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Agencies which are structurally sound enough to absorb a foreign policy or that they may not agree with because theyre career public servants but how does it absorb a president who -- >> i think they do their best to keep their head down and communicate with their counterparts. try to stay out of the presidents way. jum mattis said he was wary of talking to the press because mattis said if i say six and the president said a half dozen, youre going to say theres daylight between us. >> let me pus...

Fox, mccullough says he went to director of national intelligence james clapper about a year before the presidential election. the intelligence agencies had just found their classified information in the clinton emails. >> he read through these affidavits very thoroughly. he said this is extremely reckless. he mentioned something about the campaign would have -- will have heartburn about that or something. >> shortly after mccullough says his team was marginalized. >> you felt you were on your o...

Thats why we have whistleblower statutes to protect freedom like that to tell the truth, so our government doesnt become third world. does that make sense? >> i would love to cross-examine him and his people who said they were in a position to say for sure that he was going to be fired. that sounds like the kind of thing that, you know, at the end of an administration, you are kind of are fearful of. again, all this will be taken seriously when the people in the trump white house, bannon, priebu...

State department server was hacked by china and russia. we know that. thats a fact. we actually have no evidence that hillary clintons email server was hacked. >> tucker: the white house servers were hacked by the chinese military. >> shockingly, we have zero evidence that hillarys server was hacked. i would say its against the odds but its true. >> tucker: thats not the question i asked. we spent, in the run up to the election, months hearing from democrats, its not a big deal. are you a right ...

What i think you saw there, at least looked to me as just another reporter here in the room, but looked and sounded to me like genuine contrition. and embarrassment. pure and simple, embarrassment, to stand out here and do this in front of all these people. you heard him say he doesnt plan to resign. you heard his apparent unfamiliarity with the ethics committee process and whether or not what comes out of that would be made public, at he said he would be willing to make it public. but that look...

The president and administration. joining us is a senior counsel on the ken star investigation during the clinton administration. hes currently a senior fellow at the r think institute. i really appreciate your time tonight. thank you for being here. >> thank you very much for having me. >> im not an expert in these matters. im an observer. the justice department demanding documents from itself to me feels strange. feels like something i havent seen before. is this an unusual move? >> unusual an...

Himself from things related to russia or the 2016 campaign. "the directive marks the special counsels first records request to the justice department, and it now means that mueller is demanding documents from the department overseeing his investigation." and i mean, you know, carry the three, right? put these things together. i think this means that the justice department by way of special counsel robert mueller has just subpoenaed itself. in the russia investigation. which would be awkward unde...

>> yeah. yeah. mike barnicle? >> it would appear to an observer that the comments about former bill clinton are largely political. weve also unfortunately slowly slid culturally into a moment when forgiveness is now married to ideology. that if youre a conservative and you do certain things, and if im a liberal, shame on you, get out. or gut her out. if youre a conservative, and bill clinton, or al franken, get him out, or get her out. >> right. so a couple of things. i think there are things th...

Them openly. retweeted that russian hackers now leaking directly to jared kushners paper. trump campaign not even being subtle anymore. media history is under scrutiny. "observer" long history as contrarian publication in new york and many gorged on information about hillary clinton. could look different now with extent of russian interference. but e-mails, could apply to many newsroom and some say this one. what have you found here? >> in this case its instance of pointing out now that jared ku...

It. >> so, this is a novel different from some of the other things youve written. it feels very contemporary. it feels like youre describing the world were living in. as a social observer, to your mind, what is the dominant reality of the big cities today? >> the big city and the fact that new yorkers think one way and middle america thinks in a radically different way. to the extent theres always been that split, that new york and america have never been completely happy with each other, thats ...