mcconnell, the one republican who did speak, said i still support robert mueller. i wanted to get to the bottom of this. if he had seen evidence that this was born of some nefarious activity, he would have said something different. listen to michael hayden, former director of the central intelligence agency who knows how the counterexperience operations work. he counterintelligence operations work. he believes the fbi did everything by the book, used human sources to figure out were there people in touch with the russians during the campaign. he also gives the president be br grudgingly credit for turning public opinion into believing this might have happened in a nefarious way. all of those are wrong. all of those are incorrect. all of those are stunningly normal in the development of intelligence and law enforcement. you know what, i talked to a lot of people in the country. for a lot of people in the country, one or another or many of those things have already stu stuck. the p
why do you think the attorney general, eric holder, went on with this in thedlef t middle of the night? i know there are some i the reports that the information was reported before the obama administration wanted it to be t reported.or t i think it is important for the attorney general to get o describe to the american people, to have people waking up tomorrow morning or watching this t tonight and see that he is inhar charge, that theatiois o thministration is on top of this. i think just from public appearances perspective, you want to show the country thathat he s on top of this, and thatsta the mistakes they meed they made which many have acknowledged if not the administration itself, theis mistakes that were made in thek christmas day attack won t be br repeated here. i m hopeful for that.or all right, well, steven, ste thanks for being with us. w you bet.s. you re welcome. a short time ago attorney general eric holder released a t statement. y if you missedou it, le