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Its a very important institution for keeping the rule of law intact. the vast number of men and women at fbi and doj are doing their jobs well. the people over in the field office in milwaukee, the fbi office, are helping keeping heroin and opioids out of our school so we want the people of the fbi to know we respect their job, we wlopt they are and what they do and all the more reason why we need to have transparency and accountability to hold people accountable if they violated the rules, if t...

The three of them read the memo. we asked them, are there any factual inaccuracies. they said, no. we asked them, is there anything in there that would endanger national security? they said, no. and they gave us the go ahead to release the memo. >> they said, no, there are no factual inaccuracies in this memo? none? >> thats exactly right. >> is christopher wray going to come out and tell that to the american public in order to cast amy sper any aspersions away from this memo that are out there?...

To jeopardize relations with friendly foreign tense services and it wont undermine services and methods, how the u.s. collects sensitive information? >> we dont know yet. he did not have the justice department with him. as you say, theres something to the fact he went to review it because thats the normal process. he had the option to say, hey, wait a minute even if he doesnt get to say lets put a red stop sign on it. what if theres something in the memo thats wrong and in order to push back, th...

Defense. you dont get better deep state credentials than that, i guess. anyway, i began by asking him about his reaction to what has been increasingly harsh tone republicans have taken. >> i obviously have a bias having spent my life in these institutions, and i would say that i think its disappointing. i think that theyre very important for american national security. we have oversight committees in the congress in both houses that are -- were created specifically to maintain oversight of the i...

To know. not just your viewers but across the board, could you draw a direct connection about releasing the information it allows the american people more access to draw their on conclusions. >> one last point. you are talking about somebody working for somebody and trying to find things that person wants. devin nunez worked for the transition. how does it not apply to them of them in the same way. >> as ive said earlier, there is a precedent being established that if you feel like or you are ma...

Trump campaign adviser. according to the new york times, the memo alleged the application to spy on page was approved by the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein who used information from the steele dossier. there are ample reasons to clout the conclusions of this memo. but if you do believe what is being reported about it, the bombshell here is arguably that a trump appointee approved an application to spy on a former member of the trump campaign and a trump appointee seemingly thought that s...

Congress and an agreement on whether they will pass some sort of bill to protect mueller. do you see it happening, alice? >> fred, its sad we have to get to this point but we may have to get to that point. i think mueller should be protected. i dont think there should be any outside influences to try and seek his removal. look, a few things. i think the administration, specifically the president, is wrong to call this russia investigation a hoax. i think its wrong to call it a witch hunt. i thin...

Important to putting this together but this investigation has to go forward. well continue to interview key people in the department of justice and the fbi to get to the truth. maria: so lets talk about the truth an what we know so far and youre right a big hats off to the inspector general. we would not have known before the inspector general that for example, these two were talking about a so-called insurance policy. should donald trump win the election, and he did and in your view is that ins...

Talk to a member in good standing of the so-called deep state. robert gates has been head of the cia and secretary of defense. you dont get better deep state credentials than that, i guess. anyway, i began by asking him about his reaction to what has been increasingly harsh tone republicans have taken. >> i obviously have a bias having spent my life in these institutions, and i would say that i think its disappointing. i think that theyre very important for american national security. we have ov...

That -- >> no, no, no. im talking about -- >> weve never heard about it as a conversation. we heard about it as this is what i want to do, and youre going to do it. mcgahn said, dont do this. it will really push this question of obstruction of justice. ill resign. then he said, fine, i wont do it. thats not a conversation. thats different. and the timing is very relevant because it came out just when word that the obstruction of justice case revolving around the president was going to be a focus...