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Remains to be seen, but that's a persuasive case. >> ken for us, thank you. we have assembled quite the roster of experts here on a monday morning. sometimes i say it and i don't mean it, but this morning i mean it. mimi roka, chuck rosenberg, former u.s. attorney, senior fbi official, jennifer reuben here in person, an opinion writer at "the washington post." all of them, msnbc analysts. chuck, i'll start with you. do prosecutors appear to have a smoking gun here as it relates to campaign finance violations? and can the president be prosecuted? >> the second question first, yes, when he lea...

They expect. >> all right joining me now is one of the lawmakers in the closed door session. congressman, thank you for being here. >> absolutely thank you. >> is this still under way this session and what can you tell us about it. >> well, it's i think the last bit of questioning is happening now by the republicans. look, i think jim comey was the right man for the wrong set of questions today. the republicans brought him in to talk about the hillary clinton email server yet again. these are a tired set of questions. and i think that we should instead be focusing on the russia investigation, ...

He says that's hogwash. burr says if he purports to know that as fact, why was that not included in the intelligence assessment that was released in 2017? that certainly will be a talking point we hear both from the president and his aides as this unfolds. >> geoff bennett is right. senator burr has been trying to stay above the political fray in this. the senate intelligence economic has operated in a bipartisan way, non-partisan way than the houser intelligence committee. when someone like senator burr says that, what's your response, chuck? >> well, they have acted in a more bipartisan way....

Cillizza in for viewers. do you know what the republican legislation actually includes and whether any democrats will get board. >> let me answer the second question first. we don't know on the democratic front. >> yeah. >> this is an attempt to find a solution to the fact that you had, even before this family separation, you still had no answer to daca. that issue had been bubbling and no answer. this is an attempt to find a solution to that while also paring with what we know donald trump wants which is significant funding for the border wall. >> right. >> that is now being smashed into with...

Trump jr. got material but did -- sought material but did not receive it. let's start with the transcripts. what is mule learinging for and did it find it in some of the information? >> i'll ask the second question first, he did not, there was no smoking gun in the 2,500 pages of transcripts of interrogations by the senate judiciary committee of people at that trump tower meeting willing to be interrogated. almost all of it was donald trump jr. to the first question, what is mueller looking for, what was the senate committee looking for come. lugs is a media word -- collusion is not a legal wo...