eoyang and ken delay, an investigative report were msnbc. let me start with the congressman. congressman, this is devastating. the republicans on this disreputable majority on your committee who raced out this draft report which basically whitewashes everything. says the russians weren t trying to help trump, did nothing in terms of the election, totally clean as a whistle and whizzed it right past you guys. yeah. this is a stunning debev trail of the american people and the public trust. this was a case of the majority on the committee basically burying their heads in the sand. it was a believe whatever they tell us investigation. chris, this was the equivalent of bringing in a suspect, asking them whether they started the fire or not. they said no, i didn t start it. and then you say oh, well, great. everybody can go home. that s basically what happened. they didn t even bring in the suspect. not the main one, no. they were investigating the
counsel. now, the attorney general, jeff sessions, has said that he has recused himself from matters involving the trump-russia investigation. that recusal is now very much in question because of jeff sessions admitted role in the firing of fbi director james comey who was leading the trump-russia investigations and the fbi. but this order tonight, to have oversight into these russia investigations, hand over your records. rod rosenstein said he was acting attorney general on this issue. we re going to find out what that means and why that s important in terms of how much we should all trust this is going to be an independent and capable uninfluenced, unimpeded, real investigation. we ll have more on that coming
of the house and you saw senator lindsey graham or heard him say, they re off in a ditch somewhere.ra senator feinstein is concerned what s happening over in the house that she expressed by the way the same support for this house for the senate intelligence investigation you re doing but she s worried that the house mess is going to put a stain on the senate investigation.o how concerned are you about that? i think the opposite. it s pretty clear the contrast it s pretty clear the contrast here. the senate committee, burr and warner, had a joint press conference last week. they basically locked arms and said we re going to go wherever the facts take us. i think the american people can depend on the senate intelligence committee investigation to be done on a bipartisan basis and to go wherever the facts lead us. so basically, what you re saying is that the president s description of this al investigation is fake news, nonsense, phony, total scam those are phrases he s used since
kentucky. we have a lot to get to. supreme court and health care. welcome back to meet the press. good morning, chuck. the president has used the following phrases to describe ch the russia investigation. fake news. nonsense. phony. total scam. do you believe any of those phrases apply to the russia investigation? yeah, let me just say in thet midst of all of this and listening to your introductory piece this morning two things you can depend on. the senate intelligence committee under chairman burr and ranking member mark warner are going to have an investigation. they re in the middle of it. they ll handle it on a bipartisan basis. they ll go wherever the facts lead us. and i hope at the end we ll have a bipartisan report. the other thing we know is happening is the fbi s looking in to these allegations in rather unusual announcement they have indicated that they are and so in the middle of the other things that are swirling aroundo there are two things you can depend on. the
you re concerned? i m not characterizing what the president is saying. what i m telling the american people is they can depend on the senate intelligence committee to do a credible bipartisan investigation and tell us where the facts led them. have you seen any evidence you re part of this there s a lot of gangs when it comes to describing members of the u.s. senate.it there is a gang of eight and you re a member of one of these gangs that gets high level classified intelligence briefings. the same ones that the intelligence committee chairs get. you re one of those folks that get it. have you gotten any intelligence information that indicates the obama administration somehow applied asked for surveillance of the trump transition, the trump team. any trump associates? no.o. under nothing not even a hint of this, not anything? well, not yet. do you believe that these allegations are worthy of investigation that the president