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Has been essentially divided by chairman grassley saying were going to do our own investigations on the republican side and you should go do your own 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, felt it was appropriate on the democratic side for her to release the actual transcript of this information, which i think helps rebut a lot of the...

She issued the release without the support of the committees republican chairman, senator chuck grassly of iowa who had argued the committee needed to temporarily protect certain information while the investigation was ongoing. >> i think its really unfortunate that the majority and minority on the judiciary committee have really come to an empasse in making progress. >> reporter: in a statement a california senator said she released the transcript because, quote, they american people needed the...

That is why im particularly interested in this because me and everybody else in the country who doesnt foe what were talking about on these issues, weve been very focused on the southern and eastern districts of new york because of the particular interests of the president and his family and on going investigations et cetera. we dont need to go into it in detail. in the southern disvicttrict in york, the senator is calling foul basically on the appointee and specifically the fact that the presid...

Election to try to help trump and hurt clinton, after that came out, multiple congressional committees, even in the republican led congress expressed alarm and started full scale investigations into the russian attack and into the crucial question of whether or not the russians had american confederates who knew what the russians were doing or who height hamight have been involved at the time. that strtarted basically a year ago with the assessment. today after multiple committees in the house a...

They turn up information that law enforcement doesnt have, its not unheard of for congress to notify the relevant law enforcement agent, hey, we turned up something that might want to prosecute. thats happened in serious ethics cases for members of congress doing intense investigation of a member of congress accused of ethics violation in the course of the investigation, they turn up serious evidence of potential criminal wrongdoing by that member of congress, wrongdoing that was not otherwise k...

That actually called the cops when they saw this crime happen. there is one person that observed evidence of russia maybe trying to interfere in the election to help trump. there is one person that saw the evidence and recognized it as a serious crime and 911, called the fbi. the one person who did that is the person who lindsey graham and chuck grassly today told the justice department to investigate for potentially maybe possibly having committed a crime. they released this cover letter but no...

Iowa. if youre chuck fwrgrassly, tha counts as a change in the weather. the day the elections, chuck grassly announced he would no longer support two of president trumps controversial nominees for judgeships. after that announcement from grassly, those nominees got pulled by the white house. then a similar dynamic played out last night with another trump nominee. to lead chemical safety at the epa spent his career fighting jai against chemical safety rules. hes gone now, too. he with drew after ...

President before christmas. well before christmas. steve: all right. that would be a good gift for him because thats what he wants. senator chuck grassly from the great state of iowa where i was born. senator, thank you very much for joining us live today. >> and it would be a big deal for the taxpayers. steve: it would be indeed. all right. thank you, sir. all right. come up on this tuesday. california is just weeks away from officially becoming a sanctuary state. and a majority states sheriffs...

Argument thats out there, well, now that mccain has come out as a no, with maymaybe we see a fl republican senators coming out and saying no. last time, we did not see a flood, that gives me the freedom and the permission to go ahead and say no. the dean hellers of the world still ended up voting no. and i think it comes down to this great quote that chuck grassly gave to reporters this week, i think that we should be running that on our chirons the entire week. >> lets do that right now. this a...

With humira, remission is possible. monitoring a dire situation. stay with cnn for a live update at the top of the next hour. now back to politics. one of the many commander in chief challenges that president trump is facing. the administration is conveying an all hands on deck approach. pence monitoring the situation from the white house. for presidents, natural disasters can become defining moments, particularly if they are handled poorly. its a warning that senator chuck grassly pointed out...