if they can find out something that went wrong in how they understood the target in the information or intelligence they had, then perhaps some changes. wolf? >> all right. barbara. thanks very much. that's it for me. erin burne "erin burnett outfro today. >> did the trump administration try to block a former justice official from crucial testimony? plus new details about a bank used as a cover for russian spying. and a rare appearance from melania trump at her husband's side. good evening to all. out front tonight, the white house this evening deeply frustrated by growing questions surrounding the trump campaign's alleged ties to russia.

sean spicer, i want to say his line for the day. he doesn't appear to be joking. >> if the president puts russian salad dressing on his salad tonight, somehow that's a russian connection. >> the remarks came as the white house is fighting back against a damaging report. this is that the white house tried to block the former acting attorney general tried to block it. gates was -- she's a central figure because she's the person who warned the white house that the former national security advisor, michael flynn, could be subject to russian blackmail. yalts was fired by president trump for refusing to defend his travel ban. any reports that the white house blocked any testimony are 100% false, spicer said. >> let's be honest.

if they choose to move forward, great. we have no problem with her testifying, plain and simple. >> but here's the thing. before gates could testify, the house committee chairman devin nunez has already canceled her hearing. right now, you're looking at the white house, senators and wives invited to a dinner in the east room. we've learned trump plans to speak about his supreme court pick gor such. i want to start with jim acosta at the white house. the line to have the day, "russian salad dressing." >> reporter: right. >> not a joke. they're serious. >> reporter: right. one thing we should point out, the president is expected to speak at this hour. he'll have the first lady at his side as they're welcoming senators from both sides to the

white house. white house officials once again on the defensive over these questions on whether the house intelligence committee should recuse himself. sean spicer was pressed on whether the administration tried to shut down sally yates who was fired by the president and scheduled to testify before the intelligence committee. although the justice department said that yates should consult with the white house before testifying, sieser said earlier today that she is free to appear before that panel. that all built up to this moment, where spicer claimed that the office russian salad dressing would somehow be twisted by the news media to say that trump was colluding with the russians. when it comes to the trump folks colluding with the russians but there are too many questions to take no for an answer. >> there are. the white house still not

answering the questions about who let chairman nunes on the white house grounds. are. >> reporter: that's right. >> who was the person and who helped him view the classified documents? why don't we have these answers? >> reporter: spaen sean spicer was asked about how nunes got on to the white house grounds last week. spicer did not answer that question but complained that the media is covering this story unfairly. that's how he chose to answer the question as to how nunes got to the white house grounds. during the obama administration these visitors logsaged the information in the logsz as to who was coming into the white house and who checked them in, who they were visiting that was all public information. it wasn't available instantaneously. it was usually available in a couple of weeks. but so far under the trump

administration not available to the public. >> despite growing questions -- i emphasize this -- from both sides of the aisle. manu rajo is out front. >> reporter: capitol hill's main investigations into russian ties to the trump campaign. democrats saying he should step aside after canceling a public hearing and privately briefing the president. but nunes is defiant, refusing to step aside, insisting he did nothing wrong by bleefg president trump about communications picked up about the transition. >> are you going to stay as chairman and run this investigation? >> well, why would i not? guys need to asked them why these things are being said. can this investigation continue

as u.s. chairman. >> why would it not. aren't i keeping you up to speed. >> reporter: congressman ryan was turs. >> no one, no. >> reporter: democrats seem to be pulling the screens. the house panel canceling public and private meeting this week, t the. mcconne mcconnell. >> do you have confidence in the house intelligence committee? >> i serve in the 1234e9. i don't have any observations to make about the house effort. >> even some senate republicans are raising questions about nunes. senator lindsay graham questions his ability to run an investigation if information isn't shared with committee democrats. >> the problem that he's created is he's gone off on a lark by

