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Conversations of. he says, quote, spent very little time with andrew mccabe but he never took notes when he was with me. i don't believe he made memos except to help his own agenda, probably at a later date. same with lying james comey. can we call them fake memos? let's bring in ted williams, criminal defense attorney, former homicide detective. thanks for being with us. >> hi, rick. >> you believe that mccabe's firing was justified? >> well, when you look at it, what we have here, rick, is a mess. on one side we have the president of the united states who has a hate for mccabe and we have an...

Testing the waters on firing mueller. dick di durbin says that would e going too far. >> if the president reaches out and stops this investigation, that is a constitutional crisis in this country. that's been said by democrats and republicans alike and what it means is, it would be incumbent on congress on a bipartisan basis to use the tools in its disposal. there are two bills before the senate judiciary committee which has been absent without leave on this issue, two bills before the committee, bipartisan bills to protect the special counsel. we ought to pass those bills now. this coming a...

Miles stanish, white house columnist for the hill. thank you for being here. first of all, we're hearing 76% of the t vote. how seriously do we take this landslide win? is he really that popular? >> i don't think we take the 76% number at face value. there are reported irregularitieses in the election, as your correspondent and you have mentioned, about ballot box stuffing. those issues are separate from the fact that vladimir putin is legitimately popular in russia. one of the complications for those of us in the west is that part of the reason for his popularity are the very same things that...

On the situation. >> rick: i think another part about -- >> i think another part is the companies think they're above the rules that apply to everybody else. so we'll learn more about this in the days to come. i'm disturbed by that. >> we need to find out what we can about the misappropriation of the privacy, the private information of tens of millions of americans. that mis misaprobeapproac inforn manipulate american voters. >> facebook said they launched internal and external reviews. >> chris: will, thank you. >> rick: the first day of spring is this week. for millions of people it might fe...

There. >> rick: we've also heard that putin went to great lengths to prevent his most worthy opponent from running. so does that call this victory into question in any way? >> it does. i mean, his opponent was the most serious critic of putin based on distance. he was barred from running for what most consider spurious charges. he would have provided the most serious platform for dissent and opposition. if you're clearing the field of your most credible opponents, that's a pretty sinister sign. >> rick: speaking of cinder, the whole world heard about this alleged poisoning by russia of this ru...