he still is the one. that's all for this edition of "dateline". i'm i'm natalie morales. thanks for watching. good morning. i'm philip mena at msnbc world headquarters in new york. it's 6:00 tiechin the east. >> pressure mounting on justin fairfax after a second woman accuses him of sexual assault. >> federal prosecutors involved now that the richest man in the world accuses "national enquirer" of extortion. >> and fiery testimony after matthew whitaker was the before the house judiciary committee. now developments in the political crisis in virginia. at the very top of government. this morning mounting pressure on virginia's lieutenant governor justin fairfax to

resign after a second woman has now accused him of sexual assault. he denies both allegations. just a week ago fairfax seemed likely to replace governor ralph northam who is refusing to step down amid a blackface scandal. the third in line, the attorney general admitted this week he also used blackface in college. in the new allegation meredith watson said fairfax raped her back in 2000 while both were in college. fairfax says that allegation is false. watson's lawyers pushed back saying that after the sexual assault watson asked fairfax quote, why did you do it? he then alluded to watson being raped previously and told her quote i knew that because of what you happened last year you would be too afraid to say anything. democrats in the virginia house and senate who say fairfax should resign because he can no longer fulfill his duties.

a virginia democratic delegate plan to bring articles of impeachment against fairfax. >> i cannot stand busy lenly while the lieutenant governor is facing multiple credible allegations of sexual assault. i believe these women. he needs to resign immediately. should the lieutenant governor fail to do so, on monday i intend to introduce articles of impeachment on lieutenant governor justin fairfax. >> joining me now, olivia beavers reporter with the hill, and politics reporter for business insider. among those calling for fairfax to resign, virginia's former governor, the virginia legislative black caucus and 2020 democratic hopefuls. they call for the resignation of governor north. if fairfax does step down or impeached could that add more pressure on governor northam to resign? >> it could.

but it looks like northam already has problems of his own. he's already had multiple lawmakers from his predecessor, terry mcauliffe to other state senators and tim kaine and mark warner asking him to step down. so this might be pulling the attention away from him for a bit but he has been dealing with the blackface scandal on his own. and whether or not that will really help him if fairfax ends up being on the outs it remains unclear. >> house speaker nancy pelosi said this week she done think the scandal in virginia damages the democratic brand nagly but joe what are the risks for the democratic party if either governor northam or lieutenant governor fairfax remains in cris office. >> any crisis can damage a party if it lasts too long. the problem is that you're

seeing a lot more pressure especially on justin fairfax, in the past 24 hours, almost the entire virginia delegation called on him to resign. so i think there's probably a scenario where not everyone is resigning because that would put a republican in charge. but you're going to see someone that has to step down at some point because of the way this is going and the longer a controversy goes the worse it gets. >> could i just deed that point really quickly. i talked to several republicans yesterday who say that this is a case of democrats shooting themselves in the foot by having this attack against kavanaugh without due process. democrats are seeing that in virginia where northam and fairfax are struggling and saying that the allegations against them are not true. republicans said hey if you had taken a different approach with kavanaugh and let this be heard

out in court you wouldn't be dealing with this problem now. >> i wanted to ask you about for lack of a better term lesser of two evils. what's your assessment whether those two allegations sexual assault and blackface are they being held to the same standards here? >> well, look, the problem though is that there's two very, very different things. there's very clear evidence that there's -- mark herring admitted that he wore blackface. ralph north there's the photo. it's a little disputed, he's saying it's not him for all these different reasons. you can see it. there's not this real court process that has to play out. it's whether or not the virginia delegation, all the lawmakers in virginia accept his apology or not as with justin fairfax there's a little bit more eagerness to have the due process in a way that a lot of people have been faced with

these accusations have not in the past. >> you're seeing with the allegation against fairfax, it took two accusers for democrats to really start saying that he should step down. with northam it was largely the press conference, which for him ended up really compounding the problem where he sort of reversed himself after apologizing, so the reaction has been different but i don't want to get into which scandal is worse. >> what do you think happens next? do you think fairfax will resign? >> i think the pressure is mounding on him to a point where it's going to be very hard for him to carry out his duties, but it looks like he's gearing up for a fight. he's taken the legal team that kavanaugh had, and his accuser, tyson has taken the law team