himself trying to find some unmasking information about collection incidental with the trump campaign and some form agent outside russia. >> reporter: meanwhile, stowed's controversy kags a shadow. did the white house seek to prevent sally yates from testifying before the panel because of her assertions that trump former national security advisor michael flynn may have been been under the influence of the russians. when pressed nunes would not discuss the administration's role. >> look. you guys are just speculating. i'm sorry. whenever there's time we'll do a presser. >> reporter: did they ask you to cancel the hearing today? >> come on. guys. >> why is that not -- why did you cancel the hearing? >> nothing has been canceled. >> erin, the washington post reported earlier today that sally yates's testimony could

raise concerns with the justice department which believe that some of her testimony would presumably be -- would raise confidential information, concerns over the executive privilege. when gates said she wanted to still testify, on friday nunes canceled the hearing. but today they said they had no communications with the white house whatsoever about canceling this hearing and trying to distance themselves from this controversy with the white house saying the decision was made on the committee's instructions. >> thanks very much. let's go to the someone with answers on the intel committee. mike turner, good to have you with me. >> thank you. >> let me start with you. are you 100% certain that chairman nunes not stopped this hearing at the behest of the white house? >> oh, shutly. i met with the chairman. shortly after the comey hearing, he said he wanted to postpone

the hearing so he could allow comey to come into a classified session and answer the over 100 questions he couldn't answer in a public setting. we needed that evidence to better inform us as we prepared for the clapper, brennan and yates testimony. that came well before any of this controversy. i thoroughly think -- >> why wasn't it announced at that time, then? >> when the scheduling happens, you know, i'm not certain but i know when the decision happens. this controversy is really a noncontroversy. if you look at the hearing where comey and rogers were testifying, you know there are so many questions unanswered. >> yes. >> we need answers before we talk to the other people testifying. >> are you going to have sally yates testify? >> certainly, the chairman intends to go forward. you heard him in your own broadcast say it's not canceled. only delayed. >> but she will testify the that

is certain? >> that's my assumption that will she will voluntarily come. we asked her to. it was the chairman's request she be there. the white house isn't stopping her. she's asking them to waive executive privilege. having them do their work. here's interesting. sally yates ought to ask the obama administration, because she was also acting under the becomes. >> yes, she was. >> if they'd waive executive privilege. we could do a whole day of news how the white house is preventing her from testifying. comey asserted privilege and she should do the same. >> you want her in a public hearing and you want him in a classified setting. i hear you. he didn't answer a lot of questions. >> yes. >> who could you say, especially

on the house side who say it's irrepably hurt now. how can you continue with this? >> well, we want to get to work. we have three 207ics which are the russians med allege with our elections and how we can prevent it in the future. the second is any connections between trump tanned russians and the third which is incredibly important is the issue about the improper use of intelligence information and the sharing of that with the obama administration, the leaks, v. it's the democrat side saying they don't like how it's proceeding and they want to call for either the investigation to stop or the dhierm recuse himself. we're ready to go to work. i think they should talk more about work rather than politics. >> it is important whether you can all trust each other to do this work. i have republican senator lindsey graham saying that's not

possible anymore. then he should not be running this investigation if he can't do that. panetta served in both party administrations, and he had this to say. >> you cannot have a credible investigation by a committee of the congress without a close working relationship between the ranking member. that's absolutely essential to an objective and fair hearing. >> your ranking member, of course, adam schiff has said that the chairman must recuse himself. is that just the right thing to do at this point? have him recuse himself so you can get to work? >> absolutely not. let's go back to the lindsey graham statement. what the chairman said when he made the announcement that he has evidence of interceptions by the intelligence community of communications of the trump transition team that were unmasked and swhard the obama

administration officials and that this needed to be investigatesed. he raid out what's happening, he turns h turned to if tsa and said you're the head of this, take this and provide every instance this happened. he's doing that. they're saying as early as next week. that certainly is reasonable. that answers everyone's questions. the question should be is this stuff true. they're going to tell us. we're not going to have to depend on the chairman to do it. >> i appreciate your time, thank you. >> thank you. >> thanks. now phil mudd. you heard that. can the house intel committee complete a fair investigation with all these questions? >> heck. no. i think they're cooked and i think they've been cooked for a week or two. there's two questions.

