tonight. "cuomo prime time" starts right now. >> thank you, anderson. i am chris cuomo. welcome to "prime time." the articles of impeachment are coming tomorrow, we are told. and two years worth of deep state digs from this president were found by his own d.o.j. to be wrong. and if he doesn't believe it, he can ask his daughter. turns out she is reportedly friends with the foreign former intel agent who compiled the dossier and has been demonized by her daddy. you cannot make this stuff up so what do you say, let's go after it. make no mistake, what the president has been telling you about the russia probe being a hoax and a witch hunt is dead wrong. it not from me. that's according to the inspector general at the trump

department of justice. years of ugly conspiracies up in smoke. no spying on the trump campaign. the investigation was lawfully started. no political bias. there were some errors made along the way and the new fbi head has a slew of changes to make but none of. mistakes were judged by the inspector general as adversely affecting any outcomes. the only arguable deep state activity today was by this president's attorney general, attacking the findings of his own agency and having a hand-picked prosecutor to justify his feelings about spying, doing his own probe and his prosecutor pulled the comey, broke protocol, bad mouthed the inspector general's findings while talking about his own ongoing investigation. so will those accused of treason and worse get an apology? the two men i rely on most about

these matters are in fact in the news tonight. andrew mccabe, former deputy director of the fbi and former fbi general counsel jim baker. gentlemen, good to have you as always. >> thanks for having me, chris. >> what does it mean to you? >> it's not a happy day, quite honestly, because this is something that we have expected and been waiting for for two years. i knew we had not ever done anything wrong, so to see the i.g. embrace the unavoidable facts of no bias in the investigation, an investigation that was adequately predicated for an authorized purpose and in fact one that we thought we would be guilty of dereliction of duty had we not begun it, it is satisfying to finally see those words in print. >> jim, did you anticipate this a.g. coming out and raining on his own agency's parade? >> no, i didn't. i probably should have given the statements

mueller investigation. i did not see that quite frankly, and it was disappointing, given, as andy was saying, the conclusions are quite clear that the president's statements over these past several years are all wrong, that there was no hoax, there was no conspiracy to joe throw anybody, no sedition, no treason, no evidence of any of that. as you suggested quite bluntly, i think the president should apologize to us. i respectfully would ask him to apologize to me, to my colleagues because the things he said are just wrong. and i think he should step up and do that at a minimum. it's just wrong. i didn't see the a.g.'s thing coming and i found -- i found it really quite surprising and just not appropriate under these circumstances given what he said and given what the i.g. had found. >> you guys on tv especially are 100% g-man. you guys are always stone cold sober, but i have been with you

both and talked to you personally. andrew, how hard has it been for you after all the years of service, not to get mushy, but just to be honest about it and have this stink on you that you were part of this deep state effort to take a president down because of your own politics. >> chris, i can tell you, i feel confident speaking on behalf of all of the colleagues that i worked with on this investigation and many others, to spend your life dedicated to protecting america and upholding the constitution and then to be accused by the president of treason and suggest and have him further put the suggestion out that the proper penalty for us would be death, i can't describe to you how revolting that is. and, quite honestly, terrifying. it is just the exact opposite of who we are as government servants. it dishonors the commitments and

the work that we did to try to investigate what we now know is a completely valid investigation. and it's just a disgusting level of disrespect for the people who serve this country every day. >> you know, jim, some of the places that you've spoken since you've been out, i've talked to people who have been there, and you at least in the episodes that i've heard about, you miss every opportunity to say anything about this president and anything about what's going on. we are all living this perverse reality where we have to hold ourselves to a higher standard than the president of the united states. what andrew is talking about, you know, the penalty should be death, it's not something that's going to affect you hard, it's your family. the idea that your life of service is somehow a function of perfidy, it's your friends, your family.

how have ywould you describe th? >> it's had a negative effect on me, my former colleagues and family and friends. it's been extremely difficult. i have just resolved that i refuse to get down in the mud with anybody. i just refuse. it's not what's in the best interest of the country. so as i've written about -- i've tried to deal with the hatred that's come my way and turned it around and deal with it by trying to love other people, by actually trying to love the president and love his supporters. that's what i've been about. i've written about that on "law fair" and i think it's more honorable and it's more likely to help the country. because i love the country so much and i want to do what's right for it and dragging us down into the mud is not the right thing to do. it's been hard. it's negatively affected my career, affected my friends and it's just been very, very difficult. >> and you know it wasn't done out of heart-felt belief.

