legal morass if you will, and as you know, being at the podium, it gets sticky where you don t want to insert yourself. dana: or even not being at the podium, i was eight spokesperson on the plane issue for a wild, and you have to be careful when things are under investigation so you do not look like you are trying to weigh in or interfere and that would be inappropriate, and you know there are a lot of lives involved, people who may be completely innocent. ed: you re right, this is sensitive information and some of it spilling out, another part of this which is the unmasking of people, names, a whole other part of the investigation. let s dig a little deeper as we wait for the white house briefing in sean spicer, let s go to our political panel. editor for the boston globe and associate editor of the hill, good to see you both. i want to see you because what do you think of the political drama for the white house, which has been playing out for a long time, but there is a lega
unmasking of names. this is not something that is going to be apparent on the face of the documents. the white house has also invited the top members of the senate intelligence committee to come and view those documents at the white house as well, but that if mike invitation has been the client and instead the senate intelligence committee has requested those documents be sent to them directly from the agencies that collected the information. dana: thank you so much peer that is interesting that the senate is basically saying, we are not coming to you. we are keeping some distance. ed: does that mean they have something else on general flynn flynn that does not involve going up the chain of command at the white house and they do not want to cut a deal? dana: or looking to show there is a separation of powers to say it is not appropriate for us to come to the white house if people at the white house are involved in the investigation. we don t want to become a witness to our own
former national security advisor could be ready to testify under oath about surveillance and any potential ties between the trump camp and russia. dana: garrett tenney is live on capitol hill, it s a busy day out there. it certainly is. attorneys for michael flynn have reached out to both the white house and senate intelligence conveys as well as the fbi to offer his testimony as part of their investigation. in return, they are asking for protection, suggesting some assertive immunity deal. in that letter, his attorneys explain no reasonable person who has the benefit of advice from counsel would submit to questioning in such a highly politicized witch hunt environment without assurances against unfair prosecution. at this point, it is not clear how likely an immunity deal is, but the president tweeted his support saying: mike flynn should ask for immunity in that this is a witch hunt excuse for big election loss by media and dems, of historic proportion!