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Problematic for the administration. brian: until the transcript comes out you are not allowed to talk about it. ed: we are getting selective leaks of pieces of information. the point is the facts have not all been on the administration side and i think we have to acknowledge that. steve: they have not. there have been selective leaks to make the administration look bad. ed: let's see their side of it. steve: for the democrats to say we are going to make this public very shortly. we don't know that for sure, do we. ed: that's why the president started on twitter and you see his allies like matt...

Defense? >> if he was in russia, if he was in china, if he was in some other countries that i don't think we want to look like, he may be right. it is a crime. it was one of the articles that richard nixon faced and i don't think any of us want to look at our children and say i wept to work today and decided that abuse of power is not a crime. >> final question, what is the time line here? there is some transparency argument that at some point this can't be behind closed doors, the american people, all of us, republicans, democrats, citizens and journalists have to hear what's happening. >> yo...

The president. a little hard to tell. take a listen. >> i'm a former prosecutor, and what i know is this is a perfect time for a preliminarily hearing where you would say show us your evidence. what evidence of a crime do you have? the constitution, sort of abuse of power is not a crime. >> abuse of power is not a crime. what do you think of that defense? >> if he was in russia, if he was in china, if he was in some other countries that i don't think we want to look like, he may be right, it was a crime. i don't think any of us want to look at our children and say, i went to work today and dec...

Deputy, right? rod rosenstein, from the fbi, he says, all of this supersedes republicans, democrats, even democrats want to know the answers. david? >> exactly. the best way to get this investigation wrapped up is for there to be full transparency and questions answered. but you know, seeing the president have that conversation right there, it goes to all of this complaint that he is not doing enough media conferences and having people into the east room to have a big presidential press conference. is there any question what the president thinks given his twitter and willingness every time he ...

Already priming for tearing down the democratic side of things. >> right. the transparency argument runs a little thin. i wonder here. you have the president. he tens going after the fbi head on and the justice department. he is also being contradicted by his own party. republicans, trey gowdy saying it is about a lot more than the dossier. he know his base will stick with him no matter what. as he picks fights with law enforcement, d.o.j., does president went those battles? >> he needs to support people like adam she was. some republicans opposed the fisa. trump himself said this is absolutel...