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Likely to respond to that ultimatum because he is a few days ahead of elections sunday would not want to project sign of weakness towards the west. much of his popularity is based on the fact that hes been very defiant of the west. may said yesterday that either there were two scenarios, either the russian state tried to murder its former spy or somehow lost control of its military-grade nerve agent. russia initially reapplied it needed a sample and needed time per the chemical weapons conventio...

>> martha: fascinating. >> please read the rest of the book. >> martha: joining me is karl rove and michael blake. welcome. good to see both of you here tonight. a lot to get to in the political arena. your thoughts karl rove on what you heard from michael tonight? >> what is interesting, we are talking about russians and they are trying to meddle in the american elections. do you think a former british intelligence agent who reaches out to contacts in moscow to get dirt on donald trump is someh...

Intelligence agent and business people, oleic arcs coming in and out of the city, i would have to say that is not unusual. the biggest evidence at the moment is -- it is the poison. and in the litvinenko case, the detectives followed the radioactive trail from a teapot to londons streets and to a plane back to moscow and identified the two likely killers. so at the moment, the poison is the thing. >> mike mcfall, former ambassador to russia. this fits a pattern of what -- it seems as if russians...

Asked there. i should mention, of course, the first we ahead about a, it was known as the steel dossier of memos put together by a former british intelligence agent. and we should mention the money behind that dossier was basically opposition research. and it was at the time paid for by the democratic national committee. and others supporting the candidacy of hillary clinton. >> thanks very much. congressman, thank you for coming in. >> let me get back to the breaking news, hope hicks resigning....

Problematic witnesses. i mean, if youre investigating a murder case, guess who might be on the street at the time of a murder. it might be somebody with a criminal record. it might be somebody with problems, but he still might have good information that would support a search warrant. and thats what a judges job is. and when you see the attack on steele thats articulated in this memo and by the white house, what i found to be interesting is they dont go to any core steele credibility. they just ...

He is a former british intelligence agent. we wont cherry pick each others agents. he was apparently was cherry picked by the fbi. if this happened, while he was an mi-6 agent he could be prosecuted for espionage by the british government. >> martha: we know he was working for them. they were interested in his work. there is a discrepancy whether they paid him. they also say they released him. they have some kind of relationship whether it was monetary or not. >> i think they had a monetary rela...

I made the difficult decision to leave a career i love, an organization i still love and will always love in order to defend it. >> so, josh, you know, weve heard the president say the rank and file are great. weve heard republicans say this isnt an attack on the fbi. these are just questions about the leadership. what is the mood inside the fbi of all the tens of thousands of agents? >> so the criticism as i mentioned -- criticism itself is fair. if someone wants to say we did something wrong. ...

Thats a collateral issue of the problem. >> the question becomes whether or not its trustworthy information, right? does it matter if somebody doesnt like or likes hillary clinton but is doing their job. christopher steele must respected former british intelligence agent. wasnt there additional material not disclosed in this memo. the average fisa warrant is 50 pages. the nunes memo 4 pages. this is much missing. >> so, yes, of course. this is not the full story. thats why i think the white hous...

Is known to have talked to his associates about recess appointments as it pertains to the justice department, we should all be very afraid. >> theyre yelling at me to let you go, but i have one more question. ive congressman paul gosar of arizona, made a name for himself last week what he said dreamers at the state of the union should be deported. you could see he one-upped himself today. he said this is evidence of treason and he will call on the doj to investigate traitors? >> this memo is evi...

>> not. >> again, the fishermans hat. it wasnt raining. nobody had an umbrella. i dont know why im the only one staying on this, but i find it peculiar. lets look at this man, in the hat, carter page. in 1991, page studied in moscow and became enamored with russia. he worked for merrill lynch in moscow and was assigned to large financial transactions. in 2013, page met a man posing as a russian diplomat to the united nations. in reality, he was a russian intelligence agent. the two traded contac...