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The campaign in a high-profile capacity and that person happens to be under some type of surveillance by the fbi for potential wrongdoing, you would think from a security standpoint they would comment and say weve got some concerns about this person, you are still welcome to hire them but we made you aware of it. that never occurred. >> harris: lets bring in our power panel, jessica tarlov and jason chaffetz. both are fox news contributors. im going to come to you first, congressman. national se...

To go raid the mans home and they had to go to a judge to meet a probable cause standard, so they would have had to be very specific about the paperwork they filed with the judge about what they were looking for and what kind of crime it would be evidence of. there is a very specific thing bob mueller has in mind here for potential wrongdoing for him to have sought this. there is all kinds of potential wrongdoing and exposure that manafort may have related to his work prior to even the campaign....

Russia investigation. >> impaneling the grand jury, shows that bob mueller is pursuing potential wrongdoing by the russians, the attack on our democracy, seriously and diligently and there is no minimum for underestimating that attack. heather: the president tweeted interesting to watch richard blumenthal of connecticut talking about the russia collusion when he was a phony vietnam con artist. the present referring to an embarrassing moment from 2010 when richard blumenthal mischaracterized his ...

Are out there saying, look, this isnt what is keeping voters up at nice. we tausk a lot about russia, but theyre worried about jobs. are you worried that democrats using this criticism line of republicans is actually going to backfire on them? >> not backfire, but absolutely right, that the american people are concerned about the economy, job creation, not only employment but fair compensation for what they do and good jobs and benefits and how they are doing, how their children are going to do ...

>> i asked kristen about the speculation that the president may try to invoke privilege, to limit some of this testimony. do the circumstances fall within the purview of privilege at all? >> you know, it would be unprecedented for a white house to try to block a former official who wants to testify from going before congress and telling their story. its never been done in history. i think itd likely be quickly rejected by the courts. there are a number of reasons why it would fail. one, the pres...

One final question. what do you hope to hear a week from today when the fired fbi director james comey appears in public before the senate intelligence committee? >> well, im glad that hes testifying. i think its very important and its very important that this be done publicly. of course we want to know did the president attempt to curtail the russia investigation in any way, shape, or form with respect to his own conduct of it, with respect to the investigation involving michael flynn. did he d...

If youre innocent, why are you taking the fifth amendment. >> reporter: sources tell cnn russian officials in conversations picked up by u.s. intelligence bragged they could use flynn to influence trump. newly appointed special counsel former fbi director robert mueller now looking at whether president trump sought to obstruct justice by trying to pressure then fbi chief james comey to drop the bureaus investigation into potential wrongdoing by flynn. in february cornering comey alone in the ova...

Mishandling classified information is a serious one and the combination of firing comey after having requested that he not pursue the anyoflynn mattera serious one. and i think that there is an obstruction of justice. the fact that trump asked other people to leave the room so he could have this conversation is a very welling sign here. >> i think its very serious. i think it is important to remember that the trump white house has pushed back the account on this memo and whether or not this memo...

This was the targeting of the presidents political enemies, effectively, and lies about it during the election year so that it was not discovered until afterwards. >> never let the facts get in the way of a good story. that was a super serious charge house oversight committee chair darrell issa made against the obama white house against the handling of the tea party negotiations for irs status. it is a potential wrongdoing that the committee would want to ask about when they rooted in cincinnati...

I.g. investigation. it probably also means they knew of potential wrongdoing even before that investigation was initiated. so now we have this whole conversation about how far up the chain this information went. if anything inappropriate was done. the problem here is the question of timing. clearly the number one goal of the first term of the obama administration was to get a second term and having these embarrassing revelations come out before election day would have had a negative impact on th...