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political and messaging standpoint. i also certainly would defer to michael on how the justice department would have approached this whole thing, since he knows and i have not been at the justice department, but i would just say even though from a law enforcement perspective youre looking and saying okay, look, there is certain classified information that cant come out, a problem with having memos that boil down things to a few cherry picked f eed facts. with the stakes this high, were at a ...

2016. that would be a secret. it would go on for the first 90 days. that would be a secret. so in no way would that be designed to influence. >> too close to election day to do any influencing. which leaves the big question for a lot of people, which was what was the whole goal and what was really done? and why is it that now the president feels like this was vindication? >> and fredricka, the president sort of answered that question. he said in telephone calls that cnn is reporting, to his f...

Republicans, something which would have been unthinkable just a short time ago. rank and file are great people. matt miller, this is completely out of context. >> yeah. look, andrea, motive matters here. the president has been clear for weeks now privately with friends, with allies and aides, what his motive is in both releasing this memo, declassifying it, and with interviewing at the justice department to try to get them to back down when they were opposing its release. that is he wants to und...