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That i would be very happy. Absolutely. Lets not forget i know we have said it. But this investigation is over. The president never sat down for an interview with Robert Mueller. Thats huge. That was always the big question and something the lawyers never wanted to happen. They were able to prevent that and a subpoena fight. Robb eert mueller never put in request that was rejected. Thats very significant. Stay with me. This is cnn breaking news. Were following breaking news. Very Important News ...

Particularly high standard. and, you know -- >> but this doesnt feel like it was a low bar that they met. they -- i mean -- >> correct. >> thats what i mean. its not like they just had a, yes, you can -- there is a low bar. but they didnt -- but they more than met -- they more than cleared that bar. >> i agree. and ive always thought it was a very strange criticism that when given that group of circumstances, that there was even a question whether a counterintelligence issue is raised by that. b...

Information? will the public see any of that? will they see any of the underlying evidence? thats the big question going forward and what the democrats are gearing up to fight in the days and weeks ahead. >> those are important issues. jeffrey toobin, i want your reaction to what we hear from the chairman of the house intelligence committee. >> well, the intelligence committee is going full speed ahead. regardless of what mueller finds. the counterintelligence issues here are different but they ...

Investigation, the larger investigation into russias meddling in the election, to help russia? that, the fbis general counsel testified on capitol hill, was the national security concern of the firing. they saw the firing as a counterintelligence issue, an intelligence issue. not just a criminal thing, not, hey, lets make a case. its hey, lets use all the authorities and powers we have to figure out whether the president is tied to russia and firing comey to stop the investigation. >> you know w...

To do it. and in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story. >> joining me now is sam nunberg, a former trump campaign adviser, who was interviewed by the senate intelligence committee just yesterday. and back with me, our david cay johnston, former prosecutor, barbara mcquade, and msnbc contributor, malcolm nance. i want to start with you, sam. thank you for being here, first of all. i want to get your top o...

>> this is while he was on the campaign. >> while he was leading the campaign. >> stay with us. i also want to bring in the law firm of cordero & toobin. carrie cordero, cnn legal analyst and senior fellow at the center for a new american security. jeffrey toobin is a former federal prosecutor and also a cnn chief legal analyst, or the cnn chief legal analyst. carrie, can you think of any valid reason why manafort would be sharing campaign polling data with someone with ties to russian intellige...

Kind of discussion. >> this is while he was on the campaign. >> while he was leading the campaign. >> stay with us. i also want to bring in the law firm of cordero and toobin. seen yore fellow at the center for a new american security. jeffrey toobin is a former federal prosecutor and also a cnn chief legal analyst, or the cnn chief legal analyst. carrie, can you think for me valid reason why manafort would be sharing campaign data with someone with ties of russian intelligence allegedly? >> no,...

That is exactly right. the bottom line is, if you gave any counterintelligence official a choice between being concerned about age is credited dossier, being concerned federal president of the united states has 60,000 emails in the possession of an enemy power and you dont even know what is and 30,000 of them, i think they would view that is a much larger counterintelligence threat than anything that is being raised by the dossier. that is why this issue needs to be re-investigated and looked at...

The bottom line is, if you gave any counterintelligence official a choice between being concerned about a discredited dossier, being concerned that the president of the united states has 60,000 emails in the possession of an enemy power and you dont even know what is and 30,000 of them, i think they would view that is a much larger counterintelligence threat thanr anything that is being raised by the dossier. that is why this issue needs to be re-investigated and looked at. its a counterintellig...

Walling on this issue? >> i would say it has been given short shrimp from the beginning. they have never seen this as a counterintelligence issue that i think the reality. we ought to hear from the treasury officials who have expertise on this. we ought to have open hearings on this and yes, in both the house and senate, the republican leadership is ducking what i think is right at the center of this and thats following the money. by the way, steve bannon, i dont quote him often, thats what he s...