The russian investigations. We are asking our viewers about your views on the latest news in the russian pro. The russian probe. Democrats can call 2027488000. Republicans, 2027488001. Independents, 2027488002. Also on twitter and facebook. More from the Washington Post this morning about the latest in that probe. The probe has reached a top advisor in the white house. The Law Enforcement investigation into possible coordination between russia and the Trump Campaign has identified a Current White House official as a significant person of interest. Showing the probe is reaching into the highest levels of government. The senior white house adviser under scrutiny by the investigators is someone close to the president. The revelation comes as the investigation appears to be entering a more overtly active phase with investigators shifting from work that has remained largely hidden from the public to conducting interviews and using a grand jury to issue subpoenas. The intestate of the probe is expected to accelerate in the coming weeks. The intensity of the probe is expected to accelerate in the coming weeks. Tillerson, Jeff Sessions and Jared Kushner under scrutiny. Donald trump tweeted a photograph of him departing air force one there. We are getting your thoughts about the latest in the russian investigation. We have carol calling from georgia on our democratic line. Caller good morning. This is a good day. Started the Birther Movement and he fooled republicans that he was a republican because he was saying all that about president obama aint good everything he did to president obama is coming back to him. Everyone that did this this aint even half of it. The republicans in the house and senate are covering it up, too. Pay attention to them when they. Alk about this Pay Attention to the tone of the voice and the hate in their heart. Everything theyve done to obama is coming back on them. This is a happy day. Alleluia. Host a little more about President Trumps trip overseas. Today, hes in saudi arabia. The trip will include stops in israel, rome and the vatican. In brussels for a nato meeting as well as sicily for a g7 meeting. He will be traveling through may 27. His first trip abroad since coming into office. William calling from North Carolina on our independent line. Caller hello. Host what are your thoughts about the latest in this probe . Caller the russian contacts probe is a probe without a crime. Dershowitz has made it clear on tv last night that he agreed with what i knew immediately. Theres been no evidence of a crime, there hasnt been any suggestion of a basis for a crime. Theyre has been evidently have singled out Jared Kushner for talking to the russians, which is what he was supposed to do. Mr. Trump came and prepared to do things. I am not protrump. Im antitrump as to many of his actions. He came in prepared and his people did indeed act as though they were going to be in office in a month. Host at the bottom of all of these investigations is the fact that intelligence Officials Say russia attempted to meddle in the u. S. Election. Caller we dont know that for certain. Now, we have a group claiming the man who was killed in washington, d. C. Was the one that was communicating with wikileaks. He was in the dnc employment in some way or another. Were not certain of anything. You dont start an investigation until there is a crime. We have a Deputy Attorney general who is out of control. He says that the hillary investigation was flawed because had no authority to be a prosecutor of course, he had no authority. Use an investigator. He cannot be dubbed a prosecutor by Queen Loretta lynch who refused to do her job. What the newar york times reported about President Trump and his meeting with russian officials. It says mr. Trump added, im not under investigation. Joe is calling in from florida on our republican line. What are your thoughts about the latest development . Caller is just another false accusation by the press. Dncdemocratic party, the and the Political Class in washington, d. C. Are the worst enemies this country faces. They continue to be over and over. They dont believe in the United States of america. They dont believe in what we stand for. Think its terrible whats going on command attacking the president of the United States. Host the special counsel that was appointed to speak was appointed by an appointee of President Trump. Does that change your view at all that this is political . Caller no, it doesnt change my view at all. It makes a nonpolitical. Hes part of the administration. They appointed the special counsel. I think he will end up with no evidence of any crime and will go on for a couple of beers and the democrats will keep on talking and accusing, regardless. Years and thee of democrats will keep on talking and accusing, regardless. Host canton, North Carolina. Republican line. Caller good morning. Everything youve read this morning out of the papers has been nothing but hearsay. Donald trump accused barack obama the other day of having tapped his phones. Donald trump accused barack obama of wiretapping his phones. Everyone said, where