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Received any additional resources. they have no additional staff they have no additional funding. if we think back to the benghazi committee, there were about 40 staffers, millions of dollars spent on that. this russia intervention in our do de -- democracy. both of intel committees are extremely busy and very short staffed already. they've got very full plates. and so to put this on top of that and expect it to be a serious investigation, i think is imagination. >> i want to take a look at what happened to the polling for donald trump's approval and disapproval. he has a 35% approval now. 57%...

I guess i wouldn't be surprised, either. i think we just need a serious investigation and we need to go where the facts lead us or the investigators need to go where the facts lead them. i, as i've said, many times do not believe the congressional investigations so far are serious. >> why are they not serious. >> because neither of the intelligence committees have received any additional resources. they have no additional staff they have no additional funding. if we think back to the benghazi committee, there were about 40 staffers, millions of dollars spent on that. this russia intervention i...

I'm not sure that's an amateur hour. that may be a different motivation. so just as there doesn't seem to be -- i agree with joel that there is no proof or evidence that trump was the target of surveillance. there still remains to date that there's been no evidence of -- despite owl the dots all the do piece of paper, no one's connected them to show any actual collusion, cooperation or coordination with the russians in messaging in the campaign. >> how much longer can they survive this drip, drip, drip? i don't mean survive that they're going to get pushed out of the administration. but until ...

The president tookde to twittero defend former national security advisor michael flynn and the president tweeted, this comes after reports say that flynn is willing to testify in front of the house andft sene intel committees in exchange for immunity. joining us now with reaction, conservative commentator monica crowley and we continue with jay secular from a legal perspective. monaco, you were there with general flynn. what happened to him, i don't thinki any doubt that leaking this intelligence was a violation of the espionage act. maybe other laws were broken, we will ask jay in a second. i...

"if you guarantee this confidentiality, i need to share this information with you. you need to see this." this is what sources do in the right way. instead of leaking informationea to the press which as we know it's a a felony. we have to make sure that that gets out there in terms of that. >> sean: well said. mercedes, we are going to lose you. thank you as always for being with us. jay stays with us. coming up after the break, former national security advisor michael flynn, general flynn, is offering to speak to the house and senate intel committees, but he's asking foree immunity. president...