republicans on the house intelligence committee decided they don't agree with it. that's their prerogative. as i said, i stand on what our findings were. >> would they also have had the same access to the evidence that you and your colleagues saw that convinced you that vladimir putin personally ordered this election interference? >> yes. as i said, they had access as far as i know because i know they undoubtedly scrutinized the original assessment and supporting sources for it to include that. now 15 months later, they've drawn a different conclusion. >> let me press you a little bit, general. is there any chance that the russians goal was to sew discord here in the united states and to weaken hillary clinton but not necessarily to try to get trump elected? >> no, i don't agree. their objectives evolved over time. certainly to start with, they were interested in sewing as much doubt and discord as they possibly could, and because starting with personal animous putin had for hillary clinton, then went to hurt

house. republicans on the judiciary committee in the house said, no, they wouldn't look into it. republicans on the oversight committee decided they'd prefer to keep investigating hillary clinton instead. in the house intelligence was basically it. that was all they were doing and they have now shut that down. now, the top democrat on that committee, on the intelligence committee, put out a blistering response tonight saying republicans, quote, placed the interests of protecting the president over protecting the country and history will judge their actions harshly. congressman adam schiff also in the statement tonight, it interesting, he also left some bread crumbs -- kricriticizing republicans really harshly but also leaves bread crumbs about where the investigation was going. quote, we have learned a great deal about countless secret meetings, conversations and communications between trump campaign officials and the russians. on a whole most of investigative threads, our work is fundamentally incomplete, some issues sinvestigated and others remain barely touched like allegations

so there are minor political explosions going off tonight over house republicans shutting down the russia investigation at a time when democrats who are part of that investigation say among other things, there were credible allegations of russian money laundering that may indicate russian leverage but republicans are refusing to look at that. so we're going to have congressman adam schiff here with us tonight in a few minutes with more on that. with the house investigation shut down, though, there are obviously still some other games in town in terms of getting to the bottom of the scandal. in the senate, the investigation apparently proceeds a pace as far as we can tell. the investigation in the senate is lead by richard burr and mark warner. they have been silent as church mice but we think their investigation is still plugging along, maybe. there is also the special counsel investigation. the trump campaign may be bringing on a blue chip lawyer to augment the strength of the legal representation for dealing with the mueller team. we'll have more on that ahead tunnel. there is also inte

the house republican majority has never taken this investigation seriously. from the very beginning they have sought to distract and kick up dust. they have shown time and time again they are willing to put party before country, something our founding fathers warned against. they are willing to twist facts and ignore evidence about a foreign power attacking our democracy because it might cause political damage to the president. it's a shocking, shameful abdication of duty. chairman nunes, you and your committee, in my judgment, have made a shocking and shameful abdication of duty to america. a congressional party wholly subservient to the president is failing its contusional obligation. congress is supposed to be a separate, equal branch of government with the power -- read the constitution, read the federalist papers. one of the main purposes of congress was to check the power of the executive branch, our founding fathers feared an overreaching executive branch, as i know my friend from nebraska knows because he studies these things. and that responsibility

it wasn't the crazy house republicans. it was his fellow fbi agents who said he leaked and then lied about it. if he's god considerate itish -- got credibility issues, he needs to look no further than himself. >> chris: leaking is improper and lack of candor, some would call it lying to investigators, especially under oath is inexcusable but my guess is most people who think that what andy mccabe was involved with leaking was something against the trump administration, my guess is most people don't know in fact what he didn't actually leak, he authorized an official to talk to a reporter about was the fact that the fbi wanted to pursue the clinton foundation investigation over the objections of the justice department. >> that's right. if you look at his statement, he was really upset that he was being blamed for ending something and the interesting part of his statement, which i hadn't heard a lot of people talk about, is he was really blaming doj. the department of justice is who shut down the investigation. but you know

thanks for joining us. >> more brews coming up as the white house tries to explain a republican stunning upset. high up on the list, the words, wake-up call. >>> the white house and national republicans are trying to explain the stunning upset by conor lamb in a special election. what are you learning about this reaction? >> so far president trump has not weighed in on this race. his silence is pretty stunning at this point, seeing on how the president likes the weigh in on just that everything. the white house is trying to put some distance between them. we've obtained some talking points being circulated inside, saying they are getting very nervous. let's show you what's being shared as the gop tries to spin their way out of it. it describes saccone as a good man and there's a big but, however this race shows that candidates and campaigns matter. this should be a wake-up call, these talking points on to say, to anyone running. and then it is vital to raise the resources you need and to find your opponent and yourself. if those things had happened in this race, i think we would be looki

