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Some areas, for things like sensors, for making sure we have the right number of customs and border protection agents. and things that are actually going to help stop contraband from >> 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 on a wall that's not going to solve a problem is not a good use ...

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

The country, the general counsel at the time jim baker testifying on capitol hill, the firing of comey as the 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 and help get donald trump elected. >> for many people that hear this story, it's a bombshell and congratulations on the scoop, the fbi seemed to have been the more of the agencies investigating during the 2016 campaign. they very famously essentially downplayed the idea and didn't even mention the fact that the donald trum...

Russia. what ties suspicions is donald trump, two things he does, a letter he writes to insist on including russia as part of the firing jim comey and the interview with lester holt. how extraordinary is that it's donald trump's own words essentially that caused the suspicions to increase? >> they were very reluctant to open the investigation and consider him to be a target of the investigation because there is concern that the government will be perceived in a way that is partisan and they want to do everything they can to stibck t facts and law and not be anyone's puppet in terms of being us...

And broke it down and decoupled each department in case there was any hope of getting them passed one at a time to reopen various parts of the govrt aern and these bills that combine -- contain over $1 billion for border security, for smart border 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...