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Sitting koung with the special counsel? >> that argument isnt going to be brought by the special counsels office. cant sell it in court either. theres no connection between the report and that argument. it would be a real reach even to go into cherry pick and build that kind of argument. this is for the base. very few will read the full report. theyll read newspaper summaries or tweets or what have you. so this is just more hot air. >> so seth, you know, they know, team trump that this is really...

He does say that that cast as cloud over the fbi and over the investigation that trump is going to take advantage of. >> use as a sledge hammer. >> this is not the end of it. but i think this opens the door to another ig investigation of the russian investigation. >> you were about to -- >> you tweeted yesterday that this report -- that anybody who wants to can cherry pick anything. thats true. but one of the other things you could cherry pick is that the agent who sent all of those text message...

Ability to cherry pick and actually make the bureau and justice look worse is where this is headed. what do you think? >> thats probably right. the look, the bureau and the justice department do look bad in this. i think you have to look at the inspector general report in two ways. one is about the underlying investigative and prosecutorial decision has the fbi and justice department made, and were they sound, made without bias and made with integrity. i think there is a resounding conclusion in...

If mitch mcconnell allows a vote, what does that tell us? >> mitch mcconnell is thinking about his majority and expanding his majority in the senate. there are a lot of senate democrats up in red states where agriculture is a big issue. so theyre probably hearing like phil said, from their constituents there, and thats what is on mitch mcconnells mind right now. >> and yet, u.s. steel announced overnight, it will create 300 jobs in illinois. half the factory is open, it will open the rest of it....

A lot of time spent on questions it was just the structure of the talks that was the of the of this hearing that was already a wrong the there were starting collecting questions after that statement of course there was an opening statement there was an apology we all expected that to come and then came the questions but all the questions from the different lawmakers were collected and then basically mark second mark was given the opportunity to pick and choose what he likes and in fact at one po...

And controlling when they come and go out of the room, so if it gets too intense, he can go all right, enough, and you can hear the shrill cries of the wranglers in the back going, get out. >> thats when you cherry pick which questions you get to answer. to the point about no briefing today, whats the explanation? >> you got the explanation. i havent gotten one yet. i dont think well get one. the briefings have come more infrequently, shorter in duration. im going to take one question and move o...

In fact, chairman conway said at one point absolutely they should come out. and when we attempted to move that they do in fact be released, they rejected it. i believe as does mike quigley, when the transcripts come out, theyll be eye opening for the american public. >> do you think in this hyperpartisan time the american public will be able to read these, not nitpick, cherry pick, say we see what denny heck is saying? >> i think a lot of people are going to be cherry picking the facts to suppor...

Gerrymanders the process of drawing district lines to favor one party over the other. the analysis said the democrats would have to win by 11 percentage margins. the brennan center told the associated press, it would be the equivalent of a tsunami. democrats would have to win larger than any recent mid-term wave, almost double what they got in 2006 to win in their own majority. the president said the republican state leadership committee matt walters dismissing the report. he says its a politica...

Was about to turn his life around so on and so forth. >> main stream media? >> absolutely. >> i find thats always the counter story, because black people are getting disproportionate sentencing. we have to tell the story so we dont get 30 years for the same crime white people get 5 years from or probation for. i didnt see anyone dehumanizing the d.c. sniper, and im not saying they should have. but somehow when it comes to white domestic terrorism we have an excuse. everyone is human, and deserve...

An excuse. everyone is human, and deserves a fair analysis but lets make it even. >> if you look at timothy mcvay, i dont think there was anyone trying to humanize him. we can cherry pick. my argument is that we should try to understand the context and if there are other people, beside me and you, mark, who are going to humanize one side or the other, thats wrong, thats not fair, that shouldnt be. we dont have an argument except you and i disagree about the scope of the data. >> fascinating conv...