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I get that. second let's let the intelligence committee do their work. if further investigation is warranted and i'm open of that. supportive of that if that's what the facts point to. let's do that but let's also as they said yesterday let's also look at this leak issue. let's get all the information for the american people. let's start first with the intelligence committee and let's get the facts from them and then we can proceed. >> now part of the facts here already need to be highlighted because there is political speculation going on on the side of let's look at the leaks. why was michae...

Facts are outed. >> do you think you'll see those transcripts? >> eventually we're going to see them. the leak issue is serious. but this president has alienated the people who put their lives on the line every single day for us, people who are, you know, in places like afghanistan, you know, in really dangerous places, putting their lives at risk. the president is attacking them. he has created an environment where there is going to be in probably ways good and bad, an effort by the bureaucracy to say, this is insane, we need to stand up for our country. and if there's evidence of something i...

Clinton investigation was conducted that way, and i don't think this investigation should be conducted that way either. at the same time, i think this is a distraction, a sideshow, a gop effort, frankly, to put the leak issue front and center and ignore potential illegality in the white house. it's much less threatening to them, they don't have to contradict the president. they can still push for tax cuts and all the gimmes about where the evidence trail leads. that's not going to fly. the real gravamen of the issue is were there trump campaign people colluding in that election, in the hacking...

Said the white house knew about this. is this a trust issue just internally? or is it a leak issue that they got caught doing this? and at what point did they have an obligation to the american public to say hey listen, no, this is actually what happened with our national security adviser? >> i think the latter part -- look, i think that was a very sloppy, clearly hastily organized time frame, time line that sean spicer came up with that has an awful lot of holes in it. let me point to a couple of factual issues here. first of all we know from our reporting that the obama administration, throu...

Officials knew about this action to trade the five taliban leaders, prisoners of guantanamo, for sergeant bergdahl, and yet the reason that's been given by the administration for not sharing it with congress, even though the law says they've got to be informed 30 days prior, was the leak issue. this doesn't seem to square. what's your defense of this administration? >> well, i tell you, didn't sit very well with those of us listening to the briefing. look, i think the president had the constitutional authority under article two to make this decision without consulting with congress, but i thin...