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You compromise something like this based on politics. i believe a yes vote would have compromised my true belief that this person did not have the temperament to be on the supreme court, and thats a lifetime appointment far exceeding any of my terms or tenure in the united states senate. >> senator heitkamp, i appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you, anderson. if the political winds for senator heitkamp dont look especially favorable, the forecast for democrats as a whole this november s...

Political reporter russian david bayne and david chellian. yes, the fbi made a mistake. but now hes saying -- they made a mistake because they were spending way too much time investigating alleged collusion between his campaign and russia. >> so we should make clear thats just factually untrue. nobody is suggesting that the fbi cant handle both on following up on leerld. what it does show is the president is pretty self-obsessed and definitely did take this opportunity of this tragedy to still p...

Anderson. >> dana bash, i appreciate your reporting. back with the panel. david chellian, we havent heard from you. is it too early to gauge fully the impact? >> its still unfolding. but picking up on what jim sciutto was saying before, anderson, lets start with what we know, which is that the trump presidency is off the rails right now and theres not a clear path to get it back on track. so you look to the hill and i think you see sort of three buckets of republicans right now. there is sort of...

Week and blaming vladimir putin, blaming the email stories in the media, not, you know, reflecting on her own campaign and some of the things they missed, the fact that they didnt campaign in michigan and wisconsin after in the general election prior to election day. some people have criticized her for not having enough of a sharp message in this campaign besides donald trump is a terrible person, so theres blame to go around here. >> i would say i think president obama actually did place some o...

Requests. theyve made their assessment public for the election they believe russia is behind this and went up to the seniormost levels of the russian government, that theyre focusing on what the president ordered, which is a full investigation of this and examination of all the intelligence, which they say theyll release not just to the electors but to the whole american public when its ready before inauguration day. >> jim sciutto report thanks very much. the presidents news conference and rema...