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>> nick, what do you think the stakes are for the white house in this fuller picture being painted? two schools of thought emerging. one, the damage has been done to the fbi, some polls showing republicans now distrust the fbi more than they did before this whole episode. another school of thought being that this was such a that the presidents moved on to smearing the fbi agents who were one of his favorite targets. where do you come down? >> look, i dont think he has much to lose by allowing it...

Worried about russia. i laughed out loud. it was a laugh-cry when i got to that section. he had to get this into the hands of a republican because they used to care about russia. >> i have to say i love reading this piece. and when the liam neeson movie comes out, escaping cybers, i cant wait to see it. exactly, from jared and ivanka on a ski slope. i look at this as a larger problem. its not just the u.k. its also andrea merkel in germany. >> israel. >> israel. we have had relationships with yo...

I was your guest at bastille day and it was one of the greatest parades ive ever seen. we may do something like that on july 4 in washington down pennsylvania avenue. i dont know, were going to have to try and top it. >> they laughed, it sounded so farfetched people in the room laughed when he said it. but here we are five months later talking about president trumps desire for an official military parade. the white house is insisting its all still in the early preliminary stages, but if this doe...

Doesnt, it puts the fbi director and quite frankly department of justice in a trap. do they come out publicly and start rebutting the republican memo line by line and therefore appear to be politicized, which is the worst thing you can do if youre the director of the fbi. or do they hopefully allow this to come out and let it speak for itself. >> lets speculate. ive been led to believe one of the things thats inaccurate in that memo is the idea that the fisa court wasnt aware of christopher stee...

But, nicolle, back to your point about the role rob porter played, we cant underscore enough how important he was to the operation of this white house. in particular, to john kellys mission to bring order and some discipline to what had been a very chaotic west wing. rob porter is one of the few people there who has any past government experience, who is a professional in terms of working in the government, working in politics, and working with policy. and i think its one of the reasons why last...

Tillerson is like waving a white flag theyre going to do t. >> step one is sanctions. how come we arent imposing sanctions. >> why arent we? >> the administration decided it wasnt what we were doing, were doing fine with sanctions. on the one hand steve mnuchin is saying it hasnt worked. theyre coming for us and there isnt anything we can do to stop it. there are things we can do. >> what can we do to stop the bots? >> we know, for example, who is funding these bot nets and which people in russi...

British spy at the center of the political and legal scandal of the century, was treated, quote, as a peer by the fbi. this is from the washington post titled how a british ex-spy became a flash point in the russia probe. the post reports the fbi investigators treated steel as a peer, a russia expert so well trusted that he assist the the justice department on past case ands provided briefing material for british prime ministers and at least one u.s. president. and this, in one of his first case...

That capability. what i want to watch vo closely, there is reporting the mueller team knows by name who meddled cyber wise with the hacking at the dnc. lets see what happens if he comes out with indictment requests. those indictment requests against russian government hackers are going to have to be approved by who? the u.s. state department, tillerson, and the attorney general, because theyre foreign government officials. lets watch what happens when that happens. >> would that be sessions sinc...

Circumstances. among all the soul crushingly dissolutioning things weve seen the republicans do the last year, the decision to become complicit in discrediting law enforcement is among the most extraordinary things. i think republicans are going to regret this. i do want to go back to one point on the story of christopher steele. when we think about the final leaks of this campaign, we know that james comey announced the fbi was investigating hillary clintons e-mails in late october, and yet w...

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