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And i think that roy moore should step aside. >> lets talk about that. as an elected leader, moral agency matters. you should have to have a position on this. i hear what you say your position is. what is the right thing to do? its not your committee. on the senate side, the funding pulling money from him. its their right to do that. but is it the right thing to do? is it right to force him to step aside to maybe even manipulate the election process here by pressuring the governor, who is a repu...

Authority. >> what would be the moment of him not weighing in on this? >> if he doesnt weigh in on it, there wont be any harm to the election process, because it will just continue -- >> but his agenda -- >> his agenda is in peril here. we knew about polling last night and heard more about it today. the republicans in washington believe moore is now down in double digits. i heard about polling prior to these issues in which hed seen his lead down by 2 points, largely because jones and the democr...

By somebody who was a part of the presidents campaign? >> right. everybody knows you cant investigate yourself. plain and simple. never trust it. the american people count trust it and were a grown -up nation >> theres no conflict of interest -- >> no conflict of interest. the statute, the regulations that allow this do say, other extraordinary circumstances, but it would be circumstances in which you wouldnt have confidence in the department of justice. >> right. >> so -- why would you? >> just...

That. so i just want to say i appreciate the congressman right, i guess he can say free speech, he cant be sued here. so thats just my response. im sorry that -- thats my response. >> the chair wreck feists gentleman from louisiana, mr. johnson for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and mr. attorney general, thank you for your service to this country. thank you for being here. much has been said in recent months about the hostile foreign actors to undermine our election process. the ameri...

Its shocking. these were sons of a president of the united states. i think about the bush daughters. i think about what megan mccain would do if a russian operative reached out to megan mccain. >> right. >> shes a loyal american. loyal americans dont do business with the russians in our election process. this is despicable beyond words. >> and julia, you added and reading a tweet of yours, weve updated our story with the great catch, that donald trump tweeted about the release of positidest e-ma...

>> well, i think the president clearly was doing sort of a shoot from the hip when he made those comments and he quickly corrected them within hours. in terms of those comments, i think its way more important to see what the president does. we have a serious situation in this country where it appears there was russian meddling in our election process and a serious problem that has to be corrected. the president needs to take, i hope he understands this, loadship on this issue and ensure our lele...

Discussed the election while on this asia trip, but then just not long ago, the kremlin reversed course, saying putin told trump that he quote, categorically rejected even the hypothetical possibility that russia could somehow interfere in the election process. let me bring in sir andrew wood. he is the former uk ambassador to russia. sir andrew, good to see you. thanks so much for being with me. whats your reaction when you hear a u.s. president take the word of the russian president putin over...

Told trump he, quote, categorically rejected even the hypothetical possibility that russia could somehow interfere in the election process. lets get the very latest now on this from ivan watson who is following the president and is in hanoi, vietnam. ivan, what else did the president say to reporters about this conversation while on air force one? >> reporter: yeah, well, president trump said he had two or three very short conversations with russian president putin at that apex summit, perhaps o...

Confidence of the american people in our election process. second he did so to demean hillary clinton. >> i was advanced in the summer that the russians were trying to interfere in the elections. and they were aggressive. and i wanted to make sure we exposed as much of that as possible. >> there should be no fuss on this whatsoever the russians interfered with our election cycle. they did it with purpose and sophistication and overwhelming technical efforts. and it was an active measures campaig...

Putin is a lot more skeptical about trump. he considers him a fool. he considers him uncontrolled and inconsistent. >> analysts say if trump does not stand up to putin at their next meeting, it might put the u.s. at greater risk from north korea. they say not standing up to the russian president after the attack on the election process may single to the north koreans that trump wont totally destroy north korea as promised if kim fires missiles at the united states. >> thanks, brian. what are t...