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>> it's a little card that allows you to get into the white house through security to go to white house press brief wrrings go to meetings with senior administration officials in the white house. it's a valuable thing to have. and once you have it, you really should do everything possible to make sure that it's renewed. however, when i got my hard pass renewed under the trump administration that was in 2017, and i got it because one of the nbc cameraman at the white house said once you have it, don't lose it so go and get it, so i got it. but i never went to the white house. so when i got an e-mail from the white house on march 19th saying our records show that you haven't been -- in the last 180 days you've been to the white house 50% less of the time, therefore your pass is expired, i didn't think anything of it. i thought, well, they got me. i haven't been since january -- actually april of 2017. so, fine, okay you can have it. but it wasn't until i read dana's column this week where i realized oh, holy smokes it wasn't just that this was a systematic thing, and that's why i retweete
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this is the style of this white house. this is the style of the white house to want to fight, to want to have a foil, in particular, a democratic foil and the foils here, of course, are nancy pelosi, jerry nadler, the folks who are over these committees and over the house democrats. i think this will continue from this white house, because it isn't clear where this goes. it's not clear how long this fight lasts. it's not clear how you resolve it. what is the real power of the democrats to actually compel people? are they willing to go as far as susan is talking about here? or as barr joked about, this idea of handcuffs and putting people in jail. i guess there's a little congressional jail some place on the hill. but for now, this is a white house that likes to have this defiant posture. and also, i think, the zroerts, too. the republican voters. the idea that this is a place that they're under siege. >> bianna, the white house argues that the democrats are certainly trying to do a do-over on the mueller report. they say t
this is the style of this white house. this is the style of the white house to want to fight, to want to have a foil, in particular, a democratic foil and the foils here, of course, are nancy pelosi, jerry nadler, the folks who are over these committees and over the house democrats. i think this will continue from this white house, because it isn't clear where this goes. it's not clear how long this fight lasts. it's not clear how you resolve it. what is the real power of the democrats to...
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that lived in the white house. i think it is mind boggling that it still exists and is in such great condition. that room i really love. i also really like the state dining room. not because of necessarily how it is now, although it is lovely, but that corner of the room is where jefferson's private study was and where he had his cabinet meetings. i think my next book will be looking at adams and jefferson's cabinets. that space really holds a special spot in my heart because it does not exist really anymore like it did look at the time. trying to imagine what it was is a special thing. susan both of you have only : known working with a trump administration. it's hard to compare with past presidents. you said each administration brings their own different sense of history. what about the level of interest that the trump's have and the history of the mansion? how have they express that in working with you and others? matthew the first lady has : worked with us in terms of the egg roll coming up. that is something th
that lived in the white house. i think it is mind boggling that it still exists and is in such great condition. that room i really love. i also really like the state dining room. not because of necessarily how it is now, although it is lovely, but that corner of the room is where jefferson's private study was and where he had his cabinet meetings. i think my next book will be looking at adams and jefferson's cabinets. that space really holds a special spot in my heart because it does not exist...
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the white house says that don mcgahn, the president's former white house counsel doesn't have the legal right to provide documents subpoenaed by congress. do you believe this is a valid legal argument? >> well, i don't think so. i think don mcgahn -- frankly wing it's the president who has waived executive privilege by allowing don mcgahn to testify pot special counsel and share things to the president's own personal attorneys. that's an issue that may end up being litigated in court. more broadly, it's pretty striking that just a few weeks ago, the president was claiming complete and total exoneration and is now taking steps to prevent don mcgahn, the white house counsel who provided so much information to the special counsel from even appearing in front of congress. i do think this is one of those instances where i'll repeat a line i said a number of times before. if the president's truly innocent, he ought to act like it and allow white house counsel mcgahn to testify to congress. >> one of the arguments they make over at the white house is that the president allowed don mcgahn to sp
the white house says that don mcgahn, the president's former white house counsel doesn't have the legal right to provide documents subpoenaed by congress. do you believe this is a valid legal argument? >> well, i don't think so. i think don mcgahn -- frankly wing it's the president who has waived executive privilege by allowing don mcgahn to testify pot special counsel and share things to the president's own personal attorneys. that's an issue that may end up being litigated in court....
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the white house has said "no." clearly, the committee could hold don mcgahn in contempt, but the white house and the department of justice has said that you can't compel mcgahn to testify about his conversations with the president. look, there are lots of people who believe you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube after he testified before bob mueller for 30 hours. but mcgahn's not going to show up tomorrow. jerry nadler knows it. and maybe they're just going to have another show hearing. >> is there any chance mcgahn defies the white house and does show up. he's a private citizen? >> not tomorrow. i don't know the answer, though i would lean "no," wolf. because whether or not mcgahn thinks this is the right move, the white house doing what they're doing, provides him cover to not have to go under oath and do -- and testify. i would note, i think that is an unfortunate thing for the public, for this reason. yes, he did testify for 30 hours. we know that. one of the things he testified to is that donald trump o
the white house has said "no." clearly, the committee could hold don mcgahn in contempt, but the white house and the department of justice has said that you can't compel mcgahn to testify about his conversations with the president. look, there are lots of people who believe you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube after he testified before bob mueller for 30 hours. but mcgahn's not going to show up tomorrow. jerry nadler knows it. and maybe they're just going to have another show...
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left the white house. and i remember just listening to the tails of that meeting an really being in a state of shock, that's when i realized that this was not simply a lack of sophistication or a lack of undersnding about how we do our work. >> it was an active effort to influence what we weng. >> narrator: once again comey typed his notes of the meeting on his laptop. >> comey begins opening hisyp laptop andg down words, the phrases that he can remember the president said's because hat scared of what this is that has just happened. >> there's an old adage in the organization that, "if it happened and you didn't write id down, itt happen." and so i think that he was thinking, at that time, that, you know, "the president is at least walking himself down this trail to an investigation where he could become subject to investigation, and i need to be able to document what has happened." w for the first time, fbi director james coml reveal... >> narrator: but comey didn't back down. >> comeyill be appearing bef
left the white house. and i remember just listening to the tails of that meeting an really being in a state of shock, that's when i realized that this was not simply a lack of sophistication or a lack of undersnding about how we do our work. >> it was an active effort to influence what we weng. >> narrator: once again comey typed his notes of the meeting on his laptop. >> comey begins opening hisyp laptop andg down words, the phrases that he can remember the president said's...
