and in the interest of the country, i think it s time to wrap it up. and i would very respectfully encourage the special counsel and his team to to bring their work to completion. those comments there by pence come as other trump allies continue their attacks on the russia investigation. washington post reporting tonight, congressman mark meadows plans to ask a federal financial watchdog to audit the office of special counsel mueller. the post says the planned request from meadows, quote, appears to be mainly calibrated to force the disclosure of a three-page justice department memo spelling out the authorized scope of mueller s investigation. meadows said he believed the audit is required under federal law and could not be completed without an unredacted copy of the memo written in august of 17 by, you guessed it, deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. this scope memo, as it s known in the trade, as turned into a
without an unredacted copy of the memo written in august of 17 by, you guessed it, deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. this scope memo, as it s known in the trade, as turned into a major flash point between the justice department and a cadry of house republicans including memo other members of the freedom caucus who says that mueller has gone outside the bounds of his original charge to investigate possible ties between russia and the trump campaign. let s bring in our leadoff panel. michael schmidt, correspondent for the new york times. cynthia oxney, former federal prosecutor and a veteran of the