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"washington post" correspondent ann gearrin cornell bolster and editor-in-chief matthew kont nettie. ann, your paper kept everybody up last night. i think the most intriguing aspect of this and i know you cant speak specifically but it was very clear in "the washington post" story that the government asked the post to leave some parts of this story out. that felt like a confirmation in and of itself. where does that request come from? does it come from the white house or, say, the cia? >> in thi...

Donald trumps campaign aides and russian operatives, which is notable that jeff sessions is playing a role in that given the fact we know he pledged to recuse himself from anything involving the russia investigation. the white house appoints an acting fbi directors comments just a matter of days ago saying there were in his words no effort to impede the russia investigation. chris? >> ann, let me go back to you. i wonder what you make of this by burr who obviously is a key person, as we look at ...

Consistent from the meeting in question. he said you should rely on the word of the people who were in the room and came out and gave statements. >> if you thought the congressional republicans were shaky before, i dont know if weve seen anything yet. >> how many days are we in? >> this is day 116. were going to have more. i dont know whats subpoenaable at this point or not. we know executive privilege is a big deal, but now youre going to have -- this would have changed the jim jordan oversight...

Doing the vetting process right now. we dont believe the president has been involved in that process but a lot of people are going to raise questions about what involvement if any he should be allowed to have. >> peter alexander, thank you for your sources. let me bring it back to the table. there is a pattern here to all these mistakes, if you want to call them that, that this president has done. its always involving russia at the end of the day, ann. its russia, russia, russia, whatever it is....

Become less of a partisan issue. >> all of these stories that have been coming out -- and again, its hard to keep track of all of them, ann, in some ways -- one of the stories that has really been building over the course of the last week or so was the possibility of some kind of shake up within the administration, shake up within his communications staff. but then the secondary part of that reporting has been that theyre already, as theyre reaching out, getting some push back. we saw today one ...

Fallout from this. big scoop of the hour. i would say scoop of the day but you never know these days. >> thanks for having me. >> you got it. let me bring in the panel, ann, cornell and matthew. the white house -- theres no part of the story -- the presidents own credibility is not in a good place so youre going to have to take the word of james comey or the word of donald trump, period. theres no other eye witness in that meeting. >> two things about this story. one, as michael said, this memo ...

Somebody, yeah. >> if i were speaker ryan, i would be begging him not to do that. >> it doesnt go through the house. this is mitch mcconnell. >> im talking about mid-term elections. i do not want this fight over his nomination. take the politics out of it. if im mitch mcconnell, speaker ryan, i do not want him nominating someone for the fbi. >> ann? >> yeah, i mean, thats perfectly logical but i could also see another scenario where the white house says, look -- >> part of the job. >> its part o...

Comey intends to speak publicly about this at some point, chris. >> ann, if i can go to you, because we were -- and this is break neck speed with which were dealing with this white house but whatever, less than an hour ago, we were talking talki donald trump had shared sensitive intelligence with russia, how you had to have mcmaster come out twice, last night, then again this morning talking about how it was wholly appropriate. a lot of analysts questioning frankly whether or not the president r...

Different conclusion. the reports that president trump thought of dismissing comey after the election. chuck schumer suggested comey should resign last fall. but what president trump did was first appoint an attorney general which took 2 1/2 months to get done and then ann assistant attorney general twho two to three weeks after recommended the firing. what if he was not fired for two more months. then it would have been the president hung on to him after a recommendation to fire. there was neve...

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