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Most of the publications here refused to even publish it in the first place. so again, im not going to get into c in into confirming stuff in an ongoing investigation. >> joining me is philip rugger. speaking of your paper, philip, lets begin with that question. i thought it was an excellent question that francesca was asking. why is it okay for the president to retweet an anonymously resourced fox news article and take that as gospel and yet rip sources in your paper? >> it was ridiculous and i...

This comment. scott, lets begin with you. >> i agree with those comments not because im a democrat and hes a democrat. debr i agree with it because the notion taking the pressure off we now see in his mind. that is a statement that supports intent to obstruct justice or intent to fire comey and the response is to take the pressure off. he said something similar to nbc other than that he considered the russian investigation -- the investigation is going to go forward, but comey was the face of th...

Much. lets talk through all of this with my panel. a former special agent for the fbi, now the associate dean at yale law school. ladies, great to see all of you. asha, lets begin with you. coming off of phils point a little bit rosenstein and the doj releasing the statement on behalf of him and then part of it reads as follows. "my memorandum is not a reason of statements to justify for-cause termination. my memorandum is not a survey of fbi morale or performance." if he knew that comey -- if h...

Commentator and contributor for the hill. michael singleton. good to see both of you. michael, lets begin with you. as a republican who was fired from hud after criticizing trump, you have a clear understanding or perhaps more clear understanding of the expected backlash sometimes when criticizing the president. is it your feeling that some gop members are worried about the potential backlash when you hear some democrats using words like, you know, describing republicans as being cowardly by not...

Breaking news tonight. lets get more from our specialists and our analysts and david axelrod, lets begin with this controversial tweet. i will put it up on the screen again. james comey better hope there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leak together press. the white house insisting this is not a threat. your reaction? >> well, i guess it could have been a caring executive offering advice to a departing employee. but i think it -- anybody who reads it reads it as a threat. it w...

Community demanding michael flynn turn over documents regardi regarding russia. it is one of six committees looking into the matter. the fbi, pentagon inspector general, senate select committee on intelligence, house permanent select committee on intelligence, senate judiciary committee and house oversight committee and government reform committee and sarah sanders said theres no evidence of collusion. that is not true. jim sciutto has more on that and the comey letter. what does the letter say,...

Regarding his interactions with russian officials. the subpoena comes after flinns lawyer refused to provide them voluntarily. it is one of six committees looking into the matter. the fbi, pentagon inspector general, senate select committee on intelligence, house permanent select committee on intelligence, senate judiciary committee and house oversight and government reform committee and government reform committee and sarah sanders said theres no evidence of collusion. keeping them honest, that...

Do expect it will go before both the chambers and the house and the senate will pass this by the end of the week. poppy? >> a deal. say it three times force. >> bipartisan, bipartisan. have to write it out phonetically, otherwise i cant say it. joining us is a.b. stoddard and david, assistant editor for "the washington post" and patrick healey, "new york times" cultural editor. a.b., lets begin on health care. gary cohn is a guy with rising influence within the west wing, his words, we have co...

The course of the investigation has outlined a lot of this. it is standard russian trade craft. you know, especially if youre in russia as carter page has been on a number of occasions, its easy to engineer some sort of innocent contact with them, a call from, you know, a business -- somebody who appears to be a russian businessman, can we have coffee, can we talk. you begin the relationship and then you kind of see how far this individual, in this case carter page, is willing to go, what motiva...

Member at academy securities. also bob baer bear is here, our security analyst and former cia operative, and peter bergen joins us, our national security analyst. peter, lets begin with you. you wrote a fascinating opinion piece on this. you obviously spent a tremendous amount of time studying afghanistan in afghanistan. you, of course, interviewed osama bin laden. you write in this new opinion piece, the timing of this, that the war in afghanistan is at a critical point. what message did this s...