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That is very disturbing movement we are seeing. it started with no russians, no collusion. now, its starting to drift more towards, well, we would be better off without hillary. >> a few democrats now have said that with the e-mails, this is approaching treason in their view. ill tell you, i dont think i have heard a single legal analyst say that is where we are at this point. are your fellow democrats going too far? >> my job is to make sure the american people understand who, if anyone was wor...

That will bring clarity to this. i look forward to that coming out. once again, the intelligence community is not perfect. they were not unanimous. >> understood. we look forward to their conclusions as well. what about the evidence from don juniors e-mails, where it is in black and white that the russian government would prefer his father win and, in fact, they said they were supporting his fact? that was why he took the meeting. >> theres lots of things about this that are troubling, and lots ...

Mediator, but nobody in this region has the kind of credibility, power and relationships with all of the parties that the united states has. >> reporter: he says this crisis also affects gulf unity in trying to combat what would be iran influenced in that region. when you look at what the secretary of state has to do, particularly what it per taeupbs to iran, the trump administration must certify whether it is going to say that iran is in compliance with a nuclear agreement that the obama admini...

Conclusion by people in the media is what the problem is there was no actual evidence of collusion theres something to be investigated. >> mike i think youre right people shouldnt jufrp to the outcome of conclusions but we dont know what the outcome of that meeting was. >> i have no issue of saying we dont know but saying theres collusion youre putting evidence out there to the public. >> you can filibuster an argument but you cant make it. heres what we know what happened, theres an e-mail that...

But i think to me what really is damaging to this administration is that this suggests a pattern of deception, that time and time again the administration said there is no russian connections, no russian collusion. and time and time again we find out, oops, there is this meeting that you know that trump junior had a russian lawyer. if you connect the dots it suggests a pattern that is disturbing. and reason we o we must aggressively investigate this. while we cant jump to conclusions we can be d...

Forward, wherever the chips fall, let the chips fall where they may. i dont know what happened. certainly, i think we want to know more. what we do know is russia is an adversary to the united states. they attacked our country. the president, in my mind, has appeased them and looked the other way, which is the main reason the europeans are worried about his presidency. >> harris: i wanted to get that in there while you were giving the president praise. guy, i want you to pick it up from there, m...

Lies, after people were on his trail on russia, he still was saying oh, well, you know what? putin, he may kill journalists, but our soldiers in iraq, they killed a lot of people too. >> what does that tell you? >> well, you can draw assumptions. as a father of four children, if my children were acting that way, id say theyre covering up something. i dont know about the president of the united states, and of course, i would never jump to any conclusions, but it does seem like he fears vladimir p...

You. started to see information saying john podestas e-mails would be forthcoming. the timing was curious in terms of the requests in terms of what mr. trump junior said. >> jared kushner according to cnn reporting has had to recently amend the information he gave to get his security clearance. do you think he should have his clearance revoked? >> i want to give mr. kushner the chance to talk to our committee before i reach those kind of conclusions. i do think it is strange to me that a meeting...

>> do you think that to compromise or influence an election is an adversarial move on their part? >> yes, i do. >> do you believe that thats what happened with the dnc hacking and john podestas emails? >> i have no reason to doubt the conclusions of the intelligence committee. lt. >> would that make you a good candidate to be an enemy of the united states? >> i think an effort to influence elections is a bad act, yes. >> and you would protect him from -- >> do you believe that in light of the do...

Recent news it is even more important that we hear from attorney general sessions andorers to get a public accounting. this committee has an important role to play, as i think you have acknowledged, to assure that law enforcement investigations are done independently and free from political influence. clearly theres been a lot of emphasis and concern on the part of this committee, in light of why this vacancy for the fbi director occurred, on the independence of the fbi and you, should you be co...