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And the president in his opinion seems to have cover at least from republican leadership. you see paul ryan now two days in a row saying he agrees that the memo should be released. he, in fact, is the only one, by the way, who could remove nunes from the investigation who we thought had rescued himself from it. thats a separate question. paul ryan seems to try to double down on the other hand saying this shouldnt have any sort of influence or impact on the mueller investigation. you are reportin...

Department investigations work and he understands something about the law. so i think he will be a credible witness. the second piece is the new reports emphasis on the special counsels focus on this june 2016 meeting. might shed some light on why in recent days we have been hearing from the presidents legal team some new legal theories that theyve been floating about why maybe the president cant or shouldnt or its not appropriate for him to be interviewed by the special counsel. and that might ...

And shes the type of person who doesnt know what she should or shouldnt say in certain situations. and thats a different kind of person for investigators to deal with. how do investigators deal with someone like hope hicks? >> i think what matt said about circular firing squad is spot on. its a target rich environment. were looking at subjects from a vast range of experiences. you know, someone like her, theyre going to treat her like anyone else. theyre not going to cut any slack. were talking ...

Information they knew to be wrong and didnt report it to the judge, that may in fact happen. youll have five sources to corroborate the information or draw the picture for the judge so he and she can make the decision. so i think what theyre going to find happen is, heres my five reasons why i think it was a bad warrant. over time youll get the full aspect of what that application for a warrant was. and those are pretty thorough. and d.o.j. people sign off on it, senior leadership sign off on it...

Anybody the american people elect. thats it. >> phil, have you ever been asked by president or you know, an elected visual who you voted for? >> no. and i served under mueller. i cant remember having a conversation at the table that involved politics. 2,000 plus conversations. the issue you have when you are at the fbi or cia, first you have to execute the law. at the cia your question is what did the president direct us to do overseas. it doesnt matter who you vote for and it shouldnt matter if...

That could point in the direction of obstruction. its a classic what did you know and when did you know it? >> the firing of comey, the to lester holt it was largely because of the russia investigation. is there something there you want to know more of? >> id like to know who he talked to about that, whether he got advice he should or shouldnt do it. id like to know who and what they were thinking at the time. when he told lester holt is pretty damning. he needs to get the facts around the actio...

All right. there is no question there is a republican-led push to release a memo spearheaded by republicans in the house intelligence committee. the chair there, nunez, had his staff put together a memo that alleges fbi abuses of surveillance laws. sources say president trump is inclined to allow the memo to be made public, but democrats are against the move. that shouldnt matter if the president wants to declassify. there are plenty other weiss to get it in the record. you have the memo. you ha...

For what he should and shouldnt do. they gave him guidelines. he followed those guidelines ch. here you have the current fbi director saying im not going to fire the deputy director. i dont see cause when it reportedly received pressure from jeff sessions. >> i want to ask you about this. it is a classified memo. what can you tell us? >> this is another case. you to watch out for the politics here. nunez has been pushing out this memo. it shows that the fbi acted pass b possibly illegally in see...

Tell me one thing andy mccabe has done in this investigation that is wrong beyond his spouse participating in the electoral process by serving as a candidate. i dont get it, don. >> and to be clear, don, his wife served. she ran, she lost. and it was only two months later that mccabe was appointed deputy director at which point for the first time he had some oversight of the hillary clinton e-mail investigation. thats the central charge here is trump making really baseless accusation that mccabe...

Which you deserve better. you and your families shouldnt have to worry for one minute about whether youre going to get paid as you serve in the uniform of the united states. so know this, your president, your vice president, and the american people are not going to put up with it. >> a minority in the senate has decided to play politics with military pay. the vice president of the united states travelled halfway around the world to tell that lie. which is a lie, if hes talking about the democrat...