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I was cering it at the time. the house process was running the indicated. >> i think we need to be clear it's not just simply donald trump trashing democratic norms. there are a lot of folks who are complicit. this is claire mcgas kill. she's not on the left, left, left. she's calling attention to the fact of basic norms that defy the senate's normal way of behaving is tossed out the window. >> ben, here's what i find crazy about this moment. generally the way you try to get through big legislation, the president takes the lead and everyone sort of rose in the same direction. what they figured...

Amendment. it's all being done with an eye to try to get it by with 50 votes and the vice president. i am stunned that that is what leader mcconnell would call regular order, which he sanctity moanously said would you be the order of the day when the republicans took the senate over. give me an opportunity to work with you. that's what is so discouraging about this process. >> the chair of the center of african-american studies at prions ton joins us. it is remarkable that this process is happening, and i sat through months of hearings through the affordable care act. i was covering it at the ...

Among democrats, but now that this is public and nunes is still involved, the republican leadership will say this is not an okay thing. one of the big reasons why he stepped aside, nunes s because we learned of a house ethics investigation into his conduct here. so again, this is not just oh, i made a mistake. this is a real situation within the house process. >> it certainly is. shimon, you've done a lot of reporting. what's the reaction that we heard the possibility might have been yet another updisclosed meeting between jeff sessions and ambassador kislyak of russia? >> wolf, so i think it'...

And thinks it's not credible. you have this circle problem here that comes to the chairman of the house intelligence committee and his own committee. that's why i think the real answers, if we can get accepted answers to this, it's going to have to come from the senate because the house process has become so politicized. >> i want to continue this conversation. let me play more sound from the briefing with sean spicer. >> i'm wondering if the white house thinks it's appropriate for national security officials to be conducting what's basically a political task which is trying to find informatio...

You can't do that. there's a huge problem in the white house itself and i think reince priebus has a responsible to find out who was this. >> nunes has done an excellent job of undermining his own investigation because the fact that the ranking member came out and said he should recuse himse himself, the intelligence committee is not usually a committee that bleeding over into the senate and they're trying to keep this on the straight and narrow. however, because of how the house process has been it's starting to hurt their investigation. it's curious what he's doing at this point. he really k...