what does it say that republicans on the house intelligence committee are now rejecting that specificclusion? >> wolf, this is the moment that the term house intelligence becomes an objection xymoron. clearly, the russians weighed in with their thumb on the scale. who they hacked, what information they released, doubled down to accentuate the positions, all of it paints a clear picture. for the house to say there's no evidence that there was any weight on one side or the other discredits them completely. >> is the republican majority on the house intelligence committee, their investigation effectively exonerating vladimir putin by arguing in the election interference helped trump? >> i don't think it helps trump that much. it is what trump wants to hear, what trump will recite, but the intelligence committee in the house has so little credibility to begin with. remember, chair nunez was part of the one year ago, the bogus deep throat episode where he went to the white house with information, came back over to congress, said i've got this outsider gave me information, isn't that great.

we'll talk about this with eric swalwell of the house intelligence committee and our experts are standing by but first, let's go to our chief white house correspondent jim acosta traveling with the president in southern california. jim, i understand there may be more turnover ahead for the trump team. >> it sure seems that way, wolf. president trump just wrapped up his remarks to marines in southern california. perhaps it's because he's so close to hollywood. at one point he proposed militarizing space with a space force right out of "star wars." meanwhile, he's also spent the day defending his firing of secretary of state rex tillerson as one source close to the white house told us there may be other staff shakeups on the horizon saying the winds of change are blowing. >> reporter: mr. president, why did you fire -- >> reporter: president trump's reality tv style revolving door keeps spinning. in this episode it's rex tillerson who was voted off the island and cia director mike pompeo voted to take his place. >> i've worked with mike pompeo for quite some time. tremendous energy, tremend

he's a member of the house intelligence committee. man, the republicans on your committee, they say they're shutting down their investigation. will your fellow democrats try to keep it going? can you keep it going if the republican majority says it's over? >> you're right, it's a shame, wolf, that republicans are shutting down this investigation. it is a betrayal of the public trust to get to the bottom of what happened. as democrats, we're going to do everything that we can, obviously within our limitations being in the minority party, to try to collect more information, find out facts, invite folks who may know something that's relevant to our investigation to reach out. >> what does that mean to try to do whatever you can. if the majority on the committee says there's no more house intelligence committee investigation into russian meddling in the u.s. presidential election, you don't have the authority to do anything, do you? >> well, to hold formal hearings, that may be true, that we're limited in not being able to do that. but we

and prince did not disclose this information when he met with the house intelligence committee earlier this -- late last year, raising questions among democrats in particular about whether or not he misled the committee and we now know that bob mueller is also investigating that seychelles meeting and about whether it was in fact a back channel effort to create this communication between russia and the white house. but that's something that erik prince denied furiously, including under oath. >> manu raju on capitol hill. >>> joining me now, jennifer rogers, professor, thank you for being with us. let's start where manu finished up, this meeting on the seychelles. "the washington post" is reporting something more than what we have here, which is that the special counsel is looking into the possibility that the trump team and at that point a transition team was looking to set up this back channel with russia. it was before the inauguration. what would be the problem with that? >> well, there is nothing wrong with an actual president, of course, and government setting up different channel

>> what matters is what robert mueller has, not with the house intelligence committee has. t at all with the house intelligence committee has, because this is been a partisan exercise that republicans -- we just heard one republican admit that russians are attacking us and at the russian embassy here in the united states uses one of our own republican representatives words against the united states. >> ed: that's their choice. they can tweet whatever they want. the bottom line is you are still not answering the question, which is what is the evidence? i will give you a chance, chris and then we will go back to ethan. where is the evidence? >> there is no evidence of collusion, which is why we've got adam schiff and all of these extraneous comments that have nothing to do with russian collusion and the russian collusion is no longer the standard and honestly there is no evidence of russian collusion, and i think at this point everybody knows it. they know it at "saturday night live." it would be nice if "the new york times" and nbc news and "the washington post" caught up wit

to be clear, these are republicans on the house intelligence committee, not the entire committee. republicans saying, one, they have found no evidence of collusion twren between the trump campaign and risussia to influence the election. the trump tower meeting, they say it was inadvisable, a bad idea in effect, but not to their conclusion evidence that members of the trump campaign tried to collude with russia. the other one arguably more interesting, and that is the gop, members of the house intelligence committee contesting, in effect, the intelligence community's assessment in january of 2017 that russia's meddling in the campaign was intended to help donald trump and hurt hillary clinton, saying in effect that they don't read the intelligence the same way that the intelligence chiefs and the career professionals that prepared that report read the intelligence. and that's something that we of course reached out -- i reached out to jim clapper, who was the director of national intelligence when this came out, and others, and they say that they very much stand by their assessment

