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yet every day it's drip, drip, drip? >> i think it is important to get to some bottom line here because as the public becomes more aware of this, i think their confusion about what is going on in washington is going to deepen. so, it's time really for some very articulate public figure to tell the public what is going on, what they should worry about and what they don't have to worry about and kind of calm things down. i think it's going to take awhile. as i remember investigations like the one that bob mueller is beginning, you pull on one thread and it opens up another. so, i think that part of it could take awhile and it's all the more important, then, that the parallel investigations in the senate, for example, where it seems to be going reasonably well, that that proceed as quickly as possible. >> it seems almost like -- it's great fodder for the media. i mean, because every day we get breaking news, usually happens about this time, which is fascinating for us. but, you know, there is so much of it, i pickup news ar

, drip. the american people are not going to have r investigation if it's done by people who are seen as close to the president, it must be some sort of independent probe appeared to your point, this could be important for this white house to have some sort of good housekeeping seal of approval that this is not a crony of president trump who was looking at this. your question about a special prosecutor, the law has changed. remember the special prosecutor laws expired. the justice department has the ability to call a special counsel, what will that mean for bob mueller? he now has to hire lawyers, he has to have investigators we're told he's going to build on the current investigation with fbi agents but he's going to have to get office space in washington, this could be a sprawling investigation. does he look at it as a special counsel that investigates and recommends to the justice department whether or not there's a prosecution if there are crimes? final point, you are right. there is an i

but the problem that the trump administration has is that the main perpetrator of the drip, drip, drip is president trump himself. time and again, one story is being told by his communications operation or, you know, other officials, then he starts to tweet something different. then the story evolves a little bit differently. then he's two days later saying something completely differently. and now he's saying it's a witch hunt and whining and complaining. so, i think the problem is going to be controlling mr. trump. but as information may come out, these things always happen, certainly between the investigations on capitol hill and i think -- i mean, mueller himself will be i think very careful with regard to leaks, but some information may come out, and the president himself has no self-control. that may end up being his undoing, quite frankly. >> karen finney, ron brownstein, paris dennard, thank you all very much. >>> so, what is ahead for the president? he's headed overseas. come sm are calling this a do-or-die trip for him. the stakes are high. >>> all right, and have you seen th

, drip, drip will continue.not going to hear from the president. >> i do not think so. they have made the decision to either allow the drip, drip, drip, or to watch the official investigations go forward but at some point, someone has to start to bring real evidence out that suggests something. everything else right now is innuendo or something else. was there wrongdoing? they have to get to that quickly. >> back chapels, before you are in the administration. >> when administrations come on and they know that they have been elected, they have reached out. >> okay. thank you. >>> all right, i do not know about you but i am excited. the warriors getting ready for a historic third straight nba playoff. we look at the golden state dynasty, is it too early for the word dynasty? >> we have stubborn fog making a comeback, what that means for your thursday forecast and we highlight the warmest day of the weekend >> we have more coming up on ktvu news right after the break ♪ remember dad helping you catch your first fish

but the jared kushner revelations on friday, i mean, as we are seeing this drip drip drip out in the press it's really put a lot of pressure on a lot of the investigations to move quickly. we have robert mueller now as a special counselor overseeing the russian investigation. from what i can gather it will being going slow from his end, but with the drip drip it's putting pressure on this. >> james clapper is saying, warning light, how do you react? >> he's right. very quickly what the russians did leading up to the election, the assumption was that january 20th it stopped. if in fact jared kushner does have these connections to russia what i can tell you it hasn't stopped, it's still ongoing. that is -- boy, that is nothing short but breathless. >> he said a lot by saying that. thank you so much. >>> happening w,e're watching this story. a shooting spree in mississippi. it's left eight people dead including a sheriff's deputy. people were shot dead oversight. that suspect is willie corey godbolt admitted to the shooting after being arrested. his intention he said was suicide by cop.

