they had a ton of high-profile witness this is week and planning to continue to do that next week and curious if the pace operating at might mean they re wrapping up or maybe they re just being incredibly efficient. joining us is kyle cheney reporting on congress for politico.com. thank you for being with us. appreciate your time. thank you for having me, rachel. am i right to sense that there s an uptick in the pace, particularly in this house committee? no question. and i mean, this committee if you remember back they were absolutely hobbled by partisanship for months in a bay people wondered if they would gate investigation off the ground at all and not totally surprising they re suddenly righted that ship a little bit and having people in but the notable intensification of that pace of bringing in witnesses and high-profile witnesses, people close to the president, to the campaign gives you a sense they re reaching a climax or a crescendo here and maybe nearing the end which
house intelligence committee. and you can imagine there would be a lot of tough questions from members of congress, right? considering his past affiliations and the way he s turned up, right? even u.s. government reports, right? what did you learn, congressman tom rooney, republican member of the committee, what did you learn? he just sort of seemed to be another guy in the room. he was supposed to be there to be a translator and then there happened to be another translator, so he didn t even do that. he was just another guy in the room. he was a very good witness. did you google him? [ laughter ] we ve been hearing from republicans in congress that they want the trump-russia probe to wrap up as fast as possible. and maybe this is just me, but how does ike kaveladze with his long, lurid, like poster-child making history of suspected money laundering and ties to russian og garks and the kgb,
that gives lie to the denials from the trump campaign that they had any idea there were contacts between their campaign and the russians. that revelation comes from the new york times and also from the house intelligence committee. which met with carter page this week and reportedly read aloud to him the campaign e-mail and meeting with everybody and their mother right now. they had a ton of high profile witness this is week and planning to continue to do that next week and curious if the pace operating at might mean they re wrapping up or maybe they re just being incredibly efficient. joining us is kyle cheney reporting on congress for politico.com. thank you for being with us. appreciate your time. thank you for having me, rachel. am i right to sense that there s an uptick in the pace, particularly in this house committee? no question. and i mean, this committee if you remember back they were absolutely hobbled by partisanship for months in a bay people wondered if they would
planning to continue to do that next week and curious if the pace operating at might mean they re wrapping up or maybe they re just being incredibly efficient. joining us is kyle cheney reporting on congress for politico.com. thank you for being with us. appreciate your time. thank you for having me, rachel. am i right to sense that there s an uptick in the pace, particularly in this house committee? no question. and i mean, this committee if you remember back they were absolutely hobbled by partisanship for months in a bay people wondered if they would gate investigation off the ground at all and not totally surprising they re suddenly righted that ship a little bit and having people in but the notable intensification of that pace of bringing in witnesses and high-profile witnesses, people close to the president, to the campaign gives you a sense they re reaching a climax or a crescendo here and maybe nearing the end which i think republicans are happy to hear.
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