the faith i have in the intelligence committee is in mike warner and the democrats.hey've been holding burr's feet to the fire and they will look for another alternative if chairman burr doesn't pursue this. there is another point to this. people mix up the two. the other is, of course, whether the law was broken and whether the trump campaign was complicit in working with the russians to influence the election. that needs a special prosecutor. rod rosenstein, he's a career man, he will be before the judiciary committee for his nomination for deputy attorney general. i am urging him at that hearing to say that he will appoint a special prosecutor to look into this because it's on the executive side that any investigation is done and any criminality is put forward. >> let me ask you about this specific charge, what you were just talking about with president trump, this idea that there may have been a court order surveillance of some form or another. you're part of what's called so many gangs on senate side and you're one of the gang of eight on intelligence matters, t

that was senator richard burr, republican chairman of the senate intelligence committee flanked by mike warner, the democrat and vice chairman. they will be taking action while their counterparts in the house, devin nunes and mike schiff, are accomplishing very little. nunes has been under fire after he secretly met with a white house official at the white house. the worry is he is not conducting a fair and open investigation. so who was that white house official? white house press secretary sean spicer says he's looking into that. it does seem like a pretty easy question to answer. the senate begins its hearings about an hour from now. guys? >> there will be a lot of attention on that. scott mcgrew, thank you very much. >> scott always examines the president's tweet, executive orders and speeches here on toad in the bay. you can share your thoughts with him on twitter, you can find him @scottmcgrew. >>> examining what were you thinking in this situation. two little girls and their dad got the surprise at their house in lake tahoe. >> a black bear made itself very at home on their patio. the d

that was senator richard burr, republican chairman of the senate intelligence committee flanked by mike warner the democrat and vice chairman. they'll take action while their counterparts in the house devin nunes and mike schiff are accomplishing very little. nunes has been under fire after he secretly met with a white house official at the white house as for the senate. the hearing begins in ten minutes. >> we'll watch it. scott looking at the president's tweets, executive orders and speeches throughout the first 100 days on toad in the bay. he loves to hear from you as well. share your thoughts with him on twitter. >>> love this next story. if these were your daughters, how would you react? >> two little girls and their dad had quite a surprise at their home in lake tahoe, a black bear: stared at them through their sliding glass door. >> there's the bear walking up. the girls say hello, you can hear them in the background and it walks right up to the glass, the dad tried everything, he says, the get the bear out of there. >> banging pots and pan, stomping on the deck, i had the music up loud

and so i'm taking only mike warner's public statements today.certainly i have never heard this before, so i'ming forward to hear more in these public hearings. >> do you have anything to say to this, jonathan the. >> all i can say is that it's a two-edge sword. demonstrations between 82 and 99 different cities across the country in the face of tremendous opposition to talk about the regime in the kremlin as corrupt and a bunch of crooks. it goes both ways. we need to ask the question why are they so good at computers and why are we not so good at computers in the digital era? and some of it is really scary because the reason may be they're better at math and have better math education than we do. and that's a big things we're facing in the mass hysteryo the russians are coming. we're paying the price. >> the house the paralyzed on this thing. that's a quote from him. and the only way to move forward is for the senate to take the lead on this russian probe. do you think that's a right move first jonathan and then julia? >> well, the other day, do

. >>> i'll talk to the leading in committee, mike warner virginia. >> and this piece of advice for president trump. don't fight everybody. pick your battles. >> i sit down with jerry brown ht and fornia.nsi analysis are, tom brokaw of nbc news, joy of a.m. joy, hugh hewitt and ileana johnson of politico. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >>> from nbc news in washington, the longest-running show in television history celebrating its 70th year, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >>> good sunday morning by any standard, that was the most consequential week in donald trump's young presidency in the span of just five days, mr. trump's credentiality with voters and his clout for congress were dealt big blows. mr. comey is investigating possible links between the trump campaign and the russian government. by friday, house republicans had to pull the bill to repeal and replace obamacare, an embarrassing acknowledge that they didn't have the votes despite full control of the senate and the white house. in a short time in office, the president's travel ban has been blocked twice, the ru

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. >>> i'll talk to the leading democrat on the senate intel committee, mike warner of virginia. >> andnt trump. don't fight everybody. pick your battles. >> i sit down with jerry brown of california. joining me for insight and analysis are, tom brokaw of nbc news, joy reid, host of a.m. joy, hugh hewitt and ileana johnson of politico. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >>> from nbc news in washington, the longest-running show in television history celebrating its 70th year, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >>> good sunday morning by any standard, that was the most consequential week in donald trump's young presidency in the span of just five days, mr. trump's credentiality with voters and his clout for congress were dealt big blows. mr. comey is investigating possible links between the trump campaign and the russian government. by friday, house republicans had to pull the bill to repeal and replace obamacare, an embarrassing acknowledge that they didn't have the votes despite full control of the senate and the white house. in a short time in office, the president's trav

mike warner speaking about how he was mystified, this is what politicians say when they're trying to be somewhat nice. here he was on that today. >> i am totally mystified by what senator nunes has said. i talked to democrats and republicans on the committee. it is mystifying if not outrageous he makes claims, then goes down and briefs the white house, and i know adam schiff, the lead democrat, wants to keep the investigation bipartisan. i don't think mr. schiff knows today what those documents are. >> governor? >> you know, i think there is a bigger point here, that is how weak the leadership, particularly the republican leadership, has been in congress for a long time. i can remember watergate well. and nixon finally decided to resign when his own people, bob dole and others, went to him and said, mr. president, you have to resign for the good of the country. can you imagine nunes and some people doing that? i can't. they have become so partisan that the good of their party comes before the good of their country. this is a time where the country matters more than the party. and the

