bruce orr has never been part of the team investigating russia. i thought he was on mueller s investigative team. he s a member of the fbi. s he not on mueller s investigating team. it s important to make sure we have those facts. back to the question i asked you initially. i m sorry. i was thinking of weissman. the other two. sorry. no i give you credit. i it s difficult to keep track. there are so many developments in this russia investigation. when it comes to the congressional probe, would it be premature to be trying to end that investigation at this point? well i don t want to see the investigation end until they get to the bottom of that dossier that mr. i fregt rob rosen berg? wouldn t answer about last week. we ve got to find out, did they use that dossier to get a warrant to go after carter page? so that is the most important
question in your mind? it s a big one. because that gets to the abuse of the people that are doing the investigation and compromises the team. i don t understand how you see that the team would be compromised. the you and many other republicans were very supportive of robert mueller s investigation all along and let s remember there are members on his team that are republicans themselves in terms of political affiliation but what whe heard from rod rosenstein is there s no reason to believe they re compromised. he believes that mueller is proceeding to his mandate in h a very professional way. that s what i heard at the hearing we aired publicly here on cnn this week. let me ask you a question about michael flynn who we heard the president make a comment earlier that he has not ruled out at the very least giving michael flynn a pardon. the he has already pleaded
guilty to lying to mueller s team. who knows where that s going to lead in terms of that plea deal, but would you be concerned if the president pardoned flynn? well i think it would be premature to do anything until all this stuff is run to ground. there s still been no evidence of trump collusion with russians, no evidence of russian succeeding and influencing our elections, just a lot of some what party san investigation. let me stop you for just a moment though. when you say that there is no evidence that russia influenced the election, i mean all of the intelligence agencies concluded that russia indeed indeed meddle in the u.s. election. meddled, yes. but succeeded, no. okay. i don t know if that is a conclusion that we can draw at this point, based on the ongoing investigation. real quick, because you are the vice chair of the foreign affairs committee, i want to ask you about the state department and some the questions
the house. finally a krcnn exclusive. i m speaking with the mother of charlotte sville mother of the deceased. first what could be a pivotal meeting. sources telling cnn the two teams could sit down as early as this coming week. the president s lawyers are said to be hoping for signs that the investigation is close to wrapping up. we re told they re staying positive over the fact that out of all the documents mueller has requested so far, few have had to do with the president directly. another high level white house official doesn t appear to think the probe will be over so soon. washington post reports that jared kushner has looked to hire a pr team. you recall he has been a focus of the probe. amid all of this the president is raising the specter he may still pardon michael flynn.