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Know why? because i saw richard nixon going around firing everybody and that didnt work out too well. >> reporter: a new poll shows a 10% increase of americans showing congress has enough evidence to begin impeachment hearings. and a little footnote to that, the president tweeting at congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez suggesting democrats are calling for impeachment for political reasons. the congresswoman suggesting the democrats need to start an impeachment inquiry and also that this would...

>> once you get the foot in the door, it can give you a basis to conduct much broader surveillance. >> in some cases, agents can search a targets historical data. >> if you can persuade a judge that there are communications that are out there that are relevant to what you are doing and readily accessible and, again, linked to the purpose of the surveillance, you can go back. >> the assembly of the documents. the sculpting of the document is not a one-man operation. >> jim maxwell is familiar wit...

Buried in a footnote, the application suggests the dossier was a political document. >> ideally you would acknowledge in the text of the application saying look, here is the information. we are not 100 percent sure its reliable we think its enough and here is our concerns. if you put it in the footnote, the risk is that any human being, a judge, would blow past it. >> i have the utmost faith in director ray and the attorney general that they will review this matter and take the proper action. >>...

Document. >> ideally you would acknowledge in the text of the application saying look, here is the information. we are not 100 percent sure its reliable we think its enough and here is our concern. if you put it in the footnote the risk is that any human being a judge would blow past it? >> i have the utmost faith in director ray and the attorney general that they will review this matter and take the proper action. >> department of justice inspector general michael e. horowitz is expected to rel...

The right thing. this was a point that speaker pelosi raised just today. >> there is a sense of d.c. ensbi fruit from the forbidden tree. ill gotten gain. >> agore adviser tom down 3 is here with me now. thanks for coming on "the beat" about this. >> you are now a fascinating footnote. newly unearthed on the news in this story. youve done many things in your life but on this story, walk us through why you made the decision. how quickly you called the fbi. >> the fact is it was quite clear to me ...

Maybe some of the staffers were not around, what is it? nearly 30 years later? maybe they were not around. but it says something about his campaign staff that they did not have the institutional knowledge to say, we better be very careful about this, because we have had this problem blow up in our face before. what does it take to take a document like that and put it through one of these programs that identifies plagiarized sections. they shouldve done that at minimum, at minimum they should hav...

Application, he was warned befoe again. and there were other warnings. comey signed the fisa application, he was warned again. still puts his signature and there were other warnings. and h on a spying document, he deniese on a spying document, spying on not only carter page,s but an opposition party.ng on n, but an opposition party. >> raw intelligence like that should >> raw intelligence like that nr should never be the basis for a fisa warrant that intrudes on the rights of american citizensa ...

Maybe some of the staffers were not around, what is it? nearly 30 years later? maybe they were not around. but it says something about his campaign staff that they did not have the institutional knowledge to say, we better be very careful about this, because we have had this problem blow up in her face before. what does it take to take a document like that and put it through one of these programs that identifies plagiarized sections. they shouldve done that at minimum, at minimum they should hav...

Comey signed the fisa application, he was warned again. and there were other warnings. and he still puts his signature on a spying document, he denies spying on not only carter page, but an opposition party. >> raw intelligence like that should never be the basis for a fisa warrant that intrudes on the rights of american citizens privacy. we need to have more than that. and we need to have complete candor from anybody who signed a fisa warrant. they have to tell the court. we have this, we are n...

We only got in the war late in the game. when we look at the images from the past. when we look at what tom called the greatest generation, we can feel intimidated. thats natural thing to think they did these things so how are we going to live up to that. to be true to history and to be true to those men and the women who made the guns you talked to the other day, the people who made that possible. to be true to them we have to recognize they were human beings. they were scared. they did the rig...