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One of them is about christopher steele but lets do the jeff sessions one first. this morning this letter was made public from republican senator chuck grassly and democratic senator diane feinstein. a letter to the trump campaign thats bipartisan. thats a republican and democratic senator signing the same thing. cats and dogs riding the same goat. we never see anything bipartisan anymore. this is like a circus trick. here it is, they today sent this letter to the trump campaign reupping a bipar...

Powder. none powerful enough to cause fatalities. one package sent to the national defense university contained explosive materials. scanning machines detected a suspicious material. all of the packages examined at the lab in quantico, virginia. intense pressure on facebook after it failed to protect user data. the ftc is investigating the data practices after it allowed trump consultants to access information of 50 million users. in a joint letter to mark zuckerberg, lawmakers talked about pr...

Product. why didnt they know? >> it was staggering. its the opposite of the conspiracy theory that devin nunes and chuck grassly have been pushing. you have the campaign paying for steeles research but steele went to the fbi and didnt tell then about that and as it blossomed into a huge investigation at the fbi, the whole thing was kept secret. so the campaign, they may have gotten word through the grapevine that he had gone to the fbi in the very beginning but they had no idea there was a paral...

Staff like jared kushner. republicans want some answers too. trey gowdy has issued a very detailed question. now gowdy and the top democrat elijah cummings want to know exactly when they became aware of disqualifying information involving rob porter with a detailed time line of the background investigation. despite the wednesday deadline for this information, im told the white house has not yet provided this information to the committee. the office did say they home they get information soon. bu...

That senator lindsey graham and senator chuck grassly think this say real got ya. it strikes us as odd. this is unusual. yeah, why wouldnt it be odd? wouldnt be unusual. if youre the national security advisor and your replacement is mike flynn who is the subject of an fbi investigation, obama fired mike flynn. when trump came to the white house, president obama report reportedly warned president elect trump about pre scisely t things, north korea, mike flynn and trump decided to keep mike flynn ...

In the next few weeks that should affect how we share classified information with the incoming team. comey said he would. so this was initially cloassifid as top secret and has been declassified and released to the public tonight. chuck grassly and lindsey graham have written a letter to the national security advisor susan rice about this declassified e-mail they obtained in the senate. in their letter to susan rice, they quote this e-mail back to her in full and then they say this, quote, it st...

So, what are we gonna do? ♪ insurance. thats kind of what we do here. all right. it has been 24 hours since we learned that president trump tried at least once to fire special counsel bob mueller. some lawmakers are working on a bill openfully that would be law in the estimation to block trumps ability to fire mueller. tonight a top senate republican chuck grassly is urging trump to let the investigation work its course. thats very different than him saying he would back a bill to stop the p...

Lurch us into a crisis. >> what would the senate do rather than firing mueller or rather than firing mueller donald trump were to use what the former acting associate general called the death by 1,000 cuts strategy, firing rod rosenstein and putting in place a deputy attorney general, somebody in rosensteins position that would say you cant look into those areas because they are financial. you cant have that budget allegation and essentially squeeze the investigation through the supervisory powe...

For it to be made public so the public can actually see what is in this memo -- >> shepard: it reportedly tears down the investigator and the fbi and others. he will not show it to them, though they have asked for it so it can be prepared for declassification, which the president could do but has not yet done. it gives them a weapon of mass distraction in the middle of this investigation. doesnt it? >> well, that is what critics are saying. this is entirely about that. trying to undermine this s...

Investigated. chuck grassly now wants that released as well. and then senator richard blumenthal came out and said, you know, if were declassifying stuff, if we are releasing stuff and letting people see important, damning information we want the transcript of donald trump jr. testifying to the senate judiciary committee. donald trump jr. testified for hours behind closed doors, right after he gave that testimony, one of the senators on the committee chris coons put out this statement reminding ...