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Directions going with this investigation. i wouldn't be surprised if we see a lot of the people who have been interviewed so far, march right back up into the special counsel investigation just to talk about the russia angle. >> jeremy bash, we're talking about june of last year. bob mueller was appointed on wednesday, may 17. this could be a period of two weeks, a month, maybe a little more than a month that president trump according to reporting of michael schmidt and maggie haberman and confirmed by nbc news, was considering firing him. this was something he thought about almost immediately...

Next week here to washington. >> reporter: yeah, hallie, it is a tale of two houses in how the two chambers in congress have treated this investigation. and on the house side, it is very much as you described. there's been significant partisan in-fighting about the direction the committee should take as it investigates the russia angle, about who they should call as witnesses, about how the witnesses should be treated, and specifically how long the probe should continue. the republicans have been scheduling multiple witnesses on the same day at times to try to move that probe along. devin nune...

Matters? david, on the russia angle, you had kellyanne conway, not sure why but she was interviewed talking about the russia story being just a joke or something. i forget her words. i don't really listen to them. but also anthony scaramucci talking about the president not sold on -- first of all, just characterize for us, do you it this russia story is a big story? >> i think it is one. more to the point, it's a story that's being investigated by a special counsel highly respected lawyer robert mueller. he is now commanding the resources of the fbi, of a staff of top investigators and prosecu...

Media and the way that we kind of interact and deal with leaks and revelations. >> klara, you're an editor. you could be assigning more stories about the russia angle. are you doing that? >> we sure are. we just published a big issue that we put online early that gives sort of all the background and context for this. i mean, as you know, david corn was the first reporter back before the election to report on christopher steel dossier. it's something we have been covering for months and months, far before the election, and we're sure going to stick on it. >> klara, matt, thank you for being her...

Worry on multiple fronts. you discuss this russia angle, but there's another entire angle, which is turkey. michael flynn was hired by the turkish government as a paid lobbyist and started to present himself as an independent analysts. asking for the very thing that the president of turkey, erdogan has been pressing which is the united states hand over this clerk in pennsylvania, which is an enemy of erdogan. so flynn writes him off then, not explaining he's being paid by the turkish government to do this. so to the question of could flynn have been bought, could his views have been influenced...