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Obviously that i assume are of interest to the fbi because theyre of interest to us and i could imagine them saying, hold off on these people because were investigating them and we dont want you in our way. >> senator graham also said he believes the russian investigation is now considered in his words a criminal investigation, director comey the fired fbi director, he said back in march, he said he was -- he described it as a counter intelligence investigation this will also include an assessme...

Others who he will bring into the fold. the task of the independent, rather, the special counsel, is to investigate and then if warranted, to bring charg through grand jury, indictments for violations of criminal law. and thats much different than a commission such as the 9/11 commission which was empowered to investigate and make recommendations. both of those are different than senate investigations. >> thats my question. will this have a problematic effect? at least side line the investigatio...

New york tabloids. >> one of his favorites. >> he wont like what he sees in the paper. headlines top of the fold in every major american newspaper about the comey memo. >> this one in the "daily news" can be taken two ways. goes with make it go away which either can refer to either flynn or the president. "daily news" has been a critic of the president. were starting to hear the "i" word impeachment. that may be premature. but in left leaning outlets its gaining some attention. middle of the roa...

We had five different explanations before the president went and contradicted the explanation with an explanation that was the one we thought it was. here it seems like hes saying, this is my way of bringing russians into the fold. i cant prove thats not what he was up to, but i will say if past is prologue, this is a president who tends to act and then make tup the strategic reason. speak, say something, and then go back and reengineer why he did it. that certainly is a pattern with him. could ...

She came out and said the story was false. >> another thing that mcmaster revealed today was that the president decided in the context of the conversation to reveal this information. so he didnt go through a process. he didnt consult with his aides apparently. and so theres a question about, you know, this is a decision that the president made in order to bring russia into the fold on the isis fight. or bring russia closer on the isis fight. why didnt he consult more closely with his national se...

Isolation. you need to lift sanctions and bring us back into the fold. its not about counterterrorism. >> susan, we just heard lisa monaco saying that the russians have been trying this before. you know, well join you in the fight against isis and at the end of the day they dont try to fight against isis. they end up killing other moderate groups and propping up bashar al assad in syria because thats really what they have. >> they have a very friendly voice or friendly ire guess when it comes to...

To cause them to sit there and say that i have to close my door and dock because my head is on the chopping block. >> martha: how much of this is just donald trump? he is an outsider, he is a businessman. he has never been involved in politics before. that causes others who have been for a long time to brazil, that he just doesnt get the way that things are done. you dont bring up intelligence of the middle of a conversation with russian officials. he is fresh off what he sees a pretty good situ...

>> shannon: theyre talking about kim jong-un the leader of north korea. what do we do? theyre violating all kinds of u.n. resolutions and not stopped by anything weve tried over the last two or three administrations. >> china and the united states have overlapping interests at this point. 90% of the money that goes into north korea goes from china. much of it has to do with china buying coal from north korea. so china has now changed their behavior and said well stop buying coal from north korea...

Majority of the senior staff within the white house. wasnt everybody caught flat footed with the exception of jared, ivanka and a couple others? >> a great point just because steve bannon hasnt been in the loop on all these key issues, i think you raise the key the point. does the president think it is better to keep him in the administration than to have him on the outside throwing bombs? one other point to consider. who would fill the top positions. there has been a fair amount of uncertainty....

>> reporter: what it does is gives them a place where they wont be judged and certainly will be brought into the fold of the massive investment plan that xi jinping is pushing. you had the leaders getting up at the podium and putting digs at the u.s. both the president of russia putin saying the worlds global headquarters as it wrs has shifted east. he was criticizing illegal sanctions. the president of turkey saying that china is the center of global trade. they wont be judged for their policie...