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Campaign. the public was advised that the fbi was investigating the clinton campaign but we never were told that they were investigating the trump campaign. given the incredible political damage done to hillary clinton by the fbi and by its investigation dollars a investigations and jim comey, the idea that this investigation was going on so extensively for so long and we knew nothing about it, that's a real important post script to the 2016 campaign. >> as a pr professional, i read this oped and i wonder what the fusion gps people are going to do next because clearly it is how they want it fr...

And then have you republicans on the hill who are, you know, have spent all this time was it 21 hours worth of, you know, transcripts or of time in hearings and yet they're not following any of the leads that fusion gps people are suggesting that they follow. >> they're suggesting that they get records from deutsche bank. >> they suggested that they pursue deutsche bank records which mueller has since subpoenaed deutsche bank records, i don't know if that's the same thing. >> they also talked about questionable property deals. >> yeah. and instead of investigating what they're telling them to ...

Issue of meddling versus collusion. mueller is investigating the collusion. i think the republicans would be wise here to acknowledge and get their arms around meddling occurred. it's fine to think no collusion occurred, but acknowledge the meddling and then set forth some parameters on how we're going forward in the future. that's the responsible governing move here. if you're looking for a positive outcome out of a congressional investigation, that would be it. >> so if that is then the case have there a chance that the meddling lends itself to attempts to collude? that's a very interesting ...

>> i think it's been clear for a while that this committee was not going to be the one that got to the bottom of the russia investigation. there has been concerted effort for quite some time, and we've seen republicans become uncomfortable with the extent to which it's gone, that the house committee is seeking to shoot the messenger and discredit a lot of the investigation or turn it towards the democrats. and the mueller investigation, that is going to be, to my mind and most of the people watching this, the most serious and non-politically -- >> the only person that has the full picture of t...

>> this is what opposition research firms do. they hire opposition research. sometimes you have a research person on staff and they go out and find information about your opponents. usually, caveat, you don't get that information from a foreign entity and you don't meet with the russianors anybody else to get it. i'll just trying to figure out, i think it's reckless four to suggest that they got caught doing something wrong. >> i didn't say they got caught doing something wrong, i said they got caught in the fray of a political campaign that's now being exposed and questions are being asked an...