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United in the call to open government and provide smart border security. >> phil, its not like congress cant agree on anything. they agreed to condemn the racist language of steve king. hes already been stripped of his committee assignments. i want to play for you a clip from a radio interview he gave tonight. well talk about it on the other side. >> we reached a place here now where im pretty comfortable with this. i mean, i am, i am at peace in my soul with this, and im confident that, you kno...

Smart ways to do border security and so this notion that somehow democrats have not kept that on the table is real a just wrong. and there are not going to be democrats who break with the democratic leadership because democrats are actually united in the call to open government and provide smart border security. >> phil, its not like congress cant agree on anything. they agreed to condemn the racist language of steve kung. hes already been stripped of his committee assignments. i want to play a ...

Kept that on the table is really just wrong, and there are not going to be democrats who break with the democratic leadership because democrats are actually united in the call to open government and provide smart border security. >> phil, its not like congress cant agree on anything. they agreed to condemn the racist language of steve king. hes already been stripped of his committee assignments. i want to play for you a clip from a radio interview he gave tonight. well talk about it on the other...

That caused the fbis suspicions to increase? >> my guess is they were very reluctant to open the investigation and consider him to be a target of the investigation because there is concern that the government will be perceived in a way that is partisan, and they want to do everything they can to stick to facts and law and not be anyones puppet in terms of being used for political gain. but at some point, you cant deny facts. and the fbi begins to have a responsibility to investigate something th...

President. for much of that time, that means we focused on criminal obstruction. thats sort of been the collective conscience, the publics understanding of this to this point. theres a criminal obstruction investigation into the president. but what were bringing forth tonight, what we learned was that there was also this counterintelligence aspect of that investigation where they were looking directly at the presidents ties to russia. so what initially began here as what we all thought was an ob...

Up to now really been about the firing of comey, as a way to obstruct the fbis investigation more broadly, but what youre reporting here is that the fbi came to see the potential obstruction as in and of itself a national security concern. >> correct. that is the testimony that was given last year by the fbi general counsel at the time baker. hes basically saying, loorxic there was this very important national security investigation that was going on. and to the extent that trying to get rid of ...

Into what you call russia gate, the russia probe, as two parallel and distinct things. in your mind now, should we start thinking about even the obstruction of justice probe, in light of what we learned from "the new york times," as part and parcel, that that too is a counterintelligence investigation? >> yeah, i think so. you know, i think that at least in the early stages of this, i thought president trump was seeking to protect mike flynn and maybe others in his family because the investigati...

All the black and brown and tan people in this country is to treat them with violence, to refuse to give them an opportunity to participate in the american experiment. so anyone who says, well, i dont really remember what steve said or maybe its bad now or ben shapiro coming out and saying, well, this crosses a line. youve been letting him and people like him cross a line in the party for years and now you have to view it as a national security issue, not just a political damage issue. >> but i ...

Enforcement officials and others familiar with the investigation. >> that is a counterintelligence investigation opened by the fbi into whether the president himself was basically a russian asset. according to "the times" the question of whether the president of the united states obstructed justice by firing the fbi director, james comey, was itself seen as a national security concern. not just as a criminal matter. quote, if the president had fired mr. comey to stop the russia investigation, th...

Ability to understand how russia meddled in the election. interfered in the election, helped get donald trump elected. >> i thing for a lot of people when they hear this story, and it is indeed a bombshell, and congratulations on the scoop, the fbi seemed to have been the more reticent of the agencies that were investigating during the 2016 campaign. the very famously essentially downplayed the idea and didnt even mention the fact that the donald trump campaign was under investigation during the...