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Campaign. the public was advised that the fbi was investigating the clinton campaign but we never were told that they were investigating the trump campaign. given the incredible political damage done to hillary clinton by the fbi and by its investigation dollars a investigations and jim comey, the idea that this investigation was going on so extensively for so long and we knew nothing about it, thats a real important post script to the 2016 campaign. >> as a pr professional, i read this oped and...

And then have you republicans on the hill who are, you know, have spent all this time was it 21 hours worth of, you know, transcripts or of time in hearings and yet theyre not following any of the leads that fusion gps people are suggesting that they follow. >> theyre suggesting that they get records from deutsche bank. >> they suggested that they pursue deutsche bank records which mueller has since subpoenaed deutsche bank records, i dont know if thats the same thing. >> they also talked about ...

Issue of meddling versus collusion. mueller is investigating the collusion. i think the republicans would be wise here to acknowledge and get their arms around meddling occurred. its fine to think no collusion occurred, but acknowledge the meddling and then set forth some parameters on how were going forward in the future. thats the responsible governing move here. if youre looking for a positive outcome out of a congressional investigation, that would be it. >> so if that is then the case have ...

>> i think its been clear for a while that this committee was not going to be the one that got to the bottom of the russia investigation. there has been concerted effort for quite some time, and weve seen republicans become uncomfortable with the extent to which its gone, that the house committee is seeking to shoot the messenger and discredit a lot of the investigation or turn it towards the democrats. and the mueller investigation, that is going to be, to my mind and most of the people watchin...

>> this is what opposition research firms do. they hire opposition research. sometimes you have a research person on staff and they go out and find information about your opponents. usually, caveat, you dont get that information from a foreign entity and you dont meet with the russianors anybody else to get it. ill just trying to figure out, i think its reckless four to suggest that they got caught doing something wrong. >> i didnt say they got caught doing something wrong, i said they got caugh...

Sources, including one inside the trump camp. >> im certainly unaware of who inside the trump camp was dealing with the fbi. but certainly i think we all would want to know today who was talking to the fbi within the trump campaign. >> we dont know that thats actually occurred, this is just based on sources, unnamed sources to the founders of fusion gps. >> correct. and so we dont know if there is such a person. but if there is such a person, wed want to know who it is. and why they felt compell...

Now. >> i think ultimately were wondering i know we have reports today were going to see dueling reports out of democrats and republicans, thats the way they go. but to me could you get ahead of this thing if youre the congrectional republicans by showing the american people a forward looking way to stop meddling into the future. can they do this ghen a midterm or presidential? >> dont waugh tonight see the transcripts? why cant they just release the transcripts? if they spent 21 hours with them...