the manu tango for many miles throughout the halls of congress. the manu tango, i like that. when you know manu s waiting, that s what it is. he has answered a lot of questions, but now it s where the rubber meets the road. and when you have democrats such as nancy pelosi and schiff and castro saying that he s compromising the investigation, time to step aside. but in addition to that, we also have republicans lindsey graham and john mccain say that this is too much of a distraction, this is disrupting the house, and they re saying it s time for him to recuse himself. that is a time when you need to sit back and reflect, is this too much of a distraction, too much to overcome in order for us to do what is the ultimate goal, which is to have a fair and impartial investigation about russian interference and possible influence in our elections. dan pfiefer, we have you with us. you worked in the white house, obviously, for a long time. you are no impartial jury on this, but could a
briefed everyone multiple times on that conversation, including taking all of your questions. i don t know why you keep asking the same questions over and over again. yes or no, did the russia investigation come up? go back and look at the tape, and you will see that that question was answered in front of all the press last week. [ inaudible question ] i already all right, our manu raju following house intelligence chair devin nunes in the halls of the capitol, the bowels of the building, chasing him down with question after question. i think the headline is that the chair makes clear he is not recusing himself. said why should i? why don t you ask the democrats why i should step aside. so he is not recusing himself from this investigation right now. well, the other headline at the end, you heard manu say to him repeatedly when you went to brief the president at the white house last week, did the russian investigation come up at all? instead of saying yes or no, he said