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What we're seeing here in the halls of congress or a hearing room of congress? >> well, i agree with frank, that vladimir putin must be very happy, as well as russian intelligence services because of the discord that's being concern in the halls of congress here. and that mr. trump continues to pursue policies and actions in making statements that very much are in keeping with what russian foreign policy intelligence objectives are. so i think that mr. putin must be looking with quite a bit of glee in materials of what just transpired in the halls of congress and this committee meeting. i thin...

>> career staff that some are concerned about. not handing over documents that have been asked for a subpoenaed by congress. do they have the obligation and are they trying to cover something up? >> very different question. i don't think it is the career staff making final decisions on what documents to forward. but i'm not, i would say it's very traditional for the department of justice to decline to get documents from a pending criminal investigation. here they've given many more than conventionally in the past in very serious can the duration themselves to protect and balance that with the ...

Have any conflicts of interest? >> chairman if there were any conflicts of interests brought to our attention i would discuss with mr. mueller and there could be review within the department if there were credible allegation of a conflict of interest. and so i'm not aware of any disqualifying conflict of interest. >> and msnbc contributor u.s. attorney and former fbi official and joins me now. thanks for being here. >> my pleasure. >> what did you make of what we witnessed yesterday? no surprised president tweeted things about rod rosenstein, about the russia investigation trying to undermine ...

Probe. >> g.o.p. chairman. those are fair balances. >> laura: run over to the documents. the documents -- i hear what you say but, tom. >> republicans stop fighting over documents. they control all three houses. >> laura: they want to know why this investigation was really started. the mueller popularity his approval has gone down from 47% according to cnn poll in december now it's down to 41%. obviously comey's numbers are in the toilet 32% of people supporting him. is it no wonder really that people are losing faith in this process given what we are seeing? >> everything that's come out has ...

Probe. >> g.o.p. chairman. those are fair balances. >> laura: run over to the documents. the documents -- i hear what you say but, tom. >> republicans stop fighting over documents. they control all three houses. >> laura: they want to know why this investigation was really started. the mueller popularity his approval has gone down from 47% according to cnn poll in december now it's down to 41%. obviously comey's numbers are in the toilet 32% of people supporting him. is it no wonder really that people are losing faith in this process given what we are seeing? >> everything that's come out has ...