republicans who control the house intelligence committee say they are shutting it down and issuing a report which committee democrats have yet to see. it is to say the least white house-friendly on allegations of trump campaign collusion, even on the underlying question the u.s. intelligence community answered more than a year ago. did russians meld in the 2016 election? if so, on whose orders and to whose benefit? again, keeping them honest, america's top intelligence professionals have had no doubt on this for more than a year. just moments ago, reaffirmed it to cnn's jim sciutto. here's a passage from a report issued by the director of the office of national intelligence back in january 2017. i want to read this word for word because it tends to get lost in all the claims and allegations and partisan politics. quote, we assess russian president vladimir putin ordered an influenced campaign in 2016 aimed at the u.s. presidential election. russia's goals were to undermine public faith in the u.s. democratic process, den i grate secretary clinton, and harm her electability and potenti

republicans on the house intelligence committee tonight handing the president exactly what he wanted evidence that the trump campaign colludes with russia and they're shutting down their investigation. the president tweeting, the house intelligence committee has, after a 14-month-long, in-depth investigation, found no evidence of collusion or coordination between the trump campaign and russia to influence the 2016 presidential election. the president failing to note that it was the republicans on the committee who reached that conclusion, ignoring the

yes president donald trump has repeated assassins by republican members of the house intelligence committee that they found no evidence of collusion between the twenty six campaign and russia but the top house intelligence democrat says the speech of the claim saying that was clear evidence russia tried to help and the run up to the fight john hendren has more from washington d.c. the house intelligence committee on capitol hill as ended its russia investigation that committee concluded after listening to seventy three witnesses and reading three hundred thousand documents that there was no collusion between the campaign of donald trump and the government of russia the republican leadership of that committee says there were active measures taken by the russians to interfere in the election but they disagreed with u.s. intelligence officials saying that that was not done to aid donald trump and they say that while donald trump jr and jared cushion are the president's son in law and aide both met with a russian lawyer in june of two thousand and sixteen that was just bad judgment that was not

well, the house intelligence committee -- that's in our book. house intelligence committee never spoke to george papadopoulos. they didn't hear that account. so that's one example of a key witness who they never spoke to and yet apparently decided to shut down their investigation. >> right, and that's because republicans were the majority. they were the ones who were allowing the people to come forward and speak and blocking other ones, the democrats wanted to come and testify, speak before the house committee there. but david, president trump, clearly, he's poking the bear here. with your research on russia's involvement, should the president be more kaufcareful w it comes to the special counsel? >> of course he should be more careful. he's already created an obstruction of justice case against him. and to follow up on the story that mike just told, george papadopoulos, throughout the summer of 2016, kept trying to set up a back-channel communication with putin's own office. why is that significant? well, because at that point in time, it was pu

president donald trump as repeated assertions by republican members of the house intelligence committee they found no evidence of collusion between the twenty sixteen trump campaign and russia that the top house intelligence democrat has disputed the claim saying that is clear evidence that russia tried to help in the run up to the vote colombia's government will restart peace talks with the country's last remaining rebel group after a six week pause negotiations were suspended in january after the l.m. launched a bomb attack following an end of a temporary cease fire those are the headlines we're back with another news update here on al-jazeera counting the cost. just is it in the seeing. some journalists decided to sacrifice their integrity for out in the media or the listening post at this time on al-jazeera. hello i'm casm seeker this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics in what's been a big week for global trade we'll look at how the u.s. is up bending the rules of commerce and if free trade really is worth fighting for . i'm wa

tripadvisor. >>> republicans on the house intelligence committee announcing tonight that they found nodence that the trump campaign colluded with russia and that they are shutting down their year-long investigation without consulting democrats on that same committee. i want to bring in now congressman adam schiff. he's the ranking member of the intelligence committee. congressman, we appreciate you joining us here this evening. how did you find out that the investigation is shutting the down and this republican report is finding no collusion by the president? >> well, and this is sort of typical these days. i found out by reading in the newspaper. the republicans leaked it to the press before even informing us. but don, it doesn't come as a complete surprise. the republicans have said for some time they're under immense pressure to shut down the investigation. and it was apparent, really, from the very beginning, from last march when our chairman went on that midnight run to the white house, that their real object was protecting the president. it wasn't doing a credible investigation.

