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Entirely up to the department of justice. brian? >> going back to russia just a bit. when he says he spoke with putin, and he believed he meant what he did. in other words there was no collusion with the government. >> he actually says he believed that putin believed what he says and he wasn't going to get into an argument with that when they had bigger things like north korea and the issues in syria they needed to deal with. >> so the question being, he's always maintained it was the democrats who colluded with russia. is he saying putin exonerated the democrats? >> the president still firmly...

In following up on all these threats about mitigating the threat to intellectual property, threatening steel tariffs on the chinese and everything. he's actually trying to get something out of them on north korea, and it doesn't seem at this point is not going to get a d nucearized north korea, it doesn't seem at this point that we can really figure out what he's asking the chinese to and he continues to threaten them on trade but i don't think is going to carry through on the threat. >> bret: 's big meetings today, byron. >> this is something he has to do. this whole trip, japan and south kor...

Part of his portfolio, but he's got to investigate. again, given this very troubling pattern of trump officials and trump campaign workers lying or conveniently forgetting about their relationship with the russians. >> fascinating. a lot here, and i want to reiterate in our reporting, as richard engel found, there is a paper trail here that raises new questions about wilbur ross, his financial ties back to russia, and whether or not that involves any other illicit allegations of conduct is not on the paper trail disclosed. the question being, will the senate look into it? senator richard blume...

Litmus test when it comes to a committee chairmanship? >> chuck, i don't think that's being discussed. it would be a question being asked by the press and by some of the blogs. >> right. >> but we don't operate as a dictatorship in the republican conference. and that's -- i really have not heard that discussed among members. >> and when your name comes up for primary challenges one of the things that people remind -- i think some of your staffers remind, you have voted with the president some 94, 95% of the time. i don't have the exact figure in front of me. >> i think it's 95.9. >> fair enoug...

Here's a question being asked a lot in washington these days. who's afraid of steve bannon? judging from some of these headlines, this is just this week, a lot of republicans here in washington. one thing is for sure, bannon has big plans for the 2018 midterm elections. he says he's recruiting primary challengers against six of the seven republican senators running for re-election. none of those senators are known as moderate republicans but all part of what team bannon likes to call the swamp. here's the big question though. is bannon's clout among republican voters being vastly overstated? t...