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Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. The senator from maryland. Senator, good to see you. Thank you for joining us. What do you make of that quite unexpected News Conference today . It did seem Like Full Court press, agreeing with the fact there was interference, there is interference, and i wasnt as confident that we know exactly what were supposed to do about it, but it seemed like everybody in that room seemed to agree this is something we have to deal with. First, its good to be with you. Youre exactly right, it was very clear that russia interfered in our 2016 elections and it was acknowledged that it was mr. Putin, the russian government, that was behind that. They acknowledged that this campaign is continuing both in trying to influence how voters vote as well as we are concerned that they may even go into our election apparatus. N ....
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Servants, our intelligence community, our military people, want to move the ball forward and do what s right. so what i think you saw today was a press briefing where essentially each of the institutions said my duty is to you, the u.s. citizens, to make sure your election isn t interfered with, that you have confidence in democracy and that no one is going push us around. we didn t get that. we got something that said we re trying as hard as we can. right. obviously a press briefing like that can t happen without the president s tacit approval. and yet to what senator ben cardin just said, why didn t the president do that? why doesn t the president come out and say it in that full-throated manner? it will still fail. this will fail today because it s not integrated. each of those agencies has a different role. director wray said my influence task force is doing the following, because he s doing what he s allowed to do, but he s not there to police fake news that comes into the ....
And he gets fired for the same thing. what s your pulse on this now, given what chuck cooper, sessions lawyer said today? i am absolutely appalled by this. laura, this is to me the most scandalous thing i ve ever talked about on your show. there are three big stories here. there are three big parts of this. first, as kim said, it s highly unusual for something like this to happen. the administration officials from both parties go before congress all the time, they make misstatements, they re accused by the other side of perjury, there is almost never an investigation. there wasn t an investigation opened of eric holder when he made false statements about the fast and furious investigation. i don t think he was perjuring himself. there wasn t even an investigation of jim clapper when he said the nsa didn t collect data, and everybody knows he was intentionally lying. so that s the first thing. that s highly unusual. the second thing is, andrew ....
Thing. what s your pulse on this now, given what chuck cooper, sessions lawyer said today? i am absolutely appalled by this. laura, this is to me the most scandalous thing i ve ever talked about on your show. there are three big stories here. there are three big parts of this. first, as kim said, it s highly unusual for something like this to happen. the administration officials from both parties go before congress all the time, they make misstatements, they re accused by the other side of perjury, there is almost never an investigation. there wasn t an investigation opened of eric holder when he made false statements about the fast and furious investigation. i don t think he was perjuring himself. there wasn t even an investigation of jim clapper when he said the nsa didn t collect data, and everybody knows he was intentionally lying. so that s the first thing. that s highly unusual. the second thing is, andrew ....