is the proof . We need to see the proof. Person you the are pretty much saying hearsay could everything you read out of the paper today is hearsay. What you should be running up there is everybody in that building behind you should be asked a question today, do they deserve their sixfigure salary . Rich mighte getting t like you, little girl they are up there getting rich, just like you, little girl. What lets take a look at donald trump said on thursday about the appointment of the special counsel. [video clip] i respect the move, but the entire thing has been a witchhunt. Theres been no collusion between myself and my campaign i can only speak for myself and the russians, zero. I think it divides the country. We have a very divided country because of that and many other things. We want to bring this great country of ours together. Weve had tremendous success. You look at our job numbers, you look at whats going on at the border. You look at what will be happening, you will see incredible numbers with respect to the success of general medicine others with the isis situation. And othersmattis with the isis situation. Tomorrow, im going to saudi arabia. Im going to rome. We have the g7. I hate to see anything that divides. Fine with whatever people want to do, but we have to get back to running this country really, really well. Host in an effort to provide more platforms for you to share your voice, we are now accepting viewer videos via twitter. Respond to our question of the day by sending a video of one minute or less. On twittertag us when you send those videos. Of the next, we have sean calling from washington, d. C. On our independent line. Caller good morning. First come on want to say, that last caller who called you little girl, hes delusional. Im not surprised. This dude is a maniac. For all these trump whisperers saying its hearsay, the democrats, obama, blame the black man, they are delusional. Flynn hadll, michael so many connections with russia and turkey he might be in trouble, too. Mike pence and trump knew about them. There is so much evidence. These trump whisperers live in an alternate reality. It blows my mind. What are these Trump Supporters looking at . They want to throw out the blamete ad hominem and democrats and blame whoever. Manp said he would sue the he could shoot a man on fifth avenue and get away with it. Hes right. Host so far, there hasnt been any concrete evidence of any collusion between the Trump Campaign i and russia. Does that factor into your decisionmaking at all . You are absolutely right. Theres no concrete evidence, but theres indirect evidence. Im a police officer. Theres a lot of smoke. Whenever you have situations where you have a lot of smoke and you have people hiding trump could destroy all this noise. He could end the whole he stopped thef Intelligence Committee look into my tax records, look into my business. I dont have anything to hide. But, he keeps hiding stuff. Learned when somebody hides something, they are hiding something for a reason. Theres a lot of smoke for a reason. Caller in some other news host in some other news, politico reports that donald trump his aides that firing Michael Flynn was a mistake. Two days after firing michael as his National Security adviser in february, President Donald Trump told several eight in france he should have kept him instead. Several aides and friends he should have kept him instead. The flynn situation has been different. I was kind of stunned, one person said. We are taking your calls about the latest in the investigation into russian meddling in the election. Potential ties to the Trump Campaign. Democrats can call. Democrats can call 2027488000. Epublicans, 2027488001. Ndependents, 2027488002 crystal from pennsylvania on our democratic line. Caller i want to say as an African American woman, i was offended by one of your callers calling you a little girl. I want to start off by saying that. I want to apologize on behalf of all americans when someone tries to belittle a woman this way. The first caller, the woman who said they did this fo to barack obama, i agree with h er 100 . To be honest with you, im getting a kick out of all this stuff with trump. I didnt care for what committed didillary Clinton Comey to her clinton, however, i still respected him as the chief fbi agent. Comey is kicking trumps behind in getting a kick out of it. And im getting a kick out of it. Listening to all of trumps supporters supporting this man when the hillary investigation went on for years and they spent millions and millions of dollars on that. Thank you so much and have a good day. Host ron is calling in from webster city, iowa. Independent line. Caller how are you doing this morning . Ive got a question about this russia probe. Why dont they investigate the cia in the Public Interest and see where that leads . Have a good day. Host john is calling in from pennsylvania on our republican line. Good morning, john. What are your thoughts about the latest developments . Caller my question is this. For the last two years, there hasnt been one good thing said all onresident trump at the media or anywhere to be honest with you. 400 millione was given away to iran in the middle of the night like a crack deal president and they found out about it, where was the investigation there . Wheres the investigation for 1. 