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Tonight, there is a new twist in the russia investigation, two republican senators chuck grassley, the chairman of the senate judiciary committee and fellow committee member senator lindsey graham want trump dossier writer christopher steele to face a criminal investigation. they spelled out their concerns in a letter to the department of justice. our senior congressional correspondent manu raju has details. so, manu, whats the latest? >> well, the two senior republicans, anderson, are calling f...

On whether or not the justice department will move forward on its own investigation into mr. steele, who republicans for a long time have been going after as part of their own investigations, believing that his dossier was filled with what they believe are unsubstantiated charges. >> i mean, just to be clear, theyre not alleging that anything in the dossier itself is false, is that right? >> that is correct. in fact, they make very clear in their letter that it does not even talk about the verac...

Tonight, there is a new twist in the russia investigation, two republican senators, chuck grassley, the chairman of the senate judiciary committee, and fellow committee member senator lindsey graham want trump dossier writer christopher steele to face a criminal investigation. they spelled out their concerns in a letter to the department of justice. our senior congressional correspondent manu raju has details. so, manu, whats the latest? >> well, the two senior republicans, anderson, are calling...

Just wanted him to look into these business contacts and thats how they -- how he determined that there is potential wrongdoing during the campaign season and thats why he briefed the fbi later. and, anderson, tonight democrats are saying this is all a distraction and they werent even consulted about this referral to the justice department, anderson. >> manu raju. manu, thanks. >> thanks. back now with our panel. carl, do you think this is a distraction? is this an attempt for republicans to r...

But, anderson, no word tonight on whether or not the justice department will move forward on its own investigation into mr. steele, who republicans for a long time have been going after as part of their own investigations, believing that hiss dossier was filled with what they believe are unsubstantiated charges. >> i mean, just to be clear, theyre not alleging that anything in the dossier itself is false, is that right? >> that is correct. in fact, they make very clear in their letter that the r...

Same committee, are saying is that there are some inconsistent statements that mr. steele made to the fbi and they want the justice department to look into whether or not there was any criminal wrongdoing by potentially lying to them. now, this is so serious, according to lindsey graham, that he believes there should be another special counsel named to investigate this matter fully. this is what lindsey graham says. he says, after reviewing how mr. steele conducted himself in distributing inform...

Funding his research but they just wanted him to look into these business contacts and thats how they -- how he determined that there is potential wrongdoing during the campaign season and thats why he briefed the fbi later. and, and somebody, tonight democrats are saying this is all a distraction and they werent even consulted about this referral to the justice department, anderson. >> manu raju. manu, thanks. >> thanks. back now with our panel. carl, do you think this is a distraction? is th...

Apparently deciding whether to release that statement of praise and the president released his own statement saying that bannon had lost his mind. in other news, michael wolff spoke out today and said the fact that the president tried to stop the publication of his book not only helped sell the book but prove its point. quote, i authorized zero access to white house, actually turned him down many times for author of phony book. i never spoke to him for book. full of lies. misrepresentations an...

Statements that mr. steele made to the fbi and they want the justice department to look into whether or not there was any criminal wrongdoing by potentially lying to them. now, this is so serious, according to lindsey graham, that he believes there should be another special counsel named to investigate this matter fully. this is what lindsey graham says. he says, after reviewing how mr. steele conducted himself in distributing information contained in the dossier and how many stop signs the doj ...

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