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It has been a big part of my life. >> and then you went to cornell, you were in the obama administration. what prompted you to run for congress? >> it was about that i dont feel like the third district has been represented well in d.c. and i want to see someone represent our voice and have a decision maker who wants to listen to people in the third district and not just the special interests that he is making sure he stays in office. >> if you win, what are you going to do when you get there. yo...

Now. if it is a pr battle, does bob mueller need to rethink his strategy? >> well, i think it is his m.o. certainly to stay out of the press. he has been known for saying that the press is -- can be your friend at times but at other times not, so he prefers to keep his head down and to do his work. so i doubt hes going to change his ways. although you make a good point, which is hes used to working in a world where the ultimate decision maker is a judge or a jury and it doesnt matter what the pr...

Cutting them off in their questions. it seems like the judge is being much harder on the prosecutors than hes being on the defense attorneys. whats your impression of that, and should those of us who arent lawyers and dont necessarily know how trials usually go, should we see this as unusual or important? >> i do think its unusual. its not unusual that a judge wants to take command of a courtroom. he wants to make everyone understand that he is going to run a tight ship and he wants things to mo...

Know. also from california, saying that to that this would be without preconditions, secretary pompeo says that they would work to do some things ahead of any talk. >> first of all, there are preconditions, the president has to meet with a decision-maker, somebody who is really empowered to make a deal, otherwise it would not be worthwhile. and that is understood, we already have all kinds of work leading up to this including a failed deal and john, bless his heart, he is part of the progressive...

His father informed in light of the way that the organization is ran. >> let me add another statement of this. donald trumps campaign team was historically known for well-known anyway for being so small. that there was a tight-knit group of individuals, like four, five, six people, how he would not have heard about this meeting in his building when you hear lue juewandowski saying th was one decision maker and thats donald trump. >> david axelrod, say it right out. there have been lies about thi...

Administration is being tougher and tougher on them. on the other hand, what do the debates mean in an authoritarian country. theres one decision maker. he, like donald trump, is increasingly isolated informationally, surrounded by yes men and again this propensity to believe conspiracy theories that validate his decisions and increasingly skewed view of the world. on the other hand, on the thirdhand, people like benjamin netanyahu who also risk big, took a huge risk, gambled really big, for exa...

The intelligence to the consumers, but you cannot make those people -- >> but you did it on the basis youre an intelligence man and military man and all of our people in uniform in the clandestine services, in the service of the united states, do it in the hopes that they are saving lives or saving democracy. to find out that the president of the united states undermines you on a day-to-day basis has got to put us at risk democra c democratically and in terms of national security. >> absolutely....

This text, we will stop it. he was allowed to give context on that, said look, this came after a series of events, including trump denigrating the parents of a fallen war hero. what did you make of his opportunity there to put some of the texts in context? >> i dont like that he was talking that way because we want fbi agents to be sort of above the politics and not have the perception of impropriety. there was no evidence that there were other agents working on this case independent of mr. strz...

How you hate it and no matter how much it hurts, its not going away. thats the real story here. we need to keep our eyes on the ball and not chase ghosts through the halls of the department of justice while letting the important work of both of these committees go undone. since were here, mr. strzok, i want to get your reaction to the presidents tweet on december 3 of 2017. after years of the dishonest clinton investigation, ruining the fbi, there he goes, always the biggest, always the worst. f...

>> were you the sole decision maker on this case? >> no. >> in your opinion what kind of impact do statements like this, i care how it effects the law enforcement community, apparently my friends on the other side of the aisle, never thought as a law enforcement officer i would have to defend the department of justice from my republican colleagues on the other side of the aisle. what kind of effect do statements like this have on the morale, on the good men and women who do a tough job every day...