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ongoing investigations takes relates to the white house. his seeming contradiction in not telling the full truth when it came to whether or not he knew the special counsel was unhappy but i'm with you, let's say heared before the house today, he won't suddenly say you know what, that is my bad, guys. i should have told -- i'm sorry, is it cool? he has said what he is going to say. and so in some ways it is sort of -- you can keep beating that dead horse, but bill barr is not going further than he went yesterday. >> we really want to hear from mueller right now. we want to hear from don mcgahn, former white house counsel. coming up, a new report sheds light on the extraordinary steps that the fbi took to probe suspicions that russia had infiltrated the trump campaign. but which of the 21 democrats running for thas the best chanc of unseating president trump? we have a you into cnn poll. new. s just one free hearing test at his local miracle ear helped andrew hear more of the joy in her voice. just one hearing test is all it took for him to h
ongoing investigations takes relates to the white house. his seeming contradiction in not telling the full truth when it came to whether or not he knew the special counsel was unhappy but i'm with you, let's say heared before the house today, he won't suddenly say you know what, that is my bad, guys. i should have told -- i'm sorry, is it cool? he has said what he is going to say. and so in some ways it is sort of -- you can keep beating that dead horse, but bill barr is not going further than...
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>> reporter: fred, the white house, according to sources, pressured former white house counsel don mcgahn to come out publicly and say that the president did not obstruct justice. sources tell cnn that mcgahn told special counsel robert mueller's investigators that he believed the president didn't obstruct justice. mcgahn, through his attorney, declined to announce it publicly. sources also told cnn that the president was upset about mcgahn's refusal to come out and say that publicly. this all underscores the measure that is the white house has taken to try to portray mueller's report as exonerating the president, even though it explicitly did not on the question of obstruction. an attorney though for mcgahn saying that at the time, the former white house counsel did not perceive the white house as threatening mcgahn to make that public statement. fred? >> sarah westwood, thank you so much. >>> with me now, a former federal prosecutor and cnn legal analyst. and lynn swede from the "times." being okay with the attorney general investigating joe biden. this as joe biden has his meteoric ris
>> reporter: fred, the white house, according to sources, pressured former white house counsel don mcgahn to come out publicly and say that the president did not obstruct justice. sources tell cnn that mcgahn told special counsel robert mueller's investigators that he believed the president didn't obstruct justice. mcgahn, through his attorney, declined to announce it publicly. sources also told cnn that the president was upset about mcgahn's refusal to come out and say that publicly....
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white house stonewalling into the inquiries. the question is whether the legal, narrow legal reason they might give might be just because of the mcgahn refusing to testify. the overall point again is russia, trump, stonewalling the investigations. the question is i think whether they can make the case this is specifically about the stonewalling part, the white house refusing testimony and refusing to comply with requests for investigation and not about the broader russian question. you look at what trump is saying, he continues to say no collusion, no obstruction, let's move on. >> that's my point. the tax returns, that's a serious constitutional matter. if congress has the right under law to subpoena tax returns and he refuses to give them over, we have a constitutional crisis. we have a confrontation between the executive branch and legislative branch that is hard to sort through. that's why it is important if you want to be serious about this to go at things. what the white house is doing, we're not complying with anything. s
white house stonewalling into the inquiries. the question is whether the legal, narrow legal reason they might give might be just because of the mcgahn refusing to testify. the overall point again is russia, trump, stonewalling the investigations. the question is i think whether they can make the case this is specifically about the stonewalling part, the white house refusing testimony and refusing to comply with requests for investigation and not about the broader russian question. you look at...
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things he said happened in the white house didn't happen in the white house. after saying that mcgahn is a liar, that the he lied to investigators which is a crime, the white house is also saying and don mcgahn is not allowed to speak to congress to clarify the record or to defend himself while he denounce him as a liar. i wonder if that creates yet another dynamic here that is almost unsustainable in terms of mcgahn going along with what the white house says. >> and yes, he shouldn't, rachel. i'm asking him tonight, be a patriot. be someone who puts your country above the lawlessness of this white house. again, this is a cycle that we see from donald trump. i'll show you my taxes, i just have to wait until the audit's over. you're never going to see my taxes. i'm going to order the secretary of treasury to not give them to you. i was exonerated. i was the most transparent president ever investigated. mueller can testify. mueller can't testify. mcgahn can't testify. this is just the cycle of donald trump. we're just, you know, we're not going to put up with it
things he said happened in the white house didn't happen in the white house. after saying that mcgahn is a liar, that the he lied to investigators which is a crime, the white house is also saying and don mcgahn is not allowed to speak to congress to clarify the record or to defend himself while he denounce him as a liar. i wonder if that creates yet another dynamic here that is almost unsustainable in terms of mcgahn going along with what the white house says. >> and yes, he shouldn't,...
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the white house is done. this is not something that the president is going to give the green light to. he didn't in 2016. he views the fact that he won without having to do that when it was considered at the time a pretty major step back from tradition has given him, any way, the reason to draw the conclusion i didn't need to do this in 2016. i'm not going to need to do it again in 2020. >> so, the president doubling down on it being litigated already. thanks to daniel, aswan, and jeff. >>> so, "saturday night live" poking fun at republicans asking the question what would it take to break with president trump. >> okay. this week president trump has escalated his trade war with china. it's estimated this will cost the country $1.4 trillion in market value. you all have opposed tariffs in the past. do you support the tariffs now. >> there's a simple answer to that. there was no collusion. >> okay. but i'm asking you about china. >> uh-huh. mm-hm. h. mm-hm. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance, so you on
the white house is done. this is not something that the president is going to give the green light to. he didn't in 2016. he views the fact that he won without having to do that when it was considered at the time a pretty major step back from tradition has given him, any way, the reason to draw the conclusion i didn't need to do this in 2016. i'm not going to need to do it again in 2020. >> so, the president doubling down on it being litigated already. thanks to daniel, aswan, and jeff....
