man in there. [ light laughter ] so it was like -- raindrops and i was supposed to go -- "drip!" [ light laughter ] and then, right? raindrops -- drop top and then i go, "drop top." but i got so mixed up. i go, raindrops -- >> "drop, drip drop," [ laughter ] >> jimmy: and then they said -- >> crooked. >> crooked. >> jimmy: no not crooked before -- >> tariq: he said "cookies in a a hot box," you said, "cricket!" [ laughter and applause ] >> jimmy: i thought that he was saying crickets. i didn't know what he was saying, man. hot box, "cricket!" he said drop top, i said, "drip top." [ light laughter ] i don't know what a drip top is but i think it's a way to make coffee. i'm assuming. guys, our first guest tonight is a two-time emmy award nominated actor. yes. he's so good, starring in the very popular comedy series "black-ish," which airs wednesdays at 9:30 p.m. on abc. he also hosts a brand new show called "animal nation with anthony anderson," which you can see wednesdays at midnight on animal planet. please welcome the always entertaining, my man, anthony anderson! [ cheers an

comes to the story. when you have a drip, drip, drip of information coming out almost every day, a couple times a week at the very least, there is some there there. take example the other bit of information we learned, jared kushner t president's son-in-law and michael flynn, the resigned national security adviser had an undisclosed meeting with the ambassador at trump tower in december. that was not disclosed to reporters in december. >> we didn't know about that. now we do. this is a lot of new information we are getting all at once, jim acosta. does the white house know one week ago they hadn't told us any of that. >> reporter: that's right thachlt is why we have gone back to the president repeatedly and asked him that question. this is the question i tried to ask back in january. you'll recall we tried to ask the question, did associates have contacts with the russians. he did not answer that question from me, ended up answering from somebody else. he said no, not yet. then he answered again where he was asked this question once again. he sort of dances around, offering a defin

what has been going on all along, which is the sort of drip, drip of more and more reports of contacts of people in the president's circle with the russians, or with russian officials. the trump team seems to have not sort of gotten its arms around what the facts are here, you know, who had contacts, how many, and if they don't, this appears like it could be headed toward some sort of outside, even a, you know, select-- either a select committee or some kind of outside investigation. there is talk on the hill-- i don't know how far that would get-- about the need for some kind of special prosecutor in this. but unless the white house, unless the the president can get ahead of all of these revelations, you know, it is going to-- it is going to turn into something bigger. >> glor: eric, let's talk about this circle of russian contact. karen mentioned that it, obviously, is wider than just jeff sessions. how wide is that circle right now? >> well, we're learning more every day about trump campaign people who had contacts with russian officials service the big one this week. mike

russian, what was it about to get this over it. if he is innocent. >> otherwise it's going to drip, drip, drip. he talking about sort of filibustering and talking about his trip in 1991, he remembers details about it, then in somehow the subject of ukraine came up, of course it comes up in this meetings that's why the russian ambassador is in his office. >> let's take his testimony off the table, he provides his answer back to congress. >> you have to be careful with leahy. >> -- >> in his press conference attorney general sessions says he does not remember talking about politics. >> i don't recall but most of these endorse are gossipy and they like -- there was in campaign season. i don't recall specific political discussions. >> it's like local may berry, why it's awe shucks, we're sitting around talking. there's no country that's our greatest adversary right now. and possibility screwing up our campaign and he chatting with the guy like there's nothing else going on in the universe. >> he didn't get that -- i don't know what's going on, that's now how this works. >> where are we

the russia debacle is they are not putting everything out there. it is drip, drip, dripping out. it turns out here and there and there are the turns where the white house is not telling the truth. >> they say there is nothing there. they say drip, drip, drip you hear is a dressing. >> russian dressing. >> let's play it. why not. >> april ryan's question was a fair one. about image and how sean spicer is the white house going to deal with the drip, drip, drip. it is a real phenomena in washington. going after april ryan in such a patr patronizing way. why is he getting off the facts? he can't answer the facts. >> he got angry and did this. >> let's play it. >> you got russia. you got wiretapping. >> we don't have that. -- >> on capitol hill. >> no, no. i get it. i've said it from the day that i got here until whenever. there is no connection. you have russia. if the president puts russian salad dressing on his salad tonight, somehow there is a russian connection. >> the reason i make fun of him and his credibility. this wiretapping thing was birthed by the president. they could get t

