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Investigation. >> chairman rogers, does the timeline of people just wanting to get an impact on whatever news channel they want it to have an impact on and even if it unravels over the course of several days, doesnt seem to matter? >> you know, as a very young fbi agent, i had a senior agent, used to tell me when we would get into investigations, he said, you know, context matters. im sorry, and my bad, mean the same thing, unless youre at a funeral. different context. thats where the drum shoul...

Now theyre getting cheaper. >> shepard: exactly. the one thing that is different since the last -- since the fox business network thats been on the air, a new thing with the 30-year. help our people that dont understand. >> to get a fixed year lone for 30 years, many people you cant do it. here in america you can its been in the 3% range for so long. thats an incredible low rate of interest that you pay back a bank for a loan on a house. now its crept above to 4.2% or thereabouts. still cheap by...

Investigation or not? >> i get it. >> it is about america versus the world when its george bush. with donald trump, are you investigating me and are you going to be kind to me and my friends. that is the fact person pa. everybody knows he is furious about recusing himself. so lets not be too clever here. it is what it is. >> a verbal tick is when he goes forget about it. >> its how he sees the world. if you ran into him today, he would say are you on my team or not. obviously hes the president. ...

>> among people of color, it is true. black unemployment is at its lowest rate ever one could argue it isnt all because of the presidents policy. he just takes credit. it has been on a downward trend since obama took office. the unemployment rate among blacks is still higher than that of other races. bill, context matters, right? >> sure. again, i think we made the right point. it is striking how much trump and his spokeman think their task is to keep bashing the democrats. and thats okay. im re...

Protocols correctly, everyone accepts that. government oversight is important. but what i see here is a calculated pathway of destruction only to distract from special counsel muellers quiet, deliberate, constructive investigation which the american people understand. >> and congresswoman, let me play for you another reporter from fox news who was arguing that the way the memo has been hyped thus far and the recklessness to quote the trump justice department with which it may be released is itse...

Hes colluded with the russians. a memo can be a part of partisan distraction, especially in a pivotal moment in history. context matters. lets turn to tom bevin, co-founder and publisher of real clear politician. tom, it was pointed out in another network, the top four stories being aggregated by real clear politics where all of this same ilk. what does this say about the national discussion? >> well, look, shep, theres interest in obviously in this memo and certainly among republicans, among pa...

Lanza, who was the former deputy communications director for the trump campaign. he said he never said what the congresswoman said. he snad a tweet, it was fabricated. general kelly says the exact same words the congresswoman said. was the president not telling the truth? >> i hear it differently than you. i hear context. context matters. what the congresswoman is trying to portrait is a harsh context. when you hear what general kelly says, there is a huge distinction. i think the president is s...

Said he knew what he signed up for. it made the widow begin to cry. lets speak with retired general michael hayden. context matters. i didnt hear this conversation. you didnt hear it. we dont know. the president off talks in glowing terms about the military. at the same time there seems to be a fundamental question whether or not he knows how to do the job. what is your take? >> well, it is a very difficult job, chris. for those who want to criticize the president who havent yet had to do that, ...

Turmoil. >> as a rule, a lot of turnover, a lot of turnover could be a trouble. certainly in the opening months, that turnover was trouble. if you cant keep skill, quality people, somebody like dubke, they cant stay -- other times, firings are the sign of a well-run organization, and in the case of tom price, it wouldve been inexcusable to let him stay. it would have been a sign of dysfunction had he remained. in this case, context matters. maybe at some of the changes before were a sign of an u...

That last part is key. its also the key to the controversy because arpaio was accused of rounding people up that looked like undocumented immigrants. and this goes back, again, many years. context matters. this was not an isolated incident. arpaio forced incarcerated inmates to live in an outdoor tent city he likened to a concentration camp. he was cited for segregating latinos within the population. he had an unusually high suicide rate of inmates, problems with his officers assaulting people. ...