house republicans ending their russia probe.est they will issue conclusions that there was no trump russia collusion. i'm joined by senator tammy baldwin, a democrat from wisconsin to talk about this and other stories. when you look at this news, does it mean that the house investigation was always a sham? and what is the senate going to do about all this? >> it's such a great question. it's astonishing to me to hear this breaking news. but it's very clear that russia interfered with our elections, which is what we want to get to the bottom of and have an action plan to stop. the interference was widespread, whether it was trying to hack into photo registries or just spread misinformation throughout the electorate. there was extensive interference. that is an attack on our democracy. and it can't be allowed to continue. thank goodness that there is still a bipartisan panel in the senate. actively exercising their oversight and collecting information. and i am wanting special prosecutor mueller to get all the leeway he needs to g

thank you for making the time. >> thank you. >>> coming up, as we were just discussing, republicans in the house intel committee say they are done with the russia investigation. robert mueller, however, is far from finished. those stories next. >>> tonight the republican-led house intelligence committee said they are done with the russia investigation, claim thanksgiving have found no evidence of collusion, coordination or conspiracy between the trump campaign and the russians nor putin expressed preference for p president trump, even though the intelligence committee said they unanimously did. special counsel robert mueller shows no signs of slowing down. the "new york times" now reporting the president is considering adding a new lawyer with a very specific background to his team, representing president bill clinton during his impeachment trial. julian ainsley has written about the investigation. joyce vance, a former u.s. attorney for the northern district of alabama who just joined msnbc news and msnbc as a contributor. and matt miller is a former spokesman for president obama's department o

memo it's hear no evil see no evil speak no evil instead of conducting an honest investigation house republicans chose to put partisanship over national security and run a shameful interference campaign to give cover to donald trump instead of protecting our democracy house republicans have worked overtime to protect president trump and his family and friends so we'll just have to see what the report says in a few weeks when it's classified ok thanks to me that was samir khan for us there live from washington thank you. in other news tonight saif gadhafi spokes person is confirmed after months of rumors that the son of the former libyan leader moammar gadhafi will run for president if elections do manage to go ahead later on this year saif father was driven from power and killed in twenty eleven despite holding no official position saif was described as the defacto prime minister during his father's rule saif was later held captive for six years before being released last year amid political unrest we heard exclusively from saif sawyer on the presidential bid. saif al islam has lots of supporter

demand jeff sessions' head and could you see scott pruitt coming in -- >> and tell us why white house republicansted this special counsel. >> republicans feel that the justice department and the special counsel process is not fair to the president. especially since republicans control all of it -- all of washington. there is a feel ago mong the base th -- feeling that trump is getting an unfair shake and they wasn't -- they want to focus on other things, plr -- particularly hil clinton. and i kind of see his behavior daring trump to fire him and knowing that would spark a constitutional crisis, that would only further problems for the administration. we saw him be kind of defiant when he was out to dinner with rosenstein and other movements that he's made. and also it is notable that he was on the cover of "time" magazine this week. >> if anything will get him fired, it is gracing the cover of the magazine when donald trump wants the covers for himself. but it is difficult for donald trump to fire the attorney general which is why he hasn't done so up until now. >> it is difficult but the preside

shameful interference campaign to give cover to donald trump instead of protecting our democracy house republicans have worked overtime to protect president trump and his family and friends despite objections from house democrats the house intel committees investigation into russian interference is now over however this is only one of several probes into the matter so now we'll just have to read the report when it's declassified in a few weeks to see if it gave us the trouble russia accusation for good. they will escalate as me back here and often out see that. come. back to earth but survival guide book stacie just like all the stars simply. visit . the series building don't forget the past. public no. repatriations look at the risk of a new screen fill of the separate skies report. lots of countries in europe to understand that russia is and take no part of europe and the you cannot think about prosperous europe and developing europe or if you if you don't see russia being involved in the european process. that russia's weiss. has to be taken into account then sourness of course. the far right a

