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Their boss, thats the danger of interference, but as long as you have the committee, seems to me leave the investigation to the investigator to not cherry pick and run out with conclusion based on incomplete information as piece of the survey. it does undercut the credibility of the committee. i think nunes went too far and i think schiff whom i respect shouldnt have gone there today either. just go quiet and let the investigations proceed. >> already. there we go. e.f. hutton has spoken. comi...

First woman from north carolina to hold a gavel -- >> i think the reason were pointing this out is the freedom caucus, thats the group that held this bill up, that didnt want these essential services in the bill and thats who -- >> and im not defending this by any stretch of the imagination because clearly there is an issue here. but as jack does say, those are members who representative a certain constituency. now, if you look at the democratic party, you know, their base is made up of african-...

Content, jessica i am sure you see things differently. how would you sum up the stakes as you see it? not only politically but for the american people. >> i think the stakes are credibly high for the american people. its really easy to cherry pick what could be wrong with the affordable care act. you can throw it abortion or anything you want but right now, the biggest conversation is what is best for the american people. what we know is that millions of people stand to lose their healthcare cov...

He should never have gone on the plane. >> i really believe that right now the intel should say lets stay off the press, see what can get done by ourselves. >> the damage is done, dont you think? >> the damage is done, but i actually have to agree with jack on this. look, i would prefer an independent commission. id prefer an independent prosecutor. i think the critical issue is whether the justice department, at the end of the day, is going to interfere with what comey is up to at the fbi. some...

It hurts business. but thats going to come up a lot, right? those types of decisions. >> no, thats right. those types of decisions will come up. if you take the body of his case law, the allegations that hes cozy against businesses or against the little guy doesnt stand up. folks will cherry pick. im not fair to say cherry pick. in that trucking company, judge gorsuch dissented by dissented on grounds of statuatory interpretation. he applied standard modes of statutory interpretation to say that...

>> you also overlook the other sources because you want to cherry pick it. no, no. you do. but where was your concern about "the new york times" reporter? you didnt have a concern about that? >> weve done plenty of reporting on all of this. >> you want to cherry pick. one piece of commentary. mischaracterizing what chairman nunes said. he said i think its possible that he is following up on this. to suggest this -- youre stating unequivocally. >> said if you take the president literally, hes wro...

To cover it up or explain what they think he meant or what he said he meant or fix what he said. case in point sean spicer at press briefing this week. >> are you saying that the president still stands by his allegation that president obama ordered wiretapping or surveillance of trump tower despite the fact that the senate intelligence committee says they see no indication that it happened? >> no -- >> does the president stand by -- >> he stands by it. youre misinterpreting what happened today. ...

Of presenting facts and using the words that matter when you are standing behind the podium as a spokesperson of the united states, not just of donald trump but of the united states, i think it is a dangerous precedent to cite columnists and people who are -- these are not intelligence professionals. these are people writing things. you cherry pick what you want to make a case that pleases our boss, sure. this is the united states and our well being in the world we are talking about. >> i vacill...

Ordered, et cetera, et cetera. then he has to say, well its just in quotation marks. what he means is i wasnt being pri pre size and speaking in a very general way. >> but what is extraordinary, as president of the united states his words mean a lot and has to have people come up behind him to cover it up or explain what they think he meant or what he says he meant or just to try to fix what he said. case in point sean spicer at a press briefing this week. >> are you saying that the president st...

Everything a tweet he saw, an article, and no matter the site and the report on the article and no matter the site as all e equal evidence in terms to use to make his point. and politicians do cherry pick, and sean spicer is right, they do cherry pick here, there, and everywhere to make the case, but not the extent of the fact that they are on equal par with people that you have not intelligence, and people who are not intelligence community reporter reporters and people tweeting things and that...