other areas. i want to get you on the record on a couple of other moves. number one, the president s closest body man keith shirley goes in to spend some time with the house committee so the president has that feeling knowing one of the keepers of secrets is behind closed doors while he s half a world away. also we had a gag order put in place on the case today. for our viewers what does that mean? well, on shirller he was behd closed doors longer than we expected. six hours. and he is much more than just the president s body man. he s been the head of trump security. he s been with trump through key moments, the 2013 miss universe pageant. he hand clifrd the letter to comey. he was next to trump every moment of the campaign. so he was a key person. he s also very loyal to the president. one other thing i will note that happened on the hill today is
deadliest shooting attack, keith, since last month. president trump has had to deal with these issues. he s in japan now. he was asked about this attack in japan this morning and here is what he had to say. i think that mental health is your problem here. this was a very based on preliminary reports, very deranged individual. a lot of problems over a long period of time. we have a lot of mental hell problems in our country, autos do other countries of the but this isn t a guns situation. i mean, we could go into it, but it s a little bit soon to go into it. but fortunately, somebody else had a gun that was shooting in the opposite direction, otherwise it would have been as bad as it was. it would have been much worse. but this is a mental health problem at the highest level. look, i certainly don t think anyone would deny that this guy had some issues, right, some mental health issues. but do you think that this is the major issue with this situation, with these
president, who really at the very beginning and up till recently said that there was no collusion and you won t find anything. basically this is all made up by the democrats. this is something here. and when you look for something, you re going to find something. it seems people are finding it. mueller is finding something. so the question is how long and who will be involved and where will the tentacles point to in all of this. yeah. the president s lopping time adviser who served as director of oval operations keith shirley will be interviewed tomorrow about a 2013 trip that trump took to moscow. this trip is the center of the allegations included in the dossier about the president. shirley left the white house in september. what was the answer given at the time here, david. again, they sort of played down the trip, that this was not of significance. the problem is there s so many officials having contacts with the russians. there s the papadopoulos thing.
mueller will require their cooperation not just with him but also with congress. i assume you d like to talk to papadopoulos as well. absolutely. and he was on our witness list. he was already very much a person of interest in our investigation and apparently he s agreed to cooperate, but whether that s agreed to cooperate only with bob mueller or with us too is yet to be determined. your committee is interviewing former aide to the president and long time confident keith shirley next tuesday. he was sort of the president s body man going back for years. what information do you hope he can provide? are there specific topics you hope to question him on? well, the majority apparently is the releasing our witness list. i m not sure why because the agreement is to keep that confidential and allow the witnesses to disclose if they choose to. so at this point i don t want to confirm whether he is coming before the committee. but we do have a busy few weeks ahead of us. we re intervie