may have misled them. may have criminally lied about a participation in the meeting in the seychelles island as part of an attempt to establish a back channel to the kremlin. it is a lot to unpack, but we have the right guests. congressman eric swalwell. thanks for being here thanks. you give us a front row seat to what sari horowitz was reporting earlier. this meeting was casual, not a back channel. her washington post report says it was a back channel and effectively that means he s accused of lying to your committee. your response in. ? it s all the more reason that our investigation should continue. we re on the eve of what is our last witness that we know about in this russia investigation.
the special counsel s office has continued to request new documents related to the campaign and members of mueller s team have told others they expect to be working through much of 2018 at a minimum. joining s now is sari horowitz, reporter for the washington post. thank you very much for being here. really appreciate your time. sure. thank you for having me, rachel. so i know that you have been reporting about i guess they call them attacks. attacks. certainly oppositional strategy against the mueller investigation from the president s allies including republicans in congress. if this meeting later this week between mueller and the president s lawyers doesn t go the way the president likes it to, are we starting to get a sense of what the president sees as his options? well, this meeting that you re talking about might sort of signal a new combative, contentious phase in this investigation because as you just said we were told that at the meeting the lawyers are
presidential election. we ll be following this. the washington post s sari horowitz, thank you for coming on this morning. this is a photo of steve scalise who was shot yesterday on the practice field celebrating the republicans win last year. we ll talk to one of his colleagues, congressman mark sanford about the state of bipartisanship today. morning joe is coming right back. garfunkel (instrumental) [ snoring ] [ deep sleep snoring ] the all-new volkswagen atlas. seats seven, sleeps six. life s as big as you make it.
on their condition. we were told both of them have been through surgery and both successfully made it through surgery today and both tonight considered to be in critical condition. congressman scalise shot at least once, we re told in the hip. matt michael, we re told, shot multiple times. that s all ahead what we re going to be watching for. as we await further information on that tonight, as we continue to cover this remarkable and tragic developing story we ve also tonight got standing by live one of the lead washington post reporters on a very big breaking news story the washington post has just put on its website tonight that concerns the white house. this is the story. this is the headline. adam is standing by to talk to us about this, one of the bylined reporters as well as the national security and justice reporters and ellen and sari
president trump cannot fire him. he can only be dismissed by the attorney general. rod rosenstein is acting in that role right now. sari horowitz, this was very clarifying, thank you. i hope you come back in the days ahead and i inevitably get confused how this works. i d be glad to. joining us now congressman schiff ranking member on the intelligence committee. rachel, i can t hear you. i m sorry, i had someone else talking in my ear, please go ahead. can you hear me now? yes, i can. great. let me say as a matter of introduction, i had said earlier in the show we expected rod rosenstein the deputy attorney general to do a classified briefing on the firing of fbi director james comey for the full house tomorrow. i think i was wrong about that. he s briefing the senate tomorrow and expected to brief