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Will be very interesting is whether the inspector general has found anything that in his judgment warrants a criminal referral. youll recall he found that with andrew mccabe, referred mccabes case for prosecution. ill be looking for the findings and what the i.g. recommends for criminal proceedings. >> neil: if we can switch gears. theres no report out yet. this whole spy issue that someone infiltrated the trump campaign, more an informant than a spy but it was unusual. im not up to speed on thi...

Your thoughts, judge on what the congressman and i were talking in terms of this spy issue whether or not the president should be concerned about it. >> full disclosure, congressman gowdy and i are buddies and we have discussed this before i listened to him tonight. he is really the perfect person to talk to about this because he has seen a lot of things that the rest of us have not seen. but the allegations by mayor giuliani over the weekend which would lead to us believe that the trump people ...

Witch-hunt will be meddling with the midterm elections especially now that republicans, stay tough, are taking the lead in the polls there was no collusion, except by the democrats. one of those democrats pursuing the president adam schiff. he keeps say there is no evidence to support the allegation that the fbi placed a spy inside the trump camp. that phrasing leaves the door open to one or more informants conducting surveillance of the trump camp. listen. >> there is no evidence to support tha...

They are going to get the report back as well as the inspector general as you know, to be able to walk through and give the report to the president and decisions be made. theres a lot he has done right. >> an interesting conversation there with senator lankford. evelyn farkas, you were watching and had some reaction to what he was explaining about spygate, this fbi informant and the origin of where this all might have started. >> yes, i was trying not to jump out of my seat during this because, ...

Oklahoma. this is not a random stranger i just met. i know him, i know his family. scott walking into government, i dont think did everything exactly right, but the office of government ethics is going through and looking at every single detail. to be able to make that evaluation. they are going to get the report back as well as the inspector general as you know, to be able to walk through and give the report to the president and decisions be made. theres a lot he has done right. >> an interesti...

Oversight authority. the other thing is we shouldnt overlook the internal mechanisms especially the inspector general whose report were waiting for that could be very very important in shedding light on what happened. neil: well you know they want an additional prosecutor to look into this spy issue and penetrating the campaign and all of that. what do you think of that? >> i think the inspector general should handle it but i dont know all of the facts but given what i know, lets look to the ins...

Team. jeffery toobin and josh campbell. jeff, does it make sense to you, rudy giuliani, i mean does he have the leverage to demand this information about a confidential source as a condition of an interview? >> well, he can decline to give an interview for any reason or no reason at all, and then theyll just fight it out in court over a subpoena. what looks to be going on here is that giuliani is looking to create some sort of impasse so that he can decline an interview. and he seems to be erect...

Essentially, versus privacy when it comes to the debate over this controversial spy issue. president paying attention to this tweeting today house votes on controversial fisa act today. this is the act that may have been used with the discredited and phoney dossier to so badly surveil and abuse the trump campaign by the previous administration and others. so he doesnt seem happy with it. but heres the deal his own administration has been pushing hard for this. so cue the clean up. quote, with th...

>> no. >> what do you think of edward snowden. >> i think hes a traitor. >> if he made it back to the united states, what do you think -- would you like to see them do. >> i think he should be tried as a trader. it is devastating what hes revealed to our enemies. >> how do you think president obama has handled the dust-up. >> which dust-up. he has a lot of them. >> it is difficult for you to say something good about the guy. what about the spy issue. >> the problem is he is not credible, and you...

Expanded several abusive programs. inside the white house they would deny the way hes framing this and claims it is not the presidents fault that this got leaked. there are people in the white house nervous that snowden could have more sensitive documents. bill: meanwhile he has a google hangout. martha: senator rand paul with more harsh words on the government spy issue. hes been one of the most outspoken critics of this program all along. he was on sean hannity last night and had this to say. ...