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>> it was supposed to be, according to some people that were talking to reporters, they said breeding contempt. now if it was breeding contempt, you would change it, wouldn't you? so -- and i talked to congresswoman barbara lee of california, she said, he meant what he said in that tweet. and i'm still waiting to find out what the president meant by "breeding." i don't want to assume. and i asked her an open-ended question. but so many people can take it so many different ways, i guess. but i'm asking what the president meant. >> if it was an auto correct, she should have said, and it wasn't. ...

That is a break from past practice of other epa administrators. so scott pruitt is in-krcredibl expensive and he is not the only one. you had all these other public officials who don't seem to understand that they can't just sort of use taxpayer money to find these things. >> and the context of this, how long does scott pruitt last with this continued grip, grdrip rkt drip of headlines? >> i've been living in washington for about 20 years now. $50 a night hasn't been the market rate since good about 19. isn't pass the laugh test. if i had a lobbyist friend, no way that i would get a price that...

Of the special counsel's russia doou indictment. just five days before the election, the russians tried to boost stein's campaign by buying an ad to post on the instagram account blacktivist. the ad read in part, choose peace and vote for jill stein. here's what she told me last hour. >> what was cited in the mueller indictment was one facebook posting, okay. one facebook posting, and that's it. that is being claimed as evidence of our campaign benefitting from a boost from russia. this doesn't pass the laugh test, actually. >> meanwhile, a strong warning from capitol hill from a key republica...

Isn't. are democrats kupable for fueling that conversation? >> it's not simply democrats who have expressed concerns. it's the intelligence community who has expressed concerns, justice department, fbi has expressed concerns. i find it remarkable, david, as someone who worked at the justice department for, again, over a dozen years, apparently the argument right now is that the fbi, the federal bureau of investigation, the agency that brought us the comey memo in 2016, the agency of j. edgar hoover has a liberal bias. that doesn't pass the laugh test. and what is, again, no laughing matter as ...

Money. >> jonathan, what do you think of that defense? you've covered a lot of stories where political explanations shift. he's saying the texting, e-mailing, voice mail that we played at the top of the beat were all jokes. i don't know the voice mail didn't have a lot of jokey format to me. >> you mean to tell me that on a story this big, let's just say this fake story was true. a story where you're in contact with the white house, where the president is saying we've got to get this story out immediately. you've gone in to meet with the white house press secretary, sean spicer to talk about t...