so he fired him and he should have nothing to do with him because a lot of the drip, drip drip is eagerrom trump's frustration at the system or flynn. >> yeah because the others he's been linked with, he distanced himself early and often and turned the page. but michael flynn has a resistance to that. you mentioned rockebert muellere special counsel. he has reviewed the memo where he was told to "let go" of the investigation. take the that together with the according to the washington post confirming, is it almost inkaungs kwengsal if there was collusion with the russians has he done enough to leave himself in deep legal and political trouble even if there was no collusion? >> he might have. i rely on jeffrey tubon for that. i think it's fair to say the russians medaled in the 2016 election. putin's a nationalist and he saw trump as a nationalist. it's not totally turning out that way. i think those can be true without trump colluding. it's poslk some hangers on may have colluded. carter page i think is a clown, may have tried to collude. roger stone's an interesting guy. this drip, dri

you see the drip, drip, drip which is ascending into a flood come off clinical flood.here is an undercurrent here of stupidity and terms of management of these issues. the best thing about american democracy is that it's hard to keep secrets. it's very hard to conceal major things that are in congruent with what you suspect especially if you are in the executive base of the white house. i don't know what their strategy was and thinking they could conceal some of this. the political impact, as we are about to see from paul ryan, that's real anger on the hill and its depreciation of trust to the white house, but it was a slow movement away from we have to distance ourselves from trump because the next flood could potentially bring us down as well. >> julie: we are seeing a lot of republicans that are slowly distancing themselves from the president. nevertheless, there needs to be unity, not only on the hill, but on the white house. this man as president. we need to hear more about what vice president pence knew. he knew he was lied to by michael flynn, he did not know ab

drip, drip amount to treason. trump stop leaks and will the president himself be more selective with whom he shares u.s. intelligence? >> seems like the leaks especially the leak from the white house especially shake-ups are coming from everywhere in the white house. i don't know if he can stop the leaks. seems like many closest advisers are talking to him and talking to favorite reporters in the press. i don't know if he can stop these leaks. he certainly has not been able to stop them coming from the fbi and other places, you know, adding to this near daily event where there's a major news breaking story at 6:00 p.m. that takes over cable news. this is a new reality he has to live with. these stories coming out while trying to push forward agenda that includes obamacare repeal and tax reform. arthel: exactly. >> a difficult thing he's going to have to deal with. two separate issues. but if he wants agenda passed he's going to have to focus and come up with a way to deal with it. arthel: you know, bottom line, pe

is it handled like watergate where drip, drip, drip, every day?handle it like ronald reagan handled iran contra? >> david drucker, mccain said he was speechless with the oval office meeting. they are having a hard time with it. >> they are. they were initially pleased to see robert mueller appointed. in their mind, this sweeps it off the table for them and they get back to work. what do you plan to do? now when you have an investigation with a special coup counsel, it can go in any direction. some are worried this could complete in the middle of the election year or lead up to 2020. if it doesn't exonerate mr. trump and people around him, it could be a problem for republicans. they reached a point where they are done with trump unconventional. well, trump's different, but he won. look at the opportunities we have. they are tired of it. they are concerned about it and they want it to stop. >> do you see evidence they are actually tired of it and want it to stop? >> david and i have had conversations with them all along. they have been tired of it s

, united states, there is allegation afterallegation, a drip, drip, drip feed.s has been one of the most homogenous weeks yet when it comes to headline making for donald trump. tumultuous. indeed. who knows what will come next. thank you. let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news. the self—proclaimed libyan national army says an attack on a southern airbase on thursday, claimed at least 140 lives. this included civilians and was more than twice the number originally reported. the lna forces support an administration based in tobruk. the internationally—backed libyan government in tripoli has denied ordering the attack which breached a ceasefire. yemen could have as many as 300,000 cases of cholera within six months, and an "extremely high" number of deaths. that's according to the world health organisation. nearly 250 people have died in the past three weeks alone. a judge in the us state of minnesota has ruled that the six brothers and sisters of the pop star prince are the heirs to his estate. the six, including tyka, who is seen here, sho

we're getting drip, drip, drip throughout the day of new revelations, new details.t's not something that's simply going to to away. but the white house does feel they can showcase the president on the world stage at a time when the headlines are happening domestically. that works, they think, to their advantage. >> part of the drip, drip, drip is the letter from representative elijah cummings, correct? >> that's right. this is a letter from elijah cummings, a top democrat on the oversight committee. in the letter, they're talking about michael flynn, and cummings writes, the oversight committee has in our possession that general flynn lied to the investigators who interviewed him in 2016 as part of his security clearance renewal. that's a letter from cummings to chaffe chaffetz. saying michael flynn lied when he talked to investigators last year. that is part of the ongoing story of what michael flynn did, what he told his superiors and people who were investigating him at the time. all of that part of the reason why michael flynn is now deciding he's going to take

