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Refusing to approve indictments that mueller wants to bring. he could even step into the investigation and order bob mueller to stop pursuing the investigation with the president, something we know the president and his lawyers are very worried about. >> jeremy bash, something else the president is worried about is his personal, his family finances. he said in an interview with "the new york times" maggie haberman, i believe peter baker that could be a red line. can you imagine a scenario where ...

Unseen evidence in this investigation that bolsters the fbis credible and i think elevated the seriousness of the russia investigation. paul ryan is now claiming that he will allow our memo to come ford and -- forward and weve asked the republicans for a vote on this. >> so if paul ryan is going to allow your mem o to come out on monday. is there anything you could share. "the new york times" reports that your memo includes this fact that mccabe told the committee that the decision to seek a fis...

The trump white house. the memo alleges that a dossier compiled on trump by christopher steele was the key part of information to show the fisa court to gain approval for surveillance of carter page. now, its my understanding that it was just one of many streams that a fisa warrant is not granted based on a single piece of evidence from anyone, and that lots of streams of evidence -- if youre dealing with informants, many of them have questions about credibility, but thats why the court takes ...

We could be turned at each others throats. understood the fragility of our system, how corrupted some of these washington institutions are. and so what we see playing out is a battle field of misinformation on the social media sites. on fox news. across all of -- >> you remind me, the release of the memo was -- i was sent a report that i think two-thirds of the social media trafficking was done by russian bots, the #release the memo was furthered, was pushed by russian -- >> so the job of the co...

To discredit american institutions in the eyes of the american people. we know that senior trump campaign officials, including the son-in-law of the son of the campaign chairman, met with russian officials. how deep did it go? what did people know? when did they know it? >> right. >> all of that is yet to come, and when it comes, the release of this memo, the purpose of it is to spin as much smoke as they can possibly be made to obscure at all. >> i think, matt miller, i think what they did was ...

Wing conservative world. in donald trumps mind does this give him the political space to move on rod rosenstein, to move on the underlying investigation as he seems to want to do. >> all right. so, let me give you another piece of this, ken dilanian. it also, the memo released today declassified by the president over the objections of the director of the fbi who had grave concerns, also alleges that information to the court did not reveal that the fusion gps generated dossier was financed by the...

Motives are because hes been clear about it. hes telegraphed publicly and he said to a number of aides privately that he wanted this memo released because he sees it as a pretext to move on rod rosenstein potentially to fire him. we dont know if hell do it or not. again, thats clearly what he hopes to accomplish doing this. i think authorizing the public release of the memo, hes probably safe. it was served up to him in an official process from congress. but its his intervention with the justice...

Bush/cheney senior advisor. joan palmieri, former clinton campaign. and donny deutsche is back. donny? >> my leg is shaking. >> i know, go. let it all out. >> heres whats going on here. i want to talk about the memo. we have a dozen instances of clearly the russians colluding in this election with top trump official. two have already been convicted. we have a guy, a president who clearly is owned by putin. we have an investigation going. thats good news. we basically now have a press release tha...

They think they will get primary. if he could keep those people in check, he can go forward and try and derail this investigation. and that is what it is about. hes not even worried about -- hes doing what can he can to safeguard and as long as the 33% are behind him, the weak republicans will not go against him and he will do what he needs to do. >> let me bring into the conversation eric swallow, a member of the house intel committee. were just getting information from a new report in "the new...

That was the other issue i was exploring. and i think it is a still a big one. >> and that one source, so david went with one source and it proved to be accurate and in fact profoundly accurate and led to these things but one anonymous source is dangerous. you are walking a high wire act in this reporting and no one will go on the record about an investigation. that is not going to happen. so you are dealing with anonymous sources and they may have agendas an trying to mislead you. how has it be...