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this comes amid an escalating showdown between house democrats and the white house. president trump today exerting executive privilege on the full, unredacted version of the mueller report and all underlying materials subpoenaed by house democrats on the judiciary committee. in a letter released today the assistant attorney general wrote as we have repeatedly explained the attorney general could not comply with your subpoena in its current form without violating the law, court rules and court orders. that is an apparent reference to top-secret grand jury testimony and other materials that had been previously redacted. this all comes as the white house has made something of a stonewall strategy to refuse to comply with the questions made by house democrats as part of their oversight responsibilities including trying to get the president's taxes, find out more information about his finances and the attorney general's refusal to testify before a democratic led committee. senior congressional correspondent manu is on capitol hill. what are the next steps for democrats? >
this comes amid an escalating showdown between house democrats and the white house. president trump today exerting executive privilege on the full, unredacted version of the mueller report and all underlying materials subpoenaed by house democrats on the judiciary committee. in a letter released today the assistant attorney general wrote as we have repeatedly explained the attorney general could not comply with your subpoena in its current form without violating the law, court rules and court...
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official, white house officials over here at the white house, and the president said this is not being done for me. this is being done for the presidency and so the president is essentially saying what his team is saying this is about protecting the interests of the presidency. but, wolf, i thought it was also interesting, you know, the way he answered my question about whether or not his administration is stonewalling the congress. at the very end i tried to ask a follow-up as to whether or not he's will and whether his team is willing to battle it out in the courts and didn't answer that question and turned to the next question at that point. one thing we should also point out he was asked about this judge's ruling earlier this afternoon that said that his longtime accountants had to turn over financial records to members of congress. wolf, the president there said that he blamed all of this, this ruling on an obama appointed judge and so, you know, that is one of his go tos when he's confronted with a ruling that goes against him and his interests and his agenda he typically blames
official, white house officials over here at the white house, and the president said this is not being done for me. this is being done for the presidency and so the president is essentially saying what his team is saying this is about protecting the interests of the presidency. but, wolf, i thought it was also interesting, you know, the way he answered my question about whether or not his administration is stonewalling the congress. at the very end i tried to ask a follow-up as to whether or...
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so that dynamic is unfolding within the white house, but sarah huckabee sanders the white house press secretary just moments ago told me and a group of other reporters that there are no divisions within the president's team and that the president is the ultimate decision-maker here. she also adds that they are reviewing all possible options when it comes to dealing with this very, very serious situation that is unfolding in iran. but clearly our sources are elg it us otherwise. this is a source of deep frustration for the president. >> so, wait, let me get this clear here. the president wants to talk to iran to diffuse the crisis, this is a president who repeatedly criticized president obama for negotiating with iran, of course, withdrew from the iranian nuclear deal. is he says here that the white house strategy if the president is rejecting bull ton's approach that the white house strategy is negotiations with iran? >> well, he is. he said it publicly multiple times, but you're right, jim, the vehicle for these kinds of negotiations would have been the iran nuclear deal, which the p
so that dynamic is unfolding within the white house, but sarah huckabee sanders the white house press secretary just moments ago told me and a group of other reporters that there are no divisions within the president's team and that the president is the ultimate decision-maker here. she also adds that they are reviewing all possible options when it comes to dealing with this very, very serious situation that is unfolding in iran. but clearly our sources are elg it us otherwise. this is a source...
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information that pertained to the white house, not necessarily the agencies, the white house is pushing back, saying it is not something they have to turn over to democrats. host: you mentioned the efforts to come up with a new immigration plan to overhaul legal immigration. what details do we know on that? guest: jared kushner, the president's son-in-law, last week started briefing people on this plan. this is something he has been working on since january. it is a significant piece of time for him. you mentioned legal immersion. it will include that. the president saw the initial draft and said it had to include border security. you will see border security and legal immigration. the bottom line is the proposal has numbers exactly the same. it would increase the number of migrant workers that could come to the u.s. to work. but it would decrease the number of people who could come and be sponsored by family members. by now, you have extended family that can come in if you are a legal resident and you can sponsor them. but the plan they are looking at is limited to probably spouse and
information that pertained to the white house, not necessarily the agencies, the white house is pushing back, saying it is not something they have to turn over to democrats. host: you mentioned the efforts to come up with a new immigration plan to overhaul legal immigration. what details do we know on that? guest: jared kushner, the president's son-in-law, last week started briefing people on this plan. this is something he has been working on since january. it is a significant piece of time...
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catherine herridge is at the white house today. you got to be inside. >> reporter: we'll be back out tomorrow if this contempt vote goes forward. senate democrats line of questioning eluded to attorney general barr's recent testimony that spying occurred on the trump campaign and director wray confirmed he is working with the ae to see if it was based on solid evidence. the fbi director seemed to avoid the whrapblg. >> that's not the term i would use. >> thank you. so i would say that's a no to that question. >> well, i mean, look, there are lots of people that have different phrases. i believe that the fbi's engaged in investigative activity and part of investigative activity includes surveillance activity of different shapes and sizes. to me, the key question is making sure that it's done by the book, consistent with our lawful authorities. >> reporter: during the 2016 campaign, the fbi secured a surveillance warrant for carter page which allow force collection of communications records well beyond the original target. an alleged
catherine herridge is at the white house today. you got to be inside. >> reporter: we'll be back out tomorrow if this contempt vote goes forward. senate democrats line of questioning eluded to attorney general barr's recent testimony that spying occurred on the trump campaign and director wray confirmed he is working with the ae to see if it was based on solid evidence. the fbi director seemed to avoid the whrapblg. >> that's not the term i would use. >> thank you. so i would...
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ice with the white house? >> reporter: that's a good question. he is the trump appointee. he has said things that the white house has taken note of. i will note as we talk about this issue of robert mueller in the course of this conversation, i press the president's counselor on this issue earlier. we heard from the president in recent days saying that robert mueller should not testify. that was a reversal from what he said formally. remember immediately after the report came out he said that mueller was honorable. that has changed in recent weeks. kellyanne conway said to me the bottom line is they have made a decision if they will stop him from testifying. they do think he should not testify. the mueller report was the final conclusive and outright definitive report on the investigation and she called on democrats to move forward for the sake of the country. i pressed her about congress's oversight responsibilities. she said there's a difference between oversight and overreach and evidenced by the talking po
ice with the white house? >> reporter: that's a good question. he is the trump appointee. he has said things that the white house has taken note of. i will note as we talk about this issue of robert mueller in the course of this conversation, i press the president's counselor on this issue earlier. we heard from the president in recent days saying that robert mueller should not testify. that was a reversal from what he said formally. remember immediately after the report came out he said...
