next week. nunes says the committee has more questions for the fbi director, the head of the nsa that can only be answered in closed session. schiff is suggesting the open hearing which was supposed to include officials from the obama administration was canceled after pressure from the white house. also today, we learned former trump associate paul manafort and roger stone and carter page have all volunteered to be interviewed by the committee. but whether those interviews would be open or close to the public is still tba. joining us tonight former chief of staff at both the cia and the pentagon, also former counsel to the house intelligence committee, jeremy bash. you re our guy on this especially on days when our attention is pulled somewhere else. how big a development was today? how big a deal does this investigation continue to be? good evening, brian. well, i go back to devin nunes comment that was his duty to run
have all volunteered to be interviewed by the committee. but whether those interviews would be open or close to the public is still tba. joining us tonight former chief of staff at both the cia and the pentagon, also former counsel to the house intelligence committee, jeremy bash. you re our guy on this especially on days when our attention is pulled somewhere else. how big a development was today? how big a deal does this investigation continue to be? good evening, brian. well, i go back to devin nunes comment that was his duty to run to the white house and inform the president of what he was learning. in effect, tipping off the target, if you will, the at this time to you lar target of the entire investigation. and remember, nunes has really two roles here. he s not only leading one important investigation. he s also one of the few select members of congress who are being briefed in realtime by the fbi director about their
clear that he does need the republicans to stay in control of congress, in order to be a check on a potential clinton administration. assuming if she does win they need to keep control of congress, why he wants to focus the next month keeping control of congress. barnstorming the country in difficult house races and doing so with senate republicans as were well. that s his focus and does not want to be in political division with the top of his tinchts thanks very much. for more on trump s debate performance and turmoiled into the republican party, bring in our political panel. carol lee, and cnn politics editor wanna sommers with us as well. the speaker will spend all his time trying to maintain the republican majority in the house of presentatives, meaning in effect not spending any time trying to get donald trump elected? i don t see today as that big
according to our fox news poll, the e-mail scandal is hurting clinton. she still leads the democratic field with 49%, but that s done ten points from last month. and then some head to head match-ups, jeb bush leads clinton by two points. marco rubio beats clinton for the first time well within the margin of error, and donald trump has narrowed his gap from five points down to 17 two months ago. and we re back now with the panel. well bob woodward, you ve covered a scandal or two, how big a development do you think it is now that clinton has been forced to turn her server over to the fbi, that this is no longer politician versus politician, but handled by law enforcement. do you see any parallels to nixon? fascinating question. first of all, i think this potentially is a really big deal. first of all because the volume. we re talking about potentially
according to our fox news poll, the e-mail scandal is hurting clinton. she still leads the democratic field with 49%, but that s done ten points from last month. and then some head to head match-ups, jeb bush leads clinton by two points. marco rubio beats clinton for the first time well within the margin of error, and donald trump has narrowed his gap from five points down to 17 two months ago. and we re back now with the panel. well bob woodward, you ve covered a scandal or two, how big a development do you think it is now that clinton has been forced to turn her server over to the fbi, that this is no longer politician versus politician, but handled by law enforcement. do you see any parallels to nixon? fascinating question. first of all, i think this potentially is a really big deal. first of all because the volume. we re talking about potentially