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This crazy theory to defend donald trump. the breaking news, the justice department says there are going to be two classified briefings tomorrow. the second one is going to be with a gang of eight. the first will include the white house chief of staff john kelly. roz roden stein, fbi director christopher ray. dan coats. nunes and gowdy along with the additional fbi and doj are going to be briefers and staff. the second one would be kelly, rosenstein, coat, members gowdy members. everyone stick...

On the floor and said the -- was ready to go. he said im not going to play this game. are democrats the one playing games? >> no, what were trying to do, don is to stand up for the rule of law. america is an idea. the idea where you can work hard and become anything, no matter where you come from. you have a rule of law to make sure theres always a check on those empowered. and that idea right now is under assault. we never thought it had be under assault from anyone other than the russians now ...

Lie as youve pointed out. this strategy of trying to run down the special counsel, much in the way that the o.j. simpson defense team tried to run down the prosecutors in that case, unfortunately its working for donald trump. t an unthet call strategy to our democracy, and he doesnt care about that, he is helping to ensure his political survivor by convincing the republican base that he is the victim of this imaginary deep state plot. >> on that again, everyone wants to be on the same page when ...

Instruction of justice. they cant just push this too far. this is going to play lair, if this is ever tried the president will hear about this behavior and these kind of meetings. >> john, i want to talk again about sort of the gaslighting thats going on and what i said in the opening. >> thats the right word. >> yeah. you heard the president destroy clappers words. it has a co. heres more from clapper. >> what do you make when they suggest you committed a crime of some sort? >> i take hum bridg...

Themselves but now they are attacking the fbi for doing exactly what the fbi should have done in this case. look, phils absolutely right. i would extend that a step even further. the president is misrepresenting to the american people in his haste to attack the fbi, hes misrepresenting what the fbi was trying to accomplish. if the fbi believe there was credible information that lets say there were russian operatives that were trying to infiltrate the trump campaign and they were trying to co-opt...

Notion of a deep state and trumps assertion that it exists. >> i dont believe theres a deep state at the state department. >> thats your experience also when you interact with colleagues at the fbi and department of justice as well? >> yes. there are always exceptions to every rule. ive never led an organization that didnt have bad actors. >> so phil, sounds like hes refuting the presidents allegation. so do you think thats going to change the presidents twitter feed? >> no. but i mean, weve bee...

Intentions vis-a-vis the united states in a negotiation about their nuclear weapons? you want the whole pizza pie. in this case in the russia investigation i want an informant. i dont need to know about plans and intentions related to the campaign. i dont need to know about what donald trump thinks about hillary clinton. theres a tiny slice of the pie i need to know. that is we have information that people involved in the campaign think george papadopoulos had advance information about stolen e-...

Facts matter, the fbis use of human sours, the term is tightly regulated and essential to protecting the country. attacks on the fbi and lying about its work will do lasting damage to our country. how will republicans explain this to their grandchildren. so, how the fbi uses confidential human sources and how this is different from spying. >> let me explain the difference as youre talking about, don, between a spy and an informant. the president is confusing like santa claus and frosty the snowm...

We have to act that way otherwise well end up in the minority. >> really quickly, don, the one thing that jumps out at me when hearing this tirade from president trump, he doesnt seem to have an awareness he is the head of the state, he is the president, all these people report for him, that he is tearing down the fbi, tearing down the department of justice. he is supposed to be the person bhos their boss and he doesnt care about the cost of defending himself which is diminishing public confiden...

Hes way ahead of those schedules. ive got to run. everyone should not get too ahead or forward on these skis? >> no we just getting to going. theres plenty more. >> its amazing when the president says theres no collusion have been shown anything. we are in the second inning of a long baseball. >> we always say here on cnn, there could be nothing but we dont know because the investigation is still ongoing. >> and the good men and women conducting that investigation deserve to be able to do thei...