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In a few hours and thousands of people show up from five states, i would just tell them be very careful. >> you left the presidential campaign trail and went to dayton. what are you going to do? how are you personally going to keep this pressure up? what are your plans the next few weeks. >> im back to iowa today, south carolina sunday and monday. representative smith is a supporter of mine in south carolina. this is an issue there as well. im going to continue to bring this argument to the nati...

Intelligence community up, back the fbi up in their effort to stop russia from doing what is such a clear threat to our democracy. >> and you know, interestingly, i want to play a few what republican congressman trey gowdy said about it this morning. heres that. >> the president missed, i think, a really good opportunity to distinguish the united states from any other country, but especially from russia. the united states of america were the victim. we were the victims of what russia did in 2016...

>> reporter: sarah dollof there with an eye-opening look at a house that is a stones throw from where we stand. and what you just saw there, unfortunately, thats how a lot of the houses look right now in columbia. ive walked in eight or ten of them myself and thats the scene. sarah, thank you so much for that report. i want to bring in representative james smith right now. representative smith, youve lived in columbia my entire life. >> thats exactly right. and were glad to have you back, wish i...

Yas words being reflected around the world. thank you very much. lets bring in congressman adam smith of washington state. the top democrat on the house armed services committee. representative smith thank you for being here. i would like to get your reaction to the presidents new iraq strategy. >> i think he lay os out the path we need to move forward. its difficult and a bad situation. the situation fell apart because the maliki government, frankly, did a poor job. not only did they corrupt ...

Reprimands. he told me i didnt have to sign them. it was up to me. and i read them out loud. i realized they were bogus and i stood up and asked, can i talk to my attorney, and he said, no, you need to sign these. or no, he said, are you going to sign these? excuse me. i said, no, sir, im going to talk to my attorney. he said, your service is then no longer needed, turn in your badge and your keys. so i turned in my belongings to the officers. and i left. >> representative smith, is there any re...

Community there, because shes done a wonderful job. and she ought to have these protections. they ought to be in place. and she ought to have an action to pursue. but i believe her 100%. >> thank you chief moore, and thank you, representative smith. im glad the council had the response they did last night and well continue to follow the case and stay in close touch. thank you so much for being with us today. >> thank you, maam. >> thank you, andrea. and to baseball, it is the national pastime....

These are not things that tend to slip through the crack. we have $397.5 million in fraud, waste and abuse in the florida system alone. these are big items. >> yes maam. one of the biggest things is last year alone there was over 33,000 fraud investigations within the state of florida. florida is really i think leading the nation on trying to fight this. ive been working with d.c.f. since being elected and will continue to work with them to fight fraud, waste and abuse. the key thing is to incre...

Whatsoever on a consistent basis. >> colin, lets talk a little about this new legislation. obviously its passed the house. i am heartbroken for you that congress is as dysfunctional as it is. it seems like the kind of thing congress normally should agree on. and it would, as i understand it, give the secretary of state and the president kind of some additi additional tools to be able to help you get your kids back. tell us a little bit about it. >> yeah, it does. its a bipartisan bill. represent...

Religious belief or nonbelief. in gratitude and love, in compassion, let us work together for a better arizona. thank you. >> that prayer got a rewrite the next day in the arizona house by republican representative, steve smith, who said that representative mendezs prayer was not a prayer at all and so he asked the house to join him in a second daily prayer that day. this one in repentance for the atheist, nonprayer that the house visited upon the house of representatives the day before. but not...