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One of the special prosecutors during the watergate scandal, kasie hunt, capitol hill correspondent, and eli stokols of the wall street judicijourna us. casey, where do the investigations stand. >> at the point where they are casting as wide a net as possible and trying to sweep as much information into the net as they can. congress has a relatively light schedule. then theres an august break. thats not going to be a break for the staff working on these investigations. so youre seeing now report...

>> at the point where they are casting as wide a net as possible and trying to sweep as much information into the net as they can. congress has a relatively light schedule. then theres an august break. thats not going to be a break for the staff working on these investigations. so youre seeing now reports in the media about new people theyre interested in. its kind of as they learn more. sometimes honestly from press reporting or from other places they are kind of widening the scope of that and ...

We do need to get to the bottom of what allegations aired in public in these stories are true and whats not true. certainly theres been press reporting thats been erroneous at times, press reporting thats been all too accurate. i will say any reporting that reveals sources and methods, anyone that is disclosing sources and methods, its a real problem. >> bret: fox news division never fact of the british report. let me ask you a couple more things. one is there was talk today in questioning about...

To be lower. made an impression on leadership in a short amount of time. you have senator angus king, independent from maine. you might remember he made some news with james comey several months ago, honestly, nicolle, feels like years ago, but pushing him on hillary clinton. so i think those are three people you really want to focus in on as the hearings start to unfold. >> and meika, at the substantiv level, is jim comey going to be able to speak to precisely what the president said to him, pu...

Firg contacts with russia officials. this isnt someone the white house says is irrelevant like carter page. how can the white house distance themselves from him? >> not easily. this is somebody who wanders off to the residence occasionally. i think he may have been on the radar for some time. press reporting tends to be several weeks before the investigation. im awear of it from looking at airon contra. i notice these things leak or get public long after the investigation is already there. he sp...

Still have -- is it still privilege? >> hed still have an attorney/client privilege even for communications before the inauguration. but it raises some very interesting issues and really can put the trump white house on the spot as to whether hell be asserting a privilege or not. >> jared kushner under intense scrutiny. this isnt someone fired like michael flynn or manafort or someone that is irrelevant like carter page. this is a top adviser. his son-in-law. how can the white house distance the...

Was "scream." >> i was going to say, who is your source on that? it must not be the president himself because according to gloria borger, the president sources telling her that the president bears no responsible for any of the current political drama. you have interviewed the president. no surprise there, right? >> no. not really. he -- he views the world and his mission as president as something that he takes command of and that -- that he feels that he is in command of. right? and that all the...

Him, who could help him. >> sure. >> theyre in the process of doing raids, right, the british? >> you have to understand that the network who helped this man commit this brutal crime, theyre watching news media as well. and so, theyre gleaning information and intelligence off of what theyre seeing from press reporting. and when you have an ongoing -- i mean, it was still an active scene, not to mention a potential, you know, manhunt for more perpetrators. when this is ongoing, its absolutely cri...

Fbi fore collusion with russia to fire the man over the recommendation on the recommendation of the attorney general who has recused himsz from that investigation raise profound question base whether the white house is brazenly interfering in a criminal matter. congressman, do you see it that way and what is the recourse if so? >> jeff sessions should be noware near the firing ever director comey he was supposed to be recused remember he was supposed to be recused he was asked by the senate if h...

Journalistic outfit. can you. >> to me it cross as line. its about intelligence porn, pushing out information without regard to interest without regard to the first amendment values that normally underlie press reporting and simply become as conduit just to push out information to damage the united states. >> and with that intelligence porn was born as an expression entering our language. our goal here in this segment is to get to intelligence generally as well as russia. on the first, the direc...