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It's been a busy news day and even busier news night, including that new reporting from ackerman at "the daily beast" about the trump administration's behavior toward russia that could be construed as potentially trying to pay russia back for their help with the election. but on that subject is where we got the really big news today courtesy of california senator diane feinstein. last night we reported on the possibility some democrats in the senate were considering extreme measures to try to get released into the public record an important transcript from the russia investigation. greg sergea...

H.r.mcm h.r.mcmaster is about to leave after he proposed removing u.s. troops? it's been a busy news day and night including the reporting about the trump administration's behavior toward russia that could be construed as potentially trying to pay russia back for their help with the election. but on that subject is where we got the really big news today courtesy of california senator diane feinstein. last night we reported on the possibility some democrats in the senate were considering extreme measures to try to get released into the public record an important transcript from the russia inves...

That is how those tapes finally made their way to the public. in this case, these transcripts, they already belong to congress. this fight to get the transcripts released is not some fight between branches of government. it's not some constitutional question. it's a political question of democrats who know what's on those transcripts wanting those transcripts released and republicans who know what's on those transcripts wanting them kept under wraps. if greg sergeant's reporting at the "washington post" today is right and democratic senators are considering pushing this to the hilt, potentiall...

Moved. his office said there is no plan to release the transcripts any time soon. question newly is how far are democrats willing to go to get the transcripts on the record? greg sergeant of the washington post reports today that democrats are considering pulling a mike gravel pentagon paper stunt and they may think of ways to read these documents, read this transcript into the public record thus making it publicly available even as the committee chooses to not formally release it. could that conceivably work? did it actually work when mike gravel did it in971? joining us is michael. it's warm...

And this is newly relevant today because greg sergeant at the "washington post" reports today that democrats in the senate right now are considering trying to do something like that again. now, this time it is not dozens of volumes and thousands of pages of the pentagon papers, this time it's a transcript from the russia investigation. this weekend these billboards went up in des moines, iowa -- "senator grassley release the fusion gps transcripts." iowa is the home of chuck grassley who's the chairman of the senate judiciary committee. in august, the head of the firm gave ten hours of testimo...