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Having but something the fbi took seriously and seriously thought, and that is what i think is the significance. the sort of standard, the threshold for them to open an official counterintelligence investigation on the president of the united states is so high that i dont think people necessarily understand what a high bar that would be. it cannot happen willy-nilly. it doesnt happen because of one agent. it doesnt happen because of a hunch. it didnt happen just because he fired comey. i dont kn...

Election is that they had four trump associates under investigation, they were looking at them, it was a counterintelligence investigation, they werent sure what the real links were back to russia, what the real there there was, and they were not going to go public with that investigation. the problem that the fbi runs into is that it seen with the backdrop of the clinton e-mail investigation, which they handled differently. so they get accused of treating them differently when they were proceed...

Here. >> thank you, joy. >> i just want to start by asking you, what jumps out to you given what youve done -- given what youve 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 t...

That threshold is specific and articulable facts that someone is or may be an agent of a foreign power. that would not be done in a vacuum. that would have gone across the street to department of justice. it would have been approved. and then, of course, we know that the doj said, you know what, we need a special counsel inquiry. so now were seeing what the real origin of this was. now, heres what it doesnt say, joy. it doesnt say that they proved it. it doesnt say that that aspect of the case i...

Information influence during the campaign during the presidential campaign. >> just to be clear here, sharing that internal polling data, does that mean collusion. >> at least that is a glimpse. i dont know that that in and of itself would meet the threshold for collusion. but just as a layman, it certainly does a number on all these denials of no collusion, no collusion. there was. and if you add that to some of the other things that had been observed, this to me is pretty significant. >> thank...

If you really just kind of -- weve had so much craziness out there circling the white house that we maybe are not as impressed by some of the stories and the facts that are there. but it is a big deal when the president of the united states is implicated in the federal crime. >> we have a pretty thick skin these days. lets listen to the president talking about whether he would declare a national emergency at the border about that. >> i have the absolute right do a national emergency if i want. >...

Russia developments and start with the president preparing to their a national emergency or so it seems. 58 times a president has declared a national emergency since 1976. how many involve a policy goal that they didnt win congressional approval for? zero. this would be the first time it has ever happened. and as a reminder, here is how the president would justify a national emergency. listen. >> i have the absolute right do a national emergency if i want. >> what is your threshold for when you ...

Wall. lets go to the white house. whats the state of play? what is the latest that you are hearing about the presidents inclination, his threshold to declare this national emergency? >> reporter: there is a lot of talk about the president either declaring a national emergency or using some other similar tools to divert money from one part of the government to another to fund the wall. but what is partially driving this in addition to president trump being very interested in doing this is republi...

Not a stabilizing influence. >> reporter: the administration withdraw from the iran nuclear agreement. the remaining countries in the deal are trying to hold it together without the u.s. it is unclear whether those nations will attend next months summit. the source in the british government says they have received an invitation and are considering it. secretary pompeo arrives this weekend in saudi arabia. officials say he will coordinate u.s. policy in syria and discuss jamal khashoggis murder. ...

Has because other people pointed out if any president can say oh when i dont get funding from congress for what i want ill just take it from somewhere else that seems to blow a hole through the whole separation of powers. >> im saying the first threshold question that needs to be asked and answered is there -- and this will be challenged in court, if the congress is unable to pass a resolution to invalidate a president trump declaration of a national emergency. in terms of the idea that you woul...