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But we are doing that and the democrats, and what you saw from senator schumer and others is purely and simply grandstanding, thats all it is. >> mike: a big change coming at the top of our intelligence apparatus. your former colleague senator dan coats is going to be leaving. congressman john ratcliffe is coming in. some have complained that he may be to partisan. secretary of state mike pompeo believes in him. take a listen to this. >> is very smart. im very confident hell do a good job. i rem...

Achievements. exposing this corruption. >> exposing this corruption. hes talking about the fbi and peter strzok and people like that. its remarkable. he talks more about that publicly than he does about russian election interference, which is still going on. >> thats right. and, you know, it is still an open question. its part of the reason the democrats have a number of investigations open. its one of the reasons we may be barreling down the path towards the "i" word. that ugly word, as he call...

Abuse of our intelligence apparatus. there is no other word toot describe this. what gregg jarrett said was right on the money. he was going to investigate the investigators? >> sean: congressman, we know russian lies were used to influence the election, and we know who for them. we know they were uncorroborated, and we know they were used for a fisa applicatio application. we know there was a russian interference. by the way, devin nunes warned us about it in 2014. we know its a hostile regime....

I would like to see putin hacking with pencils. >> our election process is very decentralized at the local and state level. there does not indicate any evidence that a single voting machine was hacked. the institutions that were most susceptible to foreign meddling where our media, law enforcement, intelligence apparatus, and fortunately, washington has very little appetite to deal with that reality that these were the institutions that were susceptible to foreign meddling. little concerned abou...

Before the american people both during the campaign and as president to explain what he wants from this relationship with russia, why it is so important that we have a better relationship with vladimir putin. he sort of suggested that putin could certainly help in syria and in north korea. but we have no sense of what strategy really donald trump is trying to advance. result is twofold. donald trump is so isolated right now with regard to putin, even members of his own intelligence, you know, in...

Its becoming like a circular firing squad. were looking into this, weave noticed there are some people on fox, aka conservative media, if thats what they want to be called, who also criticized trumps putin embrace this week, or at least quoted other conservatives who did that. >> this was the time and the place for the president to look putin squarely in the eye and said you will be punished for what you did in 2016. >> but he didnt. thats what made it disgusting, thats what made his performance...

Largest nuclear powers. we must get along there was a real opportunities to be had. he was teed up. there was a lot of work that led into the summit yesterday and words do matter in these moments. brian: absolutely. the president sunday the impression i dont know why still if he says the russians hacked it makes his election look illegitimate. senator schumer and hillary clinton will never get over the fact that you won the election. neither will 16 republicans get over the fact that you won the...

Person so we would need to verify that, is this disconcert something theres not enough interest in the justice department to get to the bottom of what happened, what went wrong to lead to the use to the intelligence apparatus. >> neil: what if mueller knew about it and didnt care? >> thats the question that you just said in your previous segment that you thought the scope of his investigation that was narrow. it was written in an incredibly broad fashion and thats one of the problems. theres a s...

Of the story. >> shep, we dont know a ton about this russian spy. just that the special counsels office has connected this person to the gru, the kremlins intelligence apparatus. beyond that, this spy is referred to as person a and the government is alleging that a dutch lawyer who is about to be sentenced for lying to the special counsel heard about person a from rick gates. we know this because theres a seven-page long sentencing memorandum where this line is contained. it says "federal bureau...

Need? >> i dont know. i mean, i think we need to dig deeper. i dont think it ends with carter page. this was the weaponization of our intelligence tools, of our intelligence apparatus. this needs to be thoroughlyd investigated. it should not end with carter page. sean, one more point. the fbi knew, according to all ofof the sources that i spoke with, they knew that christopher steele lied to them. they kneww that and they didnt pay him. remember, they were going to give him a big bulk payment an...