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our nations greatest rivals, china, now warning it is getting seriously prepared for the house speaker to potentially visit. seriously prepared, they call it. she's going to the island of taiwan later this month. the communist nation which is historically claiming the island as its own territory has had this to say on the speakers possible visit. here's a quote. "if the u.s. side insists on making the visit, the chinese side will take firm and strong measures to safeguard our sovereignty and territorial integrity. the u.s. must assume full responsibility for any serious consequence a...

Any conversations after that meeting as well. you said there weren't any in that time frame but anything after? >> we have no reason to believe there were any after or before in this time frame. we are doing the same analysis. we're trying to look back at information to determine whether there was any phone calls beutthis was a year ago and there is no recollection of any phone calls having taken place on this topic. >> the president's nominee for fbi director said if a person offered information from a foreign government, as this is being dubbed, that person should seek legal counsel. what ki...

>> i don't know any of a that. i'm saying a worst case scenario this was part of a quid pro quo. you give us the information, we'll settle this case, we'll do other things. we'll go easy on the sanctions. on the magnitsky act or on other sanctions. this is what we have to investigate. >> and you've written your letters? >> yes. there's a lot of suggestive things here, but we don't know these to be fact, but they're highly suggestive and we have to investigate this. and we've written a whole series of very specific questions to the justice department. did the justice department involve itself? ...

Did president trump know and when? because he told roiters yesterday he only learned a couple of days ago but today it sounds like he's leaving that window open. maybe it was mentioned at some point. what's your take? >> first of all you can't believe anything he says because he's a serial liar. his story will change once, it's already changed twice. you had this email chain in which donald trump jr. and manafort and jared kushner all get these emails and participate in the chain, promising the russian government is going to get information, dirt on hillary clinton. the next day the president ...

Lawyers inform the president's lawyers, marc kasowitz, the chief lawyer in the russia investigation, and alan gartin, the chief lawyer for the trump organization. so you have this question sitting at the table. did the top lawyers for the president have this explosive information and not inform their client? you could argue that they had -- some have argued, and i quote richard painter, former ethics lawyer for the bush white house, saying they had an ethical obligation to inform their client about relevant information to this investigation and it's possible they were trying to protect him. bu...