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Exwives and exgirlfriend. How does the fbi fit into that. We just learned some very interesting if not completely clear information from the head of the fbi director. I want to bring in chris cillizza, who is here with me to discuss this. There is a lot to unpack here from Russian Meddling in the election and how that feaffects the midterms coming up. The timeline had it comes to rob porter, you know what, pause for a moment, chris, lets return to the testimony at the Senate Intelligence committ...

If the inspector general could find it he could have certainly found it. >> bill: you were there for that meeting? what did you think when the three intel heads came to trump tower for that? >> well, it was a good meeting. obviously those folks who had the appropriate clearances to tell us about the coming threats. but when they brought up the dossier and talked about it with the president elect it was pretty clear that director comey had made it seem hey, this exists but dont worry that much ab...

Release. they have a north korean summit at the end of the month. venezuela. theres a lot to deal with in this short month of february. >> let alone if mueller comes out in some form. i think the north korea part was most stark for me listening to these intel heads talk about how they really believe that north korea believes that its essential that they have nuclear weapons and that nuclear capability to deal with what they consider the threat of their foes. that is a much different picture than...

Dems. this is not boding well for him. the president did not want people from the intel heads, the other administrations, to have these security clearances extended at the beginning of this administration. and these security clearances, don, are specifically to help them come in, if this white house wants them, and this is something thats been happening before in other administrations. these security clearances allow these people to come in and be read in on an emergency issue, foreign policy or...

Meaning that its a distraction from the real issue. and chris is absolutely right. its russia, russia, russia, russia, russia all the time, and what can i do to take peoples attention away from it? look at this, youve got poll numbers from nbc and "wall street journal" saying that independents have dropped for trump by 7% and theyre going to d dems. this is not boding well for him. the president did not want people from the intel heads, the other administrations, to have these security clearance...

Advertisers so donald trump has lost that war. hes made the media stronger and his war on the intelligence communities, its been even more shameful, even more hateful to the professionals that commit their lives everyday to protect us as americans, to protect children in schools, to protect u.s. against terrorists. guess what? we saw all four intel heads go to the hill, hold their heads up high, tell the truth and speak truth to power. you know what? in a week of bleak news, thats something to b...

The fbi rank and file in a way that, frankly, some people have wondered and have criticized him for not doing in a more robust way when the president has criticized the fbi. i thought that was really noteworthy. then if you kind of take a step back, bri, on the whole crux of this hearing which is supposed to be worldwide threats, her colleague from maine, angus king, reminded everybody about what this is all about, which is russia interfering in the 2016 election. and he pleaded with all of the ...

Pompeo and admir rogers, he believes his political appointees. why does he believe his political appointees and doesnt believe former director brennan, clapper, men with years in the agency. >> trump views it through a political lens first and foremost and maybe most completely. thats the way hes trying to divide this. hes disparaging the former intel heads from his current leadership and at the same time trying to salvage what is important, i think, which is a sense of credibility in his own in...

Admiral rogers, again, the president suggested to them that they publicly state that they had seen no collusion between russia and team trump? do you think that that is appropriate for a president to suggest to those intel heads? >> i dont know all the facts, alisyn. one thing im going to ask mr. coats is, not only what was said, but what did he hear? how did he take it? what was the tone, the context? we have special counsel that is looking at all matters criminal and quasi-criminal. house inte...

The 14th says i hope you can let go of flynn. apparently thereafter he asks the intel heads, coats and rogers, if they can lift the cloud. you say he only brought up flynn one time, never brought it up again to which i respond he didnt bring it up again, he fired comey on the 9th. on the 10th he said i got rid of the nut job, i did it to relieve pressure, sounds like he did it to relieve pressure of the investigation. is that not in total a colorable case for obstruction of justice? please respo...