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Transition process. i think thats all im saying. im saying that this transition process did not live up to the standards and for anyone to say what the white house didnt know about it is willful ignorance at best. >> i want to talk about another series of data points that we got over the last 48 hours people are looking at and going, hmm, thats odd. faraj from great britain who is friends with donald trump and was pushing the brexit met with julian assange of wikileaks, walked into the ecuadoria...

Health care -- if thats the ticket to driving prices down, i dont necessarily have a problem with that. but i dont know that i can speak on that. >> like i was talking about when tom price was talking, doctors agree something needs to be done, but what needs to be done are minor tweaks to get it under control, not necessarily huge changes. >> economics. >> the huge changes well go through years again of what we went before where people are not understanding insurance, not having insurance, not g...

Secure. thats what makes their jobs so hard and why theyre the best in the world. >> danny, were now 12 hours into this story. we only learned about it about an hour ago, but were 12 hours from the time this guy jumped the fence and was taken down by the secret service. the secret service hasnt said he was taken peacefully, but we didnt hear he was in any way harmed. but he was arrested and they picked up the backpack and searched that and nothing nefarious in the backpack. you take those two da...

Entire senate intelligence committee has been granted access to the most sensitive materials from the investigation into russian interference in the election. an unprecedented move. >> we have peter alexander reporting, givings aing us an u the moment where the reporting stand right now. i want to get into the details of this with a member of the house intelligence committee and the house judiciary committee. good to have you with me. we heard your colleague say its a bogus claim that president ...

From the investigative agencies it has leaked they havent found any proof of collusion so at what point do you have to start providing proof. >> the whole point of briefing the gang of 8 of the upcoming hearings which will start with the house and intelligence committee hearings is to explore whether the dots can be conne connected. we know theres a pattern having to change their stories.

A very strong and positive message that speaks to the real economic lives -- >> are they -- my question here is are they hitting that balance right w do you think? it seems saying too much russia. and i use a small d democratic institutions. our elections. so i do think that the democrats need to stay focussed on russia, but i do think as well they need to turn up the meet on the economic issues that confront the american people. >> and senator, i guess a different verngs of the question to you,...

Suggestion of that. do you look at all of those plot points and say, theres a chance those dots could connect like that? >> well, i think the cia director said recently that he didnt see that there was collusion with the campaign and russia. and i would have just the hardest time ever believing that that could be the case, but i think the investigations into how russia was able to start finding -- or tapping lines or finding out classified information, i think thats a legitimate and very importa...

Investigation is whether or not if there was quid pro quo between the trump campaign and the russian government. if there was, in fact, collusion or cooperation, if they knowingly interacted with russian officials who were attacking our election in this way they must have promised something, they must have offered something. there must have been a thank you they planned to deliver and that may not have been during the campaign. it may have been something they plan to deliver during the administr...

Ambassador kislyak or tillerson once head of exxon/mobil and had dealings with russian business interests, a critic might say, so what, thats not evidence of any wrongdoing. what would you say back? >> certainly right now this investigation has put a lot of dots up that continue to get connected. one that i would also add is in june 2016 its revealed publicly that russia is attacking our democracy. a month later carter page, a foreign policy advisor for the president with permission of the campa...

He is not political. he is just a good prosecutor. you bring in someone like that. you say take a look at this. if there is one standard and we can agree on it, maybe it applies to allegations about team trump and russia, maybe it doesnt. i certainly think it would apply to the irs handling and possibly as well to fast and furious, the gun walking scandal. >> let me about you about the subject of russia. i am curious to get your take on this. what i think democrats and trump critics point to are...