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What may be the very wrong thing. the things that may have happened here may be extremely serious and not criminal. its not a crime to be financially beholden to the russians. its not a crime to tell them things. its not a crime to coordinate with them in your election effort if you arent involved in the hack. those things arent crime. they are loyalty issues. theyre reliability issues. theyre security issues. and again, this goes back to being bizarre. normally an administration, if the fbi kno...

Not just that you had the rushz foreign minister in the oval office and you also had the russian ambassador the united states who is really such a central player in these ongoing investigations and the russians are smart when it comes to propaganda. anytime a u.s. and russian president talk, we always get the kremlins readout first. they played the white house on this fronts today. they got these images out quickly and to these security concerns, this is something you started to hear from people...

Theres been a naivety to the russians, that he maybe didnt understand what cis leacs motivation may have been in the transition and that the white house didnt fully understand the risks, the security risks, the intelligence risks of bringing in a russian photographer who had direct ties to the government. >> unbelievable. >> jonathan, t white house didn fully understand the reaction to the firing of james comey. the reports from the white house grounds yesterday of sean spicer briefing in the bu...

Question about the presidents policy concerning syria. this morning we learned from the pentagon that the president approved a plan to directly arm syrian kurds against isis. has the president discussed this plan with the leader of turkey and what was the reaction from turkey? >> i dont know if hes addressed this to the president yet. i do know that yesterday, the president authorized the department of defense to equip kurdish elements of the syrian democratic forces as necessary to ensure a cle...

That. well wait and see and go from there. >> first a question about the presidents policy concerning syria. this morning we learned from the pentagon that the president approved a plan to directly arm syrian kurds against isis. has the president discussed this plan with the leader of turkey and what was the reaction from turkey? >> i dont know if hes addressed this to the president yet. i do know that yesterday the president authorized the department of defense to equip kurdish elements of the ...

Other as yourself. our common humanity. and hes never going to say that this is justified, a war can be justified or that kind of killing can be justified. hes talking about jesus who is resurrected saying i come to bring peace. peace be with you. do not be afraid, peace be with you. i think the pope is saying we have these difficulties, but its not the final word. people thought he was going to cancel egypt after those bombings. they said well, look at the security risk. but he has said that is...

Apart, smuggle it across our borders and set it off in the city they want to. the only reason kim jong-un hasnt killed thousands of americans, he doesnt think its in his interest to do so. >> do you think americans understand the level of threat? what youre saying right now is fairly new to me. do we have an appreciation for the severity of this? >> yeah, i dont think so. and part of it is because weve gone through a very bruising political process, which is continuing. and so, of course, were f...

Chairman actually made those phone calls show they have an inherent conflict of interest and cant be independent and impartial in the investigation. >> david frum, whats your reaction to these developments? >> im her with a commercial commercial message, please stop talking to the special prosecutor. special prosecutor is a law enforcement official whose job it is to go find if crimes are committed. its not illegal for an american citizen to have conversations with a hostile foreign intelligence...

For the legal process, you want to get security risks out of the government fast and that is the -- the higher up that person is positioned, the closer to the office of the presidency that person is, the more important it is to get them out of office fast. >> david, quickly, to complete your public service announcement, who do you want to appoint to that commission? >> will have to be appointed by congress. i dont have a lot of confidence in congress right now but public pressure is an amazing t...

Not in terms of a special prosecutor under a special council law, but an independent commission run by intelligence professionals that has the power to identify security risks and recommend they be excluded from government and to go fast because you dont want to wait for the legal process, you want to get security risks out of the government fast and that is the -- the higher up that person is positioned, the closer to the office of the presidency that person is, the more important it is to get ...