the tip of something. we don t know what is there. let s vieft it a let s let s investigate it and have a full the president called for an investigation into what happened. deputy attorney general rod rosenstein folded that all in and in a statement into the inspector general report and there is another investigation going on. the democratic chair, the democratic ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee, adam schiff, he didn t care for that. take a listen to what he had to say about the call for an investigation and rosenstein s response. they know that s nonsense and i hate to see them say anything to give it credence. there is not concern within the white house about this, there is a sense of opportunity. let s exploit any doubt we could create, this is a defense strategy. put the government on trial. what do you think? does schiff have a point or do you disagree. absolutely. the whole point is to raise questions about whether you could trust the fbi and whe
back with the panel talking about the trump tower meeting and it said in 2016 george nader met with trump jr. and pitched help from saudi arabia and the arab emirates. take a listen to senator mark warner, the top democrat on the senate intelligence committee and here is how he reacted on sunday morning when i asked him about the reporting. i don t understand what the president doesn t get about the law that says if you have a foreign nation interfere in an american election, that is illegal. we don t know if there was any follow-through, donald trump jr. said no. there was an israeli at this meeting who talked about using social media to help the president. who knows what the reality is. we ve been lied to by this cast before. but it is weird that they keep meeting with people from other countries or they kept meeting with people from other countries saying we want to help your campaign. that is not aloud.
myself had persuaded him that it wouldn t be possible. reporter: they told john mccain putting a democrat turned independent on a republican presidential ticket would spark a convention revolt. he wanted the pick to pick joe lieberman but never expressed regret, not privately or publicly about picking governor palin. reporter: john mccain also explains being approached in 2016 with the now famous dossier about donald trump. he went over to see the fbi director and at his earliest convenience and said i assume you will vet this. reporter: i discharged that obligation and i would do it again, anyone who doesn t like it can go to hell. i wrote that but he said it just that way. reporter: for over 30 years, salter has helped john mccain convey his essence. you ve written a lost words for and with john mccain. what do you think the most important are? we were born to love and we re born to have the courage
yes, i am. like speaker ryan. he worked ry, very hard. a lot of different groups. he h a lot of factions, and there s been a long history of liking and disliking even within the republican party long before i got here. can you give me a prediction for where we are six months from now, a year from now in terms of the way that democrats would have approached this and how republicans would have handled this? absolutely. i m not registered with either party. i m by no means a democrat. in terms of the republican party, the big question is whose party is it? is it donald trump s party or paul ryan s party, and we re seeing a big problem with lack of party discipline, and that s going to be problematic. especially if you are talking about the infrastructure bill. that freedom caucus will be a problem because we don t want to see big increases in spending without in terms of cuts elsewhere. similarly with tax cuts, that
country. oklahoma, texas, louisiana. the health care crosses party lines. it s not liberal or conservative. people struggle to pay for health care. those that are not covered by medicaid, kansas, for example, is one of those states that hasn t passed medicaid expansion. in talking with these families, they say, hey, we ve got children that we re trying to cover. we re also trying to you talk to the woman that runs gigi s cafe in singer, texas, and she said i m a die hard democrat, but the affordable care act ultimately didn t take care of me. the subsidies aren t enough for me in order to cover my family. keir. bs in s vaughn hilliard just talking to folks. perhaps the most important segment of this hour. that s it for us this hour on msnbc. i m keir simmons. thank you for joining us. stay with us for much more news in our next hour. come on dad!