7 billion we gave when we supposedly owed them 400 million . To give them 500 million in uranium. But thats ok. This man says a few words to russia this is an collusion this is not collusion. This man has done everything he possibly can to do that. We have a woman running for president who gets a congressional subpoena for 33,000 emails. Thats 33,000 counts, felonies email her emails. R this man is restoring our jobs. The manevery time is very raw in what he says. I totally disagree with what he says. I dont believe every muslim in this country should be ripped out of here because a lot of the muslims dont even know what the carranzkoran says. George soros owns the machines in 26 states. The head of the new world order. Host this week in the democratic weekly address, congressman David Cicilline of rhode island said this about the ongoing rush investigation rush investigation. Russia investigation. [video clip] isan independent commission the best way to ensure we achieve this goal. Republicans have been stonewalling an independent commission. This week, democrats filed a motion to demand a vote to create this critical independent commission. Donald trump promised that as president , he would drain the swamp in washington. He promised that he would create 25 million new jobs. And he promised that he would make life better for millions of families across our country. After four months come all we administration and chaos that has a lifted a finger to help her working americans. After four months come all we have is an administration in lifted at hasnt finger to help working americans. Every time donald trump create a new scandal for himself, he takes away from the important work we need to get done for you. Host virginia on the independent line from North Carolina. Caller good morning. My name is virginia. Watched a documentary on hitlers the other night hitler the other night. The people of germany followed hitler widely. Blindly. People are following donald trump blindly. They cant seem to face reality. This man should be charged with treason. Host cecelia is calling from tampa, florida on our democratic line. Respondi would like to to two things. Trumpsut donald campaign. A lot of the things he said he lookedo in his campaign, to me like he doesnt have an agenda. Under the rug some of the stuff that former president obama did. Youou follow his trail, will see that everything hes doing, hes trying to wash away did. Ood that obama host let me ask you what your thoughts are about the latest news about this russian probe. Is they question putin. King about snowden put out a lot of social securities, names, he tried to run with this information to different countries. But, the russian people did the same. Snowden went to russia. They gave him asylum when he got there with that information. Host lets take a look at some reaction from our elected officials on twitter to the latest news about the russian probe. Senator Patrick Leahy said a picture of the president with russian officials in the white house. Blumenthalor richard we also have senator Chuck Grassley as we know, former director comey will be testifying before the senate Intelligence Committee. Senator grassley goes on to say reaction from some lawmakers to the ongoing probe into russia as we continue to take calls and get your thoughts on the latest developments. Steve is calling from california. Republican line. Caller i have a comment. Trump right which law did trump break . He spoke to the russians. Hes the president. He can do that. The woman who called about hitler, she doesnt know what shes talking about. Was in a depression at that time. Hitler blamed the jewish people, but he turned germany into a super power within five years. Trump is not hitler. Trump is a man who will dig them out, hes also a man who loves this country. Talkor blumenthal should about him being in the army, which he wasnt. Come on. You watch the news, cnn, msnbc, morning joe, this guy is supposed to be a republican, that they had the debates and they put a republican on and they shut him down. Host are you concerned at all about the part of the investigation that focused on what russia did to try to interfere with the election . Caller no. It concerned, but if you did he did it. He has a big mouth. I dont agree with his mouth. I think he is rude and crude that hesme the proof done something wrong. What law did he break . Host don is calling in from missouri on our republican line. Caller ive got a question about your sources. It seems most of the subject matter, even when you start the program, i noticed that you start with quotes from the New York Times and the Washington Post. 75 of your information is coming from those two publications. I feel like youve unwittingly become a mouthpiece for those two publications. Do you have any other sources . Host so far, weve been reading sources from a number of news