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Committee like this to get those questions pooled together and decide who will ask them? >> sometimes they coordinate well, the democratic members of the committee. youll see them when they ask the questions. two of the best questioners are coming up after the break. to pick up on the concern that cynthia raised, i thought it was important that he said explicitly that if the president interfered with an ongoing interest that would be a violation of the oath of office. we know hes done that multi...

As i thought about it over the weekend is in the realm of a criminal investigation, theres a beginning, middle and an end. a threshold. do we open an investigation? the middle. the investigation. an end, do we charge or not? with the counterintelligence investigation, the beginning is the threshold question. the middle is the investigation. the end, there is no end of a counterintelligence investigation. save for the idea you have a policy respond. by whom? by the commander in chief. what do we ...

Foreign power unwittingly. because what the fbi fundamentally wants to know is what leverage does a foreign policy have over you? what is a foreign policy doing to affect the national security of the united states? but criminal investigations have a beginning, middle and end. the threshold, do we open the case? the middle, have the egs, the end, chargers or no charges. the national security terrorism allegations, there a threshold, open the case, middle, and the end -- there is no end. the end i...

Policy have over you? what is a foreign policy doing to affect the national security of the united states? but criminal investigations have a beginning, middle and end. the threshold, do we open the case? the middle, have the egs, the end, chargers or no charges. the national security terrorism allegations, there a threshold, open the case, middle, and the end -- there is no end. the end is a foreign policy decision. for, again, our constitutional systems, the way we grap well a foreign policy t...

Isnt one of the primary financial backers of stabilization efforts in syria, hes going to have to discuss with them, can they put up more money to ensure that stabilization in syria continues when the u.s. pulls out? and thats something that pompeo spoke about when he gave his speech in cairo last week which largely laid out what the u.s. is going to do policywise under the trump administration in the middle east. now, regarding jamal khashoggi, that wasnt even mentioned in that speech. but as w...

Thats finding change in the couch compared to what he needs to set up single payer. i think hes intent on what hes going to do. i think what he proposed makes it easier to entrench the government further in providing health care which moves us slowly towards a single payer. paul: hes proposing the raise the threshold for which you can get obamacare subsidies to $150,000 of income, which is well above the median income. hes trying to move up the income scale to provide ever more people essentiall...

Would they need to have in order to launch this investigation? whats the threshold? >> well, its -- i read that "new york times" report and i guess my reaction was that i thought it was, both startling and not surprising. >> hmm. >> i say not surprising, because weve known for a long time that the intelligence community including the fbi had found that the russians clearly did attempt to interfere with the 2016 presidential election. in fact, they report to that effect, made public some months a...

They were not going to go public with that investigation. the problem that the fbi runs into is that that is seen with a backdrop of the clinton e-mail investigation, which they handled differently. so they get accused of treating them differently when they were proceeding with the counterintelligence investigation to figure out how much was there. i think that they knew that the decision to either open an investigation into a candidate or into a president himself, trump, would have been an enor...

Given what you have done, given what you have done for a living, in this reporting? >> so, theres a couple of takeaways here. i think its important to talk about what this reporting says and what it doesnt say. what it says, if accurate, is that the impetus of the special counsel inquiry or what turned into the special counsel inquiry was not necessarily just figuring out the degree to which the russians influenced the campaign but rather now were faced with kind of a worst case scenario that we...

Our city. >> reporter: even now, nine years later, detective mois still remembers the coppery scent of blood that hit him when he stepped across the threshold of the hunter home. >> theres a heavy metallic kind of humidity in the air almost. you almost feel its presence if there is a lot of it and there was a lot of it in the hunter household. >> reporter: to the left of the front door, in the dining room off the main hallway, lay the still remembers the coppery scent of blood that hit him when ...