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the white house asserts that mr. mcgahn does not have to appear today because he is entitled to quote absolute immunity unquote from our subpoenas. we know this argument is wrong, of course, because the executive branch has tried this approach before. in 2007 president george bush attempted to invoke a similarly broad and unjustified assertion of executive privilege and asked his former counsel harriet myers to ignore a subpoena issued by this committee. ms. myers also did not appear at her scheduled hearing. judge john bates who was appointed by president bush slapped down that argument fairly quickly. quote, the executive cannot identify a single judicial opinion that recognizes absolute immunity for senior presidential advisors in this or any other context. that simple yet critical fact bears repeating. the asserted absolute immunity claim here is entirely unsupported by the case law, close quote from the judicial decision. in other words, when this committee issues a subpoena even to a senior presidential advisor
the white house asserts that mr. mcgahn does not have to appear today because he is entitled to quote absolute immunity unquote from our subpoenas. we know this argument is wrong, of course, because the executive branch has tried this approach before. in 2007 president george bush attempted to invoke a similarly broad and unjustified assertion of executive privilege and asked his former counsel harriet myers to ignore a subpoena issued by this committee. ms. myers also did not appear at her...
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white house counsel, don mcgahn. what's the latest on that? this is supposed to take place, i think, next week. is mcgahn going to show up? >> yeah, well, that's the big question. and if you look last week, the white house, through the white house chief of staff, mick mulvaney actually instructed don mcgahn not to comply with that subpoena for documents. and so i think that going forward in this next week, we can probably expect to see something similar from the white house in terms of don mcgahn's testimony before the committee. it wouldn't be a surprise if the white house instructed mcgahn not to testify in this. i think what's so interesting in all of this is you're seeing -- a lot of times you see the president say something and it's not quite backed up by white house action, but we're seeing exactly the opposite here, where the president says, i'm going to fight all the subpoenas, we're going to fight every inch of democratic oversight, and you're now seeing in this letter from the white house counsel exactly th
white house counsel, don mcgahn. what's the latest on that? this is supposed to take place, i think, next week. is mcgahn going to show up? >> yeah, well, that's the big question. and if you look last week, the white house, through the white house chief of staff, mick mulvaney actually instructed don mcgahn not to comply with that subpoena for documents. and so i think that going forward in this next week, we can probably expect to see something similar from the white house in terms of...
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and we still have a white house that basically denies that this took place, and we have a white house that is so afraid of donald trump's wrath that when the former secretary of homeland security said let's get a cabinet meeting together, to actually plan for 2020, the white house chief of staff said let's not have that meeting because it might offend the president. this is outrageous, and it is candidly beyond the pale, and why our committee, bipartisan, and why this congress needs to make sure it doesn't happen again. we need to make a law in place that if you receive assistance from a foreign power during an election, you have an obligation to report that. that we make sure that we have our election systems safe and secure with a paper audit trail and that the large companies who have 90%, three companies have 90% of our voter files, there's some way to have security checks on the files. and that we have some rules of the road around facebook, youtube, twitter, in terms of how they are not going to be manipulated on a going forward basis. every american, i don't care what political
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is why the white house special counsel emmitt flood wanted to put this on the record with the white house view on, because there is this debate going on right now of whether the president can still do so since he didn't -- he didn't assert executive privilege on the mueller report. this is a brewing battle as we speak, brianna, between the white house and house democrats over this issue. brianna? >> it is, and we see the battle lines in this letter. pamela brown, great reporting. thank you so much. i want to bring in our panel to discuss this. we have laura coates, a former federal prosecutor and julian epstein, a former chief economic council and gloria borger our chief political analyst. all right. so what's the objective of having a letter like this sent from emmitt flood to bill barr? it's to memorialize something, but what's the objective here? >> well, there's a political objective, and you guys can speak to the legal objective. what they are basically saying, what emmitt flood is saying here is that the mueller report was a completely political document, that said things it did not
is why the white house special counsel emmitt flood wanted to put this on the record with the white house view on, because there is this debate going on right now of whether the president can still do so since he didn't -- he didn't assert executive privilege on the mueller report. this is a brewing battle as we speak, brianna, between the white house and house democrats over this issue. brianna? >> it is, and we see the battle lines in this letter. pamela brown, great reporting. thank...
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the white house will try to stop that as well. whatever it is, it will prolong -- it will slow down any type of momentum the democrats think they have. >> it's dangerous to get any legal analysis off twitter, i'm going to throw it to you anyway. what about the idea that the white house has already waived executive privilege by allowing don mcgahn to spend 30 hours with robert mueller contemporaneous notes about anything that went down in the sordid west wing? >> what the white house would say to that is the difference between intraand interbranch sharing. in the case of the mueller investigation, mueller was part of the executive branch, if the white house shared stuff with mueller, it stayed within the executive. in this case, you're bringing in congress, which is a different branch. and what the white house would say, is that they did not wave privilege by sharing it within its own branch. so a little bit complicated. but basically the fact that mueller ultimately was part of the justice department, the justice department answer
the white house will try to stop that as well. whatever it is, it will prolong -- it will slow down any type of momentum the democrats think they have. >> it's dangerous to get any legal analysis off twitter, i'm going to throw it to you anyway. what about the idea that the white house has already waived executive privilege by allowing don mcgahn to spend 30 hours with robert mueller contemporaneous notes about anything that went down in the sordid west wing? >> what the white house...
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take a listen. >> the white house and the department of justice is enabling the white house to try to evade all accountability to the american people. saying, in effect, the president is a tyrant and dictator with no limit on his power. >> matt, back to jake's point, what are they going to do about it? what can they do about it? >> they're going to have to move as aggressively as they can in the courts. i don't think that's going to be enough. the strategy they laid out after getting the mueller report. they'll bring witnesses forward and letting the american people see them on television and hear what they have to say and judge whether or not they're being truthful. the problem is the president has completely stymied that approach by preventing witnesses from coming forward, preventing documents from being turned over. every day they're fighting over access to democraticments and witnesses, instead of whether the president broke the law or committed high crimes or created misdemeanor, they're losing the fight. it's not great for the white house to be covering things up but better tha
take a listen. >> the white house and the department of justice is enabling the white house to try to evade all accountability to the american people. saying, in effect, the president is a tyrant and dictator with no limit on his power. >> matt, back to jake's point, what are they going to do about it? what can they do about it? >> they're going to have to move as aggressively as they can in the courts. i don't think that's going to be enough. the strategy they laid out after...
