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Grand jury i just have to hope that the american citizens will stand up, the people that serve on that grand jury and look at this in the way that they should, in an unbiased way. we should not be allowing polit politics to invade the justice system. truth matters. >> senator, thank you so much for your time tonight. >> thank you, rachel. thank you. im going to bring in somebody else into this conversation who has a very unique perspective on this. somebody who, himself, was there for the russ...

Involvement in spearheading fact gathering with foreign government officials pursuing lines of inquiry that come right out of fantasy world of the right wing extremist land. its really hard to tell whats going on here. i have every confidence that john durham will withstand any pressures that may buffett him to go down a road that he thinks is not supported by facts and law. the mere fact that this is taking place will aggravate the chilling effect on the department of justice lawyers, on the fb...

But at the end of the day, were going get this information. >> congressman adam schiff of california, the chairman of the intelligence committee in the house, sir. thank you very much for being with us. i know its been a busy day. >> thank you. i want to bring into the conversation dave laufman, the former chief of the justice departments counterintelligence section under president obama and during the first year of the trump administration. its a real honor to have you here. thanks for making...

>> dangerous game, hes saying there, phil, and with these briefings going on right now i also asked him what about the recent attack on tankers that apparently took place in the persian gulf and a pipeline attack in saudi arabia. he said the iranians absolutely had nothing to do with it, but as you heard there, hes also saying that he believes the situation between the u.s. and iran in the persian gulf still extremely dangerous. phil? >> fred flighting pleitgen doing very important work on a ver...

They either had an agenda that was so contrary to our values and what i believe in, or they werent plain old qualified in. betsy devos was not qualified. she did not have the acumen and background to help fix our schools which should be right in this country, that no matter what block you grew up on, you can get a good education. i looked at each nominee, scott pruitt. i voted against him because i knew he would spend his time polluting the environment, polluting the air and the water, letting p...

Just polluting the environment, polluting the air and the water, letting polluters pollute and having no oversight or accountability. he did exactly that. so for each nominee, i looked a the merits and decided is this person going to help move our country forward or not. for the most part president trump has really lined his cabinet with people who are absolutely uninterested in helping american people. >> a few nights ago we had here on the show in that seat where youre sitting there right now ...

On to recuse himself, its improbable hes going to give any credence to recommendations that he recuse himself. and its inconceivable that he would recuse himself, because the president installed him in this job to get rid of an attorney general who could -- who was recused. so its just -- we are in this hall of mirrors here where we are now stuck with a perilous situation at the department, and we are going to have to rely on the moral courage and fortitude of people like rod rosenstein and othe...

>> i dont know the answer to that. >> does he know the answer? >> i dont think we know until these guys come out of the meeting. but the fbi does have a counterintelligence section as to whether there was. its a separate thing for the fbi to interview a potential candidate. i think. >> if there is something that is inappropria inappropriate, arent the weapon cans -- if something is done inappropriately, and the president has the right for an

The fbi official that signed the document that officially opened the investigation into russian meddling in the 2016 election. he worked as the number two official in the counterintelligence section and he was considered one of the top experts on russia at the fbi. all of this now is likely to add to the political firestorm over the russia investigation. the white house and congressional republicans want the fbi to provide more documents because they think that there could be some political bias...