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Phone records, other primary source documents. through this discovery process, and this lawsuit, they want to depose witnesses, they want campaign documents. again, this is specifically looking at whether there was trump campaign involvement, and what has otherwise been seen as a russian operation. so -- and i should mention that the lawyers involved in this, the people who are suing the trump campaign here are freaking highfalutin high-powered people. so there's that. think about this from the perspective 6 the trump white house. think about the perspective from their lawyers, their legal tea...

Columnist, and peter emerson, a contributor who's worked for three democratic administrations. elise, we'll start with you on this one. as many know, you have a national security background here. give us some context based on that about this document request, that is the other big headline in the last 24 hours. the senate intelligence committee asking for trump campaign documents. is this just part of process or is this unusual? >> well, this is just the russia investigation fully heating up. this is going to be an ongoing process that i predict is going to go on for many months, if not years....

With kremlin. that's one headline from "the washington post." then there's this one that also came out last 24 hours, trump's son-in-law had undisclosed contacts with russian envoy sources. then the third headline that ca out last 24 hours, senate intelligence committee requests trump campaign documents. it's a triple order that all adds up to a rough homecoming for donald trump, the president and his family. joining us now is mika oyang, vice president third way for national security. thanks for being here right now. i want you to put on your hat if you can being on the hill and being part of...

Investigation is absolutely important. setting up an independent commission to look at this involvement is absolutely essential. that's the next step of which we need to do because we're not going to be able to move along or to continue in this manner. >> it is the friday night before a holiday weekend. this would traditionally be a dead period for news. we just gave you a big piece of breaking news from "the washington post." guess what, folks. i have another handed to me in the last few minutes. this also from "the washington post." thank you for the material tonight, "washington post." the ...

Ourdom been a to make this argument the timing of this we just can't underestimate in terms of what that means with what's happening about who kifr the investigation. so the assistant attorney general who sends this letter is the person in charge of the russianau investigation. so he sents a let's ieth even campaign documents from the hillary clinton campaign to jeff sessions who is apparently misled congress. to then send that to donald trump. there's so much in here that is so suspicious and suspect. i think what the trump administration does not realize is what they have baus