Extreme disgusting bias which totally corrupts the process? that was president trump s personal attorney rudy giuliani giving us a preview of his legal team s new strategy for handling the mueller investigation. at least publicly. those comments came after the new york times reported the president s lawyers are telling mueller s team they need to prove they have evidence that the president committed a crime before he will agree to sit down for an interview. joining me now, member of the house intelligence committee democratic congressman mike quigley of illinois. congressman, it s good to see you. let s start with what rudy giuliani has been saying this morning across these sunday shows. he is essentially alleging corruption and bias in the people around robert mueller, although he would not go so far as to tell my colleague chuck todd that mueller himself is corrupt. what is your assessment of what these fbi officials did, peter strzok, who is set to testify this week not in front
breaking news. sources tell cnn the presidencies the nunes memo as a way to discredit the russia investigation. one of the reasons he wants it released. joining us now by phone is a member of the house intelligence committee democratic congressman mike quigley of illinois. abby phillip at the white house reporting the president wants this out there, one of the reasons he thinks it discredits the mueller investigation which is something he wants to do. your reaction? that s exactly what we assumed. it was our assumption all along that their path here was to discredit the mueller investigation. obviously the four indictments have them concerned. the fact that one of those indictments involve general flynn who is cooperating has them concerned to the point where i think they feel therrell only course is to attack their
That he wasn t under investigation. appearing before the senate intelligence committee panel today, director of national intelligence dan coats and director of the national security agency admiral mike rogers both refused to discuss their private talks with president trump. they who not say if they had been asked to downplay or influence the investigation into russia s election meddling and contacts with trump associates. president trump changed the subject for a while today with a tweet announcing his pick for a new fbi director, former justice department official christopher wray. later after a speech in ohio the president would not say he has faith in his attorney general jeff sessions and asked if he s worried about comey s testimony the president only gave a quick smile. i ll talk to the ranking member of the house intelligence committee democratic congressman adam schiff and democratic senator martin heinrich of the senate intelligence committee. they are standing by live and our