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Releasing the fbi background interviews from the mueller investigation. at a rate of not less than 500 pages a month. some of the stuff that's come out so far is sensational. interrupt said get the emails, and it just kind of goes on and on. and then, of course, we have the whole tax return issue which will almost certainly go to the supreme court. of course the president wants to try to change the conversation again. >> perhaps in his attempts to do so, he says this whistle-blower is politically motivated. this person hates trump. in the intelligence community patrick, our are political views...

The president responds, i'll be a real good witness. dowd told him, you are not a good witness. he quit the next day. then number one, the white house needs a new line of defense to accurate criticism. everyone denies everything. they say it's all fake, all 448 pages of hundreds of hours of interviews that echo exchanges and explosions that many of us have heard about from similar sourcing. one particular bad move, trump tweeted his typical fake news fist in defense of mattis and kelly. he put up there that their quotes were made up, frauds, a con on the public. likewise other stories in quote...

"woodward is a dem operative." woodward of course of two pulitzer prize fame. he's talking about that bob woodward of watergate. again, this isn't some gossip from a bar. he's got hundreds of hours of background interviews, dozens of firsthand sources, includes those in trump's inner circle past and present. the real problem is trump said woodward is fair on tape when he called the writer. listen to this. >> it's really too bad because nobody told me about it, and i would have loved to have spoken to you. you know i'm very open to you. i think you've always been fair. but we'll see what happen...

Next year or so. the speaker of the house, paul ryan yesterday called for a pause in the syrian refugees coming to the united states. there are many u.s. governors who have said we don't want these guys here because they can't fully be vetted. at this point, is the plan still to accept up to 10,000 syrian refugees? >> that is still the plan. the reason for that is quite simple. the first thing that people should understand, refugees who are admitted to the united states undergo more rigorous screening than anybody else who tries to enter the country. typically, it takes between 18 and 24 month...

Really does, also, show the democraticization of journalist. michael hayden, former cia director, nsa chief, on the sub going from new york to washington, and giving background interviews, apparently loudly. and somebody overheard him, former director of moveon.org starts tweeting the live conversation, to the point where he gets a lot of followers on this fact, and hayden confronts him about it, and says, do you want a real interview? he says, well, i'm not a reporter. hayden wisely says, everybody's a reporter. this story really does pull the curtain back, and you would think the former nsa ...