taking it on head-first i. care too much about the american people, only thing. somebody talked about leaked bush campaign document with these opposition research on marco rubio intentionally leaked obviously. is there anything wrong on that particular question? asking rubio about his campaign finances? that was another one of those questions that fell, supposedly into that category as going too far? >> no. its not going too far necessarily. i think actually this could be a benefit f...

And were back with our panel. before we get to the one thing to watch for in the week ahead, judy, tuesday hillary clinton during a reading on her new book. >> right. >> what are you expecting as far as this book is concerned? >> oh, the message is not a memoir. this is a manifesto, a campaign document. shes showing shes kind, shes caring, shes capable, and shes running. >> i dont know that we were surprised about that. we had geo callela on earlier on health care, and basically, hes come out wi...

And who said this? ryans budget is should be found in the bookstore in the fiction department. that wasnt a democrat either. that is how tea party republicans reacted to paul ryans budget today, which he introduced and which immediately became a campaign document. democrats are run against it, tea party republicans will run against it, and probably no one, including paul ryan, will run in favor of it. it is a budget that eliminates the affordable care act, but still doesnt cut spending enough fo...