you know it was done out of political animus. y -- you see it time and time again. but here's the problem, it ain't over. he couldn't come out today after all we learned about comey and what this inspector general, horowitz, wrote about that, comes out with an ongoing investigation saying i disagree, we have our own probe going. you know it is not going to be friendly to this i.g. report's findings. so how do you deal with that, andrew? on one level i'm saying good for you, you just got an atta boy, you're not the bad guy the president says you are but you know what's coming next. >> of course we do. and we know that because this false narrative that we've been dealing with and living under for the last two years is very important to the president politicallically. this attorney general has shown time and time again that that's his priority. holding up the president's political narrative, not protecting the institution or

try toic ma the fbi better or acknowledging the good work that people in the fbi do but rather perpetuating the president's falsehoods. i have no doubt that will continue. they both barr and durham made clear today that they have to some degree prejudged the result in barr's investigation and so now we will continue the waiting game to see where that comes out. >> jim, the president sometimes watches this show, is told about it on a regular basis, makes my life a bowl of cherries. what would you like him to know? >> he should know we were trying to do our jobs for the country, trying to protect the country from russia. this was always all about russia. and as shown by the mueller report and the indictments, the russians are trying to hurt the country. and i call upon the president to step up to the russians and insist that they cease and desist from any efforts to interfere in our elections and he needs to put the interests of the country ahead of his own

political interests at every turn. he should come forward with respect to the impeachment, he should let everybody cooperate with that inquiry and get to the bottom of it, let the secretary of state, mr. bolton and everybody else cooperate. always put the interests of the country first, put your personal political interests second. >> now, as you guys know, we always play it straight here with you guys. there were things that came out in this report about mistakes. there's a list i think of three dozen or maybe 40 changes that the fbi director, mr. wray, wants to make. i want to ask you about the findings and the fixes and i want to ask you about the likelihood and the impact of this information that came out about that dossier author, christopher steele, the british agent being friends with ivanka trump? and we never heard about it? and they're saying he's out to get the president and he said if anything i was predisposed to like them? every time you think you know

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let's just be very clear about this inspector general report. it matters. we're going to get to what the articles of impeachment look like, they're going to size up as. i have congressman jamie raskin coming on. but this matters. we've had two years, okay, of our president and his defenders saying it was all bogus, this russia investigation. the way it was done, it was dirty, it was political bias. the only ugly politics being played are by him and arguably his attorney general. i'm going to save that argument for the argument. but there are these two things that came by this report, that we have to deal with, okay? one, totally whacky would have never believed it if it didn't come out. christopher steele is that former british agent that did the dossier, worked for that

outfit in part paid by the dnc to do this investigation for trump with his sources. the president has bashed this guy as pro-clinton again and again and again. we learned today he's friends with his daughter. the man is friends with ivanka trump. abc news reported it first. we followed it you, we have it now. how do you make it up. >> let's bring back andrew mccabe and jim baker. i would have bet 50 pairs of glasses that you guys match up with every day, you would never, ever get any tie-in the guy supposedly out to get you, he's friends with your daughter and give her a kilt, or whatever you call it, the tamly daughter -- >> give it to me, something with a t. >> what do you make of that? >> all you can say is now christopher steele has to be

added to the long list of people who have been unfairly and unrack lit vilified by the president as being supposed political enemies. the simple fact is he has had a long -- i read in one piece of reporting seven-year relationship, friendly relationship with ivanka trump. that is not the stuff that leads to someone out there plotting to overthrow the president or to try to drum up that information for that purpose. >> even jim baker almost smiled there. do you have teeth in oh, there they are. how about that. >> jim, this is the interesting part about that. how did it not come up? your father is out there beating this man like a pinata on a daily basis, and it doesn't come up that, hey, by the way, dad, i know him, he's a pretty solid guy, he's been good to me, he's a friend, you know. i actually was going to do

business with him sometime. how does it not come up? >> the facts that do not fit the narrative are discarded and ignored. that's what we been dealing with for several years. the president has a narrative and facts that doesn't fit his narrative he's discards. that's his reaction to the i.g. report, he's making statements about how there was this attempted overthrow of the government. and there wasn't. there are no facts to support that. yet he keeps repeating it. with ivanka's supposed relationship with christopher steele, it does not fit the narrative so it was not brought forward. >> i'm not making any statements about the type of relationship. if you know somebody and you're thinking of doing business with them, certainly if anything, as he admitted, steele, if i had any disposition it was to be friendly to the trump family. i wasn't looking to come after them, i like her. now, the other thing that came out in this is the exact type of concerns about investigators using what they like and leaving out what they don't like.