. >>> i'll talk to the leading democrat on the senate intel committee, mike warner of virginia. >> and this piece of advice for president trump. don't fight everybody. pick your battles. >> i sit down with jerry brown of california. joining me for insight and analysis are, tom brokaw of nbc news, joy reid, host of a.m. joy, hugh hewitt and ileana johnson of politico. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >>> from nbc news in washington, the longest-running show in television history celebrating its 70th year, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >>> good sunday morning by any standard, that was the most consequential week in donald trump's young presidency in the span of just five days, mr. trump's credentiality with voters and his clout for congress were dealt big blows. mr. comey is investigating possible links between the trump campaign and the russian government. by friday, house republicans had to pull the bill to repeal and replace obamacare, an embarrassing acknowledge that they didn't have the votes despite full control of the senate and the white house. in a short tim

. >> right, well look, i think both senator richard burr and mike warner are doing everything they canp this thing bipartisan and on an even keel and that's one of the reasons we haven't heard much from them and i would be surprised if they reveal too much in their news conference, but it will be interesting to hear what they have to say. one thing to remember about chairman nunes is despite some of the unrest over there he has the full confidence of house speaker paul ryan. the two of them go back a long way. when paul ryan was just a back bencher, proposing his wild ideas of reforming medicare and medicaid and social security, and that was devin nunes. so they're very tight and i think republicans are generally unified behind him. i've also spoken to chairman nunes and basically what he believes is going on is that they need to speak to director comey in a closed session before he can move on to speaking to james clapper and john brennan which they want to do also in a closed session. they're done with the open hearings, and comey is refusing to show up until he gets a bipartisan inv

he first denied that they should even investigate and when he was pushed by mike warner he said, okay, we'll investigate. and then, of course, at the administration's request he went to the president and said something was wrong. that's taking sides in an investigation. the faith i have in the intelligence committee is in mark warner and the democrats. they've been holding burr's feet to the fire and they have said they will look for another alternative if chairman burr doesn't fully pursue this. >> all of this new reaction coming just a few hours after president trump took an early-morning jab at president obama tweeting this. who was it that secretly said to the russian president, tell vladimir that after the election i'll have more flexibility and that was the hot mike moment during a meeting with then outgoing dmitry medvedev. we'll go to palm beach, florida and casey. what can you tell us about the latest reaction to these accusations? >>. >> these explosive accusations outlined, frances, james clapper telling chuck todd on "meet the press "qwest that he would have known if there

acrimony is happening on the house any chairman richard burr and the top democrat on the committee mike warner will brief the press about the status of their secret investigation and part of that is to show a contrast with what is not happening in the house which is a smooth process going forward. so we want to the show that they're actually doing something and we'll see if the senate can reach any bipartisan consensus over there, guys. >> the senators saying we've got our ducks in a row and now charlie dent saying leave it to them is pretty remarkable. manu on the hill, thank you for that. >>> meantime, the trump administration in an increasingly familiar position, on the offensive, off message and a presidential pivot that may change that, cnn's sarah murray is at the white house with that. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. last week it looked like health care is dead and it seemed like the president and some of his advisers and some on the hill would like to revive it. last night he told senators it would be easy and of course, it is not all that easy and it involves bringing warring

mike? >> shepard, senators burr and warner sound hopeful that after they do their digging into this russian meddling in the 2016 election that the conclusion will remain bipartisan. they talked about the way the senate panel handled benghazi terror attacks, which was highly politicized and a hot potato for quite some time. as for this investigation, chairman burr said it's early in the process. >> we would be crazy to try to draw a conclusion from where we are in the investigation. i think mark and i have committed to let this process go through before we form any opinions. and i would hope that that's what you would like us to do. as much as we would like to share minute by minute, the snap shots that we get as a team going through it are not always accurate when we find the next piece of intelligence. so let us get a little deeper into this before you ask us to write the conclusions. >> the senate intelligence chairman tried to re-assure the american people that this panel will follow the information wherever it takes them. >> we will always say to you, this investigation scope will go wh

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>> mike: i think the senate did a good job of framing the issue and kudos to richard burr and mark warner for taking more bipartisan and statesman like approach this and saying this is an about the two of us, it's about bigger things. i have a lot more confidence about that committee going forward than i did the house committee. in glee, and a lot of cases, congressional hearings tend to be a bunch of gas bags going on and on and talking and nothing gets revealed other than everyone in the panel has an extra ordinary ego and something to say. i think this needs to be taken out of the open committees and i know this puts me in a different spot, not a special prosecutor because they want to probe you on the wall. get a bipartisan group of former legislators who understand, tom daschle, john breaux, get people who have been in the process, let them do a thorough investigation, present those to the committees, but then it has some credibility, but it doesn't have the smacking's of all of this political energy that right now is just invading. >> sandra: there's a some optimism coming from the

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warner expected to be approved in a lighter regulatory cut. we could see a wave of consolidations between media companies and between media companies, kelly? >> julia, thank you. this feels like, mike a frenzy. i sympathize with what station owners say. look, we live in a world where the internet gives you full content to everyone everywhere all the time. does it matter whether their ownership models covers a certain percent of the population? >> rules date back to local monopolies. think back far enough, you couldn't own a newspaper and radio station and tv station in the same market. that's antiquated. i think, i don't know if it's necessarily going to be megadeals, but i definitely think on the station group end, i mean, you saw ew script, a stock that would be in play this that regard, up 2% today. >> also interesting, trying to remember now who the company was recently, could have been comcast, but rolling out, again, the ability for anybody to log in, use the platform, access the portal, and all the shows availability. there's a lot of startups doing this all the time. there was one funded today out of california as well, so if the idea is, i own this content, and i, you know