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Think about bringing all supreme court nominee in an electionou year. >> our republican colleagues in the senate should follow the rule they set in 2016. not to consider a supreme court justice in an election year. >> mcconnell said, basically, watch us. what do you think would happen?. >> it is a two-key operation, so it is the president's job to bring up a nomination, and it is the congress' job congress' anb to decide whether or not to take it up and vote to confirm or not to confirm. >> laura: patrick burne resigned amid ties to the russian probe with an affair with a russian agent which h...

Does the fbi ever work that way? >> sure, in a counterintelligence situation, the fbi would certainly reach out to a former asset for the purpose of understanding in counterintelligence we referred to people's assets rather than informants. so if they used patrick byrne in any capacity before, it would have made sense to reach out to her and maybe ask him to rekindle whatever relationship they had, if they were interested in her, which we knew they were. and there were other things going on in 2015 and 2016. so they could have also benefited from the idea that if you have, for example, let's j...

Him. as far as the part about director comey specifically said something to me or deputy director mccabe, something like that, that may not be exactly what he meant to convey. i would think that -- and i atched his interview on television. i think he meant to convey that the agents who were talking to him had let him know that these were the people calling the shots. it's all very interesting. it's all kind of -- if youd watched it, you kind of scratch your head. >> it's another character in this ongoing drama. and harmeed and i both went to the same college. patrick byrne, i was like what is ...

To the fbi. and if that's in a 302 somewhere, it should have been turnede. over >> laura: this is the brady rule for the law geeks out there, wannabe. so the brady rule requires the prosecutor to give to the defendant's team all exculpatory now, byrne is saying that peterf this, and this went to the highest levels. comey, mccabe, on down. this is wild. i have, in a full declaration of what i know, i've known patrick byrne since our first week in college. we were both the same class in college. i know him -- i don't keepham in touch with him, but to me it's -- the appearances on television were...

>> yet, moments later, byrne told mccall lineup he was given orders by fbi director james comey and mccabe andpeterd for a series of anti-trump texts he sent to an fbi employee he was having an affair with. >> peter strzok, and it has been confirmed with me, my information has come to me from peter strzok. >> peter strzok hasn't commented. james comey says the claims are ridiculous and byrne wouldn't elaborate on giving specifics on what instructions he was given. but he says the men in black did point him to maria butina, the woman who pleaded guilty to being an unregistered russian agent.and...