president s lawyers. they wanted to get a sense of where mueller s inquiry is going and more importantly get some indication of how much longer this cloud of investigation is going to hangover the president. even since the meeting we have continued to see optimism from the president s lawyers that the investigation is going to end soon, even if they re no longer giving dates predicting exactly when it will end. one source told us the president s lawyers still think it will eventually clear the president. jake, they looked at this as sort of a doctor s check up and were hope frg a clean bill of health for the president. it looks like they got something along the lines we have more tests to do. my political panel is here to talk about it. brian, let me start with you because one of the things so interesting in this op-ed from the founders of fusion gps, was that the dossier was taken so seriously because it corroborated reports they had received from other sources including one from in
and they said the committees had no interest in investigating what they said were serious allegations and saying it raises serious questions about efforts too cab collaborate between russians and the trump campaign during the presidential election. and jake, also they re demanding these committees release the transcripts of their 21 hours of interviews behind closed doors, but no sign that s going to happen just quite yet, jake. evan, tonight we re learning the trump legal team talked with the special counsel before christmas. do we have any idea what they discussed? we don t know exactly what was discussed, but there were talks between the president s lawyers and robert mueller s team. the meeting happened a few days before christmas. while there are been other meetings between the two sides, this had some importance for the president s lawyers. they wanted to get a sense of where mueller s inquiry is going and more importantly get some indication of how much longer this cloud of