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Were back to our daily briefing on politics. he said with all of the illegal act there was never a special council selected. he also said this is the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in american history. lets talk with mark murray. isaac, i want to start with you because you reacted to the presidents tweets with a tweet of your own. predictable unpredictable continued. aides wrote kaffully worded statement last night that he of course blew up in the a.m. with a misspelling. how are sta...

Relate to russia? >> im trying to remember, where did i hear that before, follow the money? >> lee, morgan, nick and liz, thanks to all of you very much. up next, what do democrats want from this doj investigation and special counsel mueller? ill be talking with gary peters of michigan on the homeland security committees. he called for a special prosecutor after james comey was fired. new reaction to the sudden death of roger ailes. how the fox news founder changed the game in media, politic...

Be indicted, and somebody interfered with that, that would cause total havoc over this thing. i think the politics wouldnt permit it, particularly since everybody universally believes that he is the right guy to do this investigation. so i think we feel pretty comfortable that this is going to be done properly, right. and whats really comfortable here is that the charter hes been given doesnt just say, youre only going to investigate the connection between russias collusion, alleged collusion, a...

Was announced this morning. >> we talk about him being in poor health, but anybody who knows anything about the business, or knows anyone who worked at fox news, hard to overstate what he did in building that empire. >> yeah. it was really a revolution in communications and politics in america. in my book, in the reporting, i lay out that he tilled the ground and he made american politics ripe for a candidate like donald trump. that he transformed politics into entertainment. thats what trump ex...

Network. while he denied the accusations, the scandal cast a shadow on fox to this day. ailes was born in ohio in 1940. he began his television career in cleveland. his first foray into politics came in the 60s when nixon asked for him help in navigating the new world of television. his political consulting career continued with both republican presidents ronald reagan and george h.w. bush. in 2016, former fox news host gretchen carlson accused ailes of firing her for rejecting his sexual advanc...

Statement. thats why these two tracks of investigation are so important. its about getting to the facts. letting the facts drive this. this cant be about politics. this cant be about re-litigating an election. this is about making sure that, one, the rule of law is being followed, but also that we are being very clear that this is not about party, this is about country. thiss about national security. something i worry about every day as a member of the homeland security committee and the armed s...