phil mudd, let me talk to you about what we just heard from adam schiff.e lays out his fears that potentially deep concern that president trump might actually fire the special counsel robert mueller or republicans are aggressively trying now to shut down the entire russia investigation. do you believe those fears are justified? >> let's separate this out. should he be saying things like that? sure. he's concerned about the action of the president. is that likely? if the president chooses to go down that path, we're not talking about the special counse counsel, we're also talking about the attorney general who's recused himself in this case and if we want to shut down this investigation, we can't now because the president has just shown the american people that we can't trust what's going on at the department of justice. it also includes the fbi director. that's a trump appointee who would have to say what's going to happen with the investigation now that mueller is gone. i think there's a chance maybe that the president does this but the law of unintended

but according to adam schiff, donald trump jr. is refusing to answer questions about conversations he had with his dad, and the basis on which he's refusing, citing attorney/client privilege. again, neither of them is a lawyer, let alone a lawyer who has one of the other of them as a client. they're just father and son, not lawyers. that's apparently what he's saying. >> good evening. we just concluded several hours of asking donald trump jr. questions about not only the meeting at trump tower but a range of other issues as well. he answered the overwhelming majority of our questions. there was one significant area though where he declined to answer. he acknowledged having discussed the june 9th meeting and e-mails that went into establishing that meeting after those e-mails became public. he acknowledged discussing that matter with his father but refused to answer questions about that discussion on the basis of a claim of attorney/client privilege. in my view there is no attorney/client privilege that protects a discussion betwee

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adam schiff is all about yea, so, mom's got this cold #stuffynose #nosleep i got it...e've got a mouth breather. well just put on a breathe right strip and... pow! it instantly opens your nose up to 38% more than cold medicine alone so you can breathe... ...and sleep. go to breatheright.com today to request a free sample. >> laura: if you're dying to see california congressman adam schiff, just turn on the television at any point in the day, any time. any channel. because the top ranking dem on the house intel committee is the main proponent of the russia collusion narrative. all have you right now is a circumstantial case. more than that. one of the messages that this russian advocate may have taken back to moscow is the trump administration will be very amenable to repealing the minute miss ski act. >> the russians gave help and the president made full use of that help. that is pretty damning. >> laura: here is the problem. he is a carnival barker. not a shred of evidence backing up. that doesn't stop him from playing the mainstream media like a fidel. we will discuss

during the hours of testimony, they noticed adam schiff was leaving the room at various times.ed of popping up on cnn and elsewhere about the testimony. leading them to believe the leaks were coming right from the top. but since donald trump jr.'s team didn't have their phones they didn't find out about these stories popping up on cnn and elsewhere until several hours after the testimony started. that's why they're demanding the justice department investigate whether it was adam schiff himself or other top democrats that did the leaking and they think that's why schiff came out today, laura and started to try to shift the blame and say the republicans are trying to shut down this investigation. they are saying donald trump jr. was testifying to what he knew and during the testimony leaks were springing up everywhere. >> laura: i love that leaving the room. it's like kids in class. they are leaving to like get the notes they stored under the toilet or something in the bathroom. ed, i appreciate it thanks so much. and joining us now with reaction from colorado springs, michelle m

is making -- and i'm not a lawyer, but adam schiff is a lawyer, and others have commented on this, that he cannot comment at all on these conversations that he had because his lawyer was present there. and therefore he's calling the conversations that he had with his father or others protected by attorney/client privilege because his lawyer was present. and that -- listen to the lawyers on that one, but it seems like something of a stretch. but the big picture here is, you just have to remember how many times the trump story has changed on this meeting at trump tower. first of all, of course, there was a denial that there were any meetings with russians discussing this kind of thing. now we know that there was e-mail traffic showing that the russians offered to bring damaging information on hillary clinton, and that that offer was welcomed by donald trump jr. there's an e-mail that shows that. when the first -- when the meeting was first exposed, the first explanation said, well, we weren't talking about that. we were just talking about adoptions. now, as he's questioned under oath here

