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Republicans,in democrats, lets get the facts without the partisanship. >> sean: professor, if i had emails, if i did what hillary clinton did, that is obstruction, a crime, slam-dunk case. >> she obviously disputes that. in her book, she says they were personal emails that she was entitled to erase. they were not subpoenaed. she should be investigated, i dont ever dispute that. >> sean: she admitted they ffnever went through all of the emails individually. that doesnt stand up. >> she also says ...

Happening to john brennan and might dial back what theyre saying in order to not risk offending the president. nobody wants to offend the president, but when youre no longer in gho longer in government, you have a right to give your opinion. if its an opinion which doesnt stand up, let the white house respond to that from the lectern at the briefing room but not by taking away their clearances. >> are you concerned beyond an attempt to stifle free speech that this is also about undermining the c...

Interesting statement and the fact that the speaker of the house doesnt stand up in between that trolling, doesnt try to make it stop, is also interesting and, again, congressman, you quit, you retired from congress right now. do you feel that republican there is and the speaker of the house have abdicated a certain responsibility? >> john, were in a period not so much of separation of powers but of parties and probably the greatest regret i have that and that my republican colleagues will have ...

Part of the memo to the democrats which also lays out a lot of other detail about how carter page was on the fbis radar. they had, in fact, interviewed carter page in march of 2016, several months before they made this application in october of 2016. so the notion that this article was another key piece of intelligence that the court was relying on doesnt stand up. >> page, do you believe that -- i mean, the rebuttal of the democrats say that the dossier was impleed with narrow use here. do you ...

Investigation was under way for months before the fbi sought a warrant for carter page. when they sought that warrant for carter page, carter page was no longer working for the trump campaign. and oh, by the way, that was in october of 2016 they sought the warrant. so the information they would have gotten back from that warrant, whatever intercepts, whatever information, would have arrived in fbi offices well after the campaign. so basically, if you just think about those three facts, which are...

Hes guilty of but hes clearly guilty. >> that has been your view from the beginning. you have been quite certain i think for months now theres something there and youre someone who obviously was on that prosecution team for watergate. what youre saying is you dont think that the president wanted him fired because robert mueller had a fees dispute with a northernern virginia golf course that trump owned. that doesnt stand for you? >> that doesnt stand up, the idea that he was angry because he cou...

Northernern virginia golf course that trump owned. that doesnt stand for you? >> that doesnt stand up, the idea that he was angry because he couldnt play golf and the fees were too high just doesnt make a lot of sense. >> i mean, none of this does other than the fact that we know a crime was committed. we know that the russians broke into the democratic national committee. they stole e-mails. we know that you know, a month later, that papadopoulos who was his foreign policy adviser was told abou...

The facts as disclosed by the transcript. you have to take a little bit of information here and there and build a narrative around them that the real context explodes, and i think thats been the difficulty, is that theyve built this narrative, or at least some have built this narrative on a very selected little set of facts. but now that the whole thing is out there, the story that they were shopping just doesnt stand up. >> if the argument is well-run, the people who have the facts on their sid...

Were somehow involved in all of that. and i think at that point things got complicated and departs from the facts as disclosed by the transcript. you have to take a little bit of information here and there and build a narrative that the real context explodes and i think thats been the difficulty is they have built this narrative or at least some have built this narrative on a very selected little set of facts but now that the whole thing is out there, the story that they were shopping just doesn...

Of it is that this latest where that effort to cause a distraction from the tasks before us really doesnt stand up, that in reality, the steele dossier which i think drives a lot of republicans crazy was actually perfectly legitimate intelligence product by an experienced former senior person in the mi-6 russia desk who has had his work regularly taken seriously and valued by law enforcement and intelligence services in the united states. and that the timing is very different than has been sugge...