organizations. Do you have thoughts about the probe and how its going forth . Caller i agree with trump to this extent. I think it is strictly a witchhunt. Thank you. Host more coming up from the hill about former fbi director james comey and his upcoming testimony. Says the senate Intelligence Committee announced friday evening comeys testimony in the open hearing was scheduled for after memorial day, coming amid continued fallout over Donald Trumps from firing of the chief last week. German richard burr said in a statement from announcing comey would testify chairman richard burr. Pennsylvania. Democratic line. Rich, what are your thoughts today . Caller the whole thing with trump i hate to say it, but i told you so. I tweeted this out months ago when this was all starting to go down. ,irst of all, these right wing great, patriotic americans were always the russians were this, we will always beat the russians trump during his campaign russia. K away, thats when the collusion started. Now, you have every person that trump has dealt with as president has some sort of connection with this. I would like to ask republicans n themember when obama wo election and mcconnell said he would be a one term president . Trump wont even see the end of two years. I hope to god that americans of ,ll race, color, creed religions wake up and stand together and drive forth, march as we the people on d. C. To demand that we get rid of this partisan bs that is ripping this country apart. Wanted . What jefferson is this what john adams wanted . Wethe people must demand take our country back. Its time for we the people to take it back. Host mark is on our independent line from philadelphia. Caller good morning. I just want to say to the Trump Supporters out here, you keep saying theres nothing there, theres nothing going on if theres nothing there, why didnt trump want comey to keep going with his probe . Did he want a loyalty pledge from comey when he had that dinner meeting with them . He said you ditch this investigation or you are out. Is basically a boy scout. You are asking an untouchable to break the law. I wonder about his judgment. Ofs man made millions dollars. Is this how he ran his corporation . Thank god it is privately held. If you was running a publicly controlled corporation, hed be ankrupt if he was running publicly controlled corporation, hed be bankrupt. Host the investigation could include a probe into whether there was a coverup. Investigators into russian meddling are now authorized to probe whether white house officials have engaged in a coverup. Thats according to members of congress who were briefed friday by rod rosenstein. Rosenstein told members of the house of representatives that the special counsel in charge of , robert mueller, has been given the authority to investigate the possibility of a coverup. Charlotte is on the republican line from georgia. Caller good morning. That i thankto say god for our President Trump. I think he needs to clean the swamp. He promised he would clean the swamp. I think he needs to finish that job. I praise him to the outpost. Utmost. Our country needs to get back to god. I think hes the man to do it. I think the christian people of the United States are the ones who put our President Trump in office. I think the democrats and liberals need to back off and the media back off and leave him alone and let him do his job. Host howard calling in from miami on her independent line. Our independent line. I think theres clearly something going on. Incidences ofmore russians being in contact with trump people. It could be very interesting where it goes. Is thesturbs me underlying thing thats going on is the Republican Party is engaged in dismantling this country. The incidences of that are everywhere. The things theyve done under the cra, trump reverses and obama order that now allows Mining Companies to blow the tops off mountains and dump the refuge into rivers and streams. They reversed that and then to allow thisll pesticide thats been banned for 20 years. People in california are already suffering incidences from using that pesticide. The republicans have been systematically changing the way the electoral system works. They been passing all this legislation they have been passing on this legislation. No pushback with all the factual evidence that exists. Theres no such thing as voter id of any consequence. The Republican Party has nothing but real contempt for the institutions and the people in the media. The investigation has now reached the white house. Caller i think it was in the white house along time ago. This has been going on for over a year already. Comey started this investigation back in july of last year. Theres clearly something there and it will come to light. If putin wanted trump elected come all he had to elected come all you do was see whats elected, all he had to do was see whats going on host the demonization of muslims was a trademark of his nationalist campaign. Hes hoping the air world will listen to a new message. Will listen told a new message. It goes on to say the capstone of trumps 48 hours there will be