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Select committee. there is politics there to be sure but why does it matter? it matters because we need a committee that is bipartisan and investigate wherever the facts lead including if the facts lead to the notion that donald trump's chances of winning went up dramatically because of what russia did. if there is not a select committee it's less likely to be bipartisan and less likely to be serious and less likely to have subpoena power and do the things it needs to do. >> what i understand we are still asking the question why isn't npr or other news agencies, i guess they are being cautious...

Say, these norms are there for a reason. that kind of accountability to the public, to the media, to congress, those are there for a reason. give you an example. press conferences. might say, well, why didn't we need press conferences in this day and age? william sapphire, richard nixon's aide, always made the point, it was the act preparing for the press conferences that often made a president ask the president in his own government, hey, what's really going on? what's really going on? so there's a reason we have these things. that's what's alarming to me. >> but susan, the trump voters, and ...

These upcoming sanctions expected against vladimir putin? >> hallie, one thing on lawmakers not getting too out in front of this, they'll all be wanting to hear the plans the white house is putting forward. hopefully for a lot of them, they're hoping toe briefed by the adstration. we'll see how that unfolds f and when this formally comes down. but we do know there are some predictable things about how this is going to shake out. democrats, for sure, many of them are frustrated that the president didn't act earlier than he did. we know that the president has his reasons for that. partly, there ...

Now in the days to come? >> no. i think first of all i've spoken to people in the white house, spoken to people in the state department. i think it's very unlikely, in fact, impossible in my mind in that the obama administration orchestrated this. maybe the obama administration didn't act as vociferously as they would like. i don't think they orchestrated. the problem the israelis have is on the one hand they're vociferous israel doesn't spy on the united states, yet they claim to have evidence of what the u.s. was doing which is some intelligence on the u.s. government. the israeli government...

And training people with backpack trips ten miles long to like a boot camp to train them. that is what amri was part of. he also was, through surveillan surveillance, he was heard saying he is ready to be a suicide attacker in an attack, but not found to be a big fish or serious candidate for that kind of thing. even though he was held for a while, by authorities, pending his deportation back to tunisia, he was released because of a technicality. here we are now, miguel. >> what is public sentiment? you had the situation in france and belgium where people were on the radar and didn't act aggre...