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I left out some of the details, ill let you fill in the gaps. >> congressional investigators have discovered once again another trove of text messages between lisa page and peter strzok, the two fbi agents. what these text messages in particular reveal that the fbi may have been properly coordinated with department of justice officials to try to expedite fisa applications on carter page. what was interesting about this, sean, is that if you look at it, they talk about david loughran. he hasnt co...

All these matters. maybe not with the house intelligence community but working on the doj side and working with robert mueller. were just getting information and until we have a few seconds to digest it, what is your thought, michael? >> rosenstein seems to be on the bubble based on the presidents answers. they are going to attack the comey team that probably applied for this fisa warrant initially, and theyre putting the interests of the president ahead of the national interests of national sec...

The stakes. >> breaking news right now is not a drill. >> what he is doing in public what richard nixon would only do in secret. he is openly musing about pushing the d.o.j. to investigate or prosecute political opponents. >> how bad is this? if trump already publicly suggested it, is the white house now trying to defend and it normalize it? no. that would be too much for even this trump white house. so instead today the message is that the targeting trump asked for which now appears to be in th...

Imbecile. he mentioned conversation in andys office about an insurance policy if the president won. we think the andy was the andy mccabe we just showed you who would have been at the very top of the fbi. pete: absolutely. he led the clinton probe into the server. statement clintons culpability with the email server as well. move over to doj and andrew weissmann. >> weissmann is interesting because mostly he seems to be very politicized very senior member on the doj side. instead of being an fbi...

Firewall. i want to say there are two or three people on the white house side or maybe two or three people on the doj side and everybody else with respect to anything that could bear on criminal prosecution you werent suppose to have a conversation with. so presidents usually dont waste their time just exchanging pleasant ris with folks. so theres not a whole lot of room to maneuver there. >> theres a theory thats been forth by some of the defenders, essentially this is a man who is stumbling in...

Didnt happen is because a firewall existed between the department of justice and the white house and there were very, very limited possible connections across that firewall. i want to say there are two or three people on the white house side or maybe two or three people on the doj side and everybody else with respect to anything that could bear on criminal prosecution you werent suppose to have a conversation with. so presidents usually dont waste their time just exchanging pleasant ris with fol...

All the prosecutable cases over time, this -- >> right. >> -- didnt fall anywhere near the basket of prosecutable cases. so of course it put him in the firing line. but imagine if jim comey had said hey were not doing this and left it at that, we would have been talking about it a lot more. subsequent. >> well, right. its just that youre right about what a prosecutor does and doesnt do. the catch is he wasnt acting as a prosecutor here. the head of the fbi is the investigative arm of it. the pro...