that christine blasey ford had. it might be this court battle and whether or not he can with stand that pressure remains to be seen. >> what do you think happens here? >> with kavanaugh he's standing firm and standing his ground. a big difference between the kavanaugh situation and justin fairfax is that fairfax doesn't have this broad backing from the party the way kavanaugh did from republicans. so i think there's a lot more pressure and if it comes from within the party then it gets harder and harder for him to stan firm and say i'm not going anywhere. >> hang on for just a moment. another story i want to talk to you about but first a new development in the battle between amazon ceo and publication closely associated with president trump. sources say federal prosecutors are reviewing claims by the owner of amazon jeff bezos who alleges the parent company of "national enquirer" tried to extort him. jay gray tells us more.

>> reporter: jeff bezos firing back accusing the "national enquirer's" publisher american media of extortion of blackmail. writing in a personal blog ami representatives including owner david pecker are threatening to publish more imminent texts and photos if his attorney continues to investigate how the enquirer obtained arrive texts and messages between bezos and his mistress used by the magazine in this cover story. and posting emails he says are from ami demanding his investigators release a public statement saying they have no knowledge or basis to suggest the enquirer's coverage of the politically motivated. bezos writing i expect to stand up, roll this log over and see what crawls out. responding to the allegations, the enquirer's parent company said it acted lawfully but will investigate the claims.

president trump hasn't talked about the allegations, but has repeatedly lashed out at bezos and white house coverage in the paper he owns "the washington post". >> "washington post," that's basically the lobbyist for amazon. >> on msnbc a reporter for the "post" citing a security consultant for bezos. >> he think it's possible a government entity might have gotten hold of his text messages. >> reporter: the white house response? >> we won't get into a conversation between jeff bezos and a tabloid magazine. >> reporter: there's ten photos yet to be published by the magazine. >> back with me now is olivia and joe. nbc news is reporting more exthe organization allegations against ami has surfaced. what does this case tell you about how the "national enquirer" operates and what are the potential political risks for the president? >> well the "national enquirer,"

or its parent company ami has already come under fire for sort of these dirty tactics. so whether it's hiding a story that could be damaging about president trump during the campaign, which is something that's got them in trouble with federal prosecutors in new york, or possibly this latest allegation with jeff bezos. it shows that very possibly really going far beyond what mainstream reporters will do to confirm a story. they were allegedly trying to extort him and say don't speak out and say that we're doing this, i guess david pecker who is one of the top officials at the media company is friends with president trump and bezos is the boss of "washington post". so the belief there is that two media companies are basically clashing in that sort of

scenario. >> i never met a journalist in my time that would operate in that fashion. here's another fascinating angle to the story. why would "national enquirer" publish this special edition here. it's saluting saudi arabia's crown prince. jeff bezos suggested the ami chairman david pecker may have financial interests with the saudi kingdom and "wall street journal" reports the saudis have been trying to build an alliance with western media. help us understand how this connects to the murder of saudi critic jamal khashoggi. >> saudis are good at this propaganda. they are willing to do this with willing companies in the united states. like the enquirer. they are not held to the same standards as most publlub ati p. the way the white house has had this cozy attitude with the

saudis, the fact that jamal khashoggi worked for "the washington post". it's all intertwined. the problem for them, though, is when this gets intertwined like that it creates more havoc for the white house, enquirer and the post, everybody involved. >> i want to talk about the confrontational congressional hearing of matthew whitaker. let's listen to some of his tone during that hearing. >> have you ever been asked to approve any request or action to be taken by the special counsel? >> mr. chairman, i see that your five minutes is up. i don't know if your time has been restored or not. >> mr. attorney general, we're not joking here. and your humor is not acceptable. >> at the request of a number of people the committee will stand recess for five minutes. >> get five minutes for lunch? >> olivia you and your colleagues write that was

political theater. was whitaker performing for that audience ever one. did he seem forthcoming to you? >> it sure seemed like he was kind of walking this fine line of not trying to go against the president. there were several moments as you saw there where he breached protocol when he said chairman, you have five minutes. i was in the room and there were gasps. there were gaped mouths and groans from the audience and lawmakers when that happened. that was a pretty stunning moment. there were also moments where whitaker walked a fine line. the acting attorney general would not say that the mueller investigation was a witch-hunt, despite persistent attempts by democrats to corner him into going against what president trump has constantly called special counsel robert mueller's investigation. so it was interesting to see him

