able do that. that clause is actually no longer valid. reading between the lines, a large part has to do with tension between dianne feinst n feinstein, which heads me to ask you, david the report and for feinstein yesterday and the florida senate reading portions of the report on the floor. she has been on the intelligence committee for quite some time, when do you think she knew about the program when she began the report? yes. or years ago? well, the question of how early she was briefed is not, has not been made clear. the intelligence agencies, cia and the dni have been saying there were regular briefings of the eight meeting members of congress throughout this period, president bush may not have been briefed. but they will cite the date and details of what people were told going back to 2003, 4, et
joining me is msnbc contributor dave weigel. good evening. good evening, keith. the birther crashed the party but she was the only on birther who couldn t restrain herself. representative poe, franks, goodlatte. they were all reading portions of the constitution. theresa showed up as the ghost of birther past. first of all, there is a visible tensing when this happened. second, i remember goodlatte referring to this in the sense he was glad no one else had interrupted. unaware, maybe trying to make everybody else forget he had co-sponsored this birther bill in 2009 and made public his birth certificate to help promote it when he was asked for it. i m giving the benefit of the doubt here. maybe they will drop this. maybe this is something they answer to their constituents for. that will happen to a lot of
i will take a close look shortly upon being confirmed if confirmed to, as i said, making sure that former director mueller, now special counsel mueller, has all the appropriate resources that he ought to have. and my expectation is that i will remain committed to that support regardless of any decisions by anyone else in the department. i would not tolerate any inappropriate influence on special counsel mueller s investigation to the extent that i m supporting it. at the end of the day, it s his investigation. yeah, so when it comes to those bombshell e-mails that were tweeted out by donald trump jr. throughout that meeting that he and jared kushner and paul manafort had with the russian attorney, wray admitted he had been busy preparing for his own hearing, meeting the senators, and he hadn t read any of this. so republican senator lindsey graham helping him out a little bit today, reading portions of those e-mails to him and then hammering him on what don jr.,