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At some point you have to wonder whether or not they really need huntsman as an ambassador to russia, because in the trump white house, everybody is an ambassador. we are at the point where the people who are arguing its all a coincidence theyre the ones who sound like conspiracy theorists, because you have to make a whole lot of leaps and a bunch of hoops to get to the point where its all just a coincidence. >> philip mudd, congressional source telling cnn the timing and proximity between these...

Thats not a small amount of money. what i make of it is where theres smoke and smoke and smoke and smoke, you should investigate whether theres fire. im not saying there is fire. but donald trump since the beginning said you know what, i didnt do anything wrong. then he should say, thats why we should have a full scale investigation into this. let congress look into it as much as possible. the problem here -- and phil and jim make this point obasically whether or not they are doing unmasking ove...

Particular lines of inquiry. look, i understand that theres always going to be a little bit of a question around the chairmans motivations. this isnt the first time, you know, his objectivity called into question. you recall a couple weeks ago he and chairman on the senate side knocking down a "new york times" news story. so i understand that shadow exists. look, we are going to stay in this investigation because we dont have an outside commiss n commission. other the fbi and commission were the...

Questions they are meticulously logged by law. you cant do it in secret. theres a paper trail of it. we dont know what the explanation is for her comment there, but i do know from speaking to people yesterday close to her that she doesnt know specifically what devin nunes and others are accusing her of when it comes to unmasking because that was something seds in the regular course of her job. >> phil, what you call purposeful deception here. even if you assume susan rice is lying, being shady, ...

Discuss this. reporter editor-at-large chris cillizza, counter-terrorism analyst and former cia counter-terrorism official philip mudd. president trump has every reason to change the subject from whatever connections his campaign team was having with russians. today were seeing this is an effort to do this. explain to us what susan rice did, if it is proven she had these names unmasked, why that is business as usual. >> sure. lets be clear. you say the president has every reason to divert the co...

Broad scheme support. $1 trillion in new roads and bridges and projects that trump wants to dig in and do. he has his own people at the white house develop through the american innovation office how to do it and how to find private partnerships within businesses to get the roads going. that could be easier to get through congress than tax reform because tax reform is a complicated issue. there is a reason years have gone by and it hasnt been done. >> this is the issue of reforming the code and t...

Thats the end of the c conversation. >> your thoughts, a.b.? >> doubling forces in syria is high risk and leads to mission creep and if that is interested in working with the russians in syria. that is a controversial conversation. congress is abdicating its role. they did when obama was in charge. they said it has to come from you. they run into their connrners wn the conversation comes up. what i see in the trump plan is an amplified obama plan constantly reevaluating the support role and expa...

So can house intel chairman devin nunes truly lead an independent investigation into allegations of anything, really? after what we just saw here let alone with trump and rsussia? this comes after the hearing. lets bring back a.b stoddard and david gregory and phillip mudd. david, first, do we seal cancelling the hearing as another brick in the wall of his resistance to this or is this just process at play? >> well, it may be a little bit of both. i think he has a lot of recovery work to get bac...

Of them. >> were going to convene my top generals and give them a simple instruction. they will have 30 days to submit to the oval office a plan for soundly and quickly defeating isis. >> we will work with our allies and our friends in the muslim world, to extinguish this violent enemy from our planet. >> the top general did deliver that plan to defeat isis to the white house last month. so what do we know about whats in it and how it is working? lets bring back our panel. a.b. stoddard and davi...

Po potent online. still firtle ground. there is a human cry now for the president to very clearly distill the approach. >> obviously the standing off. they have not talked about it. phil mudd, where is the timing of all this? you are using the authorization of the use of military force from 2001. there is a congressional component about them not owning the constitutional duty when it comes to war and war acts. then you have the functional approach of whats going on in iraq right now. this most r...