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He stepped down as ukraines top prosecutor and has not yet explained his change of heart concerning hunter biden but the man who wrote a book about hunter bidens business deal says the case remains very cozy. >> very troubling. look around the world, two countries where joe biden is the point person for the obama administration, china and ukraine and in both cases his sunland huge deals in both countries. what are the odds of that? >> it still no evidence that hunter biden did anything necessary...

I mean, lets find out. i would suggest to you that if you have an intelligence officer that is listening on the phone call -- quite frankly, the intelligence officers role is to transcribe the conversation. if theyre leaking something to somebody else for political animus or whatever reason -- this is what youve go. you have persons saying i think thats a problem. thats your whistle-blower. you have the other folks that apparently didnt think it was serious enough to go to and file a whistle-blo...

Information. so we knew it was coming. military advisers, donald trump we knew it would be over the weekend or just before the today announcing sanctions weekend. against iran, a nation were on we got lace of the cities that would be targeted. the brink of striking just last and those police started to say week before trump abruptly we will not be able to cooperate pulled back. with i.c.e. enforcement policies the problem for the trump like you want us to. were here to ensure public administrati...

You can decide how to go forward with u.s. policy. the president and other policymake policymakers including the intelligence and other armed services committees. you need to keep the russians honest, and having a one on one for that length of time gives permission to the russians to come up with their own interpretation, and theyll use that information of operations in conversations with other world leaders about what they said happened in the meeting or they said the president of the united st...

Head, so why is this? >> comey told the house judiciary and oversight committees that he launched an investigation into leaks about the hillary clinton e-mail investigation that he suspected originated in the fbis new york field office. after public comments from top trump surrogate rudy giuliani and others back in october of 2016. comey said that giuliani appears to be making statements at the time based on his knowledge of workings inside the fbi, raising concerns to him that we may have a lea...

Michael cohen, donald trump jr., paul manafort, it is their own words that have slit their throats. >> and howard, james comey hearing on capitol hill, he said that in the weeks leading up to the 2016 election, rudy giuliani made statements that appeared to be based on his knowledge of the fbis investigation into the matters. and comey went on to say that that and other related stories led him to open an investigation into a possible leak problem. how significant is this revelation? >> well, i d...

This, mike. what is new in these pages? >> i was outside, i am thrilled to be able to verify what they were saying. one headline somebody said he grew concerned weeks before the presidential investigation that there were leaks coming from the new york field service were saying things being looked at in the new york field office. he had a general concern. he says he launched into that leak problem. one question well be asking, is that investigation under way? what came of that investigation? anot...

Today. >> do you expect personnel changes as a result? >> i do. actually, yes, i do. >> so the white house is still framing this as a leak problem. but as one person put it to me, the white house really doesnt have the political cover left to apologize for something now that they could have apologized for immediately six days ago. and that to do it now would look less than sincere, would look like really an unvarnished attempt to move on from this story. the president himself is adding his voice...

To the substance of that comment. white house officials, as you see there, are still framing this as a leak problem. and so that point, so is the president, hallie, president trump not one really known for subtlety is saying that some of the people who work for him who leaked to the press are in fact traitors. heres the tweet he put out. he says the so-called leaks coming out of the white house are a massive overexaggeration put out by the fake news media in order to make us look bad as possible...

Leak problem rather than a crude comment problem. it is a strategy that so far hasnt worked since this story broke thursday night. >> it tends to be the thing white houses like to do had he they dont want to confront a problem. as katy said, an apology would have really put this one to the side. geoff bennett thanks very much at the white house for us. i want to focus on the violence unraveling in the middle east. as the u.s. delegation celebrated the relocation of the embassy to jerusalem a d...