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Into these energy companies, administration officials say that they managed to get these russians out of the system. but theyre also responsible for cyberattacks and theyre going to be targeting russia for those as well, john. >> michelle, stand by as well. i want to bring in phil mud now. i want one thing not to get lost here. almost every entity and individual listed in the indictment from special counsel robert mueller several weeks ago has now been hit with sanctions by the treasury departme...

Individuals. >> i think phil muds analysis is right on. the sanctions were imposed last august. it is eight months later. why did it take the administration so long? it is the hot breath of the mueller investigation and the indictment of these very same entities a month ago that they didnt have a choice. they had to come out and impose the sanctions. so the question now is, why dont they impose the rest of the sanctions on the russian government? >> senator nelson, well have much more on this wi...

Accura accuracy crim monnous committees. i can only hope that we will be able to work in the traditionally bipartisan ways on those issues. >> joining me now, phil mud and gloria borger. phil, explain what you think of the republican closing the committee essentially. >> we have a responsibility when we look to our congress whether they are democrats or republicans. they are looking at the same issue that mueller is looking at. how many times in the past two hours since this story broke have we ...

Said in the last segment, the chairman went running with his hair on fire to the white house to tell them something they already knew which turned out to be very political, part of the reason he had to take a step back. this is a shame because as you said this is supposed to be the committee that does oversite to find out what went wrong, to fix it in the future. just the fact that republicans have decided to present the findings on their own without consultation is evidence of how broken it is....

We are back with breaking news. house intelligence committee, republican majority members of the committee concluding there was no collusion between the trump campaign and the russians, concluding the russians, repeat, did not try to help donald trump win the election going against the u.s. intelligence communitys assessment. rod rosenstein that oversees robert muellers investigation said this awhile ago. he said special counsel robert mueller is not an unguided missile. i dont believe theres an...

Wolf blitzer melted down on camera and said he didnt want to discuss the contents of the memo with the republican congressman who he was interviewing because he said the content was the memo was too political. cnns phil mud said this memo would drop like a lead balloon and it was a gift to democrats, which is silly. well continue to see this type of coverage and the minimalization of the memo and deciding to cover other stories over this memo because it doesnt fit their narrative about mueller, ...

Behind this memo, behind what he views as doj, fbi abuse during the campaign season and over the russia investigation. democrats say its to undermine bob muellers investigation. nunez says he needs to investigate whats happening with doj and the fbi. hes getting support including the house speaker who said paul ryan. it will be behind whatever nunez decides to do. wolf? >> we are going to speak with another member of the house intelligence committee. we have more information. stand by. i want to...

Party continues to push them forward to not give the votes there. i think the key issue right now as we watch the clock tick down is, is there an end game at all. people say somethings happening, talks are clearly ongoing. but as of now a final proposal, even a final potential proposal still not in the works, at least not publicly, wolf. >> not yet. phil, thank you very much. its important to note that the president tweeted excellent preliminary meeting in oval with senator schumer. making progr...

Positive. >> phil mud used to work at the cia, used to work at the fbi. how does a government shutdown affect law enforcement, the intelligence community, national security? >> i wish the american people understood this, because its painful. its not painful in a bad way. i mean, i would expect that if there is a shutdown to be relatively short. going over the weekend and early into next week, even if youre told youre not getting paid, you know going into this situation that when they come up wit...

President firing mueller when you say you want it over quickly or be allowed to run its course? >> i dont have any reason to think that the president is going to do that, thats obviously up to him. >> whats your reaction to that, phil? >> why should it be over quickly? that is the former director of the fbi, robert mueller nominated and served under president bush, renominated in a unique moment in american history by president obama, has to follow the facts. those facts involve everything from ...