there are about a dozen to 17 instances in this report not of making things up but base clis since of omission. andrew, the one that grabs the headlines is a staff member faked a document in the fisa review. he's now under criminal investigation. do you acknowledge and own the mistakes? >> absolutely, absolutely. that particular mistake you refer to, that's a very, very serious allegation, changing a document to alter the substance of what's communicated is something that no fbi personnel should ever be involved in. so i'm not going to prejudge the young man. i know that it is currently under investigation. we'll see where that goes. with respect to the other inaccuracies in the fisa, the 17 inaccuracies -- >> and omissions. omissio omissions. >> that is not what the fbi should be doing.

we should be perfect in the facts that we represent to the court and the way that we present facts in a transparent and wholesome way. it seeps we didn't do that and those mistakes should be rectified and people held accountable as appropriate. even the i.g. determined, he didn't find any indicators that those mistakes were intentional misreputations or omissions to the court, it was rather a matter of sloppiness. >> i don't buy it. i'm an investigative journalist and independent the guy usually fighting with you people. i'm not usually in the business of defending our democratic institutions. usually politicians are beating me out of the head with that. jim baker, this is the idea of restoring people's faith in the institution. the argument will be they left out what they didn't like and then the i.g. says it didn't affect the outcomes. how did it not affect the outcomes if they left things out? what do you understand about the process that sheds light on

that? >> the process needs to have the highest degree of integrity and the lawyers and the agents need to have the highest -- they need to adhere to the highest duty of candor to the tribunal, to the court, and they need to hold themselves to high standards. the stuff we've been talking about it completely unacceptable, it should not happen and obviously we need to fix the process. i've been involved in this battle to make sure that pleadings in front of the fisa court are accurate. i've been working on this for 20 years or so. it's been a problem for lots of reasons and you need good processes, you need good procedures but you need to make sure you have the right people in place. i share part of this responsibility. in terms of management i didn't know about the facts that are articulated the incht g. report. but you was part of the management structure there, as was andy and jim comey. i support the effort by director wray to fix this. i agree and support that and would be happy to help in any

way i possibly could. >> he says he has about 40 changes he has, he wants to make the process better. i'm going to invite him to come on and make the agencies better. we're all about how do they best secure the rights of the american people. andrew mccabe, jim baker, thank you for being with me tonight. it's not over for you guys because you're stuck in a political vortex but i'm sure it's validating to clear out some of the fog that the president has put over the agency and you both personally. it is always an honor to me to have those men on my show. they are good men, they did a good job and and now you have the inspector general back.

it became a metaphor for this deep state nonsense. his lawyer is here next. what is strzok's take, what does the report mean, what is the reality, next.

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>> peter strzok and his lover, lisa page. >> strzok, or his lover, lisa page, the two great lovers. >> how about that fbi agent, how about that guy. >> did you read what he said? oh, it was a disgrace to the fbi, it was a disgrace to our country. >> that was a disgrace to the country. i replay these clips because it was so wrong to make their personal problems into something political. and that's what was done. and now the i.g. report confirms it. and that last clip, imagine if you ever thought you'd see a president of the united states standing next to vladimir putin and watching our president go bad on his own. is that being patriotic? aton goldman is an attorney for peter strzok. it's good to see you counselor, good to be in touch with you through this process. let your client know he is welcome. i think it was meaningful for the american people to see lisa

page. what does this report mean to your client? >> complete vindication, chris. we've heard that said by the president about the mueller report a number of times, it was always false. this time it's actually true. you had the i.g. take 18 months, talked to more than a hundred witnesses, review more than a million documents and found that there was no evidence that pete's political opinions had any impact on his work. there was no coup, there was no treason, there was no wire tapping of trump, no attempt to infiltrate the trump campaign, all of those allegations false, false and false. >> and of course i'm not here to talk about what decisions he made in his life with lisa page and that's his own choices. i understand why the fbi would take action based on their application of corporate text and all that. that's their own rules and he has to own that. but for people to say why all that talk about how they had an insurance plan and how they would stop trump from being