a primary question and that is twhapd to russian interference in the elections. and how do we secure the next elections? we got two members of the committee, the chairman and the ranking democrat who can't speak with each other without getting in front of a microphone. devin nunes talks about it to the media. that individual, nunes goes to the whourks not only the white house but the target of part of the fbi investigation and reveals that information to the white house before talking to other committee members. >> and not giving in to the committee. just emphasizing. he hasn't given it to them yet. >> you want to tell me this game's not rigged? whatever happened to the russian investigation? and people like jared kushner, why shouldn't the fbi conduct an investigation to have people

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not confirming he will. li likely. this comes with this special report from moscow. >> reporter: this is the man, jared kushner admits he net just one month after donald trump was elected president. his name is sergei gorkov. the state run bank finances putin's grandest ambitions like the $50 billion sochi olympics. they were placed under sanctions we the obama administration. those sanctions pushed the bank to the brinks of collapse. in february 2017 president putin appointed gorkov to turn the banks around. gorkov he was hoping to get some

relief against u.s. sanctions. royal >> translator: we hope the sanctions could be better. probab probably. >> reporter: the bank says meetings war held with representatives from the largest banks and biz circles in the united states, including jared kushner, the head of kushner companies. according to the bank, it was a road show on development strategy. the white house maintains there was no improper contact between kushner and the russians. >> he met with countless individuals. that was part of his job, that was part of his role and he executed it completely as he was supposed to. >> so he doesn't believe he owes the american public an explanation. >> far what? doing his job.

>> reporter: one of the employees pleaded guilty in a new york court last year to spying on america while posing as a veb banker. gore kov himself graduated from the academy of the federal security service in moscow, the russian school for agents of the fsb, formerly known, of course, as the k gb. >> if there's anything we've learned is that the russians are not our friends. they cannot be trusted. >> reporter: senator collins saying the russianings can't be trusted, articulating the concerns and suspicions of many when it comes to this russian contact. the key will be what was discussed by jared kushner in his discussion with sergei gorkov. was it as the white house insists, just the legitimate business of the trump transition? back to you, erin.

>> thank you very much, matthew. former deputy of homeland security and our senior april analyst. steve, you know a lot about this. the head of the bank graduated from an institution where russian spies are trained. the bank is known for being a cover for espionage. how deep do the ties go? >> very deep, erin. all that pedigree is something you see among russian gol golygarks. there's certainly two interceptions of this. there's the lighter side that i guess the administration wants you to believe, this is just business contacts with banks. as you point out there's a darker interception to this. what was he talking about in

december? was it just to establish better relationships with russia? in my mind, more importantly, what were they talking about before the election? was there contact, cooperation or clugs and was kushner and the -- this russian banker part of that. >> and see, here's the thing. this bank was under u.s. sanctions. now, you know, this raises just whether it's questionable to have a meeting under any guise. during 2016 the bank's management repeatedly met with bankers and jared kushner. that's what the bank put out. the trump administration said no that's not true. he went as a trump advisor. should kushner have had any dealings with this bank? >> absolutely not.

the white house explanation, even if you accept it, makes no sense. why is jared kushner having diplomat meetings with a bank? it makes no sense. at the time of the transition, there were still questions about whether the sanctions would hold but an individualback doesn't makes any sense. arguably from the white house's viewpoint he's meeting with the ambassador. they failed to zleez. kickly ak came through the book door of the trump tower. it makes no sense from a diplomacy perspective let alone that russia's coming back with alternate explanation. i late to say it, but just what's he doing against the bank? did he not know all these things and the sec to concerns that were raised by the report which