congressional district a case of the blues. >>> we begin with russia and the conclusions of the house intelligence committee, some of which contradict a key conclusion of the u.s. intelligence community, which it reaffirmed tonight and which the president just tweeted about in all caps, no less. quote, the house intelligence committee has, after a 14-month-long in-depth investigation, found no evidence of collusion or coordination between the trump campaign and russia to influence the 2016 presidential election. cnn's chief national security correspondent jim sciutto joins us now. first, jim, let's talk about what's going to be in this report because there's only been a one-page sort of summary of what's going to be, i think, more than a hundred pages. >> these are the two headlines. one -- and to be clear, these are republicans on the house intelligence committee, not the entire committee. the democrats were not consulted. but republicans saying, one, they have found no evidence of collusion between the trump campaign and russia to influence the election. for instance, the trump tower meeting in 2016. they

big headline, the house intelligence committee abruptly ending is russia investigation. republican members breaking with the u.s. intelligence community and announcing that vladimir putin did not try to help donald trump win when russia interfered in the 2016 u.s. election. the gop report insists there's also no collusion between the trump campaign and the kremlin. democrats on the committee slamming their decision to end the probe. let's be abundantly clear, this report is a partisan report. it's a document that was immediately parroted by the president. >> meantime, poms are open in a high-stakes special election in pennsylvania to fill a house seat in the state's deep red 18th congressional district. that race widely seen as a referendum of donald trump's presidency and comes as president trump travels to california today for the first time in his presidency. he'll be there to check out prototypes for his border wall. let's bring in our coverage with abby phillips live at the white house. >> good morning, erica. president trump is waking up this morning with something

happenstance is obviously at odds with what we heard in the testimony before the white house intelligence committee. >> tell us a little more about who erik prince is. because he told the house intel committee last year that apart from writing a few papers, putting the yard sign in his yard, there was no formal communication or contact with the campaign. >> sure, so he is -- he is bet betsy devos' brother, which is a random fun connection. someone involved in blackwater, sort of a military contractor who has all of these sort of shadowy foreign connections. and he is the sort of person that if you were, as mueller's team now believes, trying to orchestrate a secret back channel with the russians, you know, in an island meeting, he's exactly the sort of person who you would send and would potentially have those connections. although, again, he has denied this. but that doesn't necessarily mean it's not true. we have a number of people within this west wing or within the president's orbit who will say something and then it ends up not being borne out in exact truth. >> this isn't the first time we've

prepared to land his president donald trump repeated assertions by republican members of the house intelligence committee that they found no evidence of collusion between the twenty sixteen trump campaign and russia which the republicans say they've finished conducting interviews for their investigation of the top house intelligence democrats has disputed the claim so it's clear evidence russia tried to help in the run up to the votes. the u.s. president has blocked singapore to make a bold comes bid to take over u.s. rival qualcomm on grounds of dust and security said he had evidence the take of a pace a security threat the presidential order puts an end to what would have been the largest technological dail in history those are your headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the stream stay with us. a candidates like the with a. tight grip on the kremlin is trying to eighteen years now when russian people. there's every indication that they will return him to his full presidential to. follow the russian elections here on al-jazeera. i am really could be it's an exciting week ahead at the sto

tweets, when you look at the attorney general firing, andrew mccabe, and you look at the house intelligence committee conclusion that there was no collusion between the term campaign and the russians, what do you think is going on here, sir? >> i could tell you what's going on with the house intelligence committee, devin nunez has squandered the credibility. i respect congressman gowdy, but i heard what he said. based on the witnesses we talk to you, and you gave a long litany of those that they have not even spoken to, based on the evidence they have, they've issued a white wash and said there was no collusion. i don't know if there was collusion. i know bob mueller has access to witnesses, evidence of information that i don't. neither does the house intelligence committee. in fairness, they should a step back and said, let the investigation be completed by mueller and we accept the conclusion. >> chris: let's look at the firing of andrew mccabe. because this was not a case -- he talked about gowdy, this was not a case of the political points of the president going to row, freelancing, going off on

let me say pointedly to my colleagues the senate intelligence committee has been quite different than the house committee. i salute both chairman burr and ranking member warner for trying to run things in a different way. let us hope that the senate intelligence committee does not go the way of the house and continues its bipartisan cooperation to get to the bottom of this mess. and that's because, mr. chairman, we have a responsibility to get to the bottom of what happened in 2016 and to report those findings in an unbiased way. if the house isn't going to do it, the senate must. i yield the floor. and notice the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. # quorum call:

