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[ gunshots ] >> we are learning new information about the man who opened fire at that congressional baseball practice, shooting house majority whip steve scalise and three others. the shooter, 66-year-old james t. hodge kin son, he's from illinois. he is dead after police heroically engaged in a shootout. the shooter's motive still unclear, but investigators are honing in on his anti-trump social media posts. law enforcement officials telling nbc news, these posts appear to be from the shooter's social media accounts. just two days ago, one post saying, quote, trump is guilty and should go to ...

He didn't have the requisite quote unquote fortitude to explode it, that's why you wouldn't see him with the detonator in his hand. it looks like two first responders that close to him. and then looking at -- a number of folks i've spent on to that say it looks like vest. others say no, it looked more like tactical device. >> to be clear, we're just trying to look at these pictures and tell you what we see. as investigators look at these two member on the ground. what we believe is that these two, in the forefront and the back ground, maybe assailants connected to the terror attacks in london....

Congress member, before i end our conversation. with your back ground on the intelligence, i have to ask you about the reporting from "the washington post" and jared kushner. i want to ask something different. given what we know about russia attempting to interfere with america's election. why do you think it was anything but horrible judgment at the very least to set up a back channel with russia under those circumstance in a transition period? >> i don't have a problem with jared kushner or the trump administration talking with the russians. i expect during the transition process they are ta...

>> robert costa i know we talked you into joining us late on a friday night going into holiday weekend thank you for your reporting and contributions, you've been excused for purposes of this broadcast only but we'll be talking along the way, robert costa also host of washington week. rick, the idea of a war room, it's been threfloated out thereh existing names. again i heard the profer today this should be legal professionals if you're going to do it and communications professionals perhaps with fresh eyes. >> it's not a terrible idea. and to me the pro thing to do is to reefer all questions ...

That week a major new book was coming out, all the president's men. so much of the nation as woodward and bernstein were of course following the money. a lot of things related to watergate were about to come to a head but president nixonon was not home. >> getting your picture taken in front of the pyramids is as old as photography. and today mr. and mrs. nixon had their picture taken. with them, their hosts, president and mrs. sadat. and with the pyramids in the back ground, it made as nice a family album shot as anyone could want. watergate? let's get these pictures done. he was less than tw...