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The president won by 20 points. seems tight tonight. what does this mean? are we inflating it? >> its an election that i would hesitate to draw major conclusions from. the sign could be the protest vote that will come out to vote for the democrat because mr. trump. theres not much question about that in addition, they have this young attractive candidate on the democratic side, somewhat dowdy character on the republican side. this is conducted in the shadow of the departure of the previous incum...

>> its an odd election. i would hesitate to draw major conclusions. the force of the protest vote that will come out to vote for the democrat. young, attractive candidates on the democratic side and i somewhat somewhat doughty character on the republican side. this is also conducted to some extent in the shadow of the departure of the previous republican incumbent who left in a sex scandal. bear in mind this is an election to fill a seat between now and next november. there will be a whole new d...

Everything thats taking place. if theres some new evidence or something that needs to be restudy order reinvestigated i guess we would but at this time you have to understand we have done 73 interviews and reviewed over 300,000 documents, put in countless hours into this and theres been no sign of collusion with the trump campaign or with the clinton campaign. >> bill: you know what the democrats are saying, adam schiff is suggesting theres some document with james comey to reverse your conclusi...

>> thats what i always tell people to try to understand pittsburgh. we lump it with philly. pittsburgh is the capital of appalachian. culturally, thats what it is. >> all right. steve kornacki at the big board. our own john heilman is going to be with us for much of the evening. youve been taking this all in. your reaction to where we stand right now at 11:21 eastern time. >> i think its obviously worth noting that this is a purely symbolic exercise. we have said this all night on television in ...

They said they see no evidence that the russians were trying to help then candidate trump despite the fact that the intelligence community says it is so -- despite the fact that special counsel robert mueller in his indictment of those 13 russians just a few weeks ago said there is evidence that the russians were trying to help donald trump. i pulled this right from the indictment, by early to mid-2016, supporting the presidential campaign of then donald j. trump and disparaging hillary clinton....

Question and he came back and answered those question. i think the narrative that the witnesses werent willing to work with us is just not true as i said. many of them were there for a long, long day and answered the questions we asked them. >> there were a number of witnesses which democrats on the committee wanted subpoenas to be issued against that republicans declined, is that correct? >> yeah, there are some. but, look, this is important. they gave us a list of, i think, 83 witnesses. some ...

No question about that. i have spent a couple of days out at the cia reading the raw intelligence. reading what we were basing this on and when we release that report, we will show the cia just got it wrong just like they did in the gulf war where they said there were weapons of mass destruction that we did not find. the cia is not perfect. they will from time to time will make mistakes. we will show the people they were wrong on this. they misinterpreted some key intelligence and drew the wrong...

And if they said no, the republicans were content to leave it at that. thats not conducting an investigation. thats going through the motions. so the fundamental problem from the beginning was that my colleagues viewed their job as protecting their client, the president, rather than getting to the truth. >> reporter: republican tom rooney lamenting that the partisan infighting has gone off the rails. >> we lost all credibility and were going to issue probably two different reports. >> reporter: ...

And it should -- while theyre clearly crimes, they should have been handed to a different prosecutor. and i would also just make the political comment back to your first question, erica, that it is significant that the house intel committee came to the conclusions they came. people can disrespect those conclusions and come to it from their partisan perspective, sort of where you end up depends on where you start kind of an attitude. but the fact of the matter is part of the judgment of the speci...

Arrogant, they didnt get along, they disagreed on policy and the president is really flexing his muscle now. according to a source i spoke with today, the presidents feeling is like ive got it now, okay? i get this job, i know how to run the show and im going to do it and hes not being restrained by people, maybe general kelly was brought in there to do that but that just isnt going to happen and now hes kind of shuffling the deck here, firing the people, its like the old trump of trump organiza...