>> drip. >> top. [ light laughter ] drip top. >> jimmy: do it again. >> rain drop. >> drip . >> drop. >> no, drop top. >> jimmy: rain drop drip, right? >> no. rain drop, drop top. >> jimmy: i know, when i say drip. that's the rain drop? >> no. >> jimmy: i never say the word drip? >> only when you go to the doctor. [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: i had a problem but i was waiting -- [ light laughter ] i wanted to endorse it. i thought was rain drop drip? drop in the drop top. it's always all drop? >> smoking on the -- >> jimmy: no. so you go, wait. so you go rain drop. >> drop. >> top. >> jimmy: no. you do your thing and i'll do it. >> i wasn't in it, so i don't have a thing. [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: i know, but pretend -- [ light laughter ] >> rain drop. >> drop. >> top. >> jimmy: drop top. >> moving on the drip. >> okay. [ light laughter ] we good. we good. >> jimmy: but i did, so i did. are these the ones, he says likes a, grr, like a dog, and he barks. he was like, ra -- i went "ruff!" [ light laughter ] like a little puppy. how you doing? how's everything? how's the fam? >> famil

thing and you don't have the drip, drip, drip of the controversy. i don't know why it was not recognized earlier and the white house said we'll be cool with the investigation and you can take it as far as you want to go. >> jesse: if the session's staff was competent as the factor staff they would have let him know it was hanging out there. next up on the run dawn. a wave of leaks. is the press instigating illegal acts by reporting on them. that debate is up coming. you could spend days weeding through financial documents to refinance your home. or, you could push that button. [rocket launching]

, drip, drip, president trump tweeted yesterday without any evidence that president obama had his phones tapped. quote, how low has president obama gone to tap my phones during the very sacred election process? this is in addition son water gate. bad or sick guy. the revelations this week added a growing list of people to the trump campaign whose contact with the russia came to light after reporters broke the story. attorney general jeff sessions who was forced to recuse himself to any investigation involving

, drip, drip of many meetings. some of the important questions to ask here are about the timing of the meeting at the republican convention then we also, immediately after that, we saw a weakening of the and then we saw that when we kicked out 35 diplomats who had ties to intelligence gathering, the russians didn't do anything in return. there are questions the attorney general should be answering. >> steve, there are things that the ambassador might want that don't necessarily get into the world of espionage or intrigue. there are things the russians would legitimately want to know about someone that might be president. >> uh-huh. that's absolutely true. and intelligence gathering can have a range of purposes, but it also can be what is the new trump administration going to do if he wins about sanctions to ukraine. what are they going to do related to cooperation in syria. there are significant foreign policy decisions that russia wants to know where the united states is and national security team is and that also

as karen said, drip, drip, drip. that's certainly the daily impact of all is this. and it's notable, i think mostly because of all the-- the denials from the white house, from trump himself, and his aides that there have been any contacts. >> glor: car fren your reporting and what you have seen there, how much disappointment, frustration is there from the white house right now that-- that the week that they had and the positive notes they had have sort of turned sour? >> i think there's a great deal of frustration, not only from the white house, but from the republican allies on capitol hill because, you know, one of the antidotes to all of this is for the president to be seen governing, for the conversation in washington to switch from this to his policy agenda. and if, you know, if so many of those initiatives weren't running into trouble on capitol hill, that might actually happen. and that was what he was trying to do with his speech earlier this week. "how the hell did this happen?" that is the title of the book by p.j. o'rourke. the subtitle of that book, the

. >> 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 going with t

. >> 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 not surprised that he wanted

but there is a drip, drip, drip, drip. i think senator burr in the senate intelligence committee and tranking democratic leader jack reed will do a good job coming to the head of this. the american people need to know it is an important issue. i'd like to think it will amount to nothing but it will have to be explored. >> senator mark warner is the ranking democrat on that committee. jack reed obviously an important player as well. do you see greater cooperation in the senate intelligence committee between the democratic chairman -- excuse me, the republican chairman and the democratic ranking member than we're seeing in the house of representatives and the intelligence committee there? >> i won't comment on the house but i do see cooperation on the senate side. he gave a good well-reasoned speech regarding what is taking place. there does seem to be a mutual goal to find out what happened. again, i would like to think it turns out merely to be a drip, drip, but it's more important for the american people that we get to th

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 ge

, 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 to get his pres

, drip, drip of information coming out. how would you grade the response? are they equipped to handle this? >> well, look, you had the president go out hours before the attorney general stepped out to recuse himself to say he didn't think he should recuse himself, so obviously, they are not very much a tuned here to what is going on from moment to moment, and i think this story got away with them -- got away from them and i do think they ought to canvass out there and get ahead of where this story is going and they will continue to look flat footed and disingenuous. >> the other thick that's ing t important, in his statement tonight yes, he backs sessions and criticizes democrats and thinks the attorney general should answer the questions more accurately, and i think in this regard, trump is channelling a lot of republicans on the hill or people who aren't lawyers but who are just kind of members of the general pub llic saying yea why wouldn't you disclose that rather than looking at it in a narrow sense as if you're in a d

