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Himself under u.s. code of federal regulations 28 cfr 45.2 because of an ongoing criminal investigation. however, at thest time of sessions' recusal, there was no russia collusion criminal investigation. it was a counterintelligence inquiry. in fact, the criminal investigation only started after sessions' recusal upon the appointment of the special counsel robert mueller. here we are today. now robert mueller is even reportedly investigating now, he's desperate, he's panicking, he knows this is blowing up, a meeting that took place between trump and sessions, that took place shortly after the ...

>> i think it's really schismim and a huge amount of smoke is thrown up to obscure what is simple which is the fbi picked up signals that russia was trying to infiltrate a political campaign and they began a counterintelligence inquiry to protect the american political system against infiltration from a foreign actor, and they used standard investigative techniques to do that. the investigation appears to be properly predicated and what is happening now is a system attic attempt to discredit the mueller investigation by casting doubt on the origins of this very unsurprising action that the fbi...

Part of the justification to start a counterintelligence inquiry, american officials said. this seems like a key point and i would like you to drill down on it a little bit more here. because i think "the times" a few months ago, i think it was back in april, talked about carter paige as potentially being the catalyst or one of the key -- >> a catalyst, right. >> -- for the fbi's investigation. now the attention here is on papadopoulos. >> right. >> there's also been the question raised here. trump's defenders have put this out there, some others have as well, the question of, did this dossier...

Right now looking at pictures of tired lawmakers. they have been awake going over this obamacare repeal and replace bill for 23 hours now. i hope someone has brought them some domino's and some dunkin' donuts. >> this may be their energetic look. >> their ties are still on. >> we're monitoring this, of course. meantime, let's take you to what's going on at the white house. quite a back flip. white house press secretary sean spicer asked if the president is the target of a counterintelligence inquiry. here is what he said. >> i think that's what we need to find out. >> there's obviously a lot o...

Irrelevant to what mueller is investigating. mueller is inquiring into whether there was an counterintelligence inquiry. he is inquiring whether there was collusion, obstruction of justice and connections between trump and russians as they attempted to interfere with the election. all of that is ongoing and irrespective of what the president had to say on his twitter feed. >> back here at home there is a suggestion that rick gates, deputy campaign manager, will be pleading guilty. thereby cooperating to offer up what he knows about money laundering, what paul manafort was up to. as we know, he...