republicans on the house intelligence committee say no. and even some republicans on the senate intelligence committee, including richard burr, saying he's seen no evidence yet of collusion. another key question, whether or not there's evidence to support that 2017 finding by the intelligence community that russia was to help donald trump become president. republicans on the house side say there's no evidence to support that and democrats disagree. >> there is no collusion, you know why? because i don't speak to russians. >> reporter: more than 30 key witnesses have yet to be interviewed. subpoenas for trump financial records yet to be issued and scores of leads yet to be pursued. this is a conclusion of democrats, who accuse republicans of prematurely shutting down the house intelligence committee's russia probe. >> this is no way to run an investigation. >> reporter: democrats a the committee has yet to explore a proposed business deal in moscow. they say the trump organization was, quote, actively negotiating in moscow with a sanctioned

house. thanks for that. let's bring in congressman trey gowdy, a top republican on the house intelligence committee, what did this week found no evidence of collusion between the trump campaign and russia to influence the 2016 election. congressman, i wanted again by getting your reaction to president trump's lawyer calling for rob immaculata rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, tor investigation. do you support that? >> i don't, and i think that president's attorney doesn't make disservice when he says that he had when he frames the investigation that way. if you look at the jurisdiction of 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. to suggest that mccabe should shut down and all that he is looking at his collusion, if you have an innocent client,t like it. russia attacked our country. let special counsel mueller figure that out. if we believe as we have found there is no evidence to collusion, you should want special counsel mueller to take all the time, to have all the independence he needs to do

shameful interference campaign to give cover to donald trump instead of protecting our democracy house republicans have worked overtime to protect president trump and his family and friends despite objections from house democrats the house intel committees investigation into russian interference is now over however this is only one of several probes into the matter so now we'll just have to read the report when it's declassified in a few weeks to see if it debunks the trouble russia accusation for good appreciate your company this evening joining me one up and often are. welcome to worlds apart of a type developed by russia that's the crux of the u.k.'s allegations against the kremlin in this crippled case presupposition that if a nerve agent originated in a country it bears responsibility for its use decades later will these geopolitical formulation of a type developed long practice by the u.k. be supported by the chemical analysis well to discuss that i'm now joined by john there's they had all of the trench research initiative dedicated to the future of disarmament mr sanders it's great to have

news memo it's no evil see no evil speak no evil instead of conducting an honest investigation house republicans chose to put partisanship over national security and run a shameful interference campaign to give cover to donald trump instead of protecting our democracy house republicans have worked overtime to protect president trump and his family and friends. representative adam schiff dismissed the report altogether arguing that it's a fundamentally flawed document but in a statement issued after the vote chairman newness said that the report quote will include minority views if the minorities submit them which could be attempt interpreted as an attempt to reach across the aisle but republicans of the house intel committee have dismissed allegations of collusion since their investigation ended a representative conaway even said that it would take a writer of a spy thriller to transform this into evidence of collusion so now we'll just have to read the report when it's declassified in a few weeks to see if it debunks the trump russia conspiracy theory for good i think for the examiner samir kha

. >> bill: i need a quick yes or no answer on this, do you support what house republicans are doing in the request for a special special counsel? >> look, we've said we have a lot of concern. the president has not been shy about the fact he has real concerns with the fisa process and we're going to continue being aggressive on this front to make sure american citizens are protect. i think there's been a lot of things in the democrat and republican memos that should be looked at. >> bill: go get warm. >> i'll do my best. you get inside too.

>> this is in response to what the house republicans on the house intelligence committee concluded in their report. in that conclusion it said that nothing they have seen and none of the underlying intelligence supports the notion that vladimir putin and the russians did anything to favor donald trump in the 2016 elections. they contradicted what the intelligence community said andn that january 2017 assessment. i spoke to mark warner, top democrat on the intelligence committee whether or not that conclusion was accurate, this is what he said. >> senator, house republicans concluded that there's not enough evidence to support the notion that vladimir putin was trying to help donald trump become president. what's your reaction? >> my reaction is that since that whole investigation has broken down partisan lines, we have a group of folks who will say or do anything to protect this president, i believe in the intelligence community's assessment. they spent months working on across the board, saying that the russians had a favored candidate. that candidate was mr. trump. >> do you have ev

