Watch our live coverage of the brooklyn book festival on sunday, starting at 10 00 a. M. Eastern, on cspan twos book tv. Crexendo to welcome dan boylan, and National Security reporter for the washington times. A number of new developments over the last couple of weeks. Robert mueller, who has a number of lawyers, where experts and money laundering. What does all of this tell you . The special Counsel Robert Mueller is pushing forward his it feels like they are starting to find things, that could potentially lead to criminal charges in the future. There is that piece of the estigation influence on almost everything his son has talked has been dragged into the mud. He was in some meetings there at trump tower. Theres also this russia investigation, but he was involved in a retweet in the infamous pizza gate story, which, thats a pizza parlor, apparently they didnt want to go in at some point there were audit things occurring there, there was a low grade sex pushal that people try to before the election. We also saw a story about facebook ads topped out with ties to the russian government, or russian oligarchs. That is senator mark warner, who is the lead democrat from the Senate Intelligence committee. He has been digging at facebook. There is the big picture there, politicalision advertising spaces have been heavily regulated since television began. For 40the 50 years, they would always regulate in terms of the content of the ads that need to be identified by the candidate. The internet medias face has never had anything like that. There is a big sea of misinformation, which people a republican from north carolina, he is the chairman of the Senate Intelligence committee. On the house intelligence committee, they have all looked at these things and said, listen, this is unregulated, and has proved to be something we have a lot of questions as to who cu was trying to sway our influence for the 2016 election. What court what questions do you want to get want to get in before the committee . Think there are a lot of questions they will ask them. He was involved or, his name surfaced around the dnc hack. Theres also how do you describe it hes a fascinating colorful, charismatic character, and he will probably lead a lot of people to do a lot of things that might not have to do with what investigators actually want to ask. You get senate inquiry, led in part by senator warner of virginia, then you have Robert Mueller with his own investigation. Do they overlap, are they working together to try to get or has been it, theyre been backfighting on this . When these investigations initially took off, there was an idea of jurisdiction, and whether there would be battles. The house has been seen as a h more rockets for rum chaotic fo yourum. And that chaotic forum. Been handling it, as to what potentially russia had been doing here. The results of the senate , the Man Committee from iowa has really been hammering the trunk doctrine the trump doctrine. How shalleces we say it, its a special counsel, a secret grand jury. What you get out of there is leaks and speculation. One thing that our viewers and listeners across the country should remember about this russia story, because its an investigation, criminal investigators dont like to reveal what they are running down. So, speculation spills over in terms of what they might be looking at. People do not like to go on records. You had this story that tends to be unsourced speculation, which makes my job trying to cover it all, somebody thinks you should cover one eye and wonder around in the dark because it gets wild to cover. Host we are talking to dan boylan, his work Available Online and you can send us a tweet at cspanwj. I want to get to this meeting were President Trump called Jeff Sessions an idiot, said it was the worst decision he made to make and the attorney general and he sent a letter of resignation to the president. Mr. Sessions with later tell associates that the demeaning way the president addressed and was the most humiliating experience in his life. President trump ultimately rejected mr. Sessions letter said, yous advisors could not do that. Guest i guess it gets to the heart of this Russian Investigation story. Times is working, opposition as an administration. Atmp and sessions could be the white house right now, because trump is such a good because he is good at manipulating headlines and locking. Does he have something down the road where it looks like maybe he could have a kumbaya moment to attempt six months from now . The president seems to have a trend of being an erratic sort of unorthodox character. This type of story seems to fit with his character i think. Host lets go to ginny in north carolina, republican line, good morning. Caller good morning. My question to you is i keep hearing about flame, flynn, this russian thing that nobody has information on. When am i going to hear more about hillary . I am still waiting for comey. He did like to congress, so that is against the law. What are they trying to sweep . You have susan rice, samantha powers, i went to hear more about the i. T. Guys and investigations on schulz. I do not understand why we are hearing about russia and flynn, and get more and the other story. I am just tired of it. Everything is trump, trump, trump. Can i say one thing i did not get a chance to talk about . Trump needs that revolving door. He needs to fix the law and order. He also said, lets have a revolving door and lets get them to apply, and the good ones can come in, and it they all went to go and the parents want to go with them, they are illegal and they all need to go. Them to apply, and the good ones can come