investigating people in a sense of bringing about a prosecution, that s not our role. we are looking at the whole range of actors in terms of what kind of relationship did they have with the russians, and so we are not excluding anybody from that. we are determined, at least on our side of the aisle we certainly are, to follow the facts where they lead and we hope republicans are as well. mueller has a very different responsibility obviously, and there s a specific connotation to being a suspect in a criminal investigation as opposed to a witness or person of interests, and i will have to leave it to mr. mueller to answer those questions. the ads that were all over social media, we know the exposure was certainly in excess of 100 million americans. we are looking at some of them right now. a couple points. one is, do you believe they are being forthcoming, the operators of the sites in terms of how many ads they are sharing and
suspect to gitmo sounds good and harsh, but it s also unrealistic. he says that now. he uses that word. the president also looks at the criminal justice system and calls it a joke and laughingstock. president trump, though, however is saying at least the new york suspect should be tried here, and he also says he should be executed, something prosecutors did not want to hear because it can taint a jury. peter king of new york, always good to see you, sir. doing well? doing fine, chris. how about you? good. let me ask you, the comments, the turn about on gitmo, and you know your facts, and you know the prosecutions are better off in our federal system and gitmo is no expedient machine. i am not the person who
do you think that s a fair statement to say this has nothing to do with the campaign? manafort indictment again, i am on the intelligence committee and i have to watch how i say that because we are doing the investigation, i have seen no evidence yet indicating any collusion. and there s statements from my kul cohen and john podesta, and i can go through all of the main figures, there s no evidence yet linking anybody to collusion, and even in the case of papadopoulos, the e-mails first of all the president did say he wanted to open up more relations with russia, and i can can understand why a staff person was thinking he s getting out front. and they said they could not do it, if you are involved in collusion, you are not going to clear it with the nato allies. and even the meeting with donald trump, jr., if anything that
when president obama weighed in on the cambridge professor arrest there, and they said it s hard to weigh in when it s a fair and impartial jury. when you look at the term enemy combatant. we go to 1812, we go to the war between mexico and the united states in 1846, and then you go basically to 1941, the attack on pearl harbor. there s a definite distinction between a state actor that attacks us and a person. again, the global war on terror, there s a nebulous view on how we treat these folks. are they enemy combatants? you can argue that. but they don t adhere to a state but allege ideology.
shows there was no collusion, and the person was talking about the russian government helping and he s taking pictures of himself checking into trump tower, and the meeting lasted ten or 20 minutes. mistakes were made but as far as any collusion i don t see it yet but i am keeping an open mind. congressman king, thank you for opportunity to talk about it with us, and you are always welcome here. us guys from queens, it s the way we talk, you know. it s true. you have a better head of hair, so thank you. you are better looking than your brother. that s a low bar. john berman picks it up right after the break. i pop that in there. press brew. that s it. so rich. i love it. that s why you should be a keurig man! full-bodied. are you sure you re describing the coffee and not me?