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Them. and that making the case that since impeachment is a political tool, the goal of it is to convince the public that you are doing things in a fair and just manner and they're certainly not, because they're not abiding by any of the past courtesies or standards that impeachment probes use. paul: how so? they're doing a lot of it in secret through the house intelligence committee rather than the house judiciary committee. that is unusual because both of the other impeachments in our era, nixon and clinton, were done through judiciary, in the open. >> right. i think the reason they are doing...

Cross-examining them or calling them. and that making the case that since impeachment is a political tool, the goal of it is to convince the public that you are doing things in a fair and just manner and they're certainly not, because they're not abiding by any of the past courtesies or standards that impeachment probes use. paul: how so? they're doing a lot of it in secret through the house intelligence committee rather than the house judiciary committee. that is unusual because both of the other impeachments in our era, nixon and clinton, were done through judiciary, in the open. >> right. i...

Tampering? >> what else can it be? it certainly is a threat being made. personally i think it's an invalid threat. it's not something that i think should matter. but mr. cohen has just been berated oaf aver and over by pe who are clearly trying to protect the president and trying to keep him from testifying in the open. you shouldn't be afraid of what he has to say. if you are, that's cause for suspicion. >> and you think that's what matt gaetz is going to be talking about, affairs and things like that? >> i'm sure on the republican side they're going to do anything they can to distract from t...

Behavior since he was c.i.a. chief, his behavior testifying falsely before congress that he didn't spy on senate staffers, a lot of good reasons. this is mostly symbolic. the "wall street journal" editorialized if president trump really wanted to go after john brennan the best way to do it is declassify all these documents that would tell us what our intelligence agencies were up to in 2016. >> bill: why doesn't he do that? >> good question. i think at this point people need to know the story. this move against the security clearances of former obama officials, right, political vindictiveness,...

Criticism for the former fbi director james comey and new rules for future investigations. that's part of what is expected from the department of justice inspector general's investigation. cnn has learned some details from this highly, highly anticipated report. let's go to our justice reporter laura jarrett. she's joining us, doing a lot of excellent reporting on this. comey and the former attorney general, loretta lynch, they're both being criticized. walk us through, laura, first of all what you've learned about this report that's expected to be released in the coming days. >> reporter: wel...