doesn t even matter whether there was collusion or not. he s sending a signal that right now given where the president is in terms of the status of this investigation, it doesn t matter whether there s collusion or not. putin is saying, i can do you serious damage here. i think it s also part of the theme that s happening that he can and continues to try to sow discord just as you think there may be some theme going on they stir the proverbial pot and demonstrate they have the power to do so. the question is why she did this now when she s been so reluctant in the past and denied she was in any way involved with the kremlin, why now? why this opportunity to do so? we have to meet with the same level of skepticism with the house up tell republicans that chose not to continue it with natalia veselnitskaya, why are you deciding to make decisions you re making now. are they in haste or the sanction issue again? yeah. i think
trump tower meeting, she admitted she worked with the military unit with ties to the fsb. that s explosive. what does this mean? it certainly is explosive. any time you have a person who is under investigation and who the fbi agents and intelligence officials have questions about is admitting that she was working as an informant for the russian government, she was connected to the top prosecutor in russia, she said so today in this interview, that is significant for the special counsel s investigation. they are probing this meeting at trump tower. they are investigating it. they ve been investigating since reports surfaced. when you have someone who is a subject of an investigation obviously admitting that they are part of this perhaps conspiracy here, that is a pretty significant deal. is seems like something that the house intel committee would want to investigate, dig in on. they ll be hugely embarrassed
lying about pay raises. after nearly two dozen people spoke out the white house claimed he had undergone vetting. the pick for the v.a. has forced to withdraw. he also two bromances with kanye west and the french president and gave such a wild interview that the fox & friends hosts cut him off and before the 2016 election saying she s an informant for the kremlin. just another circus of a week for the trump administration. and that s a perfect transition for this gent, the executive producer of showtime s the circus. adviser to former president bush. too bad you don t have any material for your show. no, once again, we re trying to figure out what to cut. i ve already cut scenes for monday. is it more important what you cut than what you put in?
it was a great report. no collusion. which i knew anyway. no coordination. no nothing. it s a witch-hunt. that s all it is. it s important to keep a couple of things in mind here. democrats on the house intel committee rejected the republican report and they charged republicans were not actually interested in uncovering collusion. the senate intelligence committee is still investigating russia s interference and, of course, robert mueller s investigation still under way. so it s a little bit premature for the president to be crowing about no collusion. we ll get into all of that but begin with cnn s crime and justice reporter and jack quinn and samantha good evening. i want to start with you. this russian lawyer, veselnitskaya, from the infamous
you might as well put a picture of mueller and comey together next of the statute. they are at the definition of a disqualifying conflict of interest. congressman franks is calling on mueller to resign. i spoke to them a short time ago and he said there s othergo members of the judiciary committee who feel the same way and the congressman is avowing unofficial lobbying effort to convince others to come out and call for the resignation of robert mueller. sean: ari fleischer, i think this is only one of a small part but there s a bigger part here.er you look at classified information leaked by james comey to cause the appointment of a special counsel, it ends up being his close friend. there s talk that they coordinated before he testified before the senate intel committee.s that relationship goes further and further. what is your reaction? should he recuse himself and get out of the way? i don t think we know what the extent of the friendship is,