both try to walk this line of slightly answering their questions. he did at one point compliment the mueller probe but also wouldn't say that it was not a witch-hunt. so he was straddling the line. >> speaking of that, joe, did whitaker do anything to alleviate the concerns democrats have about whether he's tried to influence the mueller investigation. >> he said that he hasn't, but you know i don't think democrats will be pleased with that too much. i think he might regret that. these lawmakers don't forget. just him testifying one day it's not over. so i really doubt that he alleviated a lot of concerns and they will continue to use the power they have now that they are in the majority. >> less than a week in that job but they can call him back. all right thank you both for joining us this morning. >> thank you. tax filing trauma.

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and kindness. >> another demonstrated candidate, buttgieg stops in iowa. there's former vice president joe biden. he's not in the race just yet but he does lead a new poll of likely voters in iowa, new hampshire and south carolina. the polls suggest biden is the clear front-runner with senator kamala harris his biggest opponent at this point. let's talk about acting attorney general matthew whitaker. just days before exiting that job he testified before the house judiciary committee answering questions about his role overseeing the special counsel's investigation. take a listen. >> are you overseeing a witch-hunt? >> congressman, it would be inappropriate for me to talk about an ongoing investigation. >> you wouldn't oversee a

witch-hunt, would you you would stop a witch00, wouldn't you >> can you say, mr. president, bob mueller is honest and not conflicted. >> congressman, i'm not a puppet to repeat what you're saying me. >> danny, you just heard whitaker trying to avoid saying that mueller's probe of not a witch-hunt. what did you think about his testimony yesterday. do you think he was over i had head? >> unfortunately your five minutes are up. and that was one of the best moments of yesterday when whitaker said that very thing to the chair, which drew gasps and laughter from the audience. look when you listen to whitaker's testimony yesterday a couple of things are obvious. number one, he was slow walking throughout the entire testimony answering slowly, repeating questions back. giving speeches in a sense. but substantively what did we get from the hearing? he did say on the record that he has not spoken to president trump about the mueller

investigation. but what does he consider the mueller investigation? if he only considers that the investigation into russia collusion, that leaves a very broad universe, including the southern district of new york's investigation and prosecution of michael cohen, trump's former attorney who arguably knows the most about trump's private affairs, his family, and his business. so it does leave open the question what else has whitaker talked to trump about? >> let's stay on that. whitaker claimed he had no conversation with the president regarding the mueller investigation but refused to answer whether he spoke with him about the southern district of new york probe into michael cohen. what does that tell you? >> he has a point on one hand. there is executive privilege. the supreme court hasn't been helpful. all we really know is that executive privilege exists but we don't know exactly what the contours are of that privilege. so whitaker may be right if

there is -- if there are discussions he had with the president that are of a sensitive nature ordeal with ongoing investigations those are proper reasons for declining to answer a question. on the on the other hand, i think anybody watching the hearing could conclude that whitaker was being maybe not evasi evasive so much but not giving up information company have given up. after all the main charge against whitaker is that he's heavily aligned with trump and got his job in part because trump may have liked what he saw of whitaker on tv criticizing the mueller investigation. whitaker knew that was an issue and could of a addressed to but decline. he had reasons based on executive privilege and ongoing doj investigations. >> let's hear how he found out how he got the job.

>> then you became acting attorney general as of november 7th, 2018? >> the president tweeted i was going to be the next acting attorney general on november 7th of 2018. >> how did you learn you got the job? >> i can't remember if it was, which preceded which but i believe i received a phone call from the president of the united states asking me to be the acting attorney general. >> a moment ago you said you learned by tweet. did i misunderstand you? >> yeah, i think you did. >> a lot of people there not clear after that answer. so what do you think about his lack of clarity and frankly his overall knowledge. what does that show you? >> first of all, we live in an amazing time if you and i pair on tv you hear by a tweet you've been appointed to a major position in the trump cabinet. but the other thing that's clear is that whitaker was performing on one level for president trump. he's the perfect trump witness.

