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house counsel pat cipollone and his former deputy, patrick philbin. coming up on thursday, the federal magistrate judge who approved that search will hear arguments for and against unsealing the search warrant affidavit. cnn's jessica schneider joins us now. so what do you know about the fbi's interviews with pat cipollone and patrick philbin? >> reporter: yeah. anderson, we know that the most senior former trump officials to be interviewed in what we know is really this ongoing criminal investigation into the possible mishandling of the classified documents and this revelation that ...

Doj and the fbi. what will be interesting to see is if a more formal request for investigation comes from the white house to doj and the fbi. at that point doj and the fbi are going to have to explain to the white house why there doesn't appear to be any evidence of a crime and why they didn't simply do an investigation of a white house personnel matter. i don't think it's going to get to that point. >> to kelly ann's point, if there is a foreign government that finds out who the author of this op-ed is, could they then ultimately have blackmail leverage over this person: i think that's a stre...

Get rosenstein out and stop the special counsel investigation and the d.o.j. train, and these two trains are about to collide, sitting squarely on the tracks is the special counsel. so, what's happening here is time is being bought by d.o.j. and fbi to allow mueller to finish his job. but what i'm telling you is going to happen, sometime in the next 30 to 60 days is that collision is going to really come very close. and what's going to happen is the republicans on the hill are going to start demanding the names of informants and under cover agents. we saw a hint of that yesterday. at some poin...

Subsequently this tweet. >> so well, the president made remarks, i would expect in response to this reporting to say that again inspector mueller appears to be going beyond the confines of his initial purpose for his investigation, which many conservatives like myself initially supported, but appears he is going far beyond the bounds of his duty. as far as the president's tweet now, there is considerable evidence that the fisa court and this entire witch hunt began with the steele dossier, which was unverified, paid for and financed by the hillary clinton campaign. that disclosure was not made...

Fbi and doj are democrats, republicans, independents. if someone saw a politically motivated investigation being carried forward, they would undoubtedly stand up, raise cane. the idea substantively that it could happen is wrong. then this interesting idea that this president believes he can direct doj to open and close specific investigations. that's contrary to the way our system of justice works. it is up to the attorney general, up to law enforcement based on predication to believe a crime has occurred to take that kind of action, and of course there's significant oversight that can occur o...