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Russia case. the suspicion built over months. remarkable things to hear. cnn justice correspondent evan perez is with me now. not only did mccabe confirm the fbi was concerned the president was a threat but they kept congress informed, the gang of 8. how did they react? >> that's right. i think what mccabe is trying to do here is push back prerhaps o criticism that starting this represented a coup of some sort against the elected president of the united states. take a listen to what else he had to say. >> this was a recommendation that came from my team. i reviewed it with our lawyers and disc...

My team. i reviewed it with our lawyers, discussed it -- >> did you tell congress? >> i told congress what we had done. >> did anyone object? >> that's the important part here, savannah. no one objected. not on legal grounds, constitutional grounds or based on the facts. >> joining us now is angus king, a member of the senate intelligence committee. we are just hearing it for the first time. mccabe said he said he was opening a counter-intelligence investigation. the fbi on the president. no one objected. what does that tell you that the members of congress didn't object? >> first, i want to g...

>> that's the important part. nobody objected. not the legal, constitutional grounds, or based on the facts. >> a member of congressional leadership tells fox news that his claim is confusing and possibly misleading because congressional leadership knew months earlier that the term campaign was under investigation. on "60 minutes," he said the firing of director comey and other incidents involving russia drove his decision-making. >> that was on the president's mind. then the president made those public comments that you referenced. both on nbc and to the russians, which was captured in the ov...

They're on environmental grounds, constitutional grounds, many other situations. >> yeah. another topic i want to look at with you is 2020. you have a new piece out that cites polls with the most popular choices in the democratic party, and the candidates are not officially in the race yet. break this all down for us. >> absolutely. so, we saw that bernie sanders and joe biden are the most popular candidates right now. and we saw that actually out of biden and sanders' supporters and other supporters of other candidates in theeratio race, w sanders and biden were actually their second choices ...

Public service. i want to get back to professor dershowitz. you said you're rooting for mr. purce wil purcell, explain, unpack that if you can. >> i think the policy is terrible. i think the president should rescind it, go back to the drawing board, do exactly what mr. purcell said, go through the national security council, consult with his new attorney general and draft a rule that would pass constitutional muster. i don't like this law. so i hope he wins, but on constitutional grounds, i think he has a weak case on establishment clause. and if you're asking -- oliver wendell holmes once said...