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Happened today. tomorrow the full house is going to vote to give the judiciary committee chairman the authority to go straight to the courts to try to persuade a judge to also hand over the grand jury from the mueller report, then the day after tomorrow the house intelligence committees going to start its own series of hearings on muellers report. the first one being on counterintelligence implications of muellers report. as much as the action on this scandal, on this investigation has previousl...

Who youll hear from on wednesday not in the mueller report either. your committee is talking about the counterintelligence implications. what does that mean? >> a lot of what was redacted in the mueller report, john, had to do with intelligence matters. its redacted because it makes references to sources, to methods for gathering information, and that is part of this story that has not yet fully been told. what do we know about what the russians exactly did to prepare the many, many approaches t...

The democrats took control of the chamber. the white house has been refusing to turn over a majority of the evidence. for more lets bring in national security correspondent, its still going, correspondent of politico and msnbc contributor natasha bertrand and attorney as well as words matter podcast host katy barlow. thank you for being here. natasha, i want to start with you. whats the democrats political strategy here for the whole public hearings this week? >> well, i think that theyre not ge...

Correspondent manu raju is on the scene for us. how will this war of words impact all the growing calls for impeachment proceedings? >> the house has been out of session for part of this week, but behind the scenes the debate has continued to intensify and next week well expect to spill out into the open where democrats will have several hearings to spotlight the findings of the mueller report, calls will grow from democrats to open up an impeachment inquiry. the house judiciary committee having...

And to aris point, thats exactly what im listening for, as well. will he go beyond the report? i personally dont think he will in this forum. but when it comes to volume one of the report, you know, he lays out an explanation of the various more than 100 contacts between trump campaign officials and associates and russians. and he explains that he didnt find a criminal conspiracy. but so much else, chris, is left out of that narrative. the counterintelligence implications of those contacts. what...

Russians would know that. and that would potentially be leverage they can use. >> well, exactly. that is i think under the rubic of counter intelligence implications. is exactly the point. this is standard operating procedure for the russians. is to seek and exert leverage if they can. i dont know the details here. this just from what is out there, this to me is something to be drn concerned about. >> always good to have you on. up next a 2016 kapd date take on the latest 2020 presidential hopef...

Roger stone. so, steve, how do you see all of this connecting? >> well, the manhattan madam part admittedly might be a bit out of my expertise. but i think the hard thing that mueller has to do here and of course hes uniquely qualified, as is his team, is move from all these pieces of information, many of which have significant counterintelligence implications. what are key people doing. where is money moving. what are the connections back to russia. what malfeasance is going on. in moving from ...

You look at this reporting about the russians having contact with campaign fishlgs at the republican convention. the russian didnt have to try to get meetings with the campaign officials like weve seen happen in the past. campaign officials were actively seeking out meetings with the russians. you have to wonder, for example, why would you want to meet with a former spy? why would you want to meet with the russian ambassador to the u.s. what were you talking about other than something that didnt...

Thats a really complicated. because there is legal implications, there is certainly counterintelligence implications. hopefully, mueller is trying to get to the bottom of that slippery slope. first you have to understand how the russians work. in the united states, for example, somebody reaches out to the fbi with a foreign intelligence matter and the fbi usually says, well, cia handles that, vice versa, cia has foreign intelligence matter -- but thats not the way it works in russia. everybody w...