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And obviously, join the rest of america in hoping that this shutdown will be long over by then. but there are some very serious concerns and just the impact. our airport is our largest job center in the state of georgia with 26,000 employees. many of these employees are hourly workers. and so there is this trickle-down, if you will, impact on whats happening. not just at our airport, but across our country. >> malcolm nance, the president of the united states is this morning, i guess he has noth...

Investigation, that was both a possible crime and a national security concern. that leads me to ask, and i will ask you, that suggests to me that if mr. barr were then to become attorney general and he were to fire robert mueller at the behest of the white house, wouldnt that put him in jeopardy of being investigated for potentially a counterintelligence or criminal probe? >> well, possibly, but it would all come down to his intent. what was his purpose in doing so? if he did it for a legitimate...

Clear in the testimony read to these reporters, that the testimony that was read to them, that he gave in private to the house intelligence committee is all about russia. your thoughts. >> yes. it was about russia, it was always about russia full stop. one of the problems weve had as we analyzed this and focused on the question of the president, right? did the president do x? did the president do y? you lose sight of the way the fbi understands the investigation. from the fbis point of view, thi...

Their intelligence. i just wanted to get that in there. >> can i add to that? >> sure. >> guiliani is wrong on a different point. it did result in an immediate action, which was the appointment of bob mueller. if the concern was the president perhaps wittingly or unwittingly, is operating on behalf of the russians to shut down this investigation, the urgent task was to protect the investigation. what did rod rosenstein do? he appointed a special prosecutor, special counsel, bob mueller immediate...

That they want to edit the mueller report. heres the difference between my special counsel and my voluntary interview, my interview yesterday. i believe its pretty much pro forma, you can ask the prosecutors on here. at the end of the special counsel interview, they say, is there anything we didnt ask you that you think we should be looking into? at the end of the interview yesterday in the senate select, they said, is there anything we asked you that you think we should be looking into or anyth...

Point, that i didnt think this was problematic politically for the president to say, i would have putin in syria. because of wlahat was going on with isis. >> give us the timeline of when you were involved in the campaign. >> i worked for the president from june 2011 to august of 2015. >> and to your knowledge -- >> the formal campaign, lets say, i lasted all of six weeks. >> but you were there from 2011. to your knowledge, were russians involved in attempting to help the campaign? >> not while ...

For putins number one stated goal, which is to rebuild the soviet empire because he thought it was a terrible crime it disappeared. we will learn a lot more. the most important item one of the other guests brought up earlier was that word publicly in the "new york times" piece. it screamed theres tons of additional evidence we havent seen yet and at some point, they will discuss how much classified information do we need to disclose for america to understand we have a kremlin agent in the white ...

Wall at this point, because thats who benefiting from this administration more than the average american person. you know on my radio show, i spoke to people who were impacted, as well. and i looked at local news articles in some of the states where the republican senators were running for re-election in 2020, including north carolina, alaska. you go through the list. >> colorado. >> colorado with cory gardner. and it is the local news coverage. its a great point youre making. national coverage ...

Other and not get anything done. i think we will continue to see this kind of escalation between the branches of government. emergency decrees, government shutdowns, executive orders. this escalating politicsliving . this is the way this other democracies have died. our institutions are stronger but a dark spot at this point. >> daniel mentioned turkey and hungary. you can have an elected autocrat. here is the signs. the leader shows only a weak commitment to democratic rules. they deny the legi...

Say the bureau actually opened a case on donald j. trump is really hitting the american people in the gut. it means likely, joy, even though the article is citing the public behavior of the president, as you just noted, in order to get this to pass muster to fbi headquarters across the department of justice to be the title name of an investigation, i am virtually certain that more evidence than just the public behavior of the president is involved in this, and i think that evidence is likely cla...