the origins of the russia probe. let s bring in trey gowdy, the former chairman of the house oversight committee it it is great to see you. yes, ma am thank you. maria: your reaction to what you heard from bill barr. obviously, the democrats are painting him now as being political and not being the honest broker that they said he was at the beginning. yeah, i don t think they like the old ag, either. they re not going to like whoever replaces bill barr. there are a lot of serious questions that need to be asked when does the russia probe begin and when did it become hopefully co-mingled with the trump campaign, what was the fact you ll predicate, where are the transcripts, if any exist between the informants and the telephone calls to mr. leynaud: george why didn t he do a follow-up, defensive briefing that doesn t even get to the whole fisa story and that s just the spring and summer of 2016. there are lots of questions and
the executive branch. senior justice department official telling fox news, we agreed to provide documents by friday or explain why we couldn t. that process is underway, including delivery of many requested documents yesterday and today. a lot of frustration on the house, but also among the american people. kennedy, pretty simple questions you are getting from members of the house saying, when did this russia probe begin and more information about this informant on the campaign. are they right to be as frustrated as they are? part of the frustration is political, obviously. any time you have members of congress and their grandstanding, political element, this is legitimate request, sometimes impossible to separate the two, you have to err on the side of transparency. f.b.i. and d.o.j. have problems with perception, it doesn t do them a lot of good to hide behind some of these excuses
and the russia probe begin? do you know the date or about the date? yes. we re told that the investigation into obstruction of justice commenced days after fbi the director james comey was fired. so that was may 9th. early to mid may, the president is under investigation. now let s talk about what you just said. that it has expanded. expanded to what? can you explain a little bit more? we know that within days, as early as this week, special counsel mueller is going to be interviewing several key intelligence officials. one is dan coats, the director of national intelligence. the other is mike rogers, admiral mike rogers, head of the nsa and his former deputy richard leg get. shortly after coats was confirmed for his position, he was in the white house and had a