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>> i think the big question is whether she is able to convey who she is to these senators under intense questioning in the same manner she has managed to create a reputation at the c.i.a. and elsewhere in the intelligence community over her long career. one of the reasons that mike pompeo was able to win over the bureaucracy at the c.i.a. when he took over the time when he took over was his choice of gina haspel as his number two. that sent a message to the c.i.a. bureaucracy and workforce there...

Trying to undermine intelligence operations that are at the moment looking at his relationship or his campaigns relationship to russia, then we have something that is quite shocking in terms of what is going on in our country tonight. this definitely stirs up memories of things that happened during watergate. >> laura: on that point, democrats are on social media wearing to it watergate and tying together the president firing james comey, now making sure through his attorney general but making s...

Trying to undermine intelligence operations that are at the moment looking at his relationship or his campaigns relationship to russia, then we have something that is quite shocking in terms of what is going on in our country tonight. this definitely stirs up memories of things that happened during watergate. >> laura: on that point, democrats are on social media wearing to it watergate and tying together the president firing james comey, now making sure through his attorney general but making s...

Carlson. >> at least we knew what the federal agents were doing recently, they have been chasing down bad facebook trolls, if they would have been told to cruz was talking at that putin. neil: theres an irony there that the fbi missed a massive intelligence operation from 2014 to 2016 to interfere in the u.s. election and russian agents coming into the united states to help carry it out. >> i think we need to know a lot more before we make that kind of conclusion that they missed, that they miss...

We are back with politics and some new reaction on capitol hill amid the fallout over the gop memo. here is house intel ranking member adam schiff and republican intel member will hurd just moments ago. >> youve read the underlying documents? >> i have. they voted that down, against hearing from the fbi. when you do oversight, you haul them in, why is this included, why wasnt that included. the interest wasnt oversight. it was a political hit job on the fbi in the service of the president. >> yo...

Its all coming. thats probably where this all ends. but you can see the justice departments complaint about this and the reason theyre saying, if we take it in a light that gives them the benefit of the doubt is, we can defend ourselves with this because the defense is secret itself. >> dana: politics is what it is. let me tell you what "the washington post" editorial board said about paul ryan. he said mr. ryan bears full responsibility for the deterioration of congressional oversight of intell...

Goes on in washington, d.c. but ive been shocked by how paul ryan has acted this past week and how hes now walking in lockstep with donald trump and hes doing it in a way that undermines constitutional norms. that undermines the rule of law. that undermines the fbis efforts to run around america and save us all from the next terrorist attack against american civilians, that undermines the justice departments ability to work effectively day in and day out and ill just start this hour with the "wa...

Bit of a shellacking for this. "the washington post" editorial board is saying this about ryan today. mr. ryan bears full responsibility for the deterioration of congressional oversight of saying this about ryan today. mr. ryan bears full responsibility for the deterioration of congressional oversight of intelligence operations. you would this mr. nuness committee would be alarmed by this threat to american democracy. instead mr. nunes with mr. ryans aid and comfort is trying to impede on invest...

Exercise so many of the foreign specialists we need for intelligence operations, the bulk of them come from our reserve forces. this is really compounding the readiness crisis. what a military planner like general mattis needs or secretary mattis needs more than anything else is predictability. he needs that when whens trying to put together -- when hes trying to put together the military operations for the future of this country. eric: your message bluntly to the politicians? >> go back to the ...

>>julie: interesting he uses those words yet they were democrats that were floored about republicans calling it a schumer shutdown what is the potential fallout for the players in this drama? >> president trump has been a strong negotiator and wanting to move forward and avoid this shutdown. clearly hes the one that invited senator schumer to come to the white house . what senator schumer had to offer was surely not good enough. its for senator schumer to take the blame and come back with a reas...