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Short term future. this is significant, as you said, because its not happening in a classified behind closed doors setting. this will be in public, an open session on camera. the chairman saying tonight that he hopes that will bring more clarity to the questions and the acting member mark warrener saying that mark comey deserves to tell his story. and this is also a significant development because there was some concern and some doubt up here on capitol hill this week in the wake of the special ...

That the hillary clinton investigation had been stalled for so long that it was coming to fruition during the heart of the campaign, and 45that was as much hillarys fault as anybody elses if she would have cooperated earlier in the investigation. >> so in terms of the fbi and who is actually being investigated, i think this is crucial. in the letter from the president of the united states to director comey, donald trump writes, while i greatly appreciate you informing me on three separate occasi...

Plus to see president trump write that letter to include in the letter that director comey had told him on three separate occasions that he was not tied to the russia investigation was bizarre at the very least. but there is with one big winner in this, erin. i think we need to look at it right now. the winner is vladimir putin. you know theyre laughing -- >> oh, come on. >> -- in russia they are looking at us right now and saying look it, what we did by affecting the election, by to youing with...

Without one important fact at their disposal, which is why now? this is why theres a little bit of a shock im told inside the white house that this is as monumental as it would have been and the reaction is the way i think anybody would have understood it to be. >> mark, its sort of shocking that they would be so unaware of the bombshell that this would drop. they clearly tried to make that argument. the first paragraph was all about hillary clintons e-mail. unfortunately -- >> can i -- >> shows...

Does. because by the way, he could answer whether he said that without saying the president is or is not -- there are ways you can wordsmith to say they talked about it three specific times. democrats being outraged. cnn congressional reporter joins me from capitol hill. i spoke to the democratic ranking member on the senate intel committee, mark warner said special prosecutor, but said theyre moving head. are they on the same page or are they not? >> reporter: he, richard byrd just put out a ve...

Administration. >> all right. jim. thank you. "out front," the top democrat on the intelligence committee senator mark warrener, and thank you foreign being with us. new documents show general flynn was warned against accepting foreign payments. what do you make of them? >> general flynn was basically relieved of his command or in effect fired by the obama administration. and in leaving he was warned, as any other retiring military officer that you cant accept payments from foreign governments w...

Talking about an investigation that has to do with the presidents associates. so we dont have the answer to that. >> thank you very much. mark warrener joins me now. i appreciate your time, senator. were you shocked? how did you find out? >> shocked would be a gross understatement. this was -- didnt see this coming. its obviously outrageous. we now have got a president whos fired the acting attorney general, virtually all the u.s. attorneys, the fbi director. hes had hid u.s. attorney had to rec...