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Potential political rival sawing his own fbi director is wrong to saw to report it if offered evidence. >> you want that kind of interference in our elections? >> its not an interference. its information. id take it. i would take to the fbi if i think something is wrong. the fbi doesnt have enough agents to take care of it but you go and talk honestly to congressman, they all do it, they always have and thats the way it is. its called opo research. >> a member of the house judiciary committee jo...

Convey american concerns. and preempt things like this. and when he undermines their objects, its challenging to understand his motivation. is it a parent trying to protect his son. is it him trying to double down? or he fails to understand the very basic civics lesson which is your job is to enforce the law, not grease the wheels to make things illegal somehow okay. >> you know, michael, you have this directive from the president. president trump to investigating the investigators. where does t...

Influence or interfere in u.s. elections. president trump saying quote the fbi director is wrong. were back now with laura coats, josh cambuand michael deantonio as well. so you hear the president tonight, president trumps undercutting his own fbi director, christopher ray, who he appointed. this was last month. watch this. >> my view is if any public official or campaign is contacted by any nation state or anybody acting on behalf off a nation state about influencing or interfering with with ou...

Ill gotten gain about how -- then governor bush would have conducted that debate. this is so -- and just by -- your question, with all due respect, you make it sound as if it could be common thing. its not. what the president said last night shows clearly once again over and over again that he does not know the difference between right and wrong. thats probably the nicest thing i can say about him. if he doesnt know the difference, it could explain some of his ridiculous behavior. and now to inv...

We heard about the defensive bill. strong america. strong in our national security, our national defense and strong in the health and education and well being of the american people. i would love just to read to you all the provisions of the legislati legislation. theyre there for you to see and well be talking about them and enlarging those issues as to what they mean to the american people. thats part of our legislate, investigate, litigate agenda. were doing this at the same time. were honori...

Presidents tweets, which werent a walk back, but was a clarification of what he says he was trying to do. the line from the white house is two words, christopher steele. well hear about that over and over again. they say the democrats were complicit in accepting intelligence from a foreign national who had close ties to the intelligence community in the united kingdom. theyre going to try to muddy the waters. theyll continue to talk about the role christopher steele had in the election. if this ...

He speaks for the executive office. thats very important and we would like you, respectfully, to please address that question -- >> i have addressed it. >> hypothetical. he said those things and that concerns people. is that a problem? >> what are you most concerned? would the president say hed be more flexible after the next election? no. the president has been tougher on russia than any president before. this president, even when you go through -- anybody has gone through a report like the mue...

Republicans and senate republicans they might appreciate some sort of formal clarification from the administration on the presidents comments yesterday. >> yeah. i dont know that theyre going to get it. i think the president made his clarification via twitter. i wouldnt be surprised if his aides move much beyond that. this is a different kevin mccarthy than the one in congress in 2016 when donald trump was running for president and benefitting from the help of russia. in a closed door meeting he...

Possession of nuclear weapons. >> absolutely. you know, the president has a little bit right when he says, yes, the intelligence community may say that, but im going to try to get it done anyway. >> sure. >> we all try to do impossible things sometimes. thats what diplomacy is all about, trying to get to peace and safety and security, but you have to take into account what the intelligence community says and we have a report today out of nbc reporters that says the president doesnt read the pdb,...

To say, look, the intelligence on iraq weapons of mass destruction was wrong. whats your response to that? >> my response to that is the intelligence wasnt wrong, dick cheney was wrong. and dick cheney and the defense secretary and the president of the united states decided they wanted to make a case about going in to iraq and getting saddam hussein and they twisted that intelligence. the intelligence was clear. the story, as secretary of state colin powell will tell you today, was trumped up, s...