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Rough example to find out on democrats? i know you do your own reportin reporting. >> i think the most embarrassing thing is the role of the steele dossier, which was of course funded by the democrats and created by fusion along with steele himself, and the question is did the fbi rely solely on this unsubstantiated sources to get the warrant? >> harris: at this point, these points of the president can buy it declassify these documents are better to wait until after the midterm elections, just t...

Quoted as saying, we have been told to stand down, one of michl daniels top officials, "i was incredulous and in disbelief, they told me a moment to process, and my mind i was like, what did i hear that correctly, then he spoke up, where was standing down? michael, can you help us understand? daniel informed him that the orders came from susan rice and another senior white house official." the point is, in the middle of the election, democrats are so outraged now but pushing back on russia, why ...

President trump is not done enough to push back on the russian meddling. they announced new sanctions against russia today. prior to today, there has been criticism of that. i was struck by something in your book about susan rice where another former obama ed fishel quoted as saying, we have been told to stand .. officials, "i was incredulous and in disbelief, they told me a moment to process, and my mind i was like, what did i hear that correctly, then he spoke up, where was standing down? mich...

If he says no, i absolutely did not, okay. now we have something. to just say fake news, fake news, "the new york times" is fake news, its a copout. this is the president of the united states. did he or did he not order the special counsel to be removed, i would remind people, a month-ish after he fired the acting fbi director who was the head of the russia investigation. i dont think you just get to say fake news, fake news. but whats fake about it? given the depths of the reporting as you note...

Confronted him on thursday. >> i cant ignore the texts, i cant can ignore this unvarnished narrative from two individuals, very high up, in the fbi that have contact with the director. and andy mccabe and bill prestab. i have some very serious concerns, the american public should have serious concerns. >> the text message seems to be common about secret society was in jest. do you agree it appears to be in jest? >> a possibility. >> senator johnsons comments from wednesday, poppy, theyre drawing...

Then he got on a plane and went without his chief which is typically by his side we should note for this. the tension between these two men has grown. the president does not like to be undermined. weve seen this several other staffers. this isnt the first time weve seen this flare-up. it happened with the interview with john kelly on another network where he said the presidents views had evolved on immigration and the wall. quickly the president got on twitter and says, no they havent. >> chris ...

Family-based migration and the diversity lottery. on family migration, what the administration wants to do is take away all of the family sponsorship categories besides spouses and minor children. so that gets rid of adult children, parents, brothers and sisters. thats a substantial cut to the number of legal immigrants to the u.s. every year. initially those numbers will be used to work through a backlog that is decades long for some people waiting in line for these green cards. theyre also goi...

Judges. >> susan hennessy, now we know from our reporting, "the new york times" reporting, our outlets that the president asked mcgann to fire mueller in june of last year, what does that do to the on going mueller investigation when it comes specifically to potential obstruction of justice? >> its important to note that trump actually didnt undertake this activity. so its a little different than how we would consider the comey firing -- >> what about intent? >> one thing thats a striking resemb...

How are senate republicans and congressional republicans reacting to the news this morning. thats going to be more significant than the technical legal ramifications. >> paul callan, final question to you. is it possible, if the president chooses to reverse course here -- this morning his answer was totally fake news, none of this is true, even though multiple outlets have this reporting. could the president claim, look, bob mueller can no longer lead an unbiased investigation because he thinks ...

>> no one can. lets keep in mind another cnn contributor, april ryan actually reported this at the time. she didnt have the details, the president tried to fire robert mueller. you start piecing together all the different kind of early reporting with this now confirmed from multiple sources and i dont know if they could just turn around and say this never happened. when the president says someone is being unfair to him, he says its negative. >> they could because, as we just played in the last b...