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Donohue commented internally, pure insanity. one other interesting thing from the emails of mark meadows, he started raising this name, jeffrey clark. get jeffrey clark involved. >> we spoke with former ambassador bolton about that. he was in the civil rights division. where does he fit in this and how much pull did he have? >> so bolton was correct jeffrey clark falls below rosen and donohue in the pecking order. clark was trying to run the coupe from inside d.o.j. he was connecting with trump ...

Congress and the opposition. >> neal, when the times report sorting that the attorneys general did sign off on it, what is your reaction as someone who has worked inside doj. >> something like this would ordinarily require at least deputy attorney general sign-off, if not attorney general. when i was acting associate attorney general, i couldnt have done this. you needed someone at the very pinnacle to do it. now, what i think the possibility is, is that these records were swept in by mistake. t...

Flaws at the fbi in terms of applying for and obtaining electronic surveillance warrants. that has to be fixed. thats a big deal, but i think comey can claim vindication and properly so because what he has been saying all along and the inspector general agreed, is that political bias and political motive never infected their work. >> how do you think its going over inside doj, inside the fbi to see adults who know better, a u.s. attorney in the middle of an active investigation passing judgment ...

Electronic surveillance. that has to be fixed. thats a big deal. i think comey can claim vindication and properly so, what he has been saying all along and the inspector general agreed political bias and motive never infected their work. how do you think it is going over inside doj, inside the fbi to see adults who know better. a u.s. attorney in the middle of an active investigation, passing judgment on it, an attorney general interpreting ig report differently from what we can read on the pape...

Activities we found here dont vindicate anybody who touched this. >> so you heard the mans answer. do you view it as a vindication of comey? >> in a top-line sense, absolutely. what the president has been complaining about for the last two-plus years, three years, is that political bias and political motive influenced the work of the fbi. the inspector general said definitively that that did not happen. now, the inspector general also made a very important finding that there were numerous proced...

No presidents been treated this way throughout american history as he claims on twitter, and he feels this sense of self-pity that hes broadcasting to the world, and that is significant, and its different. weve not seen that before with other presidents who have been staring down impeachment. >> katie benner, can you remind our viewers of the kinds of professionals inside doj -- forgive me, i have this respiratory thing that half of new york seems to have. excuse me. the kinds of professionals w...

History of victims, no presidents been treated this way throughout american history, as he claims on twitter. and he feels this sense of self-pity that hes broadcasting to the world, and that is significant and its different. we have not seen that before with other presidents who have been staring down impeachment. >> katie benner, can you remind our viewers of the kinds of professionals inside doj -- forgive me, i have a respiratory thing that half of new york seems to have -- excuse me. the ki...

Are we doing the right thing and not reading too much into that? >> well, i think if the u.s. attorney says dont read too much into it, its important not to jump to conclusions. we never should. certainly what is in the indictment does not have any public corruption in it, right? from what we know so far, it is a sex trafficking case. there could be other reasons why the public integrity unit might be the lawyers themselves. it might be how the staffing is going. there could be other reasons. i ...

Findings, not bill barrs findings including the fact if he could have exonerated president trump, he would have but he was not able to do so. and that reverberated throughout both washington and the larger national conversation for days and days. so who knows what having robert mueller speak for several hours before two different congressional committees will show and what it will surface for the american public that has not read the report. >> katy, another topic on your beat has to do with the...

Trove of lewd photographs of young looking women or girls including what are clearly labeled cds of photographs by various categories. todays charges have renewed focus on epsteins previous arrest in florida for sex crimes involving minors and the non-prosecution agreement he made with the feds back in 08. epsteins lawyers worked out a deal with the then u.s. attorney alex acosta. he would be the now labor secretary in the trump government. the deal acosta agreed to allow epstein to plead guilty...