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interest driving u.s. policy in the gulf in. >> democrats are loaded with questions and ready to investigate the white house. today, incidents about what lies ahead. >> the person people said they want robust investigations with integrity. >> and with dozens of subpoenas in the works where do the democrats begin in. >> also rngs why it is reportingly getting vicious. a good day to all of you. let's get to what's happening right now for you. new this hour, top house democrats now zeroing in on gaktly how they will investigate trump and business dealings and the actions of those around him. possible pnl dealings and protections for the mueller investigation. in a few weeks he has requested.

cummings says democrats need to hit the ground not running but flying. >> let's be abundantly clear. the american people said to us through this election, we want accountability. by want to check on this president of the united states. the american people have said they want robust transparent investigations with integrity. so we will -- i haven't figured out what order because they are all important. i guarantee you we'll okay quite a bit. >> congressman adam schiff is placing business ties. he wants to know why the president is dismissing a critic. >> are there pnl entanglements with the gulf? it cannot be allowed to drive

u.s. policy so that we have a foreign policy that is driven by american interests, not by some interests of the president. >> schiff wants to hear from the acting attorney general. why did he apoint a critic of the mueller investigation? >> the american people need to know whether this president is obstructing justice in the past and whether his appointment was designed and whether it is having the effect. we will bring whitaker. >> former trump aid must report to jail on monday. a federal judge has just rejected his last ditch effort to put off his two week sentence for making false statements. new reaction from gowdy who asked to dpamen ivanka trump's

use of e-mail. what's the latest on all of this? >> hello from west palm beach. gowdy is the out going republican chair. he said republicans are going to do their due diligence when it comes to investigating ivanka trump's personal and private e-mail account to connect in her capacity as a senior adviser to the president. he seemed to disapprove on the attempt to rejudge all of this. we have seen because of all of the obvious parallels between the ivanka trump issue and hillary clinton e-mail saga we have seen them do their level best to highlight is the key differences. they say he didn't have a private e-mail server in her basement and she only used this private e-mail to adjust scheduling issues.

both clinton and trump both used private e-mail to conduct private e-mails for a time. they both pleaded ignorance about the government rules that dictate e-mail usage. so here is what gowdy had to say about how he seals his role in taking a look at all of this. >> i have always talked to trump's attorneys. we have already written a letter to the white house. they have a right to make sure that the records and presidential records act is complied to. we have taken steps. we have down more in the last week than some of my house democrat colleagues did the entire time we were looking into benghazi. i'm at peace with what we have done. the public can judge whether or not those two are similar.

>> reporter: and this is one of rare issues which republicans and democrats agree. cummings come january, he already vowed to investigate all of this. there is a key factor i think gets lost. she is known as being a direct conduit to her father. if world leaders were e-mailing her to keep that correspondence shrouded that's something they want to know about. they say nothing like that happened. >> good points you make. thank you so much from florida. joining me now politics reporter from the daily beast. welcome to you both. i'm curious what the republican issue is on this whole e-mail controversy given how strongly

they went after hillary clinton back in 2016. >> i think gowdy's comments here are representative. he is out going. he will not be in congress when the new group of members are sworn in. so it makes sense they would scrutinize. that said of course this congress is very trump friendly as the republican conference in the house has shrunk many of the members who are most critical of the white house, members who are more moderate and independent voices, a republican from florida who lost his reelection bid, many of these people, dozens in fact are now gone. the remainder, the bulk will be

as a body a lot more trump friendly and a lot more skeptical to any effort wes on the part of the democrats to scrutinize this white house. >> i'm curious about optics. do you think republicans don't expect to find a lot? they wouldn't be so enthusiastic about investigating. >> that's an interesting question. right now the only thing we have to go on is ivanka trump's lawyer has said and what the president of the united states said, that her case is not in any way similar to hillary clinton's case. until we get some conclusions from congress, whether it's the outgoing congress or democratic controlled house that will take over in january we really won't know whether or not she was communicating with world leaders as jeff bennett speculated in your earlier piece or the extend to which she was connecting

government business on that e-mail account. >> i will just say that to me it shows such a lock of common sense given the way her father went after hillary clinton to think really? couldn't you have just used a different e-mail? you have exclusive incite. tell us about that. >> my colleague and i spoke with a number of sources at the end of the last week that told us that members or democrats on the house intelligence committee are currently looking for money laundering and accounting experts to do investigations of potentially troublesome

transactions. a basic fact is that luxury real estate is one of the biggest vectors for taking money that's tainted by criminal activity and laundering it to try to get it into the legal financial system. did that happen with any of trump's properties is still an open question and something that will require row bebust investigation to understand. where do you see the president as being most vulnerable?

