The Speaker’s Office says “Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein asked to meet with the speaker and we accommodated the request.” They met right after the bipartisan budget meeting

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Ryan is such a weasel they won't have much problem with him, but he may be seeing Mueller sooner than he likes.

Are they informing Ryan he's a subject of the investigation? I so want it to be the latter?

To reveal that the whole party has been compromised by the Russkies.

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who can get Devin Nunes removed from the House Intelligence Committee or otherwise reign him in. Nunes has been doing his best to kneecap the investigation and discredit the FBI, and maybe Wray and Rosenstein want Ryan to do something about it.

to torpedo his own committee?

I was afraid to hope it was about Nunes.

would want to meet with Ryan. If there's a question whether Ryan has his own Russia problems (and who knows?), it would be handled differently, not with a meeting with Wray and Rosenstein.

I have a feeling another shoe is about to drop from the russian centipede, most likely having to something to do with Nunes. Its no wonder he's strong-arming as of late.

Dep AG Rosenstein leaves mtg with Ryan on Russia probe. Does not respond to a battery of questions as to whether they will comply w/Hse’s request for info or are concerned about contempt of Congress

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Next thing you know, they will be appointing US Attorneys to fill all the vacancies.

This is a batshit crazy day.

Or perhaps Uranium One.

You know Drumpf is desperate to turn the tables and make "Russia" actually be about Dems/Hillary, so ... Nunes and Ryan likely wanted to talk to those two, to tell 'em to get THAT investigation going ... otherwise they'll be relieved of duty.

For Obstructing Justice. You better tell him to resign now

He's giving Ryan some notice so he can clean his cage.
The indictments will come later.

Although, I'd much rather see Nunes frog-marched out of his office on Capital Hill rather than giving himself up like Manafort had to do.

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YA THINK?!?!?

One can only imagine the conversation with the Speaker? Rosenstein is the superior rank over the FBI Director.

On second thought, Nunes does have a business with the Russians, a winery of some sort. It's surprising how many people in the Trump circle have connections to Russia? How did Jeff Sessions get to know so many Russians?

is the MSNBC headline while Joy is filling in for Chris Hayes tonight.

who-is-trying-to-fake-being-human smile.

Looks like the picture of a a guy who would allege that so-called Democrats who want to use the B-word and are called on it become alienated and join the GOP.

Nice smile.

Then squeeze.

Go Bob.

They didn't want to turn over evidence that nunes is working for russia to nunes which would get the names of sources and the methods of detection into putin's hands.

Of course I could be wrong. Maybe it was about planning a surprise party for the pages. Or what flavor of ice cream cake to buy for the president.

Or maybe they were there to tell ryan to pick a carpet color for the oval office because they were about to indict trump and pence.