shameful interference campaign to give cover to donald trump instead of protecting our democracy house republicans have worked overtime to protect president trump and his family and friends despite objections from house democrats the house intel committees investigation into russian interference is now over however this is only one of several probes into the matter so now we'll just have to read the report when it's declassified in a few weeks to see if it debunks the trouble russia accusation for good. thanks for joining us this evening i'll be back with very latest news headlines in just over half an hour. around the world is always a battle going on with the central bankers and the commercial bankers always trying to repress the population in one way or another recall the global insurrection against banker occupation they've been saying this for years on the shelf so now we're going to look at it from the puerto rican perspective they are similarly being oppressed by the overlords of finance and they are reacting in a very specific puerto rico way. how does it feel to be a sheriff the greatest

shameful interference campaign to give cover to donald trump instead of protecting our democracy house republicans have worked time to protect president trump and his family and friends despite objections from house democrats the house intel committees investigation into russian interference is now over however this is only one of several probes into the matter so now we'll just have to read the report when it's declassified in a few weeks to see if it debugs the trouble russia accusation for good. and it does it for me i'll be back in thirty five minutes with the full look at your news stay with us. well you know the cars they were kind of adopted because we were called pirates for so long. i mean they're in this small ball it's next to the hard pool of ships and it's. much tougher than. the little self to be told fish already ninety percent of the dot and paul conner. concept fifteen scoops seventy five tons and they do it several times a day with a big screen so no you get an idea on why. we have to understand we can not stay still and just. be witness of the deal going on because. i'm doing th

. >> reporter: house republicans announce they are ending their investigation into trump and russia. plus -- >> maxine waters, a very low iq individual. >> congresswoman maxine waters is here to respond to the president and to the defenders of racism. >> let them call you racist. wear it as a badge of honor. >>> and betsy devos goes to school. >> i have not -- i have not -- i have not intentionally visited schools that are underperforming. >> maybe you should. >> maybe i should, yes. >> when "all in" starts right now. >> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. the president's abject surrender to the nra now appears to be complete. it was of course just a few short weeks ago that in the wake of the massacre at marjory stoneman douglas high school, the president promised survivors and families of victims that he would take action to prevent further shootings. specifically citing the move to raid the minimum wage for gun purchases from 18 to 21. >> in addition to everything else, in addition to what we're going to do about background checks, we're going to go very strong into age,

i think it's reflective, and i think it's revealing of the broader evolution of the way house republicans and congressional republicans interacted with the trump presidency, started with more independence, more skepticism, particularly after the tax cut, they've moved to a much more circle-the-wagons position, defending him on all fronts. that paradoxically, they increase their risk in november at a time when his approval rating is 40% or below. >> especially on russia. they're conflating two things the same way the president does, the significance of the interference and the aims and goals of that interference with it being -- making the election result illegitimate. that's what the president does. we see it dramatically running through other big matters of state. such as secretary of state rex tillerson, he had to wind upcoming up after the white house to condemn russia for a nerve agent attack on a former russian spy in britain. listen to what tillerson said. there is never a justification for this type of attack. the attempted murder of a private citizen on the soil of a sovereign nat

tweeting, interesting, i'm on the house intel committee and this is the first i've seen of this one-pager and its conclusions. ranking democrat adam schiff said the republicanshed a unserious investigative process by ending its oversight role in the only authorized investigation in the house. the majority has placed the interests of protecting the president over protecting the country and history will judge its actions harshly. committee democrats will get to see the report today. >> you've confirmed what we suspect all along, which is the collusion narrative was a lie. >> the democrats have additional evidence that they're not egg showing us that they make reference to over and over, that they have evidence of that, this drafting process, which we'll start in the morning will have a chance to -- >> yeah, let's see it. >>> coming up on "morning joe," house intelligence committee member eric swalwell reacts along with seth moulton. all russia investigations with the phrasing quotes not only in the u.s. are destined to end as mike conaway brilliantly concluded. only tom chanlancy could take t and weave it into a spy thriller that could go out there. they also

the republicans are the majority in the house. also right that the head democrat and republican on senate intel are working together better than they did over in the house. but that is not to say you don't have senators playing games with all of this. i mean, look at some of blumenthal's questioning. you have senator feinstein throwing out a transcript completely unsupported even by her own party by which i mean not voted on. and defying their ordinary procedures. so, there's a lot of politics and in a lot of this. i would say there's the least amount of politics in the mueller investigation, but with respect to that, erica, i don't agree with your characterization that that just seems to be widening and widening and widening. i actually think it looks like from the outside that they're checking the tail end boxes, not to say it will end this month or anything. they'll have trials and so forth, but that i think the investigative part of their activity is probably on the backside not just widening forever. >> you think the mueller

