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Requirement, which are bad policy for a lot of reasons on the merits but someone somewhere is getting over. >> well, you know, in someways it seems, you know, again, im just guessing because im the same. i have no idea where this came from. i never heard anything like this before. it seems like they are saying lets make this as miserable as possible so people wont want to do this and disincentive as a conservative philosophy. maybe i should stop calling myself a conservative. i dont understand h...

And we did the follow-up and provided information in november. and then we administratively closed the file in january. >> that appeared to contradict what top white house officials have said for days. that the background check investigation was not finished. >> the background check was ongoing. he was operating on an enter i will security clearance. his clearance was never denied and he resigned. >> today aides to the president said the white house security office had not finished the investiga...

For his part president trump tried to put the focus on his new infrastructure plan, a $1.5 trillion package. >> all right. thanks for that report. so the trump administration said that don mcgahn is still on the job but would not unveil any more about what he knew about the accusations against rob porter. he first learned of them more than a year ago and was contacted by porters ex- girlfriend back in november. >> can you explain why no action was taken by don mcgahn? >> those allegations that...

This thing. with this democratic rebuttal theres been more caution. whats your interpretation? >> nothing memo should be released. there were days until very recent times where house intel matters were not politicized, were not public. its good oversight work of an intel committee. what devin nunes and donald trump has done is politicize the process. we can all put our attention on the politicization on the house intel committee right now. its inconsequential compared to what mueller comes with....

Did at the state department with regards to the clinton foundation was based a lot on peter schweitzers book "clinton cash," opposition research isnt worth anything if it isnt true. im looking forward to the democrats findings, but people need to learn a lot about how rigorous the process is of getting a fisa application turned into a warrant for surveillance or renewed three months later. >> its interesting, the memo wars, if you will, really are a sideshow to what is the larger issue which is ...

Spied on the trump team while he was running for president against obamas chosen candidate and this guy is on tv talking about awould yoaabuse of power? listen to me they are panicking, because every explanation they have tried to give why the obama team was spying on the trump team has absolutely collapsed and fallen apart. by the way is he also lying about that they did not block the release of the democratic memo. they simply said it has to go through the same avenue as the republican memo, w...

Process? >> i think it very much clarifies the process. how many of the american people do you think had any understanding of the process before this? they have a keen understanding -- >> i dont know if anyone has a clearer understanding as a result of the memo released because it only has a few elements of the entire investigation, the process. but there are accusations that it really just cherry picks. >> heres a couple things. in this entire process. one, lets be clear. how we went about this...

absolutely correct about the american peoples right to know. and congress could have helped that quite easily by holding public hearings for most of these witnesses. and the fact that they chose to hold witnesses in camera verses in public leads to this lack of information. watergate was exactly the opposite. all the hearings were public. they got the hear the witnesses and assess their credibility, and congress could have done that, except for the classified stuff, just as easily. >> i agre...

Presidential election from about september on wards there was a concerted campaign by fusion gps along with the british spy christopher steele to brief the findings of the dossier with major american media outlets. the outlets did not run with the story prior to the election. there was one or two pieces of reporting that this intelligence or that this report -- the dossier may exist but what was going on here is that you had a situation where the f.b.i. and justice department, based on what weve...

Presented as evidence in order to justify this domestic surveillance. >> jon: what about -- there are some at the white house who have said that this thing is kind of being oversold. americans might read it and shrug their shoulders and say so what? >> thats exactly a possibility in all of this. ive heard many republicans also are calling for the underlying documentation to be brought forward, not just this memo. as you know, some of the f.b.i. are concerned that the memo takes things out of con...