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Obamacare or obama era regulation that would've basically made it harder for somebody who had a severe mental health condition to purchase a gun by putting it on those background checks. the other issue here is that it's really tough to be put on that list where you can't buy a gun if you do have a severe mental health issue. you have to be put in the hospital against your will or court ordered and that is really difficult -- >> not clear that the shooter would have even been on that list. >> if they want to talk about mental health, is the standard enough right now or do we need -- >> we'll h...

President trump says it vindicates him in the investigation of possible russian collusion. the president's opponents, people who never wanted this memo released, say it's full of misleading information at best and worst, does real damage to the american system of gathering intelligence. joining us now, the former fbi assistant director and now cnn senior law enforcement analyst tom fuentes, and former fbi special agent james galliano. does it appear to you on its face there was some abuse of the fisa application warrant system? >> i have two differing opinions. one, i think there were definite...

When jim comey was the deputy attorney general running the corporate fraud tax force and i was running the criminal division, we played hardball in those investigations. you use grand jury process. you didn't just ask for records and you didn't give them an opportunity to hand over what they wanted to hand over. and if they did lawyer up, you went through the trouble of o throwing them in front of the grand jury to put their statement on the record, or they can take the fifth and then you can make a decision as to whether to grant them immunity at that time. but none of that was done in this c...

>> no. when jim comey was the deputy attorney general running the corporate thought tax force and i was running the criminal division, we play hardball in those investigations. you use grand jury process. you didn't just ask for records and you didn't give them an opportunity to hand over what they wanted to hand over. and if they did lawyer up you went to the trouble of throwing them in front of the grand jury to put their statement on the record, or they can take the fifth and then you can make a decision as to whether to grant them immunity at that time. but none of that was done in this ca...

And there was the firing of every advisory member on the council for hiv aids. let's welcome in today's panel. welcome all. i want to unpack the meadows interview in a minute. quickly, let's go through this. ramesh, it seems as if passage of the tax bill has now allowed everybody to sort of look at the first year of the trump presidentsy and look at what he has done on the executive level now and see big changes. and this reshaping of the federal government as an institution is something that hasn't gotten enough attention. >> i think that everybody's assessment of the trump presidency's first...