republicans who control the house and intelligence committee say they are shutting it down and issuing a report which democrats have yet to say. it is to say the least white house friendly. the u.s. intelligence committee answered more than a year ago did russians meddle in the 2016 election, if so on whose order whose benefit. moments ago, reaffirmed it to cnn's jim sciutto. here is a passage from the office of director of national intelligence. i want to read this word for word because it tend to get lost in all of the claims. aimed at the u.s. presidential election. russia's goals were to undermine fate. we further assess putin and the russian government developed a clear preference for president trump. we have high confidence in these judgments. this was the intelligence committee's assessment a year ago and continues to be tonight. our spokesman telling jim sciutto the intelligence community stands by january 2017 assessment assessing russian activities and intentions in recent u.s. elections. still agreeing with the 2016 assessment. republicans don't by the conclusion of who the

moments ago on capitol hill, corey lewandowski arrived for his second appearance before the house intelligence committee. the closed door interview is part of the investigation into russian interference into the 2016 election. lewandowski first appeared before the committee in january. that's when lewandowski said he was not prepared to answer questions related to events that happened after he left the campaign. it is unclear now if he's prepared to answer those questions today. we'll keep you up to date on what we learn. >>> and a porn star's lawsuit against the president is sparking new concerns about possible federal election law violations. forget she's a porn star and focus on the fact she was paid to keep quiet about potentially damaging information involving a presidential candidate right before the election. i'll talk with a lawyer who filed a complaint with the federal election commission. you're watching "velshi & ruhle" live on msnbc. ... earned you miles to get to the places you really want to go. with the united mileageplus explorer card, you'll get a free checked bag. two united club passe

president trump tweeting about the russia investigation, saying, quoting now, as the house intelligence committee has concluded, there was no collusion between russia and the trump campaign. as many are now finding out,

the house intelligence committee wrapping up their investigation concluding there was no evidence of collusion between the trump campaign and russia. committee chairman devin nunes saying the intelligence community needs to move on. >> we need to get our fbi and our intelligence agencies working on real problems and get them away from what they're doing now, which is looks like spinning in circles. we spent 14 months on this investigation looking for collusion. we didn't find any. >> on the other side, the ranking democrat on the intelligence committee adam schiff saying this is all about protecting the president. >> grave disservice to the country. essentially it's the intelligence committee majority saying we just rather not know if it's going to be bad news. that is i think a betrayal of the promise that was made that we would follow the facts wherever they lead. >> president trump touting the report tweeting the house intelligence committee after a 14 month long investigation found no evidence of collusion or coordinate between the trump campaign and russia to influence the 2016 e

the house intelligence committee's investigation into possible trump campaign collusion with russia is that's sure to infuriate the democratic members of the house intelligence committee who say there is a lot more work to be done. let's go to senior congressional correspondent manu raju. a significant moment. what have you learned? >> reporter: we expect them to announce they are done interviewing witnesses as part of the russia investigation that's gone on for more than a year. the house intelligence committee is riddled with part stan strife almost from the beginning. the role of the chairman over the memos that came out this year and witness interviews that have taken place. democrats have contended that not enough interviews have been conducted, not enough witnesses have produced documents and there have not been enough subpoenas issued for a range of documents from the democratic perspective. but republicans say it's gone on long enough. they believe they have come to consensus that there was no collusion between trump associates and russian officials as part of the 2016 election

the ranking leading democrat on the house intelligence committee, adam schiff, said this tonight on rachel's program. >> not a surprise, rachel. but a grave disservice to the the country. essentially it's the intelligence committee majority saying we'd just rather not know if it's going to be bad news. and that is, i think, a betrayal of the promise that was made that we would follow the facts wherever they lead. >> tonight president trump tweeted the house intelligence committee has, after a 14-month long indepth investigation found no evidence of collusion or coordination between the trump campaign and russia to influence 2016 presidential election. bloomberg reports that robert mueller's investigation is said to be close to completion but quote he may set it aside while he finishes other key parts of his probe, such as possible collusion and the hacking of democrats, according to current and former u.s. officials that's because mueller may calculate if he tries to bring charges in the obstruction case, the part that may hit close e to trump personally, witnesses may become less cooperativ

