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>> i'm joined by the democratic senator from new hampshire. how confident are you -- maybe that's the wrong way to phrase it. are you confident that the president's not going to find a way to dump the special counsel who is basically prosecuting his case? >> well, that's why i wanted assurances from rod rosenstein that first of all, he is the direct line of authority to robert mueller as the independent counsel and that he understands what the statute says that there have to be certain reasons to fire a special counsel, and the president cannot do that. and that attorney general sessions has r...

As you said within that context there will be questions about that that come up today and the focus of the hearing. it won't stay focused there. >> bill: they've told our producers that democrats won't focus on the 702, the fisa court. what will they focus on? comey termination and russia and whether the president said to dan coates, what did the president tell you about the f.b.i. director? did he ask you -- how did he phrase it? what was the context of asking you to let this investigation go, which was the phrase we believe is contained in james comey's notes. now, he is there in 24 hours. s...

Officially a member of the trump administration. what's your sense of what we're going to see here? >> she has been very specific about the areas she wants to engage in. >> absolutely. >> she sees herself as -- i don't know if this is the way she would phrase it, but she is almost a bastion of liberalism within the trump administration, look at the issues she picks, female empowerment, climate change, and i suspect here she'll talk about women in business and the problems that confront them. >> we're going to listen in for a couple minutes here. >> how will the administration look at this whol...

Washington post," repeatedly. you know, anonymously leaked, which tla, quihey, quite frankl. so somebody was leaking classified information within the obama administration. and that's the point. it may well not be miss farkas. i just want to know who it is. >> but jeffrey, i just saw sean hannity claiming that it proved that president obama was having donald trump surveilled. i mean, where does she say that? >> well, clearly, clearly donald trump was being surveilled. accidentally, incidentally, however you want to phrase it -- >> no, that's not surveillance. incidental collection is not surve...

Outgoing administration concerned the incoming administration, you know, allies of which are under federal investigation for possibly colluding with russia, would try to bury relevant intelligence? i mean, doesn't that actually make sense? and by the way, she's not in the government anymore. >> what's controversial -- what's controversial is that whatever went on in the administration and the obama administration turned up in "the new york times" and "the washington post," repeatedly. you know, anonymously leaked, which they, quite frankly, said. so somebody was leaking classified information ...