in fact, adam schiff and jackie spear both talked about how he was not forth coming. let me play you jackie spears saying she thinks he might have amnesia. >> he has a very serious case of amnesia. and he was pretty nonresponsive on a lot of issues that he would have a recollection of considering it was just a year ago that many of the events took place when donald trump was the candidate. he was by his father's side. he was campaigning with his father. >> while he has had recall about what it was about and wasn't about that he wouldn't remember how to deal with it publicly, especially amid reports that his father is the president was dictating what the response ought to be from all of this

what i mean is adam schiff is right. on monday, we will have three different depositions, three witnesses come in. we're a small committee. there's no way we can cover three different depositions in one day effectively. we've had witnesses come in before we have gotten a chance to hook at the documents that they submitted. we've had requests for witnesses that have not moved. and so there is a very real risk that i think adam schiff shared with you, that this gets shut down early. on the flipside, i don't need to tell you, the truly awful effort being conducted by the president himself and his allies like sean hannity and janeane piro, to throw mud on the fbi, all in the service of creating some question about whether robert mueller is capable of producing an impartial report. it is a profoundly damaging thing, not just today, but to the confidence that americans should have in their presidency and in their government. >> is that something you think is being orchestrated by the white house? >> well, you know, is it being

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adam schiff the top democrat on the house intelligence committee in and a prolific trump critic this morning said if you look at the pattern and chronology of events surrounding the russian influence campaign, the various meetings between russian officials and trump campaign officials, and the wikileaks dump of hillary clinton campaign e-mails, he says all of that points to one conclusion, that the trump campaign colluded with the russians. take a look. >> the russians offered help. the campaign accepted help. the russians gave help. and the president made full use of that help. and that is pretty damning whether it is proof i don't understand a beyond a reasonable doubt or not. >> reporter: so schiff points to all the circumstantial evidence. of course finding proof i don't understand beyond a reasonable doubt falls to robert mueller. and i can tell you based on conversations with people close to the president that as the special counsel investigation heats up, there is a sense of paranoia setting in in parts of the white house in addition n. particular with former national security

but after the attorney general's testimony was over, california congressman adam schiff, the top democrat on that committee, he came out of the room and talked to the press about what had happened inside with the attorney general. he said he needed to express his concerns about what had just happened. basically congressman schiff is setting off a little alarm bell today, again, that was closed door testimony by attorney general sessions, but congressman schiff came out and told reporters today that behind those closed doors, he said he asked the attorney general whether president trump had ever instructed him to take action that he believed would hinder the russia investigation, congressman schiff raising the alarm today over the fact that he says the attorney general is refusing to answer that question about whether the president ever asked him to do that. now, obviously, if the president did what congressman schiff asked about, if the president of the united states asked the attorney general to hinder an on going criminal investigation, that would be a criminal act by the president. the

joining us now adam schiff, democrat of california. thanks for being here.ice to see you. >> thanks rachel. >> have you spoken to the republicans on your committee, chairman nunes in particular about what is reported on politico? secret, parallel, under the radar investigation for weeks apparently? >> i have no talked to him since it came out. but i should say this, i've been aware of a particular working group that crosses different committees dedicated to doing these things. but been aware of a couple of things for a long time that we've raised alarm bells about and think we need to raise fully at this point. rather than focus on the russian intervention and election and issues between the trump campaign and elections, chairman and others in the committee were focused instead on trying to build a case that obama administration was illegally wiretapping the trump administration or illegally -- people. when they found nothing there, moved on to try to discredit christopher steele and the fbi and we're seeing intensification of that effort. think it's driven

we had congressman adam schiff, very serious, very careful in his speaking style, never a word out of place or unintentional utter. he's a ka rvery reserved and deliberate. i said there is a secret working group using documents from the russia investigation to somehow indict the fbi. he's the dtop democrat on the committee so i'm getting that news and he does something unexpected, the carefully spoken congressman did a cannon ball into the pool. i was not asking him about where he went here, but he just went there on his own. watch. >> listing to republican members talking about a coup and talk about a criminal activity in the fbi, that will encourage the president to think that he can fire mueller with impunity or perhaps from my point of view, fire rod rosenstein, put in place someone that will tell bob muller privately you cannot look into these issues. you cannot follow the money. you cannot consider and investigate whether russians laundered money to the trump organization, guaranteed loans for the trump organization, you can't look at any of those that could provide leverage by