. it's about attacking trump. >> you say there is no big issue, but the fact is there is a drip, drip, drip that keeps coming out. >> the obama deep state. >> you see people in the trump campaign did meet with members of the russian administration. >> not much. >> why don't they say this is who met with whom and this is what was discussed? >> you know what, i don't object to that. that's a good question. really, it's not very important. >> waiting patiently to be part of this. we are learning for a senior official from the white house saying that the national security adviser michael flynn, jared kushner med with the russian ambassador and "usa today" reporting two other trump campaign senior staff met with this russian ambassador on the sidelines of the republican convention last year. who is this russian diplomat who has access to senior republicans? >> he is a very experienced diplomat. he has been in the diplomatic core for a long time since the 1970s. he is the former deputy foreign minster of russia and ambassador to nato and has been in the united states for a long time. i am n

place. if it's going to be behind closed doors. but it is sort of another one of those drips that just seems to be happening with the russia story over here at the white house. it's almost every day or at least every week that there's a new development. so obviously the president's son-in-law by the way is going to be announced over here at the white house as taking on a key role and trying to provide innovation to government bureaucracy here in washington, so the president tapping his son-in-law for a pretty important critical government role. so that obviously raises the level of interest among congressional investigators who want to get to the bottom of what did jared kushner did when he was meeting with these officials. >> the he's a top, top advisor to the president. speaking of drips, the chairman of the house intelligence committee, congress devin nunes now facing more questions about a visit to the white house grounds and if that's connected to his sources. tell us a little bit about this late breaking development. >> jake tapper had this story earlier this morning that the day

more and more about these contacts, it really does present sort of a drip, drip, drip for the trump administration. and if you have somebody like jared kushner, the president's most-trusted adviser, going to capitol hill, testifying on these things, it is a real problem for the administration, because that's not only a distraction which he's going to have to spend time preparing for those hearings instead of doing his job, but it also is a real worry for the administration when you're looking at are there going to be indictments? what happens with this information? because if it's serious enough that these people are testifying and they're not covered by executive privilege, then that's a really -- that's a serious indication that there's something there that they're looking at. there's smoke where there's fire -- or there's fire where there's smoke. >> this is the closest person to the president and to be involved in these investigations. >> and closees to the president by marriage. >> david drucker and jay newton-small, thank you for being with us. >>> president trump is desperate

response more accurately so it's a drip, drip, drip situation for this white house, once again, on the subject of russia, john. >> jim acosta at the white house, thank you. as we said, it far from the only russia headline tonight. this next one dominated the day, first with the revelation that attorney general jeff sessions met twice with the russian ambassador during the campaign previously undisclosed meetings, he failed to say so during the confirmation hearings and this afternoon, the next's top law enforcement official recused himself from any existing related to president trump's 2016 presidential campaign. >> i believe those reck m recommendations are right and just. therefore i have recused myself in the matter that's deal with the trump campaign. >> that announcement came as a growing number of republican lawmakers joined democrats calling on the attorney general to recuse himself and calling from the flat out resign. this is unfolding tw weo weeks after michael flynn resigned also over russian related meetings. pamela brown joins us with the latest. pamela, the attorney gener

with. >> otherwise it's going to continue to drip, drip, drip. i thought his evidence was spotty in stretches. he talking about fill busting and talking about trip to russia, somehow the subject of ukraine came up. that's why the russian ambassador is in his office. >> leaning on ukraine. >> let's take his testimony off the table. he provided answers back to congress and that stuff is heavily lawyered. >> he didn't disclose the whole thing. >> in his press conference he said he did not remember any specific discussions about politics whether talking to the russia. >> i don't recall but most of these endorse are gossipy and they like -- this was in campaign season but i don't recall any specific political discussions. >> it was kind of local may bery, with you are all awe shuck, is that for real. there's no country our probably greatest adversary right now. here he is chatting with the guy over cracker barrel as if there's nothing else going on in the universe. >> this guy is a attorney general, he didn't get there about how, i don't know where this is going. >> where are we going wi

