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Dan coats came to me and they think its russia. i have president putin. he just said its not russia. i will say this. i dont see any reason why it would be. >> when you consider all of this, that -- and the report, is this something that the house intelligence committee will look into or has looked into? >> well, were offerously -- we were stymied in a lot of our work with nunez was leading the untell jens committee. the committee would not subpoena phone records, travel records, bank records th...

David, thank you so much, leland. leland: all right. there is also a couple of republicans left in d.c. one of them, florida congresswoman francis rooney. nice to see you, sir. at some level, now that republicans are in the minority, how much leverage, pull, stay, does your caucus have? >> well, i dont know, i guess were going to find out. in the first week, i dont think weve had a lot of leverage at all. leland: how does that play out? nancy pelosi going to be able to sort of wield that gavel o...

Strategy as political terrorism. thats a strong word, do you stand by that? >> i do, the definition of terrorism is fear, striking fear in the hearts of people to get to a political end. thats whats happening. fear of missing a paycheck which now happened. fear of not paying your bills. fear of missing services, and fear on southern border. border patrol agents arent being paid. that use of leverage, it is, in a way, inciting terror. kristin: well, president trump kind of counters that, saying h...

Base, will the me start with you on this. youre not at the white house. that is your beat right now. hey, look, this is just the tip of the iceberg. theyre not going to come out with a counterintelligence investigation with just public statements but that is part of the discussion. >> right. i think that this has been a year and a half long investigation into whether or not the president unwittingly or wittingly acted on behalf of russia and what exactly -- if its wittingly what leverage russia ...

About. there are basically big gaps in information. there are still very important questions that we have relating to what kind of leverage russia or russian oligarchs who are close to vladimir putin may have on donald trump. because the committee under devin nunes basically foreclosed any way to subpoena information, either from witnesses or from third parties, travel records, bank records, phone records, because they didnt allow us that, it was very hard for our committee to get to the bottom ...

Pelosi, thinking he could push them, and he couldnt, and now he is backed into a corner where the only way out is to make a declaration, the kind of action that they are railed against for eight years. it is a terrible position. >> it is striking to me, the clips that we played, chuck grass ri, you might expect him to say this, but we have dead cruise who has not been on board with this national emergency status. the president views this potential national emergency as leverage, as a threat to s...

He has been talked out of it so many times before, and he is trying to salvage something that could be very embarrassing for him. >> just one other point, which whole week has been able laying the ground work and trying to convince people of the problem on the border. if it is hey, this is silly, this wont work, or when youre out there and youre back and forth and always talking to the press saying i may declare a national emergency, i dont want to yet, if it is a matter of want to it is not tha...

Extent the presidents finances are intertwined with russian oligarchs and whether theres any leverage there. what it means for our democracy is that we cant take anything for granted. the notion that a dually elected president and he didnt win the popular vote, but he did win the electoral college, a president could even be conceivably cooperating in some way with a foreign power and when you take the events around the time of this fbi investigation, you have the event in helsinki where the pres...

Alaffers. >> jared kushner wasnt involved in the campaign. >> he was involved in the social media aspects of it. >> not while i was there. >> what about the son? >> not that im aware of. i dont believe so. >> lets bring in the rest of the panel. barbara, i want to start with you on the questioning that sam faced with the senate intelligence committee. in light of this new information, what would you have wanted to know? >> from sam, well, you know, i think that the senates goal is somewhat diffe...

Close to vladimir putin may have on donald trump. because the committee under devin nunes basically foreclosed any way to subpoena information, either from witnesses or from third parties, travel records, bank records, phone records, because they didnt allow us that, it was very hard for our committee to get to the bottom of some of those fundamental questions. and in this case, the question of leverage, does russia, does vladimir putin have something on donald trump that is getting him to basic...