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Sensitive part of the case may be the way in which congress gets the most insight into it. >> ron klain, i have this hunch that the justice department is acutely aware of what frank just described, and that at some level, in some corner s. maybe it's a skit somewhere, they understand the reality and not just the politics but national security implications. andrew mccabe opened a counterintelligence investigation into the president after the firing of comey. i hate to be at a bar in this conversation but i don't understand why republicans don't want to know how that turned out. i cannot believe...

By donald trump on election day. what congressman nadler said just there is that in a meeting today between former acting attorney criminal matt whittaker and adler and his staff, he says he did not stick with his testimony. there was questions about the truth isfulness in congress, and today the questions were realized. unlike in the public hearing, whittaker did not deny that the president called him to discussion the case. he was directly involved in conversations about whether or not to fire one or more u.s. attorneys. whittaker also saying in that meeting that he was involved in conversat...

Becomes an irrefutable fact. as these people actually go off to jail, people now just watching this casually, it's a bunch of lawyers yelling and screaming and processes and procedures, but we're going to see these people go off to jail. the fact the president surrounded himself with criminals, his national security adviser, campaign chairman, his other top advisers and that i think is going to take a toll on president trump politically. and it raises real jeopardy for the president and people around him legally too. >> and aaron blake, paul manafort before he slips off into his jump suit and ...

They have wrung them dry for every topic that they can. but i'm focused in on the fact that the mueller case is at its heart a counterintelligence case. what does that mean for the report, content and access congress will have to it? it means the house and senate intelligence committee, because at its heart it's a ci case, are going to be able to demand a briefing on the results and significant developments. when i was assistant director for counterintelligence, the rules were very clear, significant espionage and counterintelligence cases and developments in those cases must be briefed in a t...

Nadler admitted that he did, that the president did call into discuss the cohen case. he was directly involved in conversations, and while he was there he was involved in conversations about the scope of the southern district of new york, and whether or not the sdny went too far in pursuing those cases. >> i think this is fascinating on both ends, it is astonishing and surprising that the president would think this is a good idea or that matt whittaker would have attempted to af affectuate the president's plans. it is essentially to say nothing. career prosecutors will not end to the will of a...