cloud and hinders his ability to do his job, does congress and including democrats, do you feel a need to wrap up this investigation as quickly as possible and what do you think of what the republican national committee chair woman ms. mcdaniel just said which is that when it comes to collusion you should stop your investigations? well, no, i don t think that s at all appropriate. i think the special prosecutor has to look at all the different aspects of this investigation, and there are multiple. manafort s actions while he was chairman of the republican committee, the trump committee. chris: paul manafort who was campaign manager? exactly. all these things that go back. carter page, all these people. and then he has to come and i think present the president with a list of questions that only the president can answer. and the president should answer truthfully under oath to those questions. chris: well, what about the suggestion because she said that the special counsel should go
those individuals, attorney general sessions testifies before senate intelligence on tuesday. you ll be there in the panel. what do you want to hear from him? well, first, there is a question of his participation in the firing of director comey. he had already recused himself. and then suddenly he is the one apparently recommending to the president that comey be fired and the president, as he indicated, suggested, not suggested, declared it was all about the russian investigation. so there is a real question of the propriety of the attorney general participating in that in any way, shape, or form. then there has been allegations publicly of meetings that go beyond the meetings that he has already declared he had with representatives of the russian government. that will come up. chris: let me ask about that. do you have any evidence that he met there are two times now that he is on the record as having said he met with russian ambassador sergey kislyak. open question. also one of
wanted comey to shut down the investigation. g.o.p. strategist karl rove, charles ellayna of the washington post, former democratic congresswoman donna edwards and former speaker newt gingrich, author of the upcoming book underunderstanding trump out this tuesday. that must be a long book. it s interesting. chris: i m sure it is. speaker gingrich, i want to speak to you about something else. i want to start with your tweet that i discussed earlier with the republican chair woman ronna mcdaniel. here it is up on the screen again. republicans need to focus on closing down independent counsel because it clearly isn t independent. what s your reasoning and wouldn t that really look like an obstruction of justice? well, first of all, look at what comey said. comey said i deliberately leaked through an intermediary to create this counsel who happens to be one of his closest friends. then look at who miller is starting to hire. i mean, these are people that frankly look to me like they
with a new poll. let s take a look at that mr. trump s approval now stands at 34%. disapproval at 57%. that s the lowest we can finder for any president in his first term. isn t the president at this point a drag on republicans and your agenda? absolutely not. you look at the montana special election with greg gene tore at a who had lost in november running for governor by 4 points. he wrapped himself around the president. he had donald trump jr. in there and he won by 7 in a state with a democrat governor and a democrat senator. the president resonates with our base. he has faced more obstruction, more resistance and more negative media than any president in our history, but is he going to keep laser focused on policies that help the american people. and you re going to see all those numbers rebound as they start to feel that in their everyday lives. chris: chair woman mcdaniel thank you. thank you for your time this weekend. please come back. thanks for having me. we ll do.
inappropriate to comment on it. chris: former national security advisor michael flynn has been a special focus of this investigation. he held repeated meetings with the russians. he is the one that the president allegedly told comey to go easy on. how important is flynn to this investigation? well, i think at this point he is one of the key figures. he was involved, apparently, from reports that have not been refuted with contacts with the russians. the question, again, it goes back to why the questioning of the president will not be restricted and discreet to the comey situation. what did general flynn tell the president? what is he directed by the president to initiate these conversations? were these appropriate conversations? i but i think general flynn is somewhat whsomeone is the key ff the investigation. chris: the key focus?