Lied, witnesses who gave incomplete information, witnesses who deleted communication and used encrypted apps. what were some of the you re unable to answer for yourself because of that obstructive activity? i d want to know that because that could be avenues for congress to follow up on in its own investigation. right. exactly. because part of what you re going to want to know here is what mueller wasn t able to find if there is an opportunity for anybody else to find it. barbara mcquade, thanks for joining us. on short notice as we handle this breaking news. i really appreciate it. you bet, rachel. my pleasure. thanks. again, the bottom line here is that robert mueller has agreed to testify after receiving a subpoena from the house judiciary committee and the house intelligence committee. that testimony due to start in open session 9:00 a.m. wednesday, july 17th. that will be a sequential set of testimony in one committee and then the and other then his staff in closed session
We ve actually got divided up jurisdiction. obviously it s going to be more focussed on matters related to the russian interference and counterintelligence matters. it will depend on part on what he actuallyicize. i think the world is going to learn new things tomorrow and i m convinced the intel committee members will learn something new. we shared some of the reporting from folks around the scene there in washington that may be what this will a big piece of the focus tomorrow will end up being the hush money payment, the allegation of a campaign finance allegation of what role trump had. do you think that s going to be a significant part of tomorrow? i do. ib think people are going to be quite surprised at what michael ecohen brings to the table and testifies to. i ve been telling my friends buckle up. because this is going to be significant.
Confirmation hearing for haspel on wednesday n. a statement today the white house called past has fell best choice for cia director. in fact the pressure sounding the hearing has gotten to be so much that haspel considered withdrawing over concerns that revisiting the debate over torture policies could be damaging. garrett haake is at the white house. what s your over/under on where things stand right now. gina haspel left her second of what will be five meeting on capitol hill today. all with senators on the intel committee. the white house are focused on those intel committee members hoping to avoid a mike pompeo-like problem where they might have the votes down the line on the senate floor but they hung up by opposition in the intel committee. so far two democrats meetings concluded. the first with joe manchin, the second with diane feinstein.
Simple. my question for you, sir, just to be abundantly clear, will the russians be back? i think we have to assume for all the reasons that have been discussed here, that the russians will be back and possibly other state actors and possibly other bad cyber actors. on the senate side, intel committee members heard from security experts who said a number of states were the target of the russian cyber attacks. as of right now we have evidence of 21 states election-related systems in 21 states that were targeted. but in no case were actual vote tallies altered in any way, shape, or form? it. that is correct. experts would not say which states were targeted. members met with robert mueller yesterday as the two sides both carry out probes on russia s role in last year s election. mueller has been meeting with lawmakers over the last week to
Possibly other state actors and possibly other bad cyber actors. it s incredible the president doesn t address this and even admit or accept that it s happening. jeh johnson will be our guest on morning joe tomorrow. on the senate side, intel committee members heard from security experts, who said a number of states were the target of russian cyber attacks. as of right now, we have evidence of 21 states, or election-related systems in 21 states that were targeted. but in no case were actual vote tallies altered in any way, shape or form? that is correct. experts there would not say which states were targeted, but that is absolutely chilling. you know kacie hold on, and then sam. but kacie, there s nothing going on on capitol hill, nothing to cover. you re covering so many different stories there. reporter: yeah. what is the sentiment around these hearings as sort of the drip, drip, drip of how big and