, drip, drip coming out.d to reuters. the officials who saw them said they don't appear to have any problem, any actual collusion in them. the communications about things that a candidate or incoming president would have. that's not the headline that reuters is going to run. reuters leans left and they're going to say there were 18 undisclosed communications. if donald trump isn't more careful in communication, it's going to continuously come back to bite him. >> the timing took place between april and november 2016. how significant would that be, if true? >> it would be more significant, slightly more significant than if you are already the president-elect. but if he's the nominee, of course he's talking with foreign powers. russia is a hostile power, communication is typically rare, and donald trump is significantly in the spotlight because russia has been trying to undermine the united states domestically and abroad, still donald trump is getting in trouble for things like senator jeff sessions talking wit

over and over again we're seeing drip drip drip. and that was what we saw continually discredit the hillary clinton campaign. now we have a president who continues to have this drip drip drip of the story that comes out over and over again. we don't know what it is. we don't know if it's money, we don't know if it's power or politics. we don't know if it's completely innocent. because they keep denying any wrongdoing. refusing to talk about it. refusing to show us the evidence. and saying, it's all the fake news media. it's the fake news media that's done all of this. we're really the victims in this story. so the more we talk about it the more it continues to shed this cloud. why doesn't the press want to talk about our priorities, why don't they want to talk about extremism or tax cuts? because we're trying to figure out what the heck is going on there. >> i saw you were trying to say something else there. they didn't give our reporters overseas or american reporters access to talk about the issues. they did not do any on camera b

the drip, drip, drip that we're seeing is the worst way to approach handling a case. thing you learns a law student is if you have bad news, get it all out at once. don't conceal it, yes. >> you mention the june tape, which of course is what put audio evidence linking directly to the president, to the oval office, to cover-up that was something that you learned about when and how much did you learn from your investigation versus how much did you learn from those press reports? >> the press reports were important early on. and woodward and bernstein served a great value to the american public in keeping the attention of the public and therefore the politicians and investigating. but it was really through the subpoenas and the courts upholding our rights to the subpoenas and the president finally agreeing to give us the tapes that led to the down come. and these particularly the tape we're referring to as the smoking gun is where haldeman and nixon are talking about using the cia to stop the fbi from following the chain of money which would have led to the investigators

the drip, drip, drip we're seeing is the worst way to approach handling a case.as a law student. if you have bad news, get it all out at once. don't conceal it. >> you mentioned the june tape which was what put audio evidence linking directly to the president of the oval office to the cover-up. how much did you learn fmour investigation versus how much from tho press reports? >> the press reports were important early on. woodward and bernstein kept the focus of the politicians investigating. it was through the speenl as and the courts upholding our rights and the president agreeing to give us the tape that's led to the downfall. it is where they're talking about using the cia to stop the fbi from following the chain of money which would have led to the investigators finding that the burglars had been acting at the behest of the committee to reelect the president. it was clear evidence that could not be avoided. and i'm just wondering where now we are in terms of what things will be, where is that smoking gun? >> is there a smoking gun? there may be more than one

the drip drip of all of this is beginning to pile on.lks are saying, even nothing comes of it, does it take away the trump agenda, hurt his foreign trip? james woolsy is here right now. i was reading a couple of your comments in which you said, we're not talking about whether the president has the right here -- talking at the time about sharing classified information with the russians -- the question is was it wise. this comes up again and again with this president. not questioning his business ecumin but he's new to this. the distinct pattern is what is worrying you. >> yes, it is. i think the problem also is quick judgments. sometimes you get lucky and you make a decision fast and it's the right decision. but on something like the problems that he had with keeping muslims out of the country on travel visas and other steps that he's taken very quickly haven't worked out right and he's had to restructure them. you can do that some, but it creates a serious problem if it starts to be assumed that your first announcement probably has some

watergate was drip drip drip. it unfolded over a year.ke a flood gates a deluge, unbelievable niagara falls of leaks and innuendo. >> jenna: there's been a lot of insinuations. >> the president has tried not once, but twice we learned in recent days, to obstruct justice. once by getting comey to try to back off the flynn investigation. then what he did in firing him, or maybe he fired him over that russian investigation. that's not to mention the fact that he gave secret classified information to the russians. >> jenna: according to a report. you're speaking about this as if they are facts. they are still reports. then we have the announcement of the special counsel. >> this is the conversation that ends up evolving into gossip. if donald trump really wants clarity, this is the way to approach it. this is good for your point and my point, all of us and especially the end result whether you are a conservative or liberal, support trump or not. when we think of america's future, we need to do it in this fashion. it is the appropriate way. i

