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About this in march 2017, this was not a criminal probe, this was a counterintelligence probe. spies are common in a counterintelligence probe, we do with political opponents during a campaign, i think it is really something that people should be discussing. and thinking through and knowing so much more about whether they are congressional investigators, internal watchdogs, or people in the media. >> bret: when trey gowdy has these meetings and agree that they did not bring in any documents, and they have a classified debriefing and they explain what they were doing. and he says, you should be...

Jeff sessions has a reading comprehension problem. he either misread the very clear regulationob, or he was misled y career officials. it says two circumstances you recuse yourself, and a criminal investigation or criminal prosecution. this was neither one. it is no wonder that the was angry. i would have been apoplectic and fired the guy on the spot. >> sean: months ago on the spot, you said he should unrecuse himself. >> he absolutely should. but for jeff sessions' egregious mistaken betrayal of the president, the likes of which i've never seen, there would have been no special counsel that ...

To a judge, good luck to you. >> you got to go to jail for that. it's one thing to lie in a criminal case. another thing to lie in a counterintelligence probe. also, the fisa judges really rely, even more than a criminal -- >> sean: rod rosenstein signed the final fisa application. sally yates signed one. >> i mean, so what? [laughs] so what? >> sean: the bulk of it was hillary clinton bought and paid for foreign intelligence filled russian lies. they never corroborated it. >> i'll follow up on what rush said. of course if it wasn't spying, they should have come to the trump campaign. they cou...

It was a counterintelligence probe. this justt underscores what a colossal waste of taxpayer money mueller is squandering and how desperate he is. >> sean: he has the president -- the president has the constitutional authority. this is what mark live in has been saying. the constitution is on his side. he has the precedence of constitutional authority, and it's not ambiguous, gregg, it's straightforward. we have all this president. >> mueller wants to criminalize a duty to mike legitimate conversation the president is having. >> sean: bingo, alan dershowitz. criminalize political differences. ...

Reporting, i've got a pretty good sense of who it is, and it does look as though indeed there was an fbi attempt, successful one, to basically go out and spy with a human asset on the trump campaign. >> jason: what about the timing? the timing abouts all of this is critical. do we understand the timing? what are the implications for that? >> it is so important. remember, the fbi has been doggedly sticking with this story, that what initiated this counterintelligence probe was a tip they got in july about the suppose it drunken conversation of a junior campaign aide named george papadopoulos.pa...