The russian investigations. We are asking our viewers about your views on the latest news in the russian pro. The russian probe. Democrats can call 2027488000. Republicans, 2027488001. Independents, 2027488002. Also on twitter and facebook. More from the Washington Post this morning about the latest in that probe. The probe has reached a top advisor in the white house. The Law Enforcement investigation into possible coordination between russia and the Trump Campaign has identified a Current White House official as a significant person of interest. Showing the probe is reaching into the highest levels of government. The senior white house adviser under scrutiny by the investigators is someone close to the president. The revelation comes as the investigation appears to be entering a more overtly active phase with investigators shifting from work that has remained largely hidden from the public to conducting interviews and using a grand jury to issue subpoenas. The intestate of the probe is expected to accelerate in the coming weeks. The intensity of the probe is expected to accelerate in the coming weeks. Tillerson, Jeff Sessions and Jared Kushner under scrutiny. Donald trump tweeted a photograph of him departing air force one there. We are getting your thoughts about the latest in the russian investigation. We have carol calling from georgia on our democratic line. Caller good morning. This is a good day. Started the Birther Movement and he fooled republicans that he was a republican because he was saying all that about president obama aint good everything he did to president obama is coming back to him. Everyone that did this this aint even half of it. The republicans in the house and senate are covering it up, too. Pay attention to them when they. Alk about this Pay Attention to the tone of the voice and the hate in their heart. Everything theyve done to obama is coming back on them. This is a happy day. Alleluia. Host a little more about President Trumps trip overseas. Today, hes in saudi arabia. The trip will include stops in israel, rome and the vatican. In brussels for a nato meeting as well as sicily for a g7 meeting. He will be traveling through may 27. His first trip abroad since coming into office. William calling from North Carolina on our independent line. Caller hello. Host what are your thoughts about the latest in this probe . Caller the russian contacts probe is a probe without a crime. Dershowitz has made it clear on tv last night that he agreed with what i knew immediately. Theres been no evidence of a crime, there hasnt been any suggestion of a basis for a crime. Theyre has been evidently have singled out Jared Kushner for talking to the russians, which is what he was supposed to do. Mr. Trump came and prepared to do things. I am not protrump. Im antitrump as to many of his actions. He came in prepared and his people did indeed act as though they were going to be in office in a month. Host at the bottom of all of these investigations is the fact that intelligence Officials Say russia attempted to meddle in the u. S. Election. Caller we dont know that for certain. Now, we have a group claiming the man who was killed in washington, d. C. Was the one that was communicating with wikileaks. He was in the dnc employment in some way or another. Were not certain of anything. You dont start an investigation until there is a crime. We have a Deputy Attorney general who is out of control. He says that the hillary investigation was flawed because had no authority to be a prosecutor of course, he had no authority. Use an investigator. He cannot be dubbed a prosecutor by Queen Loretta lynch who refused to do her job. What the newar york times reported about President Trump and his meeting with russian officials. It says mr. Trump added, im not under investigation. Joe is calling in from florida on our republican line. What are your thoughts about the latest development . Caller is just another false accusation by the press. Dncdemocratic party, the and the Political Class in washington, d. C. Are the worst enemies this country faces. They continue to be over and over. They dont believe in the United States of america. They dont believe in what we stand for. Think its terrible whats going on command attacking the president of the United States. Host the special counsel that was appointed to speak was appointed by an appointee of President Trump. Does that change your view at all that this is political . Caller no, it doesnt change my view at all. It makes a nonpolitical. Hes part of the administration. They appointed the special counsel. I think he will end up with no evidence of any crime and will go on for a couple of beers and the democrats will keep on talking and accusing, regardless. Years and thee of democrats will keep on talking and accusing, regardless. Host canton, North Carolina. Republican line. Caller good morning. Everything youve read this morning out of the papers has been nothing but hearsay. Donald trump accused barack obama the other day of having tapped his phones. Donald trump accused barack obama of wiretapping his phones. Everyone said, where is the proof . We need to see the proof. Person you the are pretty much saying hearsay could everything you read out of the paper today is hearsay. What you should be running up there is everybody in that building behind you should be asked a question today, do they deserve their sixfigure salary . Rich mighte getting t like you, little girl they are up there getting rich, just like you, little girl. What lets take a look at donald trump said on thursday about the appointment of the special counsel. [video clip] i respect the move, but the entire thing has been a witchhunt. Theres been no collusion between myself and my campaign i can only speak for myself and the russians, zero. I think it divides the country. We have a very