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They either had an agenda that was so contrary to our values and what i believe in, or they weren't plain old qualified in. betsy devos was not qualified. she did not have the acumen and background to help fix our schools which should be right in this country, that no matter what block you grew up on, you can get a good education. i looked at each nominee, scott pruitt. i voted against him because i knew he would spend his time polluting the environment, polluting the air and the water, letting polluters pollute and having no oversight or accountability. he kid exactly that. so for each nomine...

Just polluting the environment, polluting the air and the water, letting polluters pollute and having no oversight or accountability. he did exactly that. so for each nominee, i looked a the merits and decided is this person going to help move our country forward or not. for the most part president trump has really lined his cabinet with people who are absolutely uninterested in helping american people. >> a few nights ago we had here on the show in that seat where you're sitting there right now an official who until last year, less than a year ago was the top counterintelligence official of t...

On to recuse himself, it's improbable he's going to give any credence to recommendations that he recuse himself. and it's inconceivable that he would recuse himself, because the president installed him in this job to get rid of an attorney general who could -- who was recused. so it's just -- we are in this hall of mirrors here where we are now stuck with a perilous situation at the department, and we are going to have to rely on the moral courage and fortitude of people like rod rosenstein and other department officials to speak truth to power and to advise the incoming attorney general as fo...

>> i don't know the answer to that. >> does he know the answer? >> i don't think we know until these guys come out of the meeting. but the fbi does have a counterintelligence section as to whether there was. it's a separate thing for the fbi to interview a potential candidate. i think. >> if there is something that is inappropria inappropriate, aren't the weapon cans -- if something is done inappropriately, and the president has the right for an

The fbi official that signed the document that officially opened the investigation into russian meddling in the 2016 election. he worked as the number two official in the counterintelligence section and he was considered one of the top experts on russia at the fbi. all of this now is likely to add to the political firestorm over the russia investigation. the white house and congressional republicans want the fbi to provide more documents because they think that there could be some political bias in the handling of both the clinton investigation, wolf, and the trump/russia investigation. >> the...