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Asked. lets do it in a reasonable fashion, straightforward, work their way through the process ands get the real facts. >> senator, isnt it just more than speculation at this point in time? were not just talking about one newspaper. were talking about 30 sources alone for the washington post. our reporters here at cnn with all arrows pointing to the president incensed about russia, incensed that comey dismissed the wiretapping claim, incensed that comey was not focussed on leaks. isnt that more ...

About russians allegedly participating, or at least interfering with the last election and whether the trump campaign in any way coordinated with that. so, once again, we hear that from the president, and once again, it sort of needs to be refuted. >> and the president raising this himself and then not wanting to answer questions about it with john dickerson, who rightfully wanted to follow up. joe, good to see you. im sure a lot of questions for the white house on this one again today. joining ...

Concerned with the presidents credibility in the international community, how he is viewed by his counterparts on the world stage. if the president is viewed as someone who cannot keep a promise or does not know what he is talking about on a regular basis, that has dire national security implications for our country. and i think we are now getting to a point where we have seen the president make statements, even in terms of national security, with this wiretapping claim and elsewhere that well s...

Community, how he is viewed by his counterparts on the world stage. if the president is viewed as someone who cannot keep a promise or does not know what he is talking about on a regular basis, that has dire national security implications for our country. and i think were now getting to a point where we have seen the president make statements, even in terms of national security, with this wiretapping claim and elsewhere that well start to have those implications, and i think well start to see wo...

Response. as the question comes, you dont want to do anything thats a policy position. you dont say anything, thats a moral position. as those who have traveled to these parts of the world and see whats going, moral authority is the biggest advantage and where will that be now? >> which is the argument against torture that john mccain and others have offered, if we sacrifice moral authority, what do we have. there is no question what donald trump cares. he latches on to certain things and he can...

You do to fand -- find out whether u.s. persons participated in the interference in the campaign? so really we have to take the white house out of our investigation. and right now the way they are working with chairman nunes, they have inserted themselves into the independent and incredible work we have to do. that is wrong and it affects our ability to do this the right way. >> the ranking member of your committee, adam schiff, was at the house reviewing documents at the heart of nuances claims...

Received without telling us and only revealed what looks like an effort to try and validate the presidents wiretapping claim. so again, i think the chairman is making this investigation about him and he should really step aside because if we are going to have that independence and credibility and make progress, we need to not be working with the white house where the presidents campaign right now is under federal, criminal and counterintelligence investigation. so people are counting on us to do...

Classified information that they say backs up its whole wiretapping claim. thats where this all started. the president saying that president obama was somehow involved in wiretapping him last year at his office at the trump tower. of course, thats unsubstantiated. the white house responded to the "new york times" report by inviting the house and senate over. the house said, okay, well come and look at that. the senate said, no, thank you, you turned that information over to us on capitol hill. >...

Abbey, you get the president is all in on discrediting any questions at all about possible con da contacts from his campaign. >> he has been for some time. what i think is happening here is this is a president who he says and allies say likes to punch back. that is what he is doing. he is punching back at the folks who he believes are coming after him. the problem is this is very real. it is not just people making comments about him. this is the product of an actual investigation. when he respon...

Today, didnt you think thats the way it should be? >> we have seen chairman nunes and ranking member schiff work together in the past, but there was a sense of betrayal when the chairman went over to the white house and didnt share it with us. and, anderson, whats so concerning is that he said he had this information long before the presidents wiretapping claim and to me that means there was deliberation and thought, and it was intentional that he went over there that he had the opportunity to r...