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There, this could be interesting. im not sure that its completely irrelevant, but, you know, im just saying, i think its an interesting thing for them to look at. >> we do know that its not going to change robert muellers legal conclusions. ultimately, he said there was no criminal conspiracy. so this really is about providing more color, so that the house of representatives might make a different judgment. >> and i do think to toobins point, this is an important marker to lay down, that it is n...

Conducted and the way ambassador taylor came to know what he knew. anything it seems but the actual details from this career nonpartisan civil servant and west point graduate and vietnam war vet who detailed with contemporaneous notes and was hand-picked for the job by the presidents secretary of state. yesterday, republican senator john thune certainly took what he said seriously enough to gravely say the emerging picture painted of president trump is, quote, not a good one. today, however, it ...

Worse. >> thats yet to be seen. we have one persons -- >> theres overwhelming evidence. >> i dont think theres overwhelming evidence. the other two pieces of evidence you use, i read that transcript it doesnt say what you said it does. >> are you talking about bill taylors 15-page statement? >> i think bill taylors statement -- again, i havent seen the questioning. we havent had a privilege to see that. weve seen his statement. but i think of all the things brought forward so far, thats the one ...

The attorney general as well, an underlying lack of trust, an underlying suspicion about the conclusions that we drew in 2016 about russian-maligned cyber activity, about their interference in our democratic process. so, if those decision-makers are not convinced by the unanimous conclusions of the intelligence professionals involved at the time, then we have a problem on our hands, because it suggests that they are not taking the russian threat to the 2020 elections as seriously as they should....

On russia and had a russia-specific background. this is somebody the president in an area the president has been targeting for two years. and its coming at a time when we were already hypothetically talking about whether the president could get away with murder on 5th avenue. so this has been an empowering week for the president, i would say that. >> if i can pile on bill barr a little more, another thing that hes done thats completely inappropriate, "a," speaking about a trial going on at all. ...

And was handpicked for the job by the presidents secretary of state. the emerging picture painted of president trump is not a good one. today however it was a different story. >> right now were hearing one side of the story, and until we get the full picture, i think i said this yesterday, its hard to draw any conclusions. >> you said the picture painted at present wasnt great. >> based on the reporting of what you guys were saying about it, but i went back yesterday and actually read what was s...

Andy mccarthy. >> another andy in all of this at the fbi. i was just -- >> we need to get to the bottom of this properly predicated, what was the evidentiary base of this. what was john brennans role. the american people deserve that. without drawing any conclusions. >> i agree with both of you. the answers and information -- i think the intelligence agencies behaved really badly. its hard to have an innocent explanation for what they did and the use of the steele dossier coming out through the ...

Are attorneys, nadler and schiff. he has no idea what the report says. what they may have found. he knows about the text messages and unless they are totally tone deaf or just watching one of the other networks they know there is a lot of there there and questions, at least keep your powder dry for when the conclusions come out. steve: well, theres a simple reason to believe we have heard from them. its all political. keep in mind, impeachment is not a legal proceeding. it is political. and that...

That the obama administration decided to dump all that embarrassing material from john podestas email account and from the dnc server to help hillary clinton? is that the theory? >> to make it look like russia was attacking hillary clinton when they really werent. and then -- >> they could have helped trump, but thats just what youd be expecting. instead -- right. so i dont understand -- i dont understand the theory. and like all conspiracy theories, it makes your brain hurt. and that is why i d...

To dump all that embarrassing material from john podestas email account and from the dnc server to help hillary clinton? is that the theory? >> to make it look like russia was attacking hillary clinton when they really werent. >> see, they could have helped trump but thats just what youd be expecting. instead -- i dont understand -- i dhnkd tont understand the th. like all conspiracy theories, it makes your brain hurt. that is why i do believe at the end of the day theyre going to have to show s...