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Mishandling classified material dates back to the earliest days of his presidency, and most of the way we know that he did that was from nonreadouts of meetings with people like vladimir putin, when he went into meetings. so, the mishandling of classified information has gone on for so long, i have so many questions about what it -- and you know, chuck rosenberg explained to me last night that it cant be something he did 18 months ago. the search warrant went before a judge with current concerns...

Garland from the beginning, hes been focused on trying to repair the damage that the justice department suffered in the trump era, the view that it was no longer independent in the way the justice department normally is, even though it is a political appointee who runs it. hes been trying to fix that, trying to make sure his reputation for independence get restored. knowing what kind of a political firestorm this was going to set off, it must have taken a fair amount to get him to take this step...

Everyone knows from the agent on the ground up to merrick garland that they are going to be in the cross hairs. so i think it gets to the importance and the urgency of this particular investigation, what is at stake that they felt that this was absolutely necessary to go into a former presidents home to take these documents before they caused any more harm. >> andrew, you worked very closely in this world, and its obvious that, do you have any doubt this warrant question went all the way up to h...

Law stipulates. if donald trump were convicted of it, he would not be able to run for president again. thats a big deal, in addition to the other potential consequences. but really, what everyone right now in our political culture and around the country is wondering is, what happens now about january 6th? and that makes everybody very much and rightly focused on merrick garland, who has been delphic, saying the things you expect him to say, but everyones looking for a tell. does this guy have, i...

There. heres my question for you, pal. the house judiciary put out a tweet last night. this is what it says. "this is what happens in third world countries, not the united states. doesnt the fbi have better things to do than harass the former president?" okay. so, thats basically the shape of things to come if republicans take control of the house of representatives. we heard kevin mccarthy. theyre telegraphing what theyre going to do. we already knew they were going to go after hunter biden, et...

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President-elect slammed the cia with this tweet. comparing the cias, as he framed it, leak of information to the press to nazi germany. >> i want to talk about this running war, as he called it, with the media, with brian seltzer. >> what was you initial reaction when you heard that? >> once again, we are seeing donald trump preferring to talk about these sorts of distractions or issues that are not consequential to the voters who were here on friday to the protesters who were here on saturday a...

We werent allowed to shoot video of the crowd being the cia. that kind of works to their favor. what we are not talking about, fine, there is a learning curve. here is the question. was president trump prepared? was he briefed? >> is anyone writing remarks for him. he just went up there and spoke extemporaneously. >> you have to be able to speak in a clear, concise way at times when called for. he could have spoken for five minutes about thanking the cia for all their work, talking about looking...

Former cia dr. brennan is deeply saddened and angered at trumps -- others marched in solidarity for womens rights. >> we heard from president trump lashing out at the media. as press secretary, sean spicer, had more to say about that. >> athena jones joins us now. athena, this was unusual, unorthodox, the first press conference to come out, read a statement and walk away. >> absolutely. this is not what you expect from a white house press secretary. this was his first meeting with the press in a...

Have ignored and that they accused the media of inventing, because they did not. those are words that republican lawmakers themselves push back on comparing u.s. intelligence agencies to nazi germany, donald trump, the president of the united states did that. not the media. it would have been helpful to people in the agencies to hear i really value you. i walk back those words. i understand i need you and you need me to make this country safe. >> athena, does he need to clean up the cleanup now?...