general mccaffrey, as blunt and straight talking as ever. great to have you with us. thank you. and helean, my friend, thank you for all your expertise. and coming up, call waiting. more than seven hours of missing call logs on one of the most critical days of the trump presidency. the latest on the broadening investigation coming up next. this is andrea mitchell reports on msnbc this is andrea mitchell reports on msnb would be getting ready for his solo. but no. he s currently checkin his investments. you gotta have a plan outside the band, man. digital tools so impressive, you just can t stop. what would you like the power to do? [ ] you just can t stop. if you have diabetes, it s important to have confidence in the nutritional drink you choose. try boost glucose control®. it s clinically shown to help manage blood sugar levels and contains high quality protein to help manage hunger and support muscle health. try boost® today. i m jonathan lawson here to tell you about li
mythical ukrainian intervention. so we definitely need to get all the evidence we can related to that. but a lot of the things that you were mentioning goes to other crimes and other offenses against the united states. you know, parnas and fruman have already been indicted for campaign finance violations. yes, it looks like there s a broadening investigation into money laundering, representing foreign governments without registering, funneling foreign money into our elections and so on. we re interested in that right now to the extent that it implicates the president. if it doesn t, then i think that will have to be dealt with in other criminal investigations or later on by us. i guess the question is how do you find that out? one of the things that s happened is we had weeks of depositions and then followed by public hearings. and in defiance of word from the white house, people came and testified, some people turned over documents. but the white house is still holding on to documen
midst of an impeachment investigation against the president of the united states. so what we have to look at is the table of evidence facing us with respect to the president s misconduct in office. we ve seen overwhelming and uncontradicted evidence that he wanted investigations about joe biden and wanted conformation of the discredited 2016 conspiracy theory. basically trading the russian intervention for a mythical ukrainian intervention. we need all the evidence we can related to that. but a lot of the things you re mentioning goes to other crimes and other offences against the united states. and parnas and fruman have already been indicted for federal campaign violations. it looks like a broadening
of an investigation or raid has gotten to the president. important to point out how the president will react to this. we don t have any of his reaction, if he angry but he is watching all of this unfold and a head s up about it before in the press. and presumably angry at the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein who we re assuming authorized this they wouldn t go ahead with this kind of move unless he approved it. certainly. and this is something that the president has been already quite upset about, as he viewed a broadening investigation into the russia probe. we ve always talked about that red line. would there be a red line that the justice department and mueller s team went over if it wasn t beyond the russia into his finances and only the president can say if this crosses a red line. and the white house has not saying anything they have been referring many things to michael cohen and now he is the subject of this.
contractors have been hugely important and they re deployed at a 1 to 1 ratio. they re not all american. usually american firms with some americans, some afghans, some filipinos. it s a mix. they re crucial in the war and they have been. you can scale up that role a little bit. i don t think we want to turn them into the main trigger pullers. shepard: michael, good to see you. thanks. thank you, shepard. a short time against overheard on capitol hill, with nobody watching, this would have been a good time to raise the debt ceiling. we could have done most anything a short time ago except it s august and they re not there. serious news for the military and a search for missing american sailors after a u.s. warship collides with an oil tanker at sea. this is the second time it s happened to this to a navy ship this summer. now a broadening investigation of that fleet. we ll go live to the pentagon as we approach the bottom of the