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Whats really interesting is balkanization has been around forever, and early, you look at george washington, all those days. that was very partisan crowds on every bit of media. the issue is when you get into the social media space, it becomes three things. weaponized, amplifieamplified, becomes anonymous. then you can repeat lies and they take a vierality and create engagement that leads to enragement. do it again, lather, rinse, repeat. thats what goes on. >> this, to me, look, this is not new...

Name fraud garuaranty came from. its because parnas was indicted and didnt want that to be the first thing that came up in a google search. he decides to name his company fraud guaranties but thats associated with a company and not necessarily his checkered past. >> brilliant. >> i wouldnt go that far. i think the core thing to remember is the company was called fraud guaranty. you didnt mishear that at home. you have known rudy giuliani for many years, as have i. theres a dark poetic irony abou...

Happen. >> so, karen, speaking of his legacy, this stood out as well in the piece. in talking about his legacy, he reads his own press and he sees his sources close to him are being weaponized by the conspirators painting a portrait of a man unglued and people have been told to be careful with his legacy and my attitude he said about my legacy is f it. we could figure out what the asterisks mean there. but there is a serious question about what did happen to americas mayor, the man so many peopl...

With that. >> thats right. yesterday was a big day in which a lot of politicians acted pretty small. there were lies, loathing, and plenty hypocrisy to go round under the capitol dome. lets start with louie gohmert who had a kremlin-backed line. >> stop the investigation by the u.s. department of justice and ukraine into the corruption of ukraine interference into u.s. election in 2016. >> now, he wasnt the only congressman to reach for that conspiracy theory, but that was predictable nonsense c...

Witnesses that did not come to the united states senate. let me assure you, they were squeeze i squeezing every bit they could to try to preeviate this trial and move it forward. >> because of whats happening right now theyre saying that impeachment will be weaponized in the future by presidents against they dont like whachlt about not electing someone who veers toward lies and misconduct? one of the articles bothers me and thats the second one on obstruction. every single president im familiar ...

Only what is your reaction but what does this do for the fbi? >> its interesting his response there is consistent with so much of the reporting talking to people inside and outside of government. people were not surprised at the major finding from the ig report that it was not some den of obama loyalists who were weaponized to go after donald trump which is what the president has been saying for so long. they werent surprised about that. so many people including comey my former boss were surpris...

Leaders to investigate political rivals? >> no, i dont believe thats what the message thats being sent. you could vote against impeachment and still disagree with some of the policies or the behavior. as you said in the lead-up, this is such a monumental vote. using this process of impeachment is one of the most serious things that the house of representatives can do. and even speaking pelosi said it should be bipartisan and the only thing bipartisan about this process is the opposition of impea...

Accountable and transparent. if i were still director, id be saying the same thing chris is saying, which is we are going to get to the bottom of this, because the most important question is is it systemic. are there problems in other cases. >> with us now, former special act, josh campbell. he served as assistant to james comey and phil mudd. what is your reaction to hearing him say i was wrong in terms of the fisa president clinton? >> its interesting. weve talked to a lot of people inside and...

Impeachment and were going to have at least two democrats voting against this. and my fear is that you weaponize impeachment for political gains in the future just like now we have budget debates that become weaponized, voting for supreme court justices become weaponized and for me, my standard for impeachment has always been a violation of the law. we have 435 folks in the house and is -- 100 senators and ive sat through the hundreds of hours of depositions and hearings and didnt see bribery or...

Weaponized, thats number one. but number two, they never really address the underlying issue, and that is that donald trump as commander and chief used his position to extort support from a foreign country to interfere in an election and held up about $400 million of military defense weapons that congress already approved that was supposed to stop whom? vladimir putin from invading the rest of the country. but you say this morning in a think piece, i know willie will love this, that the house re...