Announcer thitsz this its the overnight news. Joining us now, John Dickerson, anchor of face the nation from the white house, Margaret Brennan. John, your takeaways from last night. We dont want to go too far in overreading the result in alabama. One republican put it, today, we dont expect to have anybody accused off sa ed of assaulting people in the races. Major take away for the republicans what kind of candidates will they nominate in nevada and arizona. Hard line candidates that thrill the primary audiences or ones that can win in the general election. For democrats the take . Away is in the virginia the president thrilled the democratic base. Got them to turn out. If thats true, in 2018, thats great news for democrats. Margaret, the president did endorse roy moore, but initially backed a different candidate. How is the white house reacting to all of this today. Well the president is disappointed but he said a win is a win. And he called doug jones invited him here to the white ho
And John Dickerson. Thank you both very much. Deputy attorney general, defended special Counsel Robert Mueller before the house youear committee. Republicans say muellers investigation of Russian Election meddling is by yalgsed against president trump. They pin the to Text Messages from a lead fbi investigator as the proof. Justice reporter paula reid joins us now with more on this. Paula, first of all, how do the Text Messages come to light . The Justice Department Inspector General found the Text Messages investigating how they handled matters prior to the campaign. Texts between, agent, peter striok, and lisa page strongly criticize donald trump during the campaign. They called him an idiot and prospects of a Trump Victory terrifying. A top official on the fbi investigation of Hillary Clintons use of private email server while secretary of state. After that, strzok and page joined the investigation. In Text Messages criticizing donald trump were discovered. Special Counsel Robert Mu