house committees are more partisan. but look at richard berber on the senate silent. republican and democrat together to try to get to the truth. why doesn't the house operate like that? >> it all started off on the wrong foot. you know, devin nunes was part of the president's transition team, and he basically -- and i've said it before -- but he basically decided at some point to make his political career a sacrifice fly for the president of the united states. and he determined at some point that he was basically going to be a blocker and tackler for the white house. and the result is what you see today. >> sacrifice fly. a great metaphor so the president can walk home. thank you so much. thank you, congressman for your time tonight. thank you. i want to go to our other guests. i want to go right now to jennifer rogers and all. the "new york times," by the way, i should have said this before, they stlai a story about a potential shake-up of the legal team, clearly irritating the mountain who responded in a series of pointed tweets on sunday morning. quote, the failing "new york

the committee that oversees this effort, he's going to take questions from house republicans about what went wrong here. assuming they do lose this seat tonight, as well as how they can keep their majority. republicans fear the prospects of them holding on to power can grow increasingly slim. one thing that we're going to be looking out for is any possible further retirements. that's one thing that's hobbling the republican chances of holding the majority. right now republican officials are not expecting a wave of retirements, but there could be a couple others and one reason why tomorrow is so important to make it clear they could still win, but they need to do things a little better and sell their message more effectively. >> dan of the things republicans have been talking a lot about, two weeks ago, three weeks ago was how much the president's tax cut bill was going to help rick saccone. but annethey stopped talking ab the tax cut and started talking about conor lamb. >> and started running ads on it. i was communicating with a republican and he said the reason for that was because t

shameful interference campaign to give cover to donald trump instead of protecting our democracy house republicans have worked overtime to protect president trump and his family and friends despite objections from house democrats the house intel committees investigation into russian interference is now over however this is only one of several probes into the matter so now we'll just have to read the report when it's declassified in a few weeks to see if it debugs the trouble russia accusation for good. fantastic have appreciated your company throughout the evening that is all for me for now rest assured that you are in safe hands sean thomas will bring it right up to date at the top of the hour. the most expensive fish in the world each one selling for the tens of thousands of euros it continues to grow its entire life if it was thirty years old you might have a two ton fish out there and yet they don't get that big today because we're way too good at catching. it's only women themself a much larger mission was once there that was much more widely distributed we have politicians that are in office

republicans. that's on the 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

so what does this memo written entirely by house republicans actually say? to understand the memo, you first need to understand the man behind it, california congressman devin nunes. who, of course, has been compromised by the russians ever since putin got ahold of his high school yearbook photo. [ light laughter ] that's the actual photo. [ laughter ] [ in russian accent ] "i'm looking at the photo, mr. nunes. there is business in front and party in back. [ light laughter ] you -- you know this photo?" now, in this memo, nunes is claiming the government abused its surveillance powers as part of a conspiracy to target a political adversary. which might make you ask, "what's his background?" is it in espionage, counterintelligence, constitutional law? well, as the "daily beast" reported, the man charged with oversight of our nation's spies is a dairy farmer with three degrees in agriculture. nunes believes his agriculture background informs his work on intelligence due to his familiarity with various farming techniques that have overlapped with intelligence.

we've seen what happened i mean his best advisors are resigning people are fleeing the white house republicans are in revolt. you know every newspaper in americas against every intelligent intellectuals against what's happening there's a consensus in america on the left and the right and really across the world free trade is.

