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Behind the unmasking and leaking of mesh citizens -- american citizens names. so hes going to be investigating a lot of people he used to work with and who used to work for him. can he be objective about that. paul: yeah, thats a very big ask, dan. there are some people who say, look, this is great for republicans because it means you can now see -- particularly on capitol hill, look, this is taken care of over here. well ignore that. anytime theyre asked about it, dont comment. just say mueller...

Characterized his role in the campaign incorrectly saying he had a limited role. in terms of transparency, what is the white house doing? they are losing a lot of credibility this week? >> i have been watching these hearings with the intelligence committee and fbi direct comey, and he said it was clear theres an investigation going on about russias actions in our election and also about wrong doing with members of the trump campaign. when theres an investigation going on, the white house has no ...

Officials, dont comment on politically sensitive matters so close to a presidential election. >> first, im not sure i completely agree with that. 1992, the clintons benefitted when wineberger was indicted days before the election. subsequently did not move forward and was found innocent, if you will. when it benefitted the clintons, they didnt have a problem then in 1992, when it benefitted subsequently president clinton. at the end of the day, all of this stems from hillary clintons actions, wo...

Ryan you can speak to this. by not influence the outcome of the election, he may be influence the outcome of the election. >> yeah and i think the driving factor was he believed it was going to leak out no matter what and he wanted to control the release of this and you know would it have been so bad if it had leaked out and the fbi had just maintained its normal posture and say they dont comment on an ongoing investigation and we its facts come out later? you know i dont know. maybe thats -- th...

You dont want him to release -- >> so thats my question then. ryan, you can speak to this. >> yeah. >> by not trying to influence the outcome of an election he may be influencing the outcome by the way hes handling it. >> yes, i believe the driving factor is he believed it was going to leak out no matter what and he wanted to control the release of this. and, you know, would it have been so bad if it leaked out and the fbi maintained its normal posture and say that they dont comment on an ongoin...

Security for over a decade. the fbi almost never comments on an on going investigation, 60 days, a year, three years. there is a good reason for that. tiny bits of information can have an outside effect specially when they are exaggerated for politics. >> we have been hearing a lot about that in the last 24 hours. this unwritten rule of 60 days out in a political race, you dont comment. isnt that, one could argue, the most important time to comment to give voters the totality of the information,...

>> reporter: weve been looking on social media and hearing from different leaders of different countries that are predominantly muslim. turkey has not yet responded. people are saying things like well, perhaps trump is okay with taking money from rich muslims but apparently hes also okay with being a racist. we should also mention, theres a trump towers here in istanbul. its the only one in a p predominantly muslim country. people saying maybe he should take down his ugly towers here. as far as ...

Good deals five years from now. >> he said there is no scenario where a u.s. president is not in a better position. well see. why would he answer a question about bill cosby? >> i was surprised he answered it. its worth april ryan or any reporter to try to get him off topic. for him to go into graphic detail about drugs leading to rape thats something thats going to grab a headline when his whole focus here was lets stay on the substance of iran. he could have said im not going to comment. >> he...

Some of the problems are the laws themselves. hey, julie, i can tell youre not a lawyer. dont comment on things you know nothing about. and tonya says, like mr. trump says, youre fired. jenna -- jake says september her to mexico. maybe the cartel will hire her. check out all my news all throughout the week. and here are my two dogs sir is struggling ♪

Some of the problems are the laws themselves. hey, julie, i can tell youre not a lawyer. dont comment on things you know nothing about. and tonya says, like mr. trump says, youre fired. jenna -- jake says september her to mexico. maybe the cartel will hire her. check out all my news all throughout the week. and here are my two dogs sir lan ♪ ♪ for the 51 million of us