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He will invite the president to come to israel to cut the ribbon for the new american embassy in jerusalem. these are all side shows. there's nothing that's going to stop the attorney general in israel from doing what he's going to do because of symbolic photo-ops. >> ambassador, i want to bring in anna here. you have to talk about jared ku kushner. his security clearance has been downgraded so in some instances he can't even be in the meetings he would necessarily need to be in. the white house says, well, his valuable work will continue without changing. how do you see that downgrade impacti...

>> all right, congressman, stay with me. i have more questions for you but i do want to have our law enforcement analyst josh campbell, who's a former fbi special agent, weigh in on this. this really puts the onus on the president to in a full throated way admit that this is a problem. one wonder if he's going to do that. it's so imperative that he does. and these indictments drive that home. because the president has a very important role in shepherding a coordinated effort on meddling. >> you're exactly right. let me give you just a law enforcement perspective that may be different as folks ...

Investigation in this country, such as we had in watergate, to determine that the president of the united states is or is not above the rule of law, we need to have the precedent and the continuation of the precedent that the president is not above the rule of law, and what we're seeing here is a desint grags of that precedent, by trying to smear these legitimate investigations and take us into these side shows. this is not about the fbi. this is about donald trump, his family, his organization, his business, and -- >> and the committee has threatened to hold steve bannon in contempt. what opt...

Know, to understand where trump is coming from. what that also does is raise questions and doubt about american institutions and the intelligence community. >> it raises doubt. he also sparred with his new fbi director who did not want this memo declassified. you have the -- the russian election meddling was designed to undermine confidence in u.s. political institutions. all of this is playing out, mccain who is home recovering with brain cancer, said putin wins. the latest attacks on the fbi and department of justice serve no american incidents. special counsel mueller's investigation must p...

Derail or problemize the mueller investigation we're not going to buy that. they're protecting the white house and sending a signal and say you can spin all you want but don't take any actions that really, you know, put yourself in jeopardy. >> i suppose they're not saying we don't support the president and if there is nothing to hide then let the investigation play out is what i get from some of that. jack, being a former kgb spy, i want to get your take on what senator john mccain said about this whole memo battle. quote, the latest attack on the fbi and department justice serve no american ...