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Investigation, assistant director in charge, paul delacourt. >> good morning, im paul delacourts, assistants director in charge of the fbis los angeles field office. we are once again here in front of you, another somber and sobering press statement. were talking about something that no parents should ever have to go through, no high school students should ever have to worry about. yet, were here to talk about it again. the fbi crisis response resources, we are here in support of the l.a. county...

Appeared trying to find ways to increase trade with turkey and to get turkey to avoid sanctions that congress wants to slap on the country for buying an advanced russian missile defense system. that was a very strange subplt today, brian, that kind of got buried. but we still have to ask ourselves what is it about this authoritarian turkish leader that president trump seems to admire so much. >> mimi rocah, let me play for you a bit of the attorney general, who was asked today whether he in fact...

Of abu bakr al baghdadi from your perspective. you spent time at the fbi and clearly concerned about terrorism? >> absolutely. it is a huge victory for the united states and the forces who undertook this operation should be thanked and all americans should appreciate what they did and the president should get credit for authorizing it because it was a legitimate thing to do. its going to have i think a significant impact on the organization. but some of the comments yesterday i was concerned abo...

From happening thomas you specialize in security you know cases like this so what will be officials be doing right now is with the prosecution saying the investigation is continuing what would they be doing away with baby girls when they went already to to his apartment they already took some communications and some objects from that apartment they will be looking specifically at that and it was also clear from that press statement they will be looking into his communications that is absolutely ...

Right? they sent a bill to the if they decide to consider the campaign. the campaign said its burisma case i would like you a ridiculous and the price has lot to give us the names of the been reduced. lawyers you met. first the mayor and ill ask we will definitely talk to them. you about it next. >> weve all seen the rhetoric if they are sure there was no that is pushed out at these wrongdoing they are the witnesses. we need witnesses a lot in trump campaign rallies. it is hateful, it is divisiv...

Deadline, making a little bit of news. take a listen. >> the state department sent a letter last night to congress which is our initial response to the document request. well obviously do all the things were required to do by law. i was a member of congress once. article 1 has a certain set of powers and article 2 has an obligation to make sure we protect officials at the state department. >> reporter: so obviously a little bit of news that they say they are going to eventually turn over those d...

Whistle-blower right now. >> i think the whistle-blower did the right thing, he followed the law every step of the way and we got -- >> why when the president called the whistle-blower a political hack and suggested he or she might be disloyal to the company, why did you remain silent? >> i did not remain silent, mr. chairman. i issued a statement to my workforce telling them and committing my commitment to the whistle-blower protection and ensuring that i would provide protection to anybody wit...

The law every step of the way and we just got stuck. >> why when the president called the whistle-blower a political hack and that he or she would be disloyal to the country why did you remain silent >> i issued a statement to my workforce with my commitment to the whistle-blower protection and insuring i would provide protection to anyone who comes forward. the way this thing was blowing out it wasnt appropriate for me to make a press statement. >> i think it was not only appropriate but there ...

Whistleblower right now. >> i think the whistleblower did the right thing. i think he followed the law every step of the way and we just got stuck with it -- >> why, director, when the president called the whistleblower a political hack and suggested he or she might be disloyal to the country why did you remain silent? >> i did not remain silent, mr. chairman. i issued a statement to my workforce telling my commitment to the whistleblower protection an ensure that i would provide protection to a...

>> but yulijulia we dont know . we only have the justice department denial. wear staring here. we dont know that -- 9 president of the united states is saying one thing. so is justice saying the president is lying? >> reporter: well, right. it would be -- >> right. >> reporter: -- hard for them to say -- i guess what theyre trying to say is that the president teased this, told the president of ukraine that he would contact william barr, but that he never followed up. thats essentially what theyr...