more than 100 house republicans asking the president not to go through with his proposal. those lawmakers say the tariffs will hurt the economy and american workers. let's get to mike emanuel. he's live on capitol hill. can congress stop the president's tariffs? >> if they had an incredible veto proof majority they could. but it doesn't appear as if congress is unified. 107 house republicans signed a letter to the president saying "we're writing to express deep concern about the prospect of broad global tariffs on aluminum and steel imports because tariffs are taxes that make u.s. businesses less competitive and u.s. consumers poor." this has caused heartburn for leadership on capitol hill. paul ryan worries about these tariffs basically having a negative impact on american consumers, american businesses. speaker paul ryan at an event at home depot in atlanta made these comments just moments ago. >> the best policy is to be surgical and specific and do after those specific unfair trade practices. because they are unfair. the president is right to point that out. i'm just n

house republicans are saying case closed on their russia investigation. in a surprising move to house democrats, republicans on the house intel committee announced that they found no evidence of collusion between the trump campaign and the russians. >> we've seen some perhaps meetings that were inappropriate or ill-advised to have taken and we've seen some chance coincidences where people bump into each other at various places but no evidence of collusion. >> reporter: after the probe they plan to release a 150-page report on their findings based on 73 interviews and over 300,000 documents. president trump praised the news tweeting in all caps, the house intel 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 election. but for democrats, they're not done. they say the surprise announcement has only worsened partisan tensions on the committee. >> the fundamental problem from the beginning was my colleagues viewed their job as protecting their

the white house is pulling out all the stops to back republican rick succone. the polls open in a few hours. nice to have you with us. >> good to see you again. the polls behind me open in three hours, allegheny county outside pittsburgh this morning, the white working-class voters return to the democratic party or go with republicans. the nation is watching today, this race pins former connor lamb, former marine and prosecutor against the four term republican rick succone heavily endorsed by donald trump pitching to blue-collar workers. lamb is a moderate for the second amendment, against an assault weapons ban, hammering away at local union heavy issues on pension, social security and medicare, and wants to dump nancy pelosi, he was an intelligence issue in north korea, he was trump before trump was trump. a hatred for the country and hatred for god. he strongly aligned with the president. lamb said he is not running against the president. >> this is a time in our country many of our most important problems are up for grabs. not just the miners. all organized

and it's remarkable to see some of the house republicans in denial about it. if they don't get going, they're going to be next. >> let's take a look at how the republicans ran against this guy who they are now claiming was a republican. here's the way paul ryan spent his money in this campaign financing an ad against connor lamb. let's listen to this. >> how do we know connor lamb will join pelosi's liberal flock? he has. he joined her to pose a tax cut, calling your tax cut crumbs. connor lamb a pelosi following, high taxing, spending liberal. we deserve better. >>> there you have it. that's the guy they're now trying to claim was a republican. >> there was probably a backlash from people like me who love lambs, what do they have against lambs? they threw everything but the kitchen sink at him and it didn't stick. this was right after trump applied steel tariffs and a lot of the reason he did it was to win this district. i'm wondering now can we repeal those tariffs because he lost this district? the larger meaning for republicans is going to be clear. the odd

. >> at odds, republicans in the house say the russia probe is dead. democrats say it's alive, it's kicking and screaming, in fact. they just need more time. i'll ask how intel committee member joaquin castro what he thinks. >>> a fresh twist in the stormy story. a new report alleges a trump attorney tried to suppress the details well before we even thought. that's next. >>> and new this hour, democrats and even some republicans strongly condemning the firing of former deputy attorney general, andrew mccabe, just hours before his expected retirement. many finding fault with the way it all played. out. >> i don't like the way it happened. he should have been allowed to finish through the weekend. >> i just don't like this whole, you know, back and forth between the people outside the fbi and in it. these agencies, the fbi, the cia. i mean, all of these agencies are made up of thousands of people who are out there working every day. i think we need to be very careful about taking these very important entities and smearing everybody in them with a broad s

republicans shutting down the house russia probe saying there's no evidence of collusion. refusing to back what intelligence officials have said which is that russia meddled in the election to help donald trump. >>> betsy devos under fire. the white house watching in disbelief as she fumbled one answer after the other. are her days numbered. >>> reports of more people on a russian hit list. we'll talk to one man who may be a top target. let's go outfront. >>> good evening. tonight the breaking news. stunning conclusion. republicans on the house intelligence committee defying their democratic counterparts by shutting down the investigation. the special counsel's investigation which is still ongoing led by bob mueller has not come to that conclusion yet. the same can be said about the senate intelligence committee. now, house republicans are actually then taking another step further saying russia did not wage a campaign to help trump win the election. this is a finding which completely contradicts the findings of the united states intelligence community. >> they wanted to hu

