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As news we were reporting this afternoon that they had planned to end the investigation. not surprisingly, schiff reacting strongly to this decision to end the investigation. he says the history is going to judge the republicans harshly for the decision to cede oversight on this key issue. decided not to investigate a number of key matters, refusing to get more information people like hope hicks as well as steve bannon who conaway says will not hold in contempt. i asked conaway why are you not i...

Lewandowski to answer questions. youll remember when they came before the committee, many of them in effect invoking a very broad interpretation of executive privilege, not answering those questions. democrats on the question wanted to hold them in contempt but republicans on the committee did not do that. in fact, in effect, did not compel their testimony before the house intelligence committee. >> jim sciutto, appreciate it. lots to talk about tonight with the panel. with me tonight, ab stodda...

Matters, rex tillerson was a voice of reason. >> thomas, what do you think about the -- you made the same comment that john did about the management of the department of state. i mean, ive got to imagine that rex tillerson is a better manager than he turned out to be at the department of state and that this has to do with the fact that this administration just does not hold the state department and its role in the same esteem that prior administrations have. >> thats correct. i think he could ha...

That he was going to go out of his what i to turn this committee really into an arm of the white house or an arm of the presidents legal team. but even when you recalibrate your expectations and you know thats what his goal, he still manages to exceed expectations. and go kind of above and beyond. and this report really, its a farce in so many ways. its a farce in its conclusions about what happened, given that they allowed witnesses to come in and refuse to answer questions with no follow-up, n...

And go kind of above and beyond. and this report really, its a farce in so many ways. its a farce in its conclusions about what happened, given that they allowed witnesses to come in and refuse to answer questions with no follow-up, no subpoenas, no attempt to hold anyone in contempt. and its a farce in claiming putin wasnt trying to elect trump. not just because the intelligence community has concluded otherwise, but grand jury of 23 average americans pamping in the mueller investigation return...

Theres a lot there there and thats the sad truth. i dont believe it leads to the president. >> lets bring back david zurowik of "the baltimore sun." there was a lot of criticism of television networks putting nunberg on the air especially with the suggestion he might have been drunk or drugged. how did you view this? >> brian, theres no reason not to put him on tv. i thought tv -- >> if hes drunk? >> look, you know what he said ta erin burnett which was an incredible moment in television and i t...

You said hes going to get away with it, john. what is the purpose of this kplkpl committee? >> well, it is an intelligence committee. it used to be nonpartisan. >> it seems like it had as no teeth. >> it doesnt. it takes a majority of the committee to put somebody in contempt. that goes to the full house. the full house is controlled by republicans. theyre not going to do it. if they did do it, it goes to the u.s. attorney who is a republican and hes not going to enforce it. so theyre going to g...

Move on past lewandowski. they believe they got answers to their questions. and its unclear, erin, what else theyll do with steve bannon threatening to hold nim in contempt for not answering questions. but right now uncertain whether theyll move forward with that. >> of course "the washington post" has been talking about mueller zeroing in on that meeting in the seychelles between a russian insider, putin insider and black water co-founder erin prince. and now schiff is calling for prince to ret...

Investigation these include questions about the production of the false statement concerning the trump tower meeting. witnesses dont get to pick and choose who it comes to very relevant testimony during an investigation. >> so he is answering other questions about events after the exchange. can he get away but answering the other questions, john? >> i think he can. >> maybe he did. >> i think he can and he did. and, well, that seems to be the pattern from front of this committee. republicans con...

Contempt. the full house is controlled by republicans. theyre not going to do it. even if they did do it, it goes to the u.s. attorney, who is a republican appointee and hes not going to enforce it. theyre going to get away with it. >> and good night, folks. seriously. jack? >> yeah. look, i mean, it does go back to speaker ryan. if speaker ryan wanted this committee to act like a congressional committee and get to the bottle at bottom of thes and not have their way with the committee, things wo...