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The campaign. and we know that the investigation is not example of the everyone whos talked about this or briefed on it has said theres more to do, and were pursuing this investigation. bret: mollie, let me ask you about the democrats, theyre going to move on something, stand united and say special prosecutor or were not moving forward. theyre going to do a host of things probably starting tomorrow into tuesday. >> obstruction has worked out well. at the same time, im not sure if thats the most ...

Would that be possibly something that should be a consensus pick, suggested by both parties in the judiciary committee. >> lawrence, i think if there was ever a time for a consensus pick to get somebody who was a career prosecutor, to get somebody that was, in effect, above pressure, but that was suppose to be the deputy attorney general who now weve seen written frankly laughable letter explaining the firing for comey was because he didnt treat then secretary clinton nice enough, whoever believ...

Judiciary committee. >> lawrence, i think if there was ever a time for a consensus pick to get somebody who was a career prosecutor, to get somebody that was, in effect, above pressure, but that was suppose to be the deputy attorney general who now weve seen written frankly laughable letter explaining the firing for comey was because he didnt treat then secretary clinton nice enough, whoever believes that, maybe there is a piece of real estate i can sell you in russia or in south florida. but, y...

Make this stuff up. i think its -- i have concerns about the fbi sh so thats why i believe we need a special prosecutor. but boy oh, boy, lawrence, more than ever, this senate investigation, which ive been frustrated sometimes at our pace. but it becomes more absolutely essential than ever. and weve got to keep it as much as possible bipartisan and weve got to follow the facts because this is now been elevated to a -- you picked the defcon level than it was. earlier in the day, as we heard, an u...

From a democrats point of view, they had a nominee, merrick garland, s not only highly qualified, he was a consensus pick and confirmed and so many offices by republicans that he was denied the opportunity. >> martha: gorsuch has the same description. >> i dont doubt that you could argue that bashar gorsuch was d but garland was distinguishing his position. i wanted to pick on something --dash go >> martha: that is why they didnt vote for him? >> the point was that they denied. this is the power...

Who is not making the decision. there are democrats in line who voted for trump. it is clearly a personal choice for a lot of these people. >> we have been talking about the politics a lot, but theres substantive reasons why donald trumps supreme court nominee needs bipartisan buy-in. and that you need a consensus nominee. his campaign was under fbi investigation. hes day after day declared policy that is unconstitutional like the muslim ban. and he suggested to change liable laws, which could b...

President trump, final say in approving sensitive raids and drone strikes. in anticipation of more numerous and more rapid approval. the plan would reportedly and the re-approval process under president obama that could delay submissions by hours or in some cases, even days, possibly diminishing their success. guy, you seem to be nodding your head. >> guy: i think this is a reasonable course of action. if theres going to be major operations, i think the president should have final say as command...

>> is it conceivable that this will happen this week or is the fact that it hasnt happened by now tell you that at least donald trump was not wowed and general david petraeus is on another sunday show this morning and a lot of people are saying that could be an audition of sorts for him? >> ive started to hear that trump is moving away both from romney and giuliani. doesnt mean it wont eventually be them. things change quickly in trumps orbit, but the push and pull between the two of them has cr...

Vice president-elect is very is in1r06r78ed. tom price, a member of congress, somebody people are very familiar with. even though democrats wont agree on this, republicans dont need democratic votes for this, these confirmations. >> interesting. you make a good point. mike pence, clearly, has the president-elects ear. very influential and emerging with some of these picks and i asame very influential having elaine chao announced as the new transportation secretary? >> elaine chao comes to this r...

Cruz and rubio. what does cruz think he needs to do to fight back against rubio and rubio seems to be trying to get a lot of the support -- or traditional support you would think that cruz is going to have? >> last night was a striking turn in the republican race especially for senator rubio, because he has had an under-the-radar, careful approach to his entire campaign, avoiding fights, trying to appeal to as many republicans as possible. but now the fight is here with senator cruz looking at t...