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Leak to the fake news promoting the hoax. the durham probe has been the opposite of that. with durham he is doing it by the book. there has been zero leaks. so i think durham has a lot of credibility moving forward here. the issue will be is that some of the laws that were broken weren't crimes. and that's really the problem. like it should be if an f.b.i. lawyer lies to a fisa court. nobody thought -- there is not a law on the books for that. that should be like 20 years minimum sentence because we can't have dirty cops, people within these intelligence agencies playing politics and lying to ...
On wednesday and just hours -- it happened just hours after schools were supposed to reopen for them. the state department called it a betrayal, a top u.s. diplomate said, frankly it caught us by surprise. did it catch you by surprise as the intelligence chair? >> nothing the taliban does catches me by surprise. this is a brutal, awful regime. i saw some of the reports, girls terribly disappointed not being able to return to school. we need to keep the pressure on. i'm very proud of the fact that we in virginia are actually -- here in loudoun county, the place that is continuing to take in afg...
She gave them $3.5 million. so now i would think putin would know the answer to that. i think he should release it. i think we should know that answer. >> and just this afternoon right as we were coming on the air the former president standing by that statement, not backing away from it. he's referencing this alleged multimillion-dollar payment from the former mayor of moscow's wife to hunter biden and a u.s. investment firm. hunter biden's legal team when contacted by nbc news told us he had no connection to the company that allegedly received this payment. nbc news, our garrett haake, talked...
Returns. >> i interviewed peter defasio, and he is a committee chairman and they're all anticipating these. the republican takeover could be brutal for democrats tit for tat. >> the wave of democrats not running, not going, raises questions about where they're going to go. >> peter baker, brandon buck, thank you to both of you. a quick programming note, the intelligence chair joining my colleague today at 3:00 p.m. eastern. and senate republicans blocking crucial appointments in degree overseas posts. rising tensions with russia and