it's drip, drip, drip. >> well, to a large ex-dent, th they are. preliminary work is being done on various committees on broad range of the president's priorities but actually the resolution that will repeal obamacare is a budget resolution, has to be passed before another budget resolution can be passed this spring. we'll do repeal and replace first, then the president wants us to move on a broad range of issues related to ending illegal immigration, rebuilding the military, infrastructure and then this spring use the second budget bill, which has to wait until after the first one, to pass the kind of tax relief that will really unleash the energy of the american economy. >> all right. let me reach beyond our borders to a terrible topic, chemical weapons. we have the situation with the half-brother of kim jong-un being murdered with a chemical weapon about two weeks ago. and we've got the situation where the resolution in the u.n. where it was going to increase sanctions against syria for use of chemical weapons on at least three occasions against its citizens was vetoed by russia

drip, drip, and the problem with drip, drips is that they create puddles that then become pools. >> reporter: no matter what happens, it will probably be politically significant, either the president made a serious accusation that turned out to be false or he revealed surveillance on an unprecedented level. lester? >> hallie jackson at the white house thank you. >>> president trump is on the road again appearing at a rally this evening to sell the gop plan to replace obamacare. days after a nonpartisan report projected it would result in 14 million more uninsured americans by next year, and the president also responding to the leak of his 2005 tax returns. nbc's peter alexander has more. >> reporter: tonight for the first time president trump making his pitch on health care, arriving in nashville to deliver a booster shot to the gop's obamacare replacement plan that one top republican says is mortally wounded. >> my whole life i have heard people say we need a businessman to run this country, and for crying out loud, here is our chance. >> reporter: tonight house speaker paul ry

see this drip, drip, drip. in some ways, it harkens back to the clinton investigation. new developments, but it is not clear what they mean. certainly this is not over for the trump administration. it won't be for some time, it looks like. the fbi will continue to investigate this. >> these are such pivotal days. the president trying to move his agenda forward. we are right at the tipping point. also on the investigation just keeps going. >> all of this why he needs some sort of win to move forward. tal, we will check in with you at 5:30. >>> is the house compromised into the russian meddling? that is the concern after the actions of the committee chairman. we will explain next. if you have moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis like me, and you're talking to your rheumatologist about a medication... ...this is humira. this is humira helping to relieve my pain... ...and protect my joints from further damage. humira has been clinically studied for over 18 years. humira works by targeting and helping to... ...block a specific source... ...of inflammation that contributes to

smoking gun. it could just be drip, drip, drip, and so far that is all we have. is that enough? does that sound like russia to you? >> you know this is one of my big concerns is that we have to walk and chew gum at the same time in this investigation. right now there is not a russia policy coming from washington. that is true both on the personnel side where we heard jon huntsman is going to be ambassador, but he is not formally appointed, not confirmed. he probably doesn't know what the trump administration's message is, the president tweets one thing, the vice president and another says another thing, secretary tillerson says it in another hearing. and we can't let the investigation by default become our russia policy. we have to engage with the russians, explain to them look this is how far this thing is going to go. we're not threatening we're going to come back and topple your regime if we're accusing you of interfering in our elections, if we did that, you don't want to get into a war with vladimir putin. >> and they all don't want to talk about it. when asked about it at press

, where we have seen that drip, drip, drip of information and those competing partisan press conferences. >> just at the end of the senate intelligence investigation, is it clear what they will make public? i mean obviously all their meetings are behind closed doors, so that they can ask, you know, information about thing that are classified, but what do they actually end up making public or do they not? >> it's interesting, anderson, tomorrow is the day of some of those open hearings, so the public will be privy to that tomorrow, but it's unclear what they might reveal to the public. we understand that it might be in private although it might be under oath. >> coming up next, democrats in the house intelligence committee, does he think that the chairman is actually sabotaging the investigation. and later fbi director comey, we're waiting for his remarks, apparently he's going to be answering questions, we want to know will he touch on the russian investigations? we could find out momentarily, stay with us. knowing where you stand. it's never been easier. except when it comes

allegation is about. it is false. back with me now. considering this drip, drip, drip. however you want to qualify it at this point, should there not be an innocent investigation into this just to clear the air? >> look, i truly believe senator sessions or general sessions of confirmed because he has integrity and adheres to the law and a man of truth and honesty. in this situation i believe he was in the right and acting as a senator and armed services committee and speaking with the russian ambassador. so many questions with the trump campaign and russian tie starting with general flynn and now with sessions, just for the fact of having the facts in this case, i think a special prosecutor would be the best way to move forward to remove any question of impropriety of investigation moving forward. >> do you agree with that? >> we are getting bogged down to be charged with perjury. one only has to lie about the federal fact and conversations with the sessions. they forgot or lied to the committee. i do think asking him to resign may be a step too far right now. it does need an indep

