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A little bit more with more agility. he talked a little bit i think framed sort of whats different now than how it was done under the obama administration. >> cedric, is it going to make a difference? theyve made steady progress over these last several months in this war against isis, but its by no means over. >> thats right, wolf. the big issue here as john mentioned, what were dealing with is actually destroying isis. what theyre going to do is not only encircle them but the whole idea is to m...

Himself. theyre not about letting justice be served, letting mueller go on with his work. and i have a question now. as cnn has been reporting, john king and jeff zeleny have been reporting, that theyre going to hire an outside counsel for the president, which is a good thing. he ought to have one. and the question is whether anybody can save donald trump from himself and tell him to stop tweeting, to try and unite the country rather than divide the country, to compartmentalize which is somethin...

As well. and then you have ebrahim raisi who says we have the nuclear agreement but we have a hard line trump administration. we need to confront america and then also try to grow the economy and not rely on foreign investment. so it really is two open sits as far as economic policy and foreign policy is concerned. so the folks here that you see here, they really understand that this election is going to be very important for the kind of iran that america is going to be dealing with for the next...

Who sank the proposal to bring medicare from 65 to 55 during the debate of the health care reform. democrats, theres no love lost there, wolf. the key element is while some republicans have said that perhaps joe lieberman is the perfect pick to get democrats on board, one senator told me that is a gross miscalculation. im not picking up any democrats right now who say they are willing to come on board with him let alone all 100 senators of the entire u.s. senate as number two republican john cor...

Law enforcement job. >> congressional correspondent phil mattingly is up on capitol hill. if it isnt joe lieberman, how much pushback will he get from democrats and is it >> theres an element of that, wolf, no question about it. while i think some people respect joe lieberman, we heard last night talking to senators that they appreciate what he has done in public service. theres a split between those who just dont want a political or a politician to take that role and those who just flat out don...

Were following multiple breaking stories including president trump as a news conference just awe short time ago calling the investigation into russias meddling in the presidential election a witch hunt. our brian todd is over at the justice department. youve been getting new reaction to the appointment of the former fbi director robert mueller in the russia probe. what are you hearing? >> reporter: wolf, as you reported just a short time ago president trump said this new special counsel investig...

I want to provide all that. that provides context. that shows whether theres consistency, thats important for the american people to see. >> republican house oversight jason chaffetz he announced today he will resign at the end of june, give up his seat in congress. youve signalled you might be interested in becoming the chairman of that committee. now that hes leaving, will you make the push to become the chairman of this very important committee? >> well see, wolf. look, i enjoyed the work on ...

Mueller in his words hurts our country terribly. he tweeted calling it a witch hunt. do you consider this investigation a witch hunt? >> what i want is the facts, wolf. we all want the facts. i think the president wants the facts so we can get out there and let the american people know what happened. i want to see the entire memo. i want to know who he talked to when he put that memo together. more importantly, i want to know did fbi director comey, did he memorial lies other conversations surro...

That this investigation needs to get behind and answer. but i dont want to right now characterize really at the early stages of the investigation where its likely to end up. >> without providing any sensitive information or classified information, its a simple yes or no. have you seen evidence of collusion? >> let me put it this way. i have seen things that cause me to say this investigation needs to continue. im glad the fbi is doing what theyre doing. i was very worried upon the firing of jim ...

The american people, to show whatever the answer may be, to show the answer to the american people so that we can move on and that of course will be facilitated if people are willing and able to testify in public. so of course my preference would be for public testimony, but equally of course if he needs to discuss classified information that may need to happen behind closed doors. >> congressman, thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you, wolf. >> just ahead well get republican reaction to th...