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They are doing things better than ever happened previously. and so, i dont want to address what my successor says. i dont agree with some of the things that he has said, but i think it reflects a general insecurity that only if you criticize your predecessors, whether it be president obama, or the former director of the cia, are you able to make points to try to trump up your credentials. >> republican opponents of you claimed you were politicizing the cia. theres some democratic opponents of mi...

There were many renewals for carter page. and the renewal comes up every 90 days. the deputy attorney general rosenstein signed off on a warrant renewal, as did his predecessors. so the gop memo is trying to establish that, you know, rosenstein and others unfairly targeted, you know, carter page. so help people understand, you know, what it means to get a renewal. its nots no carely just a stamp of approval but theres a lot thats entailed. >> theres a few things to digest here. number one, there...

Information, you know, managed to hoodwink four different federal judges. the thing that concerns me -- >> and a number of, you know, deputies. because it wasnt rod rosensteins whos the only one who sign eed off, but his predecessors as well. its presented at each time of renewal, at 90 days. >> they have to start from zero every time they go back to the judge. its not like hitting update your apps on your phone. you cant just say yes i agree and on you go. you have to prove it all over again. s...

Administration. is there a difference of approach or a continuation of our previous policy? >> its an interesting question because designations are something the obama administration did through the treasury department as well. i think this is more of a continuity than a change but what you see is its probably being ratcheted up. its not new to go after has below and some of their operations within latin america. it is new to be doing more in west africa where theyve become more active. >> is th...

>>paul: we are back with the n hettinger, jason riley and james freeman.james, just how strong is the economy or is he overstating it? >> i dont think its an overstatement to say its been growing much faster lately than it did during the period of his predecessors. for the first full term that donald trump was in office. the second quarter of last year, from then on. the first full quarter i should say its been operating at a higher plane. we got a friday jobs report that shows the highest wages...

The law. the law when you go to the fisa court to get one of these applications to monitor somebodys communications, they expire after 90 days. when you go back to get a renewal, you have to show that the first time you did this you got something. that theres a need to continue. >> uh-huh. >> in other words you cant say to the judge, look, were fishing in this lake, we havent caught anything yet but dont make us go away, maybe well get something. doesnt work that way with the fisa court. you hav...

No president is trafficking entirely in the realm of truth in the state of the union. i think were fooling ourselves if we acknowledge that the distance between controlled trump and unscripted trump is greater than the distance with the predecessors like obama and bush. its greater. its more difficult if you have just watched trump over time to take a moment like last night, extrapolate from it and say now we have a clear road map to the legislation ahead. we dont. we saw trump at a moment in ti...

Is is a speech of wishes. you said -- what was different about last night? cant president trump do as others before him have done? >> thats a fair point. and no every state of the union is a performance. no president is trafficking entirely in the realm of truth. we are fooling ourselves if we dont acknowledge the distance between controlled trump and unscripted trump is much greater than that distance with his predecessors like obama and bush. its much greater. it becomes more difficult. if you...

Cnns senior congressional manu raju is on capitol hill. >> reporter: this started earlier this week when the russia embassy tweeted that sergey who is the head of the russian intelligence service, someone whos under sanctions in the u.s. they tweeted that he was having meetings with his american counterparts, chuck schumer raised some serious concerns saying why did this happen and also raising concerns about the lack of implementation of those sanctions on russia that were improved overwhelming...

White house and made it look like he was whistle blowing again. hes been going all over the place for the president. is he coming up with these little scams or who is coming up with these escapades? he or somebody at the white house. looks like hes directed. >> ive never him to be a schemer. remember, he was on team trump since during the campaign. he ran transition on national security for the trump administration. displacing his predecessors, mike rogers who obviously had been a career fbi off...