the house intelligence committee decision that there was no collusion. does that decide it? ly partisan enterprise. the house intelligence committee has been deeply polarized. devin nunes, the chairman of the committee, who supposedly recused himself at one point, but then invited himself back in, you know, has operated as a cheerleader for the president, not as a serious investigator. it is not surprising that the president has said this is a vindication, which it is in a way. but as a persuasive way of settling the controversy, it hardly works. >> the surprising thing here, i think, is that the intelligence committee, the republicans on it, didn't just say no collusion. i think it was crystal clear they were to come forward with that. they went one step further. they said they see no evidence that the russians were trying to help then candidate trump despite the fact that the intelligence community says it is so -- despite the fact that special counsel robert mueller in his indictment of those 13 russians just a few weeks ago said there is evidence that the russians were tr

now, let's bring in congressman trey gowdy, a top republican on the house intelligence committee which this week found no evidence of collusion between the trump campaign and russia to influence the 2016 election. congressman, i want to begin by getting your reaction to president trump's lawyer calling for rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, to end the mueller investigation. do you support that? >> i don't, and i think the president's attorney frankly does him a disservice when he says that and when he frames the investigation that way. chris, if you look at the jurisdiction for robert mueller, first and foremost, what did russia do to this country in 2016? that is supremely important and it has nothing to do with collusion. so to suggest that mueller should shut down and all that he is looking at is collusion, if you have an innocent client, mr. russia attacked our country. let special counsel mueller figure that out. if you believe, as we found, there's no evidence of collusion, you should want special counsel mueller to take all the time and have all the independence he nee

i wonder now, looking at this, with your background on the house intelligence committee, do you worryat what has been this entire circus when it comes to this investigation does permanent damage to that committee? >> i do worry about that. the committee has had its ups and downs. we had shining moments, i think after 9/11, and in the iraq wmd episode where the committee was able to put partisanship aside and give real reports on what happened. now we have a situation where people aren't going to trust this particular committee and that's bad for the democracy. and it is bad for the community because it is a largely nonpartisan group of people. and we need to have the people's representatives be in a situation where they can share and do the important work of oversight so that they can do their jobs better. so i think it has been an unfortunate episode in the committee. >> and likewise, this is going to cause people to question the intelligence community. when the intelligence community gets it wrong, we need to look at why they got it wrong and make sure we do better going forward. bu

the house intelligence committee has after a 14-month long indepth investigation found no evidence of collusion or coordination between the trump campaign and russia to influence

house until committee and shut down their probe into russian interference into the election after finding no evidence of collusion . >> chris: peter, thank you. let's bring in trey gaudi, top republican on the house intelligence committee which this week found no evidence of collusion between the trump campaign in russia to influence the election. i want to begin by getting your reaction to president trumps lawyer calling for rod rosenstein ten the mueller investigation. do you support that? >> i don't. i think the president's attorney does them a disservice when he says the when he frames investigation that way. if you look at the jurisdiction, what did russia do to this country in 2016? it's supremely important and has nothing to do with collusion. to suggest that mallash is shut down and all he's looking at us collusion, if you have an innocent client then i like it. russia attacked our country. let the special counsel figure that out. if you believe there's no evidence of collusion you should want him to take all the time and independence he needs to do his job. >> chris: it does not appear that the president's lawyer is freelancing and going off by himself here. the president has been on a tweet storm th

watching congressman adam schiff talking with reporters in the hallway there about the house intelligence committee'sation. by the way, as-corey lewandowski is going to be speaking with that committee today. that is happening later. i want to bring back in alexi and nancy who have been watching that with me and listen, there is signs, that are signs based on our reporting that the house intelligence committee is getting ready to wrap this puppy up. it's piece of it after the corey lewandowski piece. >> this doesn't seem close to wrapping up and two, what we've seen from representative adam schiff who we just saw, the democrat there, i feel like even if the investigation wraps up, he will continue to be a very vocal critic of president trump and really continue to raise questions about what happened with russia, what happened with the transition and campaign officials and i feel like that has become an issue for him that we'll keep hearing particularly through the midterms. >> if that wraps up, i'm curious to see the trump tweets claiming vindication, using that to say bob mueller, you should be wrapp

chad, thank you. >> yeah, i know. >>> republicans on the house intel committee breaking with the intelligencenity on whether putin tried to help donald trump win. has the congressional committee lost its credibility? we discuss with the former chairman of the house intel committee next. ♪ ♪ (vo) you can pass down a subaru forester. but you get to keep the memories. love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. (avo) get 0% apr financing on all new 2018 subaru forester models. now through april 2nd. most people come to la with big dreams... we came with big appetites. with expedia one click gives you access to discounts on thousands of hotels, cars and things to do. like the avalon hotel beverly hills for 40% off. everything you need to go. ♪ expedia. ♪ >>> republicans on the house intelligence committee abruptly ending their russia investigation without consulting democrats. the gop members breaking with the intelligence community and claiming that russia was not trying to help donald trump win the 2016 election. republican member of the committee criticizing his peers. listen to this republican.