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the driveway gambit works for the white house. my hope is they go out and say, i don't care where you are. here are the hard questions. we are not going to let you get your message out until you answer the questions we think are important >> joe lockhart, thank you for coming on. appreciate it. he's a sports gambler by trade. james holzhauer is money. what is behind this historic run on "jeopardy!." that's next. don't just dream about your next vacation. book your next vacation. ♪ be a booker at booking.com this and even this.hark, i deep clean messes like this. but i don't have to clean this, because the self-cleaning brush roll removes hair, while i clean. - [announcer] shark, the vacuum that deep cleans, now cleans itself. >> announcer: your "new day" weather brought to you by the shark self-cleaning brushroll. >>> all right. overnight tropical cyclone fanni made landfall in india. this image reveals how intense, how big the storm is. more than a million people have been evacuated on india's east coast. some 100 million peopl
the driveway gambit works for the white house. my hope is they go out and say, i don't care where you are. here are the hard questions. we are not going to let you get your message out until you answer the questions we think are important >> joe lockhart, thank you for coming on. appreciate it. he's a sports gambler by trade. james holzhauer is money. what is behind this historic run on "jeopardy!." that's next. don't just dream about your next vacation. book your next vacation....
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that night the white house press office called the department of justice and said the white house wanted to put out a statement saying it was rosenstein's idea to fire comey. rosenstein told other officials he would not participate in putting out a false story. the president then call rosenstein directly and said he was watching fox news and the coverage had been great and he wanted rosenstein to do a press conference. rosenstein responded this was not a good idea because of the press asked him he would tell the truth that comey's firing was not his idea. sessions informed the white house counsel's office that rosenstein was upset that his memorandum was being portrayed as the reason for me termination. in an unplanned press conference on may 9, spicer told reporters it was all rosenstein. no one from the white house, it was a doj decision. that evening and next morning white house officials and spokespeople continue to maintain that the president decision to terminate comey was driven by the recommendations the president received from rosenstein and sessions. on the morning of may 10, p
that night the white house press office called the department of justice and said the white house wanted to put out a statement saying it was rosenstein's idea to fire comey. rosenstein told other officials he would not participate in putting out a false story. the president then call rosenstein directly and said he was watching fox news and the coverage had been great and he wanted rosenstein to do a press conference. rosenstein responded this was not a good idea because of the press asked him...
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the white house stonewalling. the white house blocking it. the american public feeling unsatisfi unsatisfied. >> i completely agree. i'll take it a step further. he created this situation. we had a conversation immediately after the release of his report and i said that i took issue with his lack of finding on obstruction of justice. frankly, i think he believes that the president did commit obstruction of justice. relative to collusion or conspiracy, call it what you will, he had no problem giving the president a clean bill of health. if he similarly believed that about obstruction, i think he would have said so. he left a void. bill barr filled the void with his own interpretation. we wouldn't be subject to all the interpretations if mueller had finished the task. >> now what's happening is that the administration seems to be blocking congress from getting into the void at all with help from congress itself, i might say. >> what are they doing? >> jerry nadler, he didn't have william barr testify because house lawyers couldn't ask the quest
the white house stonewalling. the white house blocking it. the american public feeling unsatisfi unsatisfied. >> i completely agree. i'll take it a step further. he created this situation. we had a conversation immediately after the release of his report and i said that i took issue with his lack of finding on obstruction of justice. frankly, i think he believes that the president did commit obstruction of justice. relative to collusion or conspiracy, call it what you will, he had no...
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a busy morning at the white house. and a busy morning for 2020 candidates making a whirlwind trip through iowa. several others focusing on winning over one of the nation's biggest unions. we will go live to both places up next. >>> also, jill biden weighing in on her husband's presidential campaign. and how he will handle attacks from president trump. >> i should say that your husband can give it as well. he called president trump a clown recently. we all remember in 2016 when he said if this is high school, we'd go back and i'd beat the hell out of him, always the ugly heest, fastest -- >> no, i spoke to him about that. >> what did you tell him? because i was going to say, is he going to get down in the mud 1234. >> no, he's not. remember what michelle said, when then go low, we go high. >> tech: at safelite autoglass, we know sooner or later... every chip will crack. this daughter was home visiting when mom saw a chip in her windshield. >> mom: honey is that a chip? >> tech: they wanted it fixed fast so they brought
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the white house informing house democrats that they have told don mcgahn, the former white house counsel, he should not testify. this is in defiance of a subpoena from the house judiciary committee. let's go live to rich edson to get reaction from the white house and the reasoning. good to see you, rich. >> the statement from the white house is saying to this, the special counsel received more than 1.4 million documents, hours of interviews. they have spoken to don mcgahn about 30 hours and this is unnecessary and claiming that the privilege extends to the former counselor to the president and he doesn't have to comply with the subpoena. the democrats are hoping he would be on the hill to discuss the mueller report and his inclusion in it. he was cited a number of teams by robert mueller on the question of obstruction of justice, whether the president had tried to thwart the investigation and the attempt to fire robert mueller. this is supposed to be something that democrats were going to ask him about tomorrow. but now the white house instructing that that won't be the case, this is a c
the white house informing house democrats that they have told don mcgahn, the former white house counsel, he should not testify. this is in defiance of a subpoena from the house judiciary committee. let's go live to rich edson to get reaction from the white house and the reasoning. good to see you, rich. >> the statement from the white house is saying to this, the special counsel received more than 1.4 million documents, hours of interviews. they have spoken to don mcgahn about 30 hours...
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the white house provided unfettered access to campaign and white house documents, and asserting no privilege claims and at the same time the president took no action that deprived the special counsel of the documents and witnesses necessary to complete his investigation. no material has been redacted based on executive privilege. >> the president had multiple opportunities to exert executive privilege and he did not. the attorney general thought to make a point. the decision to waive privilege. the decision to waive privilege and make it appear that the president was being fully transparent. and the attorney general said nothing in the mueller report was redacted for executive privilege. >> that's correct. >> in the course of the investigation, what third parties would have access to information and documents collected. during the course of the investigation, which third party would have access to the information and documents collected. like investigators or private attorneys or staffers. would they have access? >> would they have access to the special counsel? >> to the information collect
the white house provided unfettered access to campaign and white house documents, and asserting no privilege claims and at the same time the president took no action that deprived the special counsel of the documents and witnesses necessary to complete his investigation. no material has been redacted based on executive privilege. >> the president had multiple opportunities to exert executive privilege and he did not. the attorney general thought to make a point. the decision to waive...
