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You use your informant base to try to gather information. theres nothing on its face that seems inappropriate about this. >> then is it smart for everyone who says rosenstein is making a huge mistake, hes doing exactly what the president asked him to do. to michaels point, if this is standard operating procedure, given youve got paul manafort and carter page in the house and the fbi did behave according to protocol, why not say yes, mr. president, you want to know all this innocence, sure, here ...

Over there. if you step back from it, the president in his own words is telling us really that this is just sort of a branding exercise, the ap reported earlier this week that hes told people its important to use the terminology of spy gate because he wants it to sound sinister. hes misquoting james clapper in tweets this morning, basically saying that clapper admitted to there being spies in his campaign, when really clapper did no such thing. you could see the presidents desperation yesterday ...

Days, and now youre seeing democrats being able to steer this thing back. >> thats sort of exactly the point. it was that memo gate that nunes said was going to be the biggest thing ever. it turned out to be, and i steal this word from republicans, a nothing burger. so this massive meeting that the president called for, lets see how it turns out. my panel, eli stockle, he covers the white house for the "l.a. times." michael isinkoff, author of "russian roulette." and my friend, a columnist for t...