If there are going to be congressional investigations of the Russian connection in the White House, they’re going to have to come from the Senate. Paul Ryan's House is not going to do anything to undermine popular vote loser Donald Trump until they get their tax cuts out of him. Their chief investigator, Rep. Jason Chaffetz, has already demonstrated he doesn't care about this one. So it's going to come from the Senate where Democrats have more power to make stuff happen—and that's exactly what Senate Democrats are planning.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has called a meeting of Democratic senators to discuss the resignation of President Donald Trump's national security adviser and published reports about contacts between Trump's campaign and Moscow.

Another leading Democrat, Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, is pressing the Democrats' case for an independent investigation. He and other Democrats say that's the best way to answer questions about the Trump administration's ties to Russia. […]

Durbin tells MSNBC that it's a "graveyard" for investigations when congressional intelligence committees get involved because their work is largely done outside of public view.

Senate Democrats might just be able to shame enough posturing Republicans (like Susan Collins, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Bob Corker) and the never Trump-leaning senators up for re-election in 2018 (Dean Heller, Jeff Flake) into feeling like they have to give the appearance of doing their jobs and being senators before being Republicans. Expect them to be hammering on this by calling for an independent investigation on a daily basis.