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Evidentiary standard notion for a minute as you said, there's, you know -- beyond a reasonable doubt is an inappropriate standard for something like this, this isn't a courtroom, this is public opinion those who have said that the burden is on this justice to prove himself a competent justice are correct, but we are not talking about how you judge cases here, your legal philosophy, we are talking about potentially criminal allegations. even if we use a preponderance of the evidence standard, we don't meet that threshold. we don't have enough people who are corroborating this story all the name...

Research for a firm who's been hired by the clinton administration. >> totally legitimate firm. i'm tired of this trashing of fusion gps. it is a legitimate firm. i know multiple journalists who have done a lot of background work in christopher steele. he is a -- >> it's fine but then you communicate with a career justice department official so he sends information -- >> russian interference in the election and bore fruit and the intelligence community turned out that christopher steele really was right and trying to communicate with officials at the -- >> to be fair, i'm not saying the cleara...

>> i think it's a positive reaction from me. let's go through the process and do the rest of the background work what you're doing morning. everyone around the country will do for two months. all of us in the senate will go through the process of evaluating every opinion he's written. let's figure out who he is. it's a serious decision. let's walk through process. >> any immediate concerns come to mind from anything you've read, anything you've seen? >> no, not any immediate concerns. what i'm looking forward is two months about talking about the role of the constitution and the role of the co...

Mueller report and find out all the facts. >> i think also when you have the i.g. report come out and say someone like peter strzok not only demonstrated a biased state of mind but willingness to change the trajectory of the election, that is a concern. that's what the i.g. report said. of course it will spur increased questions from congress or text messages that show up in the i.g. report never given to congress. that is going to increase concern and also aggression from congress in trying to get some of these answers. rightly so. >> that's why we need the full report so you can see -- >> co...

They have a big section of highway 6 cordoned off. so this is the third scene. this is a residential home at the end of the block in the subdivision. what's the name? lake side village. i think technically this is alvin but we're on the border of santa fe and alvin and the importance as far as we know from our sort of background work is that the possible student shooting suspect is connected to what i see are two or three homes in the area. one of those properties is where jake is. a second property is where we've just discovered it. the end of this block in this residential neighborhood and w...