the way john mcloughlin described what this could do to the congressional oversight process. but i want to go back to something, let's be very clear-eyed about what's going on here. i do think that president trump and house republicans have succeeded in something here, because they have released a document that essentially says that this mueller investigation is based entirely on a democratic-funded opposition research document. now, the democrats say that's not true and the justice department and fbi appear to be saying that's not true, but that message is going to go out to a base of donald trump supporters and it may allow donald trump to say, for example, i'm not going to speak to robert mueller. i'm going to assert the fifth amendment because this whole thing is an unfair, cooked-up investigation. that seems to be the motive behind this document and by breaking all these norms of congressional oversight, by releasing, using a house rule that has never before been invoked to release highly classified information about a pending criminal investigation, house republicans an

national security and intelligence reporter, ken dilanian, nbc news justice analyst, matt miller, john mcloughlin and national security analyst, msnbc contributor chuck rosenberg, former federal prosecutor, former chief of staff to james comey. peter alexander at the white us