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Story once again. quote, in the days after president trump fired james b. comey as fbi director, law enforce the officials became so concerned by the president's behavior they began investigating whether he had been working on behalf of russia against american interests. according to former law enforcement officials and others familiar with the investigation. that is a counter intelligence investigation opened by the fbi into whether the president himself was basically a russian asset. according to "the times" the question of whether the president of the united states obstructed justice by fir...

National security concern. the interesting thing about that, we usually thing of obstruction of justice as something that happens in the criminal context, where someone is interfering with a witness or lying to investigators in a criminal investigation that's looking at one or, you know, several individuals. the difference here is that the potential obstruction could have been on a national security investigation, one that impacted the entire country. so this is not just on a bank robbery, this is not just on a regular, you know, crime that they were looking at, this was the attack on the elec...

Said in interviews in recent weeks. because if mr. trump had ousted the head of the fbi to impede or even end the russia investigation, that was both a possible crime and a national security concern. "the times" tonight also reports getting some access to the testimony of the top lawyer at the fbi at the time, fbi general counsel james baker. and then from mr. baker's house testimony, "not only would it be an issue of obstructing an investigation, but the obstruction itself would hurt our ability to figure out what the russians had done. and that is what would be a threat to national security,...

Driving that? the second thing, as you were pointing out earlier, were his comments to lester holt, where he appears to say that russia was on his mind when he fired comey. >> and you have in here -- it is extraordinary. what we've been talking about in the obstruction of justice inquiry has generally up until now been about the firing of comey as a way to obstruct the fbi's investigation more broadly. but what you're reporting here is that the fbi came to see the potential obstruction as in and of itself a national security concern. >> correct. that is the testimony that was given last year b...

Security, things like fencing in some areas, for things like sensors, for making sure that we have the right number of customs and border protection agents and things that are actually going to help stop contraband from coming into this country. >> speaker pelosi said, though, not any money for the wall, not any money for even beaded curtains. do you agree with her? >> well, you know, we need to be smart on border security. the people of the tenth district sent me here not just to represent them but also to spend the money wisely, you know, their tax dollars. and spending billions of dollars o...