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 griffith, you know, like i don't know

instead we have to wait and 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

. >> 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 th

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 n

. >> it is very much a 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 hou

as karen said, drip, drip, drip. that's certainly the daily impact of all this. it's notable i think, mostly, because of all the denials from the white house, from trump himself and his aides that there have been any contacts. they have been categorical for weeks with, even before the inauguration, saying there were no contacts, period,s th,s the e news, this is a ruse. now you have these contacts coming out which, for instance, jeff sessions explains as nothing insidious. there is always, you know, the axiom in washington that the coverup is worse than the crime if they had been more forthright and perhaps had let us known as karen suggests that these contacts had happened, they could have gotten out ahead of it. now it looks like they were denying something that's turning out to be true. >> we've all seen the pictures of sergey kislyak. tell me about him, if you could, eric. >> he's a long-time washington president, been the ambassador for nine or ten years. he's known for excellent parties, cognac, et cetera, and knows how to work washington in terms of going

also, in this past week talking to republicans what alex is mentioning kind of this drip, drip drip, drip of information pertaining to the trump campaign and russia and they're concerned about the continuation of this. remember, we are more than a month in, and they have not been able to pass legislation to make it to the president's desk. this is not the kind of scenario they really anticipated and yes, the various committees are dealing with this sort of thing and they also have lots of questions that they want answered, as well. some thaft trut the trump administration don't want them to be talking about all of the time either. they want to go to the fbi and cia and look at some of this information for their investigation, and those are still ongoing and what's problematic is this what comes next and this wariness, really, and people are exhausted by it. >> given that, alex. what does come next? what is the best case scenario to come out of this for donald trump? >> the worst-case scenario is if there was some kind of smoking gun to show that the trump campaign coordinated or was

a white house that would try to get ahead of the story and instead of 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

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>> 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 about the gallup poll that came out yesterday. we are roughly 50 days into the trump administration. his disapproval numbers just north of 50%. they continue to be among the lowest of any president at this point in their administration in modern history. numbers like that, what do they do to the administration's ability to advance their agenda? >> well i actually think it's been a little overblown right now about his low

i mean, it's this drip, drip, drip of stuff that just keeps coming out and even when, you know, matthew rosenberg the the "new york times," was asking about kushner's meeting with kislayak, they didn't say, oh, yeah, well, there was this other meeting as well. it's sort of all this stuff that sort of gets pulled out. >> obviously maybe they should have done that, there's no question. but i do want to address what carl was saying here, in terms of a cover-up. the three people that have been prominently mentioned here in this investigation, paul manafort, roger stone and carter paige, and i have heard from carter paige personally on this, they're all dieing to testify to this committee. i mean they want to get out there and get their story known in public. so i mean that's sort of not conspiratorial in nature, they want to get out there very much. so i think we need to make that clear. >> there are others as well, jeffrey. th there's a whole constellation of people. >> does the white house want these meetings to continue, and chairman nunes for reasons that are unexplained, cancelled the

we continue to 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... ...bl

, 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 11th hour continues. so tell us your big idea for g

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 questions and the drip, drip, drip part, why if it's nothing did they not get it ou

take 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 completel

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

, 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 rei

. >> 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 doll

, 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 looking at this from the kremlin and you hear a lot of positive words from at that point candidate trump but on specific issues the campaign is a black hole. think about what trump might have been talking about or thinking about sanctions. what were his intentions on sanctions, syria, ukraine, on the iran nucl

, 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 company's 26-year-old ceo who had the foresight to

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 ent

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 young peoe when they thought they should start saving for retirement. then we asked some older people when they actually did start saving. this gap between when we should start saving and when we actually do is one of the reasons why too many of us aren't prepared for retirement. just start as early as you can. it's going to pay off in the future. if we all start saving a little more today, we'll all be better prepared tom

, 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's going to happen tomorrow. we may have to pull this country together quickly. but when you have half of the country sti

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 attempt

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 enforcement agent in the nation, yes. just say i had zero contact with him about the campa

and drips left, right and center. there's a report today that carter page, an associate, had been given the green light by the trump administration to go to russia last summer. there's even speculation as to whether or not the president during the campaign had met with the russian ambassador. all of this separate on their own would not be something that would cause alarm, but the fact that we haven't heard of this, the fact we're talking about this every single day, it seems the pendulum has swung so far to one direction that any russian you know is somewhat now suspect. >> i'm sure we'll be learning a lot more about all this. ron brownstein, listen to the house intelligence committee chairman devin nunes describe the president of the united states and his early saturday morning tweets. listen to this. >> deputy, that would be very important -- >> i don't think we have that clip. i'll read it to you. at least a sentence or two. this is what devin nunes said. "the president is a neophyte to politics." >> yeah. >> "the

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 power has taken over or had a huge influence on one political campaign and po

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 t