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The scale, thats enough to recuse yourself. thats why rod rosenstein should recuse himself. he is a witness in this case. and the idea that you can be the chief prosecutor and the main witness at the same time is such an obvious conflict of interest that i dont understand how he can continue to go forward running this investigation. so, we have at least two major conflicts of interest and i think it does raise some questions about the integrity in the investigation. ainsley: rosenstein he signed...

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He believes there were, quote, sound reasons for judges to approve the foreign intelligence surveillance act, the fisa warrant on former trump campaign advisory carter page. it puts him at odds with devin nunes to trigger the chain of events that triggered saturdays release of the redacted fisa application. tonight reports that the interior tried to deny some environmental protections at two national monuments were actually working. cnns investigation on that is straight ahead. this school year,...

Impeachment? holding him in contempt for stonewalling congresss ability to get documents is one thing. these documents shed light on the russia probe now led by mueller who is trying to negotiate with president trumps attorneys on a sit-down. you would think that the presidents attorney should have all these documents before them before they allow it to happen. >> i would imagine so. that would be up to the presidents attorneys to make that argument and i understand why they would. again, more b...

Inappropriately, filled with bias and abuse and richard burr, the senate intelligence chairman, tells us that is not the case. hes saying it was done properly, saying this exactly. there were sound reasons as to why judges issued the fisa, he said i dont think i ever expressed that i thought the fisa application came up short and that in response to a question of colleague jeremy herb about whether or not the nunes mem mor that detailed allegations of abuse in this process to monitor carter page...

Agreement, because these things have been verified, we know that iran does not have that same nuclear capability that north korea did. >> right. >> so its a different kind of country that this president would be going after, and i think many people believe that for him, he may be thinking, in other words, that iran is an easier adversary, and so war could be something that he considers more possible. >> yeah, except they have boots on the ground unlike most of the hot spots in that part of the w...

Schiff, the ranking member on the house intel and the democrats, what he had to say. >> this is a false, patently false provably false statement but not just by nunes. others signed off on it too like trey gowdy and indeed the entire majority signed off on the nunes memoranda. >> shannon: patently false statements by you and others? >> this fisa application has become like an ink blot test for republicans and democrats to look at it to see what they want to see. lets start where we should have b...

Ranking member had to say tonight and give you a chance to respond. >> this is a patently false statement but not just by nunez. others signed off like trey gowdy. >> this fisa application is an inkblot test for republicans and democrats. lets start where we should have bipartisan movement. if a political party or political candidate pays for opposition research and that opposition research before i secret court with no adversarial on the other side is the basis to spy on someone regardless whw ...

The weekend, never happened before, the fbi released a redacted version of the warrant application it used to get a warrant from the secret fisa court, which was required to conduct surveillance on one carter page, who is an american citizen. trump and devin nunes, chair of the house intelligence community, have tried to claim the fbi misled the court in order to get that warrant. a claim that was at the heart of that infamous nunes memo which claimed the fbi had political motivations in going a...

Trump administration and some in the media. is this a bad thing that now we can read what a fisa warrant application looks like? >> its weird. as a former justice department official im uncomfortable about seeing it publically, not just because of this application, its the first time that the freedom of information act has been applied to a fisa application. its theres argument that foia does not apply. and theres precedent for them to release other things. in this instance, when you have one si...