>> obstruction of justice is one area he could be vulnerable. they are very interested in the run up to the president's decision last year to fire james comey as fbi director. that's something, that's an area that hasn't been explored yet. it is something congress will want to dig into. >> hawking about handling of the case. he outright called him out on it. take a listen to this. >> the president is not being honest with the country about the murder. whether it is driving it? i don't know. is his personal financial interest driving u.s. policy in the gulf? is it driving? by don't know. it is a way to find out. >> we have congress on both sides of the aisle.

where do you see this going? >> one of the major questions that's going have to be answered is the extent to which democrats in congress decided to do oversite. the killing will be a central question but not the only thing we expect them to be looking at. on the foreign policy side democrats have been open about the fact that one of the biggest questions they have is the united states involvement. it is prosecuting a war that lead to extraordinary levels of suffering and death. they estimate 14 million people are at risk of starvation. united states made bomb was used to destroy a school bus full of children. a key question is to what extent is the united states behaving response whether i or irresponsibly to push forward this war. >> do you see given there is a

probe targeting his motives in the case that the president could clang his tone as it relates to all of this? >> i don't think so. i think if you have listened to the president and everything that he has said about the killing of since october 2nd in the seven or eight weeks since that crime occurred he has been pretty consistent in saying that saudi arabia is a great ally. he talks often about the promise of u.s. military weapons by saudi arabia and what it means to the u.s. economy and jobs. last week he talked about it being america first for him. so i don't see -- i think it would take something very dramatic for the president to change his line of thinking or his thoughts on this situation. >> all right. thank you so much. good to talk with you both. >> thank you. two days to go before

mississippi hits the polls for the second time this month. hyde-smith's campaign -- joining us from columbus, mississippi. with a good sunday to you let's get to the latest. you heard from hyde-smith's camp, she didn't look happy to be talking with you. that was sort of the way i felt. >> reporter: that was the second event of the day she held. the first event we did not get the opportunity to talk to her. in this exchange you were mentioning in which she jumped onto her campaign bus is when finally we got the chance and tried to respectfully ask for the opportunity to talk with her. finally we got that chance at least far little moment before she got back onto her campaign

bus. this was just last night. >> reporter: could you clarify -- >> if i hurt anybody's feelings, you know, we are staying on the issues that are on people's mind. if i said something and somebody got offended i apologize. >> i just apologized for anything i could have possibly said. >> thank you. >> reporter: this is where the campaign is at this point. she has two more campaign stops today including here in columbus. it will be our next attempt to engage in a conversation about our past comments but also about taking a photo at the house of jefferson davis and it was mississippi history at its finest. at this point she is running for a term to be the u.s. senator. there hasn't been a frank conversation. my question to her is what was

it that you apologized for? she hasn't been able to articulate that. suchly passing off with kind of a to anybody that was offended that she apologized. unfortunately here that's the crux. we will be joining mike who hae been on the campaign trail and the democrat is relying on a huge turn outhere in the state but also a crossover of republican voters. >> that rings a little bit hollow. thank you so much. coming up next, why our defender of president trump says muller's russia probe will be defr stating to president trump. because there are options. like an "unjection™". xeljanz xr. a once-daily pill for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did not work well enough. xeljanz xr can reduce pain, swelling and further joint damage, even without methotrexate. xeljanz xr can lower your ability to fight infections,

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i know the president's team is working on a response to the report. >> the anticipated reaction to special council's report. joining me now is legal analyst mimi roka. he has been defending the president. what do you think about what he said there? >> for one it is right. here is my concern. i think i read a little bit and listened to the full piece of what he said this morning and he

tried to sort of caveat it. he is not going to actually get accused of a crime. he has no idea whether he will be -- whether the facts would constitute a crime once mueller comes out with his full report. no one knows for sure. when i say i hope that he is right, what i mean is i hope that the report, however it is written and however it comes out is able to come out in its full being, the way that mueller writes it and that it isn't cabined or cut short or something like that by the new acting whi acting wl acting whitaker. >> do you think it will be politically focused? >> i think it will be spin.