is was there any some discussion about kushner's companies. there's only one jared kushner to the outside world. >> fe he didn't know the that's incredible blim damning. senior advisor to the president. going to play the role of peace in the mooesz. if he didn't know what this bank was, that's a problem. and if he did know, that's a problem. >> right. so it goes to what we're talking about here is that is there incompetence in the white house? are they up to speed with how to interact with foreign governments, foreign powers or where they just trying to do things as they go in, they don't care, they're in power, do as i say, not as i do type of a focus on where they're going. the problem right now is that it wasn't acknowledged until it was

found out by the media. you know, they were quiet about it. they didn't want anyone to know about it. we've found out about it. >> it wasn't closed. >> it's just the last straw. >> what about testimony? we understand he's going to testify before the senate intelligence committee but it's going to be closed doors. it may not be under oath. how significant is that? if there truly isn't anything to hide, why do it behind closesed doors? >> that's what i was wondering, why not do it under oath in open session. if the administration wants to take the russian salad dressing off the table, you have to be as open as you can with things like this. if it's not one thing, it's another. it's the constant drip, drip, drip that i find concerning. >> it should go to open testimony after this q and a period. if he goes before congress and

testifies, he looks like he's guilty. i think there's a sthaep comes before that but ultimately, iltsd should go to an open hearing. >> thanks to all of you. the dinner hosted by the president and the first lady. an incredibly rare appearance for her. he has invited the senators and their pous spouses. it is a crucial dinner tonight for the president and his wife. and hillary clinton making the most political speech since her loss. why? is she getting back in the game tonight? loyal trump supporters speak out about his tweeting. >> he needs to tone it down and forget about snoop dog and arnold schwarzenegger.

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>> reporter: how many you know about the president's tweets or follow them? everyone in this room in eastern pennsylvania voted for donald trump? it's like a modern day twentd letter. >> he feels that people are editorializing his commentary, so therefore this is his way of assuring that his message is going direct to the public. >> i don't like tweeting. very other things i can be doing but i have very dishonest media. >> people want him to quit tweeting about arnold schwarzenegger's departure from "the apprentice." >> he's reacting immediately. it's a knee-jerk reaction. >> does that concern you? >> absolutely. he needs to tone it down and forget about should be dog and about arnold schwarzenegger. we don't care about them, do we? >> i don't.

if you want to be "the apprentice" step down and let smbs be president. >> reporter: like this tweet. how low has president obama gone to tap my knowns. this is mixon-watergate. >> i can see on a major news channel north america that i remember the first thing i said to my significant other was "i don't believe he just tweeted that." even if he felt that way he shouldn't have tweeted it. >> he's using this as a medium because he doesn't trust the media. if you use that medium and lie, where does that put us? >> makes you no better than the journalist you're assailing. >> nobody got in that building and set up wiretaps and he knows it. he won't admit it. that's the kind of stuff is that

angers me. that's unpresidential. >> life long democrat said he crossed party lines this election. >> thank you. >> he now says he rewith gets his vote. even tweeting to trump, run the country, sir. >> i will jump back on his wagon if he starts telling the truth and being honest the with the american people. >> do you trust the president? >> in what vein? >> simple question. >> simple question. >> it is a simple question. >> i will say i trust him, even though he goes off half cocked sometimes. >> the good outweigh the bad for me. i'm thinking trump 2020. >> don't go that far. >> i am, honestly. >> that was a fascinating piece.

a lot shood out there. >> supporters think this is the man they elected. they think if he stops tweeting people would have a different been of him. they actually think it's going to work out. i gotta say wichita most emotional tweets that we presented to him was this tweet about snl. it was the one where trump was criticizing alec baldwin. the entire panel said that's not true. he's doing a great job and he needs to have a sense of humor. >> thank you, i appreciate it. >> out front, dan phifer and jeffrey lord. jeffrey, interesting. you just heard what she said about the snl tweet. not only do they think he has no

