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Does it raise a bigger question of how impartial they can be when helping peick successor? >> i think all of this raises questions about impartiality. two things. we learned in the briefing that wasnt so much this letter which it sounds like came up originally on tuesday, dated to the president, that it actually happened that way. what we learned was that there was a monday meeting and a discussion about doing this. the letter was papering over that goal. so i think that may raise some questions...

Law enforcement system that any investigation into these matters be fair, free, thoroughly and politically independent? mr. rosenstein answered yes, i do. if there was ever a time when circumstances warranted a special prosecutor, it is right now. mr. rosenstein already expressed concern that director comey damaged the integrity of the fbi. the attorney general has already had to recuse himself from the investigation for being too close to the president. if mr. rosenstein is true to his word, th...

Departments, have everybody wonder about jobs. if you really -- its like a corporation. if you really want to rattle a corporation, bring in a new ceo and have that new ceo start firing people. people that others like in the corporation. the same is true of the fbi. if you really want to disrupt the fbi tonight and really want to make their lives more difficult, if you want to slow down the investigations, create problems investigation, start changing everything. make it all crazy so no one know...

Well need the fbis cooperation and their support as well. they have a global reach that we dont have in the committee. so of necessity, we need to find a way to work together. i think its in the interest certainly of the bureau to try to restore a reputation for impartiality. but its also vital to getting to the bottom of just how the russians interfered in our democracy. >> i do want to repeat the question because respectfully that wasnt an answer. do you have confidence in director comey, and ...

There were on his laptop, but thats a separate question whether the fbi should have looked at this is one thing. whether they should have talked publicly about it before they even knew what was on the laptop is something very different. obviously the director was well aware that this could have a potentially decisive impact on election that close to his public statement, and without even knowing what was on there or whether it bore any significance or whether it was redundant of e-mails he alrea...

>> i cant talk about it. >> comey said he took on the burden of speaking publicly last july when he recommended against criminal charges for clinton because his boss put her in partiality and doubt. >> not picking on the attorney general, loretta lynch, but her meeting with president clinton on the airplane was the capper. >> comey would not discuss the relationship with christopher steele, former british intelligence officer. >> did anyone from the fbi have interactions with mr. steele? >> its ...

He made a terrible mistake. now, hillary clinton, i can understand why she feels as she did. after all, she got almost 3 million more votes than donald trump. she feels it enough to cost her the election. but worse than that, it brings into question the impartiality of the fbi. that investigation on donald trump, the investigation exonerated hillary clinton, but they announce it sort of on the one hand this, on the other hand that just before the election. it was a bad, bad, bad mistake. >> and ...

Of disclosure is that some of these business connections could potentially affect his impartiality. the public shouldnt be kept in the dark about conflicts of interest. >> the white house said from the beginning as it relates to all of these, were not breaking the law. you get what you get and dont get upset. is there any law being broken here? >> not necessarily a law being broken at all. what his lawyers say is that these forms regularly get updated. that the connection to the start-up will be...

>> if these facts are true that he failed to disclose on this ffs-86 that he took payments from the russians, that federal form, by the way submitted in connection with security clearance, that may well be a crime, and likes with, his failure to report working as a federal agent for the turkish government. his failure to disclose those other kinds of payments and takes those payments by a retired military officer require a special prosecutor who has the imparti impartiality to be totally untied ...

Do you think michael flynn is guilty of a crime and if so, what crime? >> if these facts are true, as disclosed today, that he failed to disclose on his ffsf-86 that he took payments and benefits from the russians, that federal form submitted in connection with the security clearance, that very well may be a violation of federal law. likewise his failure to register as a federal agent when working for the turkish government. his failure to disclose other kinds of payments, and his taking of thos...