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adam schiff, the democrat went about 10 our 12 things of that nature to hypothesize. you can't get the -- msnbc didn't even cover the kate steinle murder verdict. not a single minute, even according to your graphic. in the evening moscow they might have thought to cover it. brian: kellyanne, real quick before we go. john said over the weekend that he tweeted for the president. does that happen a lot where other people tweet for the president? >> yes. well, yes, in terms of the lawyers. the lawyers are the one that understand how to put those tweets together. i was with the president on saturday all day, frankly, and i know that what he said is correct. what he says is that he put it together and sent it to our director of -- on social media. and i think it's very important. i went back and reviewed the whole testimony of sally gates when she testified earlier this year to congress. to exchange senator graham and others. so i would commend everybody go back and look at that because she makes very clear in foreign testimony what she did say and what she didn't say. to t

the top democrat on the house intelligence committee, congressman adam schiff, is here ahead. hello. i'm jake tapper. the state of our union is heading south. in just two days voters will head to the polls to vote for a new senator in alabama. president trump is throwing his support behind roy moore, who has been credibly accused of sexually abusing two young teenager girls, including a 14-year-old. moore repeatedly denied the allegations. and this morning we're learning president trump recorded a robocall for moore ahead of the election. on friday the president held a campaign-style rally over the alabama border explicitly calling on voters to choose moore. >> we can't afford to have a liberal democrat who is completely controlled by nancy pelosi and chuck schumer. we can't do it. so get out and vote for roy moore. >> that endorsement from president trump is set to give moore a boost. let's go right to alabama's senior republican senator richard shelby joining me from tuscaloosa. senator, thank you for joining me. you said you already cast your ballot in the special election

do -- >> amidst all of this, jackie, a lot of the house democrats on the intelligence committee, adam schiffou just heard jim himes, they're worried that republicans may be trying to shut down the entire house intelligence committee investigation and going further to shut down mueller's investigation. schiff was on a tweet storm today really trying to underscore these concerns that he has. what's behind these concerns? >> well, i mean, in that thread that you mentioned, he's worried that there are only a couple more interviews that are actually scheduled. they're out of state. these people were offered to come here and they decided instead to not have them come here. there are no interviews scheduled for 2018 yet. so he's very concerned that they're trying to put this to rest and, you know, wash their hands of it. and from looking at what he laid out, it seeps he does have some reason for concern. for gloria's point, talking to the president's lawyers that they have this one objective, that's because that's how this president cares about this, too. he cares about he is exposed in this. we he

your colleague and ranking member adam schiff wasn't thrilled that donald trump jr. refused to discuss his conversations with president trump about the trump tower meeting, citing attorney client privilege. you heard that in the reporting, and you were -- members were there. what can you tell us about that? >> i can tell you this, don. then candidate donald trump was not donald trump jr.'s attorney. donald trump jr. was not the candidate's attorney. there's no attorney client privilege at work here whatsoever. i want to make another observation about this. in light of the tweet that donald junior sent out tonight. there's a fundamental misunderstanding being made by the trump administration. they are misapplying their chaos theory, which has worked pretty well for them in the political realm, to the legal realm, the truth of the matter is, during the campaign and even in the last 11 months, the daily tweet storm of provocative, outrageous things has had a way of serving them well. by deceiving, deflecting, distracting from whatever else was in the news and they were

but what i you know, i read adam schiff's tweet storm today. he provided some data points. but we will see. if indeed the republicans are going to shut that down. i don't think that is clear yet. i think schiff is throwing this out there to lay a predicate in case that's the reality. i don't think he has hard proof the house republicans are ready to shut it down. >> richard, there's a lot of similarity. we know the president watches a lot of tv. but very specific between what the president is saying, the allegations he is making and what we are hear iing from the news anchors on fox. >> it's a a shame what's happened with the fbi, but we're going to rebuild the fbi. but the it is very sad when you look at those documents and how they've done that is really, really disgraceful and you have a lot of very angry people that are seeing it. >> there is a cleansing needed in our fbi and department of s justice. >> troubling questions about the political motivations of the leadership at the fbi. >> the fbi and from robert mueller's merry band of democratic donors. >> robert mueller

