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Election or not, it's true that the white house has done little or next to nothing to stop it from happening. again, we know from comey's testimony the president really didn't weigh in on this question how to prevent a future cyber attack. we know that the attorney general jeff sessions. to your point, huge partisan break down, right of whether something illegal took place. but, rick, 27% of independents, that is to say far more republicans are concerned about illegally here. >> yes, i think the news media has done a terrific job trying to expose what's going on. and i think the drum beat of r...

There are real questions as to whether he's the right guy for this particular job. >> michael isikoff, chief investigative correspondent for yahoo! news. congratulations on this scoop. thanks for being here. >> thank you, rachel. i will say this story that isikoff published today, part of the reason i wanted to have him on today to talk about it, this is not just a washington gossip story about who doesn't want to be associated with trump or what big names have been approached and what they've said. if this presidency is going to be challenged by this investigation, if there's an extential q...

The question was, did the president ask? they are answering by saying he didn't feel pressure. they're not addressing the question of what actually was discussed in that meeting. >> and adam, in terms of the other sort of -- the other person in that meeting, what you describe is that there was a larger group that was meeting for a briefing at the white house. again, this was march 22nd, according to your reporting, and the president asked as that briefing was breaking up, he asked not only for dan coats to stay in the room but for mike pompeo, the director of the cia, to stay in the room as we...

Asked -- director of national intelligence -- getting asked whether he and the nsa director discussed amongst themselves these requests from the president. watch. nine seconds. watch. >> have you talked about this issue with admiral rogers? >> that is something that i -- i would like to withhold that question at this particular point in time. >> not a term of art. i would like to withhold that question. that's not a thing. dan coats said he would like to withhold on that. pause. we all got pregnant watching that pause that was so long. that happened back on may 23rd. no answer.

Know, the intelligence agencies separate from the politics. and for the president to seemingly appeal to him to encourage him to reach out to comey was something that coats was not -- obviously had problems with and clearly did not feel comfortable with. >> to be precise. what you're able to report is that the president basically inquired with dan coats as to whether he could do this? and dan coats -- is that fair? >> that would be an accurate way of describing it. he asked him if he would be willing. if he could do this. and coats felt like that was -- he told his associates he was uncomforta...