, drip, drip of information is hindering efforts. they're looking to get ahead of it as quickly as possible. >> let me ask you, there was a gop member justin am ash from michigan and said if this comey turns out to be true, this could be ground for impeachment. do you believe it's too far >> absolutely. any republican that calls for this really should be reprimanded by the rnc. the democrats will use this to fund raise off of but that's what it will boil down great thing for democrats to fund raise off of. i don't think anything will materialize from it. you have a memo, like i said, written three months ago, no one has seen it. until comey was discharged by the administration last week. so a lot of facts up in the air. >>> matt thank you for joining us. we'll obviously see you again at some point because this is ever changing. absolutely. thanks guy >> we're glad you got in here. thanks again, matt. >> stick around, we will be right back. vo: at dominion, we have a long history of providing reliable energy and that'll never change.

is it handled the way watergate was where drip, drip, drip, every day more and more, or do we handle ronald reagan handled iran-contra. >> now president reagan fessed up to diagram somethioing somet the meamerican people let him me forward. is there anything president trump could say? >> yes, he could speed this up. he has nothing to hide, he should come clean on the tax returns. everything. people should volunteer to go to the fbi, tell them everything they know, turn over documents, including general flynn took notes in his meetings with the president. all those need to be turned over to the fbi to quickly get through this. if they hold back and resist this, it will go on just like watergate, it will be a drip, drip. again, i don't know what the outcome is. i find it difficult to believe that so many advisors to trump were colluding with the russians. seems improbable to me. but until we actually see the evidence, i just don't know. >> how should robert mueller handle this investigation? he's the special counsel. i wonder how transparency comes into play with his investigation. >>

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it's because let's just say that all of these were mistakes, but it's the drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, of the acknowledging the mistakes, the mistakes coming out and why weren't they disclosed initially knowing how bad this is and puts into the atmosphere the questions of why? why? even if they're completely innocent and legitimate explanations. >> particularly in the aftermath of john brennan's own testimony just yesterday saying he was deeply concerned about all these contacts that were occurring between russian officials reaching out to people in the trump campaign and now when you don't have the disclosure that would essentially erase any doubt, it looks like they're trying to hide something. >> and the problem -- here's the problem. the fact is the -- the reason you disclose is it's very likely some of these people, some of these russians are being watched and being monitored by u.s. intelligence. so kislyak is definitely being watched. and so i can bet you that if he sent back a report of his meeting with jeff sessions that they already have this. >> yeah. we know that they have

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we're going to continue to have the questions raised in the drip drip drip of reporting.s naturally necessitating and beckoning more questions as a natural part of the investigation. i think what we have to keep in mind here is the significance of each drip that comes out of this. jared kushner is named a person of interest for example in some sort of probe, does that necessarily mean something alarming. well not necessarily by many definitions. but then once you get into the granular details of this, who he met with, what the purpose of it was, now the latest stuff that the russians initiated this, that raises another portfolio of things. those are the things that follow up in the natural course of an investigation. >> the response is tricky because if you play it like the russians were behind all of this, all of the russians playing the white house, then it looks like you got played and it looks ak churish. >> which is a terrible thing for the white house to come under right now because of the fact that it's trying to assert itself with respect to its own standing on th

this is not narrowly question. >> you wouldn't drip, drip, drip comments to the media. would you present the memo, testify publicly. this has been leaked to the media in piece. we haven't seen it. it may be a huge bomb shell, it may not. but we have not actually laid our eyes on it. it nay be worse than we think, less than we think. >> the tone to, go to comey and say, why don't you come forward here. you're a private citizen now. why don't you tell us what happened. there is no reason i can see, maybe alan will correct me, for comey to be reticent at this point. >> how do we dermine tone, alan, from the memo? >> wl, first of all, the memo y have se tone in it different from the selected portions that were read "the new york times." second, there may be a taping mechanism in the oval office. and third, you know, i think we have already come tonight point where an independent investigation by a congressionally approved independent commission is warranted. i don't think we're up to a special prosecutor. that may come after an independent investigatory agency investigates.