she and adam schiff. get the feeling they live on the same block in the same community in california somewhere, don't you? charlie: yes. i think it's so funny when these geniuses who have been wrong about everything about donald trump always come out and claim to be some kind of expert on his thinking, they know what he's going to do and they have the secret sauce for understanding this guy. but they couldn't understand anything, let alone the issues they ran a campaign on. and ended up winning the presidency. i find it amusing when these people come forward and start pretending to be a trump whisperer. lou: i find it a little bit more amusing if adam schiff could avoid looking like an absolutely stark raving scared to death deer in the headlights of an oncoming locomotive. he gets so excited about all of this and then says nothing, but cnn and the fake news folks dutifully transcribe this every word. charlie: you would be terrified if you launched a boomerang special prosecutor investigation and after do

but adam schiff is a careful speaker. i've been wondering all day why he brought that up, why he sent up that particular flag. and then tonight, on the senate floor, senator ron widen, i think, maybe broke it open. now i think we know what that westerning was about and why it is being issued urgently when they are not even being asked about it. senator widen is here to explain, next. ♪ turn up your swagger game with one a day men's. ♪ a complete multivitamin with key nutrients plus b vitamins for heart health. your one a day is showing. >>> early in 2017, i began asking the committee leadership to look into any and all financial relationships between russia and donald trump and his associates. these financial ties need to be a central focus of the intelligence committee's inquiry. unfortunately, i and our committee has gotten no cooperation from the treasury department despite my repeated requests as the ranking democrat on the financial committee. the treasury department has just sto stonewalled, plain old stonew l stone

joining us is democratic congressman adam schiff. thank you for being with us. i wanted to ask you today about whether or not anything in this really bombshell reporting from "the washington post" about how there are serious questions that the stream of recent intel on russia, whether or not it even gets to donald trump. and i worked in the white house after 9/11 where there were serious questions about what the president knew and when he knew it about bin laden and his plans for an attack on this country. i wonder if you think the same kind of accountability from donald trump's appointees at the heads of coates and pompeo and rogers, if you'd like to hear from all of them and know exactly what the president is briefed on when it comes to russia. >> we have had an opportunity to talk with some of the president's cabinet members, close advisers. and, to me, that report in "the washington post" rings all too true. it is very consistent with the character of this president that he cannot be told things that don't reflect well on him. so we have a situation as "the

i think it really shows that adam schiff has a lot riding on this narrative.one peels of evidence showing collusion between trump. >> counterpart devin nunes has been vindicated. vindicated. ed: he was investigated but turns out he didn't do anything wrong. pete: poll from the group ear to the ground polled 1,000 americans and asked them simple questions about patriotism. here is one response. is it completely accurate to say you are proud to be an american? 65% of conservatives which strikes me as low, but 37% of liberals would say that they are proud to be an american? ed: i bet that number is people hate the president so much i'm proud to be an american. can't celebrate blind hatred of the president from what it means to be an american. pete: i wonder what that number was two years ago tied to barack obama? rachel: poll was interesting looked at brands. what are the top patriotic brands for conservatives versus liberals. conservatives nra, chick-fil-a, republican party, fox news and hobby lobby. ed: liberals democratic party. u.s. supreme court. pete: we ha

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first adam schiff, on twitter, saying he believed the firing of robert mueller would happen before the end of the year. the other jackie speier also made the case to a san francisco tv station that robert mueller's firing was imminent. cnn reached out to white house attorney ty cobb for a statement and he gave us a statement writing, as the white house consistently said for months, there is no consideration of firing the special counsel. so you have the white house denying there is any kind of plan to remove robert mueller as the head of the special counsel, you have some democrats that are saying that that is the case, that his firing is imminent, and then certain republicans that are saying that the special counsel is tainted and that robert mueller should indeed resign. a complicated situation, and one that likely will receive greater focus because as early as this week, you have white house legal team meeting with robert mueller one on one, potentially to discuss the next steps in this investigation. boris sanchez, cnn, at the white house. >>> well, let's talk more about it, joinin

