seen in recent years. create these alternative reality, alternative media silos that are going to be not emphasizing the fact-based media and that s one of the things driving us further and further into our tribal corners. but i think any of the journalists in sinclair who watch that and reflect on it should be embarrassed. charlie sykes, good to see you, victoria defrancesco, good to see you as well. why a house republican is comparing the investigation into russia, including his own, to the tv show gossip girls. hello mom. amanda s mom s appointment just got rescheduled - for today. amanda needs right at home. our customized care plans provide as much
and death decisions on the battle field. he s commanded medical personnel on the battle field. he s been in the middle of this war. he s willing to fight the bureaucracy and i think admiral jackson is a good pick because he s been on the battle field. he knows what the fight is all about. all right. let s switch gears here and talk russia investigation. republican members of congress reacted to developments in special counsel bob mueller s probe including court filings that allege a high-level trump aid rick gates was in contact with someone he knew to be affiliated with russian intelligence during the final months of the campaign. here s congressman trey gowdy of south carolina. i m glad we have bob mueller. i m glad we have an independent ball and strike caller. congress has proven itself incapable of conducting serious investigations. and our best hope you include your own committee, house intelligence on that in absolutely. not just house intelligence. congressional inves
investigations. and our best hope you include your own committee, house intelligence on that? absolutely. not just house intelligence. congressional investigations leak like the gossip girls, i mean, they re terrible and i would be telling you that if i were staying in congress. ron johnson offered a conflicting view of the parallel russian investigations on meet the press . senate and house intelligence committees complete their report because i know what happens when you have a criminal investigation it s that much more difficult for congress to get the information. to allow the american public to understand what s happening. my concern with special counsel mueller is he s so close to the fbi. i ve been conducting a three-year investigation on the fbi s investigation of hillary clinton. i think we re starting to see some real problems there. a lot to get to here.
you still know about those intelligence ties a month before the election, it becomes much harder to make that argument. what about everything that came before? what about all the comments the candidate at that point was making about russia? what about the change to the party platform that was made? what about all of these different things and was that actually because you had not just idle contacts with russians but somebody who s connected to military intelligence is a big deal. it opens these things up again and if he can pressure gates to give him even more information which it seems like that s what he s doing, that will open the question of was there collusion. and obviously there s mueller investigation, congressional investigations as well. here s what trey gowdy had to say about those congressional investigations. congressional investigations leak like the gossip girls. they they re terrible and i would be telling you that if i were staying in congress.
they re just not serious. serious investigations don t leak. serious investigations don t make up their mind first and then go in search of the evidence to validate your previously held convictions. i appreciate the gossip girls reference there. one of the things he also said that he is glad that mueller is in the mix. right. you look at what happened with the house intelligence committee and what a mess that is and just how they botched from beginning to end, they really has been a problem. the senate s been better but they too have had their issues. the fact that the mueller probe is there and that, you know, as trey gowdy said hasn t leaked anything, there is a sense that something s getting done and we might actually get to the bottom of all of this. another story, michael, that you re paper report was this report that there had been discussion about pardons, a trump lawyer talked about