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Independent, i have never heard of a member of congress saying or acting as if they would get information from a foreign adversary and not calling the fbi. just this last week at an intelligence public committee meeting i asked a republican witness, i said all of these contexts, would you have called the fbi? he said absolutely. it is the norm that i think every member of congress agrees to. do they do opposition research? absolutely. its to find out if that person has a felony. i suspect thats ...

In his version of the hypothetical, the country of norway. norway. >> i knew you were going to say that. >> its not going to be norway. its not. its kind of close to norway. close enough. >> russia, north korea. yeah. >> given the other ways hes like randomly brought up norway in other contexts like we can sort of get around to the idea of what he was trying to imply by suggesting norway as the benign friendly nation that might be offering this stuff, but yeah, the president admitting that the f...

Glad you got to stay out of -- >> john dean has made a cottage droo of accusing presidents of acting like richard nixon. >> when you true to give us histor oracle contexts i refer you back to witness, and bias witness. so much of what you say seems difficult to accept at face value, quite frankly. >> hearings featuring buckets of chicken and convicted felons unfortunately have become the norm for this once esteemed kmuty. >> are they performing for the president or are they performing for their ...

Something soon. >> nadler did reach a deal to get other sensitive documents but cnn has learned the white house can review those documents and possibly block congress from seeing certain material. do they have legal standing to do them? >> they have the opportunity to go to court as they have been in other contexts like this with other committees and other witnesses and other pieces of information. whether or not those argument will be good, whether or not the executive privilege will hold water...

As the president began his bloody political fight over the wall. its unclear if there is a connection between him starting to fight and a bunch of people thinking the door was closing and coming towards the border. secondly, there is no need to detain many of the people in the first place as the overwhelming majority, obviously children pose zero public safety risk. what happens when a country decides to put tens of thousand thousands of people into camps? here with me now, andrea pitser wrote o...

It came into my consciousness a few days ago and i started reading it and its excellent. thank you for joining me. >> thank fist are having me on, chris. >> people think of camps, they think of the example of the nazis and the concentration camps. different governments used camps as tools of detention in various contexts throughout history. tell me about that. >> people tend to think of auschwitz and death camps. we should remember it first, but i wanted to look into how we got to that point. i ...

History. >> reporter: and i have to tell you, alex, ive watched joe biden now in a couple different contexts, couple different formats. he seemed very comfortable last night. he was working with a teleprompter, but he was also speaking more broadly about his values and what he believes in and playing on the heart strings of the people in the crowd as opposed to talking about the specifics of a policy plan, for example. it was very interesting to watch him be so strong in that context n that room...

Compromise on in indiana abortion law, appellate state law requiring fetal remains to be buried or cremated but refused to consider reinstating a law banning abortions based on the fetuss race, sex or disability. those provisions were part of the law signed by mike pence back when he was indianas governor. today the vice presidents press secretary said the vp commends the supreme court for upholding a portion of indiana law and justice thomass opinion that the court has been jealous in protectin...

The first time that president trump has sort of problbroken td norm, the idea that politics stops at the waters edge. this is something hes done before, but it is particularly striking, you know, given the ties and connection to kim jong-un and how he did it this weekend. you know, the presidents operating under the premise that there are all these rules in american politics that people say you cant do, but they dont apply to him and he can do them. so the bet that hes making is that his base an...

With it that doctored video. probably the most egregious example of what weve seen recently but probably just one example, not probably, but one example of the dangers of misinformation that is spread on the internet. i know youve been pushing legislation on these issues, but congress hasnt done much. do you think this incident could actually spark action? >> i hope so. its happening all over the place. i dont think we would expect the president of the united states to be sending out a video tha...