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I think the way this administration, you know -- what this administration is discovering is the same thing that the previous two u.s. administrations have discovered. and discovered the hard way. that there can be no convergence of interest and no genuine operation between a system based on the rule of law and respect for human rights and democratic institutions and on the other hand, a clep toe accuratic and authoritarian regime, vladimir putins regime in our country. and, of course, we remembe...

Expel. you can argue whether we were successful in doing so or not. but russia is trying to give the taliban legitimacy. >> this is so interesting. during the campaign, donald trump talks so often about vladimir putin and about how wouldnt it be great if we could get along and have a convergence of interest and take out isis together and work together on a number of issues. anybody a very short period of time, 85, 87 days, you have seen a complete change in this administrations attitude towards ...

We know the two were traveling together in iraq, what we dont know are some of the key details, any time a senior official visits iraq some of the key details are kept secret. the bigger question is that when there are visits like this and some details kept secret usually we know why the visits took place in the first place, in this case we dont know why jared kushner was in iraq, what it does show is the continuing descending -- of trump family members, we see on the ground is a convergence of ...

We have put out the unclassified facts. all we want right now is to follow the evidence, see writ takes us. its in our presidents interest if this is not a pattern to be clear. and if they are a convergence of personal, political, and financial ties with russias interference, then people needed to be held accountable. >> thank you very much. coming up the white house says it made no attempt to block sally yates from testifying so why was her testimony canceled? at blue apron, were building a bet...

The bottom. now, its an insurance policy against a compromised house investigation. one republican has signed on, walter jones, i hope others join. >> its amazing how partisan this is. even the public meeting you had, all the questions republicans were asking, were leak related, all the questions democrats were asking were about russia or about manipulation of the election. >> its all bipartisan to follow the investigation where it takes us. i think its in the presidents interest and the country...

Elsewhere? >> i think we have to continue to per sue all leads, however, i wanted an independent commission, i always thought that was the most comprehensive way to get to the bottom. one republican has signed on, walter jones, i hope others join. >> its a shame how partisan this is, even the public meeting you had, all the questions republicans were asking, were leak related, all the questions democrats were asking were about russia or about manipulation of the election. >> its all bipartisan t...

Knowledge or connections of collusion. he didnt say anything about that. why do you think? >> it was a stunt. it was nothing more than the latest smoke bomb that has been rolled into this investigation to obstruct what is going on here. we learned from the fbi director on monday that they are connecting the personal political and financial dots that connect the trump team to the convergence that is -- the dots that converge with the russian interference in our election an investigation is underw...

Congressman eric swalwell. first, can you react to the chair of your committee saying he has never heard of roger stone? >> the evidence shows the contrary. the world knows who roger stone is, the world knows who carter page and paul manafort and michael flynn are. they are individuals, a part of this trump orbit, who had deep personal political and financial ties to russia and now we are starting to learn there may have been a convergence of those ties with russias interference campaign. >> was...

This trump orbit, who had deep personal political and financial ties to russia and now we are starting to learn there may have been a convergence of those ties with russias interference campaign. >> was the chair of your committee -- i want to be clear. was the compare of chair of your committee devin nunes, saying he hadnt heard of roger stone, was he lying? >> i dont know how he could not have heard of roger stone. we told the world yesterday who roger stone was and over the last few months we...

Going on, individuals are going over to russia like carter page, roger stone is intimating that an attack is going to happen against john podestas e-mails. i think this is convergence not coincidences. >> so yesterday we had this bombshell of the fbi, who clearly didnt want to do it but felt compelled at this point. was it the tweets, joe? if the president hadnt tweeted that saturday morning, would we be -- >> no, we wouldnt have been here. yesterday would not have taken on the importance that i...