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You compromise something like this based on politics. i believe a yes vote would have compromised my true belief that this person did not have the temperament to be on the supreme court, and that's a lifetime appointment far exceeding any of my terms or tenure in the united states senate. >> senator heitkamp, i appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you, anderson. if the political winds for senator heitkamp don't look especially favorable, the forecast for democrats as a whole this november seems to be much better if you believe the polls. new cnn polling suggests democrats are well ahead...

Political reporter russian david bayne and david chellian. yes, the fbi made a mistake. but now he's saying -- they made a mistake because they were spending way too much time investigating alleged collusion between his campaign and russia. >> so we should make clear that's just factually untrue. nobody is suggesting that the fbi can't handle both on following up on leerld. what it does show is the president is pretty self-obsessed and definitely did take this opportunity of this tragedy to still press his personal political case against the russia probe, so that is true. but also what we're s...

Anderson. >> dana bash, i appreciate your reporting. back with the panel. david chellian, we haven't heard from you. is it too early to gauge fully the impact? >> it's still unfolding. but picking up on what jim sciutto was saying before, anderson, let's start with what we know, which is that the trump presidency is off the rails right now and there's not a clear path to get it back on track. so you look to the hill and i think you see sort of three buckets of republicans right now. there is sort of the diehard republicans who are with him no matter what, think we in the media are taking too m...

Week and blaming vladimir putin, blaming the email stories in the media, not, you know, reflecting on her own campaign and some of the things they missed, the fact that they didn't campaign in michigan and wisconsin after in the general election prior to election day. some people have criticized her for not having enough of a sharp message in this campaign besides donald trump is a terrible person, so there's blame to go around here. >> i would say i think president obama actually did place some of that blame on hillary clinton today from the podium. >> that's right. >> and on her campaign so ...

Requests. they've made their assessment public for the election they believe russia is behind this and went up to the seniormost levels of the russian government, that they're focusing on what the president ordered, which is a full investigation of this and examination of all the intelligence, which they say they'll release not just to the electors but to the whole american public when it's ready before inauguration day. >> jim sciutto report thanks very much. the president's news conference and remarks about russian hacking and remarks about president-elect donald trump, we're joined by our a...