in, and it they all went to go and the parents want to go with them, they are illegal and they all need to go. Host thank you. We will get a response. Guest ginny, good question. I have done significant reports originalc hack, the hack, a story from the democratic side of this controversy. What people need to remember about this story is a lot of these make the scandals that rock washington every generation , most of them in the past, watergate was a Republican Party thing. Iran contra affair was a republican thing, Whitewater Clinton was a Democratic Party thing. If you look at benghazi, it was more of a Clinton Family think almost. This controversy brings in both parties because there is so much speculation about was there any russia . From was the kremlin involved in influencing this election so donald trump could become the next president of the country . Or were there things that were occurring and disintegration within the Democratic Party that they tried to cover up . Was there infighting between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton that was so intense that they try to make it look like the russians had gotten in . This controversy has both pieces of that at play here. The russians definitely push their propaganda in the way people have not seen since the cold war maybe. At the same time, there was a republican and democratic piece of this thing that we are trying to investigate. We have been reporting on the dnc hack, which is a complicated story. I appreciate sometimes the noise across the country sounds like it is an attack on trump, but if you dig deeper into headlines, people are trying to run down the other side of the story. Host we are talking to dan boylan of the washington securityn the National Beat and your bio includes a poet, a filmmaker and reducing short comedies. Explain. Guest steve, what is the old joke about i do not like clinical jokes . I have seen too many of them get elected . Host [laughter] i have not heard that before. Guest i have been some poetry. There is a line that says when you are a poet when you are 20, it is because you are 20, and when you are a poet at 40, it is because you are a poet create this is poet. Is as muchitics, it art as it is science and beauty, the greatest trauma going, so sometimes returned to burst. I did a lot of counterterrorism work after 9 11, which puts perspective because you spend time out of washington and you come back to it and you think, what we have in the United States is precious and people need to Pay Attention to it to make it work. Ah from the bronx in new york. Good morning. Caller good morning. I appreciate this balanced approach you are using a cousin my view, the cold collusion issue with the russians was forced i the Intelligence Agency how long will you be with the show . 14 years . [laughter] i do not know, it could be a long time with Robert Mueller. As an investigator, someone leading charges, he keeps everybody in total suspense i not allowing them to know the timeline. Politicians like to feel in charge. Host lets go to bloomington, indiana. Thank you for waiting period caller thank you thank you for waiting. Caller thank you. Your guest mentioned the times as an opposition newspaper. I wanted to ask what is the problem with that . You just referenced hillary, which she lost, and that is ancient history, but that seems to be the opposition, that is the function of a newspaper, to oppose the main question, and people decide. Then they sit through sift through fax and get a good idea of what the actual truth is, so the opposition matters because you cannot allow someone to say things without opposing or questioning them. Just wondering your opinion on that. Host thank you. Guest great question. When i say it is in opposition newspaper, in the sense we should feel pride we have them in the United States. I think the media landscape has changed so much in this country with so many new voices across the internet that this concept of what used to be objective journalism, outside of cspan and a few other venues, you do not have much objective opinions information. You have opinions. The Russian Investigation is so full of opinion. I think the New York Times is trying to hold the president accountable. I think it is a good institution. I think the vast majority of news organizations that tried to collect facts, that is what they are trying to do. Host lets go to texas, republican line with dan boylan of the washington times. Caller how are you this morning , and thank you for cspan. I have a unique perspective, not just myself, but others, i spent time in italy, south america, china, and you look around the world and see all kinds of International Players that are bringing their own ideology to the u. S. The russians are very good at this, and we are too, by the way. It is very transparent when you look at the inner workings of states and others. One of the things that has come to the forefront of this is there is such a vindictiveness that has come out because hillary did not get elected, and i am not trying to be partisan. I am being honest. There was almost 1 billion to get her elected and it did not happen. Those folks that put that money out, such as international companies, people are really aggravated. Their economic methods were not able to be pushed or that mechanism. The state department has historically selected winners and users around the world and supported foreign projects. Unless you had the blessing of the state department, they select to they want to give money to. Good afternoon. Id like to reduce statement about the recent attacks in the , we condemn the target in london today, targeting li