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And other cases. the reason this story is important is hush money was paid in a runup to an election that raises questions under campaign finance law, but more importantly raises questions about whether there are other situations in which he has had fixers come in and make problems go away. and that, of course, in turn raises the question, what were those other problems? and i think it would be hard to look at this situation and say, i suspect this is the only time anything like this has ever ha...

Koreans dictators? >> it is not at all clear, though there were divisions about this, you could hear that in the runup to the announcement from the president last night. there were a lot of officials telling us, you know, we are not going to move too quickly. tillerson, in his defense, was trying to not get out of -- out front of the president. he had talked to the president yesterday morning. he knew it was going to happen, talks about talks about negotiations, not real negotiations. and he was...

They feel badly for everybody. >> dana: police say cruz has confessed to killing 17 people at marjory stoneman douglas high school on valentines day. now to the runup to the all important midterms where control of congress is up for grabs. both parties are targeting a key voting block. peter doocy is live on capitol hill. >> reporter: republicans trying to protect their huge house majority are doing so by thinking small. they are now starting to host house parties in places that they think they ...

Blue wave in texas now for about as long as we heard about the coming read wave in pennsylvania up until donald trumps win. >> to date its been the great white whale of democratic politics. the turnout is a sign of clear energy on the democratic side. for democrats in texas, thats a phenomenal number. again for republicans, that also shatters a record. i think the other lessen from this, too, though is look when we talk about the early vote, take it with a gigantic grain of salt in the future. t...

To get it over with. >> harris: we appreciate your time. congressman heck on this issue. hope you are right if there are things that need to be fixed before the next election cycle they get done and that the politics dont step on that. thank you very much. >> thanks for having me on, harris. >> harris: sure. a bombshell new report thats raising new questions on whether the obama administration did enough to stop russian meddling in the runup to the 2016 election. we will talk about that ahead. a...

Agenda can be undone. what was your sense from the presidents speech? >> its all about the midterms. hes achieved amazing things. he said today that he kept more promises than he actually made during the election campaign, which was a great line. but hes doing his stuff. he got tax reforms through just before christmas. very, very important. but he needs to make sure that he keeps majority of both of those houses in the midterm. i tell you something. i shared a platform with his in mississippi b...

He keeps majority of both of those houses in the midterm. i tell you something. i shared a platform with his in mississippi back in the presidential campaign. he went around the country speaking to big audiences. hes a wonderful motivator. but told i saw a president who was using humor, who was light, who even told a joke against himself. and i think if trump goes around the country in the runup to these midterms and performs anything like he did today at cpac, he will keep his momentum going an...

Agenda can be undone. what was your sense from the presidents speech? >> its all about the midterms. hes achieved amazing things. he said today that he kept more promises than he actually made during the election campaign, which was a great line. but hes doing his stuff. he got tax reforms through just before christmas. very, very important. but he needs to make sure that he keeps majority of both of those houses in the midterm. i tell you something. i shared a platform with his in mississippi b...

Permanent security clearance. its a lot of folks. is that unusual? >> the fbi is taking a lot of hits lately, especially today with regard to the process and how that all works. i will say that -- i know this from experience working with colleagues. in the runup to a new administration the fbi will surge resources to the team conducting the background investigations. its more likely that the problem involves the people and their backgrounds. its not unusual to have an investigation that runs a y...

Josh, does this process really take up to two years? why would that be? >> i flagged that as well when you put the quote up on the screen. two years is a stretch. it is not unusual for the fbi to take up to a year to conduct an investigation. sometimes you are digging into people who have complex backgrounds, maybe financial records, maybe travel. its not unusual to go up to a year. the farther you get beyond that it raises some questions. is this something that the fbi is trying to mitigate, ma...