chris wray is the fbi director he picked. >> he picked? >> whatever you thinking of the firing of james comey and the circumstances surrounding it, a chris wray resignation based on his -- the fbi's desire not to have this memo released, i don't know how you spin that one if you're donald trump. >> you can understand, though, shawn, the frustrations -- i can't begin to imagine on behalf of the fbi, they released this public statement, grave concerns over the memo's accuracies, evan making the point misleading information despite any kind of redactions that they agree upon, if you're chris wray and you're ahead of the fbi and the president goes ahead and says, sorry, i'm releasing it, how do you not resign? >> that's a good question. if it is the case that the information in this memo is so egregious and if chris wray finds it to be so misleading that he thinks that it's worth quitting, worth walking away from, you know, i think that any objective person whether you are a supporter of the president or not, you have to take a step back and y

christopher wray dismissing. mr.ray telling congress he's not seen any fights and encouraging the fbi agents to ignore the noise on social media and tv. we'll discuss wray's distorted view of reality with dr. sebastian gork ka. >>> tonight, more evidence that special counsel robert mueller's team, a partisan hack. the latest addition of his team, a left wing activist. a full report coming up. >>> president trump pressuring democrat to act now on daca and immigration. >> this week i know you're working very hard on daca. everybody in the room wants daca. let's see if we can get that done and it would be a great achievement. we've been talking about it for many years and if we could do it would be a great achievement. >> a congresswoman says border security must come before any daca fix. she joins us. >>> christopher wray's stunning claim of no political bias at the agency. for months now the fbi has been open to scandal, scandaled over the discredited trump dossier, scandal over the texts and corruption investigation.

if you were christopher wray and that happens, how do you not resign? >> brooke, thanks for having me back and i think chris wray who's a good man. i endorsed him when his nomination was announced ought to resign rather than be part of this shameful episode. this is not isolated. there has been a series of seven big lies, smears against the russia investigation, this bogus knew necessary memo is only the latest. trump's own fbi director saying that there are omissions in the memo that make it misleading. well, of course when you're using intelligence. i was an ambassador and the last thing you're supposed to do with intelligence is use it as a political football. expose it. when you're doing that in a misleading way, chris wray has no choice. he's got to walk away from it. history will celebrate him if he does. it's like the mccarthy era all over again. he can't continue to be apart of it if they put this memo out. >> so if they put this memo out tomorrow and going with the ambassador's reasoning that he should resign for various reasons, dana bash, we

but director wray didn't do th that. blame that should still be put on comey and this was comey's fbi. i just look at it and say look, they're so busy focusing on the russian dossier and they're not doing what they need to do, bobby. >> well in this specific situation i think that they need to find out who made the huge mistake of not dealing with that information that they got. and that person needs to be disciplined. and -- trish: disciplined? try fired. fired. >> yeah, it could be. and that might be, that might be the case and that might happen. but i think right now -- trish: follow up on that term. okay. >> and nobody at the school level who knew this kid was a danger and the local sheriff who was at the kid's house 39 times in recent years didn't talk to the school who knew he was much of a danger and kicked him off of campus and knew he was a danger and told the faculty don't let him back on campus with a backpack. so you had people at the local level who knew this kid was a danger and nothing was done at that lev

christopher wray thinks otherwise. this is not an attempt to muddy up the investigation but tellsa on the phone that's what it is. with respect to muler and his team, they're following the clinton playbook in part, which is to shoot the messenger because they have problems with the facts being investigated. that's fine. but in the end it didn't help bill clinton. he got impeached and tried and his presidency was impacted by it. >> it is fascinating to road all the reporting into the people who have tried to stop this from coming out. chris wray talked to john kelly. director of national intelligence dan coats met with him. security officials largely focused on the need to protect sources and methods of intelligence gathers, as well as concerns about setting a dangerous precedent. >> this isn't subtle, folks. you have the director of national intelligence, head of fbi, both trump appointees, and members of the justice department saying don't do this. this is reckless and could is the a dangerous precedent. and the white