divided country because of that and many other things. We want to bring this great country of ours together. Weve had tremendous success. You look at our job numbers, you look at whats going on at the border. You look at what will be happening, you will see incredible numbers with respect to the success of general medicine others with the isis situation. And othersmattis with the isis situation. Tomorrow, im going to saudi arabia. Im going to rome. We have the g7. I hate to see anything that divides. Fine with whatever people want to do, but we have to get back to running this country really, really well. Host in an effort to provide more platforms for you to share your voice, we are now accepting viewer videos via twitter. Respond to our question of the day by sending a video of one minute or less. On twittertag us when you send those videos. Of the next, we have sean calling from washington, d. C. On our independent line. Caller good morning. First come on want to say, that last caller who called you little girl, hes delusional. Im not surprised. This dude is a maniac. For all these trump whisperers saying its hearsay, the democrats, obama, blame the black man, they are delusional. Flynn hadll, michael so many connections with russia and turkey he might be in trouble, too. Mike pence and trump knew about them. There is so much evidence. These trump whisperers live in an alternate reality. It blows my mind. What are these Trump Supporters looking at . They want to throw out the blamete ad hominem and democrats and blame whoever. Manp said he would sue the he could shoot a man on fifth avenue and get away with it. Hes right. Host so far, there hasnt been any concrete evidence of any collusion between the Trump Campaign i and russia. Does that factor into your decisionmaking at all . You are absolutely right. Theres no concrete evidence, but theres indirect evidence. Im a police officer. Theres a lot of smoke. Whenever you have situations where you have a lot of smoke and you have people hiding trump could destroy all this noise. He could end the whole he stopped thef Intelligence Committee look into my tax records, look into my business. I dont have anything to hide. But, he keeps hiding stuff. Learned when somebody hides something, they are hiding something for a reason. Theres a lot of smoke for a reason. Caller in some other news host in some other news, politico reports that donald trump his aides that firing Michael Flynn was a mistake. Two days after firing michael as his National Security adviser in february, President Donald Trump told several eight in france he should have kept him instead. Several aides and friends he should have kept him instead. The flynn situation has been different. I was kind of stunned, one person said. We are taking your calls about the latest in the investigation into russian meddling in the election. Potential ties to the Trump Campaign. Democrats can call. Democrats can call 2027488000. Epublicans, 2027488001. Ndependents, 2027488002 crystal from pennsylvania on our democratic line. Caller i want to say as an African American woman, i was offended by one of your callers calling you a little girl. I want to start off by saying that. I want to apologize on behalf of all americans when someone tries to belittle a woman this way. The first caller, the woman who said they did this fo to barack obama, i agree with h er 100 . To be honest with you, im getting a kick out of all this stuff with trump. I didnt care for what committed didillary Clinton Comey to her clinton, however, i still respected him as the chief fbi agent. Comey is kicking trumps behind in getting a kick out of it. And im getting a kick out of it. Listening to all of trumps supporters supporting this man when the hillary investigation went on for years and they spent millions and millions of dollars on that. Thank you so much and have a good day. Host ron is calling in from webster city, iowa. Independent line. Caller how are you doing this morning . Ive got a question about this russia probe. Why dont they investigate the cia in the Public Interest and see where that leads . Have a good day. Host john is calling in from pennsylvania on our republican line. Good morning, john. What are your thoughts about the latest developments . Caller my question is this. For the last two years, there hasnt been one good thing said all onresident trump at the media or anywhere to be honest with you. 400 millione was given away to iran in the middle of the night like a crack deal president and they found out about it, where was the investigation there . Wheres the investigation for 1. 7 billion we gave when we supposedly owed them 400 million . To give them 500 million in uranium. But thats ok. This man says a few words to russia this is an collusion this is not collusion. This man has done everything he possibly can to do that. We have a woman running for president who gets a congressional subpoena for 33,000 emails. Thats 33,000 counts, felonies email her emails. R this man is restoring our jobs. The manevery time is very raw in what he says. I totally disagree with what he says. I dont believe every muslim in this country should be ripped out of here because a lot of the muslims dont even know what the carranzkoran says. George soros owns the machines in 26 states. The head of the new world order. Host this week in the democratic weekly address, congressman David Cicilline of rhode island said this about the ongoing rush investigation rush investigation. Russia investigation. [video clip] isan independent commission the best way to ensure we achieve this goal. Republicans have been stonewalling an independent commission. This week, democrats filed a motion to demand a vote to create this critical independent commission. Donald trump promised that as president , he would drain the swamp in washington. He promised