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your committee, the house intelligence committee, today. of the decision by the republican majority so shut down the house intelligence committee investigation and go ahead with issuing a majority report? >> you know, wolf, i think this will go down in the history of the house of representatives as an assault, the greatest assault on the independence of a house ever. and i am convinced that this has been orchestrated by the white house from the white house, and it reflects rk, i think, just a very low point. we have not come to the conclusion based on evidence, we've come to the conclusion -- i should speak up for the majority here -- based on a script that the president had distributed. i would also say that it's not over because the minority is going to continue to investigate, and in fact, we're in the process right now of having the whistle blower from cambridge analytica come in and testify when we return. >> the argument they're making is they expect more than a year, year and a half, whatever it's been, going through witnesses and al

without him, without the hard work of the house intelligence committee, we would indeed know very littlebout the corruption in the obama administration, its department of justice and the fbi. not to mention the intelligence committee. ron desantis, one of the first congressmen to call for a special counsel. and attorneys join us tonight to talk about the clinton cartel, their pay-to-play scandals and what in the world is going on with the investigation of you uranium one. and lieutenant governor casey cagle joins us here. he is the one who led the charge to punish delta air lines after the airline retaliated against the nra. >>> our top story tonight, the investigation into the discredited trump dossier. fox news is now reporting there's a new house intelligence committee deadline for a handful of senior obama administration officials to when they knew that th.they have until this friday o respond and devin nunes says if they don't, subpoenas will be on the way. our first guest tonight has been described by president trump as a great american hero. referring to his role in spear heading

house intelligence committee votes to release final report, findings one, no evidence provided of collusion between trump campaign and russia. two, the obama administration's post election response was insufficient. three, obama's director of national intelligence james clapper provided inconsistent testimony on media contacts.

we've seen house intelligence committee stop what they are doing, seen other investigations continue. do you think in light of the robert mueller investigation, do in till need investigation the house and senate on the same topic? uest: i think the house intelligence committee should have continued because we have a issue of how to respond to russia's interference in our election. deter them from doing it again, how to prevent them from it again. start with better security for voteing and ballot system. we in california have audible trail, voter verified paper trail. to everywhere has that and think that knowing they tried to tried to and how they interfere in election last time to go forward without major mistake.cemetery clear host: democrat's line from new york, bob, go ahead, you're on. for taking my call. i have couple of comments. i'd like to go back to north korea. i have a comment about iran. is delusional.st 55-year democrat. let me tell you why he's and most democrats are delusional. they want to do the same thing expect over and different results. bill clinton paid north ko

you have a full report coming out, in house intelligence committee review, but there's been so much stuff that leaked out of that committee, particularly from potentially adam schiff's side of the political aisle, that the public is learning in a dirty way anyway. i want to get on to this with russia. you know, back in 2015, we knew that russia had conducted cyber attacks on the united states political institution. that we already knew. that we knew that they had gone in several places in europe, ambassador, the kremlin exploited free and independent media spaces, open democracies, to conduct active measures in europe. the obama era administration already knew this was going on. >> yeah. i think it's completely unacceptable for any foreign government to interfere in american elections. that's why we have prohibitions about campaign contributions. and why the efforts of russia, china, north korea, iran, anybody else to influence our elections. it should be completely unacceptable to all americans. i quite agree. we have a few months left here, obviously a lot of this does have to be done i

joining us eric swalwell, a member of the house intelligence committee. congressman, thank you very much for joining us tonight. i really appreciate it. >> good evening, lawrence. >> i want to get your reaction to this idea that the committee is leaking somehow, and leaking directly to people like michael cohen and trump al lie, it makes me really nervous when i hear the president say we're working on the 2018 and 2020 election. i don't know what he is working on, but it's not defending our democracy. so if it's something else, god knows what that will look like. >> let's actually stop over that for a second. i was really struck by what he was saying as we were leading into this interview. what was he talking about? here he is saying that he is not worried at all because we'll counteract whatever they do. we'll counteract it very strongly. we are having strong backup systems. what did any of that mean to you? >> well, it meant nothing because every person who has come before congress, from jeff sessions to mike rogers to director pompeo has said that they'

