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Apartment have now confirmed to fox news that u.s. attorney john durham has been meeting with attorney general william barr oe occasions in recent weeks that a federal review of the generous of us of the russia probe. separately, they told fox news that he is "very dialed in and asking all the right questions about surveillance abuse in 2016, and how a surveillance warrant was obtained for credit page." last night the ranking republican of house intelligence me said the more it relied heavily on the dossier and not multiple intelligent sourcing. >> on the fisa application especially, you heard...

And that michael flynn and george papadopoulos were already f.b.i. investigation? can you answer that question for us? >> i can. even though that relates to classified materials. i can't tell you what's in those materials but i have seen them and but what is public and not classified is there was a defensive briefing of candidate trump on august 17th of 2016. and i can tell you what he wasn't told. he wasn't warned about a russia investigation that peter strzok had opened 18 days earlier. and so the questions -- there are a lot of questions there that go to the origins of that matter and that'...

We have been lucky this system hasn't had to manage a global crisis. >> thank you. let's check in with chris. >> 47 months for manafort. it's less than mueller wanted. does that mean the judge next week is going to tee up, obviously judges aren't supposed to coordinate that but will there be a harder sentence next week. and if not, is this that the pursuit of all of these matters has been overblown. legal and political implications. we're taking on both. robert ray is one of the best legal minds in the business. he was one of the white water independent counsels. the issues and the questions m...

That will be a real problem. we have been lucky this system hasn't had to manage a global crisis. >> thank you. let's check in with chris. what he's working on. >> 47 months for manafort. there's fines and stuff. as far as time. it's less than mueller wanted. does that mean the judge next week is going to tee up, obviously judges aren't supposed to coordinate that but will there be a harder sentence next week. and if not, is this that the reflection the mueller charges and the pursuit of all of these matters has been overblown. legal and political implications. we're taking on both. robert ray...

All, and this was a question the a.g. took and answered. sabrina, part of the backdrop to this is bill barr. we could be talking about a swearing in pretty soon. if mitch mcconnell puts it on the docket, it's done. >> they are in the process of considering william barr's nomination and since republicans still have control of the senate, they can clear him with a simple majority vote, and certainly the judicial committee is expected to advance his nomination in the coming week. and i think whitaker's comments are significant because they, in many ways, tee up what is going to be the next front ...