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range of colleagues have been working on this story all day and have learned the justice department has subpoenaed more than 30 people, people in the former presidents orbit. people like bill steppian, donald trumps former campaign manager, dan scavino the former trump chief of staff. these are wide ranging subpoenas seeking things that have to do with the save america pact, donald trumps fundraising and political vehicle, information related to the fake elector spot, any information h...

Days. they do not expect this to play out for several weeks or several months. we are told once that process is done, they will go ahead and take that debris from here in south carolina up to virginia. >> carlos suarez with the latest from myrtle beach. we have more on the recovery efforts. alex, what can you tell us? >> reporter: the u.s. military is sending a salvage ship up that way. they are trying to get as many pieces of this balloon as its surveillance equipment in hand as they can. thi...

York. for goodness sakes, he was president trumps lawyer for a very long time. he seemed to know a lot about the financial machinations of mr. trump and the organization. the senate intelligence committee, which by the way has sort of functioned in a more bipartisan way, thats damning with faint praise, than most of the rest of the congress, clearly they want to talk to him about this timeline. not to beat a dead horse but the timeline matters for counterintelligence purposes. and remember, cohe...

Point that foreign spies typically look for so they can manipulate assets, paul manafort represented. he made their jobs pretty easy for them. and the outstanding question, really, is how nobody on the trump campaign either knew or cared that paul manafort was so vulnerable to manipulation. he was an open book in terms of allowing himself to be malleable for counterintelligence purposes. >> all right, guys. stand by for me. we have a lot more to discuss. and well be back in just a moment. a mome...

Hillary clinton email investigation. lets break it down with tonights legal panel. john yoo at the university of california berkeley and julian epstein, former chief counsel for democrats on the house judiciary committee. great to have you with us. i want to talk a little bit about this. the quote from this lengthy piece in "the new york times" gives us a little bit more information. well talk about where they are getting their information. it says the fbi obtain phone records and other document...

In that hearing, james comey dropped the bombshell that the trump campaign had been under investigation since july of the election year for possible collusion with russia, for counterintelligence purposes. and the republicans found that hearing, they told me thereafter, was a -- was a -- was a tragedy for them, was a terrible development for them. and im sure the white house came down hard on the chairman of our committee, because it was the very next day after that hearing that the chairman wen...

Herring. just this morning the "wall stre joualeditorial page had this editorial that went ral beuse it talked about trump being a fake president who is clinging to this crazy climb like a drunk to an empty gin bottle, a very strong anti-trump ed editorial from a conservative out let but embedded in that was this, and he has a legitimate question about why was the government listening to michael flynn. thats kind of crazy to me. if you pay any attention to this, you should understand that the ru...

>> i have to say, as someone paying close attention to surveillance debates and rules for years i think that is a red herring. just this morning the "wall street journal" editorial page had this editorial that went viral because it talked about trump being a fake president who is clinging to this crazy climb like a drunk to an empty gin bottle, a very strong anti-trump ed editorial from a conservative out let but embedded in that was this, and he has a legitimate question about why was the gover...

Subject of a warrant himself or where whether there might have been misconduct in the -- his name becoming known, associated with that content? >> i have to say, as someone paying close attention to surveillance debates and rules for years i think that is a red herring. just this morning the "wall street journal" editorial page had this editorial that went viral because it talked about trump being a fake president who is clinging to this crazy climb like a drunk to an empty gin bottle, a very st...

Officials. thats pleural. i should say three outlets have the story and they have multiple sources. here is my question. it strikes me, substance aside, a brazen kind of leak from these officials blazecally saying, we are monitoring your phone calls to the man who is now the national security adviser to the united states. >> well, general flynn would know from all of his great experience as director of defense intelligence and as an officer coming up in the military ranks, there is something cal...