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Investigating him or his associates who has been fired. you had a new york prosecutor, you had someone in the justice department and now the director of the fbi himself, and what's scary to me is that the president is trying to convince everyone that he was doing this on hillary clinton's behalf which is just laughable, and to me if congress doesn't act immediately the russians will not just have undermined our electoral process, the media, they'll be undermining our justice system as well and we've just got to draw a line. >> so robby, you know there were plenty of democrats last year during ...

The motivation for rosenstein may be based on a more recent testimony. we've all been focusing on what happened last july when comey gave a press conference that clearly overstepped his bounds as an fbi investigator when he tried to become a prosecutor that day and had the audacity to tell loretta lynch i'm not even going to tell you what my press conference is going to be about, but last week in his testimony there was a renewed opportunity for james comey to explain a greater contextual basis for actually doing just that. instead of being contrite about an obvious misstep that we unilaterall...

Are being taken to ensure this action will have no impact on the work of the fbi on the ongoing investigation. i also plan to work with senator blumenthal on legislation to ensure that a truly independent prosecutor can be appointed. however, while we work on that legislation, i want to renew my call to have a special prosecutor appointed to oversee the russia investigation. i have said on some occasions now that we're in unusual times, and i recognize today's hearing is meant to be on the nominees who are before us for three important positions at justice, but given the events of the last 24 ...

Director. as we wait to see if he does, let's go to ryan nobles who is on the hill. you just spoke to senator marco rubio about this when he was asked very quickly last night after the news he said, i don't have enough to really comment. what is he saying now? >> john and poppy, we're really trying to get a litmus test here from senate republicans because they'll be the ones who make the important decision as the fbi director moves forward and perhaps the opening to a special prosecutor when it comes to the russia situation. so we did catch up with senator rubio very briefly and asked him abou...

Two minutes ago you wanted him out not just for the e-mail thing, but for russia. why the change now? >> just to be clear i wasn't calling for him to step down from his job, and i was calling for him to recuse himself from this matter. it wasn't safe in the hans of congress. >> it was in the hands of james comey. was it safe in the hands of james comey, the russia investigation on march 2nd? >> the investigation that the fbi has been conducting and i don't know what the status was today. as your guest has said has been the most muscular and the most inquisitive and it's been happening so far, ...