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>> one would hope based on the experience of 2016 were all better at what we do in watching for it in 2020, including not just reporters, including people when you log online. thanks for joining us. hope to see you this time tomorrow. brianna keilar starts right now. have a great afternoon. im brianna keilar live from cnns washington headquarters. under way right now, democrats cant decide on impeachment, and america is under attack right now by the russians. but is anybody even listening? a...

Whats his calculous going into the next one? >> hes going to have to respond to these candidates that are at him. hes going to be on stage with kamala harris and cory booker. everyone is telegraphing hes the main event and theyre going to hit him on his record on civil rights on the crime bill, for example. but welcome to the 2020 campaign, everybody. your record is going to be under scrutiny, thats just how this works. >> what are the risks of his approach? >> getting pulled down into the fray....

Of justice who go to work each and every day with the motivation to serve our country in the highest manner. but they too feel threatened by the current leadership and so they cant be as precise and as bold and as aggressive as they normally would be under a different kind of administration. president trump has shown himself to be very temperamental, hes shown himself to be very vindictive. so i think we need a different kind of leadership in the department of justice that will hold president tr...

Kind of reminds me of my grandkids when they were young and would sit in their high chair and beat on the tray with a spoon just to get attention. >> you do seem to be describing a toddler. i want to talk about saudi arabia now, because president trump has vetoed three joint resolutions that prohibit arms sales to saudi arabia. many lawmakers are worried that these are weapons that are going to be used in saudi arabias war on yemen. if thats the case, would this make in your belief the u.s. comp...

Answered generally. quote, generally. what did you think about that response? >> well, it was interesting because i think its the first time that a member of the special counsels team or the special counsel himself has made the allegations. in the report itself, theres an appendix and that is what contains the presidents written answers, which were written by his lawyers, of course, in consultation with him and he would have had to approve them. this is the first allegation that those answers mi...

Him from the jail that hes at in lower manhattan. the conditions there as we expect are pretty rough. i think hes unhappy about being there. he fought like hell to get out of jail and to try to go stay at a $66 million mansion. that didnt work. so theres concern that he may be doing this to try to get -- to try and be moved. but we dont know for sure. investigators dont know for sure whats going on here, but obviously they are taking all sorts of precautions now to make sure that nothing happens...

Dirt from foreign entities or countries is going to become the new normal. do you worry that theres a precedent thats been set? >> yes, i do. if that is a part of the new normal, and this isnt just, you know, like domestic derived dirt, if i can use that phrase. when a foreign entity does it, particularly a foreign adversary, youve got to wonder what are their ulterior motives, and this may not serve the interests of the candidate that theyre supplying dirt to. you never know about these things....