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To jump into the administration but also the fact that the white house has moved slowly to select people that at first they had a pretty high bar in terms of loyalty during the campaign, you couldnt have had spoken out against president trump or they wouldnt consider you for a high level job. now that very careful selection process is slowing them down. they havent made a lot of appointments, you look at the justice department and state department and the upper esh lons of those agencies are vir...

Collusion, we are talking obstruction of justice. >> there is lots of time the cover-up, not the crime, get everybody in trouble. it brings up an important point. in terms of does donald trumps most loyal fan, he has many. are they concerned about this or not? >> im not sure they are but they should be. the point, this investigation could be about collusion with russia. primarily it is whether russia interfered with the election process, whether democrat or republican or independent. if possible...

Burglars. theres no comparison. its an insult to watergate to say whats happening now has any comparison at all. >> are you defending donald trump? a man who doesnt even seem to care that a foreign government who is hostile to us is sabotaging not only our election process but the election processes around the world? he never criticized that once. >> i guess at the end of the day my question is, doug, is the idea of obstruction of justice not obstruction of justice? is that not what we are seein...

With the attorney general on the firing. i believe he will end up recusing himself. what happens? the third person is not a prosecutor. she is a smart lawyer. she never tried cases. to my knowledge, never put a witness in grand jury. is not a criminal lawyer so much as a judicial policy lawyer. thats a problem. >> you said last week in your assessment this is actually worse than watergate because it involves a foreign government in one of the investigations. being involved in our elections and v...

Also. who helped them and if they were involved with the campaign. i agree with you. thats a good point. we dont know the facts. thats why they are investigating. who was involved in it is a side issue to the main issue. when you say there is nothing to any of it. it is all a hoax. it may have been china. it may have been a fat guy. that does a disservice to our election process. >> you and i are back disagreeing. the president had nothing to do with it. >> i didnt say he did. >> all im saying t...

Looking into the obstruction of justice allegation. they have got other issues they want to look into. what about the house intelligence committee? >> we havent actually decided how far were going on that particular component. we do have a responsibility to look into the russian hacking, into our election system, that their potential collusion with trump campaign operatives in trying to interfere with our election process. i am deeply troubled about the election system, the very systems that exi...

What do you say you are creating fantastical scenarios? >> one of the fantastic thing is the russian government spending more than a year to undermine our election process. we are living in a world where we have to consider those possibilities. whether jeff sessions was involved in some coordination, he says absolutely not and that may be the case. ill let that testimony ride for now. that doesnt eliminate paul manafort or roger stone or carter page and other people we dont know. i dont know. we...

Attorney general sessions about russian interference, similar to what he was asked last week. i want to play both of those clips. >> you were part of the national security team so if he would have heard something about russia and with their capabilities and our concern about what they could do to our election process, was there any conversations concerning that whatsoever? >> i dont recall it, senator manchin. >> i dont remember any conversations with the president about the russia election inte...

Serious allegations of collusion between donald trump and his campaign associates and russian spn intelligence services and hacking into those e-mails and releasing them. now jim comey has confirmed on the record that donald trump is not a target of investigation. two senior democrats on the intelligence committee have confirmed that weve seen no evidence of that collusion. i just think we need to focus on those underlying claims. the investigations are not over. bob mueller i assume is looking ...

At all about whether the president was appropriate in his conversations, he didnt discuss their conversationess, so you think hes back in the good graces? >> i think he was strong, decisive -- >> youre not answering. >> im not going to speak for the president. but i would say watching this, as any trump supporter, i would say that the attorney general did a very good job. >> he asked him a question about the russian interference. it was similar to what he asked james comey last week. >> you were...