..pretty little Ivanka can go too

some mid-level staffers.

Every Trump but Barron (who's too young to have been indoctrinated into the family business), plus Ivanka's husband, PLUS the entire Infowars staff, all of Project Veritas, everyone involved with Pizzagate, the entire Breitbart team, everyone working at Fox News, Trump's entire campaign staff including all the people who were fired for collusion with the Russians, and the entire staff of The Blaze.

And one more thing: you can't arrest a diplomat under official cover but you can kick one out of the country. (The term is "persona non grata" or PNG.) We need to PNG every person affiliated with the Russian Mission to the US who is under official cover, and arrest all the Russian illicits we can find in the US. If they won't give up their illicits, well, we have ways of making them talk...

He is debunking the Susan Rice nonsense, says just a right wing distraction created by WH who generated the materials

I mean, doesn't it tip everyone off that they are coming at this with a certain mindset, before knowing all the facts?

(I am holding my breath, though...are they right? Is it possible that some of Russian puppets will be held accountable? Who is responsible for that decision?)

I don't think that runs afoul of any laws currently on the books.

I don't know if the W.H. releasing information to Nunes is illegal (I doubt it).

But who told Nunes to report that information to the public? He said Ryan did, but Ryan denies that.

Why did the W.H. aides lie about it?

It's all very suspicious and creepy. Watergate style stuff. Only worse.

But that's not why the Trump team is being criminally investigated. I don't think it was illegal for W H aides to give information to the chair of the committee. That's not the complaint.

The complaint is that Nunes misrepresented the information (tainted the investigation AND the credibility of the committee). He corrected it the next day, but you know how that goes. Why did Nunes misrepresent that story to inform the public that Trump WAS surveilled, in fact! (He wasn't of course. Trump was wiretaped only incidentally when someone ELSE was being wiretaped).

I don't think the Trump campaign is actually guilty of anything, even if they did coordinate releasing of the emails with Russia. Except being low down, dirty, rotten douchebags.

if the suggestion is that anything is okay, as long as they don't technically break a law.

As I stated in my post, the actions were surreptitious and suspicious, leading one to conclude they were unethical and indicative of a political motive. It hurts one's credibility to act in such a way.

I expect more from a President and his associates than not to technically break an important law or not to commit treason.

He was on one of the MSNBC shows last night and was asked about Castro's comments to Blitzer earlier in the day. He said what Castro did except he flipped the negative to "would be surprised if some people did not go to jail".

Schiff was on with Chris Hayes but wouldn't bite when Hayes asked him about what Castro said.