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Potential target for russian influence operations. >> will russian president vladimir putins government is disrupting the midterms, wray said they are already working with: security. >> dhs recently scheduled meetings -- there are ways that people are little bit creative and forward-leaning to educate the state election. >> the american people are smart people. they realize that there are people attempting to manipulate them, both domestically and foreign. >> one senator called for greater invol...

>> kellyanne conway, they have all been saying it. >> why are we to believe them on the collusion issue, on laundry, on all of these other things. that is so corrosive. >> i know this may be rearweirdt if you could channel yourself back, what would that john dean advise the president to do. what would you say? >> well, initially when i started dealing with them in those recorded tape show, i was trying to figure out what he is who he is, what he knew. for the first eight months of watergate, i h...

Im more intrigued by something that was written long before the election in which strzok was talking about -- keep in mind these are high up officials in the fbi -- that he could not envision donald trump being elected president, but when it came to the collusion issue, we need an insurance policy. now, i know we go back and forth and we never want to disparage our institutions like the fbi, but these are principle players, very, you know, important players at the fbi ruining it for the rest of ...

Is no collusion. when they have no collusion and nobodys found any collusion, at any level. >> but did we get -- he said no collusion eight times in two minutes in response to that one question. but did we get a flat answer from the president about whether if called, he would testify? >> first thing on the collusion point. collusions not a legal term. so no ones going to be prosecuted for collusion. if anything, it would be conspiracy to conspire with russians in their election meddling. and the...

I do believe there is a question, in any impeachment proceedings, obstruction of justice, is there underlying crime? can you have obstruction if theres not a crime? that depends heavily on what mueller comes up with in regard to the collusion issue, possibly the money laundering issue. we have to wait and see exactly where this goes. one of the curious things i find here, sending someone from the justice department to find dirt on comey. ive never heard of anything like that except for nixon day...

Crime? can you have obstruction if theres not a crime? that depends heavily on what mueller comes up with in regard to the collusion issue, possibly the money laundering issue. we have to wait and see exactly where this goes. one of the curious things i find here, sending someone from the justice department to find dirt on comey. never heard of anything like that except for nixon days. does raise questions. who was this person and who sent him? attorney general who already recused himself? numbe...

A lawyer for the trump organization supposedly was holding secret meetings. if the fbi couldnt figure that out then what are they doing so obviously theres no intent made to look into the basic allegations in that dossier which to me would have made the whole thing incredible and the fact that the fbi reports they want to continue they want to pay michael steel whose the person behind it and then you have all of the relationships between the organization putting the dossier together, people in t...

Seized. the particular focus on financial information has caused some people for say, is mueller now getting into that red line territory, you know that trump said youre allowed to look at the collusion issue but not anything else? you know, i think the thing that is important to keep in mind here is that the people who determine the appropriate jurisdiction is going to be mueller and deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. there is a process at doj for requesting additional jurisdiction when ne...

Crime. lots of other crimes which may involve cooperation between the russians and the -- sorry the campaign at that time. and i do think though that you have to think about, well, what did michael flynn actually plead to and how that impacts on the collusion issue. right. so he pled in the first instance to calling kislyak and saying, you know, dont react to the sanctions. these werent sanctions about ukraine. these were sanctions that related to russias attempts to interfere in our election. s...

Special council investigation. i can think of none where these kind of conditions have been imposed upon those who were subjected targets of the investigation. thats the precedent in this regard, suggesting how big this is. were talking about internal security and national security on both the issues that are being looked at, both the fraud as well as the collusion issue. >> when you take this up to the jail time they would get if convicted. manafort, 12 to 15 years, gates, 10 to 12 years, if th...