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Making this special investigation look too political and perhaps overstretching too far. i think the republican leadership is conscious of that, but they dont want to play to accusations that they are just doing this for politics and not for national security. which is why theyre falling over themselves to say this is just going to be about the facts. well see what the tone of this investigation and how it actually comes out. >> it is the knife, thomas. they could -- i guess they have to be ther...

There were eight monitors in the hands of pro-russia separatists until sunday, and that is when their captors let one team member go. the swedish observer was released on medical grounds. his colleagues, though, were put on display earlier in the day, and they told the world theyre being held against their will. >> reporter: perhaps his biggest catch yet, the self-declared mayor here wasting little time parading overseeing military observers that he says are nato spies in front of the cameras. t...

Observer. but as somebody who actually covers campaigns, this is a stupid kabuki dance. anybody can think about -- there, i just did it. people are not comfortable. >> i actually havent thought about it. >> i dont know, greta, i sense a groundswell. >> you havent ruled it out though you have. >> i havent ruled it out but im not thinking about it. >> every time it goes out there we have to treat it like this giant news breaking. >> its not a no. we all seize upon whether elizabeth warren i cant r...

>> call me a biased observer. but as somebody who actually covers campaigns, this is a stupid kabuki dance. anybody can think about -- there, i just did it. people are not comfortable. >> i actually havent thought about it. >> i dont know, greta, i sense a groundswell. >> you havent ruled it out though you have. >> i havent ruled it out but im not thinking about it. >> every time it goes out there we have to treat it like this giant news breaking. >> its not a no. we all seize upon whether eliza...

Happen? and that was deleted evidence because the police didnt do their job from -- >> david, from my perspective, from the perspective here of lets say as you allege, you assert, that your client is guilty -- is innocent of this. that this was not sexual assault. from the perspective of an outside observer on this it seems to me that the best case scenario for jameis as he goes forward into a career is to not have a cloud of suspicion and to have an investigation that crossed every t, that dot ...

Assert, that your client is guilty -- is innocent of this. that this was not sexual assault. from the perspective of an outside observer on this it seems to me that the best case scenario for jameis as he goes forward into a career is to not have a cloud of suspicion and to have an investigation that crossed every t, that dot every i, that left no suspicion that he was getting treated well because he was a star football player so that people could look at the record of that investigation and all...

>> reporter: well, you heard it. you know, and you dont even need the pictures. you dont even need the image of him to get a sense of what was said and how he came across. just that faltering voice. initially, he had been quite composed throughout the day, but the closer and closer he got to that crucial moment where he shot her, his voice became more and more wobbly and, of course, he seemed to -- i noticed throughout the day -- he seemed to hunch over and over and observer as the day got on, b...

>> of course not. nobody else couldve done better. but just about every other observer of the middle east would have understood that before secretary kerry began his crusade wouldve known nine months ago when this was self-initiated by him that there was no way this would ever succeed. and the worst thing for an american secretary of state to do is to make a fool of himself in front of the world, enga engaging -- in what everybody understood was impossible. theres an old saying in the middle eas...

Nobody else couldve done better. but just about every other observer of the middle east would have understood that before secretary kerry began his crusade wouldve known nine months ago when this was self-initiated by him that there was no way this would ever succ thing for an american secretary of state to do is to make a fool of himself in front of the world, enga engaging -- in what everybody understood was impossible. theres an old saying in the middle east, he whom the gods would destroy pu...

>> armageddon has not arrived. that was president obama today doing something he almost never does. president taking a victory lap on health reform. on the occasion of his announcement that more than 7 million people have signed up for private insurance under the new law, and the president today encouraging his fellow democrats to also take victory laps on this legislation, to get out there and run on that success and make republicans pay a political price for opposing that law. is that smart po...