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The most tragic one being the murder ofjo cox in 2016. obviously all our hopes and prayers are that we are not seeing a repeat of this in southend—on—sea. it does again raise questions about access to our elected representatives, what security should be around them when they are out and about in their constituency and here in westminster too. that is that balancing act. we want them to be as accessible as possible, it is very important to our democracy. sir david amess is known to be a hard constituency mp, in fact it is a bit of a running joke in westminster, how often he stands up in par...

For him to be prime minister? he used that word? yes. in the a sort ofjokey way. obviously, it's the 24th ofjune 2016. obviously, it's ludicrous for me to be prime minister, but obviously, it's ludicrous that david's prime minister, george wilson prime minister, the whole thing is ludicrous. he has a sort of sense of the general tragicomedy of the british political scene. why is it funny? why is it funny to you that you helped put someone into power who in your own view, and you are telling us today in his view, is ludicrous for him to be in thejob? well, i didn't say it was funny. you said it...

This was not an investigation where the subject was secret and nobody knew this investigation was under way. everyone knew she was under investigation. candidate trump was ceaselessly, you know, asking to lock her up at his rallies. so the notion that we would say nothing with respect to choosing not to charge her even though every person on the team uniformly agreed that there was no prosecutable case, that was true at the justice department, that was true at the fbi, so we all agreed we needed to say something. there may have been varying differences in terms of how much, how much detail to ...

Nobody knew this investigation was under way. everyone knew she was under investigation. president trump was cease sly asking to lock her up at one of his rallies, so the notion we would say nothing wrrpt to choosing not to charge her even though every person on the team uniformly agreed that there was no prosecutable case, that was true at the justice department, that was true at the fbi, so we all agreed we needed to say something. there may have been varying differences into how much, but there wasn't disagreement on what to say. >> and you ultimately ended up working on the russia investig...

Kind of a joke and it wasn't. remember he said this job is harder than running a real estate empire. he knows nothing about foreign policy. >> mark, maybe i'm projecting a little too much. as i'm listening to that, if you see joe biden and john kerry after the president has been laughed at on the world stage in london, maybe, again, it sort of reenforces the whole idea of, oh, yeah, this is the way things used to be, and that was a lot better. >> yeah. this was the america in large part that donald trump ran against successfully in 2016. obviously there's a lot of energy and a lot of -- there'...