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Instrument. finally, id like to come to what we have done in the past to reduce the effectiveness of soviet behavior and what we might want to consider for the future. i think if one looks at the history of the last 100 years, youre going to find that russians and soviet predecessors had believed that active measures is a major tool for their advancement. they actually believe, whatever we think about it, that this gives them the possibility of achieving influence well beyond their economic and ...

Patiently so. and this is what im told by several people with the fbi. this is his style. this certainly was not the style of his predecessors, his media pretty sers, director muller. this is james comey. hes a transparent person. and a lot of people have scrutinized him for it. >> max kuttner, thanks very much for joining us tonight. appreciate it. >> thanks. coming up, an enemy of vladimir putin who was poisoned and almost killed testified to a senate committee today. thats next.

That? >> of course it would bother me if it were true. >> martha: how do you know its not true? >> we dont know anything because chairman nunes wont tell us what he has or where he got it. everything about this is backwards. this is the chairman of an oversight committee going to the subject of the oversight to tell them what he has found, to get information, then, reported back. we dont understand why he did that. we dont understand why, unlike his predecessors, he didnt share the information w...

If it were true. >> martha: how do you know its not true? >> we dont know anything because chairman nunes wont tell us what he has or where he got it. everything about this is backwards. this is the chairman of an oversight committee going to the subject of the oversight to tell them what he has found, to get information, then, reported back. we dont understand why he did that. we dont understand why, unlike his predecessors, he didnt share the information with other members of the committee, in...

Shouldnt be so political during election cycle. here is what he said. >> it is my view that if a supreme court justice resigns tomorrow or within the next several weeks, or resigns at the end of the summer, president bush should consider following the practice of a majority of his predecessors and not -- and not name a nominee until after the november elections is completed. that is what is fair to the nominee and essential to the process. clayton: known as the biden rule. pete: fair to the nomi...

>> so on what the purpose of the hearings? find out what you cant find out? >> ive been thinking about this a lot actually because ive covered a lot of these hears and i have always argued that even though there are -- look, there are things that he should not -- questions that he should not answer. there are questions that the senators probably should not ask. and there are reason things that you ought to be able to if i can o figure out, but they get increasingly good because they spend all th...

A press conference, but is the global impact of the accusations a laughing matter. steven hall is chief of russia operations, and steve the question is, you know, if you are in russia, right now, and if you are in the kremlin and the intelligence service and you see the president of the united states make a joke about being wiretapped while he is standing next to the german chancellor, what is your reaction? >> the russians have to be extremely pleased with their return on investment, and this s...

Public opinion has changed as a result of president trumps wiretapping accusations against president obama and the hard slog over his health care bill. or if these low marks are merely an outlier. putting the presidents approval rating in context though, his three immediate predecessors all had numbers that were above 50% two months into their presidencies. well be right back.

Day to inauguration day, says the cost to secure trump tower and the area around it wound up costing $24 million. and palm beach pays $264,000 every day that trump is in mar-a-la mar-a-lago. even calling it the winter white house. but the president himself had harsh words for his predecessors trips. back in 2011, tweeting this, the habitual vacationer barack obama is now in hawaii, this vacation is costing taxpayers $4 million. during the election, trump also told the publication "the hill" i wo...

Whether donald trump sees it in the same way that other presidents have seen it. >> mr. trump or president trump has seen everything through a very personal lens. in this case if you saw how he treated barack obama when he was the president, saying everything he could to delegitimize him, im not sure that he held the office in the esteem or with the respect that his predecessors have held it. that means that as a person he is going to resist ever changing his mind or being seen to change his min...