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And go kind of above and beyond. and this report really, its a farce in so many ways. its a farce in its conclusions about what happened, given that they allowed witnesses to come in and refuse to answer questions with no follow-up, no subpoenas, no attempt to hold anyone in contempt. and its a farce in claiming putin wasnt trying to elect trump. not just because the intelligence community has concluded otherwise, but grand jury of 23 average americans pamping in the mueller investigation return...

But then, their work is not done. because the committee, just because it stopped this investigation, i dont think we should conclude that theyre done messing around in this space. nunes has made it very clear he is off looking at the state department now. going to try to find some way to show that allies of clinton were somehow colluding with the russian theres. another claim we didnt touch on that this claim makes is it was the clinton campaign with the russians to elect, i dont know, elect don...

Investigation returned an indictment that said explicitly the russians were trying to elect donald trump. theyre ignoring that evidence completely. they are giving you -- that is basically the line that we heard from vladimir putin the other day. its not the russian government. these may be other individuals. he even use kind of a slur to describe who those individuals might be. >> julia, one of the issues here, one of the people they talked to is one small example of the house intel committees ...

And officials of the nra. there are lots of lobbyists in this city who would like to be able to get that kind of the meeting with the president but since the nra spent $30 million in its pac to elect donald trump, theyre kind of first in line always. while he seemed to be chastising republicans for being afraid of the nra, its very clear to me from watching this that he had to walk this back because the nra reminded him, i am sure, that they would primary any republican who decided to go along w...

Directly maybe tampering with the data in the computers. i cant say. i wasnt in those meetings the way to bet the kremlin to be stop is to be firm. >> i think actually its slightly differently, i think the president didnt do it because he didnt want to be accused of helping hillary clinton win. the antidote was going to republicans sand thai say lets do it in a bipartisan way, they were shut down the message is that responding to russian agression in our elect, russian attacks has to be bipartis...

The attack our election more directly maybe tampering with the data in the computers. i cant say. i wasnt in those meetings the way to bet the kremlin to be stop is to be firm. >> i think actually its slightly differently, i think the president didnt do it because he didnt want to be accused of helping hillary clinton win. the antidote was going to republicans sand thai say lets do it in a bipartisan way, they were shut down the message is that responding to russian afwregs in our elect, russian...

Howard, leo girard will say they will remember what trump did and the people -- in western pennsylvania are very happy today. your friends on capitol hill and the republican side of the aisle are -- yesterday felt like a wake. >> yeah. >> so and yet these are voters that helped elect some of these guys. so ill start with you. >> during the nixon administration, john mitchell would say watch what we do and not what we say. and with president trump it is the same rule be means it the opposite. he ...

>> the fbi has very serious powers. i think they are inducing people to cooperate with them and, also, we have very likely other sources overseas who must be cooperating with the mueller investigation. >> folks who can look into financial transactions, look into bank records, that same thing? >> most certainly. one of the first things we did find out about muellers operation is that the lawyers he hired were definitely experts in money laundering and the real estate transaction world. not to say...

016 elect after -- after th 2016 and hillary clinton. arthel: jared kushner is under scrutiny for his business deals. this comes as the president gets ready to impose new tariffs and steel and aluminum. but hes facing backlash from both sides of the aisle. >> i think it should be done much more carefully. there is a difference between steel and aluminum. we do have a significant problem with aluminum and steel. china supplies 4% of the steel in the u.s. >> no trade war has ever worked. we dont w...

So run from the bottom up that thats really where we need to work. and i live in silicon valley. theres also a kind of reckoning among the social media giants about the role that russia might have played there. >> of course. >> so, i think a lot is going on around this issue. we just need to make sure it is full-out effort. >> why cant the president say that? >> well, the president obviously is in a kind of unusual situation here. >> what do you think is unusual about it? >> i think that there m...