Make a deal with the president . Bernie sanders joins us with his take. And partisan investigation. How Intelligence Leaders split over the russia investigation with democrats pointing fingers at the Republican Committee head. I think the speaker has to decide just as well as our own chairman whether they want a credible investigation being done. Is it time for a special prosecutor . Plus, the best political minds will be here with insights on what happens next. Hello. Im dane erin bash in washington in for jake tapper and the state of our union is dysfunctional. President trump had a major fail to repeal obamacare crumbled. Republicancontrolled washington is in blame game mode as the president tries to look forward and recapture the momentum he lost after a brutal week. One member of the House Freedom caucus told me that the president was not focused enough on the details. This morning President Trump went after them tweeting democrats are smiling in d. C. That the Freedom Caucus with
Days. This is mtp daily and it starts right now. Good evening. Im chuck todd in washington. Welcome to mtp daily. It is groundhog day again. And the president is calling his Justice Department a disgrace. Some would argue claiming it is a partisan investigation. And the apparent evidence behind all of that, this memo. Which has, quote, material omissions, according to the president s own fib. Compiled by a former member of transition member devin nunes written by Staff Members an there is money are money reasons to be skeptical but the main contention is the trump appointee used information from fusion gps steel steele dossier in an application to spy on Campaign Adviser carter page after he left the Trump Campaign and they failed to tell the fisa court which proved the warrant that the Clinton Campaign and the dnc was funding steeles work. If that is all accurate, does it raise some questions . Yes. Should a judge be told about that stuff . Perhaps, yes. And it may be the judge was to
Layered and getting intriguing, juap . It reminds me of a fog machine. I dont know what is true or not truchlt i think that is what the president is doing here. The goal is to undermine mueller and the intelligence agencies that are the basis of the agency. Wait a minute that is the goal. What is interesting here, two layers. You got the sort of idea that the Justice Department is so politicalized that they are responding to a tweet. No president directed them to go after the sxeem the media strategy. Thank you, juan. What exactly happened out here. You think that the russians consphired to think that he won the election. No, i think what is shown by the Intelligence Agency and report that the russians interfered in the campaign and had a clear intent to help donald trump to win. It seems like it doesnt seem there is hardcore evidence that advisors connected to the campaign had isolated incidents. And we still dont have that. And what they are saying now. We are seeing more Opposition
false. but if this is true, how big of a deal is this? devin nunes needs to be careful because remember it is a federal crime to solicit from a foreign national campaign assistance. those three things. so if he sat down with a foreign national, that seems to be the case here, if this reporting is true and solicited or asked for investigation of the bidens which it doesn t have to help your campaign, it could help someone else s campaign and if the intent was to help donald trump and that is a thing of value which is a i little bit of a legal dispute, that is a crime and he s on thin ice and needs to be careful. and jackie spearss wants house ethics to look into this. i think there should be an investigation. devin nunnes is conducting an investigation while never at any point disclosing his own involvement and entanglement with ukraine. his involvement in digging up dirt and so he s a
concentrated in the hands of few. when they are politicalized and try to change the outcome of an election that is dangerous and unamerican. don t forget the republicans. kennedy: this is not just donald trump. devin nunnes concerned about the campaign. that s not what concerns me. it is it a system too powerful and third parties should know concerned about this. the big problem is here, there was a threat to our democracy and you have in the case of george papadopoulos and carter page and others prior contacts with russians that was known to our intelligence agency and they recruit someone and asked someone who is an inform apt in the past to help. no one was embedded in the campaign which was the initial claim by the trump tweet. they that is gone.