ongoing criminal matter. they could bring in a new special counsel. my view is always at a special counsel really needs to be an extraordinary remedy, only if you think the justice department is so compromised that it couldn t handle the investigation on its own. obviously we are several steps away from that point, the attorney general would have to decide that the conclusion was wrong and that there is another reason to take a look at this. harris: what exactly is the link, the deal they are looking at and are there any signs that it was in fact corrupt that you can see? look, i know how this process works and it s pretty complicated. this was not a decision for hillary clinton to make a loan, this is something that did get signed off by approximately ten different agents and independent actors in the federal government. that s not to say that someone could not have manipulated the system and we have certainly seen with the clintons were capable of. if i were with the republicans
to see you today. what is the next step in all of this in terms of getting answers and how big of a deal is this fresh look? harris, i see this as attorney general sections fulfilling the pledge of the doj made to congress to go back and check the homework or the work that had been done before. it s not unprecedented. when president obama came into office he did the same thing with investigations closed during the bush justice department. i think with the attorney general is trying to do here is make sure the department s handling of this issue was done in fair, impartial, nonpartisan fashion and that the conclusion can be trusted. harris: that s a start of it. if they find something, i m curious. what is the end game here? i think the end game would be if they found something they certainly would be potentially capable of reopening the investigation and handling it as though it were as active,
confirmed he met with officials from fusion gps. deputy fbi director andrew mccabe also testifying again today before the house judiciary committee, to go days after he was grilled by house intel amid concerns at the bureau and robert mueller s in russia investigation were biased against the president. congressional investigators say his testimony conflicts with other witnesses. let s bring in the power panel. joe trippi, headed howard dean s presidential campaign. the founder of s3, public affairs and armor press secretary for roy blunt. i m going to start with you, how hungry do you think the lawmakers on capitol hill will be to get to the answers? sometimes you see these things come up, you go through the holidays, you come back, will this to? i think if you are looking at this entire investigation, i think it s got off the rails. i talked to some people on capitol hill today, some of
is it against the law for the fbi director or anybody involved with this investigation when they are assigning people to look into their contributions, there is a specific law that prohibits doing that. i think if we will look at what s happening here, you have spouses working on dossiers on the other side, i think we are going to have to take this apart layer by layer. that may take changing the rules, regulations, because under the current form there is no problem with any of that. jeff sessions, andrew mccabe, none of them can look into how they are assigning people based on whether they contributed, whether they supported the opponent of the president, they have political rights and freedom of speech and freedom of activity. the thing is is there any
evidence that their political persuasion, their contribution somehow influenced how they conducted the investigation. so far there has been no evidence put forth that shows that. i m not saying there won t be but so far there hasn t been. harris: good to see you, thank you, we will be right bac back.