recognized process that goes back decades. we have been cooperating fully with these ongoing investigations and encourage the committees to work with us to find an appropriate accommodation in order to ensure congress obtains information necessary to its legitimate interest. shannon: fox news senior capital help producer chad pergram has the breaking scoop. he joins us the details. what can you tell us? house intelligence committee was closed today. once those doors closed, i was sold long ago by a member of the committee that those on the outside always want to know is going on inside. truth be told, we kind of found out. it was pretty chaotic. steve bannon was brought to talk about the russian investigation and things were going along swimmingly for the first hour and a half and then in the words of several sources, things got squirrel an ally. i talked to the republican from texas. we started today on a
cillizza and senior analyst. this has been a strange day, the discussion he had with the secretary of homeland security, lindsey graham s exchange with her, very powerful. we re learning a lot more about this extraordinary meeting that occurred at the white house. what we seem to be learning from both senator graham and senator durbin is that they thought things were going along swimmingly, and then they get to the white house for this meeting and it s clear that they feel that there was some kind of a setup there, and then suddenly anti-immigration reform the way they wanted folks were rushed in at the last minute of a white house meeting. as graham said to journalists, i want to know what the difference was between the tuesday trump and the thursday trump. and they clearly believe that the white house chief of staff, general kelly, and that perhaps
that mr. mueller doesn t put out a lot of press releases. in fact, i can t remember the last mueller press release, but if they did, maybe they would say, hey, we had this meeting this week, with the trump legal team and everything went swimmingly. the question for you is, if you go into this meeting with the mueller team, one of these occasional meetings they do have, what s a victory for the trump legal team. what s a good outcome for the trump legal team in terms of a takeaway. the only thing that the trump team can hope to gain is to have a method of giving their opinion, their viewpoint and making it in a persuasive way so that mueller hears and can think about it. on the other hand, by doing that, mueller can start working on what are the answers to those things. i want to go back to your question about cause and good cause for firing. because that was the same rule for firing arch which i cox. there had to be cause.
this week with the trump legal team and everything went swimmingly. the question for you is, if you go into this meeting with the mueller team, one of these occasional meetings they do have, what s a victory for the trump legal team? what s a good outcome for the trump legal team in terms of a takeaway? the only thing that the trump team can hope to gain is to have a method of giving their opinion, their viewpoint and making it in a persuasive way so that mueller hears and can think about it. on the other hand, by doing that, mueller can start working on what are the answers to those things. i want to go back to your question about cause and good cause for firing. because that was the same rule for firing archie cox. there had to be cause. because there wasn t, the attorney general refused to carry out the president s order, so he was fired. and the deputy attorney general said there is no cause, i will not do it, and so he was fired.
if they did, maybe they would say, hey, we had this meeting this week, with the trump legal team and everything went swimmingly. the question for you is, if you go into this meeting with the mueller team, one of these occasional meetings they do have, what s a victory for the trump legal team. what s a good outcome for the trump legal team in terms of a takeaway. the only thing that the trump team can hope to gain is to have a method of giving their opinion, their viewpoint and making it in a persuasive way so that mueller hears and can think about it. on the other hand, by doing that, mueller can start working on what are the answers to those things. i want to go back to your question about cause and good cause for firing. because that was the same rule for firing arch which i cox. there had to be cause. because there wasn t, the attorney general refused to carry out the president s order, so he was fired. and the deputy attorney general