The latest Political Developments of the day and interviews with top newsmakers are featured. The 06day period. This needs to be over with soon. I think its been very bad for the country and were at a point in this inquiry where they can wrap it up. Mayor, i know youve said and i said we want to see this come to closure soon here. Mayor . Yes, we do. Its about time that it ends. I also think and i hope the Special Counsel is sensitive it as we are. We do not want to run into the november elections. So you back up from that, this should be over with by september 1st. I think it needs to end very soon and it needs to end very soon because the nature of whats taking place here is irregular and thats being kind. From lock her up to wrap it up, that sounds like lawyer speak for we might be losing. The latest evolution of their messaging strategy from no dough lugs to collusion isnt really a crime to lets call the whole thing off, we see more signs today mueller is zeroing in on another trum
he seems likely to become the probe s next target. one of his close allies, the monterey madam, testifying before a grand jury in the investigation today while another one of stone s allies is being held in contempt of court today for refusing to comply with the judge s order to testify, which means he s choosing potential jail time over cooperating with robert mueller. here to help us understand all the day s developments, joips advance, former u.s. attorney now law professor msnbc contributor, frank figliuzzi former assistant director for counter intelligence at the fbi and msnbc contributor. on set with us white house reporter from the washington post ashley parker and correspondent for the north county times. joyce, let me start with you and the machinations of this for a nonlawyer and someone outside this court, it seems like a bizarre, bizarre trial with a very interesting character as a judge. tell us what it means that they were on pause for so long, do we know what they were d
nervous. do you really want to be on a big case now if you re a line fbi agent, you may get called before congress, have hundreds of thousands of legal bill turnout like pete strzok with millions of dollars of legal bills. there is a deterrent to get if involved. if you re the republicans i can see why they ve done that. the fbi has been the greatest gift to donald trump in this story. the page and strzok text messages, between the agent leading into the investigation in which he expresses an tip-trump bias. thats what an important thing for trump trying to turn the narrative in the other direction. frank, do you want to get in on that? it s a good question as to whether or not people will think differently or do their business differently in the fbi. and the one thing that i can think of is actually unfortunate, which is that now fbi professionals have to start thinking politically. how is this going to be perceived on the hill? how is this going to spin politically? should we be
destroy the credibility of the fbi attacks land at the fbi? some of these people were, are highly regarded figures who had the bureau s interest in mind and they are now political chum in the water for rudy and the president. look at the damage they ve done. the director, the deputy director, the general counsel and the top counter intelligence agent. so, in that sense they ve cleared out the folks the closest to this investigation. i think the fbi is as good enough of an organization that whoever replaced those folks are probably as capable. but what a deterrent and what a success it has been to hollow out the agency in the way that they have. but is there any fear all those people did that we just named, they ve scrutinized the fisa application. they ve scrutinized the dossier application. the surveillance was fruitful enough to continue to reauthorize it. is there any change how they go about doing their jobs because of these attacks? i don t think so. they re probably a lit