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Brilliant man, but i will say, another brilliant man, alan dershowitz, has said, this is not -- at the time, it was not a criminal investigation and there was no grand jury, theres no witness tampering, theres no destruction of evidence, so, it could not have been obstruction. also, when the fbi -- >> congressman -- >> when the fbi sin vest gaiting, it is not a judicial investigation, it is a tool that could be used by the justice department, but it doesnt rise to the obstruction. >> he may have...

Needs to understand the context here, which is that the fbi director comey had just testified on march 20th to the house intelligence committee in which he laid out what the fbi was investigating, which included looking at possible coordination between the russians, russian government and members of trumps campaign. and so, you know, the president was upset that comey had shined the light on that and attracted attention to that, and so he turned to these two intelligence chiefs, who he regularit...

And also, president trump going offscript in israel, denying about allegation no one ever did, but confirming something very big. >> just so you understand, i never mentioned the word of the name israel. >> and melania trump in israel. did she give her his a very public brushoff? hi guys. its great to be here. in the desert. at the mall. on the mountain. at school. at the beach. in the big easy. yeah yeah today i want to show you guys the next-gen chevy equinox. what do you think? thats pretty. ...

As he completes his investigation, he may or may not be able to tie it together. but any sensible person looking at this has to say, you know, it looks subs pressu s suspicious. >> what would you say about mccabes testimony, right after the firing, has there been any -- and it was a great cross examination in the senate that said, has there been any effort to intimidate you, to reduce the investigation, to change the investigation, and he said, no, no, no. >> well, of course, he didnt know, thou...

Heres governor chris christie of new jersey. >> i didnt think that he was someone who would bring benefit to the president or to the administration. and i made that very clear to candidate trump and i made it very clear to president-elect trump. >> again, just so everyones aware, chris christie, for a brief time, was the head of the transition committee. a very close advicer to the president of united states. he said he told him personally. does this sound like the president himself was aware wi...

Administration to go forward and say that. as opposed to, was he telling them to lie -- >> so, hes just clueless that the fact that an ongoing investigation would deem that to be completely inappropriate? >> i guarantee you thats the way the trump administration is going to view this. that these -- that the president thought they would be helpful, he wasnt telling them to lie. thats what theyre going to say. >> im going to get that from jack in a minute. let me ask you, first of all, could this ...

Find clear skin that lasts. breaking news. "the washington post" reporting at this hour that president trump asked two of the nations top intelligence officials to help him push back against an fbi investigation into possible coordination between his campaign and russia. its a stunning report. it says he asked daniel coates, the director of national intelligence and admiral mike rogers, the director of the national security agency to publicly deny the existence of any evidence of collusion bet...

Pleading the fifth? hes saying hes not going to testify unless you give him immunity. you are in line with your chairman, youre not going to give him. >> i dont think theres any reason for us to go down that avenue. we still have contempt to be used if need be. that, well all have to concur. our committee has to concur we have done everything we can, except immunity. if they believe, overwhelming believe immunity is necessary, that discussion will be have. we dont have that right now. i dont kno...

Trying to get them to either say there was nothing going on with russia or back off the investigations, do you think our president respects the rule of law? >> well, thats -- you know, what youre saying and what were accusing right now, i want the facts to come out. im on the intelligence committee. this is the first year ive been on it. completely different than any committee ive served on. the rule of law doesnt protect the president, doesnt protect the homeless person. all should be treated t...

They refused to do so. what is your reaction? >> well, im as shocked as anybody else, but it keys coming. and first of all, its good to be with you. this is coming pretty fast paced right now. were going to have to take it, the intelligence community takes everything extremely serious. well be looking into this. it was just a couple of weeks ago in open hearing that we had both mr. rogers and mr. coates, our former colleague -- >> yes. >> and im not sure, as i recall, that question was even aske...