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Scurriless and false attacks today and the series of tweets really ramped up, and this is as one republican so far and one republican has stood up to demand floor action on the bipartisan protection bill that jeff flake and, you know, senator coons have cohf -author and gotten nowhere, and mitch mcconnell says no need for action on the floor, and do you sense that any of the republican colleagues, and the colleague in maine, and susan collins is certainly in the line of fire here, and anybody is...

Capable of handling them, i would have to look them in the eye and say thank you for your service and i regret that our president is using you as a political stunt. >> i want to ask about a different topic and that is the mueller investigation, the dynamics of which seems to have changed after the midterm elections with the democrats taking over the house. what is your view of protecting bob mueller right now? again, even since the midterm elections the majority leader mitch mcconnell has said i...

Dig into a story if she thinks theres a chance it will be false or uncorroborated. a lot of questions there. why not take a look? do you want to eight or ten months, fine. the white house controls the process. but why say no all the together. >> the senate does. >> no, the senate does not. the white house decides whether or not the fbi looks into this not the senate. >> the senate decide whether they proceed taking floor action. >> the white house has to ask the fbi. >> if the senate said they w...

Why if she wanted to come out and say something untrue, why would she ask for the feds to dig into a story if she thinks theres a chance it will be false or uncorroborated. in any possible way. why would she set herself up for that. why not take a look? do you want to eight or ten months, you say no. fine. the white house controls the process. but why say no altogether. >> the senate does. >> no, the senate does not. the white house decides whether or not the fbi looks into this not the senate. ...

The president can find himself on an unobstructed path to fire willing robert mueller or taking other actions to end that legislation. one of the co sponsors of the bill, senator chris coons joins me now. i know there are sponsors, co sponsors on both sides of the aisle, it doesnt seem to be a real priority for mitch mcconnell. >> ill disagree with your characterization of my bipartisan bill to protect the special council. you said it hasnt gone anywhere, when we first introduced it a year ago, ...

Willing robert mueller or taking other actions to end that legislation. one of the co sponsors of the bill, senator chris coons joins me now. i know there are sponsors, co sponsors on both sides of the aisle, it doesnt seem to be a real priority for mitch mcconnell. >> ill disagree with your characterization of my bipartisan bill to protect the special council. you said it hasnt gone anywhere, when we first introduced it a year ago, thats exactly what we were told. this will never got a hearing,...

Information and collect information. by the way, you got 1.2 million documents from donald trump in 90 days and yet they cantn over 50,000 documents to congress in nine months, thats a problem. >> laura: whats next for nunez after the 5:00 p.m. deadline? >> i think the next thing is floor action for all of us. >> laura: ryan will do that? >> while he made a promise to us last week that if we didnt get all the documents by friday we would seep floor action this week. im waiting for him to follow ...

To have floor action this week, laura. this week on the house floor, where we compel them to turn over those documents. >> laura: just so people know, kleinsmith is the one who wrote "viva la resistance" ." >> if he is indeed. >> they are not part of the counterintelligence division. >> laura: which they are at work trying to pass them off as. >> they are actually part of the general counsels office. so an attorney working for the fbi is normally not an undercover operation and certainly wasnt h...

To have floor action this week, laura. this week on the house floor, where we compel them to turn over those documents. >> laura: just so people know, kleinsmith is the one who wrote "viva la resistance." >> if he is indeed. why cant we identify attorneys theyre not under cover agents. >> >> they are not part of the counterintelligence division. >> laura: which they are at work trying to pass them off as. >> they are actually part of the general counsels office. so an attorney working for the fb...

Documents from donald trump in 90 days and yet they cant turn over 50,000 documents to congress in nine months, thats a problem. >> laura: whats next for nunez after the 5:00 p.m. deadline? >> i think the next thing is floor action for all of us. >> laura: ryan will do that? >> while he made a promise to us last week that if we didnt get all the documents by friday we would seep floor action this week. im waiting for him to follow through on that commitment, but if he doesnt -- >> laura: fees am...