welcome back. i m david gura. in the russia probe, former trump adviser steve bannon set to testify before the house intelligence committee on tuesday in closed session, and to prepare, he hired attorney william burke, who also represents former white house chief of staff reince priebus and current white house counsel don mcgahn. meanwhile, the president now saying that an interview with robert mueller seems unlikely, continuing to insist there was no collusion with russia. there has been no collusion. no collusion. bottom line, they all say there s no collusion and there was no collusion. there was absolutely no collusion. everybody knows it. it has been determined that there is no collusion. when they have no collusion and nobody s found any collusion at any level, it seems unlikely that you d even have an interview. the president clear on that point. joining me, malcolm nance, u.s. intelligence veteran for over 30 years and terrorism analyst, and naveed jamal, an msnbc
and trash other people. you really have basically three factions inside this administration. have you traditional conservative republicans, allah mike pence, people of this mold. then have you steve bannon set. have you these whether you think of them as alt right or populist nationalists or whatever they are, but this is a different way to look at the republican party. and then have you these other people who aren t republicans at all. this is like the president s daughter and son-in-law, this is like advisor gary cohn and now we have a nonpartisan as white house chief of staff. so these groups, whatever they o in the body of the chief of staff to clean things up, get it tightened down, make it run better, still have these three factions still leaking on each other and still trying to run each other down in the press and that s not helpful. dana: mary anne, you can look at this through both perspectives. the republicans have pretty much stayed with the president. they can list off a