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Influential voice even as he leaves the department. >> a lot of folks anxious to hear from him directly beyond that letter, understandably. director clapper, always good to see you. happy holidays. >> and the same, erica. >> appreciate it. up next, unthinkable destruction after a deadly tsunami in indonesia. a live report and the search for survivors, next. ♪

A witch hunt. this is the pursuit of the most corrupt government. youve got a bunch of trump cronies down at mar-a-lago who essentially run the veterans administration. youve got people at almost every agency giving contracts to their friends and all kinds of corruption like that. i think youre going to see a real hard look at everything. weve focused mostly for the past few years on the russia scandal, understandably. it is the most important one. it goes to the core of our democracy. but in th...

The house intelligence committee. the house oversight committee, the house judiciary committee. youre going to see a number of these democratic chairman pursue these issues. and lets be cheer, this is not a witch hunt. this is the pursuit of the most corrupt government. youve got a bunch of trump cronies down at mar-a-lago who essentially run the veterans administration. youve got people at almost every agency giving contracts to their friends and all kinds of corruption like that. i think youre...

Ly and senator lee and senator graham took place in the tailend of the obama administration. can you might recall that is one of those things when there was such obstruction on everything else that there were, there seemed to be some movement when it came to criminal justice reform at the tail end of the obama year, and fast forward to president trump getting lekted and those conversations kept going, but what took some people by surprise was that there was the active involvement of jared kushne...

>> well, understandably so. the latest court filings indicating she intends to plead guilty and sketching out the nature of what shell do are a far cry from the original case that the government brought. shes never been accused of being a spy for russia. thats point one. but in some of the earlier government filings, the government made it seem like it was much more than what the government now says shes going to agree to plead guilty to. what shell agree to say, according to the draft documents...

About megyn kelly who trump of course was critical of during the campaign. megyn kelly was upset about this, understandably so. >> its very simple. if megyn kelly or anybody else was in his mind going after his boss, he was going to, he was going to fight back. its the kind of lawyer that trump would want. >> during the campaign, cohen continually took on the media and one target in particular, cnn. >> you guys are down. and it makes -- >> says who? >> polls. most of the polls. all of them. >> s...

Learned about that but given he knows about how to protect our democracy from further russian meddling i hope he comes back to talk about that. maria: congressman he said 71 times, i dont know, 166 times, i dont remember, well, 166 times i dont know, 71 times i dont remember, i dont recall another eight times did he really give you any information? come on. >> i think so. we estimate that he answered almost 1,000 questions in total, so his batting average was between .700 and .800 and as a cubs ...

And i dont recall eight times. but the democrats are defending his performance. he is a material witness in the investigation. so the doj and the fbi understandably did not want him to answer questions about an ongoing investigation. he has agreed to a second hearing a week from tomorrow. is important to point out that they are facing a bit of a time crunch here. they plan to shut down these investigations. in the russia probe. the filings cleared him of any wrongdoing.

Pocahontas. she got upset about that, understandably so. tried prove him wrong and it blew up in her case. she tried to play the presidents game and her hometown paper said dont run. steve: she is thinking about perhaps apologizing. ed: she is playing defense. steve: i know. bernie sanders was on with stephen colbert last night and said this. >> a few years ago, when we said that healthcare is a right, not a privilege, i was told im crazy, its extreme. 70% of the american people in the last poll...

Understandably. but legally speaking, this document, while it doesnt tell us exactly whats going on, the outlines suggest there is something real there. >> the note of caution from giuliani should be well taken. it is spin, but we still dont know. there is an expectation and there has been throughout that somehow this will have all of these arrows pointed at the president of the united states. we dont know if hes got any of that. and it is going to be a high bar politically, as well as legally. ...