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Particular cases, china and iran, two countries that we have a real adversarial relationship with now. the chinese were very destabilized, for example, after trump's comments about taiwan. they kind of settled down and decided they were going to manage the problem. the iranians, after sharp rhetoric in position of new sanctions, pretty similar. these are still kron frontational situations and i think they are pay more attention to where is the u.s. policy going? >> mark halpern, everything i've heard, a lot of american voters who voted for donald trump don't care. they don't care he is lying e...

Anything in those documents about how the cia conducted itself? >> mark, i don't want to comment on the wikileaks disclosures. i will say this, though. the cia is a foreign intelligence service. it collects intelligence on foreign targets to keep our country safe. it does not do intelligence works domestically but beyond that, i don't want to comment on the contents or confirm or deny anything about the documents that appeared on wikileaks yesterday. ike barnicle? senator, yesterday, the house, speaker ryan, the health care bill, does it trouble you at all that this is attorney thrown out and ...

Is pick up the phone and call your own attorney general and he will tell you it never happened. >> do you think he wishes it would go away? he accused the former president of a felony which i expressed extreme concern about this on the day that you were off. >> you were very sad or on mad. i can't tell. >> no. i actually think the credibility of our president and our country is on the line and he is throwing everything away. >> right. >> but some might be upset about this. others might just be sad. >> let's look at the list. >> please, tell me. >> obama, he accuses obama of a crime, mark halpe...

Don't. >> not on this case. >> this is crazy town. >> this is crazy town. you look at the leaders, mark halpern, of the intel committees and if this had happened, they would be read into it. the fbi -- they said it hasn't happened. the fbi director says it hasn't happened. the fbi director is trying to get the justice department to come out and admit what the justice department knows that the president was lying. and then you have dueling president conferences. one with sean spicer saying, take what the president says at face value. and then you've got the head of the house intel committee say...

Halpe halpern. national security correspondent for "the washington times" david sanger. >> kasie, give us a quick summary at the top of the hour of what is happening behind you on capitol hill between different factions of the republican party. >> sum it up in ten seconds or less. >> we were hoping for this moment for eight years and have gotten it. suddenly, they are realizing in the words of george w. bush, it's hard. it's hard. >> it is. their health care bill had a really tough first day at school. ha to tell you. and it was hard not to jump to concluons yesterday and say, look, this thing...