for a drip, drip, drip? >> yeah, drips with be very dangerous in the world of politics because it keeps it out there that much longer. if i was advising the president, and i'm not attempting to do so, if there is something out there, it needs to be dealt with. if not, the intoll committee will find it. and if they find it, it's more dangerous and frankly upsetting. >> there is a lot of investigations, fbi, the intelligence committee, the news media. a lot of investigation on the way. congressman, there is more to discuss. i'll ask you to stay with us. we'll take a quick break and be right back. say hi to xiidra, lifitegrast ophthalmic solution. the first eye drop approved for the signs and symptoms of dry eye. one drop in each eye, twice a day. common side effects include eye irritation, discomfort or blurred vision when applied to the eye, and an unusual taste sensation. do not touch the container tip to your eye or any surface. remove contacts before using xiidra and wait for at least 15 minutes before reinserting them. if you have dry eyes, ask your doctor about xiidra. or is i

news cycle is microskopic. this drip, drip, drip of revelation has hung over his campaign and white house the entire time and that's one constant of these changing news cycle. >> it came up a lot in 2016 but everybody was focused on the phenomenon of donald trump not on the russian story. on the question of news cycles, it's like the emmy nominated movie "arrival" when the aliens don't have a sense of time. >> enemy or academy. >> i apologize. >> good sci-fi. president trump told reporters he didn't think jeff sessions to recuse himself. >> should the attorney general recuse himself? >> here is the attorney general explaining why he didn't follow the president's advice. >> the president said today they think you should not recuse yourself from the investigations. >> they don't know the rules, ethics rules. most don't. when i evaluate the rules i should not involved investigating a campaign i had a role in. >> don't you love the sweetness of that guy's voice? you know, the southern -- we're losing our regional accents in this country but he's got a good one and he seems so andy griff

. he had his joint address to congress. and then came this drip, drip, drip as you were talking about with these russian allegations. in fact take a look at this screen here. we talk about the fact that five advisers during the trump campaign had meetings with russian officials before the inauguration. you have jeff sessions, michael flynn, jared kushner, carter page, j.d. gordon. there's a lot of smoke here, but is there any fire? and where do you see all of this going? >> well i like that comparison of a drip drip drip. now the faucet is running full and it's going and it's not going to stop. that's president trump rejecting any kind of investigation. if they were just forthright, we have nothing to hide. we were talking to russian diplomat counterparts, this could go away, if that is in fact what happened. by looking like they're covering up something. the fact that all of these advisers have changed their stories so many times, it's just a cloud of suspicion that it really is going to dog his presidency for at least the first two years as the investigation continues. >> let's talk

this drip, drip, drip, would send out a list of all the people who met with all these ambassadors, here is when they did it. this was a five minute meeting, this is a ten minute meeting and get them all in the room and say raise your hand if you met with the russian ambassador, and if they're not doing that the first question is why not. ? >> you got an issue that's going to embarrass you it's better you release the information than wait for some adversary to release it because it comes out a whole lot worse: >> absolutely, but that's not been the pattern of the trump administration, every time we have seen damaging or unfavorable information let's say come out, it is almost never the trump administrations or trump surrogates coming out and getting ahead of it as gloria said so there isn't this drip, drip, drip, which is where we are. >> and now the question of vice president pence using a private e-mail account while governor of indiana that did contain business related issues and apparently this happened even before he was really criticizing hillary clinton's private e-mail serv

a closer look where drip drops are coming down across portions of northern delaware. newark, up into parts of the pennsylvania as well. kenneth square,e bradford seeing light rainfall. as we head in the morning hours next couple hours we will see passing light shower or passing sprinkle but that rain chance end by 9:00 o'clock hour. lingering cloud around breezy conditions and then some sunshine returning but we will have some windy conditions taking you throughout our wednesday, and temperatures right around midday, meisha 60 l off as we head in the second half of the day. >> i will take that wind if we have to take 60's. perfect trade off. thanks so much for. that good morning. we are seeing flashing lights, a lot of activity going on. we have an accident i-95 north to the off ramp for walt whitman bridge is closed for those heading out the door right now. completely closed. it doesn't look like it is clearing up anytime soon. there are so many vehicles out there right now. again, accident i-95 north off ramp to walt whitman bridge is closed. just avoid it completely. i will c