that he would create 25 million new jobs. And he promised that he would make life better for millions of families across our country. After four months come all we administration and chaos that has a lifted a finger to help her working americans. After four months come all we have is an administration in lifted at hasnt finger to help working americans. Every time donald trump create a new scandal for himself, he takes away from the important work we need to get done for you. Host virginia on the independent line from North Carolina. Caller good morning. My name is virginia. Watched a documentary on hitlers the other night hitler the other night. The people of germany followed hitler widely. Blindly. People are following donald trump blindly. They cant seem to face reality. This man should be charged with treason. Host cecelia is calling from tampa, florida on our democratic line. Respondi would like to to two things. Trumpsut donald campaign. A lot of the things he said he lookedo in his campaign, to me like he doesnt have an agenda. Under the rug some of the stuff that former president obama did. Youou follow his trail, will see that everything hes doing, hes trying to wash away did. Ood that obama host let me ask you what your thoughts are about the latest news about this russian probe. Is they question putin. King about snowden put out a lot of social securities, names, he tried to run with this information to different countries. But, the russian people did the same. Snowden went to russia. They gave him asylum when he got there with that information. Host lets take a look at some reaction from our elected officials on twitter to the latest news about the russian probe. Senator Patrick Leahy said a picture of the president with russian officials in the white house. Blumenthalor richard we also have senator Chuck Grassley as we know, former director comey will be testifying before the senate Intelligence Committee. Senator grassley goes on to say reaction from some lawmakers to the ongoing probe into russia as we continue to take calls and get your thoughts on the latest developments. Steve is calling from california. Republican line. Caller i have a comment. Trump right which law did trump break . He spoke to the russians. Hes the president. He can do that. The woman who called about hitler, she doesnt know what shes talking about. Was in a depression at that time. Hitler blamed the jewish people, but he turned germany into a super power within five years. Trump is not hitler. Trump is a man who will dig them out, hes also a man who loves this country. Talkor blumenthal should about him being in the army, which he wasnt. Come on. You watch the news, cnn, msnbc, morning joe, this guy is supposed to be a republican, that they had the debates and they put a republican on and they shut him down. Host are you concerned at all about the part of the investigation that focused on what russia did to try to interfere with the election . Caller no. It concerned, but if you did he did it. He has a big mouth. I dont agree with his mouth. I think he is rude and crude that hesme the proof done something wrong. What law did he break . Host don is calling in from missouri on our republican line. Caller ive got a question about your sources. It seems most of the subject matter, even when you start the program, i noticed that you start with quotes from the New York Times and the Washington Post. 75 of your information is coming from those two publications. I feel like youve unwittingly become a mouthpiece for those two publications. Do you have any other sources . Host so far, weve been reading sources from a number of news organizations. Do you have thoughts about the probe and how its going forth . Caller i agree with trump to this extent. I think it is strictly a witchhunt. Thank you. Host more coming up from the hill about former fbi director james comey and his upcoming testimony. Says the senate Intelligence Committee announced friday evening comeys testimony in the open hearing was scheduled for after memorial day, coming amid continued fallout over Donald Trumps from firing of the chief last week. German richard burr said in a statement from announcing comey would testify chairman richard burr. Pennsylvania. Democratic line. Rich, what are your thoughts today . Caller the whole thing with trump i hate to say it, but i told you so. I tweeted this out months ago when this was all starting to go down. ,irst of all, these right wing great, patriotic americans were always the russians were this, we will always beat the russians trump during his campaign russia. K away, thats when the collusion started. Now, you have every person that trump has dealt with as president has some sort of connection with this. I would like to ask republicans n themember when obama wo election and mcconnell said he would be a one term president . Trump wont even see the end of two years. I hope to god that americans of ,ll race, color, creed religions wake up and stand together and drive forth, march as we the people on d. C. To demand that we get rid of this partisan bs that is ripping this country apart. Wanted . What jefferson is this what john adams wanted . Wethe people must demand take our country back. Its time for we the people to take it back. Host mark is on our independent line from philadelphia. Caller good morning. I just want to say to the Trump Supporters out here, you keep saying theres nothing there, theres nothing going on if theres nothing there, why didnt trump want comey to keep going with his probe . Did he want a loyalty pledge from comey when he had that dinner meeting with them . He said you ditch this investigation or you are out. Is basically a boy scout. You are asking an untouchable to break the law. I wonder about his judgment. Ofs man made millions dollars. Is this how he ran his corporation . T