sense of humor and he's wrong. one person said he won't commit to voting for him again. isn't that something you have to worry about? >> there's two issues. one is just tweeting in general and what you tweet about. i would con 150ed the point that tweeting about arnold and snl, although it prays into the culture, i understand that. there are specific issues like the tweet about the wiretapping by which he meant surveillance which has been raised by the intelligence committee chair. the tweets you just quoted --aged i hadn't seen those, they're brand-new -- why is there more focus on john podesta and the clinton campaign. >> she lost and he's president. >> why -- >> i don't want to get into a debate over that tweet. he is president, so he has to

answer to it. >> the point i would make is i hate to say this, we're all of an age where we're seeing a politician should never get into an argument with someone who buys ink by the barrel, meaning newspaper publishers. twitter is how you goat get around that in today's world. this is an excellent way for the president to do that. >> dan, you heard themd saying you're no better than the journalist you assail when what you tweet is untrue. his supporters see that. these tweets are wrong. >> the problem is not twitter. the problem is the twitter user? president obama had a twitter account for several years. he never tweeted anything that caused controversy or was embarrassing to himself or the nation.

i think trump should be learning the lessons -- his voters have learned it -- that there's a difference between being a candidate and when you're the president. what you say matters, whether you say it on twitter or in a speech or on fox news. >> there is a new fox news pole. 16% of people approve of his twitter use. not 60, 16. on the same day that pole was released heeshs what trump told fox about twitter. >> i have close to a hundred million people watching me on twitter, including facebook, including instagram, including potus. >> like we hearded from brynn's

piece, it may not be working with it anymore. >> i disagree with that. like franklin with his radio broadcasts, very controversial in the day, i think twitter is the new thing, the new technology. every president's going to have to use it. he's using it in his style. it's helped him undenialably. i don't think he should stop. >> perhaps if twitter had -- i don't know -- a less childish name. the word tweet is so problematic. >> i agree with that. but then again maybe they wouldn't listen. >> hillary clinton is speaking live in san francisco. we haven't heard trump tweeting a lot about her tonight. she came out with some very political works. here she is. >> recently photos have been making the rounds on social media showing groups of men in washington making decisions

about women's health. we shake our heads and think, how could they not have invited any women to the table? and when this disastrous bill failed, it was a victory for all americans. [ cheers and applause ] >> is she getting back into politics, dan? >> in this particular case and this is the first i've heard of this speech, she's talking about an issue from her entire career. i think it's important to recognize that in previous elections, the -- there is sort of this detente afterwards between winner and the looser. senator mccain met with president obama. donald trump is the one who's been tweeting about, talking about attacking the clintons on a near daily basis. so i think hillary clinton has the right to go out and talk about these issues. >> what do you make of the fact that she's coming out?

this is the first time she's been political. she is back to full game tonight. >> let me uncharacteristically agree with dan. bring it on. i do think -- you have a democratic process for a reason. and it's been a few months now. she should get back out there, highlight these differences. it's good for him, good for her, good for america. >> thanks to both of you. this is donald trump at the white house speaking to senators and their spouses. melania trump is with him. this is a crucial dinner for him at the white house tonight. let's listen to the president. [ applause ] >> nobody ever told me that politics was going to be so much fun. [ laughter ] >> but we're doing well it's doing very well. we had a long call from general mattis and john knows we're happy to hear that. we're doing very well in iraq.

our soldiers are fighting and fighting like never before and the results are very, very good. i just wanted everyone to know. i have some very special friends in this room. especially, we have some plunsz and even a couple of democrats. we had a dinner here about three weeks ago and it was so beautiful, we have these incredible musician from the marine corps and the army. incredible, actually. i said i'd like to do something special. i'd like to ask the united states senate with spouses to come and hear how good it was. it was just a beautiful evening. so here we are. shockingly, it's semibipart san, a lot of people showed up that people weren't expecting, which is a good thing, very, very good thing. [ applause ] and i know that we're all going to make a deal on health care. that's such an easy one. i have no doubt that that will happen very quickly.

