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And hes shown that when he thinks there is something inappropriate, he usually leaves a written record of that. he did that in the bush administration in 2005 and sat on something until four years later when he had to leak an e-mail to the "the new york times." he testified at a very dramatic hearing in 2007 where he revealed allegations of wrongdoing in the bush administration. if there is something in that conversation between him and the president that jim comey thought was inappropriate, i g...

Pin it on this reason around him having a feeling over hillary clinton, that investigation and in comeys handling of it. and it just goes to the competence of this white house. and how is it do -- how do they get past this? how do they make their way forward? >> and how did this decision come to be made? clearly it appears to be a close hold from top officials. a lot of people left out of the loop. but how did this not occur to someone that look, the deputy a.g. might not just go along with what...

Our commander in chief, we should believe him. it was his decision. he made it a long time ago, then everybody else was lying. it is too naive to say everybody else was out of the loop. >> and then if thats the case, the president is owning this, then theyve been misleading the public the last three months about the confidence the president had in james comey. >> the reports up through deputy attorney general. he cant fire fbi director and no president is simply going to take a memo that says, t...

Im getting rid of a guy now. i can handle what he knows now. he cant destroy me with what he knows now. but if he keeps up with this with 20 or 30 investigators, and he keeps digging and digging, he will reach a point where what he knows is too much for me. that would explain to me a politicalssessment of why he fired the guy. an take what hes got w. i dont know what hes going to have in a year. i dont want him to get to there. >> well, let me throw in one more angle here, which is he may not kn...

Obama was security advisor. >> the obama edadministration didnt take his security clearance away. they fired him. >> can i add a little point. ive ben focusing on james clapper. thaev rr ben saying clapper said he never saw anything about collusion but he admitted he was essentially out of the loop. he didnt know about it. >> it would be interesting if he

How can barack obama be blamed for mike flynn? what are they talking about? >> can i just add a little point just to pick up on something that may have been lost? ive been focusing on jim clapper, because hes the quiet storm in all of this. supporters have been saying well, jim clapper never said anything about culugds. and clapper alluded that was essentially out of the loop, he did not know about the fbi investigation until gyms comey announced it. >> he hasnt been there for four months. he ha...

Testimony yesterday is clapper sat there and said, look, you can no longer use me as a value d -- value day tor because i didnt know comey had an investigation going on about this. he was willing to say, i was out of the loop. so taking away from the white house significant talking point. meanwhile trump comes back and sort of ignores that testimony. but no one should believe that clapper said there is no collusion. he didnt say there was collusion. but he said i cant speak to that anymore. the ...

Europe. the challenges are immense but it is time to celebrate tonight. leland: im sure you will be getting there. well put up pictures of the loop celebration where all of the supporters have gathered. as you point out, a young president, 39 years old. the youngest president of france since napoleon. he comes in as you point out, when economy and distress, if you will, fighting terrorism but also trying to figure out how to learn politics. whats the plan #youre heading into legislative question...

Know individually what the transition team had told according to our reporting had told general flynn about his potential contacts with ambassador kislyak. the idea that the transition knew it could be a problem that kislyaks conversations could be monitored by our intelligence agencies and warning flynn not to meet with them. if vice president pence didnt know that, okay, but then you have to ask yourself was he out of the loop of the transition, were any other senior officials out of the loop ...

Kwauzy majority in the house of democrats because of the way the freedom caucus has acted towards this stuff. >> absolutely. and you remember when they sliced off a bit of the bush tax cuts. remember the first deal was, all right, well take everything but a million dollars enough, we still have to have it. the freedom caucus said, no way, no way. guess what, that number came down to $650,000. so they do this continually to themselves. they make it worse because they are such purists or so diffic...