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Discussions we're having now. what does this mean about comey's firing we had a few weeks ago, what did it mean about nunez's leadership because these other things distract from the purpose of that probe. >> matthew, in the times you report that days before the firing comey asked for more resources for the russian probe. do you think the net of all this wll be redoubling of efforts by the fbi in pursuit of this investigation? >> you know, it is hard to say what's going to happen. in the short tem, they're pressing ahead. depends what the leadership ends up looking like. not going to know that ...

The rs are on one side and ds on the other with regard to this investigation? >> well, it doesn't look good now, but we have to move beyond that. this is to me about russia, about a foreign government that we know was engaged in unprecedented way in our election. that should be troubling to every american, goes to our core values and the most fundamental aspect of the american democracy, which is our election process. this is not about partisanship. this is the time for folks to stand up and say we are going to put country ahead of party. i hope some of my republican colleagues in the senate w...

There's no good time to do it, by the way. >> in the letter you say i accepted the recommendation. you already accepted the recommendation. >> i was already going to fire him. >> my hunch is the firing will have unintended consequence, redoubling of the fbi to piece together the russian investigation, and scrutiny of whoever is nominated to be comey's successor should ensure he or she will not be a patsy for the president. but will it harm the president with those that put him in office? i have doubts. most of the callers to my sirius xm program this week overwhelmingly disapproving of the fir...

The fbi has to clear a very high bar. they have to have a track record of being independent, nonpartisan. a record of exhibiting integrity in everything they do and true professional. i don't think the american people should expect anything else. they should not receive anything else. as congress, we should demand those are the types of nominees that will be put forward. >> senator gary peters, thank you so much for being here. >> thank you. >> keep the tweets and facebook comments coming. here's another before we break. just one. smerconish, sorry, it is not a russian investigation but a bunc...

So political headlines at 17 past the hour. the trump administration taking new steps to lay out its policies to allies in asia. vice president mike pence on his way to south korea this morning, having departed roughly about an hour ago, part of an 11-day trip to asia along with his wife karen amid rising tensions in north korea. the white house is pushing back on criticism after rolling back an obama administration precedent of releasing most visitor logs. the white house says grave national security risks and privacy concerns prompted its decision yesterday to keep those records private on g...