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And his allies in congress continue their campaign to distract from the russia investigation and they hope, discredit it. a group of house republicans today introduced legislation to appoint a special counsel to investigate essentially any number of the presidents political enemies, from leaders in the justice department to hillary clinton. the republican chairman of the senate homeland security committee, ron johnson, is trying to dig up more dirt about the fbis handling of the steele dossier. ...

Washington. jonah goldberg, senior editor at national review. a.b. stoddard, associate editor at real clear politics. katie pavlich, townhall.com. jonah, this seemed to pick up steam and was fueled by the presidents tweet about this. the fact that the inspector general is taking it, what does it tell us? >> tells us theres credible reason to take a harder look at what was going on in 2016 in terms of the investigation of the trump campaign. at the same time, i think the talk about this guy, as f...

Series of sequence of events to include, importantly, the special counsel investigation. >> yeah, director, heres what the president tweeted this morning. he said, "wow, word seems to be coming out that the obama fbi spied on the trump campaign with an embedded informant. andrew mccarthy says theres probably no doubt that they had at least one confidential informant in the campaign. if so, this is bigger than watergate." that is an extraordinary claim. based on your experience, what is the likel...

States and his proxies are directing to be exposed to undermine not just the mueller case but other cases. the second is, and im very careful with hyperbole, but when i first read this story my thought was youre going to get someone killed. you dont play with this stuff. >> thats one of the concerns. >> yeah, we have no idea who this person is, what the russians will do. we know theres lots of dead russians in russia and in britain, but so this idea this is all just sort of fun and games and a w...

Im talking about donald trump. >> but, john, the problem is not so -- the problem is not so much theyre canceling the press briefings. i think when it is when they hold these press briefings theyre not telling us the truth and theyre frequently lying to us. >> in the year and a half ive been there, ive gotten one factual answer, one out of hundreds of questions. and that was is he going to have a physical. and then they came out and told us, they charted the doctor out and said out of all the pr...

Andrew mccarthy says theres probably no doubt that they had at least one confidential informant in the campaign. if so, this is bigger than watergate." that is an extraordinary claim. based on your experience, what is the likelihood that its true? >> well, i think its -- this is hyperbole. they may have had someone who was talking to them in the campaign, but, you know, the focus here, and as it was with the intelligence community, is not on the campaign, per se, but what the russians were doing...

Thats what the concern is. >> absolutely. and "the washington post" story does state exclusively the fbi is working diligently to not only protect this source but also information this source may have revealed in other investigations. there are any number of other investigations going on related to russians, related to manaforts son-in-law. so the exposure of that persons name will compromise ongoing criminal investigations. so just two things here. if you dont think this is obstruction of justi...

Factual answer, one out of hundreds of questions. and that was is he going to have a physical. and then they came out and told us, they charted the doctor out and said out of all the presidents ever, this guy was the healthiest. >> i take your point there doesnt seem to be a huge amount of respect for the constitution or our institutions. >> facts. >> point taken. but you run the risk of hyperbole by saying theyre dismantling the constitution. >> no, thats not hyperbole. when you sit there and d...

Navarro and rick santorum. i give you right of first reply. anything i say that offends reason or truth? >> the 2018 law you referred to was in fact, passed by a democratic congress, signed by george bush but something in 2007, 2008 -- >> but doing the check had bipartisan support all the way down the road. so to call it a democrat law -- >> the democrats controlled it. when a party controls the congress they move what they want to move. they moved that bill. it is hyperbole to say just the demo...

With this picture. and when we see the top campaign officials during the campaign not only agreeing to sit down with representatives of russia, but wanting to get dirt on another american, a candidate for president, and then being upset when that dirt isnt forth coming. >> i completely agree. it just doesnt seem like the president of the united states, any president of the united states would hesitate to criticize a foreign power that clearly interfered in our election. thats a big deal. i think...