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Conference on civil and human rights. thank you very much for coming to the sunday show. you are here because you were among the people who met with senator manchin a bit ago, maybe a couple of weeks ago, to talk about the for the people act. given what we now know the compromise that he put out, i would love to get your reactions and if you saw this coming. melanie, ill start with you. >> thank you, jonathan. i called the former congressman governor. i was thinking the same thing. the meeting w...

It was a meeting. but at the very least they took a meeting thinking they were getting scoop from somebody who has ties to a foreign government on hillary clinton. >> yeah, thats exactly right. thats important to know about. whats interesting, among other things, is its not just this one meeting. you could sort of explain away, or sort of find reasons to, you know, think about what this meeting might have been innocent and so forth. its a sequence of events that is raising questions at this poin...

The russian government about the election and a one word response, no. these are questions theyre going to have to answer and theyve put out the four things theyll be looking at even though the larger document is classified, the four things theyll be looking at first, what russian cyber activity was taking place in this country. two, did the russian active measures between links between russia and individuals associated with it? thats where sessions will come in here. as they look at this, what ...

House. >> you know, that is absolutely true. i think there is no question and we saw this actually earlier today even as the outlines were taking shape a number of democratic senators came to the senate floor and talked badly said this is not a bill that they would have signed and some even so far to say look this is not a deal we should accept and then tom thought we should go over the fiscal cliff and start from the standpoint when rates have gone up everywhere and then start and deal with rat...

Purposes. >> look, i know you cant tell us exactly what was said, but did you leave your meeting with glenn simpson believing more significantly that russia has compromising information on president trump? >> alex, i left that meeting thinking i had just spent the most unbelievable, i dont know how many hours we were in there together, it was many that i have thus far in this year. look, im going to take you back to something i said i think on your program in the spring that was a little controv...

Would work clothesly with and do a cybersecurity -- closely with and do a cybersecurity task force. i realize that president obama did it with cuba and iran. i recognize attempts to forge a relationship. i think its insanity to think that we will actually try to do something with putin who all the folks in the intelligence agency that have talked to graerks ee unequivocalli, it was russia that meddled in our election. >> was it a huge win, the sit down between putin and trump? should moscow feel...