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Saying to them? are you telling them to knock it off? or are you saying to them, and just speculating here, you'll get a better deal with us than you will be hillary clinton? and if so, you are knowing them encouraging them to continue their covert political warfare against the united states. now i know you wouldn't do that, eli. you're an honorable person. but we know michael flynn who talks about kidnapping people, who lied to the vice president is not an honorable person. we know that donald trump doesn't take this russia stuff seriously. so no, i don't think you would do something wrong. b...

President can overrule the intelligence community and the fbi investigators. now that may come at the expense of his relationship with lawmakers, the fbi, with the office of the director of national intelligence. but he can do it. >> but as i say, will we know if he does it? is it a public process where we would know that he has done that? >> it's not a public process. it's possible that that information could get out there. but fbi investigators and people in the office of the director of national intelligence typically keep these sorts of things under wraps. but it's impossible to tell if th...

President could simply overrule that denial and order that security clearance. joining us now, tim mak, senior correspondent for the daily beast. tim, you reported on this extensively in the daily beast today, including the various processes involved in getting the security clearance. what are people telling you about someone like steve bannon going through the process to get a security clearance? >> look, steve bannon raise as lot of regular flags. and what national security experts are telling me, in particular, these experts are experts in getting security clearances is that he would have a...

Concerns about huntsman. i think huntsman would have been a tough general election candidate. i can tell you he's a good guy. we looked at his profile in the general election and thought he would have been difficult. >> what's good about huptsman that makes him a good candidate? >> he wasn't good enough to get the nomination. the idea that moderate republicans are in vogue now. i think you're increasingly seeing that to be the case. a lot of people are saying the last four years haven't been so good for the republican party. you can see that in the electoral results. tim mak, appreciate you ...

Staffers are working on it full time. and what i mean by that is they have other responsibilities on the committee. they have oversight responsibilities. many of them have a lot of other work to do monitoring intelligence activities and can't focus full-time on the trump-russia probe. and there is actually among those seven individuals, none of them has any expertise in prosecutions or in complex investigations. >> and tim, one of the surprising biofacts about these staff members that you discovered is none of them are lawyers. and it's actually hard to collect seven staff members on senate co...