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Retarded. they dont use defamiliatory descriptions of people. this is beyond bias, i believe. ive had fbi agents reach out to me for months now, being a member of the intelligence committee and having been involved with this, who make this point. they say, look, these leaders, these few individuals, they dont reflect the rest of us. we dont feel the same way. and i think the fbi is probably a center to maybe a slightly right center organization, and the reality is these senior leaders simply did...

To see it was fair for the ig to handle the hillary clinton investigation, but not fair to lay blame or at least some responsibility on the way theyve handled the early stages of the russia investigation? >> this was not the fbi so much, it was comey. comey took it upon himself outside of fbi regulations and rules to open that investigation within two weeks of a presidential election. he violated the rules and he felt he needed to do it. he was our savior. and he went beyond. that wasnt the fbi....

Mueller investigation is an iceberg. there is so much we dont know. there is enough to know that makes us see suspicion, theres smoke, theres fire. there is a raging fire going on. mueller knows it all, and trump knows it all, and trump is trying to poison the jury pool. >> despite the comments, the court focused on the hillary clinton e-mail investigation. in fact, the strongest criticism is really of how director comey handled that investigation in the midst of the campaign. do you think the c...

Against the president also were part of the initial russian investigation. but youll be kidding yourself if you think this doesnt do a lot of damage to the institutions that are now looking at the president. this gives a face to many of what the deep state looks like. >> remarkable words from senator graham who previously has poo-pooed this idea of there being a deep state. do you think thats a fair argument? >> no, i dont. i think it might hurt the fbi some, even though the fbi has not been see...

Has alienated many conservatives, as you said before. there are some who are already complaining. and that could be dangerous for trump because what sustains them is the power and the loyalty of his face. >> martha: i think the president is about to come out. let me squeeze in one more. there he is. theres the president. charles, thank you. we are going to watch him as he comes out. charles, just keep this open for one second. when you look at president trump, it appears that he really wants to ...

We were quoting you a little earlier. is congress taking the right steps towards democracy away from what you said youre worried about? >> so far, congress, i think, is taking gingerly steps. its a very different situation from watergate where early in 1973, the so-called irving committee led by senator sam irving convened. by this point in the spring of 73 had witnessed, hearings going full throttle. here the republicans have been very reluctant, i think, to cross trump. so they are slowly movi...

Producer, shimon, a lot more in his plate now and hes beefing up in his team, whats next? >> whats next is a decision thats made by him of weather hes going to look at any of these allegations of obstruction of justice. certainly comeys testimony laid out a good case for the special counsel to look out. hes been looking out a lot of stuff now, bob mueller and the fbi have been in this investigation for a year, it was july of last year that they started looking at the trump campaign and whether o...

Up. you might be talking about something different in terms of private constitutional law lawyer, or a constitutional scholar. i wonder if any of those are around. joe, when it comes to the shifting narrative of what ser lena points out about how comey was fired, how much of this do you think is going to come out in the public hearing when comey has that opportunity to testify in front of the senate cleanse committee? >> i think its all going to come out. certainly comeys side is going to come o...