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Violations. >> do you believe that you heard evidence of crime committed by members of this administration? >> yes. >> do you believe that your republican colleagues understand those to have been crimes, potential crimes? >> i think some folks have decided to bury their heads in the sand. >> in a separate development, a short time ago, two senior republicans released this letter referring former british spy, christopher steele, the person that did the leg work for the trump dossier, referred him to the justice department for criminal investigation. senators grassley and graham accuse steele of...

Story that they don't want to talk about. >> yeah, i mean, sean, one of the things that strikes me with the trump dossier but also with the great reporting that john came out with today is how in these cases, the fbi leadership basically went against their own procedures in the case of the steele dossier or in the case of the clinton email investigation. let's remember, the fbi was founded in 1908 by the attorney general under teddy roosevelt precisely because the belief was a lot of investigative work was corrupt at the local level in big cities, et cetera. so they set up a series of procedur...

There has been no clearer example this year of journalism's ability to change the world than the ongoing reporting on sexual misconduct by powerful man. it began with two blockbuster investigations on hollywood producer harvey weinstein and in their wake a cascade of story. all based on the dogged work of reporters gaining the trust of their sources, doing the leg work to corroborate their accounts. it's had tremendous impact, upending elections, provoking a national reckoning on sexual abuse. aaron car moen who broke the story against charlie rose that led to his firing the next daily and rae...

To a dozen people who worked at mall or hung out there as teenagers. the initial report not only had the four named accusers but an additional 30 interviews. you've been doing the leg work there, you and your reporting team, talking to a lot of people. have you discovered any evidence that roy moore ever dated someone age appropriate? that he ever dated somebody his own age? the discrepancy between the age of these teenage girls and the fact that he was 30 and older does seem remarkable. it's the source of this controversy. he's defended it himself by saying he denies dating girls who were bel...

Publications that started off in the next few years. no snark intended at all. serious credit to byron york for getting this. even before he got the school, he had done really good spade work this story. he had interviewed tons of operatives and candidates who had opposed him on the primary. he got lots on the record about them not being the republican funder of gps. but after having done all that leg work, he was rightfully first to report, who was that funder? so kudos to him for the scoop. now we know. now only trump dossier, whether or not you care who funded it. i think it is also flown a...