warrant. the fact that mueller nonetheless went in, got a search warrant, and raided his home suggests there something else going on. it is separate developing, investigators are reviewing campaign email sent by rick dearborn, now the president deputy chief of staff. dearborn had offered to set up a meeting between top trump officials in the russian president. dearborn was skeptical but forwarded the email and refuse the offer. in this week s testimony about the trump dossier, at least one senator, richard blumenthal, wants the transcript public. bret: our series. there it is. our series on the fight for control of congress and the 2018 midterm elections moves to iowa. democrats are targeting the state s first congressional district for its blue-collar background. can they overcome the trump
talking about sidney blumenthal, it was obvious that elijah cummings, the ranking member, was going to be making that case. which is what happened. they closed out the first session of the hearing, and that s the moment that even is going to remember from this hearing, that spat over this sort of tangential figure over a hearing that s supposed to be on benghazi. and this refusal to release the transcript, but there s been numerous names where witnesses have asked their transcripts be made public, and the majority on the committee, the republicans have refused it. and it s very hard watching this to think why if the people want to make their testimony public, why would you not want to make it public? it s true. the line that gowdy has used is if we make this transcript public, it will improperly influence future witnesses, as if they will know the questions we want to ask, they ll be able to tailor their answers. but i have to say, there were conservatives very supportive of the
that s the moment that everyone is going to remember from this hearing, that spat over this sort of tangential figure over a hearing that s supposed to be on benghazi. and this refusal to release the transcript, but there s been numerous times where witnesses have asked their transcripts be made public, and the majority on the committee, the republicans have refused it. and it s very hard watching this to think why if the people interviewed want to make their testimony public, why would you not want to make it public? it s true. the line that gowdy has used is if we make this transcript public, it will improperly influence future witnesses, as if they will know the questions we want to ask, they ll be able to tailor their answers. into therefore, we shouldn t make it public. but i have to say, there were conservatives very supportive of the benghazi inquiry on twitter saying this is silly, make the transcript public. get rid of this issue. blumenthal is the sort of weird figure