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>> what? >> you have to watch my show. i will say i gave him credit. >> i watched it. a good show. >> but heres what i dont do. i dont think -- if he had said in that tweet, he said because of my policies this is happening. thats the problem. you have a bipartisan -- both political parties should be proud of the fact that for the past seven years weve had that unemployment rate coming down. obama had his share and so did trump. its a bipartisan success. and weve got a long way to go. >> van, i l...

So if you want to talk about numbers, those are numbers. >> so van, first of all, congratulations. great show. >> thank you, sir. >> you made a loft news. congrats on that. second of all, jay-z saying that money doesnt buy you happiness is a little laughable. the guy is a billionaire. >> almost. >> pretty close to being a billionaire. pretty successful guy. him calling the president a superbuck is not a very good argument. jay-z wrote a very simple book, right? "empire state of mind: from the st...

Ahead of. >> van, we dont know any of this, but this is the speculation. when this memo comes out and it says that there are problems at the top echelons of the fbi with respect to how they did surveillance or anything that has to do with the campaign, what is it going to do to the people in this country in. >> well, listen, there may well be. we dont know. but theres a process that weve always gone through. if these things are serious, you dont take serious allegations and then treat them in si...

>> chris, well, i would expect nothing less from the minority leader, and its unfortunate that she would take such a position. look, i think the white house has made their position pretty clear on this. theyre for full transparency in this, and they believe, i think, that you want to see, you know, everything put on the table. all cards put on the table. >> but this isnt even close to everything? >> i know, but i take exception. not the entire fbi is under, you know, scrutiny here. there are a f...

The utmost care to make sure you handle it and you handle it well. you dont call press conferences and just throw stuff out. its wrong. >> also, van, im note quite certain. i think theres been some -- a great deal of deliberation done in the house by the committee. i would like to see both minority and majority reports released. i think thats probably -- if you have to do it, i think thats probably the fair way to do it. and thats what i would urge in this case. >> chris, can i say something? >>...

You havent fixed anything. what you have done is spray perfume on a trash can. what you do when you do that is you know the bugs come and you spray something and then they come and you create a superbug. right? because you dont take care of the problem. you dont take the trash out. you just keep spraying whatever over it to make it acceptable. and then you know, as those things grow, you create a superbug. now we have donald trump, the superbug. im being funny, i say that, too, but somewhere alo...

As we mentioned tonight, as you might remember, former fbi director james comey who was heading up the russia investigation was fired in part because, according to the president himself, "this russia thing." he posted on instagram and captioning the photo with a piece of the old testaments book amos, let justice roll down like the waters and righteousless like an ever flowing stream. joining me now, two of our cnn political commentators, ed martin and van jones. so van, the republicans have repe...

For a guy who became famous for saying youre fired, he doesnt seem to -- >> the time line, i guess youre right, anderson. were watching a lot of things across the country when people are accused of something, whether its matt lauer or anybody else, and theres generally come getting to the bottom of it. when you fire a national security adviser four weeks into your presidency, thats not a very good optic. but i think he did. and van put his finger on the problem. its a zombie prosecutor who is, i...

Dylan, russian trolls posing as black activists on facebook and twitter. surprising to you? >> its not surprising. at this point, nothing about this election or how it happened or any of the fallout is surprising. i think the one thing that we can point to is weve all been trolled on twitter and folks continue to say things like, dont respond, its a bot or whatever. so we know these accounts exist. i think the most surprising part of it is its still tied to the kremlin. thats just odd. >> van, i...

At this point, nothing about this election or how it happened or any of the fallout is surprising. i think the one thing that we can point to is weve all been trolled on twitter and folks continue to say things like, dont respond, its a bot or whatever. so we know these accounts exist. i think the most surprising part of it is its still tied to the kremlin. thats just odd. >> van, its important to keep in mind that these russian trolls are exploiting a very real weak spot in america. look at cha...