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Skeptically. but the record of these stories has been very, very good. americans should turn a skeptical eye to all the information they receive. but the "washington post" is a highly professional, credible news outlet. i just think this is kind of a weak attack to say that a story that is based on anonymous sources or background quotes is inherently not trustworthy, likely to be wrong. the track record does not bear that out. time and time again the work of these papers that are breaking these ...

Why issue it tonight. its coming on the backdrop of rod rosenstein being the one who can decide the fate of basketball mueller. he said listen, it falls on me as to whether he stays. one has to wonder how much if any pressure he is feeling from the administration right now and why out of all nights to issue the statement tonight. >> thanks to our lead-off panel, thanks to, along with birthday wishes to beiana goal riga, michael crowley and vivian salmano. thank you. come up, the donald trump a...

Of it, frankly. it is vaguely trumpian. it came from rosenstein, would rosenstein put out a statement at the direction the white house or at the direct of the president? who knows? im -- its rank speculation because i really have no idea what that was supposed to mean. >> i wondered if when he was talking about the country, if he is referring to not saying u.s. first in front of -- or u.s. official in frontan an anonymous source. and i think its really interesting and this point has been made be...

Would say republicans on the hill begin to break. the hill is staying there with trump until something gets too weird. that could be firing mueller but it could be this rosenstein statement. this may be -- this is a guy that screams of keeping his job. this is a guy who admitted to the senate he wrote the memo to justify a decision the president already made to fire comey. is he now carrying water for the president depend? well find out. maybe it is just a message to his pliees, but something wi...

But you could see this could be a wild goose chase, and i think youre seeing the political gymnastics of republicans who for months have said they dont think there should be a special prosecutor. and now they are going to have to back this. i think mueller is going to be a good choice from their perspective but certainly its going to be something that were going to be covering for the next several months if not years. >> bret: this is dianne feinstein, democrats in california releasing a stateme...

Trying to shut down his investigation, he has plenty of individuals and lots of relationships on committees to be able to say i have some concerns. there is no evidence that occurred. obviously hes taking notes on some individuals are grabbing those notes and trying to put something o we want to ask him directly about it now that hes no longer with the fbi. >> bret: do you have any indication hes definitely going to testify? >> we have made the request. we dont have an answer period would hoped ...

You have chuck schumer, the senate democratic leader just out with a statement saying, "a special counsel is very much needed in a situation and deputy attorney general rosenstein has done the right thing." former director mueller is exactly the right kind of individual for this job. i dont have significantly greater confidence that the investigation will follow the facts wherever they lead. a significant thumbs-up from a senate democratic leader, someone who has been on the senate floor talking...

Interesting, if you look at his statement, the rosenstein statement. he said it not should be read as a determination that any crimes have been committed. its the launching of an investigation or the continuing of investigation, but i think there are several reasons why rosenstein had to take the step. presumably, and you ask this of senator langford. hes not seen just the one memo that was reported about yesterday. presuming his name the other that james comey authored, some of them classified....

Fbi director mueller to and universal plays for robert mueller, well respected by every democrat that is ever released a statement on capitol hill. we are told at the white house was informed of this an hour before it went public, it went public at 6:00 p.m., that will probably for the timeline sometime around 5:00 p.m. we have not yet heard a reaction from the white house. they are all behind closed doors, for a moment, kellyanne conway, as we were standing outside of sean spicers office, came ...

Agency of government with which the alleged sources are supposedly affiliated. americans should be skeptical about anonymous allegations. the department of justice has a long-established policy to neither confirm nor deny such allegations. michael, you are going to get the first crack at this. again, the theorizing tonight on social media ranged from is this a cry for help by the number two guy at justice, or has doj been hacked? >> well, its an extraordinary statement, brian, its kind of trum...