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Counsel at the time jim baker testifying on capitol hill last year in -- in closed-door testimony talking about how they saw this as a national security threat, the firing of comey as a national security threat because it could be a way of trying to impede the fbi's ability to understand how russia meddled in the election, interfered in the election, helped get donald trump elected. >> you know, i think for a lot of people when they hear this story and it is indeed a bombshell, congratulations on the scoop. the fbi seemed to have been the more reticent of the agencies that were investigating d...

People in this country is to treat them with violence, to refuse to give them an opportunity to participate in the american experiment. so anyone who says, well, i don't really remember what steve said or maybe it's bad now or ben shapiro coming out and saying, well, this crosses a line. you've been letting him and people like him cross a line in the party for years and now you have to view it as a national security issue, not just a political damage issue. >> but i wonder, too, if once, you know, members of the republican party have opened up the door on steve king whether or not then you can...

Russia against american interests. according to law enforcement officials and others familiar with the investigation." >> that is a counterintelligence investigation opened by the fbi 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 firing the fbi director james comey was itself seen as a national security concern not just as a criminal matter. "if the president had fired mr. comey to stop the russia investigation, the action would have been a national security issue because i...

Because the president is amoral and is a hostage taker. we shouldn't be negotiating with a hostage taker. mitch mcconnell can bring these bills to the floor. and i'm calling on all the republicans to listen to their constituents, who are in great pain, to say to mitch mcconnell -- and some of them have come forward, which is a good thing. more of them need to come forward to mitch mcconnell and say let's do our jobs, reopen government and then we can argue about the wall with regard to funding for homeland security. >> very quickly, you say the president is a hostage taker. what do you mean sp...

Battle. he can turn up the heat on you guys, the democrats, by convincing more people that a wall is necessary. what do you say? do you think you could lose this on the pr? >> i think that's sad to begin with, that we have 800,000 federal employees not getting paid. our security, a lot of them, they work for homeland security. he's jeopardizing our security to try to win a political argument? i can't predict for sure how the american public is going to break on this, but there's no reason why the president can't reopen the government, pay those workers, enhance our security now and then come t...