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Down. Sounds seedy and weird, of course it is. Still not the strangest thing happening in washington right now. Tonight we have more on the ongoing saga of the trump dossier. Senators Chuck Grassley and Lindsey Graham have launched a probe into former National Security advisor susan rice. In the very final minutes of the obama administration, just afternoon on Inauguration Day 2017, rice sent herself an email on the white house computer system. In it she describes a meeting she had attended just...

Repeatedly cited as the reason to stop the normal functioning of government in order to investigate the administration. this is the famous dossier that even today progressives in the media are spending millions in an attempt to corroborate. and its all a stupid joke. amazingly a lot of people in power fell for it. congressman ron desantis is a republican representing the state of florida and he joins us tonight. congressman, thanks for coming on. >> good evening. >> tucker: the meeting that susa...

Might never view this war the same way again. good afternoon, everyone. welcome to "the lead." im jake tapper. stunning news from the white house minutes ago about why it took the trump administration 18 days from the moment they were warned about their national security advisers possibly having been compromised by the russians until the moment that president trump finally requested the resignation of former lieutenant general michael flynn. white house press secretary sean spicer said the white...

>> the white house ran us through the tick tok of how this ran down. sally yates came over from the ce when she was the acting attorney general. the next day, the 27th, there were questions about what yates was talking about. asked her to come back to the white house. over the weekend into monday, january 30th, you might recall, sally yates issued that edict to all of the u.s. attorneys to say that she could not defend the presidents immigration ban. the night of january 30, she was dismissed fr...

Arrogance and indifference to the department of justice and the fbi, and thats turned out to be a mistake. i think thats probably what shes going to say tomorrow. >> josh, since i interrupted you, go ahead with your final thought before we go. >> sure. i agree with bob this is going to plague the trump administration for a long time. im not sure i agree with him it is such an overreach by the russians. they achieved their primary goal, which is to wreak havoc in the u.s. election process. i thin...

Adviser, he had permission from trump before he took the call and placed the call to kislyak and had some -- certainly after the fact would have provided a readout of the call to others. that would be suspected of somebody in his role, whether that happened in this case, i dont know, and im not sure that that information is available. you know, this is obviously going to be the subject of ongoing investigations, both senate investigators and potentially the fbi, themselves, which, you know, the ...

You know, certainly one would think that as national security adviser, he had permission from trump before he took the call and placed the call to kislyak and had some -- certainly after the fact would have provided a readout of the call to others. that would be suspected of somebody in his role, whether that happened in this case, i dont know, and im not sure that that information is available. you know, this is obviously going to be the subject of ongoing investigations, both senate investigat...

Senate investigators and potentially the fbi, themselves, which, you know, the white house had learned at the same time they found out about what yates conveyed to them, the fbi was looking at these communications and this relationship. so i think, you know, its too early to say where this goes. >> and one more question that our viewers might have, hearing you talk about intercepts that caught up a friendly, in this case, our own guy, explain to the viewers how commonplace that is in this line o...

The what did donald trump know and when did he know it question? >> i dont know, i mean, thats a very good question. i dont know the answer to that. you know, certainly one would think that as national security adviser, he had permission from trump before he took the call and placed the call to kislyak and had some -- certainly after the fact would have provided a readout of the call to others. that would be suspected of somebody in his role, whether that happened in this case, i dont know, and ...

Whats interesting, you look at the -- situation, compared to the situation in north carolina with the voting i.d. law, if youre going to look at the face of it, on the face, this isnt discriminatory and but if you look at the purpose of it, in north carolina, you could really see what this is all about. i think thats ultimately what yates was doing here. we know shes done no media since this happened. i think this is really for the attack that the white house made on her, it was extraordinary gi...