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Happened today. tomorrow the full house is going to vote to give the judiciary committee chairman the authority to go straight to the courts to try to persuade a judge to also hand over the grand jury from the mueller report, then the day after tomorrow the house intelligence committee's going to start its own series of hearings on mueller's report. the first one being on counterintelligence implications of mueller's report. as much as the action on this scandal, on this investigation has previously been in the courts, as of today, as of this week, it really is shifting into congress in a sort...

Who you'll hear from on wednesday not in the mueller report either. your committee is talking about the counterintelligence implications. what does that mean? >> a lot of what was redacted in the mueller report, john, had to do with intelligence matters. it's redacted because it makes references to sources, to methods for gathering information, and that is part of this story that has not yet fully been told. what do we know about what the russians exactly did to prepare the many, many approaches to the trump campaign. who is involved? what methods did they use? did they use companies other tha...

The democrats took control of the chamber. the white house has been refusing to turn over a majority of the evidence. for more let's bring in national security correspondent, it's still going, correspondent of politico and msnbc contributor natasha bertrand and attorney as well as words matter podcast host katy barlow. thank you for being here. natasha, i want to start with you. what's the democrats' political strategy here for the whole public hearings this week? >> well, i think that they're not getting many answers from several of the actual witnesses that mueller interviewed over the cours...

Correspondent manu raju is on the scene for us. how will this war of words impact all the growing calls for impeachment proceedings? >> the house has been out of session for part of this week, but behind the scenes the debate has continued to intensify and next week we'll expect to spill out into the open where democrats will have several hearings to spotlight the findings of the mueller report, calls will grow from democrats to open up an impeachment inquiry. the house judiciary committee having a hearing on monday of next week with the former white house counsel john dean to discuss the find...

And to ari's point, that's exactly what i'm listening for, as well. will he go beyond the report? i personally don't think he will in this forum. but when it comes to volume one of the report, you know, he lays out an explanation of the various more than 100 contacts between trump campaign officials and associates and russians. and he explains that he didn't find a criminal conspiracy. but so much else, chris, is left out of that narrative. the counterintelligence implications of those contacts. what i mean by that whether those contacts threatened american national security. whether the fbi c...