surveillance warrant for trump campaigning. shannon: another key witness, reportedly backing away from these claims that when rod rosenstein is quoted as saying something about wearing a wire, he wasn t joking. this witness, is he sticking by that? this is james baker, former top lawyer at the fbi, general counsel, he had a second round in a transcribed interview, this deposition and he did not back away this account that he believed rod rosenstein was serious, james baker was not in the meeting but he criticized the meeting contemporaneously from andrew mccabe, acting director of the fbi and his lawyer, lisa page. it was so serious he was asking himself as general counsel is it legal? is it ethical? some lawmakers said they went into details alleging rosenstein identified people in the administration to wear a wire.
sort of subpoena power and control over balance of boyar between the house and the senate. so andrea, i know you spend a lot of time as a congressional reporter on capitol hill. you heard president trump talking about the fact he s willing 60 days out from the elections to be on the campaign trail, six to seven days a week. is he going to be welcomed by these republicans? do these republicans want to see trump campaigning for them in their districts? the thing so interesting about this year, you have moderate republicans up for re-election in districts that hillary clinton won, sometimes by double digits. carlos in the 26th district in florida. dana rohrbacher out in california. these are folks that, you know, i don t know if the president s help would actually benefit them in their congressional districts so what these candidates and these incumbents have to do is really distinguish their own brand from what the president is offering. what we saw this morning from the president s
and people scratching their heads over his constant appearances before the press and cable shows. on thursday closed door testimony with the house intelligence committee and saying his testimony hard to follow. one called it bizarre and then the next day he is on cable television talking about the contacts and a trip to russia in july of last year in the heat of the campaign. carter page, the former foreign policy adviser to the trump campaign. meeting with no less than the deputy prime minister of russia and in that meeting in moscow for a conference. and then reportedly sending an e-mail to the trump campaign outlining the meeting and even mentioning it to jeff sessions who of course was an instructional part of the trump campaigning at that time. who is now attorney general and an individual who is denied many times being able to or has not remembered or denied having meeting with russians and that denial and refutation of that
what was the level of the russian involvement or interference, was anybody on the trump campaigning cooperating or colluding on that? was there an attempt by the associates or president trump to obstruct the investigation, to interfere with the investigation, that goes to the heart of the interactions between former fbi director james comey and president trump. because we know from reports that they had numerous one-on-one meetings. we know that james comey kept meticulous notes at the meetings and that comey and mueller have very good reputations in terms of investigative backgrounds, intelligence, competence and bipartisanship in the case of mueller. it s one of the very few decisions in washington that republicans and democrats came out in support of this pick just this week. i think everybody s going to be focus on what comey says about his interactions with president trump and not just what he says but what he recorded and shared with other senior level fbi officials after the mee
counterintelligence investigation, regarding trump campaigning individuals on the russian government? you said that in march. to see if there is any correlation between the russian effort yes. nothing is changed, you stand by those statements? but you won t tell me about carter page? not here, i won t. okay. the chairman mentioned that fusion, are you familiar with fusion? i know the name. are they part of the russian intelligence apparatus? i can t say. do agree that if fusion was involved in preparing a dossier against donald trump, that would be interfering in our election by the russians? i don t want to say. okay, do you agree with me that anthony weiner of 2016 should not have access to classified information? yes, that s a fair statement. would you agree with me that that s on a legal we have really bad laws?