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Pamela brown sat down with her. what did she you? >> this is the first time we are hearing george papadopouloss side of the story and its through his fiance who wanted to share things that papadopoulos has not been able to discuss because through the advice of his lawyers he is not been able to speak with the media. his fiance is an italian national and was interviewed by the fbi and strongly refutes push back by white house and campaign officials. papadopoulos only acted on his own without camp...

It was a desire and desperation for so much news about hillary clinton. it was so strong that he made these decisions repeatedly. >> what is interesting now in this moment of time, here we are in the beginning of december, when we talk about the special counsel investigation, it appeared to be inching closer, not looking into just potential connections between the trump campaign and russia, but to the presidents wallet. to his personal finances. theres been some real push-back we got from the pr...

Because we saw a few things change today once the presidents lawyers started making statements about there not being a subpoena and hard for me to parse what they are contesting. we saw routers change the headline and we saw wall street journal change the subheadline. you guys standing by reporting. do you understand what it is they are raising an issue with? >> well, needless to say after the strong push back, we went and, you know, we were confident that the original reporting was correct. we ...

Counter parts today. from the arab states, theres been push back, the change in the u.s. policy. weve been hearing from voices within the state department who have advised on this and their point in this is that jerusalem is already a dynamic issue in this. its already something in an already tense situation between israelis, palestinians and the arab states. something that you shouldnt pour gasoline on at this time. thats the issue. and the secretary of state is overseas right now. we were aski...

Back to greatness. peter, thats had reaction from representatives of fbi agents and former heads of the fbi and justice department officials to say, the fbis reputation isnt in tatters, its actually a pretty strong organization. >> thats exactly right. a lot of push-back, fierce push-back from law enforcement members, active and former. among them, james comey who has taken to social media, most notably yesterday, posting the exact words he testified just a matter of months ago, saying the fbi i...

Circumstantial factors that would demonstrate the pressure, the push-back for doing it, would make the ignorance defense a very weak one. and theres also some suggestion, and weve heard this before, well, he was a neophyte, he didnt understand how these sorts of matters proceeded. again, this isnt the type of defense that tends to hold up in a corruption case. its tried a lot and it fails a lot. >> joyce, let me read you one other portion of this article of what has been published by "the new yo...

Resign his senate seat to trigger a new special election. ill go to you. you have to be thinking that everybody is sitting behind the scenes for a plan on how were going to salvage this. what do you think? >> i do a syndicated radio show. we have a lot of callers calling in from alabama calling in. heres what theyre overwhelmingly saying about this. let the people of alabama vote on this issue. let the people of alabama choose their senator and adjudicate this through the political process. that...

Operations out on public roads and highways. theres a lot of push-back within local law enforcement on those issues as well. have you looked into that, the legality of it? clearly those searches that you go through and every air traveler in america has been through that. its a suspicionless search that you go through at the airport, as you know. its based on special needs out of a supreme court decision that suspends the fourth amendment. under those special needs, that is you have a significant...

>> -- over 18 months before -- >> -- a member of the national security team. did you ever exchange any e-mail, text message or any other communication to or from mr. papadopoulos about russia or any other subject? >> repeat the category, list of things. >> exchange any e-mail, text message or any communication to or from mr. papadopoulos about any subject? >> i do not believe so. im confident i, i, i did not -- >> -- did anybody ever forward to you a communication from mr. papadopoulos? >> i don...

Something earlier. i dont know. but there were good reasons why there was caution and discretion here. >> director brennen, so general clapper just said there wasnt the template, but russians have been attempting to interfere in elections before. 2016 was not the first time. it was the most successful time ever, probably, in russian history. but it wasnt the first time. why were the intelligence agencies, and not just the intelligence agencies, law enforcement, communications, every part of the ...