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Cohen's testimony. >> if there was corroboration from david pecker, from the various documents, the electronic information, all of that stuff that was collected in that early morning raid on michael cohen's apartment, his home, his hotel room, his safe deposit box, if there's backup information saying that the president directly coordinated and directed the payment to karen mcdougal, $150,000, the former playmate, in advance of the election to make sure that information would not come out in the days leading up to the election, what does that mean to you? >> well, in summary, michael cohen is ...

Yesterday they have to tell where they get this information from. so i can put any 10 things on a paper to maybe get you crazy, but where is it verified? what kind of backup information should be along with this four page memo? >> the democrats are doing what they always do. they're putting their party over the constitution here. they understand that what happened was a constitutional violation. they are smart about this. they know that the source information for that memo is classified. steve: of course. >> likely not be able to released at least in not severely unredacted form. they know the...

He had that position where he was sort of running intel between his contacts in the nsc and the intelligence agencies and the white house. how is it possible that somebody like devin nunes is allowed to see whatever intelligence he wants, backup information he wants, and use that to persecute a former british spy who is on our side? >> well, he does hold the position as the chair on the house intelligence committee. he has -- he's authorized to have access to that information. he can do what he wants with that information. speaker ryan has now backed him up and shown he has confidence in his p...

He doesn't reach for his glasses, he starts tweeting. gene, weigh in on this for us. >> well, he was long a reputa e reputable, a highly respected journalist as bret says. so it's probably the -- you know, what he testified to, what he reported is probably pretty good. now again we don't know, we haven't seen the testimony. it's probably in much greater detail than what's in the dossier. maybe some of the backing up -- some of the backup information was discussed. and again it may not be true. but he's a good reporter. >> and then i cut you off, but philip bump what i want to know from you, pu...

Committee, was one of the lawmakers who signed that letter and he joins me now. senator, good morning. >> stephanie, good to be with you. thanks. >> i want to play for you a bit of what president trump had to say yesterday when he was asked directly if russia was responsible for the meddling. >> i agree. i think it was russia but i think it was probably other people and/or countries and i see nothing wrong with that statement. nobody really knows. nobody really knows for sure. >> with that, are you confident the president will bring this topic up with vladimir putin? >> well, that's not reassu...