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Several different stages. at this point, you have a very senior fbi agent thats doing this. thats one of the top people im sure they wanted to go into that interview and its very straightforward. what we dont have is weve heard rumors of an intercepted call or they picked up on it so we cant compare it to what it might be. thats one weak ness of reading the interview notes, we dont know what was actually said. if he admitted to lying, it sounds like there was some other source in there. >> let m...

And interview. its very straightforward. what we dont have is weve heard rumors of an intercepted call or they picked up on it. we cant compare it to what that might be. thats the one weakness of reading the interview notes. we dont know what was said. if he admitted to lying, there was some other source that was there. let me ask you that during the interview he thanks them for the reminder. how would they have known this? >> lets think about this. based on what i read, this was phone calls mad...

And then they worked it back to the very specific points. its like a funnel. you start very wide then go very narrow. the interview notes conclude right with the question that they wanted to ask which is, what did you say to kislyak, you know, what was that exactly? since you sort of overlooked it. and, you know, its frustrating because you think about general flynn as head of the defense intelligence agency. hes one of the top heads of this and you say, why would he do this? why would you make ...

Heard rumors of an intercepted call or they picked up on it. we cant compare it to what that might be. thats the one weakness of reading the interview notes. we dont know what was said. if he admitted to lying, there was some other source that was there. let me ask you that during the interview he thanks them for the reminder. how would they have known this? >> lets think about this. based on what i read, this was phone calls made from a persons cell phone in a third skun try back to a diplomat,...

>> he shouldnt. mark: meanwhile rod rosenstein is there with all kinds of conflicts. >> you are right, he should not recuse himself, and rod rosenstein has had a conflict from the beginning. he wrote the memo saying it is an be on vehicl obstruction of e have pointed this out. mark: he is a witness. >> of course, we pointed it out sunday one but mr. rosenstein, says no, it is time. we have asked for mccabe memos, sorry you are not going to see them, they have been subpoenaed, you are not going t...

>> he shouldnt. mark: meanwhile rod rosenstein is there with all kinds of conflicts. >> you are right, he should not recuse himself, and rod rosenstein has had a conflict from the beginning. he wrote the memo saying it is an be on vehicl obstruction of e have pointed this out. mark: he is a witness. >> of course, we pointed it out sunday one but mr. rosenstein, says no, it is time. we have asked for mccabe memos, sorry you are not going to see them, they have been subpoenaed, you are not going t...

The 46 pages of interview notes, he is presented with questions he as an amateur investigator could have gone back and asked these witnesses. so for democrats, they feel like this is -- this report, this fbi effort was a sham. it didnt do the job. it provided political cover for republicans. republicans who i talked to coming out of this meeting were almost uniform in saying zero corroboration, no corroboration, that was the sort of the code word from republicans as they were digesting this repo...

Proceed. >> garrett, we continue to cover this split, this cleave, the republicans saying nothing to see here. and cory booker went on this network tonight and straight-up said the fix was in on this fbi report, and there this problem sits. >> yeah, brian, its a real problem. the rules around this fbi report are that senators are not supposed to discuss the specifics of its content. and senators in both parties who i spoke to today went about as far as they possibly could go to get up to that li...

Crossing it. i had a conversation with cory booker today about this subject too and he essentially said, look, i cant tell you the specifics, but the idea there is not malfeasance, theres not other issues here, theres not other questions, is ludicrous. hes not a professional investigator. as he read page after page of the 46 pages of interview notes, he is presented with questions he as an amateur investigator could have gone back and asked these witnesses. so for democrats, they feel like this ...

"lock her up, lock her up," and that was about the clinton e-mail investigation. there was all this pressure to be more aggressive, to tell the public what theyre doing, to disclose documents from that investigation. and the fbi responded to that pressure. in part, with the public statements made about the investigation from fbi director james comey. but also with the fbi deciding that they would take this extremely unusual step of pub c publicly exposing their internal, confidential notes and d...