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Lets talk and get this shut down idea avoided. the president has a lot vested in this on a personal level as well. hes got this big fund raiser, celebration of his one-year anniversary at mar-a-largo tomorrow. he was supposed to have been taking off about ten minutes from now to go down there. hes postponed that until at least tomorrow. if the government shuts down, i dont know if he will go at all. he wants to get a deal, too. not just because of that. he wants a deal because he doesnt think th...

My senator, i know what he said, he will not stand up publicly against this racism of donald trump, i understand mia love and other democrats have done that. when will they simply say this is not the direction that the country needs to go in. until that happens, then none of this will change. donald trump is racist, period. hes been that way. our country does you not have to accept that though. >> republican senator chuck grassly and it turned out he got an ear full from constituents. his distri...

>> well see what happens. i mean certainly ill see what happens. but when they have no collusion, and nobodys found any collusion at any level, it seems unlike that youd even have an interview. >> reporter: but thats not what the president said last year when he told reporters he is 100% willing to testify in the russia investigation. >> would you be willing to speak under oath to give your version of events? >> 100%. >> reporter: christine and dave? >> thanks. the ranking democrat on the senate...

Investigate and do the research on the project they needed to do and they ended up uncovering this kind of information. they didnt go in looking necessarily, according to simpson, for a russian connection. this is something they uncovered in the process. >> michael, it was just last week that republican chairman chuck grassly and senator lindsey graham issued a criminal referral to the justice department urging an investigation into whether steele lied. what does this all say about the congressi...

Its public release even though republicans wanted to keep it under wraps. well, this morning, literally as she attended that all for show immigration meeting with president trump, senator diane feinstein did an end runaround that possibility but just cutting to the chase and deciding to release the whole darn thing herself. nobody has to do a stunt. nobody has to did a gambit. shes putting it out there. what, are you going to come for her. this is the 312-page transcript by glenn simpson from fu...

At chuck grassly. they worked together well over the last year since they have been investigating part of the russia scandal. there has been tensions. apparently, it has been -- there has been speculation on capitol hill senator feinstein was aggravated by something chuck grassly did. last week, without a vote from the committee, and apparently without consultation or notification of any of the democrats including feinstein, last week chuck grassly and another republican senator decided to take ...

>> i think she made the right ca call. the senate judiciary committee has been essentially divided by char main gra chairman grassly saying well do the investigations on the republican side and you should do your investigations on the democratic side, so given that, and given the, i guess, misleading way in which some of this information has been handled in the past, i think the ranking member, senator feinstein field it was appropriate on the democratic side for her to release the actual transc...

Reason why he himself would vote no on releasing the transcript and/ hatch said he would vote ys to release that transcript but then something happened, something happened between august and now and senator grassly changed his mind. he decided as chairman he would not let the transcript be released. and because hes the chairman, he runs the committee and usually that means whatever he says goes. but diane feinstein decided to set this out on her own today. we know of no president for a senator d...

Bear against the report and considering it was only offered as a preliminary intelligence survey, i think the report held up dammed well. >> we seen some evolution on the subject of this report among your republican colleagues as i pointed out earlier in the show, in august shortly after this testimony was given, senator grassly seemed to releasing this information, he said he didnt see any reason why he would vote to keep this information from the public and told constituents he would allow the...

Feinstein, you wouldnt like her if she was angry. she couldnt be more blunt that she wanted to release this. >> senator feinstein, do you have any response to chairman grassley saying that the release of the transcripts hurts the legitimacy of the investigation by the judiciary committee? >> i havent seen that, no, i have no response at this time. >> why did you decide to do that? >> because i think people are entitled to know what was said and the lawyers also wanted it released. i see no probl...