russia, russia,ro russia.will hang over him wherever he stands. >> if it certainly seems like we are in theha opening stages of a devastating chapter in american history. speak out he said that the election hacking is at the caliber of april harbor or 9/11. do you agree with that? >> i completely agree with that. >> he is at the threshold of impeachment. >> you told "the washington post"n that "there is a smell of it treason in the air when it comes to this investigation." >> a lot of people are afraid to use the t-word. that is a treason. >> check out what is in the ears of fruit in it. it brace yourself. >> is this a president trying to impersonate him? vladimir putin? >> he gets two scoops. everyone else gets one scoop it. it no word if there were sprinkles. >> but he gets a two scoops of vanilla ice cream with his chocolate cream pie instead of the single sku before everyone else. >> he gains weight, he does not trust people around him. not a good picture. >> if barack obama wants to say that -- >> now he

ros rosenstein appointed mr. mueller as special counsel to lead the russia investigation and examine whether the president obstructed justice. that brings us basically up to speed to today. we also have with us barbara mcquade. barbara, i'm interested in learning a little bit more about what exactly could be going on inside the special counsel's investigation. i mean, you are a former u.s. attorney. you have an idea about how these investigations work. it is remarkable how secretive this investigation has been, how little has leaked out. what is your take? >> well, that's the way it's supposed to work. it's supposed to be done in secret to protect the rights of the accused so that they are not, their reputations are not stained during the investigation, and to protect the integrity of the investigation. if one witness knows what another witness is saying, it might cause him to tailor lis testimony in a certain way. i give robert mueller and his team a lot of credit for keeping things quiet. but not surprising that he would want to talk to jim comey. i'm sure jim comey ran in the door to tell his story, the same stor

ro rolls. we need to make sure that secretary of states and states across this country understand the threat from russia in terms of our elections. so there are a whole range of things. and it starts with the president of the united states acknowledging russia's role in the 2016 election and working to make sure that doesn't happen in 2018. we've seen france do that. we've seen germany do that, as we're looking at their elections. we're seeing companies like montenegro, who understand the russian attempt to try to overthrow the government there. so they wouldn't become a member of nato. so we're seeing european countries take action. we need to see the united states do the same. >> you were supposed to leave tomorrow, for moscow, as part of a bipartisan delegation of senators. russia would not allow you entry. it did permit your republican counterparts, two republican senators, to go, though, they're refusing to go without you, which is nice, i think, right? but why do you think -- >> it is. i think it's important. >> of course it is, to show solidarity. but why do you think you were singled out? >> i d

ros: it seems from what we have read and what we have reported that going into reopened the iran nuclear deal is a nonstarter for european -- keep in mind, russiand china are on that deal as well. to the extent that european allies have commented so far, they say they don't want to do that. policy by making automation is not a good idea. it seems like most of the european leaders think iran is sticking to the letter of the and there 2015 deal, is no need to go back in and renegotiate. sand drawne in the by president trump it i guess we will have to wait and see. he is taking his iranian policy six months at a time. this was definitely a strong assertion by him on friday. byty: another assertion trump is the assertion that the wall street journal is spreading fake news that he really admitted or seemed to admit that he has talked with kim jong-un. i know he came out with tweets denying this. is there any belief that he actually has possibly had direct contact with the north korean leader? right.at's interesting to feed from the president this morning. he said the wall street journal stated falsely that i said to them i have a good relationship w

lisa page, ro pamantically involved sent texts before and after the election that included personal feelings about multiple political figures including donald trump. strzok was taken off the russiaion after it was discovered that he texted some anti-trump sentiments to page. missing months of texts cover december 2016 to may 2017. here's the audio of what the president said about that tonight. >> i worry about when i look at all the things you people don't report about, what's happening, the five months' worth of missing texts, that's a lot of missing texts. oo as i said yesterday, that's primetime. so you do sort of look at that and say what is going on. you do look at certain texts where they talk about insurance policies -- >> do you trust the fbi? >> i am very disturbed as is the general. as it everybody else that is intelligent. when you look at five months, this is leap great rosemary woods. right? with a step, right? this is a large-scale version. >> 18 minutes. >> that was 18 minutes. this is five months. they say it's 50,000 texts and it's primetime. that's disturbing. >> references to nixon's secretary aside, the president keeps repeating there's 50,000 missing text me

ro*tel's diced tomatoes and spicy green chilies. then, find space for extra parking. lots and lots of parking. >>> the president says there was no collusion between his campaign and russia says it a lot. yesterday he may have hit a personal record. >> there has been no collusion. there's no collusion. no collusion. and there is no collusion. this, there was absolutely no collusion. no collusion. they have no collusion and nobody's found any collusion. >> eight no collusion lines in less than 90 seconds. what was the question, you might have asked. well, will he meet with robert mueller. the answer to that question was, we'll see what happens, but robert mueller probably won't need to interview donald trump because donald trump says, again, there was no collusion. vice president pence is another person in the white house who has not yet talked to robert mueller and there's no plans to do so at least right now according to a person familiar with the matter. but if mueller does call, pence will answer. a fellow governor and foal ello the brookings institution. he's a confidant and friend of james comey and nbc news legal analyst. good to see you. >> good to see you. >> let

ro*tel's diced tomatoes and spicy green chilies. then, find space for extra parking. lots and lots of parking. >>> welcome back. i'm stephanie ruhle. you're watching msnbc where we've got brand-new revelations in the russia investigation. and they are raising new questions about possible money laundering this morning. the house intelligence committee has released the transcript from its closed door interview with glen simpson, the head of the opposition research firm fusion gps. that firm was behind the infamous trump russia dossier. i want to bring in nick ackerman, former assistant special watergreat partner, it is also a partner. and of course an msnbc legal analyst. walk us through what was told to investigators. >> last week when we saw the senate judiciary committee release the transcript, some of the most interesting exchanges there was how it came to be that the time line where the dossier, some of the findings of the opposition research being done by fusion gps went from the opposition research firm to the fbi. and whether or not the fbi was taking those claims seriously. what we saw in the transcripts that read almost 200 pages of interview here is a real effort, especially by the democrats to