all along which is sort of the drip drip of more and more reports of contacts of people in the president's circle with the russians or with russian officials. what's really surprising i think at this point and perhaps it is a reflection of the fact that the white house is populated primarily with campaign aides and not seasoned washington hands is that the trump team seems to have not gotten its arms around what the facts are here, you know, who had contacts, how many, and, if they don't, this appears like it could be headed toward some sort of outside, even a, you know -- either a select committee or some kind of outside investigation. >> glor: we continue with p.j. o'rourke whose new book is called "how thet hell did this happen? the election of 2016". >> populism can end upping with william jennings brian, incompetent and kind of funny and comic, or it can end up the way it did so many places between world war i and world war ii, it can wind up really, really ugly. i'm hoping we're having, you know, history occurs first as tragedy ad then again as comedy. i hope that's what'

drip, drip that's really going to be damaging. >> and it's extraordinary because, like perry says, it's the drip, drip, about contacts and meetings that may be totally innocent. it's just the lack of being up front about it that -- that creates this problem for trump. look, there may have been something going on with the russians, as trump would put it, or maybe -- or maybe there wasn't at all. but -- but it's now the second week in march almost and instead of just handling this stuff forthrightly trump is battling day in and day out these leaks that are coming up because his own folks won't say up front what actually happened and i think they won't say that because they don't want to give oxygen to it but ironically by not being up front they are creating more oxygen because putting out a huge list like ma mary katherine suggested of every meeting of every ambassador of every country would be an a-27 but when it's a leak from senior folks. >> so you're saying he should practice his jedi mind jerk. >> not the droids you are looking for. >> and the combination of the unanswered que

. >> drip, drip, drip on the russia connections every day. >> indeed. helping us break it all down political analyst, author of trump's american column. to christine's point it is a lot more drip, smoke, fire what's the heart of the problem here? >> let's agree on this mr. gorkov and kushner were not discussing the -- it would be very difficult for the russian bank to finance a kushner family real estate deal. but one of the great hopes of vladimir putin and business oligarchs in russia is that the trump administration would remove those sanctions, so if you can get together with the son-in-law and advisor and range that you have a lot of progress. >> veb says it was part of a road show. >> potential business. >> when they do that it about vesting in borrowers, not government sanctions. >> which is part of what raises the question, we are back to what we continually face about the ties, also doing provide bu business. how do you make sure you're not in one roll? still needs untangling. >> jared kushner had not stepped away -- this is a multibillion dollars real estate empire, so a

litany of events and this drip, drip, drip of activities our investigation, i have to tell you i've been in public life a long time, there's nothing i've done in my life in public that is as important as trying to get this investigation done right and bipartisan and get the facts out to the american people. >> reporter: so again, warner talking about fisa court orders. those are court orders that would fall under the purview of people who are investigating foreign espionage, activities of foreign agents on u.s. soil. that's different from a potential regular order or court warrant for surveillance that would come in the course of a criminal probe vie at fbi, but warner also said that his investigation in the senate intelligence committee is proceeding. he's planning to go to langley this week. the cia headquarters at langley to review intelligence as part of that investigation. so that's kind of the next step in this investigation. they've set the scope of what they're going to look into. i should also note that on the house side, chairman devin nunes putting out a statement saying

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the interest of the president and the people around him to get this all out. it's the drip drip that is really going to be damaging. >> please, you're animated. >> you look at what the question was asked by al franken to senator sessions. it was obvious he was asking as a surrogate of the trump campaign, were you meeting with russian officials. no, i wasn't. that's true. we can talk about all these other things. you need the context of the question. the idea that -- >> did jeff sessions give hillary clinton that grace any time she said i don't recall or a half answer to a question? senator sessions may have took the context that way, fine. but he could have corrected the record after the hearing. >> this idea that regular typical meetings with diplomats is something that should be -- that needs to be disclosed as part of a drip drip drip campaign -- >> when the fbi is investigating whether your candidate's associates had contacted with the russians during the campaign or is investigating the broader question of russia meddling in the election and you want to be the top law enforcemen

