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What again does this feel like to you? >> well, republicans are trying to buy time after reading the complaint and finding it as jarring as senator ben sass warned them 24 hours ago that they might. and they don't want to talk about it. so that is why we saw so many accounts today from capitol hill with senate republicans saying they hadn't read it yet. they think it's bad. two things. the hope is two things. one they can buy time until they can find out if this is true meaning they can wait out an investigation which chairman burr on the senate intelligence committee is doing in a bipartisan ...

Let me ask you a question. >> if he had walked it back and said, okay. i agree to sign that legislation, would that have been acceptable to people? have you gone in that direction? >> the problem is, there is a precedent here. we know how he behaves. we know what he is about. and the marsha blackburn speaking for legislation and mark werner puts on something that anybody will go, of course. let's just make sure it is a very clear law that somebody has to go to the fbi and it's stunning that republicans are not speaking out. >> yeah. the sanctity of our elections should be paramount. and the fa...

Nine-hour session, taking questions from the senate intelligence committee. >> i want to thank you all for sticking around and waiting for me. at this point in time i really appreciate the opportunity that was given to me to clear the record and to tell the truth. i look forward to tomorrow, to being able to in my voice to tell the american people my story and i'm going to let the american people decide. >> reporter: the top democrat on the committee senator mark werner says today's testimony was important. >> two years ago when this investigation started, i said it may be the most important t...

It's not clear that the congressional senators -- gop senators are putting any pressure at all on president trump. and that's what's going to be necessary for the president to make the move at this point, i think. >> i wonder if this new cnn polling might make a difference. it finds a majority of americans blame president trump for the shutdown. look at that. 55% compared to 32% who blame the democrats. doug, any surprises there? >> no. it's only going to get worse. this is trump's shutdown. history is going to know it at trump's shutdown. the polling indicates it. he has himself painted in a ...

A lower cost. does that mean there's collusion? there's no evidence of that yet. there is no evidence of that. >> there is a lot of smoke because each day there are pieces of wood that are added to the fire. what mark werner also said is one of the things they're going to ask is why donald trump, on the day that jim comey announced that he was doing an investigation of russian collusion, calls dan coats, head of the director of national intelligence and says, can you push back on that? and calls admiral rogers and says the same thing. all of these things add up to not just smoke but potentiall...