we've all been promising, democrat, republican, we've been promisesing that to the american people. soy think a lot of good things will happen there. we'll talk about infrastructure, we'll talk about fixing up our military. we're going to make it so good and so strong. i think there's never been a time where we needed it so much. we're going to be doing a great job. hopefully it will start being bipartisan because everybody really wants the same thing. we want greatness for this country that we love. so i think we're going to have some very good relationships. right, chuck? i see chuck. hello, chuck. and i really think that will happen. so again, enjoy these incredible musicians, they are really something special. i hope we're going to do this many, many times as a ujt. melania thank you very much. our vice president, did we make the right decision with pejs? [ applause ]

>> huh? and karen, thank you very much. so nice. thank you. thank you, everybody. have a good time. >> all right. dinner there going to begin at the white house. the president just saying something crucial on health care. he said we'll do a deal on health care, i know we're going to make a deal on health care. that's such an easy one. also referring to the shorkingly bipartisanship of the rest of the room. infrastructure and the military. let me bring in our senior political analyst and advisor to four presidents and jeffrey lord. what do you make of the significance of this? putting health care back on the table and in a shocking way "that's such an easy one." >> friday was essentially that health care was behind him. he was relieved it was behind him and moving on to tax reforms. this new sentence about health

care an this new approach, the idea that they'll do it quickly and get a deal, i think this is news to a lot of people particularly the house freedom caucus and all the people who have seen that this is very complicated. this idea again that he seems to be promising something that i'm not sure he's going to be able to deliver on. i think it shows that their approach to this initially, saying too bad, so sad on repeal and replace and that they were moving on, that wasn't the right approach. because it in many ways i think was a cynical approach. it was a callous approach, let people deal with premium hikes. it was against his brand and i think it really, i think, framed him of something like a bystander president who didn't care what was going on in the lives of ordinary americans. this idea that it's going to be quick is just not borne out by

what we'll see. >> it hark ernst backs when i hear its, too, when he said who knew health care could be so complicated. and now he's saying that's such an easy one. is he going to win anyone in the room over with that remark? it's far easy. >> you know, erin, for as much television coverage that he or any other president gets, there's a lot going on in a presidency that we don't see until it's over. it's often said -- he wrote "the art of the deal." he also wrote -- "never give up." he is relentless. going blocked on this the first time, he's going to keep coming back and back and back again. >> what do you make of the fact that chuck schum every is there? i assume there's only one chuck

in the room. how significant is it that he's there? >> it is important, because just on friday of this last week, just after the defeat, of course, the president blamed the defeat of health care bill squarely on the democrats and no one else. over the weekend the tune changed in the white house to be more let's see what we can work out with the democrats. >> yeah. >> now just as chuck schumer is basically saying he's promising a filibuster against judge gor such, the president says that health care, he's going to get it done. there's a lot of sentiment in the republican caucus not to leave it where it is. but no longer to repeal and replace but to repair. >> that's the most significant thing he said there. the other significant thing at the end is thanks to melania. she's there. that is sniff. seeing they are rare. the first lady ushldly has a

much bigger role than the one she's thus far put on. as the american post put it, she's not low profile, she's no profile. >> she's there. i think she's a blank slate to the american people. you see first ladies gain notarity on the campaign trail. she didn't do that. she's mainly dpouksing on the ceremonial and hostess role of the first lady. when you open the house to senators or foreign leaders, you see her on hand. very difficult from what we saw from michelle obama. by this time, michelle obama had the garden. hoe had toured all the's and essentially a sort of get to know you tour. melania trump doing something very different here. i think she may be one of the most consequential first ladies in that she's defining the role.

this idea that you don't have to move to washington right away. >> i would say for those who criticize her norfor not being a feminist, it perhaps is the most feminist thing to do. we saw her with the wife of the japanese prime minister. we saw her with the netanyahus. we saw her at the first state of the union type of thing in congress. she's just hired a communications director. will that make a big change? >> well, you have to wondser whether she was there tonight at the -- upon the recommendation of a new communications director. because she is dhsh the recollusive nature of it has been inspiring a lot of gossip. i was more a tradition list. i hope we can cut her some slack.