into this, because at some point the drip, drip, drip where you have a day of distractions here, a day of distractions there, you'll have republicans on capitol hill basically saying, i'm tired of this. can we remove this investigation from congress at this point, put it into independent hands, and in a way you can buy time and compartmentalize it and say, hair, there is an investigation going on. it falls to the independent prosecutor to investigate and you can move on and do some governing. if they don't do this, it's going to consume this presidency. >> all right. chuck todd tonight. thank you. >>> one more quick note. to more cabinet picks were confirmed today. ben carson has been sworn in as secretary of housing and urban development after passing by a vote of 58-41. former texas governor, rick perry was also confirmed by the senate as energy secretary by a vote of 62 to 37. >>> now to major debut on wall street today. the company behind the wildly popular messaging app snapchat went public and saw the value skyrocket to an incredible $35 billion. it also made billions for the

future. >> from a difference how the u.s. i think so. drip, drip, drip, d i feel like what's happening in the united states is we are -- our tradition of congressional investveigation is very powerfu. people in the comednity have put this issue out. we're discussing it. we're debating it. a very serious investigation of this by the fbi and by congressional authoritie i believe at the end of the day, we will find out in this country what exactly happened. that will be a huge deterrent for russia. probably what russia wanted was to have a better image in the united states and have the sanctions regime lifted. neither of those things are probably going to happen at this point. >> you know, you explained why it's important for russia in terms of the sanctions. what about for your average voter in the u.s. who says, all right, you know, maybe they can try to do this, but why does it matter? >> i think it matters because in essence what's being discussed here -- i think people haven't really been quite clean about it -- is in essence what we're talking about is whether a foreign po

getting burns from recognizing that you cannot get beyond the drip, drip, drip, unless you decide you're going to come out and come clean early on. i want to go back to something that michael pointed out about ambassador kislyak, when we arrived in 2008, it was ends of the bush administration. it was last month when we had good relations with russia. but mr. kislyak still talked about a russia that was integrating when working with europe. and he has become under the putin year, in the course of this, the most fierce advocate of a russia that will stand up to the united states at every turn. it is important that they saw eventually in candidate trump, somebody with whom they thought they could change the nature of this relationship. i'm not sure he was the instrument for that. he may have been just scoping mr. trump and his team out for people back in moscow. >> thank you to the panel, david, heidi, michael. thank you all, for joining us tonight. coming up why andre mitchel is having a difficult time getting a straight answer at the state department or any answer at all when the 1

don't want is a kind of drip, drip, drip, which we see here. if it's all innocent, and if it was just a bunch of pro forma meetings, put out chapter and verse, put out those details and let the american public know. >> the first rule of damage control, it's better that you put out the embarrassing information and let your -- than let your adversaries put it out. >> this drip, drip, drip, is not helping them. have you had any contact with the russians. because these things coming out and it's -- as you said gloria, it's not like we know if they're hiding them or they're just disorganized or perhaps maybe some of their -- maybe it's -- missed the memo, i don't know. or they forgot which a lot of them have said. it just really doesn't square. and there needs to be an explanation. but knowing the trump administration perhaps they'll just try to issue something tomorrow and distract everybody. >> fill mudd i'm anxious to get your input, talk a little bit about that. >> he should be active. look at this going back to last summer when he evidencely met with some of the officials. if you're l

congress being in charge of these investigations, but 43% is not small. so if indeed the drip, drip, drip of this story continues you can imagine that number going even higher, that people who already don't really largely the country doesn't have a ton of faith in congress. if allegations keep emerging you can imagine it will be more than two thirds who would like this to be handled by an outside prosecutor. >> no question about it. the drip, drip, drip, are what democrats are relying on to keep the pressure on them. we'll see how this bears out. david chalian, always great to talk to you. thanks my friend. >>> one source says it's the most upset they have seen the president, ever. president trump furious with his staff over recent dramas at the white house. let's talk about what happened behind closed doors next. >>> plus, from birth certificates to crowd sizes to jfk's killer why president trump continues to embrace conspiracy stories. >>> and cnn watches the new travel ban announcement with refugees currently inside the u.s. hear their reaction straight ahead. sked a group of you

their way on this. but if this kind of stuff gets drip, drip, drip, the white house is going to have to answer these things, drip, drip, drip, why not just put his tax returns out there and he could say, okay, i wish they'd hurry up on that. >> to your point, since he doesn't care about his business anymore, because he's not part of that world, you know, is it more important to be, if you believe that as president you should have your tax returns out there, and he generally wants that, he could make the decision, you know what? some silly audit is less important to me than being president of the united states and not having any questions out there at all. talking about draining the swamp, this is one big step in that direction. that would be the counter argument to that. >> i think it's dangerous to say that any criticism of the president is wholly illegitimate, either you're jealous of him being rich or a conspiracy theorist. >> a bunch of people voted for him and have confidence in him. and that's great, but other people still don't have confidence. it's dangerous. we don't know what'

