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The senate intelligence committee investigation was considered the best hope for a solid bipartisan investigation that would produce public results. we will consider now the prospects for all three of those investigations, beginning with the senate intelligence committee investigation, which according to tim mak's reporting in the daily beast today is not running as professionally or as quickly as it could be. joining us now, tim mak, senior correspondent for the daily beast. tim, your big reveal today was the small number of committee personnel staff that are working on this, and none of them...

Committee can move only as fast as the majority. and in this case, there are certainly some republicans who do not want to see this investigation move forward. we saw that very clearly on the house side with devin nunes. and we saw a pause of weeks as that caper was worked out, his collusion with the white house staff. now on the senate side, we've seen comedy between senator warner and senator burr. but at the same time senator warner and his staff can only move as fast as the majority is willing to take them in this case. >> matthew, there is this report in tim's story that is interesting ab...

Do not want to see this investigation move forward. we saw that very clearly on the house side with devin nunes. and we saw a pause of weeks as that caper was worked out, his collusion with the white house staff. now on the senate side, we've seen comedy between senator warner and senator burr. but at the same time senator warner and his staff can only move as fast as the majority is willing to take them in this case. >> matthew, there is this report in tim's story that is interesting about possible witnesses. it says the committee has sent letters to various individuals and entities to ask th...

Tomorrow they're going to be allowed to view the documents involving michael flynn. the reports saying members of the house oversight committee were notified today that they may go view classified documents related to lieutenant general michael flynn tomorrow on capitol hill. tim mak, what's the significance of that? >> well, it's hard to say right now. and it's interesting that it's not the house intelligence committee. it's the house oversight and government reform committee, which has general oversight abilities. so this could have to do with an issue of conflicts of interest as opposed to ...

At some point it could be pointing to the attorney general in some capacity with the trump campaign. >> yeah, absolutely. so the attorney general, jeff sessions obviously has recused himself from this investigation. he is not involved in it at all. but at the same time, you keep hearing that he -- sessions is pushing the fbi to crack down on leaks, to look at leaks that are connected to this case, which if so is completely inappropriate. if you're out of this case you should have nothing to do with it you. should have nothing to do with any leaks about any information in the case. and as you s...