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With their base. youve got a political tract and a legal tract. as far as the legal side of it goes, well find that out as we get sort of hard investigatory advances coming from the special counsel and the intelligence committees. on the other hand, politically, if youre just talking to your base, yes, donald trump can convince his base this is all the fault of the democrats, all the fault of the media. it didnt happen, sort of happened, its all politics. shifting the goal posts and redefining w...

This russia in1re69 gatievestig. the presidents campaign manager, son and son-in-law meet with a russian government attorney, identified in the e-mail, for purpose of sharing information about his opponent, part of the campaign of the russian government to support the election of donald trump. think about that. and this is very, very serious. donald trump jr. released e-mails confirmed he knew these facts identified as a russian lawyer, part of the russian government campaign to help his father....

That was derogatory, that counts under the law as a campaign contribution and youre not allowed to do that with the foreign national. >> now, according to the e-mail chain, he was on one e-mail that we have seen, which is just telling them when and where the meeting was going to take place. we dont see kushner copied on the other e-mails which have all this information saying it was from the kremlin, that the government wanted to help his father don jr.s father. so there is no proof it would hav...

>> it would strike me -- i would certainly not be surprised by the fact that we would keep track of those in this country that represent russia or that have russian connections, that we would keep track of their activities because, as director brennan pointed out and as ive pointed out, the russians are continually engaged in efforts to undermine our country. >> would any intelligence agencies, u.s. intelligence agencies, mr. secretary, have information that could verify what was actually said d...

Russians, it has been confirmed by our intelligence committees that they did interfere. so does it seem a little bit ironic to have our president, president trump working with president putin on a -- >> well finish. arthel: go ahead. >> well, arthel, actually so many ironic issue that is the president works on, and then they ultimately have positive achievements. as you just mentioned, the ceasefire in syria which was achieved with the russian federation, with the kingdom of jordan, and lives wi...

Or mueller or his three predecessors for that job. hes going to have a learning curve ahead of him. i think the hearing itself will be complicated in that there is the russian investigation ongoing by special council mueller, and by the intelligence committees. ray is going to have to assure the congress that he will let these things proceed, not only unincumbered but with his support. i think theres going to be a lot of requests for that promise. >> circumstances -- i was going to say, as well,...

In that we do know that some of these individuals that were unmasked, that these names were leaked into the press. so, you know, theres all kinds of issues, but you are only going to get to the bottom of it if you have that information before the hearing so that you know exactly what you want to question susan rice about. >> how optimistic are you that they will be able to get that and ask the right questions to lead to the answers that we have not yet gotten? >> you should be very optimistic. i...

15 million people will lose their coverage next year. this is not eight years from now, but next year. 15 million. and those people are going to be around to vote in 2018. >> senator, different topic. i want to ask you about the statement the white house put out yesterday suggesting that an attack by syria chemical attack on its own people was imminent. you sit on intel and armed services. did the white house talk to you or anyone in the senate before putting this statement out? >> certainly not...

To get a bipartisan statement of -- from congress that we come out and say, yes, russia was behind this influence campaign, this effort to interfere in the election. and as you know, ran up against resistance from republican leaders, like senator mitch mcconnell, the leader of the senate, who actually questioned there was evidence for that statement. whereas the democrats wanted t get the statement out and the republicans dn so in the end what you saw was the two democratic leaders of the intell...

Mcconnell, the leader of the senate, who actually questioned whether or not there was evidence for that -- for that statement. whereas the democrats wanted to get the statement out and the republicans didnt. so in the end what you saw was the two democratic leaders of the intelligence committees, senator feinstein and adam schiff of the house put out their own statement the end of september pointing the finger at russia. >> let me bring jeremy bash into the conversation because he was shooting m...