of this investigation. so, clearly, this kind of drip, drip, drip continuing. the reality is that any of these types of fisa warrants, whether they're foreign surveillance, that's what fisa stands for, or regular warrants would likely appear in the course of these investigations although democrats are concerned that the fbi director jim comey is not giving them enough information on this front. so a lot to look for over the course of the coming week, frances. >> certainly watching donald trump and the twitter feed to see if there will be anything else following that and any jabs arno arnold schwarzenegger. kasie. thank you. >> all of this is more evidence for an independent trumtrump #trum trump #trumpinvestigation. makes me wonder what was on that warrant. i want to bring in the house foreign affairs committee. i appreciate you being with me. if we can clarify that tweet and comment. are you saying you believe there was an issued warrant here? >> i did yesterday, but today clapper has certainly clarified that there was not a warrant, but the general point is that we, i know, have

that, wasn't on the schedule. they were not up front at all. what about the drip, drip, drip? >> i almost call it a firehouse of information, not a drip, drip, drip. we still don't have the full 100% story. if this were the story where we'd look to see who is taking cookies from the cookie jar we're starting to see crumbles in all the different rooms and a lot of pieces and we're trying to now find out where they all lead to. >> peter baker, would they be better off just going for a special prosecutor to get it away from congress and to get it into a secret, you know, a secret situation where there would be fewer leaks and where they could put it on the side for a while until the report came out, until the end of it? >> yes, i don't think there's any white house out there that likes the term special the procuteor. there's bad history view from someone sitting in the oval office you give somebody the power to investigate things. you almost ensure they're going to find something. president reagan, clinton, bush, you saw that in a number of instances. so don't think tre's any enthusia

be a smoking gun. it could just be drip drip drip, and so far that's all we have. is that enough, does that sound like russia to you? >> this is one of my big concerns. we have to walk and chew gum at the same time in this entire investigation. right now, there is not a russia policy coming from washington. that's true both on the personnel side, where, you know, we've heard jon huntsman is going to be ambassador but he's not formally appointed, he's certainly not confirmed, he's not in office. he probably doesn't know what the trump's administration policy is because they've sent contradictory signals. the president tweets one thing, the vice president and secretary of defense says another thing, secretary tillerson says a third thing in his senate confirmation. while we're investigating this, it could take months or even years to unravel, we can't let the investigation by default become our russian policy. we have to engage with the russians and explain to them, we're not threatening we're going to come back and topple your regime if we're accusing you of attempting to mess wit

of drip of more and more reports of contacts of people in the president's circle with the russians or russian officials. what is surprising at this point and perhaps it is a reflection of the fact that the white house is populated primarily with campaign aides and not seasoned washington hands is that the trump team seems to have not gotten its arms around what the facts are here. who had contacts, how many. if they don't, disappears like it could be headed toward some sort of outside, even a select -- either a select committee or some kind of outside investigation. there is talk on the hill, i don't not how far that would get, about the need for some kind of special prosecutor in this. unless the white house and president can get ahead of of all of these revelations, it is going to turn into something bigger. jeff: is that why they are not getting ahead of this? you mentioned because they are not insiders. >> i think that is one explanation. impulse,, the first the first rule in the playbook on a campaign is if somebody hits you, you hit them back. people who have been around thes

what this litany of events and this drip, drip, drip of activities, the investigation, i will have to tell you i have been in public life a long time, there is nothing i have done in any life in public tha that is as important as trying to get this investigation done right and bipartisan and get the facts out to the american people. >> dickerson: the president's claim, could he just be going off on something on a breitbart report or had access -- he has access to the best possible intelligence. >> he has access to the best intelligence. i think time will tell but i am not aware as general clapper has said of any kind of fisa order that was somehow, you know, in effect bugging trump tower, but i feel like this, again, feels like an attempt where the president is trying to distract us by filling out -- he is distracting with unsubstantiated information, again if the president is correct and he says there is nothing here, then he should welcome this investigation into -- >> dickerson: have you seen any investigations between the trump campaign and russia? >> we are early into this invest