another reason why i think republican spin here is me, the democrats need 24 seats to regain the house. there are 23 seats currently being held by republicans in the house and districts won by hillary clinton. that is the low-hanging fruit. this was not a low-hanging fruit. this was relatively ruby red country in pennsylvania, and the dems have picked it up. that is telling and worrisome to people like me who are conservatives who would have liked to have seen saccone when met comfortably which, in other years, he would have. but it is 2018, the landscape is different. >> ed: chris stirewalt, as you hear that thoughtful conversation back and forth between the left and right about what is the message moving forward, the democratic message we should point out, we haven't gotten into this part of the onion yet, resist, resist, resist. we didn't hear that, as bret pointed out, because it is more conservative, ruby red, as you heard. but resist, resist, russia, russia, that is what we will hear in a whole lot of other districts. what is the republican message, do you think, moving forward?

majority in the house intelligence committee. >> phil mudd, last hour i spoke to republicanan will hurd, a member of the house intelligence committee. he also used to work at the cia, he was an officer at the cia but he said earlier today that the intelligence community relied on what he called substandard intelligence for its russia meddling report that came out in january of last year. what do you make of that? >> well then lay it out, brother. brother hurd, we worked together in the cia, you had one responsibility and you failed. what did the russians do? you and the democrats agreed the russians interfered. did they put their finger on the pulse in favor of america? in favor of one candidate or another? democrats and republicans disagree. who cares? question three, when did republicans and democrats sit down? they could have done this in 48 hours, they could sit down and say regardless of how the russians put their finger on the pulse of america, we know they interfered, what we owe the american people is 10, 12, 15 recommendations on what to do. i tell mr. hurd get off

house. two republicans in regular contact with the white house there have been talks trump could replace jeff sessions with epa administrator scott pruitt who would not be recused from overseeing the russia probe. your reaction to that in. >> would that be the classic trump move? for sessions to oust mccabe absolutely cementing his reputation as loathed within the department and then reward him by firing him as he had done say to mitt romney or chris christie. it would put on display so many of the characteristic called qualities of the president. and pruett has proven himself to be an absolute water carrier for the president. it would be an absolute tour de force. you wouldn't think things could get much lower an the department of justice. this would be the test of that. >> we have watched the president in the open attempt to subvert the independence of the department of justice at every turn from firing comey and telling him to let flynn go to berating the attorney general to telling his white house council to fire mueller and direct mueller to be fired, berating rod rosenstein. he has not

in a slap to congressional democrats and the intelligence community, house republicans are launching bombshell outside at the prevailing narrative here in washington. "we found no evidence of collusion" according to texas republican mike conway. what's more he says intel committee eight spent hundreds of hours reviewing raw source materials used by the intel community. their assessment, russian meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign was intended to help candidate donald trump and her democrat hillary clinton, but did not meet the appropriate standards according to the draft report, which lands and democratic hands tomorrow. the firestorm already sweeping washington tonight. president trump jumping on the news just a short while ago. ellison barber is here with me live following all of these late-breaking developments. good evening. >> we seem to be on the verge of a new twitter war with the president and a top democrat on the house intelligence committe committee, dominic. president trump has repeatedly said it's a waste of time to investigate his campaign and possible russian col

>> john, it sounds like some house republicans are ready to revolt against the former republican senator, who became president trump's attorney general jeff sessions. that is if sessions does not name a second special counsel to investigate obama era abuses of the fisa. >> it's time for jeff sessions to appoint either a second special counsel like so many republicans have called for or have someone step into the job that can do the job. >> right now the doj inspector general is doing an investigation into the possibility that officials there misused the fisa court to spy on americans. but the house oversight committee chairman trey gowdy says that's like having your friends on the jury or grading your own homework, pointing this junior general can only interview people who work at doj and dozens of witnesses have moved on, which is why he wants a fresh set of outside eyes, and that comes as the author of the infamous nunez memo is talking more about the big picture problem. >> in this case to open a counter intelligence investigation into a campaign, into politics, is not what the fisa c

yes, but in every single one of those races republicans underperformed, last night they underperformed by 20 points. there are at least 20 to 25 seats in the house right now held by republicans that hillary clinton won. there's another 30 to 40 that are within two to three to four points. every one of those races is now in jeopardy, it's why republicans are more likely than not looking at a wipeout in november. >> i want to ask you this, the sources close to the white house say gop does not rely on a referendum. was it a referendum on this president or ciccone. >> when you have a 20 point swing in less than two years, that is not because you had a weak candidate. what was the candidate's claim to fame. he said he was trump before trump. the president is the dominant factor in our politics. he is what everything revolves around. midterm elections are always a statement about the president. always a referendum on the president, most presidents lose obviously in their first midterm. what we're looking at with these numbers is a wave forming out there, and the last thing that was said there about the margin of the swing is much much more important t

