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By john durham over that whole steele dossier thing back in 2016. and you call the hiring astonishing and a new column, why? >> for one thing his lawyer is carrying enough baggage for amtrak, i really was quite surprised, because you have a special counsel in the field looking at his conduct in the last major election cycle while he is advising mcauliffe on this election cycle and you dont want your attorney dividing his time in that way, the expectation is even if he is not indicted that he wil...

I think a lot of republicans, not just president trump were disappointed in the obamacare vote and the dossier thing is a very sensitive issue with president trump and well see how this evolves. i do regret and i do agree with you and im not going to justify this here because i loved him very much, senator mccain, that we should talk about the events but not the individual. and i do agree about his service. i do agree with senator lindsey grahams tweet that nothing can be done to diminish or sta...

>> well, if i can, look, john mccain -- >> dont justify it -- >> im not justifying it. i regret and would not necessarily be my style that somehow this gets to be about some of the other events that as you correctly say you could have disagreements about. i think a lot of republicans, not just president trump were disappointed in the obamacare vote and the dossier thing is a very sensitive issue with president trump and well see how this evolves. i do regret and i do agree with you and im not go...

Promise but i went like this, they didnt mean it. hes trying to make excuses her. you dont get 420 to 0 on the state bird. this is a massive bipartisan statement that we expect to see this report in whole. so if theres going to be any games played, expect the house to jump on it and try to get that report. >> theres also some thinking are and john pointed this out at the top of the hour, with this ramp up in tweets from the president over the weekend including about the mueller report, including...

Doesnt believe it, what is he telling comey about it all the time for? its sort of irrelevant, right? he does seem to very much want to push comey. its a way soft, i would say, testing whether comey, whether the intelligence agency or the fbi have this information or not. whether they think its possibly credible or not? dont you think? it feels like what you would do, think of it a as a human matter. he sort of -- and if you know its totally 100% false, youre not too worried. if it didnt happen,...

>> yeah, and theyre used to getting this push back from president trump being marginalized, rex tillerson is the best case scenario. and i think that nikki haley is conscious that she does president wa-- doesnt want to d up being rexd. >> one thing about donald trump that i respect about him, hes fearless except when it comes to russia. he is fearful of what they have -- >> clueless. >> i think its fearful. i do think its a dossier thing. and i do think its a history -- everything that is going ...

>> bill: more breaking news. eight minutes pasted and the judicial watch filing two lawsuits against the department of justice demanding records relating to associate attorney general and their involvement with the dossier. and his wife nelly worked for fusion gps looking for dirt on donald trump. what do you want, sir? >> were looking for all the communications concerning his contacts with fusion gps and christopher steel and other members of the department of of justice concerning the whole do...

Are also going to have to grapple with this forthcoming year, as well. >> kevin you talk about the urgency. but i want to ask you about the timing of this. what do you think about the timing of this? and what does it do to the whole dossier thing. why would they bring this out now? >> thats whats been really interesting. and i think that both critics of the investigation, as well as folks who just want it to go on and be transparent as possible and get to some conclusions is that the timing of a...

And now its an epidemic. its an demg level because its sensational, but it feels a lot like dash i told anderson cooper that it feels like a lot like the dirty dossier thing for donald trump. they swore that he did these horrible things with these prostitutes and sick stuff and that turned out to be completely fake. >> we havent reported here on cnn the salacious details of that dossier, but much of the dossier has been corroborated. there are things in it that have not, but you dont know -- >> ...

>> dana: nobody knows what millers investigation will be. the piece about manafort and flynn wasnt part of this dossier thing. there are lots of different things here. this could be a strategic leak somewhere to get republicans to say, look how legitimate the robert mueller investigation is because now it has spread to democrats. returning legitimacy to something they were trying to discredit. >> greg: she should have spent less time on the dossier and more time in deerfield. she has been blamin...