Investigation would soon be winding down. However, there are signs to the contrary. Axios is reporting that, quote, members of Robert Muellers team are reaching out to former Republican National Committee Staff who were familiar with the digital campaign. The goal is to determine if the joint effort was related to the activities of russian trolls and bots aimed at affecting the american electorate. Ty cobb said all of the interviews with the special team are over. However, former colleague said i would be shocked if he was done with the inner circle. All of these indictments, guilty pleas and interviews could be round one. Joining me is Jonathan Swan with acti axios. Thanks to all of you for joining. Barry, the resident former prosecutor here, let me start with you. You have this report from the Washington Post saying that if
point is that its a question that a lot of people close to the situation are asking themselves is why did mueller allow for this prosecutorial vulnerability . Bec
almost have to have a bipartisan agreement in order to achieve a result. mcconnell is hoping congress will have better luck with an infrastructure package. the white house has indicated president trump may renew that push in 2018 although he s got his eye on obamacare. the president will need to talk that over with mcconnell. he said the senate is moving on from health care. let s bring in the hardball roundtable, best mui, katheryn rampell and nick confocoey. we know yeah. donald trump said i m not going to touch this. mitch mcconnell is saying that s a third rail. let s give. democrats aren t going to touch that in any way.
it s actually the opposite of what katheryn just said. it s been the democrats saying there was russian collusion. there s an investigation right now, a special prosecutor, and multiple congressional committees on the question of whether there was russia collusion. was there a meeting between a lawyer, and members of the trump campaign in trump tower in which they were promised dirt on hillary clinton? did that happen? yes. don trump jr. i believe was a neophyte in letting that happen. what abouticating with a rus january hacker, what about carter page? what about all of the trump administration officials or campaign advisors who had undisclosed meetings with russian officials? we re calling people in the next week or two to find out if russia helped also pay for that fusion gps document. we need to hear that and here s the thing. let s remember how the fusion gps document got into the bloodstream in the first place.
that means a lot more sebastian gorka, boris epstein and as we re seeing this week coverage of this uranium one deal by some of sinclair s digital correspondence as well. perhaps bill o reilly, too, katheryn, because bill o reilly is said to be in talks to go to sinclair. it s unclear what s happening given the revelations about the $32 million settle am. the issue is, look, maybe it s fair to say antitrust rules written decades ago could be were you dated, i don t know. the question here is why are these rules being retooled apparently for this particular merger given that you may recall that jared kushner actually publicly said that he had a deal with sinclair last year for favorable coverage, right? that s what s suspicious about this, not so much that the fcc would be thinking about how do we really re-evaluate what s good for consumers. why are they changing, first of all, the formula for what s good without even changing the rules,
this is equivalent to what the rosenbergs did and they got a chair. think about it. giving away nuclear capabilities to our enemies. who in the clinton campaign paid these people, paid them through false names, where did this money go? what we should be focusing on are the continued lies. hillary clinton is not the president, that was decided nearly a full year ago. just making sure you know. joining me, senior writer eric fuller, katheryn rampell, jenn kern and senior reporter at mother jones, angie krull. jenn, i will start with you. thank you for being here. this seems to be coordinated. were talking points issued by the republican national committee to trump surrogates when asked about russia collusion shift the story to uranium one? not in those words.