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Memo claiming the fbi abused its surveillance authority. president trump holding up the release of the memo. i want to talk about this now with chris stewart, a utah republican who is a member of the intel committee. congressman, thank you so much for joining me. >> its good to be with you. thank you. >> first, i want your reaction to the white house, the way they handled the rob porter allegations. what most people are calling a mess. why cant the white house get the message straight on this, d...

Of controversy around defending somebody whos been alleged of domestic abuse. any other president, don, would not be able to survive one of those attacks. and for donald trump, he seemed to just move on. >> well, michael, you talked about the stories coming left and right. heres another story that we have. its related to what mark just said about the conversation over possible kelly successor heating up in washington. this is according to our dana bash, gloria borger, jamie gangel, jim acosta, a...

Comments in order top flauns or shape a story without their comments becoming a story. reporters usually want to hear more information than less information. whats interesting about this meeting is that it was really at the nexus of where the white houses story began to turn. it was on -- as of -- it was, what, wednesday morning, as of wednesday morning, the white house was defending the rob porter and not pushing back on our reporting that kelly was trying to save porters job. by that night, ke...

And like mark was mentioning, i think why were hearing about this is exactly the fact that he -- that this has become a legal issue for him. my colleagues at "the wall street journal" broke this story a couple of months ago. its hard to keep track of all of these controversies and time. >> you were just reading my mind. i was like, so much for infrastructure week. but go on. >> it is infrastructure week, again. but, you know, michael cohn didnt participate, he wouldnt comment, he wouldnt answer ...

Of justice. thats number one. now you have a porn star, as you noted, sounds so glamorous and its not, who received $130,000 from the lawyer of donald trump, who just decided to do it out of the goodness of his heart. and to add to that, you have a white house right now that is embroiled in unbelievable amount of controversy around defending somebody whos been alleged of domestic abuse. any other president, don, would not be able to survive one of those attacks. and for donald trump, he seemed t...

Ex-wives could have damaging information on him. a white house official telling "cnn tonight," the chief of staff was reluctant to dig into what white house counsel don mcgahn knew about porter. so this white house is doing what it always does. its stonewalling, changing their story, flat-out lying. even though fbi director christopher wray blew all of that right out of the water today by simply stating the facts. >> the fbi submitted a partial report on the investigation in question in march. a...

Information in and a statement from michael cohen. so, mark, the stormy daniels story, now back in the news because of this. why does michael cohen say that he paid this money, just out of the goodness of his own heart? >> no. in fact, we dont even know why he decided. he would not answer questions to "the new york times", to maggie haberman, who we heard last hour here on cnn who broke the story. we dont know why he made the payment. he described this as a personal transaction. we also dont kno...

Haberman, who we heard last hour here on cnn who broke the story. we dont know why he made the payment. he described this as a personal transaction. we also dont know why he decided to make the payment and we dont know if he has made similar payments in the past to other folks, presumably on behalf of donald trump. so there is an incredible amount of questions that still need to be answered by this, but we should note that michael cohen was compelled to answer this because a complaint was filed ...

Justify saying dont release that memo? it clearly doesnt include anything classified. it doesnt out any sourcesa or methods. that was important information for the american people to know. i hope and i would vote to release the democratic memo. but you cant include things that they know are classified. and im afraid that what they did was they wrote a memo that they knew was classified, that they knew couldnt be released. and then theyll blame the white house and say, well, were not able to tell...

Received some additional information and we passed that on, as well. >> so in the face of those facts, that the fbi repeatedly briefed the white house on its investigation beginning months earlier than the white house admitted, sarah sanders changed her story today, claiming that even though the fbis investigation was, in fact, complete, the white house personnel security office hasnt made a final recommendation. but when it came to answering questions about what john kelly knew and when he knew...