mueller is going to put facts in his report. facts are something prosecutors seek out. they ri lie on things they can prove in court particularly something like this. i do believe he will put things in that report that if he needed to he could prove in a court of law. that's a very high standard. that's very different from spin. i believe that what trump and his lawyers are going to put in their report is going to be largely spin. it is going to be, you know, intended to confuse the issue and make us think that we can't clearly decide sort of what the facts are. i don't know what the facts will be but i know that however mueller lays them out, if they are allowed to come out in the full way he lays them out i would have faith in those no matter what he finds. >> we do know that the

president's legal team has and the report is saying special council still wants to question the president over his actions while in the white house. those questions, mimi all about obstruction, is that what the topic would be? >> yes. i think that anything pertains to why he is in office should focus on obstructionov of justi. if there was collusion conspiracy between members of the trump campaign and russians, it is possible that that did not end once he took office. i actually think we can't know for sure the topics. it is more complicated to question the president about any topic once he is in office because of executive privilege which would not apply during the campaign or transition. it is very dependent on the

circumstances and i think there would be good reason for a court to rule there mueller's favor fn it comes to that. >> does it give you any sense of how close a special council is to wrapping this investigation up? >> that's the big question. you know, look, i think that was something that had to happen, in other words trump answering questions in some format had to happen before mueller could come out with his report. i don't think we know what else there is left to do. we keep hearing things. we heard that stone and corsi were going to be charged. we are hering hae may be cooperating. now if corsi does cooperate, you know, maybe that changes the time line. you know mueller can have a plan but things don't always go according to planned in an investigation like this. i think they surmounted a hurdle

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talking about the control kelly exerts over their comings and goings. >> to say that two people who have been unresolved in our support for the president, to have an escort which almost nobody else has to have i think is a bit out of bounds. look, we have been individuals who sports the president's work on television, in on eds across the board and to call into question our ability to walk around the campus of the white house i think is something that should be addressed. >> joining me knew is dave sherman. welcome back to the broadcast. we'll get into this. first of all your reaction to what you just heard there. are you surprised they say they have been treated this way? >> no.

that's what we have been hearing for months now on background from white house officials and people close to them. i think it is striking they both seem to say that on the record it shows you the deep level of divisions created between kelly and the outside circle of advisers. it's all out in the open. >> what about saying that president staffers are failing him. do you think there's a sense that the president feels that way? >> clearly sit a view shared by others. you flow, the president is fondover leaning on others outside the advice and council. there is a war in camps between the people on the inside and the people on the outside.

this is what donald trump prefers, to keep everyone offer balance. >> so looking at the article you wrote recently it is vicious. it is the struggle following the midterms. you heard about him being the air apparent to john kelly. you say it has hit something of a snag. what happened here? >> it has all been playing out over the last several days. it gained steam after the controversial trip to paris ch it looked like john kelly, the chief of staff would be moved aside and mike pence's chief of staff would be elevated. they have been supporters of and have been pushing him on the president. spent election night with the president and the first lady.

what happened is there is a very intense pushback from kelly's allies inside the west wing and others who basically said they could not work in that position and there could be a staff revolt if he got job. as we have all seen nick has not been promoted into that job. once again, we are back where we started where john kelly is holding on as chief of staff but really with sort of a very shakey hold on that position. he turned it into an influence in republican politics.

it worked his way into his inner circle. what they see is someone who understands deeply the republican base who is a strategist and operative. we are in campaign season, we are looking ahead to 2020. john kelly is many things. they don't understand the way an operative or strategist would. i think that's the key value that they see that he would bring to that job. >> it could mean trouble for the

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the american people need to know whether this president is obstructing justice, whether his appointment -- we are going to bring wlhitaker before the justice. >> new interviews today cummings, rankening member of the oversight economy read about

the future including efforts to obstruct justice, possible russian money laundering and possible clause violations. joining me is former direct tore of communications for hillary clinton's campaign. republican strike that just lauren and ken balackwell. you guys look great. >> sheer coincidence. >> starting with you here congressman said democrats have to hit the ground not running but flying in january. he said you have to be careful about where they start. where do you think the dem krass should prioritize? >> i think they actually have to provide oversight across a broad

front and not be discouraged by people saying oh, it is political. they will say that no matter what they pursue. they have to pursue any angle that smacks of abuse of power. there are many many such avenues for investigations. so will you see the names of adam schiff and cummings in the news almost every day? yes. should you? yes. they are pursuing very very necessary constitutional oversite. the most important immediate thing is to make sure that wl whitaker because it issi improp. he needs to be pinned down on whether he should be in that job. >> do you agree with that? is that something you would agree with? >> no.

i agree with that. i think it's one thing to look at. i think looking into president trump's business dealings and whether or not his influence to side over our own cia intelligence is another thing to look at. at the same time he is exactly right. there are a lot of people that will say you know, democrats want to get in and investigate. it is actually something that is incumbant. the house of representatives is the only oversight provided going into this next congress. they do have control of the house. democrats will make sure we are focusing on lowering the cost of prescription drugs, working on raising the minimum wage. there's a lot of other issues they voted on democrats to take care of. >> how about you? does any of this worry you? where do you think the president is most vulnerable?

