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13, 14-hour journey on his first overseas trip as this news has broken from the "new york times" that the morning after he fired james comey he reportedly told the russians in the oval office that he considers james comb nut job and that firing him made him feel like the pressure is off. were talking to all kinds of people reacting to this news today. michael zeldin, final thought from you. you know, there had been questions already because of other pieces of news. might this be the beginning of...

Trust read their nests of eric if he says something without my consent. >> eric: in the best interest of everyone, i think it is smart to do. i have to let you know we wanted music in the studio before we started. i was going to push for music. hey, you werent supposed to say anything. im using an example thats happening right now. >> kat: thats not very sensitive. >> eric: in the interest of safety, the world has a common enemy with isis. that should override everything. the russian collusion i...

Reform. >> eric: governor, in order to look into a u.s. persons activity, you need a fisa warrant. are we sure this fisa warrant was proper? have they done everything properly? have the people going after flynn and the trump administration done everything they were supposed to do? >> fisa is a court order. you have to go to three judges. i think the process makes sense. are there imperfections? possibly. i think general flynn deserves due process. i do think that. at the same time, i think eboni...

Interfere with elections in europe. they used some here. and we want to find out everything the russians did. i would say also, though, i think what would give the public the greatest confidence is if we had a truly independent commission that was well resourced and could be completely repromoved from my political consideration. >> you raise an interesting issue, which is about how will the people find satisfaction? there is argument to be made you shouldnt be dealing with the collusion issue. t...

His committee has any evidence of collusion between the trump campaign and russia, he said quote, ill give you the simple answer, no. over on nbcs "meet the press," the ranking democrat on the committee had a different take on the collusion issue. >> i would characterize it this way at the outset of the investigation, there is circumstantial evidence of collusion. there is direct evidence, i think, of deception. thats where we begin the investigation. >> reporter: fbi director james comey and na...

Michael cohen now claiming that donald trump knew in advance about the june 2016 meeting at trump tower where russians expected to offer dirt on hillary clinton. sources tell cnn. and sources say cohen is prepared to tell special counsel robert mueller what candidate trump knew and when. >> it is quite a bombshell. if its true and corroborated. it would mean that the president was willing personally to accept russian help in the campaign and so it brings the collusion issue to the presidents fee...

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Separate question. but there is no question weve got before us the entire intelligence community that the russians interfered in the election in 2016. theyre continuing to do it and theyre a real, imminent threat to our elections in a matter of eight or nine months. my problem is i talked to people in maine who say, the whole thing is a witch hunt and its a hoax because the president told me. i just wish you all could persuade the president as a matter of national security to separate these two ...

That we had at the top of the hour, the special counsel robert mueller, hes looking into information from rick gates who has pled guilty as you know on possible collusion. not so interested on what paul manafort, the former trump campaign chairman did, but on possible collusion. how significant is that? >> that is very significant. keep in mind that rick gates was also the deputy campaign manager for the trump campaign. he could have seen and heard a lot. he also stayed on with the campaign even...

It made it so that he was in an untenable position, did it not? >> if he did his job, if he told the truth, then he wouldnt have been -- you know, well see. again, we dont have access to actually what he did or didnt do. weve got both competing narratives going on out there. the facts will support one or the other. >> did he back up comeys contention that he was fired because of the russia probe? >> when? >> during his testimony to you, mr. mccabe. >> he wasnt fired when he testified to us. >> n...