. >> senator mazie, democrat of hawaii.ry much for coming >> senator mazie, democrat of hawaii. thank you very much for coming on us to tonight. >> thank you aloha. >> and senator brian schatz, not ben. you'd think i'd get that righ comey already breaking in to the national conversation as members of congress. president that praises vladimir putin. >> donald trump is not a republican. how long are you and your fellow republicans going to defend this american nightmare? >> that was a town hall meeting in new jersey with republican congressman tom mcarthur. it was already difficult for a lot of republican house members to go home for this 11-day break and talk with the customers, their bosses because of the health care vote they cast which also came up at the meeting tonight. now they are being asked to answer for the comey firing and some cautionary numbers are out for the man at the top of the ticket. new poll has president trump badly under water. 36path approval rating versus 58% disapprove. joining our conversation tonig

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and, he insisted to hawaii democrat mazie hirono, he was impartial: >> i wasn't thinking of what effectwould have on political campaigns. >> i find that hard to believe, that you did not think there would be ramifications. >> i knew there would be ramifications, i just tried not to care about them. >> reporter: texas republican john cornyn defended comey and pointed back at clinton: >> you were not the one who decided to handle classified information on a private email server. >> reporter: the hearing was full of other news as well: lindsey graham of south carolina pressed comey on russia, which the f.b.i. is also probing. >> is it fair to say the russian government is still involved in american politics? >> yes. well, certainly, in my view, the greatest threat of any nation on earth, given their intention and their capability. >> reporter: and on issues of privacy, comey said encryption has blocked the f.b.i. from getting data off devices in nearly half its cases. >> none of us want backdoors. we don't want access built in, in some way. we want to work with manufacturers on how we can