a speech he delivered to the leaders of 50 muslim countries at a summit here sunday afternoon. Trumps advisers have previewed the address is a call for the muslim world to partner against evil. Bob is calling from california on her democratic line. Our democratic line. Caller people are expecting to have proof regarding trumps misconduct in office while trump has been working diligently, hiring people firing people who are investigating him. The House Committee just sat on their hands. They didnt request any papers or subpoena anything. To people in power right now thisrefused to look into to try to stop it. A couple of people are leaving congress because of their actions. Proof will come out. The president is a businessman. This businessman likes to dance along the line of the law. ,ith his money and his lawyers thats how hes made his way in the world. He can challenge anybody and beat anybody down. The decision he makes are great business decisions, but they are not good decisions for the country. We are tied to many nations. This man is incapable of reading anything that has more than one page. Our government is not a one page government. The things he has to work on are more complex than bullet points. He doesnt have the depth of understanding what he needs to do to help a country. Right now, we are doing what we originally did with the now, you have People Living in the country with coal mining we dont need the people anymore. We just rip the mountaintop off and throw it into the stream beside it. You got a job yet . You out there in the slave states. No. Business shipped our jobs overseas. The government didnt. Business day. Businesses that. Businesses did. Demanding change deliver an emphatic victory for rouhani. Minister announced rouhanis victory on saturday on state television. Up next, we have nick calling in from sarasota, florida on our independent line. Caller good morning. I know that the Mainstream Media and the democrats want these special counsels for the russia probe. Im for those because i think in the end, it will exonerate him and we will find of all these flynn ascept for far as political discussion come i think we will find that they are exonerated. The democrats love special counsel so much, we need for more. One for benghazi, one for the irs, one for fast and the furious and one for the clinton s. I suggest President Trump orders Jeff Sessions to do just that. Host trey gowdy is a favorite to lead the House Oversight committee. Republicans on capitol hill say led the house into the 2012 attacks on american diplomatic benghazi. And beng in the news comes as congress been Jason Chaffetz of utah congressman Jason Chaffetz of utah would be leaving next month. Greg is calling on a republican line. What are your thoughts on the latest in the probe into russia which has now reached the white house . Caller truthfully, i just believe its another democratic tactic they are using against trump. Because they lost the election and trump has only been in office a little over 100 days. Patient,ody would be just like the man from sarasota thesethey are just using tocial investigative people burn up the american tax dollars for something that doesnt need to be done. We have problems in this country that trump is trying to take care of. Harry reidts retired. If he would just back off a little bit and it they fire pelosi i dont know how she got rehired host let me ask you this. The special counsel o was appointed by an appointee of President Trump. Does that change your view of at all that this is being pushed by democrats . Caller no. Party they become a very evil party in the last eight years. Obama eight years to destroy this country. It will take trump a little bit of time to get us back on track. Everybody be patient and let the man do his job. Resolved. Will be host some other headlines from the New York Times. Anthony weiner has played guilty in that case that rattled the clinton campaign. His texting scandal ended his political career and embroil him in multiple is its a will to tumultuous fbi investigation of Hillary Clinton before the election. Those communications included sharing explicit images and encouraging her to engage in ually solicit conduct sexually explicit conduct. Calling from monticello, georgia on our independent line. Caller thank you for taking my call. In another view. I hear democratic callers and some independent callers democratic callers and some i couldent callers not choose between the lesser of two evils. Whats weighed my boat was the Supreme Court nomination what vote was the Supreme Court nomination. We have talk radio and cspan the others have lost all could ability. All credibility. The support of Mainstream Media to the democratic party, they are scrambling. Instead of opening up and admitting failure, they are doubling down. This is a tactic to stall the president. This nextrent rate, midterm election, there will be a democratic party. Wont be at there democratic party. We need journalistic integrity to be represented here. Its really sad, enough to make a man cry to see whats happening to this country simply a10 years of relaxation on law and order 810 years of relaxation online order. 