ready to push the guy into the public light and expose this person who may be very endangered because of this political play by the trump people? well, in my career, we ve already lived through that happening with the exposure of valerie plame. and that outing destroyed an entire global intelligence collection network. i think that this administration is definitely political enough to go out there and expose a confidential informant if it would help their case to damage the fbi. according to the washington post, trump is strategizing with his allies on capitol hill. quote, congressman mark meadows has been conferring with trump and three or more calls a week communicating concerns of the justice department is hiding worrisome information about the elements of the probe. one former administration official told the post, he sees allies in congress as more credible surrogates than his own staff. phil, it seems like they ve got
capitol hill congressman mark meadows has been conferring with trump in three or more calls a week communicating concerns the justice department is hiding information about the elements of the probe. one former administrator told the post he sees alis in congress as more credible than his own staff. it seems there s a lot of efforts toe distract from the upcoming delivery of evidence by robert mueller. that they seem to be saying rudy s out there you deflecting attention to stormy daniels. it the daniels case is distracting attention. it seems like they ve got is this coordinated all these efforts to undermine mueller? absolutely, chris. this is a clear strategic solicit for president trump and his legal team in the last month or so since rudy guiliani came on board. he s on the offense. they re trying to sort of muddy the waters to discredit this mueller probe as it reached its
ainsley: 12 minutes after the top of the hour. house republicans want to know what did the obama administration know about the anti-trump dossier and when did they know it despite this denial? director brennan, do you know who commissioned this steele dossier? i don t. ainsley: congressman mark meadows and jim jordan join us live on that next. pete: and these two were looking for love online, the only problem they were also looking to plan an islamic terrorist attack as well. ainsley: they look so happy. pete: a lot of love in that photo - [narrator] imagine a shirt that actually makes
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but it sounds like there is at least some sign that they are making real progress. keep in mind, you are looking right now live at the senate chamb chamber. mitch mcconnell is standing at the lectern. so far he has not gun begun to speak. mark meadows is actually on the senate floor as we speak. so we are going to try to figure out how to get him back here. hopefully being called out publicly will incentivize them to come back so we can give you a little more insight into what s going on. if there were to be a potential deal here, it sounds like this would potentially be something along the lines of what we have been talking about for for more of the day. the proposal on the table is a continuing resolution for government funding that would