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What the president is trying to call opposition research, that a foreign -- from a foreign country, how would you handle it, congressman? >> i would not accept it. i would leave the room and immediately call the federal bureau of investigation, period, full stop. i would consider it frankly my patriotic duty to do so. >> and ive got to ask you and everyone who comes on because the president is saying he is equating opposition research to information from a hostile foreign power. are those two th...

Of approval by a head nod or a suggestion, or, you know, any kind of inference that its okay is a tacit approval of that kind of behavior. and i think that puts us at greater risk. >> that puts us at greater risk. literally today in congress, there are former senior counterintelligence officials from the fbi warning about how dangerous it is as a national security matter for a campaign to take information surreptitiously shopped to them from a foreign government. yeah, thats how you compromise p...

There are former senior counterintelligence officials from the fbi warning about how dangerous it is as a national security matter for a campaign to take information surreptitiously shopped to them from a foreign government. yeah, thats how you compromise people in the u.s. government. thats how a foreign government, particularly a hostile foreign adversary would compromise people in the u.s. government. thats how a hostile foreign adversary would conceivably get power over our government, and o...

So -- >> is it impeachable? >> 100% is impeachable. whether they can make the case, goes from possible to probable. can they do it? possible. probable? i dont know. i got to see what they do. >> heres the interesting thing, so he is saying -- well, most people would want to look at the information. hes trying to conflate opposition research with information that was obtained from a hostile foreign country. hes also saying that somehow norway -- >> he loves norway. >> -- is equal to russia. norwa...

Christopher steele, the former british agent, to try to look into potential ties between the trump campaign and russia. but those two situations, not entirely synonymous. christopher steele was hired -- steele himself went to the fbi to discuss what he was learning, and the actual effort of trying to hack into foreign -- the dnc servers and get podesta emails and leak those out, thats much different than what was happening with the steele situation, with the steele dossier. nevertheless, youre h...

Hes open for business. thats an abuse of his office and something thats worthy of being looked at by congress. >> is it impeachable? >> 100%, is impeachable. whether they can make the case, goes from possible to probable. can they do it? possible. probable, i dont know, ive got to see what they do. >> heres the interesting thing, so he is saying -- well, most people would want to look at the information. hes trying to conflate opposition research with information that was obtained from a hostile...

Constitution. >> lets put this up, its up on the screen from the federal elections commission and what they say about it. it says commission regulations prohibit foreign nations from directing -- dictating, controlling or foreign nationals, i should say, or directly or indirectly participating in the decision-making process of any person with regard to any election-related activities. thats what it says. >> thats what i just said, don, it would be a clear violation of federal law. and he admitte...

Trying to drum something up. and when they couldnt find it, they made it up. then they utilized our own fbi to go after americans by using a fisa court with false information they knew and paid for. thats not a hypothetical. thats what took place in this country. that is why we went through a special counsel. that is why in this special counsel the millions of dollars that was spent, the hundreds of witnesses, the 13 countries we went around. what did they find? the question that youre asking ab...

Required to report him or her as a security threat. good morning and welcome to "morning joe." it is thursday, june 13th. along with joe, willie and me we have white house reporter for the associated press, jonathan le mooer. staff writer for the atlantic james fallows, white house correspondent, and former fbi special agent and msnbc contributor, clipnt watts. we we again with what the president said in the oval office despite a two-year investigation into outside in r interference in the 2016 ...

National security. he was in munich back in february as part of a panel, a existing on election integrity, urging candidates over in europe to ensure that foreign -- interests no foreign interference in their elections or potentially here in the u.s. but this is something thats going -- especially going to be discussed a lot on the campaign trail going forward after the presidents comments today in that interview. >> i know you are working sources covering the biden campaign. ar let we will get ...