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President and the current attorney general for their attacks on the agency, writing this in part, calling fbi professionals scum as the president did is a slur against people who risk their lives to keep us safe. mr. barrs charges of bias within the fbi made without providing any evidence in direct dispute of the findings of the nonpartisan inspector general risk inflicting enduring damage on this critically important institution. where do they go from here? >> i think they go to where theyve al...

Bloomberg in single digits. everybody else behind them. democrats seem to be leaning more moderate at this point asked who is about right on the issues, biden and buttigieg lead the way. bloomberg does pretty well too. guy, what do those numbers tell you about the state of the democratic race and state of the democratic electorate. >> joe biden keeps trucking along. there is all the flaws. he gives bad answers. certainly in debates he has occasional head scratchers of answers but electorate is l...

Were supposed to service with the truth and intel and so on and so forth. >> what ive been most concerned about about all of this in the beginning is that these powers are necessary if we are going to protect the country from actual threats that these powers are designed to help us with particularly terrorist threats and the problem has always been that if we cant demonstrate that people can be held accountable when the powers are abused, theres going to be a public outcry for the powers to be p...

Third. pete buttigieg and michael bloomberg in single digits. everybody else behind them. democrats seem to be leaning more moderate at this point asked who is about right on the issues, biden and buttigieg lead the way. bloomberg does pretty well too. guy, what do those numbers tell you about the state of the democratic race and state of the democratic electorate. >> joe biden keeps trucking along. there is all the flaws. he gives bad answers. certainly in debates he has occasional head scratch...

Pete buttigieg and michael bloomberg in single digits. everybody else behind them. democrats seem to be leaning more moderate at this point asked who is about right on the issues, biden and buttigieg lead the way. bloomberg does pretty well too. guy, what do those numbers tell you about the state of the democratic race and state of the democratic electorate. >> joe biden keeps trucking along. there is all the flaws. he gives bad answers. certainly in debates he has occasional head scratchers of ...

That can beat donald trump, thats not going to be easy. americans want change, but i think they dont want revolutionary change. beating donald trump is going to be more difficult after the u.k. election. >> martha: interesting that he used the language that former president obama used, americans do not want revolutionary change for they want incremental change. pick that line up completely from what president obama said per does this force democrats to take a harder look at bloomberg and biden a...

Different politician than bernie sanders. a different politician than elizabeth warren. he had different unfavorables. it is a different society. but if you are going to make a -- take a broad -- make a broad assessment of what it could mean for american politics, bill, give it a go. tell me what you think. >> well, donald trump has definitely made the link. he said this might be a harbinger of things to come in the u.s. i mean, your caution is well-placed, katy. but look at this this way. when ...

Flaws at the fbi in terms of applying for and obtaining electronic surveillance warrants. that has to be fixed. thats a big deal, but i think comey can claim vindication and properly so because what he has been saying all along and the inspector general agreed, is that political bias and political motive never infected their work. >> how do you think its going over inside doj, inside the fbi to see adults who know better, a u.s. attorney in the middle of an active investigation passing judgment ...

Washington post" pointing out, a plea that he had been vindicated, the inspector general was asked about this at the hearing today, well play that exchange. >> the fbi director james comey said this week that your report vindicates him, is that a fair assessment of his report. the activities we found dont indicate anybody who touched this. >> so, you heard the man answered, do you view it as a vindication? >> in a top line, absolutely. what the president has been complaining about two plus yea...

Activities we found here dont vindicate anybody who touched this. >> so you heard the mans answer. do you view it as a vindication of comey? >> in a top-line sense, absolutely. what the president has been complaining about for the last two-plus years, three years, is that political bias and political motive influenced the work of the fbi. the inspector general said definitively that that did not happen. now, the inspector general also made a very important finding that there were numerous proced...