political operative that was probably very well planted there by john brennan during the initiation of the coup. that s what s goingby on. this is another coup attempt to remove donald trump from office and that s going to come out for everybody to see.g judge pirro: if in truth, tom in the last few seconds that we have, if this guy is a member of the cia and this is an intelligence community coup then what we ve got is just a repeat ofha russia collusion and they are going to lose again. j oh, yeah, but it s even more low rent than the russia collusion scam. this is the equivalent of office cooler conversation, mongering and gossip about what the boss is doing and they o don t like t andco they are griping. the gossip girl impeachment, a bunch of bureaucrats complaining about the boss and the idea a tt it would be a basis for an impeachment is an absurdity. judge pirro. amazing. tom, thanks for coming in. if you thought elizabeth
russians. joining us from washington, world news editor for axios. dave, good morning to you. hope you re staying warm this morning to say the least. as we well know the president has repeatedly said moscow is not a s threat to the u.s. but know now mueller s findings yesterday appear to prove otherwise. what is russia hoping to gain from meddling in this ongoing investigation? forg russia this is all abo muddying the waters, spreading confusion and division. i do think we have a situation here where when mueller comes back with something there will be a big chunk of the country f that says it s fake news or it was a witch00 or the democrats do worse. i think that s the kind of thing that the russians are trying to encourage here. theyo don t want this to be viewed as an impartial investigation. they want to it be viewed as something that s drummed up against president trump and against russia and spreading this kind of fear of russia and so this information kind of further that ca
ratherer than the way comby handled by padding the grand jury. i don t necessarily see the dire need for a special council. if they have onene fine. if they o don t, i think theey investigation will go forward by very competent people. laura: here s my problem with special council. they never end it just goes on and on and on. seemingly a limitless budget. very little oversight. very little and julian we were right. it starts off with well there s not really a crime, but maybe there s something with russia. collusion and then it goods out the window. now a business deal? or stormy daniels. and it is bizarre. why jeff tubein and sessions thinks this is a whacko theory. it doesn t even involve the russian investigation. it involved mccabe alleged discussions about the clinton