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More of interest to them. we've seen sarah sanders, the press secretary, speak about this and tweet about it having to do with part of the russia investigation that has drawn a lot of attention, something called the steele dossier, named for christopher steele, a british covert operative. the white house is pointing out that was paid for in part by the dnc and the clinton campaign as a part of opposition research, which every campaign does. in this case it became very much a part of the narrative of the russia investigation because the details in it which have not been corroborated are about d...

Republicans will say this is a way to show that there is a real divide that is in some ways bipartisan but that a majority of the congress because republicans are dominant in both the house and senate, the majority of the congress does not approve of this deal. so this is one of those moments where the process and the policy come together. but it also reveals that ongoing fissure between republicans on the house side, the most conservative agitating speaker boehner and challenging his leadership, and those in the senate hoping to move on and get this done. alex? >> kelly, thank you so much, fr...

When we are consistent with the values we assert, think of the countries who be willing, willing, to say we made a mistake. we made a big mistake and to make sure it never happens again, we're going to let the whole world know the mistake we made. it will never happen again. >> that was vice president joe biden moments ago with reaction to this new senate cia report. joining me is valerie plame, former cia covert operative. good day to you. what did you learn from today's report? >> good day to you as well. happy to be here. this is a huge day in our history. as vice president biden just said,...

The valerie plame situation came out. that was a politically deliberate leak of a cia covert operative that did endanger lives. when you have a politically driven leak where you have an administration that says i'll punish joe wilson by leaking his wife's name do we want prosecution for the leaker in that case. it's a very nuanced question. >> what they didn't want in the media was the fact on the one year anniversary of the bin laden killing there's a retaliatory attack planned. it was not designed to capture bin laden to have had some negative consequences for national security. look, again ...