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Grand jury i just have to hope that the american citizens will stand up, the people that serve on that grand jury and look at this in the way that they should, in an unbiased way. we should not be allowing polit politics to invade the justice system. truth matters. >> senator, thank you so much for your time tonight. >> thank you, rachel. thank you. i'm going to bring in somebody else into this conversation who has a very unique perspective on this. somebody who, himself, was there for the russia investigation at the justice department in a very key role, david loughman the head of the depar...
Involvement in spearheading fact gathering with foreign government officials pursuing lines of inquiry that come right out of fantasy world of the right wing extremist land. it's really hard to tell what's going on here. i have every confidence that john durham will withstand any pressures that may buffett him to go down a road that he thinks is not supported by facts and law. the mere fact that this is taking place will aggravate the chilling effect on the department of justice lawyers, on the fbi, men and women in the intelligence community who are already plenty concerned about the inceptio...
But at the end of the day, we're going get this information. >> congressman adam schiff of california, the chairman of the intelligence committee in the house, sir. thank you very much for being with us. i know it's been a busy day. >> thank you. i want to bring into the conversation dave laufman, the former chief of the justice department's counterintelligence section under president obama and during the first year of the trump administration. it's a real honor to have you here. thanks for making time for us tonight. >> good evening, rachel. >> so we are continuing to cover the surprise new...
>> dangerous game, he's saying there, phil, and with these briefings going on right now i also asked him what about the recent attack on tankers that apparently took place in the persian gulf and a pipeline attack in saudi arabia. he said the iranians absolutely had nothing to do with it, but as you heard there, he's also saying that he believes the situation between the u.s. and iran in the persian gulf still extremely dangerous. phil? >> fred flighting pleitgen doing very important work on a very important story. right now i want to move over to laura jarrett who has more break news. laura, ...