i don't think christopher wray is, he's a fellow georgian.n the scout, but there are some partisans in the fbi and what i'm concerned about and i think brian would be too, did their partisanship abuse the fisa process? we don't know that. but i do know that people on that committee, aside from trey gowdy and devin nunes or matt gates, people like ileana ros-lehtinen, will hurd, peter king, who are not solid trump supporters, who are very critical and very bipartisan of our party, many times they voted to release these memos. they're doing it because they're very worried. >> one more question. brian, that is that just in the last hour or so we have learned that house speaker paul ryan has come out and publicly supported the release of the democratic rebuttal to this. the memo from the democrats on the house intel committee. are you encouraged hearing that? >> not really. because i didn't hear a commitment that he would release the two memos concurrently. that's the democrats' big complaint. they're saying the release the democrat one eventuall

christopher wray. in a show down over the expected release of a republican intelligence memo alleging fbi abuses of surveillance laws against the trump campaign. tonight the fbi is expressing quote grave concern about making the memo publi why? they say it's inaccuratebecause it doesn't ha complete basis. and worried about sources and methods. however, the white house chief of staff john kellily says he predicting a quick are lease. adding the whole world will see it. what is this about? is this going to be good for the democracy or good for political expediency. a strong opinion and a voice in the matter. republican congressman steve king. member of the house judiciary committee. before we get after it, what's right is right. thank god you are okay. you and the other congress members on that train. horrible what happened to the driver of the truck. horrible that any of it happened. thank god you're all right. good to have you, congressman. >> well, thank you, chris. i do want to say that there's a fam

they hope chris wray doesn't quit. they do not expect him to quit, as much as the white house may be concerned about this, he right now has given no indication that he wants to quit. i will say he is getting a lot of support, including from the former fbi director james comey who tweeted last night, and let me go ahead and read that for you, says that all should appreciate the fbi speaking up. i wish more of our leaders would. but take heart, american history shows in the long run weasels and liars never hold the field so long as good people stand up. not a lot of schools or streets named for joe mccarthy. so christopher wray and the fbi continue to get a lot of support, certainly from the former fbi director and the fbi's association which also tweeted yesterday and sent out a note in support, and the fbi agents, the men and women in the fbi are thrilled about what christopher wray has done here. >> shimon prokupecz, appreciate the reporting, thank you. >>> joining me now, mike rogers, cnn national security commentato

new reporting tonight underscores can the precariousness of wray's position. the daily beast reports former agents say the director must be ready to resign over the memo. nbc's pete williams reports that as of now, wray has no intention of quitting if indeed the memo is released. president trump has as you may have noticed made a point to target for pressure or insults or bullying everyone with any authority in this investigation whether that's bullying andrew mccabe till he steps down or maybe was fired according to trump's son today publicly insulting and belittling jeff sessions who obviously the president was mad recused himself from the russia probe or trying and failing to fire special counsel robert mueller. so what does christopher wray, head of the fbi right now, a trump appointee standing between the president and this memo, what does he do if the president ignores his warning? that's next. >>> there are not one but two high level justice department officials who obviously could be imperilled in the controversy over the republican surveillance memo,

so, i think wray will stay. nunes memo that is now sort of fair amount of reporting, gee, the white house fears it might be a substantively, it will be, i guess, substantively a , but it will have accomplished its purpose. it has totally muddied the waters. a huge question on the original fi fisa, renewed fisa application of the carter page. it has nothing to do with what really happened in 2016 or in 2017. and to the degree touch-toit wi trump supporters -- it will say that rosenstein's renewal, i guess of the fisa application was somehow questionable, it may leave the groundwork for trump firing rosenstein which he would love to do. that's what the nunes memo is about, firing rosenstein. >> absolutely what it's about. go ahead. >> it's something else, which has clarified. i've said this now multiple times this week and i'll say it again. it has clarified the extent to which paul ryan is now no longer on team usa or on even team old republican party. he is on team nunes, which means he's on team trump, which me

triggered a concern that wray had with mccabe. maybe, maybe not. nothing about this memo. wray now had to step forward and put out a statement from the fbi saying, grave concerns. so what makes it worthwhile? >> well, i wish he was more specific about grave concerns. >> what else do you need to hear? >> but i don't believe we can point to an -- a potential i.g. report coming out and say that's the reason that christopher wray made the move to, i'll say, remove andy mccabe. that had to be -- and i've read the memo, and i have that advantage, of course. but if the memo's incomplete according to the assertions of the doj, have they read it, haven't they? i don't know. but there's no such thing as a complete memo. you can always assert that about any memo. i believe it's solid. it's factual. but also, being objective, the information that is used to build the memo is not in the memo of course. and i have not had access to that, but i do know devin nunes, and i know a good number of the members. every member on the select committee on

