and hurt the hillary clinton campaign. now the second issue of when the the president or anyone around him tried to obstruct the investigation into an aspect of that. in particular whether michael flynn made false statements to the fbi. what the senator s letter underscores is it s really kind of appear appropriate feel for the intelligence committee to be the sole place on capitol hill looking at this. their expertise is counter intelligence, the idea that they ll be the vehicle looking at whether there was on instruction of justice seems stretched. on the other hand, i think the act for most republicans will be they re going to wait and see what the special counsel does is not going to be an appetizer for waiting too deep into these waters. julian, the president tweeted that he is totally and completed vindicated rkts you re writing a piece on cnn.com, quote the if the trump s claim of victory
going on and we don t expect it to end any time soon. i wonder whose beefing up , g that s a full plate. athena and shimon that you feel. let s bring in professor ron brownste brownstein. senator fien stein calling in investigation do you think he may be responding to something we didn t hear, something in closed doors? i think what you heard in public testimony was plenty to prompt that. you have two separate issues under investigation. the underlining conduct with whether there was collusion between anyone in the trump administration and the russian intelligence during the 2016 campaign to disrupt the campaign