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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170520:23:59:00

First surfaced, pat leahy and jean shaheen sought details on any requests for increased resources made by the fbi to the department of justice in order to complete its investigation into russian interference. they sent that letter eight days ago on may 11th. senators offices telling us they have yet to receive any response to that letter. senator shaheen tells us that the multiple well-sourced reports and justice department s blunt denial, those two things being in conflict make it all the more necessary for mr. rosenstein to respond to our le. so tonight w spoke with the department of justice, put to them, hey, maybe you guys have been splitting hairs, you ve been cute about this. director comey had requested more prosecutors and that doesn t fall under the umbrella of resources and we were again given an emphatic no. we asked them, is the justice ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170520:04:59:00

The fbi to the department of justice north to complete its investigation into russian interference. they sent that letter eight days ago on may 11th. senators offices tell us tonight they have yet to receive any response to that letter. shaheen s office tells us that the multiple apparently well sourced press reports and the justice department s blunt denial, those two things, those two things being in conflict make it all the more necessary for mr. rosenstein to respond to our letter. tonight we also spoke with the department of justice. we sort of put it to them hey, maybe you guys have been splitting hairs. maybe you have been kind of cute about this. maybe director comey had requested more prosecutors and that doesn t fall under the umbrella of resources. you sure you don t want but we were again given an emphatic no. we specifically asked them is the department of justice saying no requests were made for anything, period. this is the response that we got. quote, none, period. ....

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