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and it appears, at this point, that chris wray is doing that. he apparently was over here at the white house on monday, along with deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein, saying to the white house chief of staff, john kelly, don't do this. but it appears the president is bowing to the demands of the far right in his party, in wanting to release this. mainly for political reasons. but anderson, we are crossing into areas of unchartered waters that we haven't seen since the nixon days, where you could have potentially a constitutional crisis if this president goes too far, trips some of these wires that have been set up on over on capitol hill. paul ryan and others saying you can't fire robert mueller and so on. at what point do the republican leaders up on capitol hill say, this is going too far? anderson? >> jim acosta, thank you very much. >> you bet. >> i want to bring in our legal and political panel, cnn legal analyst, jeffrey toobin and carrie cordero and chris cillizza. carrie, let me start with you, you worked for the department of justi

and it appears at this point that chris wray is doing that. he apparently was over here at the white house on monday alongest with deputy attorney general rod rosenstein saying to the white house chief of staff john kelly, don't do this. but it appears the president is bowing to the demands of the far-right in his party and wanting to release this, mainly for political reasons, but, anderson, we are crossing into areas of uncharted waters that we haven't seen since the nixon days where you could potentially have a constitutional crisis if this president goes too far, trips some of the wires set on capitol hill. paul ryan and others saying you want fire robert mueller and so on. at what point do the republicans leaders on capitol hill say this is going too far? >> jim acosta, thanks very much. >> you bet. >>> i want to bring in our legal and political panel. cnn legal analyst jeffrey toobin and carrie cordero and chris cillizza. carrie, let me start with you. you worked at the department of justice. how unusual is it to have a letter from the f

fbi director christopher wray at a hearing with the nation's top intelligence officials testifying he sees "no inherent political bias inside his agency." this amid charges that pro-clinton agents abuse their surveillance powers in the 2016 election and use the fruits of an unverified dossier to go after members of the trump campaign. watch a bit. >> there's no shortage of opinions about our agency just like every other agency appear. through its work, through its case, through the victims it protects. not too hung up on what i consider to be the noise. >> you haven't seen any evidence of any sort of inherent clinical bias in the agency? >> no. >> harris: chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge following all of it for us. she joins is now on capitol hill with the latest. catherine? >> the fbi director christopher wray gave a forceful and passionate defense of the bureaus nearly 48,000 employees but he made no reference to the half dozen senior executives that have been demoted, retired, reassigned, or have left the bureau since fbi director james comey was fired by the pre

the fbi suggests under director wray that it was misleading.raordinary is that he chooses to take the advice of director hannity over his own appointees and release this memo. the purpose of it is clear which is to try and muddy up this investigation, perhaps to give him a pretext for not talking to special counsel mueller, perhaps to muddy the result -- perhaps to get rid of rosenstein, so he can circumscribe the investigation. that is not a silver lining. that is a very menacing cloud. >> apparently the president is also taking the advice of john kelly, his chief of staff, who has not been swayed by these meetings. christopher wray went to the white house, went to talk to john kelly to make a personal appeal to not release this memo. john kelly is on the side of the president and feels it should come out. >> i find that really dismaying. i think survival in this white house is all about how you relate to this president and manage him. it is clear from the beginning -- this amplifies a theme that the president has been on from the beginning of

at least wray. the fbi said, you know, this is essential to the mission, that this is a selective disclosure with materially omitted stuff, absolutely, wray has no credibility if he stays with the release under those circumstances. >> what do you think? not only is the release unprecedented, but the fbi agents association statement today backing wray is unprecedented. >> yeah. i think this new cycle of i'm going to quit every time something bad happens is ridiculous candidly. stay. there's going to be an issue next week, an issue a month from now and two months from now. agents need consistentsy. wray has their interests at heart, if there's problems, he'll fix them. he has to stay. he says i disagreed with it, but i understand my role in the world, i wake up in the morning and be the best director i can be for the agents. >>> there's more to talk about, more going on in the russian investigation including the spotlight on the white house communications director, she's been at the president's side a

