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>> if something like that was going on and rudy giuliani was a recipient of that kind of information and using for the trumps campaign benefit. does that pose an issue becoming a legal member of the presidents team? >> certainly. he would be another individual who it looks like was communicating with the trump campaign during right before the election and passing along a list of obtained information. this is an area that we tried to explore and the republicans on the house intelligence committee...

Intelligence committee showed no interest in being willing to subpoena the documents, the communication logs, travel logs, the bank records for situations like this that we believed occurred because of what we saw in press reporting and from other credible individuals. hopefully bob mueller will tell us. hopefully with the new dnc lawsuit we may find out. bob mueller can only tell us what he can prove beyond a reasonable doubt. this dnc lawsuit will be quite illuminating because they dont have t...

Individual who it looks like was communicating with the trump campaign during -- right before the election and passing along perhaps illicitly obtained information. this is an area that we with tried to explore in our investigation, but unfortunately the republicans on the house intelligence committee showed no interest in being willing to subpoena the documents that communication logs, and the travel logs and the bank records for situations like this that we with believed occurred because of wh...

Iraq, a war i fought in. getting rid of assad for putting pressure on him to leave dont mean we tear down the state structures in the way we did the iraqi military. it should be our policy preserve order and stability as much as possible. but there is -- there is a tendency in this debate to frame it between doing nothing and all-out regime change and war. i think thats a false choice that masks the options we have in between. >> bill: give me an option. >> we have allies on the ground. a tactic...

Conversations with the president if some munchkin in the executive branch decides theyre going to leak the talking points of the transcript or any other aspect of it. i think this is really a terrible reflection on the individual or individuals that did this. they should be ashamed of themselves. i think whether youre a republican or a democrat, a liberal or conservative, there ought to be unity that leaking of that sort is simply unacceptable. >> martha: so in terms of the substance of that dis...

>> our friend maggie haberman also notes that the president likes to be contrarian. if he hears the press reporting something, he wont do it just to stick a finger in the i yoo. maybe all the reporting on mcmaster leaving will delay the departure. one other thing that maggie wrote overnight, contrary to the notion that mr. trump is responded by sick fants, that tells us if the president is sick of people saying no around him. >> i think john kelly, the new chief of staff that replaced reince pri...

Attack him militarily is so deep, and there is so many complaints about his elites around him that he is forced to do something to buy time and create some sense of hope that things might improve. the other thing that might be happening is, hes luring us into these negotiations and then he will make demands that he knows we will never agree to like the u.s. abandoning south korea. at that point, he will go to the world and say im very reasonable, i met with the president, im willing to be flexib...

We want our memo out there to give the full picture but were giving subjects and witnesses an investigation evidence that investigators hold very, very close. im afraid that that is done intentionally so that the trump team knows what is out there and thats why they continue to pursue the selective release of committee transcripts and in informati information. >> do you believe the information they released are designed to or would have something that will do harm. >> no source and methods were ...

With the investigations ongoing? do you think it will do some harm? >> it will. people said no sources an meths were disclosed. they were. the argument that were making is just because they were publicly known because of press reporting, its never been the practice at the department of justice to acknowledge sources and methods. mr. steeles identity was disclosed. his long-standing history as a source was disclosed. when we need people to come forward and be sources, theyll think twice and worry...

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