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Don, what do you think of democrats saying maybe i wont support her if they text back majority in the fall? >> this is the epitome of inside baseball. you have to remember that this is saying will not support nancy pelosi is essentially campaign promise. when the vote is taken it is a private in caucus vote that will look a lot different once the members get elected and get attuned to the reality of how powerful nancy pelosi is, how much she assisted them whether they like it or not and how much...

Mean, thats an issue you have to bring down to the floor, have serious -- >> just to be clear, your republican colleagues in the house freedom caucus have now voted on that. >> well, i was just going to say, i dont see a reason to impeach him at this moment. and im watching carefully and listening to leaders of the respective committees, oversight committee, chairman goudy, chairman goodlatte, as well. and so impeachments a big deal. i think back home, as well, a lot of people arent talking abou...

Cohen removed trump attorney from his twitter bio. thats just perhaps a bit of inside baseball. want to tap into your years of experience as an fbi agent to get your take on this latest poisoning of two in the uk with that nerve agent, same one used in march. what do you make of the russian reaction that this is part of a uk conspiracy? >> that has been their claim since the attack back in march. you know, its disingenuous because the intelligence community has stated that this particular kind o...

Also is objecting to various inside baseball procedural aspects of the hearing whether they complied with the rules for notice and followed procedures for a subpoena. i dont think those arguments will resonate with the american public. thats the line of attack the democrats are taking. >> sandra: goodlatte taking the opportunity during his opening statement to challenge democrats on the political bias, the bias that showed up in the anti-trump text messages exchanged by peter strzok and lisa pag...

>> on the subject of inside baseball, you said within the last 24 hours or so, you find it hard to believe that the president did not have any discussion with the likes of roger stone or perhaps others on their various meetings with russians during the campaign. it is only coming to light right now. do you have any inside knowledge of that or is it just speculation? >> well, no. this actually goes back to when i was still in the government, still with dni. we saw frequently between various assoc...

Number one, ignore it because its summer time and is beautiful outside and this is a lot of inside baseball. but the end result of this ig report, the testimony on capitol hill is going to equal out the russia probed what happened to the fbi. >> harris: does it exonerate the president when he calls it a witch hunt? >> it absolutely backs up his point saying it was a witch hunt. >> absolutely not. there was no equal to having some bad apples within the federal bureau of investigation and having a...

His motion to intervene in the case. >> yeah. >>. so it depends -- a lot of it is inside baseball. but it depends if he is asse asserting the privilege of stormy daniels that means the investigation may be impaired to get to the bottom of what actually happened between stormy danielss previous attorney and michael cohen. and there are allegations they were sort of in cahoots. but they may not be able to get to the bottom of that if avenatti is involved. >> thank you very much, appreciate you com...

May be able to manipulate himself into a position where it looks like hes working with trump and he keeps his job. at the same time, trump is still breaking the law. even asking for it is a form potentially of obstruction. i have a legal question too. >> go for it. >> if this were a trial, going before a judge, judge would say no, but if this were a trial and we still havent resolved whether or not you can indict a president, could a lot of this information be requested or be handed over in disc...

Scope letter news too. answer that first then well break the news together. >> what i intended to do is basically, we actually said that that investigation, the robert mueller investigation, special counsel investigation, would no locker than funded from d.o.j. funds. d.o.j. is the only one funding it, it would be pulled. >> harris: we have learned that that scope memo, rod rosenstein has been turned over to the judge in the case. i know this might feel a little inside baseball but theres an imp...

That theyre saying, no, were not going to just give up weapons and get nothing from you in sanctions or in security. so i think it has argued for some time that the u.s. needs to kind of table a draft joint communique that sounds like diplomatic inside baseball, but its basically bread and butter what you do, and then you try to figure out what you agree on. and if its enough, you go forward with the summit. >> ned price, it seems the north koreans were watching donald trump nominate himself for...