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Discuss at that session in open session what that information was. so, you know, the bread crumbs, if you will, were being left in those june appearances, and so thats when we started to piece this together. >> maria, you know, a lot of people could listen to this and say, look, what is the big deal if jeff sessions meets with the russian ambassador and talks about the trump campaign? he was on the campaign, one of the top surrogates. it would seem normal. what else is he going to talk to the ru...

Take whatever bread crumbs are sprinkled on the ground about us. i think this is significant that he is now for the first time saying something happened, and we have to find out what it is, because we cant how a thing like that to happen in our election process. yes, he has been pushed to the wall now for nine months, ten months, 11 months. that is actually a first, though, in talking to reuters saying something happened and we have to get to the bottom of it. >> baby steps. now we need to get t...

Of the campaign potentially a solicitation of something of value, which is an independent violation of the law. >> bob, i understand the level youre talking about is somewhat theoretical. if youre bob mueller looking at this, is this something he needs to a add quickly on or add this to the file that investigators and prosecutors will get to eventually? >> we have no idea what range of issues mr. mueller is looking into and all of this will take quite some time. this raise as host of questions t...

That the russians are involved in this, its very unlikely that a russian intelligence officer -- you know, when they plan out an operation, they want to make that operation is successful. the other part of that planning is to make sure if it is compromised, that the lines that trace back to russia are in fact murky. its very hard to come back and say, this is definitively the russians. so an example in "the wall street journal" report, you hear russian hackers. what you dont hear is russian inte...

Fingerprints of a very clear intelligence operation. >> when you say non-attribution, what is that? >> thats a very good point. so if we think about this idea that the russians are involved in this, its very unlikely that a russian intelligence officer -- you know, when they plan out an operation, they want to make that operation is successful. the other part of that planning is to make sure if it is compromised, that the lines that trace back to russia are in fact murky. its very hard to come b...

In this, its very unlikely that a russian intelligence officer -- you know, when they plan out an operation, they want to make that operation is successful. the other part of that planning is to make sure if it is compromised, that the lines that trace back to russia are in fact murky. its very hard to come back and say, this is definitively the russians. so an example in "the wall street journal" report, you hear russian hackers. what you dont hear is russian intelligence officers or russian cy...

So if you get the information out there that mueller is investigating the president, that makes it much harder for the president to go ahead and do that. >> doesnt it, though, seem really obviously, though. given the fact pattern, that mueller had to be investigating the president for obstruction of justice because it would be negligent not to. you have bread comes everywhere -- >> by the way, i thought that was a very -- an investigation -- you want to investigate something doesnt mean its a fo...

Gloria you said earlier today director comey left a lot of bread crumbs out there about the attorney general. did the attorney general clarify anything, address any of the unanswered questions? >> sweep the crumbs away is what he did. first of all, the big confrontation today between senator ron wyden and sessions was about one of those bread crumbs because comey had said, well, i expected -- the question to comey was why didnt you go to sessions? and he said, well, i expected him to recuse hims...

Probably could not disclose more in a classified setting. its unclear how much more information he would give to the committee even if they went behind closed doors. >> thanks very much. the president just arrived back from a trip to milwaukee. air force 1 there on the tarmac at joint base andrews. we will talk more about his day shortly. the big story swirling around him, reports he was thinking about firing special counsel mueller. joining us our political eagle panel. gloria, you said that di...

And they essentially made the same argument. that argument will stand unless the congress is willing to test it. >> despite -- >> i dont anticipate seeing that. look, we didnt get -- sessions went there for one reason and that is to deny this -- the bread crumbs, to sweep them aside as gloria said. he did not add much to the rest of the story. the one thing i thought that may have been underplayed but struck me strongly given the context is that he sort of kind of casually conceded that he never...