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Potentially and, again, we have not independently corroborated whether or not susan rice asked for the unmasking of whoever the official might have been, but the person that would grant that is in a separate part of the government, and then there's the other batch, and that's the people that were speaking to the washington post, those nine officials, former and current, that initially broke this open. a lot of moving parts, but in some ways the white house probably -- you get the sense, ali, they like the line of questioning about the story because it's about susan rice, and it's about the unm...

The election back in 2016. we don't know the timeline yet for them seeing the documents. the house intelligence committee has resumedts meeting schedule this week. do know that's a little bit back on track. ali. >> all right. casey, thanks very much. we'll check in with you later. casey hunt at capitol hill for us. joining me now to discuss this a little more is democratic strategist doug thornell, a former national press secretary at the democratic congressional campaign committee, and msnbc political analyst and senior political reporter at usa today. heidi. good to see both of you. thank yo...

Have never heard of him. i don't know what he is talking about. ali, just to take a big step back on this, if you take the three main pillars of this story, that initial washington post story that had nine current and former officials, the initial story that said susan rice was behind the unmasking that eli lake story and bloomberg news -- >> james comey an investigation into what role russia played trying to influence the election

Repeal and talk about repairing, there are lots of ways you can make obama care better. governor mcauliffe talked about some of them. lower premiums, lower the price of drugs. a public plan option, medicare for everybody. look, let's have a reality check here. ron alluded this, and i would agree. this is not going to happen any time soon. it's not going to happen this week. they take two-week vacations. when they come back, they're going to have four days to make sure that the government doesn't shut down. that's going to preoccupy them. at best we're looking at something long range, but i rea...

And potentially corroborating -- collaborating with the trump campaign or transition. a lot of moving parts. white house is still playing the role as the assignment editor, but officially ag nosic on whether susan rice should face the testimony. >> again, to be clear, susan rice as the national security advisor requesting the unmasking of names does not necessarily equal leaking. >> that's absolutely clear. there's a bright line distinction between that, ali. you have officials in various white houseshat ulbe something the national security advisor would do. request for the sake of national se...