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house, but they belong to the white house. now that you're back in private practice, sorry, you can't use them in your testimony. >> well, we're just seeing this really fascinating and vivid sort of history lesson in checks and balances in american government play out in real time, right? the legislative branch, congress, especially wright after democrats taking over the house, they are trying to do what they always said they would do and that is to hold the white house and the president accountable, and what we have seen, as julie said from the white house consistently and coming directly from the president himself is thwarting all of those efforts, right, whether you want to call that stonewalling or being uncorptive, that has been a consistent strategy from the white house, and it all is now pointing to the very real possibility that so many of these threats end up in the courts, and for democrats, every indication is that they will go there. however, there's a big downsize to that. the reality is that those things will pro
house, but they belong to the white house. now that you're back in private practice, sorry, you can't use them in your testimony. >> well, we're just seeing this really fascinating and vivid sort of history lesson in checks and balances in american government play out in real time, right? the legislative branch, congress, especially wright after democrats taking over the house, they are trying to do what they always said they would do and that is to hold the white house and the president...
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the white house blocking former white house counsel don mcgahn from testifying in front of the judiciary committee today. the latest effort to stone wall investigations into the trump administration. mcgahn's lawyer telling judiciary chairman jerry nadler, mr. mcgahn finds himself facing contradictory instructions from two co-equal branches of government. nadler threatening to use, quote, all enforcement mek schisms at the committee's disposal, including holding him in contempt. >> you're dealing with a lawless president who is willing to go to any lengths to prevent testimony that might implement him. >> reporter: white house saying he is immune to testify. sarah sanders adding, this action is taken to ensure future presidents can effectively execute the responsibilities of the office of the presidency. add i >> he cannot seek to be a dictator and seek the separation of powers and be above the law. that's what he's trying to do. >> reporter: meanwhile, the d.c. district court dealing a significant blow to the white house, rejecting another administration attempt to block a house committ
the white house blocking former white house counsel don mcgahn from testifying in front of the judiciary committee today. the latest effort to stone wall investigations into the trump administration. mcgahn's lawyer telling judiciary chairman jerry nadler, mr. mcgahn finds himself facing contradictory instructions from two co-equal branches of government. nadler threatening to use, quote, all enforcement mek schisms at the committee's disposal, including holding him in contempt. >> you're...
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kaitlan collins is at the white house and top democrats went to the white house to talk about infrastructure and the president and they had met before to talk about a potentially a $2 trillion deal. but it seems as though the president was already fuming before they even had a foot hit the welcome mat. was the president's rose garden rant, where there were signs already set up, was that pre-planned? >> reporter: yeah, they started planning that right after nancy pelosi made her remark accusing the president of being engaged in a cover-up. according to what our sources are telling us. and that is when you saw aides print out what you saw on the white house podium about the mueller investigation and then the president went into that meeting with democrats and didn't uninvite them from coming, still had them come to the white house and we saw them walk in minutes before reporters were rushed to the rose garden. he went in there and maybe less than five minutes and turned on his heels and came to the rose garden and, jake, his anger was unmistakable. >> i just wanted to let you know that i walke
kaitlan collins is at the white house and top democrats went to the white house to talk about infrastructure and the president and they had met before to talk about a potentially a $2 trillion deal. but it seems as though the president was already fuming before they even had a foot hit the welcome mat. was the president's rose garden rant, where there were signs already set up, was that pre-planned? >> reporter: yeah, they started planning that right after nancy pelosi made her remark...
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records for dodging white house press briefings. later on the show, i'm thrilled to tell you, the latest in the abortion battles out of alabama. also, tony schwartz is here. reacting to new financial documents revealing the profit problem. plus something you won't see literally anywhere else. behind the scenes with cory booker. he opens up about the poems he writes to his girlfriend and does a little free style. >> we can try to do it right now. it's no feet to be on the beat so far from the actual street. >> if you want to be understood -- >> we have a whole lot more where that came from. we'll be right back. e from we'll be right back. nted to gety who used expedia to book the hotel that led to the ride ♪ which took them to the place where they discovered that sometimes a little down time can lift you right up. ♪ flights, hotels, cars, activities. expedia. everything you need to go. flights, hotels, cars, activities. you should be mad at tech that makes things worse. but you're not, because you have e*trade whose tech makes li
records for dodging white house press briefings. later on the show, i'm thrilled to tell you, the latest in the abortion battles out of alabama. also, tony schwartz is here. reacting to new financial documents revealing the profit problem. plus something you won't see literally anywhere else. behind the scenes with cory booker. he opens up about the poems he writes to his girlfriend and does a little free style. >> we can try to do it right now. it's no feet to be on the beat so far from...
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, had put down in a legal memo the bad news for the trump white house or any white house seeking to defy or wriggle out of the legal requirement to hand over a president's tax returns. quote, a confidential irs legal memo says that tax returns must be given to congress unless congress takes the step of exerting executive privilege. the memo contradicts the trump administration's justification for denying lawmakers request for president trump's tax returns. trump has refused to turn over his tax returns but has not invoked executive privilege. treasury secretary steven mnuchin has denied the returns saying there's no legislative purpose for denying them. but according to the memo the disclosure of tax return tuesday the committee is, quote, mandatory. requiring the secretary to disclose the returns and return information requested by the tax writing chairs in congress. the ten page document says the law does not allow the treasury secretary to exercise discretion in disclosing the information provided the statutory conditions are met. the memo directly rejects the reasons steven mnuchin h
, had put down in a legal memo the bad news for the trump white house or any white house seeking to defy or wriggle out of the legal requirement to hand over a president's tax returns. quote, a confidential irs legal memo says that tax returns must be given to congress unless congress takes the step of exerting executive privilege. the memo contradicts the trump administration's justification for denying lawmakers request for president trump's tax returns. trump has refused to turn over his tax...
