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So it makes it impossible for those organizations to investigate themselves. now, key sections of the grassley/graham scrill referral against the fake -- criminal referral against the fake news dossier author, christopher steele, tonight theyre unredacted. grassley and graham rightly are asking the doj to investigate christopher steele to lying to the f.b.i. about his contacts to the media. remember, steele was shopping the fake news dossier around to everyone in the mainstream media, all the ...

Correspondent kristen welker and msnbc political analyst robert costa, national political reporter "the washington post" and moderator of "washington week." kristen, first to you. the president very strongly today pushing back against those reports, yet some of his hints of more turnovers to come only reinforces the narrative that there is chaos at the white house. >> reporter: the language is really striking. if you take a look at that tweet, president trump indicating with that tweet that he m...

Was considered acceptable to the kremlin in a way that mitt romney was not. >> lets talk about the fact the clinton campaign, even though they had commissioned the dossier, never knew steele had gone to the fbi which was part of the reason the fbi was already investigating, as we later learned, because of what had happened with a drunken conversation in prague with the australian ambassador, but the fact steele had also brought his information to the fbi. >> its a crazy story. so i kind of dove ...

Among democrats about why the obama white house did not do more to push back after the intelligence warnings about what the russians were doing. weve got a lot of information about what the administration, this administration, is not doing. the fact that we now see the state department has not spent all of this money, $120 million that was appropriated by the obama administration before they left office, to proactively go up against russian propaganda, they havent spent a dime of it yet. in fact...

The question that comes to mind, we will explore this more later, is, is the u.s. prepared to handle complicated diplomatic gambit, if you will, from north korea given the fact theres almost no one in the state department now with these new resignations of late and vacancies to be able to pick up the ball and run with it. kristen? >> reporter: well, its a very good question. i can tell you i just spoke with a senior administration official who first of all says they are being very skeptical righ...

Willing to do so, and so you would have to imagine that they were readying some type of realistic possibility to engage in those talks. but given their lack of staffing, the fact that they are not dealing with the numbers that they would like to be, it will be a challenge and of course, we have seen this president and this secretary of state not be on the same page on this issue. that may be one of the biggest factors undercutting a potential success if these talks do, in fact, move forward. aga...