the senate that would protect bob mueller and his team so we can get to the bottom of this. and the whole country can move past this mess the president has gotten us in. congress is supposed to provide i don t have sight of the justice. is the relationship salvageable? it is. it s not salvageable, though, with devon nunez as the house intelligence committee and it won t be salvageable to makests to undermine the investigation. anderson, this is about the rule of law. of course we want to have oversight on privacy as it relates to fisa warrants. okay, we want to know the department of justice is not violating any21 s rights. but we never have done this during an ongoing investigation. so i can only view it as just an effort to undermine his work and if republicans care about the rule of law, they will step back and understand that there are greater principles at stake here. you talk about rudy guiliani, on hannity last night, his
information i have, i think our viewers are smart enough to figure out at home, that itself not telling us the truth. it calls into question this day forward and calls into question a lot of things she said in the past as to whether or not she s giving us the straight story. that is why, not only did she reveal this during the briefing today that she found out about this last night, this repayment last night. but we heard from a slew of white house officials all over the white house that they were simply blindsided by all of this. they didn t see this coming. they didn t know what rudy guiliani was up to. this wasn t something that they knew in advance, rudy july wane was going out, this was a new strategy? reporter: there were some indications that rudy designed this rollout with the president. he has been saying things of that nature with our own reporters, including our onida na bash. here s the question, anderson, why would guiliani in addition to rolling out that information
when we were interviewing steve bannon, we were very concerned that steve bannon s lawyer had been receiving the transcript of his testimony and then taking it back to the white house, because he also represents don mcgan, the white house counsel. now you see the republicans in congress who are essentially acting as mr. trump s fixers in congress by trying to obstruct mr. rosenstein s information by asking for information about an ongoing investigation. anderson, you know it is long standing protocol in our country, you do not tell anyone about the details about an ongoing investigation because you don t want to jeopardize it. do you think it s appropriate to hold back but not necessarily hard evidence? yes. i think it s appropriate that only the investigators know about the evidence in the case. i would say that whether it was a republican or democratic investigation. you don t want witnesses to have information about the case. so they kind of cook up a story or tailor their answe
the current detainees, that would reflect the president s comments that he made. otto warmbier, who returned to the u.s. in a vegetative state and died weeks later. where does that leave things with the current american prisoners. that is the most important thing after all. paula, do we know anything concrete about the current status of the three americans in north korea? anderson, what we know is from officials who are actually dealing with this ongoing negotiation, and they say that the release of the three detainees is imminent. they don t give any more specific timing than that. the word they use is imminent. they also say this has been months in the making. the north korean foreign minister went to sweden back in march. sweden handles all the diplomatic issues for the u.s. with north korea. he proposed they release these three detainees. at that point officials said they didn t want to be linked to
because he may not care very much about whether or not we get the facts or the truth from the white house press secretary. but the rest of the country is relying on the white house press secretary to do just that. we didn t get that today or a month ago. at the very least if she wasn t actually lying or actually, you know, being untruthful, she s not very well informed or doesn t have questions of the president or isn t able to ask direct questions of the president or thinks it s better not to. reporter: that s right. and this is my fourth press secretary i ve dealt w. i ve dealt with jay carney, josh ernest, josh spicer. now sarah sanders. here s the problem, anderson, when you as a white house press secretary begin to lose the faith and trust of the reporters in that room, it is very difficult for you to continue to do that job. as i was watching sarah s performance today, it felt as if her credibility was crumbling right before our eyes. if the bet answer she had today is i m gi