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just by the white house. the inspector general report on this spying program which was a program code named stellar wind. this report was put together by inspectors general from five different agencies. on this matter it concluded with this quote. we believe that the justice department and fbi officials who resisted the pressure to recertify the stellar wind program because of their beliefs that aspects of the program were not legally supportable, those officials act courageously and at personal pro-life risk. the inspectors general highlight several by name, including robert mueller and james comey and james baker. singled them out by name to say they acted, quote, in accord with the highest professional standards of the justice department. when james comey became director of the fbi years later, he tapped that same james baker, praised for his integrity in that earlier confrontation with the republican white house, he picked james baker to be his general counsel, to be the top legal official at the fbi. tha
just by the white house. the inspector general report on this spying program which was a program code named stellar wind. this report was put together by inspectors general from five different agencies. on this matter it concluded with this quote. we believe that the justice department and fbi officials who resisted the pressure to recertify the stellar wind program because of their beliefs that aspects of the program were not legally supportable, those officials act courageously and at...
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what is clear to us through our reporting from the white house team is, number one, that the white house got a bit of a heads up on the fact that he was going to make this statement. and also, that the white house will not make any statements until after they hear what mr. mueller has to say. one thing i can tell you from my own personal experience in my time covering the justice department and the supreme court, bob mueller appears to be at least reasonably fond of making exit statements. and i know that because i interviewed him when he left the fbi in a round robin with a number of other journalists from around town. so the question, of course, we've been told for a while that he was about to leave any day now. the question is whether this would be the appropriate time for mr. mueller to make an exit statement, if you will, as he leaves the office of the special counsel. that's just based on past experience and no direct knowledge, though i have raised the question with the office of the special counsel, jim. >> interesting possibility. and again, as you say, we don't know. but is tha
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the white house though is maintaining its position so far. we saw the president on twitter this morning already slamming the mueller investigation, the investigation that has dogged him for his two years in office, and that even stems back to the 2016 campaign, and the white house has issued a statement. this is a statement from the white house deputy press secretary steve groves. he says there are rules and norms governing congressional oversight of the executive branch and democrats simply refuse to abide by them. democrats are demanding documents they know they have no legal rights to see including confidential communications between the president and foreign leaders and grand jury information that cannot be disclosed under the law. this white house will not and cannot comply with unlawful demands made by an increasingly unhinged and politically motivated democrats. so that's the messaging that we've heard from the white house throughout this process, and as of yet there appears to be no give in that position from the white house, so i thi
the white house though is maintaining its position so far. we saw the president on twitter this morning already slamming the mueller investigation, the investigation that has dogged him for his two years in office, and that even stems back to the 2016 campaign, and the white house has issued a statement. this is a statement from the white house deputy press secretary steve groves. he says there are rules and norms governing congressional oversight of the executive branch and democrats simply...
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the white house resisted. at least one official at the bush white house tried to have him fired for resisting it. but james baker at the justice department was convinced he was right and he was stubborn. and eventually he won. the white house had been intent ongoing around that court and overtly denying the court any information about that new spying program. and they ended up getting forced to inform the court about because of the way james baker stood up to them. i mean, more officials -- he convinced more officials that he was right about it. more officials raised objections. the program ultimately became public. congress intervened in craft's surveillance legislation. and again you may not be a big fan of the legislation congress ult ultimately created about this. but before this was a spying program being run more or less off the books without any court oversight at all just by the white house. the inspector general report on this spying program, which it was a program called code name stellar wind, this
the white house resisted. at least one official at the bush white house tried to have him fired for resisting it. but james baker at the justice department was convinced he was right and he was stubborn. and eventually he won. the white house had been intent ongoing around that court and overtly denying the court any information about that new spying program. and they ended up getting forced to inform the court about because of the way james baker stood up to them. i mean, more officials -- he...
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that's from the white house. again, we're going to go back to the committee when they return at about 2:30 eastern or so. we'll show you some of the earlier deliberations of the committee, but let's get to your calls and your thoughts on what you've seen and heard so far. in spokane, washington this is pat on the democrats line. >> good morning. >> hi there, pat. go ahead. >> caller: well, i watch this every day. it's been going on far too longment ilong. i'm tired of the president sticking his finger in everything that goes on and trying to interrupt lawful proceedings. it's just -- it gets so old. he's tried everything to the point where he even has the -- bill barr working for him. that's the only reason he was hired, i do truly believe that. and you can see it in the way that he's doing things. it's ridiculous. and the republicans who always have to sit there and disagree with everything and try to -- they just aren't working with the democrats. it's never going to get better, i don't think. i think we need t
that's from the white house. again, we're going to go back to the committee when they return at about 2:30 eastern or so. we'll show you some of the earlier deliberations of the committee, but let's get to your calls and your thoughts on what you've seen and heard so far. in spokane, washington this is pat on the democrats line. >> good morning. >> hi there, pat. go ahead. >> caller: well, i watch this every day. it's been going on far too longment ilong. i'm tired of the...
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white house stone walls democrats. >>> biden deserted you. he was born here but he left you, folks. >> the president sets his sight squarely on joe biden in pennsylvania. the state now the top priority for both parties in 2020. >>> major flooding in the midwest, evacuations and water rescues in oklahoma, a day after a string of tornadoes hit the region. >>> and did boeing spend decades concealing design flaws in its planes, new lawsuits claim it did. good morning, and welcome to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> good morning to all of you, i'm dave briggs, tuesday, may 21st. it's 5:00 a.m. in the east. we start with the standoff between the executive and legislative branches of government. it's the judicial branch that may have delivered the most consequential blow on monday. a federal judge ruling president trump's long time accounting firm must turn over his financial records. not just a win for democrats, a sweeping judgment backing congress is right to hold this president accountable. democrats will no doubt wrap themselves in the r
white house stone walls democrats. >>> biden deserted you. he was born here but he left you, folks. >> the president sets his sight squarely on joe biden in pennsylvania. the state now the top priority for both parties in 2020. >>> major flooding in the midwest, evacuations and water rescues in oklahoma, a day after a string of tornadoes hit the region. >>> and did boeing spend decades concealing design flaws in its planes, new lawsuits claim it did. good...
