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Agenda. the state department piece is interesting because victoria nuland was on sunday yesterday saying that they had received the dossier. you can see where maybe hes going in that direction, that might be the direction that hes pursuing in the state department. >> it will be interesting to see one of the arguments for those defenders of the nunes process is that this -- there must be oversight. we all agree there should be congressional oversight of the intelligence committee and elsewhere. i...

>> youre right. anthony scaramucci and chris christie were both on tv almost within 48 hours of his lawyer saying sure well cooperate. >> now, to some degree thats a reflection on trump outside the context of russia, that you never want donald trump speaking under oath fudge avoid it because we all know what sort of statements hes prone to making. but i do think you really get a sense that trump is terrified about where this investigation is going. i think its absolutely true that mueller seems ...

What? the ads went away. >> i get that, i get that. >> my only point is they know how much money -- >> i agree with you, the ads that come up -- when my husband go online and when i go online are two different things. its all golf and football for my husband, for me it wont be. >> oh, my lord, john heilemann? >> let me ask you this this sets up the question -- >> wait, i have to ask the question. what comes up for you, devin nunes inspiration posters? >> oh, yeah. a >> a lot of people think the ...

Would have been politically motivated, potentially. >> mike, what do you think or what are he we hearing was nuness pretext to releasing these memos and do you think because of rosenstein being the ag at the time, this can give trump motivation to fire him? >> in january, there was an attempt to hold the justice department in contempt if they didnt turn it over. the point about rod rosenstein you mentioned, we heard republicans before the release of this memo saying that it would show the need f...

Where is it for republicans, and heres what senator harris had to say. >> people think the purpose of this thing was to create the pretax for the memo, create pretext for donald trump to fire rosenstein. is that basically right? >> you know, i cant speculate. i dont know what was going through their head, but i believe that is a reasonable interpretation for motivation. i do believe that. >> what do you think? >> i think the sense among republicans that we talk to in firing mueller or rosenstein...

>> would you support it? >> i would want to see it, absolutely. we want to have our eyes on more. the doj set up those rules and so devin nunes felt that trey gowdy with his experience as a prosecutor and investigator would be the better person to go look at it and we received weekly briefs on it. im all for that. open it up. this is what i keep talking about. lets shed light on whats going on with the agencies that the taxpayers pay for, by the way. >> very quickly, do you think that this memo ...

Compromise sources and methods. >> do you see any evidence of sources and methods compromised in the memo? >> i tell you, i cant answer that without being on the inside and understanding the sources. it was the fbi itself, not adam schiff, whom i respect very much, but the fbi itself that said rhett lees of this memo would be reckless. that was their word, reckless. and yet the house republicans were bound and determined to do this in order to stop this investigation of the president and those a...

Compromise sources and methods. >> do you see any evidence of sources and methods compromised in the memo? >> ill tell you, i cant answer that without being on the inside and understanding the sources. it was the fbi itself, not adam schiff, whom i respect very much, but the fbi itself who said the release of this memo would be reckless, thats their word, reckless. yet the house republicans were downed and determined to do this to stop the investigation of the president and those around him. >> ...

Doors. >> would you support it? >> i would want to see it, absolutely. >> would you support releasing -- >> we want to have our eyes on more. the doj set up those rules. devin nunes felt that trey gowdy with his experience as a prosecutor and investigator would be the better person to go look at it. we received weekly briefs on it. so im all for that. open it up. this is what i keep talking about. lets shed some light on whats going on with the agencies that the taxpayers pay for, by the way. >>...

With a crime and the senate if convicted then removes him from office. at that point, after impeachment and conviction he could be indicted but not before. theres also a legislative issues with regard to special counsel mueller who unlike ken starr is not an independent counsel. mueller has a boss, rod rosenstein, which is why the nunes memo and the pretext the president might use to fire rosenstein, hes the boss, mueller is not independent and the justice department regulations which mueller an...