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Only have five minutes a round for each lawmaker. and what they really wanted were longer questions, an hour for the republicans, an hour for the democrats behind closed doors so they could drill down on issues. the director went to court to quash the congressional subpoena. they eventually withdrew the effort and agreed to terms of the closed door classified interview. after six hours yesterday, the view had been heading into it that it may have gone well into the evening to answer all the questions. there were allegation that's a government lawyer wasp kind of running interference on a lot o...

Campaigns under fbi investigations. two hours into the session, some republicans came out and said they could not get their questions asked and answered. they accused a government lawyer of running interference and shutting down lines of inquiry. let's listen. >> director comey is in there with two attorneys. the one from the department of justice has repeatedly, i would say, at his gleeful acceptance instructed that he will not be answering a great many questions that are clearly items at the core of our investigation. >> the fbi does not want questions that may relate to the mueller investig...

I'm still happy to sit in the light and answer all questions, but i will resist a closed door thing because i've seen enough of their selective leaking and distortion. let's have a hearing and invite everyone to see. what can you tell us? >> happy thanksgiving, kristen. >> happy thanksgiving. >> is that democrats are taking control of the house in january, so there's not a lot of time left for republicans. this is considered republicans last stand to try to turn attention away from controversies surrounding president trump and back into the obama administration and hillary clinton, who we did ...

We know that happened in this case. that's the whole question about whether people had fisa warrants that were appropriate. the second way you get information, you get an informant up close to somebody and ask them questions. once the fbi opens up an investigation, typically if the fbi is serious, they're going to do one of those two things. these are not spies. this is an investigation trying to determine if the informants are essential or not. this is the president trying to make filet mignon out of chopped liver. this is not that interesting. >> so the president is going through white house...

These sort of what's called catch and kill stories, right? >> yeah, absolutely. so this was a real turn-about. this was a very -- the ami is completely changing its tune in terms of now not just going on the attack, but going on the attack viciously against cohen. >> how do you interpret that? >> they're in the same business, right? they are the print version of michael cohen. they have been running interference for donald trump. to the extent of paying six figure sums to sexy time ladies so they don't their story. it's not just the dead fish on the doorstep. it's the horsehead in the bed at t...