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I understand in the space that you propose incorporating a secret service system into law enforcement. specifically referring to this threat assessment and protective intelligence.how would that operate in a school setting? >> first off let me just say, it is great to be with you. to talk to about this horrible tragedy. i didnt give this and i would urge first off, that maybe your viewers, to know more about this would go to my website. and look at this speech, it is seven minutes on the house f...

Say people who used to be at this top of the fbi. people who used to be in senior positions at the justice department. maybe somebody on a book tour. who knows. steve: to suggest a criminal referral is being made is extraordinary. we know that andrew mccabe lied to the fbi. ed: right, thats one of the names. its documented he lied multiple times. steve: last night joe digenova was on with laura he said quote brennan and clapper will find themselves in front of grand jury soon. i doubt that he ha...

Reuters story, he doesnt yet know. right. >> or at least the people who have talked to about it dont yet know. so look, could there be a cooperation, a form of cooperation designed to exert pressure on manafort? yeah, it could be that. it could also be the fact that this is a guy who has independent or quasi independence legal problem. this isnt the -- a family that dots the is and crosses all the ts legally. so you know, you put a bunch of people under this kind of scrutiny, all kinds of things...

Son-in-law who knows things about his business practices probably bought real pressure on paul manafort. >> look, the indictment, we dont know the contours of the plea agreement. we dont know the nature of the cooperation theyre seeking from him. actually according to the reuters story, he doesnt yet know. right. >> or at least the people who have talked to about it dont yet know. so look, could there be a cooperation, a form of cooperation designed to exert pressure on manafort? yeah, it could ...

Most levels of the russian government were aware of this. probably through one of these oligarchs or one of those folks. this is not something they were just freelancing. it was not like veselnitskaya said, hey, why dont we give this a shot. give them a call, shoot them an e-mail see if we can see them. this is something the kremlin would have been aware of and watching carefully. youre not just walking into anybodys office. this is trump tower, potential future president of the united states. t...

Judiciary committee, more important through the special counsel and thats why we need to protect the special counsel. >> you need to connect some of those dots. senator, richard blumenthal, we appreciate you coming in with your perspective. thank you very much. were one year into the special counsels russia investigation. where do things stand? its a hard question because we just dont know that much. former trump campaign aide michael caputo was questioned by muellers team. he has his theories...

Would have been watching carefully. youre not just walking into anybodys office. this is trump tower. this is the potential future president of the united states. this is something the kremlin would have been watching carefully in my view, don. >> lets take the 30,000 feet view of this if you look at these transcripts, chris. with all this. does this seem like trumps team -- does it seem like the willingness to collude but they left empty-handed or they just werent sure of how to do it? how to c...

Incredibly wide. it is connecting an awful lot of dots. and the unknown is really dramatic. now, this whole notion there is some sort of a mole inside the trump campaign -- now, there is another way of looking at that, that there is an american citizen who sees possible wrongdoing who sees this kind of potential corruption, and then does his patriotic duty. >> a whistle blower. >> yes, a whistle blower. think about how many people in this story should have picked up the phone and called the fbi....

Step in here. i dont have a lot of time with you and i want to make sure im clear on this. people watch willing say why do we care about this? we havent connected dots here. would this have anything to do -- michael cohen represents stormy daniels. we havent said that. is that what they are looking for? what are they looking for? >> in the financial disclosure? >> harris: not represent. but what are they looking for? the connection he paid it to stormy daniels, does it represent to pay her that ...

February 2017. this is during a period when the -- when the trump white house is pursuing the idea of lifting sanctions on russia without any concession on the russians part. and you know, the fact that that came right after the election after everything that happened during the election, clearly mueller is trying to connect those dots. >> all right. mimi rocah and michael isikoff, thank you both. why the president is calling members of his staff apparently traitors and cowards. a fine tuned mac...