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Your business are very illustratetive and how people ought to think and report. and are people learning right now about our constitution? are they learning? >> yes. well, i think so. i mean, i don't know that i have my finger on the pulse of anybody other than myself and i'm not even sure how well i know myself sometimes. but through our own process of reporting on and trying to explain this presidency for the past two plus years i feel like, boy, have i learned a lot about, you know, the federal court system. boy, have i learned a lot about foreign influence operations. boy, have i learned a ...

>> yes. well, i think so. i mean, i don't know that i have my finger on the pulse of anybody other than myself and i'm not even sure how well i know myself sometimes. but through our own process of reporting on and trying to explain this presidency for the past two plus years i feel like, boy, have i learned a lot about, you know, the federal court system. boy, have i learned a lot about foreign influence operations. boy, have i learned a lot about the fbi and the cia and presidential scandal and the ways that, you know, witnesses can be compelled or not. i mean, there's so many aspects of thi...

And so this one seems a little bit different to put it mildly. i imagine that whatever john is doing is being run up the flag pole. >> do you think that this news tonight and the prospect of criminal charges being brought against intelligence and law enforcement officials who were involved in the opening of this inquiry, what sort of impact do you think that will have both on the people who are potential targets of this criminal investigation, potential targets of criminal charges if it gets that far, but also other people who are working right now in those kinds of jobs, in the intelligence c...

Attorney's office opens grand jury investigations every day. happens all the time. and so this one seems a little bit different, to put it mildly. and i imagine that whatever john is doing is being run up the flag pole. >> do you think that this news tonight and the prospect of criminal charges being brought against intelligence and law enforcement officials who are involved in the opening of this inquiry, what sort of impact do you think that will have, both on the people who are potential targets of this criminal investigation, potential targets of criminal charges if it gets that far, but a...

We're talking about. i don't think the united states has a real hold on how are we going to address influence operations in a country that is probably more divided than ever. if democrats don't want to talk to republicans and republicans are immediately suspicious of anything that comes from democrats, you know, that is just fertile ground for an influence operation. this goes all the way back to the cold war. that part is not new. it's just -- it's propaganda on steroids. i think that is the hardest part and that's not easily solved. >> hey, matt, sam stein here. i want to push something by s...