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Former senior aide to president obama, also a former chief counsel to the senate judiciary committee. also david corn, washington bureau chief of "mother jones" and political analyst. natasha ber tranand following russ's involvement in the 2016 u.s. presidential election. thank you all. i'm going to start with you, natasha, for a top line on what we're hearing now and, you know, what i was talking to rachel about a little bit. does it feel like rather than the beginning of a story the crest of a tori that began 48 hours ago or so hearing this alternate collusion theory. >> absolutely. it puts ...

The house intelligence committee looks like a circus, i reported last week they barely have enough staff to do anything they say what they're doing and who knows what's happening. and indictments will concentrate the mind. >> yeah. absolutely. natasha, i think david makes an important minority here. for a lot of people watching this, russ-gate or collusion story, the collusion is sort of a sexy thing people talk about and the actual components of this investigation have involved a lot more sort of straightforward criminal activity, things like foreign agent registration act violations, things ...

And looking at hillary clinton's uranium deal and not her deal, going back and looking at how james dealt with the clinton e-mail server controversy, that really, nothing cuts through distractions like indictments. i mean, whatever is going on in the house intelligence committee looks like a circus, i reported last week they barely have enough staff to do anything they say what they're doing and who knows what's happening. and indictments will concentrate the mind. >> yeah. absolutely. natasha, i think david makes an important minority here. for a lot of people watching this, russ-gate or coll...

Talking about this and i'm sure you're having this conversation with your team, it did feel for 48 hours like something was happening because there was a level of hysteria of trying to push a narrative that was something other than russ-gate, russia-gate 2.0 and hillary clinton colluding and felt on the nose to be coincidental. i don't know if you felt that. >> we have seen a very aggressive dynamic at work which is not like it's beenen visible before and way more aggressive and further this week which is on two fronts. one, to try to make russia collusion about hillary clinton. that whole cou...

Right? it's now "the last word." >> once again, we can't go in with the plans we had. it is always getting blown up by trump himself. >> if you would like to borrow my intact show -- >> i think i'll be -- >> which is not touched with the breaking news tonight, you're welcome to use it. >> i know. the one we had to import monday and lawrence can use it. >> we need to give the viewers little time machines to fit over the heads to go back to friday noon when a whole lot of other stories seemed important. >> we'll bedazzle the time machine so they look cute on. do you think -- we have been talking...