he apparently gave three hours of testimony in classified session yesterday. three hours alone in classified session with the judiciary coittee. sorry, with the intelligence committee. now the judiciary committee wants to talk to him, too. it has been reported by the washington post and the new york times and nbc and the wall street journal that robert mueller also plans to interview dan coats sometime soon. if he hasn t already. and part of the reason everyone wants to talk to him, part of the reason dan coats is so important to the question of obstruction of justice is because the obstruction of justice thing isn t just about firing james comey. nobody thinks coats was involved in the firing of james comey. there is a question beyond that of whether or not the white house, the president himself maybe, tried to pressure the fbi into dropping their investigation beyond just the threatening and firing of james comey. the washington post reported on march 22nd, president trump as
jessica snider has more for us. reporter: carter paige and roger stone are already under investigation with their contacts with russia known to u.s. intelligence. now they ll go before lawmakers. paul man fort resigned amid questions about his previous lobbying for pro russia contacts in the ukraine. cam tan foreign policy advisor carter paige denied allegations that he secretly met with putin associates. he told the committee i would look forward in engaging with you in finally ending this rouge. and stone is anxious to talk. stone told cnn, i acknowledge i m a hard ballplayer b was thing isn t in my bag of tricks, treason. former national security advisor
headache or the stress that the store locations have caused us, why not just opt for that? hopefully alley has been paying our taxes. caitlin is an extremely extremely intelligent person and i respect her a lot. emotions are hard. she s 25 years old running a million-dollar company. and an outrageous amount of stress that s on her. i guess everything with the company is just is bigger. it s the good and the bad. of course, the council thing isn t easy to deal with. that has been like the most stressful event ever. you know, just feels so personal. i keep on trying to tell myself that it s not personal but it kind of is. it s our livelihood. i just don t know sometimes if all of the work that we ve done so far is going to be worth it or not.
what, this thing isn t going anywhere, and ready for this, he s not even unveiled it and it s already receiving massive criticism and a lot of it comes from the right. mitch mcconnell told reporters he doesn t see how tax reform gets done this year. patrick mchenry has concerned about releasing a plan this year. then there s conservative economist steven moore, called it a gutsy and courageous first attempt, but it s buried with bad ideas. moore s knocks echo that of the financial services round table, from what they ve been saying for years on tax reform. the criticism is another reminder of how hard it is to do any major reform anymore in washington. these are just a few examples. we ve told you about the simpson bowles attacks taking place in some of these races, but bottom line, you can t do anything big, the political system in washington is designed to kill big legislation now. it is not designed to get big things done.
actually coming from people who are sort of backlogged from these processing problems that were happening in california. then you look at the numbers again and you see a big chunk of those claims numbers. 15,000 of them are because of layoffs of nonfederal workers. i m talking about contractors, people who work at companies like lockheed martin. these companies have had workers who were furlowed. you re seeing just how these 15,000 people in one week, who have only filed for jobless claims numbers, how they re being affected. next week we ll see the numbers on government employees who were furloughed. they re counted differently. carol? alison kosik, thank you. torch gate, the olympic torch not so fiery in russia. the flame has gone out four times since sunday. at one point a security guard had to use a cigarette lighter to reignite it. russians are calling for a criminal investigation because, you know, this thing isn t supposed to go out.