but i think you've seen chris wray take a principled position. you've seen a rare move of the fbi agents association, the rank and file of the bureau putting out a statement standing shoulder to shoulder with the director. i fear that we're heading towards a saturday night massacre playing out in slow motion. to the point about oh, rod rosenstein has nothing to fear from this, he reauthorized the fisa application. if the republican conspiracy theory coming out of this release of this memo from nunes is that this thing was the fruit of a poisonous tree, then yes, it would absolutely provide a pretext for donald trump to say rod rosenstein betrayed me by renewing this. >> he was appointed by the president. but let's hypothetically look, we don't know what's going to happen. we have been told by our sources while wray is frustrated, he has no plans to resign necessarily. but there could be implications from this. if he -- if either one are out, ray and/or rosenstein, what would this mean for the russia investigation? what would happen? >> well, i me

. >> director wray? >> i think that's one area that has been a lot of discussion about whether we're doing better and this is one of the areas we are doing better. we, together, at the fbi, together with dhs, recently, for example, scheduled meetings with various election, state election officials and normally the barrier there would be classification concerns. whether somebody had clearances. we were able to put together briefings appropriately tailored and with nondisclosure agreements with those officials. so there are ways if people are creative and forward leaning to educate the state election officials which is, of course, you know, where elections are run in this country. >> hopefully we'll be creative and forward leaning and we'll want to keep track of awe'what e doing there. thank you. >> senator king. >> thank you, mr. chairman. first statement i want to make is more in sorrow than in anger. i'll get to the anger part in a minute. the sorrow part is that director coats in response to a question

even before christopher wray was shown the memo, boyd also showed concerns. the department of justice saying they would like to review and so would the fbi. this to say tweeting fisa warrants are thick documents 50, 60 documents. if the nunes document is four pages you can just bet its a carefully picked bowl of cherries. keep in mind ample reporting our own and elsewhere that a number of documents not just the steel dossier went into that application. saying repeatedly that the investigation, the fbi, the justice department are all somehow tainted and this dossier is a big part of it. and if those white house talking points sound what is in the memo, did the white house consult with republicans on the hill. quigley said was any of this done after during conversation or consultation with anyone in the white house. nunes says as far as i know no. had any consultation, communication at all with the white house? chairman nunes did not answer that question, nor did sarah sanders when chris cuomo asked. >> not that i know of. >> i just don't know the answer. i don

chris wray is going to be in the hot seat for right now.also going to be there and be a figure that democrats can foipt and try to defend the fbi. so you may see a lot more of this debate happening across either side of the dais than necessarily with the people, the agency directors there to testify because, again, the parties are in open conflict right now over whether they think the fbi is doing a good job and whether they think the problems that people are highlighting with the fbi go all the way to the top or not. >> these intelligence officials have just walked into the room right now. this hearing will get under way shortly. the way this will work, we'll hear from the chairman, the ranking member. we'll also hear from the director of national intelligence who will walk us around the world to talk about worldwide threats to the united states. and then the questions start. once the questions start, whatever this hearing was supposed to be about, i think largely goes by the wayside. phil mudd has parachuted in to this discussion, joins u

what does that do to christopher wray? >> i know christopher wray has gone on record and said in front of congress, if the president ever does something i'm uncomfortable with, i'm going to push back. if he continues on with it, i will resign. here is what i'm uncomfortable with. i'm uncomfortable that there might have been a few folks at the fbi, there might have been folks that did some dubious things. i think fair scrutiny should be given there. if there are things in that memo that could have consequences to our sources, they need to be redacted, countered, scrubbed and the president seems to be the right thing. >> christopher wray doesn't want the memo out there. he laid down a marker. into am curious to see what he does. michael zeldin, if we can, to move on to another subject, this meeting that cnn is reporting in december where president trump asked the deputy attorney general, first of all, to give him an update on the status of the russia investigation, but then flat-out asked him, are you on my team. what questi

it is not clear whether satisfy the fbi. >> look, chris wray saw it and clearly wray has objections to this. we saw that from the letter and department of justice days before wray was given the chance to see this. they said it would be a big mistake. >> that's right, not only raising objections and releasing to the public. it is not everyday that the fbi would put out a statement. this is a rare public statement saying mr. president, don't do this. that's why you are seeing of what is a constitutional clash that's going on inside the administration or at least a clash between the white house and the national security community because there are people concerned inside the fbi of sources and methods being revealed in all of this, which is why i think the white house is talking about this redaction. the white house appears to be going with these political demands inside the conservative base with their party and along with paul ryan and saying they want this memo out. make no mistake, this is something that could haunt this white house in the months to come if, you know, if it turns out

