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Fiance and her father. All told, the congressman and his family avoided over 768,000 in losses according to the document. And the big question we are asking today is, what does the arrest of Congressman Collins mean for the midterms . Joining me nbc news political director and moderator of meet the press, chuck todd. Nbc news investigations reporter tom winter, New York Times chief metro Political Correspondent shane gold macher and former s. E. C. Enforcement attorney seth waxman. Tom, you have...

Have jeff sessions oversees the mueller investigation and in terms of his conversation between jim comey before he was fired. hes very nervous when he does not have that now. the u.s. attorney had recused himself and the idea of unrecusing himself were some sort of strong reason seems hard to imagine. it is something disappointing to the president. thats why hes worried and thats why chris christie said hell have a chill up his spine if he had heard these words. >> the president said openly that...

Buy into and really for the american people to believe in. >> democrats are not quite there yet. >> yes. >> congressman castro in texas, thank you sir for joining us. >> joining me now, our ken dilanian and our correspondent and peter baker and ben whitis. hes also an msnbc legal analyst. ken, mr. castro could not get into a lot of the specifics. obviously this is a closed door hearing. he did believe what the sdny may have on donald trump and his family. impa impa i am paraphrasing here, could ...

Of? if he has nothing to hide, he shrugs his shoulders. he once again holds the american people hostages, you investigate me, we are not going to make my progress. what kind of president is that? t >> the big question we are asking today, what exactly is the president hoping to achieve with this warning. joining me now garret haake, bill rucker and our senior fellow, ben whitis and our msnbc analyst. garret, how were those words taken on capitol hill, how republicans are saying publicly that t...

And there is nothing unique about it at this particular moment. >> the investigation, thats not a partisan investigation by most of the efforts from those committee. it has been pretty bipartisan and john cornyn is trying to keep it that way? >> thats exactly right and the senate seen that has a national security priority to get to the bottom of russian interference and the election which is the conclusion of all of our intelligence agencies have reached. >> ben, when you heard those words or wh...

Designed to send investigators off the path of evidence, or was it something just political that they were just trying to deal with the political problem? why is it that the president went to such levels to try and put this information out that was not true about the meeting. >> ben whitis, it seems like the presidents lawyers are really concerned that their clients will per injury himself, number one. so whats the game theory if you are on muellers side? what is muellers next step? >> so i thin...

Writing. we know that mueller has said some of the questions can be in writing. again they dont want him to have to answer questions about his time in office. so this continues to go back and forth. whats the outcome going to be? i spoke with rudy giuliani today. he said it will be a legitimate offer to find a way to do an interview. it wont be a refusal. so he is trying to stress that negotiations are still open, but katy, increasingly it seems like the two sides of deadlocked. >> no doubt abou...

Opportunity to answer questions. and if the president doesnt want to, hell just move on and finish the investigation without talking to him. the other possibility is that he actually really needs the presidents input on these questions in order to resolve this responsibly, in which case i think at this point you will see a subpoena very quickly because clearly at this point i dont think the presidents lawyers, a reasonable observer would say they were negotiating in good faith at this point. so ...

Path for answering questions people familiar with the matter said. joining me on the phone, one of the reporters on that by-line. michael schmidt of "the new york times." also kristen welker. and senior fellow and govens studings at the brookings institution, ben whitis, an msnbc legal analyst and editor and chief of "lawfare." michael schmidt, lets start with you. i want to read a portion from your article. by making another counterproposal after months of promises they were weeks away from dec...

Similar documents, many people in government called him a traitor and he is on the run from the u.s. government ever since. that is how highly sensitive many people believe the sources and methods are to this memo that was used to make this memo. joining me is ben whitis, editor of la fair and an msnbc legal analyst. ben, i know youve been following this as closely as anybody. and frankly the last half hour weve been reading excerpts of what is a just released transcript of the house intel commi...