situation. the leader said we'll take that up in a fair and open process and we will. meanwhile they need to release these other hostages that they took on the daca issue. >> dana, we'll leave it there. thank you so much. maybe the senate republicans made good on mcconnell's intention but the real big question is the house and how it moves forward there. we'll tackle that in the coming weeks. meantime, back to our breaking news here. we've now confirmed here at cnn the fact that the former fbi director, james comey, has been interviewed by the special counsel in this whole investigation, robert mueller. what that means as far as the speed, the breadth and depth. and the key question into what they're looking into, can they prove it? we'll be right back.