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And to present to men who -- at least on some level have a conscience, have a reputation that they value national security circles, people like senator bur, that if robert mueller is able to lay out the kinds of things that had you concerned before you left, the conduct that was inexplicably precisely what putin would have orchestrated if he were pulling donald trump's strings as though he were a puppet, that really could sort of be the equivalent of shaking up this conversation in a way the criminal probe couldn't be because republicans felt like they had to circle the wagon around the republ...

We're back where we began with a russian interference with the election but that's very different than the notion of colluding with one of the candidates. >> the one that matters here is the mueller investigation, which only seems to be widening at this point. so with these wrapping down, anna, as we look at this, does this really hurt the credibility of both parties here moving forward, especially once we get that investigation, whatever it may find, even just in terms of how in-depth they were? >> look, i think there's a huge difference with how the senate is conducting its investigation, ho...

Say about him and the job he does on every issue. let me put that on the table, but i spoke to somebody with the senate intel committee about two weeks ago, who said to me, and i think this is what we're all seeing today, this investigation on the house side was blown up months ago. it was blown up on the republicans side, it was blown up on the democratic side. we have seen for weeks and months now every day, adam schiff, eric swalwell, jackie speier attacking them. the senate has done a much better job. that's where we'll see a lot more of the focus go. they're working tooth. we'll see the e...

Been very partisan. in contrast the senate intelligence committee under the leadership of warner have worked together and i think that's a far better approach. i have a lot of confidence in the fbi. they are the nation's premier law enforcement agency. that doesn't mean that there weren't an agent and a lawyer who had inappropriate and highly political text messages in the midst of investigations, but let's look at what happened. first of all, the special counsel immediately removed the agent from his team. in response to that and second perhaps even more important, there is an on going inspec...

I was a little bit shocked at that. didn't have a bull's eye on it. >> i was a little shocked . we talked about this idea of violence from trump supporters should he lose, hugh. even trump himself said second amendment people could take matters into their own hands. this is coming from a sitting u.s. senator who has since apologized. are you at all concerned about the rhetoric? >> i don't think it was an appropriate joke. i'm glad senator bur quickly apologized. it was a dumb joke. a bad move but i don't think it leads to any conclusion there's going to be violence. i don't believe that. i don...