president, what's your client's explanation? >> chris, if you look, for better or worse, the record of text between pete and lease ra pa -- lisa page is a realtime comment of their consciousness. they talk about all kind of stuff. they never, ever say they're going to commit a coup, they never say they're going to undermine democracy. the insurance policy text has been completely taken out of context. pete provided a lengthy explanation. that was in the first inspector general's report. the one thing that if you're looking for someone's state of mind that you can kind of look to is all the surrounding evidence. and here you have proof positive that they never actually did anything. and pete in particular never did anything that was motivated by his personal political opinions. >> look, obviously there was a play made here to exploit those conversations and use them as political fodder and it worked.

now, now what for peter strzok? he testified. there was no perfidy in terms of professionalism. what does this mean for his life? >> i think we are looking at a game of whack-a-mole here. every time a conspiracy theory is debunked, another comes up. we've been hearing how this is going to be devastating and pete and mccabe and comey are going to be frog marched in handcuffs. now that's not true. now we're seeing the swivel, now u.s. attorney durham, that's where all the action is. >> durham pulled a comey today. they're not supposed to talk about ongoing investigations, you know, lawyers like you and journalists like me are constantly frustrated by that rule. can you never get any information about what's happening with your clients, when they're a subject of an fbi investigation. and comey was supposed to speak and durham came out, amazing

timi timing, the day of i.g. report, and his benefactor said we don't even agree with the underpinnings of this. is that foreboding to you? >> it's not foreboding. pete didn't break any law. it's incredibly disappoint g. here's an opportunity for attorney general to say to the american people this should be deeply reassuring, this is your fbi doing its job. it wasn't political motivated. can you imagine what the i.g. report would say if the they didn't open an investigation? can you imagine how damning it would be if they sat on this. >> instead they have an attempt to minimize and basically throw his own department under the bus. it's incredibly disappointing. i say that as somebody who got his offer letter from the

department of justice signed by bill barr in 1992. >> thank you for joining us tonight. it's important to get the perspective of your client, mr. strzok. >> thank you, chris. >> now, we have breaking news. reports of what could be in the articles of impeachment against president trump. we're hearing you may learn this information in full tomorrow, but we want to bring in a top house investigator, who just got out of a meeting with the speaker next.

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all right, we have breaking news. house democrats are set to announce articles of impeachment tomorrow morning, and the reports tonight are there are going to be at least two, maybe only two, abuse of power and obstruction of congress. that second one holds a distinction that we have to discuss and we have the perfect guest. house judiciary member jamie raskin. congressman, thank you for joining us tonight. >> i'm delighted to be with you, chris. >> so we understand that there are discussions ongoing, that this reporting is accurate at this point, but there may be an expansion thereof. is that your understanding, sir? >> yeah, i think there may have been a little bit of fake news in there before.

i was not in a meeting with speaker pelosi. >> i never said you were. >> i was meeting with the judiciary committee. i wanted to be clear about that. the judiciary committee was pleased with our proceedings today because the evidence that came out was just overwhelming and unrefuted and uncontradicted of the president's scheme to shakedown the government of ukraine. and our gop colleagues wanted to talk about anything but the facts of the case. so they were, you know, upset about how long we've been working on this or how fast it's going or this or that complaint, but they never laid a glove on the factual case or the legal case for impeachment. i guess my major concern is that we have certain patterns of conduct that are identified as we move forward. one pattern of conduct is exploiting the public office for

personal gain. a second is inviting in foreign powers and welcoming in foreign powers to interfere in our elections and then the final pattern i'm interested in is the obstruction of congress as it tries to move forward to investigate all of these things. >> forgive me for pushing but i got to push, congressman, on two things. one, something you said and one, something that isn't said in the reporting. first what you said. a pattern of conduct. pattern of conduct, as you just said about whether it's self-enrichment or behavior vis-a-vis investigates, that do do dovetails into additional articles of impeachment that i think abuse of power would have to be articulated as bribery or extorti extortion -- i don't see the extortion but that's up to you.