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, the white house is sticking a thumb in the eye of congressional democrats, ordering former white house counsel don mcgahn not to turn over documents in response to a house judiciary committee subpoena. white house lawyer pat cipollone telling judiciary committee chairman jerry nadler in a letter, the records belong to the white house and are protected from disclosure to congress, because they implicate significant executive branch confidentiality interests and executive privilege. but the white house not going so far as to assert executive privilege outright. this coming as senate majority leader mitch mcconnell moves to play defense for president trump, calling on democrats to drop their efforts to follow up on special counsel robert mueller's investigation. >> baseless accusations of perjury, laughable threats of impeachment. look, we all know what's going on here. this whole angry barrage that democrats had prepared to unleash on president trump, except the facts let them down. >> reporter: mcconnell signaling to republicans that he should push back on efforts to force mueller to te
, the white house is sticking a thumb in the eye of congressional democrats, ordering former white house counsel don mcgahn not to turn over documents in response to a house judiciary committee subpoena. white house lawyer pat cipollone telling judiciary committee chairman jerry nadler in a letter, the records belong to the white house and are protected from disclosure to congress, because they implicate significant executive branch confidentiality interests and executive privilege. but the...
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and they are going to keep going after white house officials or former white house officials, connected to the president in their sweeping investigation into possible obstruction of justice. now, these two names, annie donaldson, and hope hicks, two of the people who were closest to the president and don mcgahn, who you noted, did not show up today for a scheduled hearing, did not comply with this subpoena, showing kind of an increased broad effort to increase pressure on white house officials that may have knowledge related to the committee's ongoing obstruction of justice case, their investigation. and the reason why this is so important is that it doesn't just push back against the white house, which has been defying congressional democrats in every way, but it also sends a message to their own counterparts. two house democrats over the course of the last 24 hours, just out of sheer frustration, has caused a lot of democrats who have been falling into line behind speaker nancy pelosi, behind the committee chairman, that impeachment, at least, is not ready for now, are starting to tur
and they are going to keep going after white house officials or former white house officials, connected to the president in their sweeping investigation into possible obstruction of justice. now, these two names, annie donaldson, and hope hicks, two of the people who were closest to the president and don mcgahn, who you noted, did not show up today for a scheduled hearing, did not comply with this subpoena, showing kind of an increased broad effort to increase pressure on white house officials...
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the white house as white house counsel. as far as we know, the letter has not been officially sent to capitol hill blocking the testimony. that's the expectation today because the deadline is tomorrow for the system. >> one more, pam, don mcgahn himself, do we have anything from him? what's he saying? >> we don't have anything from him. his lawyer has been in touch with the white house. we know that previously with the document request that was blocked, the white house sent a letter to don mcgahn's lettawye. that's the expectation for how this is going to play out. clearly mcgahn i'm told is deferring to the white house and will not fight anything the white house wants him to do. in this case, blocking his testimony either through executive privilege as the white house did previously with the document request or through the assertion of immunity. there is a doj dock run and memo that makes the case of why presidential advisers should not be compelled to testify to congress. that's one of the areas the white house and doj ha
the white house as white house counsel. as far as we know, the letter has not been officially sent to capitol hill blocking the testimony. that's the expectation today because the deadline is tomorrow for the system. >> one more, pam, don mcgahn himself, do we have anything from him? what's he saying? >> we don't have anything from him. his lawyer has been in touch with the white house. we know that previously with the document request that was blocked, the white house sent a letter...
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mcgahn but the white house. nadler says he is chairing a hearing this morning and expects mcgahn to appear because he is subpoenaed. if he fails to show the committee can move to hold mcgahn in contempt. earlier this month they voted to hold attorney general william barr in contempt of congress. the full house has yet to consider that. democrats want to ask mcgahn about his comments at a special counsel claiming president trump told him to remove robert mueller. the white house says the special counsel already spent more than 30 hours interviewing mcgahn. the president says house democrats shouldn't get a do over. a federal judge ruled against the president last night. cummings has requested 10 years of the president's financial records. the white house argues the subpoena is an abuse of power. the federal judge disagrees and determined the president's accounting firm must provide those financial records to congress. >> president trump: as far as the financials are concerned. we think it's the wrong -- it's tota
mcgahn but the white house. nadler says he is chairing a hearing this morning and expects mcgahn to appear because he is subpoenaed. if he fails to show the committee can move to hold mcgahn in contempt. earlier this month they voted to hold attorney general william barr in contempt of congress. the full house has yet to consider that. democrats want to ask mcgahn about his comments at a special counsel claiming president trump told him to remove robert mueller. the white house says the special...
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house and has the obamas leaving the white house. >> so, that is a joke i always made about, you know, obama lives -- the president lives in public housing. i didn't mean it like a black person. >> yeah. there were enough republican senators who signalled their opposition to moore to sink his nomination which is an important reminder that republicans will stand up to trump when it matters to him. when they don't stand up to him, it's not because they're scared. it's because they don't care or they agree with him, and we're going to talk about that next. >>> it is notable that in the past week and a half two prominent conservatives floated for the federal reserve board were shot down by republicans themselves putting a lie to the myth that the republicans can't stand up to trump because of his base. republicans stand up to him when it's something that matters to them like the fed. here with me now my guests. linda, first on steven moore and herman kane, what is your read on why they were willing to stand up to donald trump? >> well, i think they didn't want manifestly unqualified peopl
house and has the obamas leaving the white house. >> so, that is a joke i always made about, you know, obama lives -- the president lives in public housing. i didn't mean it like a black person. >> yeah. there were enough republican senators who signalled their opposition to moore to sink his nomination which is an important reminder that republicans will stand up to trump when it matters to him. when they don't stand up to him, it's not because they're scared. it's because they...
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let's get to the white house counsel. he says that the demands by your colleagues on the house judiciary committee are, quote, outside the constitutional authority of the legislative branch of the u.s. government. how do you respond to that? >> yeah, that's not the case at all. congress has a right to conduct oversight and to investigate these matters and what you have is an administration that's stonewalling in every single way that it can and jerry nadler is right that the president is trying to act like a king, as though nobody can investigate anything that his administration does, and ultimately, the congress is going to have to go to court, the house of representatives is going to have to go to court, probably, to enforce these subpoenas. >> do you support the judiciary committee chairman's threat to fine people for not complying with their subpoenas, even up to the attorney general, bill barr. >> well, yeah, i think that it's important that we've been negotiating, trying to get them to come in and testify and so for
let's get to the white house counsel. he says that the demands by your colleagues on the house judiciary committee are, quote, outside the constitutional authority of the legislative branch of the u.s. government. how do you respond to that? >> yeah, that's not the case at all. congress has a right to conduct oversight and to investigate these matters and what you have is an administration that's stonewalling in every single way that it can and jerry nadler is right that the president is...