prosecutorial decisions and i don t think congress should either. it s going to move to congress and impeachment and oversight and the southern district of new york. but these will all be matters that involve conduct by trump before he was president. under governing law, those prosecutions are going to have to be paused until his presidency is over. that s why impeachment is really the only thing that s going to to happen to trump while he s in office. southern district of new york might pull in other people like cohen and the family not protected by this. but i think if it moves to the southern district of new york, that s not going to touch trump himself. shannon: all right, we will stand by. we thank you off for weighing in tonight. here s what we know tonight. the report is in. after 675 days, we know it s with the attorney general as the statute mandates.
don t think congress should either. it s going to move to congress and impeachment and oversight and the southern district of new york. but these will all be matters that involve conduct by trump before he was president. under governing law, those prosecutions are going to have to be paused until his presidency is over. that s why impeachment is really the only thing that s going to to happen to trump while he s in office. southern district of new york might pull in other people like cohen and the family not protected by this. but i think if it moves to the southern district of new york, that s not going to touch trump himself. shannon: all right, we will stand by. we thank you off for weighing in tonight. here s what we know tonight. the report is in. after 675 days, we know it s with the attorney general as the statute mandates. he will put it together, make a
malcolm, not only that, but we re also learning this week, first of all we re hearing the red me readouts of what happened. russians were announcing. donald trump s only administration doesn t yet know what was said in those meetings. apparently the russians do and they re starting to put it out there. now we learned according to defense one on wednesday after secret trump meeting, russia offers to resume military relations. russia set to warm up military e relations with the united states pursuant to the agreement reached monday between the presidents. that s what russian defense ministry said tuesday. surprising officials at the pentagon who were still waiting to hear what came out of the closed door meeting. in congress, which banned u.s. russian military congress tour years ago. your thoughts, malcolm. i m not going to be hyperbolic when i say the russian state has co-opted the
republican from a safe district in texas, come out and do an op-ed, he s a former cia agent, saying trump is being manipulated by vladimir putin. what should we do? this is a stalwart republican coming out and saying this. to rick s point, you see a difference between the way the senate intelligence committee and house intelligence committee are handling this, now knowledge everyone should share that russia s interfered. but do you see, just in your reporting, any desire on the part of senate republicans to act proactively to defend the next election against russian intrusion? we haven t seen efforts to protect robert mueller. we certainly don t see them wanting to do that. but are they still looking at this through the political lens of protect donald trump more than protect the election? yeah, the short answer to that is no. there has been really no appetite on the part of republicans in either chamber of congress, frankly, to put more efforts into protecting the election systems,
him regardless. look, joy, i never imagined that the russians would have an asset in the president. they ve always had spies, et cetera, in our country, but just imagine having the president of the united states of america essentially throw our country under the bus. that s unprecedented. republicans in congress, the house and the senate, are only concerned about self-preservation because, again, to that poll from axios, they re looking at the numbers and they see a majority of the republican base are sticking with the president. because they re concerned with their seats and all the stature that comes with it, they re not willing to speak out aggressively enough. i can only tell you, joy, i think we re going to fill that burn come midterms and beyond. rick, there s a piece in the washington post that says the entire republican party is a russian asset. it may be because they convinced themselves that no tactic is too repugnant and no moral compromise too loathsome when you re serv