saying i m joined now by ken delaney and ely stokeles. ken, let s just pick up that line from the fusion gps op-ed from the new york times i just read there. at the very end of that line, i saw when this went up last night caused quite a bit of commotion. when they re saying a source inside the trump campaign, some people were thinking that there s a trump campaign mole who is talking there. what do you know about that? that s right, steve. i got all excited, as well. it turns out that was a sly reference to george papadopoulos, who did ultimately begin giving the fbi inside information about the trump about what happened during the
the authors of that remarkable washington post piece tonight white house reporter ashley parker is with us. jeremy bash is with us. former chief of staff at cia and dod and former white house intel. white house reporter for the wall street journal ely stokeles is with us. white house reporter for the associated press vivian salama returns to the broadcast. welcome to you all. ashley i ll begin with you. begin wherever you wish, though it appears because there is some do you mean indication in both the post-and the times tonight this is something officials within the white house were anxious to share about their strategy and this at least investigation into the powers of pardons. well i have to say reporting this story tonight it certainly didn t feel like they were anxious to share it. okay. but it is true that the president s legal team is working very hard to undercut robert mueller s investigation, and as we both reported, they