washington, d.c. where i gather he has no attachments other than perhaps one to the special counsel. give us your perspective on all of this, katy. so remember the michael cohen southern district of new york case is a referral from the mueller investigation, and that s really important to remember because mueller is obviously doing his own track. the piece was key in terms of giving insielkt into how he thinks. what is crucial about the fact that michael cohen did his guilty plea on tuesday it raises the specter of the campaign finance violations involving donald trump, implicating him rectally, which implicating him directly, speconspiracy wit russia. and then again, david, those are related, right? if you committed campaign finance violations, you being donald trump, in conjunction with michael cohen to influence the outcome, why wouldn t mueller be interested in hearing what you have to say when you are michael cohen and then allen
he s not going to give us a definitive answer on whether or not there was collusion, alleged collusion between the russians and the trump campaign. i think we are going to be dissatisfied with comey s testimony. he s going to be very, very careful about what he says. good to see you. thank you so much for that. up next, as promised, we are going to stephanie ruhle in washington, d.c. the ranking member of the house intelligence committee says there was evidence of collusion between the trump campaign and russia. what is the evidence? a congressman will join stephanie, next. can i get some help. watch his head. i m so happy. whatever they went through, they went througtogether. welcome guys. life well planned. see what a raymond james financial advisor can do for you.
you know, he was back at the florida white house, if you will. his friend, chris from news max, we saw on tv. that seems to be his go-to defender these days. he made the rounds on the sunday shows. what s so important. i feel like we have been talking about comey and covering comey. he is the most consequential fbi director in a generation. republicans feel like comey is there to stay. even if the white house is displeased today and you got a sense from the tweets, i don t know if they were expectation for comey, if he was speaking to the media or comey himself, this white house expects the headline today to be white house cleared of collusion charges with russia. that is not going to be the case. adam schiff, there s a great piece in the wall street journal, he s a measured voice. he s really the democrats best and most effective weapon, if you will, in terms of probing these questions about russian ties because he has stood
ties taking place. look at individuals like carter paige, the senior foreign policy adviser to donald trump. one month after it s revealed russia is attacking us with, with permission of the campaign, courter paige travels to moss cow. roger stone, another associate of the campaign, advising donald trump, he is intimating before the wikileaks report comes out. he was communicating with an online group releasing the hatched john podesta e-mail. you have individuals working with russia as the interference campaign is being run. all the things you are references are evidence or things we have heard in the past. do you believe adam schiff saying there was some level of evidence out there? there s something else we don t know? this is the first part of the investigation. as ranking member schiff says, there is a lot of circumstantial
how he handled the key questions around this. members of congress demanding two big questions we might see from comey. one we are more likely to get than the other. the first is the wiretapping issue. the president obviously tweeting president obama wiretapped trump tower. in the last week, you had republicans and democrats saying, look, there s no evidence of that. you can expect the fbi director to get asked about that today. members of congress are expecting he may offer some answer that will be illuminating. the other question, of course, this broader one about potential contacts or even collusion between trump associates and russians during the course of the election campaign. you had the ranking member here, adam schiff talking about this on meet the press over the weekend. he said there is circumstantial evidence of collusion. that is farther than anyone on this committee has gone in public so far. of course, republicans including the chairman devin nunez said