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General jeff sessions to, quote, stop it right now via twitter and doubled down on some of his criticisms. >> now, we're being hinderedded by the russian hoax. it's a hoax, okay? i'll tell you what, russia's very unhappy that trump won, that i can tell you. but i got along great with putin. >> reporter: elsewhere in the executive branch, newly-released e-mail showed that peter strzok asked to keep some of the investigatory powers he held when he transitioned over to mueller's team. on july 13, 2017, he wrote to fbi officials requesting authority to approve national security letters and declass...

Letters, conduct, some rejected stuff, declassify information, rejected, agent travel, etc. of those, most problematic, and declassification authority. so tom, why did he ask for this? >> a rather extraordinary request. he was a senior official of the fbi asking all the powers of being a senior official be given to him even though he was moving out of his job and declassify, and this was a classified investigation. someone like peter stzrok who had this anti-trump hatred, you have to remember, he wanted it for a good reason or something

Why would we give him the benefit of the doubt as to why he needed declassification authority? or does anti-trump bosses like andrew mccabe? >> trish: this is the deep state stuff we're all worried about. perhaps putin is getting a chuckle over it. we basically lost our sense of trust in our government. so he has hit us at our very core. tom, thank you so much. >> you're welcome. >> with the white house saying it's making problems with one nuclear threat, what about the other? why something iran just did today could hit us in the wallet. after ivanka trump breaks from her dad on the descriptio...

Support the higher moral standard we have decided to hold ourselves -- >> can you please answer the question? >> i think i've answered the question. >> no you've not. do you believe the previous techniques now armed with hindsight, do you believe they were immoral yes or no? >> senator, i believe that we should hold ourselves to the moral standard outlined in the army field manual. >> okay. so i understand that you -- you've not answered the question, but i'm going to move on. so i understand that you from previous answers are serving as authority over whether or not information concerning you...

Just to be clear, mr. rizzo didn't change his view. he was wrong and he issued a correction. >> who is deciding what's classified and what isn't with th this committee? >> we are following -- >> who is deciding? >> who is we? >> i have followed the existing guidelines. >> you are making classification decisions about what materials are released to this committee? >> i am electing not to make an exception for myself but i am adhering to existing rdi guidelines. >> that's fine. i just wanted to understand that. with regard to the cable, mr. rodriguez said that he asked you to ask two questions o...