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Do you feel like the american people should have confidence in the intelligence committees heading up these investigations? there have been concerns raised both on the senate side and the house side about whether the republican chairman of these committees should be entrusted with something this serious. >> you know, i think its too early to say whether we can have that confidence in these investigations. its part of the reason why i think we ought to have an independent commission look at this....

Na nato. we have common values and common goals with russia and iran is insane. >> senators, we were talking earlier about the fact that they go on to the dark net, some of the recruitment that theres been a real push by the fbi and we need some encryption breaking capabilities. the silicon valley companies wont do it. you were all involved with passing laws on nsa reauthorizization. what do we do now on whether or not we allow the nsa and intelligence agencies around the world to have more acce...

Its a sign of a problem pr my wifes republican party. >> would you care to respond? >> john avalon has a good point. i wish he wasnt right, but these are unheard of times. it is really difficult for anybody in the republican establishment or not even just the republican establishment, anybody watching this to understand what hes galvanized and what donald trump is really channelling here. he does still have the power of celebrity. he has the power of 14 other competitors, and the power to cut th...

Obviously, focusing on a blitz on states like texas. do you get the sense that democrats at the state level are messaging on that specific issue, governor rick pair write and the republicans that run that state refusing to expand medicaid? >> yeah. one thing that i learned here, i didnt know before i came, the enroll america people actually are literally in the city of houstons offices working. they have given the space. big story here i dont think i knew was like the governor may be opposed to ...

To do. already the ones on the record 4-1. >> well, they do think this time is somewhat on their side. obviously its not indefinite. the real push is beginning this woke because he was out of the country last week and didnt get much out of that, as we know. its this full court press that theyre doing. but people have had a lot of time to think about this already and i think its harder at the point to change minds. >> katie, ive been watching the attempt to find republican foreign policy surrogat...

Violence, the gun control debate is now front and center in washington ready to widen the divide between the democrats and republicans. and the presidents proposals include universal background checks, proposing a ban on military style assault weapons, limiting magazines to 10 rounds. as we have been covering, there is this strong, real push back from the right and even certain democrats about this issue. why do you think theres been such a strong and visceral response? >> there is certainly bee...

Of whats led up to that. its a complicated issue. its not something where theres this boogeyman who you can point the finger and say thats it. they are also struggling to hold on to their school so in a lot of rural towns because of school consolidation, thats really hurt the towns as well. its the identity of the town and the threat, one of the story lines we followed besides the kids and the basketball season was the threat of their school being taken away. and thats very serious to these peop...

>> well, i think people expect him to remain really focused on just building out the product. theres been interesting watching facebook, especially over the past few years. hes had this kind of battle in values between investors and his agenda for the company. other companies who wanted to acquire facebook and his agenda for the company and his real push has been, i want to maintain control, not so that i can be on the list of the richest people in the world, but so that i can be sure that this ...

you know, theres all these wonderful things. ♪ >> kelly mcfarling, thank you. you can always check out my blog for all our music monday interviews. just go to cnn/brooke. now this. here we go, top of the hour. im brooke baldwin. a couple stories were watching for you. first, which republican hopeful will best challenge barack obama? also the latest on the cruise ship investigation, and a glitch on a very popular web site, and snow projected to cover half the united states this week...

im not getting into that. >> i think what the real focus is here again is on religious tolerance. thats really what this is about. and i think again to make this a big issue is just ridiculous right now. >> were covering all the angles for you. paul steinhauser is in washington. and shannon travis is in iowa. lets go ahead and start with you, paul. bachmann and cain ducking the debate shows. just how delicate the balancing act proves, i guess, how delicate that balancing act needs to b...