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Thought was a bad thing for america. that was christopher steele, former spy. dont forget nelly ohr, working on the phone in russian dossier. dirt on donald trump that nobody bothered to verify. the fbi was also paying for steele. they later fired him for lying and leaking in their russia investigation. now we know bruce ohr had his dirty little fingers all over this. it was bruce ohr who pushed the bush campaign opposition research. he was a hater. it was bruce ohr. it was steele. it was ohr wh...

Is everybody that signed that in legal jeopardy perhaps? >> well see. what we do know, the fbi and the doj had a sophisticated leaking project going on. andrew mccabe lied about that, according to the inspector general, three times under oath and faces a criminal referral. theres now a grand jury on the andrew mccabe issue. this is what they did, i believe. they leaked information to the press and then used the reports the press wrote to bump up the fall dossier when it was a false document. tha...

The writer saying donald trump is undemocratic. what he is doing is trying to undercut the duly elected present peer donald trump won the election. neil: apparently they feel that there are a lot of people supporting this shadow rebellious movements. that is a little scary in and of itself. what did you make of that? >> no, i think it is. remember when donald trump directed you had people in a bureaucracy rebelling against him. we saw an unprecedented amount of leaking, very sensitive informatio...

But that is not exactly breaking news. that relationship is broken. but the president is clearly furious and it really does undermine whatever sense of confidence he had in his team, which was already pretty shaky. >> it does underline the fact that the president wants to get to the bottom of this if he is uses all these potential options. >> so i think where there is a little bit of a national security implication is i think the president have tying the op-ed to the many leaks that weve seen. a...

Resign and sign your name to it? >> right. and this is why presidents get so angry about leaks with the same problem. speak up. put your name on it. dont say something on back ground to "the washington post" or "the new york times" or cnn or anyone else. i was in the first bush white house and president h.w. bush was seasoned and not like president trump and there were a couple times he launched mini leak investigations or had the investigations launched within the white house because he was so ...

Reporters aboard air force one, president trump took his outrage over the anonymous op ed to a new level revealing that he may want the justice department to get involved. >> president trump: i would think jeff should be investigating the author of that piece. i really believe it is national security. >> is there action taken against the "new york times"? >> president trump: im looking at that right now. i am looking at that. [inaudible] >> what about treason, are you serious about that? >> pres...

We remain confident a fair review of the facts and circumstances related to this matter will demonstrate theres no basis on which criminal charges should be brought. as you know earlier this year, the justice department internal watchdog found he lied to federal investigators about his role to the "wall street journal" about the clinton foundation investigation. mccabe claimed that former director comey knew about his contact with reporters but comey wants to distance himself because mccabe beli...

Legitimately concerned that some one supposedly in his inner circle has done this. its something, id be upset about, too, all of us would. whether it rises to the level of an investigation by the attorney general, i dont thats the case. >> but the attorney should be investigating all of the likes coming out of this administration for two years that go against the trump administration. and thats something we havent seen any evidence theres been any investigation of the criminal leaking against mi...

And talk about things that hes deeply insecure about but say hes not insecure. you could do a mash up of him getting on a stage and saying im a really smart guy. i went to warden, okay? im really rich. okay? women love me, okay? because hes insecure about his appeal, his wealth and his intellect. now we can add to that list a president that said im really not going to talk about impeachment, but guess what? everyone else is talking about impeachment. he realizes these things are in the air and t...

It certainly wasnt any one of us. and then immediately one of those people leaks the dialogue of that huddle in the oval office to the washington post. "the new york times," the newspaper that created this situation for the president by publishing the op-ed piece tonight has hot breaking news reporting about what people inside the trump white house are telling "the new york times" about the trump white houses own suspect list. does donald trump get it? does he understand that theyre all leaking ...