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One. the whistle blower wouldnt come forward without good evidence. when you bring a charge against the president of the united states, you better be well-equipped to back that up. now, i dont know whether this was an intercepted phone call of the president of ukraine or its a white house transcript itself. but i would imagine this has got so much attention, theres got to be a transcript out there. >> steve, the big question now is whether there was some sort of quid pro quo. that link has not b...

You know, cia or nsa intercept of this. its not like theres any american clandestine collection of the president himself. theres no basis in fact there. to your question about whether or not there was any quid pro quo, there may not have been an if you do this then ill do this. but the ukrainians for the past five years have been at war with russia. russia has been aggressive against them in the eastern part of the country. and the united states -- they were hoping to count on the united states ...

Republican world view, and more people around the president who are basically aligned with president trump. eric: yeah. ironically, mr. ratcliffe was on "sunday morning futures" this morning with maria bartiromo, and i want to say in his defense that he does have national security experience. he was the chief of anti-terrorism at the eastern district of texas, and he was the acting u.s. attorney there in the doj. and he had, he was pretty tough on robert mueller during the questioning, supportin...

Specific person of any specific crime. i just want there to be a fair process to get there. what i do know as a former federal prosecutor is it does appear that there were crimes committed during the obama administration. we talked earlier about michael flynn. his phone call with the russian ambassador was a highly classified nsa intercept. someone in the obama administration leaked that call to washington post. thats a felony. glenn simpson from fusion gps, in talking about the steele dossier, ...

Administration. >> president obama and his administration, they were really, really tough on leakers of national security information and also -- i remember covering the bush administration post-9/11 reporting on something that was an nsa intercept and dic chain any started an investigation on capitol hill whether it came from there so it certainly is not new. >> lets talk about the former director of the fbi james comey testifying before congress and president trump is not going to invoke execu...

Communications. given that, why would they make a video about this and then have it out there? >> as barbara said, this group is relying on couriers. they know from stories in the past that their electronic communications were intercepted. that is why we had a lot of u.s. embassies closed last year as a result of nsa intercept. so this sort of flies in the case of being careful. so clearly they felt they could do this with some impunity. >> and clearly, they thought it had a type of propaganda v...

Administration. president obama and his administration, they were really, really tough on leakers of national security information. and also, i mean, i remember covering the bush administration, post 9/11 reporting on something that was an nsa intercept and dick cheney started an investigation on capitol hill. about whether it came from there. so it certainly is not new. >> lets talk about the former director of the fbi james comey testifying before congress and president trump is not going to i...