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Dead heat and suggesting that that is sort of a moral victory, but of course moral victories does not change the fact that that seat is in democrat control and there are real questions about what president trumps impact will be as we head toward the midterms. lets remember, this is a district that he won by more than 20 points in 2016. and you know, my wifes family is out from west moreland county. that is trump country. and the fact that there is now a loss here, even a narrow one is worrisome ...

The president had a view in the campaign. we wanted to make sure that partisan politics did not color state officials reaction to the information, point one. point two is we also knew that the russians wanted to undercut confidence in our electoral system. we did not want to play into their hands. in fact, we didnt. as a result, we had 33 states work with the department of homeland security to scan and strengthen their systems. that ends up being very important to the outcome of the election. >>...

A level that the public might have taken even more seriously. >> for two reasons, chuck, and i can come back to whether the public had an opportunity through the reporting to understand exactly what was happening. but for two reasons. one, you know how we run our elections and our electoral infrastructure. its by state and local officials who are partisans, republicans and democrats. we feared that if it looked like the president was involved, that this was a partisan matter. at the time we were...

Liberties abused by the executive branch. there is a legitimate issue as to whether or not an american civil liberties were violated in the fisa process. point two. this is a completely separate matter from bob muellers investigation. his investigation should be allowed to take its course. point number three. there may have been malfeasance by people at the f.b.i. and let me finish my points. there may have been malfeasance at the f.b.i. by certain individuals. so it is our job in conducting tra...

You need a super majority vote to override a presidents veto, to go to war, that sort of thing for a constitutional amendment. unless its one of those five circumstances, it ought to be 51 votes. point two, even if youre going to have this ridiculous minority rules senate, at least make them filibuster. this isnt like strong thurman where he had the stand on the senate floor for whatever it was, a week without going to the bathroom. they say we have an intent to filibuster. if mr. mcconnell want...

In the opening. but the day after we have to resume military exercises and we have to resume pressure. this maximum pressure campaign is the only way and its on china as much as it is on north korea that i think well see a non-military resolution to this thing. >> bill: you make some great points there. non-military resolution. okay. optimism i hear. north korea responded by saying look, our nuclear weapons arent aimed at you, seoul. they arent aimed at china and russia, only at the u.s. in retu...

Point two, for the person inside the trump campaign were already hearing and again these are unconfirmed reports, that that person may have been george papadopoulos and his conversation with the australian ambassador. >> bill: that was bar talk, right, in london over drinks. >> george papadopoulos not the most reliable. a guy who has already been indicted for lying to the f.b.i. when i hear something that george papadopoulos says i dont exactly take it to the bank. >> bill: thank you. more comin...

Senior state department personnel pushed back alerting both capital hill and the press. >> what was concerning to those state department officials who talked to our colleagues is that they felt that this was not in the best interest of the u.s. and was too premature to be considered. >> steeles point one, intel from russia to the trump camp. steeles point two, the trump camp acting to help russia on both ukraine and on sanctions. point three, before u.s. intelligence agencies made public their c...

Administration would consider lifting economic sanctions on russia if he won the presidency. so point one, like steele had said, russia had been feeding information to trump and his team. point two, according to steeles sources, the russians hoped their election meddling should shift u.s. policy consensus on ukraine. we know now at the republican national convention in ohio, the trump campaign intervened to soften the tone of support in the republican party platform and once they won the electio...

Russian government to get those lifted. >> we now know that as soon as the trump administration arrived in washington, they directed the state department to start working on plans to lift the russian sanctions. senior state department personnel pushed back alerting both capital hill and the press. >> what was concerning to those state department officials who talked to our colleagues is that they felt that this was not in the best interest of the u.s. and was too premature to be considered. >> s...