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Classified setting except its in our countrys interest to get to the bottom of what were the personal, political and financial ties between our president and russia. right now, all the arrows are pointing in the same direction. you see consistent prior contact from flynn to sessions followed by lies which is a consciousness of guilt. then you have roger stone and carter paige advising the campaign with prior russian business dealings. we want to know, was there collusion with russia as they were...

Going to be taken wildly out of context here and politicized in a way they feel is simply unfair. so, republicans very much pointing out today, hey, look, a lot of democrats met with this ambassador, too. lets just be fair with both sides here. >> hans, you know what we havent seen a lot of this week are any of the white house press briefings. we havent seen sean spicer at all since maybe potentially monday. why today is there not another press briefing? >> reporter: the presidents on the road. ...

81, when this country is still the soviet union, hes assigned to new york to the u.n., to the united nations there as a second secretary representing the u.n. a low position. four years later, promoted to first secretary, sent to the soviet unions embassy in washington. he leaves 89. so he has about ten years in the united states. he comes back to russia. hes serving here. serving in russia in various capacities in the foreign ministry. 20 -- or 1998, hes assigned to become the russian ambassado...

Was a group of various ambassadors and seems like a handshake. sessions in his mind thinks i meet with ambassadors all the time. nothing remarkable about that but im sure he wishes he was more complete in his testimony. what democrats want is a special prosecutor. even if a scandal doesnt lead to anything a special prosecutor takes time and energy from the administration and they always find something to prosecute someone. >> bill: which means it drags on and a drag on the goals of the trump adm...

Doing the same thing for pointing to a military war veteran or disabled veteran in the gallery and getting a round of applause. i think you are missing the point if you dont think that presidents and their staffs use these speeches as political theater. they do. all of them do. then they send soldiers off to die and donald trump never served a day in his life in the military nor did president obama. i find it all disgusting, all of it. >> bill: are you buying this, alex? >> im not. we should cel...

>> was he a private person? >> harris: representative nunes of california. two important things and he said. first of all, with regard to jeff sessions, our attorney general and whether he had pre-election contact, he said we know what we know based on reporting. pointing to the stories that came out last night, predominantly by "the washington post" and "the wall street journal." he then implored those reporters before him to basically go do their jobs. he said if you want to know more about th...

But he didnt run from it. >> there is such thing as responsible. trump has no concept of that. you have seen the ceremonies when a soldier dies on the badle field. i keep thinking of that image of trump and ivanka going to dover to meet the parents who would not meet with him. i thought he should have taken away from that moment maybe this is me crossing a boundary or something uncomfortable. i thought that was an opportunity that he missed where he could have for once been an adult and done a r...

Care, and a government entitlement. >> i dont think that this speech papers over the divisions in the house on that issue. one can interpret tax credits in different ways. but you could see paul ryan there. that was probably where he lit up the most, and i know the ryan team today is sort of saying -- pointing that that excerpt and saying he is on board with our plan, but the fact that this plan -- >> thats their read. >> thats their read. >> other people are saying, well, you asked him to be re...

Tonal shift. what i think there needs to be is some pointing to a legislative path forward which we have not yet seen. so maybe there is some of that here. maybe the immigration talk is some attempting to bring some democrats around. >> he doesnt have enough kind of really complicated legislative things on his agenda, things that he said he was going to do. so, hes got health care, thats complicated. hes got infrastructure, thats popular but complicated because of how to pay for it. hes got tax ...

The impact of collection systems and capabilities can be grave. so i do think its important to be able to stop the leaks, the information can be coming from any if you remember of corridors, intelligence community, congress, a lot of people have access to this information. i do think its premature to be pointing if i canners at anybody whether this administration or the other administration, as people point fingers about the leaks, i certainly welcome to stop the leaks because they shouldnt be t...