okay, this is christopher wray. do we have the christopher wray sound bite? let's play that. >> has the president directed you and your agency to take specific actions to confront and blunt russian activities that are ongoing? >> we're taking a lot of specific efforts to blunt -- >> have they been directed by the president? >> not specifically directed by the president. >> so does all of this go to the president's fear that any talk of election interference is viewed as undermining the president's seeing russia as a threat to our democracy? >> yeah, i think that's been his position from the beginning, is he's very sensitive about this investigation. he's very sensitive about any commentary about russia's influence in the campaign. because he believes the more that becomes known or understood that it could somehow undermine his legitimacy. and, you know, i was wondering, you know, it was interesting to see what other people on the panel think about this. look, we're not going to get these 13 russians over here and put them on trial. so what was the purpose of

testifying on captain hill today, trump appointed fbi director christopher wray contradicted the white house's timeline on when it found out about abuse allegations against a senior aide, rob porter. >> so was the white house informed that this could affect his security clearance? that's a yes or no. >> i can't get into the content of what was briefed to the white house. >> were they informed? >> i can tell you is that the fbi submitted a partial report on the investigation in question in march. and then a completed background investigation in late july that soon thereafter, we received requests for follow-up inquiry. and we did the follow-up and provided that information in november. and then we add administratively closed the file in january. and then earlier this month, we received some additional information and we passed that on, as well. >> that testimony given under oath is at odds with the white house spin. here's what raj shah and sarah huckabee sanders told reporters in recent days. >> his background investigation was ongoing. he was operating on and interim security clearanc

the white house or donald trump's fbi pick, christopher wray? >> the fbi submitted a partial report on the investigation in question in march. and then a completed background investigation in late july that is soon thereafter we received requests for follow up inquiry. and we did the follow up and provided that information in november. and then we administratively closed the file in january. and then earlier this month, we received some additional information and we passed that on, as well. >> under questioning from oregon senator ron wyden, wray directly contradicted what the white house has been telling americans about what they knew about rob porter and when they knew it. >> his background investigation was ongoing. he was operating on an interim security clearance. his clearance was never denied. and he resigned. >> i can't get into the specifics. i can tell you that we were -- the process for the background was ongoing. and the white house had not received any specific papers regarding the completion of that background check. >> catch that?

but you've seen chris wray a take principled position. you've scene a rare move of the fib agents association the rank and file bureau standing shoulder to shoulder with the director. i fear we are headed trds towards a saturday night massacre playing out in slow motion. to the point about rod rosenstein has nothing to fear, he reauthorized the fisa application. if the republican conspiracy theory coming out of the release of memo from nunes is that this thing was the fruit of a poisonous tree it would provide a pretextfare donald trump to to say rod rosenstein betrayed me by renewing this. >> and he was appointed by the president. let's hypothesisically look. bra has no wrans we have been told has no plans to resign. there could be implication implications. if wray and/or rosenstein are out what does that mean for the russia investigation? what happens. >> if it were rosenstein then the other question would be whether his replacement would continue the investigation or not. certainly after this particular presidency is over, there could

you disagree with the florida governor who says wray should go. you said we should look into this before we make a push like that? >> i'm not saying i disagree with governor scott. governor scott was on the ground with me nonstop. he he wa was with the families. he was in the hospital. he he is outraged. i think it's outraged by the response that christopher wray gave, saying we'll get to the bottom of it. i think he believes the families deserved more, deserved a stronger response, saying whoever did this will be fired. they will be held accountable. and i agree with him, that that needs to happen. let's see what christopher wray does next. >> neil: the offer that you made to pay, for the state to pay for the funerals, were you the genesis of that? the governor? was it a collective idea? >> it's our entire state. the state of florida does that. it runs through my office. so i'm the one with the victims' advocates. it's our state that does this. we pay. we pick up any funeral expenses that aren't covered by other sources, such as insurance and oth

