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Russians? you'll get a deal with us which would give them incentive to carry out this covert operation. >> yep. and mike, let's stop the question about whether or not that is illegal. but go on. >> let's stipulate they're not going to have testimony from kislyak. >> right. at the end of the day, they might be. and whether they'll ever get them and be able to disclose them is a whole another matter. i think at the end of the day, it is likely he probably will get immunity from the committees. >> and as we know from the case of john dean, back during watergate, that doesn't necessarily mean you ...

Watergate, that doesn't necessarily mean you won't be prosecuted just because you get immunity from the congress. so tick-tock. it's going to be very interesting. david corn, tim mak, and michael isikoff, thanks very much for joining us. >> sure thing. >> thank you. coming up next, early in the month, as attorney general jeff sessions was being accused of perjury, donald trump took to twitter to put out that fire by starting another. and of course he did it by returning to his birther roots and accusing his old them miss, president barack obama of something that isn't true. remember this cla...

Moment. do you think he has creditability? >> no. i think he not only has lost all credibility, i think he has tarnished the office that he holds. he has brought discredit to something that is a very, very serious position in the congress. >> and joining us now are michael isikoff, chief investigative reporter. he has interviewed devin nunes in the past. david corn and an msn political analyst. and timmak, senior correspondent for the daily beast. tim mak, devin nunes tried to explain away what he did. he did this interview in which he is trying to say that he going to the white house to view ...

Over to the white house and went in quietly and told the president and nobody would have known about this. but i thought it was best that the american people know. >> tim, is any of this normal protocol for a member of congress, a chairman of an intelligence committee, to go into the white house to view anything this way, the way that nunes did it? >> not at all. i talked to a lot of folks who have worked on the house intelligence committee. it is extremely unusual to go to the white house to view documents. now it's regular procedure to good to the fbi, to go to the nsa, the cia to review exe...

Think a key thing to add to what mike just said is the conversations that flynn had with kislyak and maybe other russians before the election. there is indications that he did talk to the ambassador before that while the hacking and the leaking perhaps were going on. was he sending any signs to the russians? you'll get a deal with us which would give them incentive to carry out this covert operation. >> yep. and mike, let's stop the question about whether or not that is illegal. but go on. >> let's stipulate they're not going to have testimony from kislyak. >> right. at the end of the day, the...