republicans on the house intelligence committee. you have heard republican after republican for weeks now telling me, telling other reporters and making it very clear, very publicly that they don't believe that this investigation can go on. they believe that they have reached the essential conclusion, that there was no collusion between the trump associates and the russians. and they feel that they have reached a dead end, they have gone every which way and that's the conclusion they've reached. and they're getting support not just from the rank and file members on that committee, but also the republican who's running the russian investigation, mike conway, and the republican chairman, devin nunes, who even though he temporarily stepped aside amid controversy last year, has kept a foot in this investigation. has been very influential behind the scenes, and certainly wants to see this investigation come to an end. but in addition to that, don, the house speaker, paul ryan, has been very supportive of the republicans on this committee

involve moeller come up with the same conclusion then i think people will generally view the house republican report is an outlier if for some reason the senate committee sort of splits apart into the same way that the house committee did then then we might have real trouble believing what it comes up with if there's a partisan report out of the senate thank you very much for your insights in this new ski from roll call joining us now from washington. they spent more ahead on this al-jazeera news hour including we speak to assure lanka's prime minister as tensions continue after last week's on time muslim violence blasts peace talks get a reboot in colombia as the government announces it will sit down with the rebels and greece's top football league is suspended after an owner of one team runs onto the bench with a god details ahead with joe and. in the poly investigators are trying to find out why a bangladeshi airline a crash killing at least fifty people the u.s. banga airlines flight from dakar swerved to repeatedly before missing the runway at katmandu airport it burst into flames in a n

it's clear for whatever reason that the house republicans and so many republican allies want to ignore what is happening in the truth of the matter. putin and the russians were trying to benefit president trump. for anyone who has confusion about this, gaudy himself said the russians were trying to win this election. we will continue to let bob mueller move forward with the case. they were trying to benefit trump plain and simple. >> martha: another big story. the president may face a battle to get the new cia director confirmed. he tweeted about his frustration with the slow pace of the confirmation saying: the president may have a point. of 639 nominations, half are still waiting for confirmation. more than a year later. michael, to the extent that there is responsibility on democrats side, how do you respond to that? >> it's pretty ridiculous that president trump is trying to make this argument. look at other agencies that had repeated delays. the secretary of state and the vacancies existed. to make the argument we are not moving forward is because of democrats. it's a smoke screen

it's the republicans in the house that represent suburban districts come republicans in the senate that represent big metropolitan friendly states. i am watching republicans might shift on guns in the next few months. marco rubio already has. a state withenting a big suburban population is the one to watch. the president's meeting that scrambled what was going on last week, when do you expect to see something in the senate on gun control? guest: i think senators in both parties want the white house to actually put pen to paper and say in writing what the president will support. the last been juggling couple of days as to what the president would support. in the meeting, he seemed to support universal background checks and things like a ban on bump stocks and other significant measures. in the days afterward, they have walked back some of that support. he supports bans on bump stocks but with regulations. he wants stronger background checks but what does that mean? unless he comes at a gives those republicans, it's hard to imagine that anything more than a tiny tweak to the existing syst

that is the let's just say surprising conclusion of republicans on the house intel committee who are g russia's election meddling. >> excuse me, excuse me. all right, move on. nothing to see here. please disperse. nothing to see here. please. >> i mean, that's it, especially when these republican house members had the president's own fi fbi director, cia director and the director of national intelligence testify not so long ago that russia was trying to tip the scales for donald trump. we're going to be getting reaction from a democrat on the intel committee coming up. congressman eric swalwell. "morning joe" back in a moment. who's the new guy? they call him the whisperer. the whisperer? why do they call him the whisperer? he talks to planes. he talks to planes. watch this. hey watson, what's avionics telling you? maintenance records and performance data suggest replacing capacitor c4. not bad. what's with the coffee maker? sorry. we are not on speaking terms. what's with the coffee maker? whoamike and jen doyle?than i thought. yeah. time for medicare, huh. i have no idea how we're g