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Spy within the intelligence committee versus an informant in an ongoing investigation, which i think is beyond the point. i want to play for you a sound bite from from jason chaffetz. >> if jeff sessions is there in name only, is absolutely worthless. the sooner the president needs a new attorney general, the better. he should have never recused himself, he never needed to any counterintelligence operation. >> laura: this is of course regarding the trump tweet today, commenting on what gowdy did...

Through all reliable sources that we can exactly who we are talking about. there are all kinds of names out there and all kinds of theories out there but if we are talking about somebody who was outside the campaign but questioning people connected to the campaign, to the semantics matter here? are we playing with semantics if we are saying somebody infiltrated the campaign, outside the campaign, those are important distinctions, or are they not? >> they are. and lets remember according to all t...

Confirm, we are talking about and all kinds of theories out there, somebody outside the campaign but questioning people connected to the campaign do semantics matter here? somebody infiltrated the campaign, those are important distinctions or are they not? >> they are. according to all the officials this was a counterintelligence operation, not a criminal investigation, cant afford each of the political candidates for the presidency. down to two, hillary clinton and donald trump they got secret ...

That they didnt warn the president -- the then president-elect trump at the time about the russian efforts, and also it was public by that time when the russians were trying to do with our election so i do think that they warned the campaigns about this kind of thing. whether or not they went to mr. trump himself i just dont know, and perhaps that tells us something. i just dont know. >> do you think in the past that would have been normally the case if the fbi had information that lets say a pr...

What the russians were doing. >> why isnt he happy about that? >> he should be. >> jesse: first of all, james clapper is on the view. i dont think the top intel guy for any team should be on the view. second of all, he just admitted they spied but they were trying to help president trump. president trump should thank them for spying on the campaign, right? >> jesse, one thing you said opening up and the question is, did the obama administration know about this, i dont believe for one minute they...

James clapper is on the view. i dont think the top intel guy for any team should be on the view. second of all, he just admitted they spied but they were trying to help president trump. president trump should thank them for spying on the campaign, right? >> jesse, one thing you said opening up and the question is, did the obama administration know about this, i dont believe for one minute they didnt know. i believe obama knew what was going on and his justice department knew what was going on, a...

Against american citizens. walk us through why this timeline you put out is so important. >> well, its simply a listing of facts that happened over the course of the last couple of years that perhaps made what we now see happening more easy to occur. i mean, if you look at surveillance on a u.s. citizen, whether its a journalist or a political figure, is supposed to be one of the most sensitive things we do under the restrictest of oversight, under the rarest of conditions. what happened with th...

Intel community against american citizens. walk us through by this time i knew put out is so important. > it is simply a listing oft facts that have happened over the course of the last couple of years that perhaps made what we now see happening more easy to occur. i mean, if you look at surveillancece on a u.s. citize, whether a journalist or political figure, it is supposed to be one of the most sensitive things we do under the strictest of oversight, under the rarest of conditions, and if yo...

This? >> they hear the calls from the lawmakers to have a special counsel investigate the department of justice. anticipate the special counsel within the doj. whats important to follow here are how so many players inside the administration are trying to contain the situation. they may not be successful at containing it. attorney general jeff sessions is not moving to appoint a special counsel to oversee the doj. hes relying on the inspector general within the department of justice to come up wi...

Are how so many players inside the administration are trying to contain the situation. they may not be successful at containing it. attorney general jeff sessions is not moving to appoint a special counsel to oversee the doj. hes relying on the inspector general within the department of justice. john kelly, chief of staff, is trying to set up a meeting with lawmakers to assure them about their concerns and have more communication about the surveillance process, about the origin of this russia pr...