to that point, my favorite detail in all the felix sater mob russia trump reporting is when felix sater bragged to trump organization lawyer michael cohen that he really could get this trump moscow thing off the ground and he could get putin on board and thereby could get trump elected. in making these connections and writing it out in e-mails that we can read in "the new york times," he just bragged about how much juice he had to make these connections and do this kind of stuff in russia. he said, quote, michael, i arranged for ivanka to sit in putin's private chair at his desk and office in the kremlin. i know how to play it. we will get this done. so "the new york times" obtains that e-mail and they contact ivanka trump to find out if what felix sater said about her was true. her response to the "times" was that, yes, she in fact had gone to moscow with felix sater. she said she had taken, quote, a brief tour of red square and the kremlin and took care to insist she was only there as a tourist, she said, quote, it is possible she sat in mr. putin's chair. it's possible. who among us

. >> tom sater, thank you. of course, atlanta airport is a major hub for airlines all across the country. i want to bring in former faa safety inspector david sues who's joining us from denver. david, with pilots stuck on the tarmac, what kind of impact could this have on the country? >> as you said, it's like a ripple effect. it's like dominos falling. you have to worry about crew rest times. i have to rest a certain amount of time every 24 hours. now it's really messed up. that's the first thing that pilots are going to have to worry about. if they could take off, could they do that within their duty times or change the crews out. >> we've talked to our betsy klein. it could be another two hours before they get off. they've been asked not to flush toilets. they don't have running water in these planes. do airlines and airports prepare for a potential incident like this? >> there are protocols but it starts back with the georgia power protocol. there are three trunk lines that go into the airport. one is for s

committee interview with her, trump's assistant and also and house intelligence interview with felix sater, a russian born and worked on the secret trump tower moscow project during the trump campaign, republicans for some reason decided that for those who interviews for graph and satyr, they would not do them on capitol hill and decided to send their staffers to new york city to do those interviews in the setting that would be more convenient for ms. graft and apparently also for mr. satyr. having staff korch duconduct th interviews, that is convenient for the witness but has the effect of it. they are not happy about it. donald trump downyojunior sayin a minute. i run this and i have to go down -- i imagine it's awkward. a lot going on tonight. one thing we have to keep track of on the show, who works at the white house. this administration is 328 days old. in that time there has been an unusual large number of people who have turned over, who have served in the trump white house for sometime, some of them in very senior roles but got fired or chose to leave for some reason or another an

committee interview with her, trump's assistant and also and house intelligence interview with felix sater, a russian born and part of the trump organization, who worked on the secret trump tower moscow project during the trump campaign. republicans for some reason decided that for those who interviews for graph and satyr, they would not do them on capitol hill and decided to send their staffers to new york city to do those interviews in the setting that would be more convenient for ms. graft and apparently also for mr. satyr. having staff conduct the interviews in new york, while actual members of congress are stuck back in washington for votes, i'm sure that is very convenient for those witnesses, but it has the knock-on effect of preventing any members of congress, including democrats, from sitting in on any of that questioning. democrats on the intelligence committee are reportedly not that happy about it. and you've got to imagine donald trump, jr. being like, wait a second, i run the trump organization. my dad's assistant gets them to come here and i have to go down -- i can imagine

we didn't know that felix sater and michael cohen were talking about how they could engineer a victory for the president. we didn't know about all the outreach that wikileaks had done with don jr. or with alexander nix from cambridge analytica as reported by julian assange. we have learned so much and there are so many more witnesses we should hear from if my republican colleagues want to hear what happened. >> can you solve a mystery for me. what exactly is the role of devin nunes? i remain confused on this. at one level he is recused from the investigation and he maybe pops in to mess around with it a little bit. is he recuse order isn't he? >> he state head is recused, but he still signs the subpoena as they relate to this investigation, which i believe defies, you know, being recused. but this isn't -- this is an investigation bigger than one person. our -- at least on our side, we try and just focus on the witnesses. i think when the public transcripts are made available, you'll see the deep interest and the thoroughness that our side has put into this. and quite an objective way.

rhona graff and felix sater, a russian born former trump business associate who sought in 2016 to brokerepublican source who said the interviews were moved to accommodate graff's attorney. democrats claim it's an example of republicans rushing to wrap up the investigation and lock democrats out. the committee is also calling o calling on former aides to testify. i'm joined by jonathan alter. jay, let me start with you and ask you about these two meetings in new york. rhona graph, help us understand what the committee could be looking to get answers to from her. >> they are looking to understand the exact nature of trump's correspondence with russians, with any contacts. she's basically gate keeper. she would field any kind of requests, any kind of calls coming in. she goes through his e-mails and say yes or no to any interest this meetings. they would want to know from her who has been approaching him. who wants to talk to hoim. that's important. there's been contacts that have come out from his son, donald trump junior and his son-in-law, jared kushner. we don't know how involved the pr

he said, i love it, can we hold it off to the fall, to michael cohen, engaging with felix sater about engineering the election with vladimir putin for donald trump. we saw a willingness and eagerness at all levels on the trump side to work with the russians. so, i think we have proved here they were willing and eager to work with the russians. and now we just need to i think look at all the evidence and understand what that relationship actually amounted to. >> what's the sense that you have now about a year into this administration of what that transition team's foreign policy apparatus was like? there's another piece in the "times" this morning, look at k.t. mcfarland's role. she's talking about rogue individuals. we think of george papadopoulos who was characterized as working as a coffee boy, somebody who was a voluntary on the foreign policy advisory board. what's your sense of how cohesive that team was, particularly on the transition team? >> it certainly appeared to be a rag tag, ad hoc foreign policy team that did not respect the norm of one government at a time. it does now