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And great that trey gowdy has come out and said that there was no spying. but why can't paul ryan say it? why can't mitch mcconnell say it, why can't devin nunes say it? as long as they're not willing, they are accomplices in the president's efforts to torch the rule of law in our country. it's time for them it say it. >> you have i think you're a normal person. you strike me as a person who gets along with people regardless of politics. mitch landrieu of new orleans said don't let your politics decide who your friends are. some people can live like that across the aisle. when you talk to repu...

As we said, a lot of development and breaking news today, all over the political world. including a scoop of our own. our first real indication that special counsel robert mueller is targeting the president personally. and he's investigating whether mr. trump personally was involved in russia's interference campaign. not staff, but this is him individually. multiple people familiar with the probe telling nbc news that mueller's team is asking witnesses if trump had advanced knowledge about e-mails stolen from the dnc and the clinton campaign. trump the individual not the campaign. mueller's te...

In his tweet about the impact. that is not something that mueller is looking at or can really effectively assess. that is difficult to evaluate. nonetheless, it was an opportunity for the president to say that it matters to all americans, not simply to republicans or democrats. this matters to the internet companies, it matters to the tech companies who have been subject to the interference campaign, to a number of specific individuals. but more broadly, to the country, to the country's democracy. and frankly to all democracies. and it is an opportunity for the president to also refocus the co...

That we don't yet know about. time will tell. >> kristen, i want to go back to this. i'm just sort of stunned here. they put out this statement, and in all caps, it says, no collusion. >> right. >> i mean, do they not -- do they not grasp how this appears? i mean, do they not read shakespeare? it's sort of -- to lead with that and not with the shock and awe of russian interference with one of vladimir's closest friends leading an interference campaign, do they not grasp how this looks to people beyond their core supporters? >> reporter: well, and i think that you can almost hear the president ...

On that point, reported in this article senator john thune does have oversight and ftc does regulate these companies. some have been calling for more regulation. do you have any view of that account from this reporter and this article that this effort basically provided a kind of pressure on facebook where they were more worried about republican or conservative agenda items than alleged bias? >> i think facebook and google and twitter should all be worried that their platforms could be weaponweaponized. i think we should take the politics out of this. ari, what we know about the interference c...