oh! there s one.a the sea cow manatees in novelty ts? surprising. what s come at me bro? it s something you say to a friend. what s not surprising? how much money matt saved by switching to geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. breaking news, learning tonight president trump has spoken to key witnesses in the russian investigation after they spoke to the special counsel. this is according to the new york times which is reporting that the special counsel is also now aware of these
all right. so you do see it as active interference. absolutely. i want to turn, if i may, congressman, to the other breaking news at this moment. you heard manu raju reporting that prince, black water founder, who was a trump associate and brother of the education secretary may have misled the house intelligence committee meeting. they are saying prince did not say george nader was atmeeting. also reporting adviser to the trump at some point. nader is now cooperating with mueller investigation. what do you make of this, congressman? two problems there with eric prince behavior. one is you tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth when you are under oath before a committee in congress, especially intelligence committee that has own separate investigation with foreign interference in our election. prince did not do that.
this case as well as what the defense how the defense is prepared to push back. we know that the special counsel wants to have a trial date set by the middle of may. the question is whether or not the judge in that case agrees to it, wolf. already thousands of pages of evidence have been turned over as part of the discovery process, and the special counsel has said roughly 2,200 pages of that are relevant to this case. so this could shine some new light into the direction of this that the special counsel is going to be move as they move towards the trial date as early as spring, wolf. they re moving quickly on that. manu, thanks very much. manu raju reporting for us. joining us in the situation room, congressman who is a democrat on the armed services committee. thank you for coming in. i will get to the russia probe in a few moments. let s discuss the president. he insists he is not a racist. what is your reaction? have to look at the past, way back the when he was running dep
sides of the aisle as the house intelligence committee looks to wrap up its investigation in the coming weeks, wolf. manu raju reporting for us, thanks very much. let s talk about all of this and more with the top democrat on the house intelligence committee, congressman adam schiff, joining us right now in the situation room. thanks for coming? my pleasure. you just heard manu raju s report. do you fear republicans are laying the ground work to end the russia investigation? i do. and i think you can see, wolf, during the hearing yesterday with rod rosenstein, attacking bob mueller and attacking the credibility of his investigation and calling for an end to it. if they are willing to go to that length to discredit the fbi, the justice department, bob mueller, they will have no problem with shutting down the house investigation indeed. i think they view shutting us down as a prerequisite to shutting bob mueller down and we see very disturbing signs that that s what they intend
recently spoken with bob mueller as well as the fbi several timd. and of course he denies that he was involved in any collusion with the russians, wolf. all right. manu, thanks very much. manu raju reporting for us. let s get some more on all of this. democratic senator ben cardin of maryland is joining us. he s the ranking member on the senate foreign relations committee. senator, thanks for joining us. wolf, it s good to be with you. is this, what we just heard, is this evidence of collusion? well, it s certainly very troublesome. we know that there is direct contact and we know that donald trump jr. talks about, perhaps the russian sanctions issue. so these are very troublesome contacts and we need to see what the investigation comes forward. when do you believe that president trump himself may have learned about this coordinated russian outreach? well, we don t know that. we don t know exactly how much was shared, with donald trump