adam schiff. >> he acknowledged discussing that matter with his father. answer questions about that discussion on the basis of a claim of attorney/client privilege. in my view, there is no attorney/client privilege that protects a discussion between father and son. this particular discussion revolves around a pivotal meeting. >> all right. schiff, by the way is going to be live on "new day" this morning. so tune in for that. the and more more on donald trump's jr.'s testimony let's turn to cnn's senior congressional correspondent. >>reporter: good morning. he had a marathon session with the house intelligence committee talking about his interaction with russians during the campaign season. and one thing they focused on in particular was that meeting in which donald trump jr., we now know, was promised dirt on the clinton campaign from russians and was informed that russians -- the russian government wanted to help his father's campaign. now, we are learning that donald trump jr. did have a meeting with his father after the reports were published. but, he

adam schiff hasn't been able to say it. the evidence we do have so far about the indictments that have come down have nothing to do with changing votes, collusion with the russians. it has to do with personal business dealings, lying to the f.b.i. and issues of business dealings with the russians, not -- >> clarified the timeline and relationship he had with paul manafort almost distancing himself with manafort who seems to be the most problematic of the things we've heard and seen coming out of the investigation. >> what was unearthed about manafort were prior to him working for president trump. president trump has every right to be angry. he was told three times by james comey he wasn't under investigation and james comey took the extraordinary step of testifying under oath that the trump team was being looked at. why did he take that step? i think james is absolutely right. we're here a year and a half later without any concrete evidence of collusion and the most concrete evidence of collusion we have is a dossier paid f

. >> joining me now, congressman adam schiff, ranking member of the house intelligence committee. congressman, first, let me ask you about devin nunes who was recused from anything having to do with -- supposedly recused from the russia investigation meeting in secret with other members of the committee to kind of plot out investigation of the investigate to haves. did you know about that? >> no. i mean, i certainly knew that they were initially pursing this whole unmasking business and failing to find anything critical of the obama administration. i think they then turn their sights to try and undermine the fbi and the doj. now, we could see them doing that. we could see them issuing subpoenas. in terms of whether this group is working in parallel with other committees, though, i don't have much visibility into that. but it's more the same problem we saw early in the investigation when the chairman of the committee had difficulty removing himself from his role during the campaign of being a proxy for the white house. and here i think, again, we see some on our committee, includin

joining us, adam schiff. congressman, thank you for being with us. what's yours reaction? apparently forgets the fact that in remaltime what happened is the fbi talked about an investigation into hillary clinton, even ten days or less before an election, but did not tell the country there was also an investigation going on of the trump campaign over a far more serious matter, that is, whether individuals in the trump campaign were agents of a foreign power. for the most consequential difference between how these investigations were handled, it cut very much in donald trump's favor, and that seems to be something donald trump jr. would rather ignore. >> he says there are people who don't want to let america be america, suggesting there's kind of conspiracy perhaps to undermine his father's administration. is there any conspiracy like that? >> no, but you have to realize this is, i guess, a trump family characteristic, and that is to view themselves as the victim of something, victim of a rigged system, victim of an unfair fbi, victim of unfair press coverage. this seems to

they're demanding the justice department investigate whether it was adam schiff himself or other top democrats that did the leaking. and they think that's why schiff came out today, laura, and started trying to shift the blame and say the republicans are trying to shut down this investigation. >> do you think that's right? >> no. it's because he is effective. he has led us in a quite a unified way on the committee. and, chris, if you just think back to march, that opening statement that he gave before james comey testified about just what we believe wed knew the russians had done, how much of that has proved to be true and how much more we've learned. we didn't know about the june 9th e-mails when mr. schiff gave that opening statement. we didn't know that felix sater and michael cohen were talking about how they could engineer a victory for the president. we didn't know about all the outreach that wikileaks had done with don jr. or with alexander nix from cambridge analytica as reported by julian assange. we have learned so much and there are so many more witnesses we should hear fro

