. >>> let's bring in kevin cirilli, chief washington correspondent for bloomberg tv and julia manchester, correspondent for the hill. kevin, i want to start with you, because how significant is this revelation? >> well, it's pretty significant. and look, i think that the notion that this is going to continue into 2018 is the right one. i mean, there's just court dates that are scheduled for later this year. but also i think it's worth noting that prominent republicans within the republican party are pushing for this to continue forward. and the notion that a lot of these intelligence community institutions from the cia to the fbi, i mean, these are very much pressing forward with their investigations. and at the end of the day, to be quite candid, it doesn't really matter what -- what the media has to say, it really matters what these investigations come out with. and so the media very important. but in terms of the investigations, i mean, that's not fake news. that's real news. and until those investigations are concluded and come forth, this is definitely going to be something that the

and julia manchester, a reporter with the hill. never a dull moment down there in washington. >> never. >> and another e-mail controversy. imagine that. okay let's start with a poll, julia, that's been your publication. it says that 40% of those asked believe that president trump has done something illegal. and a higher number, 63% think he's tried to impede or obstruct the investigation. the strategy seems to be to attack the investigation, attack mueller. he has so much credibility. that seems like a tough thing for the administration to do successfully. >> yeah, absolutely. it is hard. and it's interesting to see that the rhetoric really differs between president trump and his white house lawyer ty cobb. so we saw president trump basically come out on friday, and not rule out pardoning michael flynn, who recently reached a plea deal with mueller. he basically said, you know, i'm not going to talk about that right now. but then his lawyer comes out and says well that's not in the question. we're not going to pardon it. so we're re

let's bring in kevin cirilli for bloomberg tv, and julia manchester, reporter for "the hill." julia, let's start with you. nbc reports that rhone graff was interviewed by members of the house intel committee. tell us why the long time trump assistant is particularly relevant to this investigation. >> in terms of rhone graff, she's definitely had communications with the trump organization. she's a senior vice president there. she's known him for years. obviously, she could have important information as to possibly his past dbusiness tie and stuff that's happened during the campaign. she's definitely a key figure in that regard. however, it's interesting the way they've interviewed her. normally, the house intel committee has interviewed subjects for this investigation on capitol hill by lawmakers. however, we noticed this was done in an undisclosed location in new york. it's after democrats and other republicans have gone home for the holiday. so only a handful of investigators were reportedly able to interview her. so it's interesting to see how that's been done. i think it's s

for some analysis of how is being perceived i'm joined from orlando by julia manchester from the perceivedhey spoke about many different things but the focus has been on the president, the former president's comments about social media, specifically about misinformation. how significant an issue is it and even though obama never mentioned him, how much of those comments are targeted at the current president? it's very notable that he didn't mention trump. we've heard president obama say this in the past since he's left office, constantly warning about the dangers of social media and people staying in their own microcosm and not looking at outside information. it is safe to say that it was clearly focused on president trump. president obama talked about people staying in their own social media niche, and he warned about the danger of that. that is something that president trump has done in his presidency, we see him constantly tweeting about a programme in america called fox and friends, which is quite favourable to him, co nsta ntly which is quite favourable to him, constantly mentioning s

let's bring in chief washington correspondent from bloomberg tv and julia manchester from the hill. thank you both for joining me. kevin, what are you hearing about president trump's remarks and list calculation for attending that ceremony yesterday? >> there is no question that america is divided. i think you saw this by the display of protests that were outside his speech and the fact that it was moved quite frankly into a smaller venue once there. that said, president trump's supporters and his administration says that he wanted to be there, he wanted to have this opportunity to talk about this important historic moment, but there is no question that this is a very divided time in our country. >> and julia, i want to play for you what several told alex witt yesterday. take a listen. >> he should have addressed the issues of today as sitting president 37 i thi president. i think he missed the opportunity to deal with public policy. i think those that consider present missed the opportunity to confront him on very basic policies. >> the president is not there to be moved by remarks

joining me now chief washington correspondent from bloomburg tv and julia manchester. great to have you both here. never a dull sunday. >> never a dull moment. >> the white house may have further added to this confusion about the initial tweet on flynn lying to the fbi, which "the washington post" first reported that it was authored by president trump's personal lawyer on his legal team that do not want him tweeting or live tweeting the developments of this investigation and this case as it continues forward simply because of what we saw happen yesterday, where there appears to be a discrepancy and major difference in what the president has tweeted versus what his legal team is saying. but the second point that i would make is that the gloves are off. the gloves are off between the president's legal team and general flynn's legal team. and it would suggest that while much of us in the media have been rightfully focussing on the -- on how general flynn is cooperating with bob mueller's investigate, i think we would sals note that the president's legal team is essentiall