you're saying it's obstruction of congress, not obstruction of justice. that's what mueller was talking about. is mueller going to be out of this? >> you don't know the answer of this. >> and it's coming out tomorrow? >> i'm not quite sure exactly what is coming out tomorrow. it may just be a statement of what the rest of the week is. i'm not quite sure exactly what is on the agenda there. let me just refer back to the hearing that we had with the constitutional law scholars. this ukraine episode embodies all three of these patterns of conduct. it is the elevation of the president's personal political agenda above the national security, above the constitution. it is the enticement of foreign powers into corrupt our elections and then a total scramble to obstruct any efforts to figure out what happened by blockading witnesses, withholding evidence and preventing congress from doing its job.

>> so let's see, if tomorrow they don't put out the articles of impeachment, you have a lot of people feeding us information they shouldn't have. does that speak to how much division is there? >> i don't think there's very much division at all. the devil's in the details is always in terms of the draftsmanship in terms of what's -- >> but it's got to include mueller or not to include mueller. you got to make a choice. >> the word "mueller" means different things to different people. there's a lot in the mueller report. speaker pelosi herself said all roads lead to russia and russia's fingerprints are all over so much of what's in the ukraine -- >> it's obstruction of justice, congressman. it's what mueller seemed to suggest in his testimony and his report he was leaving to you guys. >> yes. and i believe that this is a president who has engaged in a pattern of obstructing any

investigation into his criminal misconduct and the corruption of his administration. in terms of, you know, what specifically is sited, i eit really does come down to a question of drafting the articles. i'm not involved in the final stages of that process. lots of us have tried to have input along the way, but we're waiting to see see what comes back from the people who are doing the drafting. >> give me a quick yes/no on this. the idea that the moderates are really worried about this and they want to keep it very tight, ukraine, what we have here, don't be expansive. >> well, i mean, obviously there's always a diversity of views about, you know, how expansive to go. to my mind a lot of the issue is what do we have a sufficient quantum of evidence to go on

right now as opposed to continuing to continuing to conduct oversight in other areas. so undoubtedly -- look, this into the high crimes and misdemeanors that are identified for the purposes of these articles. i've been so caught up in what the judiciary committee itself is doing that i've not had the chance to canvas colleagues about where they are on different issues. if i had to guess about where the center of gravity is in our caucus, it that we should be as comprehensive as possible in describing the criminality and the corruption that pervades the trump administration at the same time that we are very precise and focused in identification of particular criminal acts in the articles themselves. >> the division on di place in one set of sound bites from today. here it is. >> we will now hear presentations -- >> mr. chairman. >> the gentleman is not

recognized. -- >> i have a parliamentary quine require. >> is this where just staff ask questions of other staff and for the next four hour you're going to try to overturn the an election. >>. >> ugly early. what is the state of play? >> well, they're obviously two different narratives out there. hours is based on a 300 page report that is chock who went under oath and it was field with fact you'll detail, documentmenting everything phase of this scheme. you've got president trump and the people he ordered not to testify, like ticket pompeo and

second saying this is a so come under oath, take the oath like all of these witness des, people who work for president trump, and tell us why it a hoch, why it's a fraud. tell us where the lies are. this story is perfectly coherent. it been totally uncontradicted and unrefeeted. all we're seeing and with all of the propaganda and disinformation coming out of moscow for vladimir putin. sfland i keep telling people, with there's a trial, the republicans are in control. they're going to control of what was put thank you for keeping us in the loop. i appreciate it. >> thanks for having me, chris. >> always a pleasure.

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on several of the fisa applications made on carter page. but here's the key point. they're not perfect. they've never been perfect. journalists go after them all the time. the i.g. said it didn't affect the legitimacy of the surveillance on page nor the probe itself. so the deep state they spied on us riff from trump and co, should be dead, but it isn't. here's the irony. trump and co-are acting like the deep state they defined wrongly. how so? i'll tell you. attorney general barr put out a statement about his own agency i.g. report sounding more trump attorney. the report now makes clear the fbi launched an intrusive investigation -- i don't know what other kind of investigation there is -- of a u.s. presidential campaign on the thinnest of suspicions that were insufficient to justify the steps taken. sound familiar? same dig.

