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Branch power and possibly more lawlessness as well. this is weird story. we dont know what the what is, we dont know what the secret is, but it is another example of the stone walling of congress being applied even the most sensitive national security agencies. >> yes. i think, though, its part of a larger story which doesnt necessarily reflect very well on the democrats in congress. especially after things like the lewandowski hearing yesterday. i mean, there is a sense if not a disarray among ...

But look, we need to quit setting our hair on fire. every day i wake up the press sets their hair on fire, the president sends out a tweet, match, fire, hair on fire. you know what the public thinks, we cry wolf too much, democracy is ending, the country is ending, everything. meanwhile hes pushing back on china and my party is criticizing him for pushing back on china. i dont know how this got reversed, but the reason he won is because of his positions on trade. the reason he held on to michiga...

Forth a policy agenda or policy prescription that would not only get them to majority like in the house, but maintain majority. charles, that looks like a real effort to block and tackle and then ongoing offense with issues that connect to voters in 2020 and beyond. >> harland. >> charles, one example. we are three years into talking about the russian collusion allegations, that started before the president was elected. we dont have a shred of evidence to substantiate that -- >> be patient, harl...

I have been in the justice department twice. i love the department and what it stands for. you heard mr. carlin saying a moment ago. you know there are a whole host of authorities, laws and so on, written for emergencies like death and disease. you have to be circumspect about using them f. you cry wolf and pick them up and use them for stuff theyre not intended for, it makes it harder for future presidents down the road. thats what this president has done. hes taken an emergency situation and u...

Documents about the pfizer warns against carter page, and other renewals of that warrant, and kicked it over to the inspector general. correct? what else do we know about this? >> thats correct. thats really my biggest problem with the department of justice and the fbi, is that every time we try to get something out to the public, they cry wolf, and they claim there is going to be national security implications.e the president was very clear, said that these documents needec to be immediately de...

Documents about the fires out warrant against carter page and others. and it kicked it over to the inspector general. correct? what else do we know about this? >> thats correct and thats really my biggest problem with the department of the fbi. every time i try to get something out of the public, they cry wolf. the president was very clear and said that these documents need to be immediately declassified, without reductions.

Counterintelligence investigation -- >> how many times have you said i couldnt fathom this would happen and then it happened? >> thats been almost the daily of this president. and why john brennan? why james clapper are speaking out in the way that they are? admiral when he came out last week asking the president to revoke his security clearance so that he could be on record as against this administration. i mean that was a phrase and a public action i never thought i would see from someone like...

To that point. just yesterday you noted and i think this is so important, you wanted to point out to people that the public statements of support, albeit qualified support for john brennan and his right to say what hes saying from the likes of clapper, hay den and others in the intelligence community, this is very unusual and should be noted, correct, garrett? >> exactly. adam mentioned this norm that these intelligence professionals dont speak out on partisan issues like this. we spent so much ...

These are not men who cry wolf. the fact that they are out there shouting at the top of their lungs day after day at this point, that this man is a threat to our nations rule of law, and our democratic institutions is something that we should be focused on. >> well, david, lets talk a little bit more about that, because former cia national security agency director michael hayden told cnn today that the relationship between trump and the intelligence community is dangerously close to being perman...

Rod will not go any further and something is going to happen. i dont know who gets fired or what happens, but we are going to be -- buckle up your seat belt. >> david? >> you know, thats all certainly possible. but we cant forget that the united states has seen worse than what we are experiencing right now, by several orders of magnitude during the nixon administration. and the system held. thist system worked. i want to be really, really careful about using words like constitutional crisis. i d...