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Can to stop that investigation. but if were being clear eyed about this it is worth noting that the fbi and justice department are in a very different position. they have gone from resisting that republican pressure and white house pressure to handing over their agents and officials, handing over sensitive documents and agreeing that yeah, maybe shay should be looking into whether somebody ought to lock her up. we shouldnt be surprised by the push back that evolved over the course of this past y...

David frum, two views. one based in reality. the other based in what i think is fair to say has grown over the last several weeks into a full throated attack on the fbi. >> but its working. it does work. the fbi needs to be seen as above suspicion. this is an agency, remember, that has a dark past. and a dark past where it has participated in american politics in a way that it should not have done. so its very important to culture of the fbi to be seen to be above suspicion. so if you have the p...

Voters not politickingens a. opposed to gerry manneders of district. poised to turn in signatures which year 350,000 signatures gather gathered into three months thanks to a legionen of at least 3,000 volunteers. a local republican strategist saying they were recently spotted at a table at a rest in interstate 96. wherever two or more are gathered theyve been interest. their grass roots effort has been remarkable. i mean, i dont know what youve done since the election last year. but somebody has...

The primary. and lost in the -- lost virginia in the presidential race i believe. right? so this should have been something that democrats could have taken, given the demographic shift in virginia. its become a more purple state. the fact ed gillespie, ive known a long time as have you, i dont know whos running. thats not the ed gillespie we knew and love. to bretts point, its a shame the republican party is resorting that that kind of tribalism cultural politics in virginia. >> but its working....

Thats why this becomes an issue of the ground game. when you have mistakes like northam has made -- youre alienating your base right before the election. if you look at the primaries, the democrats should probably win, but if they win it will be in spite of mistakes. >> do you think if gillespie is able to win this way, hes pretending to be this sort of defender of the kefs. does that wind of spraeting to the whole gop? >> absolutely. gillespie is a numbers guy. im sure theyre looking at numbers...

Russia media efforts. but it was to divide us and its working. >> congressman, always appreciate your time. thank you. >> my pleasure. >> in our next live hour, were going to bring you -- take a closer look at more of these ads released today from facebook. maybe you were even one of the 150 million americans who saw them on your facebook feed. when we come back, a stunning difference between the presidents response to the terror attack in new york and the mass shooting in las vegas. both horrif...

Acknowledge or attribute who was truly responsible for the interference and, you know, a lack of curiosity that ive seen from a lot of my republican colleagues in congress. i think unity is the best antidote to this virus. and that muslim group, don, i spoke to the actual united muslims of america group in my district in fremont, california. these are peaceful muslims. nothing like what was described so disgustingly through these russia media efforts. but it was to divide us and its working. >> ...

Government that is antithetical to democracy. he doesnt want us messing with his form of government. he doesnt want us to focus on what hes doing in ukraine. what hes doing in other places. and its working. one thing that concerns me is the escalation we have now. its one thing to put out something in rt, its one thing to read fake news of russia, but when you have russia targeting specific individuals and you have russia trying to get them go out in protest, like these gym owners they reached o...

Media. that is default when you have nothing else. weve been hammered month after month after month extremely consistent messaging, by the way about the only consistent messaging weve seen out of the white house in the first ten months is whacking us. and its working. you keep saying negative things about people eventually a substantial amount of the public starts to believe you whether its true or not. >> thank you. its going to be a fascinating briefing coming up at the top of the hour. joinin...

Lose votes. thats something -- those attacks even make it tougher for mcconnell to bring those factions, the differing factions together. those three things combined are a recipe for not getting a whole lot done no matter how many promises the president makes or how they fight to make those things happen. >> shannon: listen, the people who voted for the president are sick of the way washington works. he said he would change it. they want to see that happen but the reality is there is a huge behe...