the seychelles and appears to have omitted crucial details of the nature of that meeting where robert mueller appears to have access to which kind of crystallizes the gap between what s happening on the mueller side and what s happening in the intelligence committee. right, chris. he said he went to the seychelles and could have ran into someone who could set up this person who we now believe could have been a setup to be a back channel between the trump administration and the russian government through an emirati conduit. that now seems to be coming to a head in the mueller investigation. he is a looking into it. it appears to be a lie by erik prince. but the house committee did not find it necessary to go back and interview him. in fact, as matt pointed out, they spent a lot of their time on the politics of this. we know the nunes memo came out of this committee. that of course was to undermine the basis of the mueller investigation anyway, trying to say that it all depended on a
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 president s legal team. but even when you recalibrate your expectations and you know that s what his goal, he still manages to exceed expectations. and go kind of above and beyond. and this report really, it s a farce in so many ways. it s 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 it s a farce in claiming putin wasn t trying to elect trump. not just because the intelligence community has concluded otherwise, but grand jury of 23 average americans pamping in the mueller
dossier that they could discount. but in fact they re kind of omitting a lot of really key information that could have led to the fisa warrants that were used in the mueller investigation. so they ve really been used for a long time when nunes was heading it, and then when conaway was heading it to try to push back against what the mueller investigation was finding. any news was coming out of the senate intel sort of seen as a counter weight. but before we dismiss it completely, it would have to be house republicans while they still have the majority who would have any kind of an impeachment trial on this president. of course. if it came to that. while it s easy to just dismiss it and say they didn t do their due diligence, if this is the conclusion of the body, it shows us where they stand on this, and that they don t think it s a political calculation they want to take to really look into this issue. that i think is true. one of the people, todd rooney who is on that committee,
people, many of our fellow citizens as a credible process. and it simply wasn t. and we should also note there is huge omissions. manafort, the person who is facing a raft of charges and probably is the most inextricably bound to pro-kremlin interests was never interviewed nor was papadopoulos, a number of those people. matt, i want to read you the schiff statement there is a question about how the democrats on the committee deal with this now. adam schiff saying this. by ending its oversight role in the only thoshzed investigation in the house, the majority has placed the interests of protecting the country and will judge its actions harshly. what do you think the democrats on the committee do next? i think they have to take their case to the american public. look that. don t have any control of the committee. they can t call witnesses and themselves. they can write a response to this report. but they have to take their case to public and point out what a flawed investigation th
space. nunes has made it very clear he is off looking at the state department now. going to try to find some way to show that allies of clinton were somehow colluding with the russian there s. another claim we didn t touch on that this claim makes is it was the clinton campaign with the russians to elect, i don t know, elect donald trump i guess. they re not done. if this committee keeps kind of running interference for the president and his legal team, which i think they are, adam schiff and the democrats on this committee are going to have to keep pointing out when the facts don t add up. and julia, the mueller investigation really doesn t look like it s wrapping up right now. you ve been reporting about this expansion and the expansion into the seychelles meeting. they do not seem like they ve basically figured it all out and they re done. that s right. i m going back to the conversations we re having at the end of 2017, chris. we re talking about what we were hearing out of the