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The eight act cases that the obama justice department brought against people in the intelligence community that is three times the cases as all previous presidents combined. it was not really about those individuals. it was about sending a message to the intelligence community to keep mouths shut. >> laura: don't you dare that is mafia ~esque. i want to you respond. you see where this is going. left is trying to find the side issues to grasp on to. i don't think informant in a campaign is a side issue. i think it is a side issue when they say, the president's lawyer and the chiefs of staff wer...

It was fairly jumbled. it didn't seem at all relevant, so i don't recall, but she may have. >> yeah, this is consistent with the story that veselnitskaya has told nbc news and others have explained which is heis she's t to attack of the magnitsky act. and browder has supported democrats and some compatriots. and she thought bringing that to the trump campaign would be helpful for them. but they didn't see it at all and saw it as a nothing burger and a side issue. and that's the story. other people look at the thing and say was this a dangle, this is a woman who had ties with the kremlin. willi...

Interview is an intense focus on the russia nexus. collusion is off the table, they talk about it as if it is but it clearly is not off the table. the manafort thing is a related issue, somewhat of a side issue, collusion is still there as a focus for the special counsel's office. >> ken dilanian, you were at this hearing, you agree on sam stein's assessment? >> judge ellis, i'm not sure he realize how his comments would reverbera reverberate. he came in there to make a legal point expressing skepticism with the special counsel, what he called unfettered power and to speak the truth, you want ...

Of that. >> i was going to read another quote, but juliette respond to that. >> that's right. there's a consistent theme throughout all the memos it's that president trump wants three things from comey, one is he wants loyalty from comey, two he wants comey to drop the case against flynn and three he wants the overall investigation to go away. that is -- that is known to anyone over the age of 12 that you don't do that with the fbi director. so the sort of newness argument, i've long gotten over. i think what's also telling is the absence of any conversation in all of these memos about the ele...

Spending. trump was not upset about the spending. that's why the tweet was so funny. he said people didn't believe it. the reason i might veto this is because daca is not in the bill. >> bret: that set ann coulter off. >> that's was unbelievable. now republicans have their spending and daca will have to be done as a side issue. as a separate bill. i don't think there is any indication from anyone on capitol hill that will get done. >> bret: this is the last big bill before the mid-terms? >> exactly and the republicans are hanging their hat on the tax bill. that's not a certain thing that will ...