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Happening. never in any of my coverage, before the election or my subsequent coverage after, i've been out in all of those states again, 27,000 miles, i never heard steve bannon mentioned even when i would ask people, people didn't think of him as, as being -- if he left. and that would be the direct of my question. if that would have an impact. i don't think he wields as much power in his influence, in the voters that made the difference in the past election. and these are the same voters that will likely make the difference in a mid-term election. because those are the sort of states that yo...

Testimony he said he did not recall any kind of meeting, which is standard fare. so what he was trying to do is say this is all wrong about me. and to the notion that james comey said well, wait a minute, if i was fired because of russia, what did attorney general sessions have to do with it because he recused himself on the russia investigation. sessions also tried in his own way to clear that up. pointing to the rod rosenstein memo and saying this was about the way he behaved during the campaign. so, he tried to sweep everything aside and really clear his name here. >> there is a lot of nonr...

When you wrote your letter did you know the president already decided to fire director comey? >> senator feinstein, i would say that i believe it's been made public that the president asked us our opinion. it was given and he asked us to put that in writing. and i don't know how much more he said about it than that. but believe he has talked about it and i would let his word speak for themselves. >> so, he doesn't directly answer the question, david. what do we know is the president -- we do know the president made it clear that russia was on his mind when he fired james comey. >> yep. and the...

But you're saying it's not mean. do you have concerns with the score? do you have concerns with what people are saying at town halls back home? do you have concerns about what some of the democratic members are saying? >> sure, we do. for sure we do. look, this is not an easy task we're trying to do. and it's controversial. and there will be some people disappointed. there's no question about that. and again i'm not throwing the media under the bus. but you got to realize as well that the media coverage is in some cases not been as fair or accurate as it could have been. i'm not here to talk a...

Any details about anything that was said that was improper. i affirmed his concern that we should be following the proper guidelines of the department of justice. >> what do you think, julia? >> you know, jeff sessions was an ardent advocate of donald trump when he declared his run for the presidency early on when it was unlikely and he remain as dogged defender of the president now and he has to protect himself in addition. but what you saw in the hearing he didn't give much ground on anything and david is totally right. he tried to sweep all the crumbs that led to him awaway and go back the ...