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Of attack that could, you know, push this narrative that the president should be exonerated of any wrongdoing. its simply to keep the strong hold on the folks in the senate who would support him and otherwise decide his fate if and when this moves to a senate trial. >> and you guys have some reporting about how trotting out some of the mueller tactics, maybe theyre next sort of move. but it would seem that trying to muddy the waters. youve got john bolton calling rudy a hand grenade. >> there is...

Started. he used a very charged term, spying, before congress. he said i do think spying was done on the trump campaign, but he said -- he was very careful to only say that he wanted to determine whether investigators had lawfully made the decision to surveil the trump campaign. he did not actually accuse any single person of wrongdoing and he has not yet done so. but his working premise is when they decided to spy, his word, on the trump campaign, did they do it lawfully? was everything done by...

Credible allegation of wrongdoing. if theres a crime here, of course it should be investigated. but based on what we know now, we havent seen any of that and it feels more to me like bill barr trying to smear the presidents political opponents than trying to get to the truth. >> julia ainsley, what is the justice department saying about why the attorney general is so personally involved, trying around the world, collecting evidence himself? >> they say its perfectly within his bounds to be doing...

Happened. he wants to get to the bottom of something that he thinks is wrong. and so now we see an administrative inquiry turned into a criminal matter that puts us on very dangerous ground to send a signal to rank and file intelligence and law enforcement officials if you try to do the right thing, we are coming after you if we dont like your results. >> carol lee, this was precisely the scenario that former u.s. government official articulated being concerned about that the targets are very ob...

Investigation may be of some high level decisions that were made. on the other hand, it may not be. so we shouldnt jump to conclusions yet. >> there was a lot of work done by intelligence officials, involved in the russia investigation. could this put them in a vulnerable position in the investigation, officials from the cia, officials from the fbi, if theyre found to have committed wrongdoings? >> it is possible, but what i see, the direction that i see this going, is that even if there was som...

Two weeks before he even took office, way back on may 7th, ukraines president, volodymyr zelensky, and his team knew their relationship with the u.s. could be at stake if they didnt publicly launch an investigation of burisma. burisma is the ukrainian company that had joe bidens son on its board. well, thats according to a source who tells cnn that zelensky and his team specifically mentioned feeling pressure to open so-called corruption investigations. lets remember, though, theres no evidence ...

Excerpt from that radio interview. the president not only did what was appropriate. he did, i think, faithfully executed his constitutional responsibility as a fiduciary taxpayer resources. and he called out a couple of high-profile cases and said make sure we look under every rock and make sure that you root out graft and corruption before we put at risk taxpayer money to the tune of $300 plus million. thats more than appropriate. >> there is no evidence of any wrongdoing -- i hear you do. soun...

You know that whole idea they didnt feel pressure? well, thats not necessarily so according to these reports. two weeks before he even took office, way back on may 7th, ukraines president, volodymyr zelensky, and his team knew their relationship with the u.s. could be at stake if they didnt publicly launch an investigation of burisma. burisma is the ukrainian company that had joe bidens son on its board. well, thats according to a source who tells cnn that zelensky and his team specifically ment...

Concealed. they are going to get the answers in this. i expect this is going to be a indictment of corruption and dishonesty and wrongdoing and on the put department of fbi and the department of justice. he has to make sure all of the reactions are completed so they cannot be actually read. there is a comment so that people are targeted in the report gets offer their comments but i cant give you a time frame. it could be a matter of ten days to two weeks. im hoping -- im hoping its as short as t...

Taylor. its the process. youre asking me do i believe something based on the statement that hasnt been tested. i cannot tell you how disgusted i am with this process. >> democrats say there will be more public face to all of it including a trial should he go to the senate. >> chief justice roberts will provide over the trial. senator mcconnell will be in charge of much of the procedural, although this up in court, justice roberts will be in charge of running the child in america, as you pointed ...