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Writer for "boston globe." thank you all so much. i am a hand-rubbing meme tonight. joyce, im going to start with you. i think one of the most important things that were hearing about right now is the two secret service agents who have lawyered up, okay? in the history of i guess investigations and secret service hearings, how serious is it that secret service agents are afraid to testify to a committee that doesnt really have enforcement power but they nevertheless still feel the need to get la...

The president tweeted, quote, the i.g. report out tomorrow. that will be the big story. john? jon: president trump saying his personal attorney, rudy giuliani will present a report to congress and the justice department on information he uncovered during his latest trip to ukraine. he reportedly traveled to the country last week to dig up information conformer vice president joe birden. he says giuliani has not told him what he found, but quote he has a lot of good information he will share. >> ...

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Wing conspiracy theories about the ambassador that are all debunked but have been circulating in right wing media. and if this is in fact what mike pompeo was circulating at the top levels of the state department, if this is, in fact, what was delivered to him from the white house and then circulated within the state department ahead of marie yovanovitch being fired, if this was, in fact, the basis for the recall of that u.s. ambassador, while the president and the vice president were simultaneo...

Wing conspiracy theories about the ambassador that are all debunked but have been circulating in right wing media. and if this is in fact what mike pompeo was circulating at the top levels of the state department, if this is, in fact, what was delivered to him from the white house and then circulated within the state department ahead of marie yovanovitch being fired, if this was, in fact, the basis for the recall of that u.s. ambassador, while the president and the vice president were simultaneo...

People. >> bill: without the i.g. we wouldnt see the text messages. >> sandra: i dont know if it accomplished much. it was a time to air grievances, the resolution the house passed carries no legal force and i just think it is interesting when you are watching a committee that shut down their investigation and democrats say we didnt really do a full investigation, theyre standing there demanding things from the justice department. they want records, yet i dont believe theyve turned over transcri...

Mountain of evidence of the trump campaign reaching out to the russians. the candidate inviting the russians to hack, back channel conversations they were having with the russians. >> hold on, congressman. im just asking about a specific thing. are you concerned that the i.g. found this independent body, that they cant confirm that this fbi agent was, quote, free from bias when deciding which to move on faster, right? the russia -- in the days before the election, by the way, the russia probe or...

With his campaign. he then blamed president obama for, quote, losing crimea, not russia. russia and putin that annexed crimea. at the endi he said when it is y fault, i will tell you. with me now, chris cillizza, david chalian is here, at the won barbara starr and at the justice department laura jarrett. david chalian, let me begin with you. i just outlined where the president puts blame on all of these things but lets start with the extraordinary claim on north korea, that he has solved the nuc...

Jim comey and justifies in president trumps mind his firing of james comey. and of course it reveals these clearly politically biased text messages against president trump. but when presented with -- but the report comes to the conclusion that there was no political bias in the outcome of actions, that there was no effect or as you were saying connection. he says, well, thats clearly not true. he just denies that part of the report. so this report that he says completely exonerates him, he belie...

And tens of millions of my followers. that is really a disgrace. yet if you will -- [ overlapping speakers ] and yet if you -- and yet if you look at the fbi and you went in and you polled the fbi, the real fbi, those guys love me and i love them. >> are you going to suspend mueller? >> no, but i think that whole investigation now is -- look, the problem with the mueller investigation is everybody has got massive conflicts. you have -- weisman was at hillary clintons funeral. meaning her party t...