, drip, drip. press out of it for a moment. if sally yates notifies don mcgann repeatedly, 18 days later then they let mike flynn go and even the day after they let him go the president said he was a good guy, he didn't do anything, this was press related and we're learning michael flynn was being paid by the turkish government. paul manafort does have huge ties to russia. so to say this is simply a gotcha from the press is kind of a lie. >> i wasn't saying that part of flynn wasn't gotcha. may i say something? >> sure. >> michael? >> there are three threads here that have just been laid out. first is, what do you need to prove for obstruction of justice, and we'll talk about the elements of what that constitutes, which is an intent to impede the administration of justice, and the conversation between the president and mr. comey could arise to that if other facts present themselves. the second line that we're talking about is, mr. flynn, and whether or not he engaged in criminal or improper conduct

and, i think they need to keep on the money and things drip, and drip, drip, pretty much we're living in a now. right the trumps make money for themselves, that is what he's doing. host: radio show host hugh hewitt, contributor to "washington post," has a piece looking now. was rumps make at the issue, ts no saturday night massacer, which he writes, anyone who this is connected to cover-up of russian collusion as to believe both rosenstein and sessions participate in such a corrupt scheme, i don't. think that. to we read "the rosie show" memo a a story, there is comey was wrong in july, wrong as recently as last week and error, the story is straight line about rosenstein, we have to endure days of over the top takes from the mainstream media. night not "saturday massacer," no resignation from instead ce department, recommendation from the justice department. four months into administration, thefour years and in short, overall media toppled into hysteria, again. hugh hewitt, "washington post." ashburg, virginia, republican line, go ahead. caller: hi, this is john kay. my question is, i

, drip of all of this information.if im were there, if this would have happened in our administration, which wouldn't have, we would have gotten all in a room and gathered all the information and gotten it out to the public. there is new information that is contradicting what they said a week or two earlier. that's a communications tactic, but i think it could -- >> quickly as we wrap up this show, as you just heard from ambassador burns, he said you dponlt talk to an adversary in the transition, you talk to your allies, but trump made it clear on the campaign trail, he wanted to make russia a priority in building relationships with them. in that context, do you see a good reason perhaps why this meeting took place and why jared kushner wanted this? >> i don't see a good reason for this, i don't see how this could be helpful, given that there was already a cloud over this administration. i have been scratching my head trying to figure out, why this administration keeps doing things that gives the impression it's hiding

it was this drip, drip, drip and the build up. was this delay problematic for the white house? >> the russia investigation has gone still for the time being. but back when it was hot and heavy, we talked about the straw that would break the camel's back. it's another straw being put on top of this camel and even starting tomorrow when we see fbi director james comey come to capitol hill, testify in public live, i think it's going to revive the whole investigation discussion around russia ties or alleged ties with those close to president trump. i think that it's problematic. you have to think when did vice president mike pence actually know? >> what does a forceful warning mean in the whole scheme of things? >> that's what we don't know. some of the reports that came out were essentially saying yates told mcgan that he would beopen on the blackmail because of discrepancies publicly on what he said privately. so we don't really know. and this is what we're going to find out. the public once again is going to know about this 18 day gap in timing and what the president knew and wh

it's like drip, drip, drip.epublicans will stick with the president, though, until they see that translate, i think, into lower approval ratings. so far, they've been sort of sticking around that 40% range for the president. >> let me make two comments. first of all, i don't think that there is anything that this president can do to nudge up the growth of gdp. get some basis points to the right of the decimal place. but i think that the idea that the trump administration is going to do something to take 2% to 2.5 or 3% is fundamentally wrong. i think the down side really does have to do with health care. not only is the system completely gummed up with what i think is a draconian replacement to obamacare but a lot of people could get hurt instead of trying to build on and improve obamacare, which does need improvement, we're kind of getting distracted. >> interesting. two developments we got this week, guys. one was buffet and monger saying health care, not taxes, should be the focus of our attention and head of

