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Connection question. a lot of news over the last 24 hours or so from nbc news and other reputable news agencies. and all said it may show the white house has notably notched up efforts in response to special counsel robert mueller. it starts with bloomberg's greg feral that they are investigating tax returns potentially included and the same day "the washington post" reported that the president told aides he was disturbed after learning mueller would be able to access several years of his tax returns. in short, by moving into the president's financial dealings, mueller is undergoing an audit o...

The daily beast. thank you both for being here. vivian, i'll start with you on this and let's reflect on what ken is reporting and what he was describing for us and that is just within the last 24 hours these developments, one of which is the washington post reporting and the development of financial disclosures coming from jared kushner and ivanka trump which both indicate what may be involving the russia connection question. >> that is right. so you have this basically realm that now the investigation is starting to swirl around finances and we saw earlier this week where robert mueller may ...

Weeks are going to be sort of where we see just how much of this meeting was nothing. and there is a good possibility, that, say, i think donald trump jr. -- donald trump jr. -- his explanation that this was really nothing -- they got nothing out of it. that's still a possibility. i think we're going to see exactly what they got out of the meeting in the next couple weeks. >> and then the investigation just getting larger, matt. you know the latest reporting donald trump jr. now going to be looked at by one of the investigations at least in this russian connection question, matt. >> yeah, i do...

A lawyer, michael cohen. the whole thing is just so bizarre. >> another thing to consider here, emily, the senate intelligence committee as we're watching throughout the week. it is kind of tough if you just drop in and put your arm around all the developments in one week. but this has only gotten bigger over the last seven days. the senate intelligence committee specifically in their investigation, they had that huge hearing, that open hearing with comey. they just told cnn on thursday they'd largely leave the statn into obsti of justice to the special counsel. specifically focus on russia an...

Ground in afghanistan. if the answer to that question is yes, i think there are two things that president trump really needs to think hard about over the next couple days we've releases his strategy. the first is we need to fully resource our mission in afghanistan. as you know, our combat mission ended december 31, 2014, but we still have about 8,000 troops there this in a variety capacities, mainly train, advise and assist. and then we also have a counter tr terrorism team there. so how many additional troops do we need and for what function, question number one. but question number two, wha...