>> look, i think the elections have consequences and what the voters gave us is a recipe for gridlock. it is going to be familiar. the fact is that the democrats will be very very aggressive and i think the president will be as nimble as the obama administration was in protecting his administration and hillary clinton on benghazi. at the end of the day i think the president needs to make sure he allows the democrats to overreach. he focuses on the things that were just mentioned. getting a deal on the price of drugs, getting a deal on infrastructure, protecting our borders like all of the 193 nations of the united nations have done, you know, stay focused on a growth job creation agenda and with the democrats

just as obama fenced with republicans. >> what about lauren, look, we know republicans have been strike that jazzing for what is coming down the pike here, this potential for a new wave of investigations. what do you think they can play? is it about just trying to create distractions? how do you see this playing out? what's your best bet? >> i think what the white house needs to be mindful of are things that can get done. what struck me this morning during meet the press with congressman cummings interview, he mentioned prescription drug at least three times. so i think that there's a built of a delicate dance that will go on between the oversight economy and administration because that's a shared priority they both have. as the congressman said this morning on pleat the press, you

know, he is not going to be -- and he said it recently, he is not giving out subpoenas like halloween candy. there is something to be determined about what they can actually do for the american people and what investigations really do merit a further look. >> speakingov of meet the press he was on the show. he said what he wants to see in terms of the democrats prioritizing, let's listen to what he said about that. >> if you were cummings you would start drawing up the articles? >> i think there's no question he has met the grounds for impeachment and it's urgent to get him out of aufrtoffice. is there anyone in the united states who can tell you the president is acting on saudi arabia not because they paying him money? >> democrats have been dismissing this kind of talk. do you think impeachment is in

the back of their minds? >> it could be. it depends what public schooler finds and what they unearth. that's what they are for, to find facts. if the facts lead to impeachable offices -- and i think he is out a little ahead of his skis on this because we don't flow that to be the case there but it will be very much on the table and the democrats will have to make a political decision. i think it will be determined by how republicans react. if enough republicans go i didn't think there was enough evidence here. now that it's been laid out really you can't remain in office then that changes everything. but we are a ways away from that right now. the first thing that -- the first crisis is not going to be over impeachment. it will be overresisting subpoenas. i think it will be tested.

the trump people will resist these subpoenas until the cows come home and there will be court cases over that. >> with regard to impeachment do you think the president is facing a threat of that? >> i don't think we can determine that until the mueller investigation is over. i would agree he is out ahead of his skis here. i saw it impreachieaching the president. i don't think it's time to think about that at all. never mind the fact that if the house were to do that it is a republican controlled senate that would have to, you know, give two-thirds of a vote to actually, you know, convict. i think we are really far away from that. it's not something we can consider until the mueller investigation concludes. >> so he also pointed to the questions surrounding the president's questions with saudi arabia. he talked about the remarks that they will get to the heart of those question. take a look at this everyone.

>> i like them. they are very nice. they buy all types of toys from trump. they pay me millions and hundredsov hundreds of millions. zbli don't make deals with saudi arabia. i have nothing to do with saudi arabia. i couldn't care less. >> let's keep in focus here. it is in response to a brutal murder. what are republicans responsibilities when it comes to holding the president to account on this? >> well, look, i think it's already been resolved that he was murdered. the issue is whether or not the crown prince ordered it. i believe that the president will, as the kplander acommande will do what is best of the american people. what we have done there world

war ii we chose to feed hitler. we chose the afghans to kick russia out of the neighborhood. the reality is that right now in a neighborhood where there are no boy scouts saudi arabia and our alignment with them does fit our national interest and we will there fact take the appropriate shaming of the administration if they don't bring those people to justice. >> last word to you, do you think that -- do you agree and think that the president as adam schiff said is being dishonest with the american public and there will be a pivot here and a public shaming will be conducted? >> i think he is being dishonest. you can see adam schiff who has seen the intelligence was being very careful. he was making it very clear he knows if a fact that the crown prince was aware of this and

that the saudis played a role. to try to insinuate anything different is irresponsible and raises questions. did he said that because he has financial interest in saudi arabia and he is worry about his own ties to that region. i understand saudi arabia is a critical reej flal ally of the united states in a very precarious region but in this case we have to make sure we hold the crown prince accountable. >> all right guys, that will be a wrap right now. thank you so much. good to see you all. >> thank you. >> in the wake of the heartbreaking california wild fires, answering to help the pets in need and coming up david cicilini.

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