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It came out about 60 seconds ago "the hill" reporting the congressional republicans will make the case that half to three quarters of the evidence that federal law enforcement officials used to begin the investigation into trump and his campaign came initially from partisan sources connected to hillary clinton. basically democratic oppo was used to start this investigation. does that sound plausible? >> yeah, it does sound plausible. because, look, people need to step back. when they go and look at this memo when it finallywh comes out, and this has been somewhat lost among all the back and fo...

Hill reporting the congressional republicans will make the case that half to three quarters of the evidence that federal law enforcement officials used to begin the investigation into trump and his campaign came initially from partisan sources connected to hillary clinton. basically democratic opo was used to start this investigation. does that sound plausible? >> yeah, it does sound plausible. because, look, people need to step back. when they go and look at this memo when it finally comes out, and this has been somewhat lost among all the back and forth, is what have you here is an fbi that ...

Counter intelligence probe is not to bring charges, not necessarily to indict anyone. it's just to figure out who in russia, which individuals did which acts that had any impact on the u.s. election. that's the point. that's the probe that was under way when comey was fired. he mentioned that russia probe on capitol hill earlier this year. and what it demonstrates beyond the fact these rallies happened and that russian actors wanted them to happen, our reporting demonstrates that attribution is possible. and if a small news outlet with a small team can assess out from a link from individuals i...

Over time, part of what they were doing in florida might have converted a nonvoter into a trump voter. >> certainly. and that's part of having campaign rallies and creating facebook pages. >> you're here to brag. this is about bragging about the daily beast reporting. >> if you insist. part of the reason the label today is so important the mueller probe sort of has two silos. the entire purpts of mueller's counter intelligence probe is not to bring charges, not necessarily to indict anyone. it's just to figure out who in russia, which individuals did which acts that had any impact on the u.s. ...

Fire rosenstein, and both those things are things he should not do. >> remember, talk about obstruction of justice. talk about satellites. the obstruction issue is pretty much a tangential issue to the counter intelligence probe where this all began. it may in fact be the president is making his bed of tweets and will eventually lie in them for a criminal obstruction charge. he may. but the realistic approach for the fbi and doj right now is this has begun as a counter intelligence probe. whatever the president is doing to try to deflect away from that or in order to figure out whether or not ...