clinton campaign officials got immunity in the e-mail investigation. here it is. when you are given immunity, that means you ve probably committed a crime. and if you re not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for, right? chris: and now president trump is supporting immunity for michael flynn. yes. which the whole situation, the whole scenario is highly unusual. but i would say this, that this story especially with nuñes involvement is like an onion where every day we re peeling back more and more layers, and we could kind of go back and forth for infinity on who checked into the white house when and when they left and who talked to who. but at the core of the story remains two national security issues. one is the leaking of classified information to include the surveillance issue. the other is potential russian attempted interference in the united states general election. now, both of these issues are very more important than the politics surrounding them, by which i
clinton campaign officials got immunity in the e-mail investigation. here it is. when you are given immunity, that means you ve probably committed a crime. and if you re not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for, right? chris: and now president trump is supporting immunity for michael flynn. yes. which the whole situation, the whole scenario is highly unusual. but i would say this, that this story especially with nuñes involvement is like an onion where every day we re peeling back more and more layers, and we could kind of go back and forth for infinity on who checked into the white house when and when they left and who talked to who. but at the core of the story remains two national security issues. one is the leaking of classified information to include the surveillance issue. the other is potential russian attempted interference in the united states general election. now, both of these issues are very more important than the politics surrounding them, by which i
senate committee, it will also take months. tomorrow they re going to begin the first of their interviews behind closed doors, investigative-type interviews, not a hearing, to help them plot their strategy about all of these different buckets of russia questions, the interference during the campaign, which include some of the cyber attacks as well as any contacts that might have existed between trump associates and russian operatives. today is the president not only tweeting about russia and the surveillance issue, he talked about health care. s notable because we had thought the president was ready to move away from the health care considerations after such a big disaster with not being able to pass the repeal bill. today the president is on the golf course with rand paul of kentucky and the budget director mick mulvaney. rand paul was very much against that bill that went nowhere, so
said they were going to focus on leaking. and the leaking of information surrounding this investigation. you ve seen two sides really taking different taxes when at the bottom of all this tacks, so i think this is a continuation of what seems to be a polarization between the democrats julie: it is a mess when you re in the midst of an investigation, and right now there are three investigations going on; was there trump surveillance, was it legal and was there collusion with the trump team and russia. so far no evidence of collusion between the trump transition team and the russians, but there is some evidence of surveillance that did take place whether it was legal or not, that continues to be under investigation. but the surveillance issue seems to be taking center stage because there seems to be evidence. well, i think both things are taking center stage. you have these comments that were made from a former obama
is a big concern. so i think we re getting a lot caught up in whether or not nunes talked about the president first or the press or the democrats. i think the big picture here is certainly the influence of russia and leaks as well as what s happening with the unmasking of classified information and identities. all right, guys, stick around for one moment. our senior white house correspondent jeff zeleny is at the white house. jeff, we just heard president trump at the end of his statement about the keystone pipeline, he was asked flat out about house speaker paul ryan, whether or not he should stay on. and this has to do with have they been working well together or not on the health care plan, his response? reporter: he says yes, he should stay on. and of course this comes on a morning where there is a lot of uncertainty here in washington at the white house, certainly on capitol hill, on the surveillance issue, but certainly the health care bill as well. there are a lot of undercu