reporter for the washington post and an msnbc political analyst. and frank faglusi is with us, former fbi director for counter intelligence who in the past has worked for robert mueller among others. he is an nbc news national security analyst. ashley, how does the proposition of steve bannon, corey lewandowski and possibly the president s daughter and white house aide ivanka raising their hands and being sworn in, how will that sit with this president and this white house? it s certainly a blast from the past in some ways with steve bannon and corey lewandowski. the person on that list if she ever does in fact go and testify that will bother the president the most is, of course, ivanka trump, his daughter. we have seen on a number of instances while he s willing to sort of handle a lot of incoming criticism from a number of people, anything that gets close to coming after his family, his children is one of the areas where he just deeply draws the line, is almost immediately publicly
the trump tower meeting where he said that don junior and jared kushner, their behavior there with the russians was treasonous and unpatriotic, you have to assume that that is something that is going to come up in that, questions will come up in that closed door testimony. frank, if i had the power to appoint you for chief investigator for house intel, what do you want to ask steve bannon? yeah, i think i would lead off with the question of what he meant when he said that trump tower meeting was treasonous, and then partially retracted it to say he was only referring to treason by manafort. and whether that means that he felt manafort as a seasoned campaign person should know it is potentially illegal to meet with a foreign government. i think all of that would come up because it is diametrically opposed to what the president told the wall street journal today, which is that any politician in washington would have gladly met with foreign government representatives to get dirt on