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And optimistic and believing the best in, like, everybody she met. and i felt like, okay, she can do that because im, you know, running interference and scheming and plotting, you know, willing to do -- >> any chance she was doing it because you were there and needed a good example? >> i dont think in those terms, to be honest. im not going to go that far. she wasnt -- your mom i think was very parental. my mom was more -- she was, you know, an amazing creature, but -- >> well, because my mom wa...

Interference for donald trump. or the house of representatives is no longer running interfeens for trump. which is what happened the last couple years. the conduct of republicans when they were in the majority in the house and senate was disgraceful. they ignored duty to the constitution. the duty to their citizens. and they really saw themselves of donald trump. in fact you have one of the republicans matt gaetz of florida admitted that. in the "new york times" story. he was saying that the rea...

Or there is some notekeeping about it. max, two congressmen are expressing concerns. they say the hearing will be unproductive and chaotic. do you think those are valid concer concerns? >> i think its possible but congress has a right to get to the bottom of this, and the fact is congress is no longer running interference for donald trump, or at least the house of representatives is no longer running interference for donald trump, and thats what happened the last couple years. congress, when the...

Vladimir putin during the election and discrediting the findings of the intelligence community with regard to russias election interference. but its also really significant that he -- and he emphasizes this in his book as well. he told the bipartisan gang of eight about the decision to launch this counterintelligence investigation and received no pushback. that is his recollection of events. according to people who are familiar with all those discussions, thats accurate. it was kind of a sense o...

Running interference for trump and laying smoke screens because they are trying to fight this first and foremost in the media and trying to win control of the narrative and sort of win hearts and minds how to think about this the problem with rudy, hes actually really bad at remembering what the facts are, remembering the details of a story. hes appear to only read an hour before he goes on tv and he steps over himself all the time. i dont think trump cares about that i think trump is happy to h...

Only have five minutes a round for each lawmaker. and what they really wanted were longer questions, an hour for the republicans, an hour for the democrats behind closed doors so they could drill down on issues. the director went to court to quash the congressional subpoena. they eventually withdrew the effort and agreed to terms of the closed door classified interview. after six hours yesterday, the view had been heading into it that it may have gone well into the evening to answer all the ques...

Campaigns under fbi investigations. two hours into the session, some republicans came out and said they could not get their questions asked and answered. they accused a government lawyer of running interference and shutting down lines of inquiry. lets listen. >> director comey is in there with two attorneys. the one from the department of justice has repeatedly, i would say, at his gleeful acceptance instructed that he will not be answering a great many questions that are clearly items at the co...

Im still happy to sit in the light and answer all questions, but i will resist a closed door thing because ive seen enough of their selective leaking and distortion. lets have a hearing and invite everyone to see. what can you tell us? >> happy thanksgiving, kristen. >> happy thanksgiving. >> is that democrats are taking control of the house in january, so theres not a lot of time left for republicans. this is considered republicans last stand to try to turn attention away from controversies sur...

We know that happened in this case. thats the whole question about whether people had fisa warrants that were appropriate. the second way you get information, you get an informant up close to somebody and ask them questions. once the fbi opens up an investigation, typically if the fbi is serious, theyre going to do one of those two things. these are not spies. this is an investigation trying to determine if the informants are essential or not. this is the president trying to make filet mignon ou...

These sort of whats called catch and kill stories, right? >> yeah, absolutely. so this was a real turn-about. this was a very -- the ami is completely changing its tune in terms of now not just going on the attack, but going on the attack viciously against cohen. >> how do you interpret that? >> theyre in the same business, right? they are the print version of michael cohen. they have been running interference for donald trump. to the extent of paying six figure sums to sexy time ladies so they ...