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President praised one great reporting, as always. >> bret: chuck grassley putting out a statement. republican from iowa. "over the course of the last several months, general trickle comey's decisions had prompted concern across the political spectrum. the handling of the clinton email investigation is a clear example of how comey's decisions have called into question the trust and political independence of the fbi. in my efforts to get answers, the fbi under comey's leadership has been slow or failed to provide information that comey himself pledged to provide. the effectiveness of the fbi dep...

Chuck grassley, the senate judiciary committee chairman. joining us from capitol hill, senator joe manchin from west virginia, a democrat on the intelligence committee. your reaction. >> it was shocking. i was walking up to do the interviewers with you all and i hear about it, and i start reading some of the letters sent back and forth from attorney general sessions to the president. that being said, i want you to know it will not impede the investigations we have going on in the intelligence committee. we are gathering the information in a diligent way. we look forward to mr. comey coming bef...

Reporting, it does look like the fbi director was caught offguard or blindsided by this decision. >> bret: to your point, we were expecting the fbi director to testify thursday on capitol hill. in another committee hearing. sean spicer was asked today whether the president still had confidence in fbi director james comey and his answer was "i haven't talked to him." let's bring in jennifer griffin at the pentagon. >> i think what's most interesting. i have been reading the letter sent by rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, to the attorney general jeff sessions and which he outlines th...

Sally yates say she couldn't answer the question because of the counterterrorism investigations, is clapper wrong? >> what clapper said was he couldn't comment opposed the release of the january 6 report. sally yates said a lot of the information was classified. this is the reason why we have to do this investigation bipartisan in candidly, from the liberal and conservative media, we've got to be willing to follow the facts. you have always been willing to do that and i compliment you on this. this is bigger than any single individual president. it is about rule of law and making sure the laws...

Fbi director james comey's handling of certain aspects of the hillary clinton investigation. the review of his letter reviving the investigation days before the election. it will also probe the department of justice actions during that time as well. clinton and her supporters claim comey's actions basically cost them the election. this probe could breathe new life into some of those criticisms. in a statement comey said he welcomes the review. but that's just the tip of the iceberg today, which brings us to dark cloud number two. russia. trump has mocked the u.s. intelligence officers for th...