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says there will be a deal on health care, just seconds ago, one group responsible for stopping the vote on health care is now trying to end the career of a long time republican lawmaker. >> reporter: outside the district office of california republican congressman darrell issa, a crowd covers the sidewalks. >> hey, hey. ho, ho, darrell issa has to go. >> reporter: this one the biggest yet, say these constituents, the congressman won a seat by a razor thin

margin. >> russia-gate, russia-gate. >> reporter: democrats grabbing on to the furor are grabbing on to the issues important to 2017, like darrell issa. many of these constituents part of a grass roots group. like the ones that filled town halls this weekend, from texas to south carolina. >> trumpcare was toast. >> reporter: newly fueled by the health care bill being pulled, these constituents began flooding d.c. inboxes to issa, trump and nunes.

>> reporter: ellen says she's politically active for the first time in 25 years. >> better get up there. >> reporter: she's the mom of an adopted 14-year-old girl with special needs, her health care covered under medicaid,ical critically important for her family. >> it wasn't just one thing, health care, we high-five each other and go eat pizza and we're done, we're in it for the long haul. >> reporter: this philadelphia mom, who's been outside the white house for week after week. >> i have always been a registered republican until after the primaries. i feel that the republican party has changed so much over the last eight years. >> trump, to me has been an abomination of what the republican party ever stood for. >> reporter: do you think you can keep this up for four years? >> yes. i'm motivated.

i mean, there are weeks that i, you know, need a break. and i take a vacation. and then i, you know, then i'm angry all over again. >> and you see the passion there, obviously congressman issa is very well known, very high profile in washington. what is he saying about this? >> reporter: we did reach out to his office, he's not in his district office today, he didn't hear those chants directly. i spokes with a white house spokesman who said that the congressman wanted to reach out to all constituents and they say, quote, resisting isn't very constructive. congressman issa has a history of advancing solutions. what you're seeing is a loud and vocal group, we're also hearing from others who support the congressman's efforts. we did ask the spokesman, can you tell us what the percentage is, who support and who don't support the congressman? we're still waiting to hear the exact breakdown. and last but not least, it is time for jeanne mos and her fake on the president's russian

dressing. >> reporter: when melissa mccarthy impersonates sean spicer, she plays him with a rage towards reporters that's bottled up. >> you're testing me, big guy. >> reporter: well on tuesday, the bottle spurted open. >> premium russian dressing. >> reporter: it was the continuing drip, drip of russia related questions that set off spicer. >> you've got russia, you've got wiretapping. >> no, we don't have that there's no connection, you've got russia, if the president puts russian salad dressing on his salad tonight, somehow that's russian collusion. >> reporter: if you meet with the russian ambassador in a secret meeting, then lie about it, yes. pass the russian dressing, read this tweet from donald trump during taco bowl. continuing the theme of the

president's diet, special sauce on big macs is just about russian dressing. and taking the president's words to make a dressing joke. >> what is your favorite dressing, is it russian? >> reporter: and there the puns, there's always put tin russian dressing. you want russian salad dressing, accompany melissa mccarthy using her super soaker. >> i'm washing that filthy, lying mouth. >> i'm sorry that disgusts you, at some point you're going to have to take no for an answer. >> reporter: russian radio networks were stow wick afterwards. spicer probably wished he could deploy his podium, or leaf blower.

>> that directly contradicts everything -- >> reporter: jeanie mos, cnn, new york. >> don't forget, you can watch any where, any time on cnngo. anderson is next. good evening, thank you for joining us. the republican chairman of the house intelligence committee devin nunes says he invited fbi director jim comey to testify again before house investigators. we'll get to that in a moment, but first the voices we did not hear today. we did not hear former director of national intelligence jake clapper. or sally yates, they were supposed to testify today at the house intelligence committee's second public hearing, but late last week, congressman nunes cancelled the hearing with no reason why. congressman jake was