does christopher wray need to resign? >> i think that he needs to come forward and say, how did this happen, specifically? then he ought to explain himself. then let the folks in the agency and in congress decide whether need to resign himself. i think this is presidential decision. trish: fbi, this is over and over and over again. i don't care whether we're talking about hillary clinton email scandal, and everything we learned their biases regarding that, between lisa page and peter strzok. whether it was james comey leaking to the press as he did. it is like one thing after another and now we're learning that, you know they were issuing fisa warrants, getting a judge to sign off of that based on opposition party research. that by the way was likely fed by vladmir putin himself. so you know, fine, mueller's indicting these 13 russians. i'm just saying we need to look long and hard at our fbi and christopher wray is the guy in charge, michael. >> wednesday we hear the story about this video blogger who sends a name, cruz'

>> i can't speak for christopher wray. we're reminded that that is the white house appointment for the fbi. i think he needs to do -- continue to do what he's doing, which is spell out the inaccuracies of the memo. i can tell you from my knowledge of the testimony that's taken place over the last year, that there are inaccuracies in the memo. when you compare their four-page memo to the minority's ten-page memo, it's clear that this was fast and loose with little regard for the facts. it's a desperate attempt. it's illustrative of the fact that the president is far more concerned with his political and legal security, hnd' got help from congress. he's far more concerned about

wray and your statement yesterday seem to be at odds with one another. do you see anything you would like to clarify based on your answer yesterday? >> my understanding is that any information would go to the personnel security office. that office had not completed its process. that was ongoing and therefore recommendation had not been made. >> the fbi director said under oath that the completed background information was actually committed in late ideal. >> the white house security personnel office received information last year in what they -- report in november. they had not made a final recommendation for adjudication for the white house because the process was still ongoing when porter resigned. the fbi's july report required significant additional investigatory fieldwork. we find those statements to be consistent with one another. >> those statements are not consistent with one another. and this isn't some esoteric policy dispute. just last week, he was being praised by the white house and today cnn learned that he was in serious discussion to be p

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>> well, i haven't spoken to the president about director wray. this wasn't a matter that he was personally involved in. but i will say that he, the attorney general, and others have said that they need to look into exactly what happened, why this information that was clearly given to somebody at a call center was not forwarded to the miami field office. was not circulated to the pront authorities so they could take action. right now you have a situation. just step back for a second. a lot of democrats are calling for gun control for, you know, whole classes of firearms to be banned. whether you have a scenario where dozens of police reports, calls to their home, you have the aunt making this call to the fbi. at the federal, state, and local level, there was a bit of a breakdown in the process and we want to figure out what went wrong. brian: there is no question. push back make kids wait until 21 to get an a.r.-15. i wouldn't see a problem with that police reports going on someone's background check. when you have a cop comes 36 times. ainsley: 3

wray may quit if they release this memo.essure not to do so. democrats are calling it a p.r. stunt, a distraction action. if that was the case, it's working brilliantly. the fbi is against the release of this thing, which was created by staffers in devin nunes' office in part because they say, well, it's both misleading and accurate. president trump that reportedly had not read the memo or seen the memo before he said after the state of the union, 100% will release it is all for making it public. we would see it tomorrow. let's turn to chad day. he works on the investigative team in washington and the lead writer on the memo. how would you describe what it is, this creation of the nunes staff? >> so we don't know a lot about the memo yet. what we do know, the republicans are saying that it alleges that there were abuses of the government surveillance apparatus during the russia probe. in particular, what we're hearing this deals with a fisa warrant that was used to surveil carter page, that was a trump campaign foreign advis

christopher wray, the fbi director, says we gave the information. i don't think there's much of an open question about whether the white house knew what they needed to know if they wanted to move on him. that is a political decision. put it to the side. clearance issues. he was looking at highly classified information, whatever the president was going to see. you care about this issue of how this is cared for. he didn't have the right kind of clearance. a lot of people in this white house do not. dni, dan coats said the system is broken. do you agree? if so, what can you do about it? >> a couple things. porter no longer works at the white house. if what is alleged is true, he should face the harshest sentence as possible. second, everyone believes there needs to be changes in how security clearances are made. everyone understands that. the white house will correct them going forward. >> what kinds of corrections do you see? you can put me on camera. i have this huge italian man behind me. it's okay. it's valentine's day. i can hear you again. people