810 years of relaxation on law and order. Arms rights up in now. You cant get real information. Host another headline out of cnn saying russian officials bragged that they could use Michael Flynn to influence donald trump. Russian officials bragged in conversation during the president ial campaign that they had cultivated a strong relationship with Michael Flynn and believed they could use him to influence donald trump and his team. The conversations deeply concerned u. S. Intelligence officials. Flynn was tapped to become trump National Security advisers. Fromwas a five alarm fire early on, one former Obama Administration official said. Potentialviewed as a National Security problem. Vicky is calling from houston, texas on our democratic line. Caller im calling to let you know i dont believe a lot of the colors i believe a lot of the callers on the republican line are delusional. This investigation is going forward. As americans, we need to set up a different party. This is a fearful time. America is in such a worse case that isnt true. So many kids are graduating from high school, going to college. Theres a lot of good things in america. For everyone saying leave it alone no, dont leave it alone. Continue to investigate. At the end of the day, whats going on in that white house is fearful. Ns will comeamerica together and realize its not about republican or democrat, this is our life thats at stake. If we have a president in office giving out information that can harm our children, we should think about that. The russia probe should and will continue to reach the Top White House advisers because everyone has hadhis president connections with russia. This is frightful. We need to wake up. The lady who called and said leave it alone, no, dont leave it alone. The senate and house of representatives, those people are there for a reason. They are there to be our voices. Cspan is a good network to get news. You see republicans stand up there every day and announce every good thing denounce every good thing that comes forward to help our children. Republican representatives and senators say things that are contrary to what we need to do. Wake up. The world is at stake. We need to stand up. Host President Trump is a broad today come in saudi arabia, the first day in a nineday trip abroad that will last through may 27. It will include stops in israel and rome and the vatican and brussels for a nato meeting in sicily for a g7 meeting and sicily for a g7 meeting. Annie is calling in from mississippi on our democratic line. Good morning. Caller good morning. Host what are your thoughts about the latest developments . Caller everything donald trump imma ad it been sick and tired of republicans talking obama this come obama this everything obama tried to do my donald trump is trying to destroy. Ied to do, donald trump is trying to destroy. Anything donald trump wants, republicans give it to thim. Host more reaction from members of congress to the latest news. According to the hill, one democratic senator called it outrageous that President Trump referred to james comey as a nut job. James comey is scheduled to testify sometime soon before the senate Intelligence Committee. Pauline is calling from ohio honor independent line. Dust on our independent line. Ohio honorng from line. Nden on our independent caller i love your coverage of the president ial elections. Commentary breaking and constantly saying what they think. I could care less what the announcer says. I want to see for myself what is going on and you guys, cspan, you are notfair breaking in and saying this or that. Its really gossip. Much of the news today is gossip. Then, the people who dont , they takek about it it as gospel truth and its really not. You are not guilty until convicted of something. Now, hes already tried and convicted in this russian thing. Im very upset with the whole bias of this. Our country right now is being triped greatly by this that this man donald trump i find it shocking that even this station today is not showing that. Weve had enough of putting america down. Its always bad news that they want to come after this president personally, the then of this president should be honored. Obama was honored. He had the press behind him. Thats what i have to say. Host bill is calling in from jacksonville, North Carolina. Republican line. Caller thank you for having me on. Im a retired marine. We have an election process in the United States the bottom line is the people have spoken and we need to get behind the president. We have proved absolutely nothing at this point. Theres nothing that has proved that donald trump has done anything wrong. The democrats should be mad. Two weeks before the election ended, he opened that investigation back up. That is what slammed hillary against the wall, not that she should have been there anyway, but we just need to get behind our president. He is our president. Ok. Host we will discuss the pentagons report on the Islamic State with andrew degrandpre, Pentagon Bureau chief at the military times