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The memo. what i am saying is if we vote as a committee, to release the memo to the public and insert it into the congressional record, it has to go to the president and then a five-day waiting period to be inserted in the next congressional day that is the time line. >> why not let it go to tonight to the president. >> that is a separate vote. we think it is fair that the members get ample opportunity to review it on both sides just as they did with the majority report. >> so you could have tak...

Majority report. >> you could have taken a separate vote and allowed them to send the report to the president at this hour? >> we could have, but they also indicated they wanted to have the fbi and doj look at their report. thats fine. but -- >> to look at republican report as well as the democratic one? >> yes. as i said before, the fbi director has seen our memo. it was only four pages so he can read it pretty readily and come up with an opinion along with his two top advisers and legal counse...

Republicans for not following up on the tips these investigators have given them. this idea, gps was hired by the conservative online publication to find dirt on trump. but glen simpson has been hired in the past to find dirt on the clintons. this guy has been around for a long time and hes worked for republicans and democrats. hes gone to the committee, given them all this information and said look at trumps real estate dealings, look at paul manafort. and hes openly saying republicans wont loo...

Not. but we will find out at the end of the day, because there will be a majority report from the senate and house and a minority report. and i can suspect or predict the minority report will be far more interesting probably because itll contain the details from the investigators that can be corroborated and found out. >> whats your take? >> ultimately this is partly an exercise by this company to clear their name. theyve gotten caught up in a situation thats really difficult for them. and i thi...

Seder, host of the majority report. its not to notice the kind of crescendo building in the presidents favored media outlets about mueller. >> right. >> there is one theory they thought was interesting, and josh barro and a bunch of other people said its not a move to fire him. its an attempt to delegitimize whatever he comes up with. >> yep, thats right. >> because they still learned the lesson from firing comey from exploding in their face. do you buy that? >> i do. and that is very much a par...

Coup in america? not saying it. just asking a question. at the same time, trump may move to box mueller in by firing his boss and replacing him with someone more pliable. the man who oversees mueller is deputy attorney general rod rosenstein whos that that role because attorney general jeff session had to recuse himself from the investigation. now trump has long cast aspersions on rosenstein, and now advisers tell "the washington post" that on recent discussion trump has complained that rosenste...

Its just going to continue. and the final report will have an asterisk on itch joining me is eric swalwell. he represents northern california, thanks for being here. you represent a very nice place in california, where my parents live and where i grew up. let me ask you about why you and congressman sclif issued these similar warnings, usually, to my mind, are you signaling that there is extental pressures on the investigations that your committee is doing that you think might be dangerous. >>...

Let me ask you about why you issued similar warnings, essentially, to me mind, signaling that theres pressures on investigations your committees doing that might be dangerous? >> yes. russia infected the election this year, but we dont fully know how affected we are. the best antedote is unity. unity in the investigation, complete investigation, setting terms of the witnesses and turn over documents and make progress. this unity this year, we have a majority report with a flat earth, you know, s...

This account and also want to know if he was using any messaging apps or private services to communicate and if so, what those were and they want to see the documents, as well. his lawyer responded saying that there was nothing on the private e-mail account relative to the investigation and disclose it. its unclear where this goes from here. >> thanks. lets bring in host of the majority report "pod cast." i dont care much personally about whether jared kushner was using an e-mail or not. the pre...

Saying they were concerned that he had not disclosed this e-mail account and relevant document on this account and also want to know if he was using any messaging apps or private services to communicate and if so, what those were and they want to see the documents, as well. his lawyer responded saying that there was nothing on the private e-mail account relative to the investigation and disclose it. its unclear where this goes from here. >> thanks. lets bring in host of the majority report "pod ...