him because once the drip, drip of sort of spinning for this administration -- he wrote a book called dereliction of duty. it w-- somebody pointed this ou and said he's not pushing back up the chain of command. >> julia ioffe, thank you. that's "hardball" for you. thanks for being with us. "all in" with chris hayes starts right now. >>> tonight on "all in." >> he wasn't doing a good job very simply. >> james comey's paper trail. >> on a day when we thought things couldn't get any worse, they have. >> "new york times" reports and nbc news confirms a james comey memo says president trump asked him to end the flynn investigation. the fired fbi director claims to have the smoking gun and says he's going public. tonight, the comey bombshell for the full hour including exclusive reaction from top democrat senator dick durbin when "all in" starts right now. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. breaking news tonight. a blockbuster report from "the new york times" since confirmed by nbc news that the president of the united states asked then fbi director james comey to end the bure

do you worry about the drip, drip, drip, are the controversies having an impact? my control. i worry about things that are within in our control and that's whether or not we do what we were elected to do which is solve people's problems. i think people in america turn on the tv and they think this is all that's happening, this is all we're doing and all we're discussing. that's not the case, i want the american people to know we're busy fixing their problems. you heard from the chairman the ways and means committee, getting tax reform done because we know it is really important to unlock growth. the point i want to make, we're going to walk and chew gum at the same time. we're going to keep doing ourjobs and advancing our reforms that we wa nt to and advancing our reforms that we want to advance that we do all these other things that are within our responsibility and that's what will bejudged in 2018. did we make people's lives better? did we solve problems? did we fix the problems that people are confronting in their daily lives? that is what matters most and tha

and drip and drip. best part is we don't have to worry about getting caught. >> what about the substance of the information? >> i'll say this. i don't know if somebody who obviously is protecting comey and trying to make the president look bad if it's true or credible that he said throw journalists in jail. what i do think is it's probably plausible you had a a president that said i'm incredibly upset i'm having private phone calls with leaders of koer kocountrie. any president should be angry and upset about that. you're seeing people that are loyal to comey that are upset that their good friend was fired. they are putting out information for one reason only. that's to try to hurt the president and make him look bad. when the president should be outrage d. if he's speaking on the world leader and reads what he says out on the newspapers because somebody leak it is. >> a reason to take this reporting seriously, comey testifying we'll learn more, it fits with the pattern for donald trump the way he's tal

is it handled the way watergate was where it was drip drip drip and then every day there is more andr do we handle it like ronald reagan handled iran? there was a scandal, he fired people, he went to national television is that we may mistakes, we were wrong we are not going to do it again so we can move forward. what i was saying is that there are two ways of handling a situation such as this. with the appointment of mr. moeller it is obviously is now at that level. the point is, do we get it behind us? get all the information out there and move forward. the american people are very forgiving. the american people understand that no one is infallible. and so, what my point was, let's get all of the facts outcome let's move forward and will try and address the challenges that face the nation which i would argue are probably more diverse and challenging than any other time since ending of the cold war. >> senator, do you think this is a scandal? >> i don't know if you want to use the word scandal. >> but do you? >> yeah, well - you know the politicians prayer?in other words today i oug

>> as a political matter the plaub lm is this is turning into a drip, drip, drip. had now two 1/2 weeks of almost daily scoops and revelations and stories. everybody may be above bord legally and he may be reacting because he's thinks he's persecuted. he needs to get this thing under control from the perspective of how he controls himself or this is going to permanently spin out of control. >> but the question is are they throwing him overboard? who told president trump no? did anybody? and if they did, is it simply a matter president refusing to listen? if you're a lawyer who's going to go work for president trump do you have any confidence he's going to listen to you. because if you remember the attack back in the campaign, that time in the trump university case, trump was rchtrch represented by an excellent lawyer who told him what then an answers were and trump didn't listen. whether yousk rr got heads of intelligence agencies saying i'm uncomfortable with, anybody who has told trump no or is trump not listening to anybody because he's so obsess would this ques

i do see it as another incremental brick of revelation that i think we'll be treated to on a drip-drip basis in the months ahead. host: what does it mean for the investigation that the house intelligence committee, and also bob mueller, the special counsel investigation? guest: well, they have overlapping but really kind of different purposes and objectives, i think. let me put it this way. one is backward looking. the other is forward looking. one has a different scope. one has a different process. the f.b.i. investigation is focused essentially on criminal behavior and counterterrorism investigation. it's backward looking at what occurred with an eye toward their only conceivable work product being indictments should they get to that point. the house select coast intelligence on the senate is a little bit more forward looking. what is it that we can do to prevent this going into the future? the other dynamic that is really different is the f.b.i. investigation, by its very nature, has to be closed. it will be done behind closed doors. we won't learn much about it until it's done, esp

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