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Actually, flynn lied to the fbi. frankly, why did mike flynn lie at all about his contacts with the russian government about sanctions? he is the incoming national security adviser. it wouldn't be that weird for flynn to be talking to a foreign government about an expected change in policy under the trump administration when it came to u.s./russia relations, even sanctions specifically. it would be a little awkward. questions would be raised, but it wouldn't be that weird. nevertheless, he lied about it publicly and he lied about it to the fbi, and that honestly makes no sense if they were inn...

An intelligence source of mine said look at public commentary here. roger stone had a lot of public comments in advance of these releases which sara referred to. the president talked about this as it was happening. as you look at the evidence as it is trickling out here, are you seeing evidence of these releases. is that a legal issue by itself for the president and his advisers? >> yes. i think this is a case where they might be brought down by their own ability to keep this stuff secret. their claim is that they guessed all of this, they were making predictions and they turned out to be righ...

Collect information to provide policy makers information to make policy. the russians focus on subversion, of going after your weaknesses. this is the deception, the disinformation, the fake news, the media manipulation, yes, the assassination. all of these things together are what they do. but the one thing you have to remember underlying all of this and it's been this way in their doctrine since the soviet union is they have human sources helping them direct the stuff. the knowledge that they have of our elections and how to play off our parties and all that stuff, that doesn't just come fro...

Fusion gps has reiterated publicly and emphatically that they want those transcripts released. democrats on the committee appear now be unified in saying they want the transcripts released. senators who have seen the transcripts because they're on the committee, who know what's on it, have said there wouldn't be harm caused by releasing it, it wouldn't interfere with anything in terms of any ongoing investigations. but for some reason senator grassley won't do it. despite what he told his own constituents in august today he insisted no, he will not allowing that transcript to be released. when...

Optics of a president asserting this in this particular case, might not bode well for the trump white house. >> oh, i think that's absolutely clear, that's always a risk. it's kind of like taking the fifth amendment in a criminal trial, that's absolutely somebody's right but that can sometimes lead to inferences, i think in the case of a politician particularly like president trump who has made his brandon straight talking and cleaning up the swamp, to invoke this, keeping stuff secret i think would be a big political hit. >> final question. so if president trump invokes executive privilege, w...