aleve it, and see what s possible. chairman of the intelligence committee in the house of representatives, california congressman adam schiff. he is the author of the number one new york times bestselling book, midnight in washington, how we almost lost our democracy and still could. midnight in washington has just come out in paperback. congratulations on that, sir, thank you for joining us tonight. great to be with you. let me first get your reaction to this breaking news from the new york times tonight. quantifying for the first time the amount of classified information that may be in question with the former presidents estate in florida. the times is reporting that the fbi has now obtained more than 300 different classified documents from trump s home that, reportedly, included documents from this cia, and i say, the fbi.
set off alarm bells throughout the white house. both witnesses provided the committees with first-hand accounts after personally listening to the call in the white house situation room. joining us now for the latest, nbc news white house correspondent mike viqueira. mike, what can you tell us? good evening, al. you re right, that testimony from gordon sondland, the eu ambassador, is mentioned in these transcripts at the center of these allegations that have led to the dramatic hearings this week. let s start with jennifer williams and the transcripts that were released an hour ago by the intelligence committee in the house of representatives. we ll start with jennifer weapons , that top aide on europe and russia to vice president pence who was on that july 25th call. she says the call in her view was more political in nature, so it struck me as unusual and
personal e-mail accounts. they knew the problem of hillary clinton. they knew what a central issue this was to the trump campaign. they warned them over and over again. now they re confronting it again. what are the feelings? the rules don t apply to them? i d hate to guess what they re feeling, but they didn t follow the rules. got it. michael schmidt, good to see you in person. thanks for having me. joining us now is connecticut democratic congressman jim himes, he serves on the intelligence committee in the house of representatives. congressman, good to see you. i want to talk about twitter for a moment. they came in, they said that they dismantled a few hundred accounts that were linked to russia, russian accounts. what more do they need to do to satisfy your committee? well, you know, remember that was on the senate side. on the house side we ve had a little bit of a struggle in getting them to produce some of the private messagesing that we were hoping to see, to be h
undercut it and using the mega phone of the white house to do that. so that makes the mainstream media s ability to connect with people even harder. jared kushner dmot giving over relevant documents according to the committee. they wanted to know about the private e-mail account. he seems to be doing things almost it feels like every other week that he was not supposed to do. revealing more and more information. how frustrated right now are the congressional committees with jared kushner? the problem is that when stuff like this comes out, that he had an account and that they didn t know about it, they assume the worst case scenario. they assume that there are things that they don t have. so of course they re going to get rile upped about it. kushner s lawyer says there s nothing to be seen there. but kushner s lawyers have said things and it s turned out not to be true. even inside the white house i ve been told that the white house counsel was explicit with these folks abou
disappointed even after the platform said it suspended more than 200 russian-linked accounts. the response was inadequate on virtually every level and why they need to come forward in a public presentation and explain to the senate and the american public becomes all that more important. warner and committee chair richard burr announced today they ll provide an update on their investigation during a news conference on wednesday. joining me here in our washington newsroom to talk about this is michael schmidt, new york times reporter and nbc national security contributor. nice to see you in person. i want to talk to twitter to begin with the committee is not satisfied with what they were able to hand over. is twitter going to be facing more pressure from congress to put more regulations on their social media platform?