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>> director clapper, one other thing before we end our conversation here. cnn obtained some of mueller's interview notes. manafort pushed a conspiracy theory blaming ukrainians for the 2016 election dnc hack along the same lines as rudy giuliani's fixation. i mean this is a conspiracy that president trump still wants investigated, and it shows you how long they have been pushing this nonsense. >> yeah. it's ridiculous. and this whole business about, you know, the dnc server, which is ridiculous because when you do a forensic investigation, you don't physically move or seize the server. and tha...

Seems never to want to miss an opportunity to kind of minimize things that president obama did. >> director clapper, thank you so much. >> thanks, don. we've got much more on tonight's breaking news. congressman gerry connolly will be at a hearing with colonel vindman tomorrow. i'm going to speak with him next. ou look at the world, what do you see? we see patterns. relationships. when you use location technology, you can see where things happen, before they happen. with esri location technology, you can see what others can't. ♪ so, you bought those "good enough" paper towels? [daughter la...

Kurds is what kind of put the finger on baghdadi. and in the case of osama bin laden, we didn't have the certitude or the currency about ubl's location. so in my view, president obama made a very courageous decision to go ahead with that raid, particularly where violating the sovereignty of another country. sovereignty is kind of a loosey-goosey thing in the northern parts of syria. again, i don't like to get into these chest-beating comparisons, but once again president trump seems never to want to miss an opportunity to kind of minimize things that president obama did. >> director clapper, t...

Subpoena them. you can always take the fifth if someone subpoenas you. >> so they could not testify? >> they could not, and now just to go ahead, they could give them immunity, force them to testify, so there are ways the government can try to compel someone to give testimony. in a criminal investigation, has more tools at its disposal than the inquiry, the status that it was before. >> jeff toobin, thank you. director clapper, thank you as well. not what we originally planned to talk about but you're certainly in the middle of this, so i appreciate you being on, thank you. the remarkable pr...

Obsession with showing that the russia investigation was somehow illegitimate in its inception has been a guiding principle of this justice department. >> director clapper, as the man who was there and oversaw the launch of the russia investigation, what do you make of this? >> well, very curious. presumably i guess i'm one of those under investigation. >> and you just heard about this? >> yes. just read the clip about 20 minutes ago. i found the timing interesting. given the increasing heat around the impeachment inquiry. and so the timing's interesting. i'll just let it go at that. and the o...