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In the case. he appeared to backtrack today saying "i certainly could see where if there is an allegation of a crime at some point the call for a special prosecutor makes sense," then adding "currently we dont have that." this evening his office put out a statement focusing on the obama administration, "right now we have speculation and assumptions but not clarity and fact, including questions about russias actions, what the fbi knew of the cyber breaches, what the obama administration did in re...

Interfere with a news -- investigations, theyre going to color any results that would come out. so i am not going to get into my individual conversations with members of the committee. the committee will -- a number of us are meeting this afternoon. well have an open hearing tomorrow. we need to get this resolved, because this is the committee that has the jurisdiction. we have started this investigation. its been moving forward bipartisan. the american public deserves answers. and theres a lot ...

Way if you have the two top members this bipartisan committee contradicting each other even before the investigation really started. a remarkable couple of hours on this story up on the hill. >> schiff said in order for this investigation to be successful it has to be bipartisan and then laying down a marker that it was not. i want to bring in rick santorum and hillary rosen. with us now. senator, weigh in on that. and also this idea -- we certainly heard adam schiff raising the question of impa...

Investigations jump out there and say, no, no, no, let me give you the full pan three of our evaluation and our conclusion. until jim comy does that here and forthright with the american people we are probably not going to get a conclusion. the second thing is democrats are simply saying to the republicans on the hill, do not be the white houses mouthpiece. you are elected separately to evaluate separately and get all of facts here and provide oversichlgt until they do that, rick, i dont think t...

There. he was pretty much questioning the impartiality of the fbi. and you even heard a warning over the weekend from new jersey governor chris christie who was saying to congressional republicans essentially, be concerned about the perception of what you are impartial here, even if you are, the perception of this is very important about whether you weighed in to back up the trump administration on this before there are conclusions. >> right. and there was that moment that sean spicer described ...

Is so close to trump in so many ways that that investigation certainly wont have the appearance of impartiality and may not be impartial itself so ive called today on jeff sessions to recuse himself and if you agree with that, tv audience, tell your senator or congressman to do it. >> almost every single day seems to bring new questions about the possible connections between the trump world and the kremlin. yesterday we told you the strange tale of a back channel plan for ukraine and russia fa...

Official. personal relationship means a close and substantial connection of the type normally viewed as likely to induce partiality. jeff sessions was chrman of the national secity advisory committee alongside general michael flynn. he was a senior adviser in the trump campaign, the first senator who endorsed the presidents campaign, and nominated him at the republican convention in cleveland. those facts and the department of justices own rules disqualify attorney general sessions from onie i r...

>> those comments indicate that this is an independent judge and why its important that we go about the process of confirming him. he clearly is somebody who has great respect for the court, great respect for the rule of law, someone who is universally respected on both sides of the aisle and has issued opinions as a judge on the tenth circuit that have drawn not only a lot of attention but a lot of praise. this is somebody who ought to be able to go through a process, get fair consideration, ob...

Commentator as democratic strat just. let me begin with you, mr. blanken. ken cuccinelli, the former ag of virginia said last night on this network that there is a brilliant move on the part of the trump administration to bring up the fact and to argue the fact that it was the obama administration under your time in the state department that made this list of these seven countries, these seven muslim majority countries that they have used in this travel ban. he called that a brilliant move. how ...

Parliament member is taking his fight against our president public saying he would not support any plans for trump to speak to parliament during a planned visit. he cited the migrant ban as having played into his decision. >> our opposition to racism and to sexism and our support for equality before the law and an independent judiciary are hugely important considerations in the house of commons. >> listen to that reaction there. a mix of boos and cheers, right? some in the house of commons suppo...