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Obstruction of justice. and i think both of those are going to produce a steady stream of revelations that are undoubtedly going to be headaches for the white house. i would amend one thing that matthew said. i think the legal and the political processes are now intertwined. because as i said, it is congressional republicans have signaled they are not going to move forward beyond a general investigation. they are not going to take this as cause for any kind of discussion of impeachment or even, ...

Be someone from the outside looking in at our processes also, what we need to do, what we need to change. it is done in a completely bipartisan manner so that democrats, republicans, independents and all of the american public can have some confidence that were going to put some things in place that will prevent this from ever happening again. >> congressman, im sure you have seen what the president said yesterday in the rose garden on a number of topics, where he said essentially that jim comey...

Of the united states as it does to an ordinary citizen. i think paul ryan describing this as protocol diminishes what is a national security issue. this is not about what fork to use at a dinner party. this is about a new threat to the country thats been identified in the context of the 2016 election. by the way, its also not about revisiting the outcome of that election. its about protecting the country from ongoing russian efforts to influence our electoral processes and democracy today, 2018 ...

Image and im certain that the processes are underway to try to think of alternative, whether that means bringing george o osbourne as opposed to theresa mays vision to quote, unquote, and goes after the big bad business practices and so forth. or boris johnson, jon. >> the chancellor of the ex-checker under cameron, even a practicing journalist, god for bid. i dont know if he wants to get into politics. how did he lose a 20-point lead? >> well, i think theres a couple of factors. one is -- i thi...

He wouldnt allow comey to testify. if he really believed you had an obstruction of justice case, would you let the only and best witness go through this? >> isnt that a good point. does mueller have some type of conclusion that hes now trying to back fill through the work hes doing? why let comey testify? >> well, i think the senator raises a reasonable point, but on the other hand, mueller has to deal with competing interests, right? there are simultaneous congressional hearings. he has his own...

Term. it is the unauthorized disclosure of classified information and i know i certainly am not going to argue legal aspects with mark. he knows the law far better than i do. but there are processes and protocols in place. if i have to write a book, i have to get the department of skbr justice to sign off on my own intellectual property. the ideas that were contained within those four corners, he didnt even go to "the new york times" himself. he shared it with a surrogate. i dont understand it. ...

So theres a significance. however, at the same time, theres multiple investigations going. they could take years. muellers investigation could take years. the senate investigation could take months. so, theres a breathlessness in the sense that this is going to be resolved very quickly but i think we are -- theres no smoking gun here. its not taking into account the fact that there is troves and troves of information coming out and lots of processes trying to get to the bottom of it. >> you had ...

Theres multiple investigations going. they could take years. muellers investigation could take years. the senate investigation could take months. so, theres a breathlessness in the sense that this is going to be resolved very quickly but i think we are -- theres no smoking gun here. its not taking into account the fact that there is troves and troves of information coming out and lots of processes trying to get to the bottom of it. >> you had people testifying this morning before the senate who ...

Collection and its not why we are monitoring it in the first place and we are interested in that foreign target. that happens of the times we have incidental collection, that scenario happens about 10% of the time. >> and were the incidental collection that happened, you have a procedure in place in both instances to minimize that -- >> we do. the law specifically gives us a set of processes that we have to follow so we doen counter a u.s. person incidentally in the course of our collection. we ...

>> tucker: lets give this man essay. >> we are both democrats but i gotta tell you, i disagree. if you have a problem with a piece of information being withheld, you know what is being done and wrong reasons, their processes. she had one. the inspector generals office, go to the fbi, various departments that they have that you can go to. we are trained are not ready to go to the oversight committees. you go to your member of congress, there are systems in place that we are taught to engage in di...