>> the special counsel confirmed that the russian government sponsored efforts to illegally interfere with the 2016 presidential election but did not find that the trump campaign or other americans colluded in those efforts. the evidence developed by the special counsel is not sufficient to establish that the president committed an obstruction of justice offense. >> same stuff although barr is the rare trump defender who actually acknowledged russian interference. that's nice. but it's overshadowed by canned talking points. mueller did not exonerate the president. that means he said the president is innocent. he said he could not find enough to sustain charges, not that he found nothing. big difference. first, collusion is not a crime, so it would never be charged here. but mueller did cite several examples of trumpers doing things they should not do. one got off thanks to a generous assessment that they were too ignorant of the law to do wrong,

and another just caught seven guilty verdicts. on obstruction, mueller's team laid out close to a dozen questionable acts but didn't make a judgment because of an olc opinion, a legal letter that sitting presidents shouldn't be indicted. so barr spun his own agency's findings in a way that flatters this president and then launched his own investigation with his own handpicked employee to chase down his own suspicions of lying. and lo and behold, his guy pulled a comey today. that means that john durham addressed an ongoing investigation, which they say they never do, right? it's a no-no as we learned with comey. and he didn't do it to reveal facts that could help. just to rain on the i.g. report. the statement -- we advise the inspector general that we do not agree with some of the report's conclusions as to predication and how the fbi case was opened. you know what that means. more stink is coming.

that's very deep state. and as for barr's thinnest of suspicions crack about the basis to start the probe, he's once again going bad on his own agency because the report found that investigators were just following fbi guidelines. yeah, but who made 'em? oh, i'm glad you asked. this guy. former bush attorney general and friend of this show, mike mukasey. now, barr could change the standards, right? he's the a.g. now. they were put in place after 9/11. the question is why would you take tools from your own people who are trying to keep the refrt of us safe? but he didn't mention that and he's not going to change them because his goal is to put stink on his agency, undermine the institution openly, and in obvious political fashion just to advance a political preference. very deep state. so one thing is 100% clear. this potus is better represented in these proceedings than any other president ever in an

impeachment. it's a big statement, and it's 100% true. clinton's a.g., janet reno, picked ken starr to do the investigating. she initiated that independent counsel statute. trump's a.g. is acting more like his personal attorney. clinton had democrats go bad on him -- that's not fair. they did their duty, and they voted against him twice, to initiate the proceeding and on articles of impeachment. he had 31 say, yeah, let's do this, and 5 say, yeah, he should be impeached on these. this president has his whole party in congress ignoring their oath and arguing his side, not once, but twice. clinton had them go bad on him twice. he's had them go bad on their oath twice. deep state. people put in place to effect their own political agenda. how do they not meet the definition? our attorney general bill barr and this cabal of former conservatives in congress, boy,

do they seem to qualify. that's the argument. let me know what you think about it, but it's just a take on the facts. all right. bolo. be on the lookout is next. this doj inspector general report is not going to quash the russia probe conspiracy theories, not by itself. what's coming next? bolo. the wait is over. t-mobile is lighting up 5g nationwide. while some 5g signals go only blocks, t-mobile 5g goes miles... beyond the big cities to the small towns... to the people. now, millions of americans can have access to 5g on t-mobile. and this is just the beginning.

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bolo. i know everybody's looking at the i.g. report as an end, but it isn't. reports, forget it, republicans are going to keep going. the i.g. report doesn't fit the narrative. they need deep state. they need that as part of the sell. so they're going to pin their hopes on the man handpicked by a.g. barr to lead a separate investigation into what barr believes happened with the russia probe known as spying. u.s. attorney john durham, a man

of good reputation. listen to doug collins. >> bottom line, the report shows the page fisa should have never been obtained. if you don't have the page fisa, you don't have a russia investigation. if you don't have a russia investigation, you can't knock out the president as a candidate at the time in the 2016 election, and you can't hamstring the president's first two years with a special counsel investigation. i could go on, but mr. durham, who has already weighed in, has the next batch of this, and we'll see where it goes. >> it's so nice that they know what's in the report already. nothing deep state about that. all right. time for "cnn tonight" with mr. d. lemon. >> can i get 900? 900? come on, give me 1,000. 1,500. >> sold! >> every time i see him, i'm like that's what he sounds like. i have no idea what he's saying. he's just saying a lot of stuff. he's just staying a lot of stuff, a lot of stuff over there, a lot of stuff