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What we have seen, a real hand-handed effort, it seems, to collude with the russians. >> one of the other things sessions did today which was interesting was a kind of frustration, resentment being asked to recall these specific things from over a year ago. and it occurred to me, you run department of justice. assistant u.s. attorneys are doing this all across the country every day and every interview they do with people, asking them very specific questions about what were you doing a year ago. ...

Russian investigation. president trump wanted to see him sort of full-fledged fighting the good fight for him and the justice department. but theres a number he have other things, too. so many executive orders the president wanted to see carried through, basically the ball was in jeff sessions court. the travel ban, so many things he wanted to hit hard on that the justice system has made it difficult to do and he blames jeff sessions for so much of that. so its all snowballing now. >> yeah, it w...

Institutions of his own government. now, again, he tries to pull that back. he tries to say, no, i believe in our intelligence agencies as theyre now constituted. meaning under the leadership of my appointees. but, you know, its -- this is what vladimir putin and what the russians would, you know, have wanted to see. they want to see a system here in chaos and in turmoil and theyve certainly gotten that. >> ned, i want to show you a former cia director brennan appearing on cnn this weekend. well...

Being on one side of the equation, in effect, you know, an arm of one of the campaigns. >> and ned, thats where i want to pick off, that point peter just made, my eyes went there, too. theyre kind of wikileaks own self-knowledge of how they were being viewed. talk about as a member, veteran of the intel community, were they all but viewed as kind of a de facto state actor? >> well, absolutely, brian. youve actually heard that line from cia director mike pompeo who prior to accepting his current ...

>> he does, yes, of course. whats interesting about these e-mails, i think, we dont get a lot of donald trump jr.s voice in this or a huge amount of illumination on what his role in this. what we do, though, see is wikileaks, itself, recognized that it was seen as a pro-russia and pro-trump arm in effect. thats the phrase it uses. pro-russia, pro-trump. tries to convince donald trump jr. to leak his fathers tax return to them saying, look, this will help us establish credibility so when we relea...

That partisan veneer as a lot of people would see it. >> as another week of this gets under way. philip rucker, shannon pettypiece, peter baker, ned price, thank you all for helping us to cover all of this on a monday evening. and still ahead for us, how robert mueller works and whats likely going on right now behind the scenes according to a man who has worked closely with him. but up next, the allegations, the denials, spectacle of the senate race in alabama. a gigantic problem for the rep...

His motivation on his sleeve. >> he does, yes, of course. whats interesting about these e-mails, i think, we dont get a lot of donald trump jr.s voice in this or a huge amount of illumination on what his role in this. what we do, though, see is wikileaks, itself, recognized that it was seen as a pro-russia and pro-trump arm in effect. thats the phrase it uses. pro-russia, pro-trump. tries to convince donald trump jr. to leak his fathers tax return to them saying, look, this will help us establis...

>> ned, you have is to wonder when you hear these names, brennan and clapper and comey, if you hate these three guys, if you think theyre incompetent, the minimum you have to believe about them is that they are patriots who gave body and soul to keep the nation safe during their watch. what must happen inside the tight confines of the intel community to hear our president, say nothing of the fact that he was on foreign soil, talk that way about these three guys? >> well, brian, these three indiv...

Investigations. >> ned, you have is to wonder when you hear these names, brennan and clapper and comey, if you hate these three guys, if you think theyre incompetent, the minimum you have to believe about them is that they are patriots who gave body and soul to keep the nation safe during their watch. what must happen inside the tight confines of the intel community to hear our president say nothing of the fact that he was on foreign soil, talk that way about these three guys? >> well, brian, th...

Vladimir putin, i dont believe our intelligence agencies, until he changes his line a little bit, is to sew distrust in the institutions of his own government. now, again, he tries to pull that back. he tries to say, no, i believe in our intelligence agencies as theyre now constituted. meaning under the leadership of my appointees. but, you know, its -- this is what vladimir putin and what the russians would, you know, have wanted to see. they want to see a system here in chaos and in turmoil an...