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Contrary to what jim jordan said in the tape we played on our air, there was more than just the dossier to suggest that he was an agent or working in concert with an agent of a foreign power. can you talk about all of the fog -- speak to jennifer rubens piece about the fog. on our air, jordan said something that the minute i heard it, i heard from fbi sources that that is not the case, that a fisa warrant would have been granted with intel that was solely in that initial early draft of the dossi...

Said there is mass hysteria in the west wing about this. we dont know if its going to happen or if it wont happen. but what we do know, if indeed the president does fire mueller, it shows that hes impeding the process yet again. >> april, you were hearing at that time seven months ago that the president had ordered the firing or was considering firing mueller? >> considering the firing, and people, i remember, i remember that night. and its so strange that the sources that i talked to were on th...

The president was willing to fire mueller -- i mean, short-term memory loss or something? i mean, all the fallout from firing comey. what does that tell you? >> i think. >> sorry. no, i think its what nick said, how the president has been obsessed with the investigation. you see him saying two very different things, like, oh, were corroborating, im willing to talk to him, and this is a witch hunt. the president has been obviously fixated on this, and weve seen his members of his administration, ...

Lawmakers, theyre saying theyve been told of, quote, a secret society of anti-trumpers in the agencys ranks. the claim is allegedly part of new text messages released by two senior fbi officials, robert mueller later removed them from his team. >> ive heard that there was a group of management in the fbi holding meetings off site. all i said was when paige and stroch describe -- i had corroborating potentially. theres a lot of smoke out there is all im saying. >> lets talk about the smoke out th...

>> i have heard there was a group holding meetings offsite. all i said was when strzok and page, as they contribute the secret society, it surprised me because i had, i guess, corroborating information potentially, just potentially. all ill saying is there is a lot of smoke out there. >> lets bring in the counter terrorism analyst. >> anything you can tell me? >> we used to send around e-mails. i hope they dont reveal them now. theyre saying we have a staff meeting today. for us, a staff meeting...

Washington post" and cnn and axios.com that the current fbi director threatened to resign if he was removed from the fbi but we believe hes going to retire out shortly. one of the other corroborating witnesses was the general counsel of the fbi jim maker that remains for now but misster ju -- mysteriously been reassigned. nobody knows why hes been ousted from his senior position and busted down to a spot where hes responsible for watering the plants basically, but the president has been taking s...

He told steele they had already been investigating some of the aspects of potential collusion between trump and russia because of a walk in whistle blower. its not clear whether simpson was accurate in terms of describing the person as a walk in whistle blower. it is interesting that the fbi is corroborating. what is interesting is steele is saying that according to simpson that he dropped his contacts with the fbi in october 31 just a week before the election. it was because the "new york times...

Comey has a contemporaneous witness a another one of the five is fbi director andrew mccabe who has been under sustained republican attack most of the last year over the holiday break it was announced he will be retiring from the fbi. he is 49 years old. another one of the 5 corroborating witnesses for james comey in terms of interactions with the president is fbi counsel james bake are popular recently announced without explanation he will be reassigned at the bureau from that high ranking posi...

These stories? >> the white house has not commented which means they havent denied any of it and i think the implications may be significant. this is part of the mosaic conduct over the obstruction of justice. "the new york times" is also reporting in the letter that donald trump wanted to send to fire james comey, initially he mentioned the russia investigation as being groundless. that was later taken out. that language did not appear in the letter. and the "times" is reporting that mueller ha...

Plunging to levels that will make this past week seem like summer. thats right. welcome back to "early start." >> the snow has passed but the storm is still sitting right over the white house. lets start with "fire and fury," a highly anticipated book about president trumps first months in the white house. it goes on sale today. it comes out days ahead of schedule defying legal threats from mr. president trumps lawyers. cnn has obtained a copy. wolff was given extraordinary access to the west wi...