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That informed decision after the lawyers have had an opportunity to review it. >> but, you know -- >> apparently thats whats being done. >> legal counsel is only as good as it is listened to, right? even if everybody was being as conscientious as you say, the chief of staff saying its going to get out real quick and then the whole world is going to get to see it. and the president saying 100% its getting out and he hasnt read it yet. that takes us to the other side of the ball. this is you, norm...

Center of the 2018 election, the overriding question of whether a republican majority in congress can be trusted to exert any kind of restraint or oversight on the president. a president about which half of the american public at least has ambivalence to out right hostility. the actions of paul ryan are striking. remember what a critic he was of donald trump in 2016. we know from the great reporting he had a speech prepared on election day to declare trump isnt a dead-end for the party. hes allo...

>> multiple members of the senate committee have said theyve seen no evidence of collusion. >> the investigation isnt over. why wouldnt you want to see it through? >> we do. i dont think anybody wants to see it more than we do. >> why do you allow nunes to do this end run that weve never seen before in subverting the intelligence community to release things that could be jeopardizing the national security? >> no one here is going to make a decision that jeopardizes national security. thats been ...

Thursday in terms of what changed. but i do know how this movie ends and i want you to know how it ends. we are not going to leave 800,000 people with no place else to go out in the cold. >> sources tell fox news that graham and senator dick durbin had come to the president with a plan that didnt have agreement of the other principals who were trying to cut a deal and didnt come close to what the president had been asking for. the president basically felt they were trying to do an end run around...

Various industries, energy and so forth, appointed judges, appointed a supreme court judge. look, you can agree or disagree with all of that. as a liberal, you could say i would have resisted every one of those things, and i hate donald trump. that is not grounds for impeaching this president on the basis of his mental capacity. we should get back to real politics. paul: yeah. even if you want to get rid of trump or check him or whatever you do, lets let the normal political process work, right?...

He obviously was watching. >> its flattering to know that he was watching. he has stated many times he watches that show and im a regular on it on tuesdays and thursdays. ive also been railing against the fisa law since it was first enacted because it permits federal agents to spy on americans. this one is the worst of all. it permits the fbi to have access to the database and use it in criminal prosecutions. that is an end run around the fourth amendment. when the british government did this ag...

Search for the communications of americans in 702 databases. and we think this is an end run on the constitution. >> dana: they call their amendment, the usa rice amendment. is that a fair description of what theyre trying to do or has this gotten blown way out of proportion? >> do you know what, dana? this is how you get a 7% public approve rating. when you frame the issue the way senator wyden and justin, who is a friend of mine, framed it. heres a better way to frame it. do you want your law ...

Senator gillibrand perceives this as an end run around her traditional authority to have input into the selection. none of these people have been nominated yet, but i think you none of the people have been nominated yet but i think you can expect that particularly in the southern and eastern districts and the district of new jersey where people left law firm partnerships to take the jobs that theyre expecting that they will eventually be the nominee. >> and everybody, again, outside this system ...

Doctrine, if a law enforcement agent is somewhere hes allowed to be, hes allowed to pursue that. similarly, if hes looking into the russia matter and discovers criminal activity, he doesnt have to ignore that. hes allowed to pursue it and thats what hes done. >> what do you think the point is for manafort in filing this suit? does he think it might be a distraction for the team doing the investigation? what do you think hes doing? barbara? >> yeah, i think that could be. i also think it may be a...

This nomination. i mean, these 17 people who were just announced, they are going to need senate confirmation. is doing it this which the way youre describing by the justice department, is it going to help them end run around objections from senators? is it making the confirms something taking place a later date or tougher or easier in the long run. >> we have to wait and see how it plays out. thats a good question. one of the risks of doing it this way is that home state senators might be upset....