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Putin and blames the u.s. intelligence community they are silent now. >> martha: but releasing the fisa request, is to point out there may have been collusion all over the place. you hire christopher steele and the hillary clinton campaign is paying for this stuff and use that to get the fisa report. you can laugh. why not answer the questions? >> those are assertions that are just that. there is no evidence to back that up. i would support getting as much information about the russia investigat...

Assertions untrue. writing quote in my 40 years of work, i have never before heard of such disturbing accusations. i can only surmise they are surfacing now for the first time decades later as part of a concerted effort by others to destroy my name, my reputation, and my career. lets bring in howard kurtz, fox news media analyst and host of "media buzz". howie, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> sandra: you make the case this is the most prominent and powerful person yet to be brought down...

Significance beyond that. it was a relatively minor plea agreement. >> so harry, lets talk about the roger stone and creditco part of this. it seemed mueller is zeroing in on stone. sto stone has said he expects to be indicted. my question to you having worked in the justice department, do you think today which is 60 days to the midterm, duke the idea the justice department cant bring anything in that 60 day window applies to anything with stronger stone? >> the short answer is no. no as weve le...

Yet. certainly my a.p. colleague in montana tonight spoke to a few people in the crowd there at the trump rally. no one there seemed to care about this op-ed. that wasnt what was on their mind. obviously these are trump supporters, but if they viewed it at all, the suggestion was it was just another effort to try to undermine this president. that hes doing a good job. thats what they care about. they dont care about some op-ed from some career bureaucrat appearing in "the new york times." though...

Around him. >> nancy cook, two kinds of guessing games under way. number one, where is the denial to all the assertions in the op-ed? number two, where does the guessing game stand as to who wrote this? >> well, its interesting to me, as you said that people in the white house arent really denying the substance of the op-ed. there is not a lot of denial of the substance of the woodward book, which makes it seems a lot of senior officials in the white house baby sit trump and pull papers off his ...

But its senior, but maybe not one of the, you know, household names, would it also be an argument to go ahead and print it, if that person provided evidence that there were top-level people who were involved in this sort of group effort to contain this presidency? >> absolutely. >> its not the end of the world if the person isnt a household name as long as theyve really brought to the table the facts and they can be multiple sources? >> well, thats true, but then you really have a burden to assu...

Confidential should be put in historic context. there will be an opportunity for us later this afternoon to meet in secret private session to discuss this nominee. thats not unusual. its done for virtually every nominee. some of the meetings are literally a minute or two. we say theres nothing to talk about and were leaving. its happened in the past. whenever we dealt with committee confidential, it was something that was very special and usually very personal to a nominee. it was done by bipart...

Historic contest. there will be an opportunity for us later this afternoon to meet and confidential and secret private session to discuss this nominee. that is not unusual. it is done for virtually every nominee. some of the meetings are literally a minute or two, we say theres nothing to talk about and we are leaving. but it has happened in the past, whenever we dealt with committee confidential it was something very specific and usually very personal to a nominee. it was done bipartisan agreem...

Commonly agreed and put that into the context of what we are looking at and particularly with respect to chairman leahys questioning earlier. if some of the documents he is looking for have now been protected by this nonassertion/assertion of executive privilege, we have a problem. it is a continuing problem in the committee. we have had other witnesses come and do non-assertion/assertions of executive privilege. i am sorry to drag committee business before you, but i think its important to get ...

Brian. no briefing on the schedule today and the president set to meet with the emir of kuwait. nbc news is pool. unlike yesterday hoping to get questions to the president, i can tell you today we actually will have a chance to ask him about all of this, brian. >> thank you for adding fact theres a whole room set up for just briefings. every day. perhaps. kristen welker on an otherwise beautiful day in washington on the north lawn at the white house. so phil rucker, to the points we have just he...