let's stop with one last question on the house intelligence committee.ow. no collusion whatsoever. that's their finding. >> that's a very big deal to the president. everybody will try to belittle the findings, the democrats haven't agreed to this. how does it compare to mueller. it's a very big event for the president. we talked about the special counsel. i have to say i still think at some point that issue will come around again. as thinks get settled, what about the chapters and the other people -- clapper will not be covered by the inspector general report. somebody has to be prosecuted for all the law breaking that occurred and the obama people who left government. lou: don't forget james comey. ed: they found nothing. let's move on. lou: there is no shame amongst the rino leaders in the republican party. and certainly not the democrats. where is the sense of shame or pride. ed: being compared to nancy pelosi, you look pretty darn good. lou: ed rollins, michael good win. thank you. be sure to vote in our poll tonight. do you have any confidence the g

house and senate intelligence committee are -- cory is going to see the house intelligence committee.y not answer questions. he cannot refuse to answer questions to bob muler. this isn't that important. because so many of the focus now is on mueller. i would say to you, not just funding our intelligence community but preventing it from happening again. we heard dan coates up on the hill, we don't have a government approach. we do not have plan in place yet. the election as you know, is not that far away. i think that's really what we need to be focused on. >> this is a played right out of the soviet play book. they did it in the turkey and in europe. >> what should the response be? what should we be doing? >> what's unique about the united states as these elections are held at local and state level. dhs given clearances to state and local election officials and bringing them in. we have the private sector that is involved. russians will come after us again. they're doing more to disrupt our system than they ever did with divisions of soviet troops. let's hit back. i was disturbed to h

joining me is joaquin castro of the house intelligence committee. jennifer rodgers former assistant u.s. attorney, mieke eoyang and ken delay, an investigative report were msnbc. let me start with the congressman. congressman, this is devastating. the republicans on this disreputable majority on your committee who raced out this draft report which basically whitewashes everything. says the russians weren't trying to help trump, did nothing in terms of the election, totally clean as a whistle and whizzed it right past you guys. >> yeah. this is a stunning debev trail of the american people and the public trust. this was a case of the majority on the committee basically burying their heads in the sand. it was a -- believe whatever they tell us investigation. chris, this was the equivalent of bringing in a suspect, asking them whether they started the fire or not. they said no, i didn't start it. and then you say oh, well, great. everybody can go home. that's basically what happened. >> they didn't even bring in the suspect. >> not the main one, no. >>

it was a very powerful decision. >> house intelligence committee democrats vowing to keep looking for russian collusion. >> we will continue to do the investigation. we have never had the power to call witnesses. >> the real action turns to the senate where two committees continue their own investigations of collusion. at a pace that has the parties at odds. >> bluntly the judiciary committee investigation has been painfully and glacially slow. >> the only collusion investigation appears any and from the hyperpartisan influence of this election year is one being undertaken by the justice department as vector general. he has no power to indictment his findings can be used in a criminal proceeding. >> bret: thank you. federal judge says former trump campaign chairman paul manafort faces the real possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison the judge says he is requiring a $10 million unsecured bond because manafort is a substantial flight risk. manafort is facing tax evasion and bank fraud charges. he is wearing two ankle bracelets and is confined to his home. we are approachi

the house intelligence committee found nothing, absolutely nothing.ce committee has simply embarrassed itself because richard burr, senator bur burr, the chairman,s acknowledged they have found no shred of evidence, no preliminary finding. yet mark warner runs the committee as if it were his. it's embarrassing to watch the process. it's partisan and putrid. >> in may of last year burr himself posed the ultimate question to james comey who was testifying. did the president ever ask you to stop the russian investigation. and comey said no. you would think that burr could snap out of the cloud he's in, and step up and say there's no evidence of collusion, no evidence of obstruction period. lou: it took bob good lath, it took him four month to write a letter so aremember or request for documents for information? i mean, he and trey gowdy, both retiring have slow-walked this investigation and now suddenly have a burst of energy? i think it's just incredible to watch what we're witnessing. >> they should have been slapping anybody in washington with a subpo