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do you agree with your colleague, adam schiff? >> i agree totally. this claim of attorney/client privilege is absolutely bogus and disingenuous. the attorney/client privilege is a serious one. it can be invoked and it's designed to protect people seeking legal advice from their attorney. it is not designed to protect a son seeking advice from his father about how to mislead the american people. you and i are having a discussion right now. there may be some lawyers listening to us. our conversation is not protected simply because there's some lawyers listening to our conversation. and as much as we may sort of smile about this absolutely absurd claim, it is a profoundly serious defiance of both the rule of law and the purpose of congress. >> well, then what can you do about it? >> what should be done about it and what i've asked senator grassley, chairman of the judiciary, to do is to subpoena donald trump jr., along with jared kushner and others, including k.t. mcfarland, who may have knowledge of this collusion with russia, so that they will be comp

adam schiff is the cop democrat and he said donald trump jr. cited attorney-client privilege. >> here invoked the privilege and we made it clear at least on our side of the aisle we didn't think it was a recognizable privilege. he then said they would go back and discuss it further with their lawyers and get back to us. the question is if they say we are not going to answer the questions, we will be required to subpoena donald trump jr. back before the committee. >> let's bring in jessica who has been following this for us. what's the reaction to the claim of attorney client privilege? >> quite simply, the democrats are saying it doesn't stand on firm legal footing. in particular, top democrat adam schiff said you can't shield the conversations because an attorney is present. it is designed to protect communications exclusively between the attorney and the client. that was the privilege that donald trump jr. invoked on wednesday. he would not tell congressional investigators what he and his father, president trump discussed last summer after re

these congressional investigations are going on, parallel to the mueller investigation, we have adam schiff, the top democrat on the house intelligence committee saying, even before these hearings, there's already enough evidence of collusion. here he is on cnn, earlier today. >> we do know this. the russians offered help, the campaign accepted help. the russians gave help and the president made full use of that help. and that is pretty damning, whether it is proof beyond a reasonable doubt of conspiracy or not. >> so, samantha, as a former national security official, do you agree with adam schiff, that we've already seen enough evidence to point to collusion, that it's damning enough, or is it too soon to be making such a bold statement? >> i think we need to let the special counsel finish their investigation before we decide whether there was collusion or not, but what we do know is that the russian government launched an expansive intelligence operation and targeted campaign and transition officials. remember, just a few weeks ago, former russian ambassador kislyak said he actually could

i quoted adam schiff there.t are you going to be looking forward as this investigation continues? >> itsds interesti's interestine president doesn't have great truth on twitter, not just on twitter, something we realize and coming to the for froent with michael flynn having to plead guilty just to lying. just the one charge we heard from so many legal experts is that you don't just look at that one lying charge and think that's it. you know that he's now cooperating. that he is going to have to give up all the information in terms of every person who might have been in a room for a conversation. everything that may have been discussed. and so i just think that we are consistently seeing that for this administration the people the president has surrounded himself by, they just keep lying. and you have to ask why. if there is nothing here at this point there is nothing that points to collusion, right, just bad judgment. >> and we can discuss that. it's poor judgment and you can't tell if it's sheer stupidity, why

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you have adam schiff on our show friday and i think it's a sentiment jackie spear said over the weekendthe rumor, the fear is all of this is to lay a foundation for having some sort of justification for firing bob mueller. >> right now trump is pushing on an open door trying to discredit muell are and people aren't pushing back enough and that's going to fall on democrats to do that. and a lot of democrats oar adam schiff is an american hero in my view and he's terrific, but it's going to have to be a morn senior democrats, and it's going to have to be more of them because -- and i know they are loet loathed to do that because it looks political and partisan. but their job is to be a check and a balance on the president of the united states. this is a very serious matter. and i think that the voters will respond favorably if they're out there aggressively making the case of what he's doing thwarting the rule of law. >> peter baker, does the white house believe because they have been told by anyone other than their own lawyers that this wraps up at the end of the year? >> i don't think s

. >> we've heard the president say there's no collusion in regards to russia, congressman adam schiffthe hearing that donald trump jr. that taking self-serving statements is not what they do. we want to show the timeline to the viewers. you have the papadopoulos meeting, the trump tower meeting and then the e-mails following up the trump tower meeting. it certainly raises more questions. the more pieces of the puzzle, the more questions there are. >> that's how it works. investigations happen, things come out. there's a hint of things to come, but we don't know what owl those things will be. but one of the important points that adam schiff was making is, you can't really rely on the denials made by people who are under investigation. i know the president has said on a couple of occasions, vladimir putin denies something, so i take him at his word -- if prosecutors and investigators over the course of time walked away when one of their tacts said, i didn't do it -- we would have massive unemployment in the ranks of people who are investigators, and the jails would be empty, because tha

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