he's combative. he doesn't take any garbage as trump might put it. his refusal to reveal conversation with fortunate, which the president would of course see loyalty to him. in the world of trump, whitaker probably scored very highly yesterday on his testimony even though he didn't give up a lot of information. >> he may have made the president happy but did he perjure himself in the process? >> whitaker must have been aware every word in i had testimony would be scrutinized. we have to assume he would have prepared adequately unlike some other folks in trump's orbit who have not done so. but, any kind -- any testimony he gives before congress is a potential ground for perjury if it's not truthful.

that's why he declined to answer so many questions on privilege. he can decline to answer questions about privilege. if he is wrong about privilege he safely avoided another question which could be scrutinized for perjury. may have been a calculated risk that will work out for him in the end. >> here's another clip. congressman jim jordan he questioned whitaker on whether deputy attorney general rod rosenstein targeted specific americans. >> did rod rosenstein give the special counsel the authority to investigate specific americans? >> yes, under the special counsel regulations, that's the whole purpose. >> in this country we don't investigate people we investigate crimes. if this alters and changes names of specific americans the scope of the investigation of special counsel don't you think it's appropriate for the american citizens to know the full parameters of an investigation into the guy they made president of the united states? >> what do you think. a valid argument?

>> my answer is no if i was in whitaker's position. anything that relates to an ongoing doj investigation gives you pretty good reason to decline to answer the question. and anyone on the criminal defense side who has defended a case in federal court against the doj and assistant u.s. attorneys knows that they are generally very silent about what's going on with an ongoing investigation. you'll rarely if ever hear anything about an ongoing investigation. the doj is uniform on one thing. they don't talk about ongoing investigations. and in that sense whitaker arguably had good grounds for not answering. >> all right. thank you so much for your input early on this saturday morning. coming up a rising tension and a standoff over aid in venezuela. why are people who desperately need help not getting it? need help not getting it when i walked through a snowstorm for a cigarette,

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u.s. aid packages being offered to help the country of more than 30 million people. on the venezuela side troops and trucks are blocking traffic in and out of the country. joining me is world news editor with the "daily beast" and msnbc contributor. christopher, thank you for being here with us this morning and for bearing with us. we understand there's a bit of a delay. no question that ordinary people in venezuela could use humanitarian aid. is the u.s. taking the right approach here? >> it's a confrontational approach and a little bit complicated. what's been happening for the last few years in venezuela is that as the economy has collapsed the venezuelan government, the maduro regime has been in control of distributing food, basic necessities of life to people it favors because basically those are the people who voted for him and supported or say they do. this is a direct attempt not only to feed starving people, but to take that power away from

maduro. he understands that perfectly well. so he's blocking the bridge and doing his best to keep that aid distribution from happening. it has to be said as well, this is a tiny drop in the bucket. 5,000 families food for maybe 5,000 families and i think some nutritional supplements for about 6,500 children. that's a nice thing to do, but this would have to be an opening to a flood of food into venezuela to start to really make a difference to the hungry population. >> do you think somewhere down the road this could provoke conflict? >> well, sure. the risk here is that as the united states and other countries now, scores of other countries try and put pressure on ma did youro to resign and editions in and the army continues to support him, if the army continues to support him, there could easily be a

confrontation. right now the americans are being pretty careful although they have quite a presence in colombia, they are not going to push into venezuela yet. but we could and probably will see some attempts at mass demonstrations at the border area by the opposition. if those get really violent, if those get really bloody then that could be yet another step towards open confrontation. >> what about the usa' role yesterday. yesterday nicolas maduro rejected the aid from the u.s. saying the gift was to cover up the crime against venezuela. will that contribute to the economic hardships that we're seeing in venezuela? >> i think it is contributing to the hardships right now but you have to understand the hardships were terrible to begin with. maduro has had a terrible government. the economy basically collapsed. under chavez predecessor they could afford to handout lots of

money to a lot of poor people. the venezuelan population is much poorer now even than when chavez took over and food is a problem. basic necessities of life are a problem. the inflation rate is unbelievable. you have to have a wheelbarrow full of money to buy a bottle of milk or figuratively speaking. you can blame the sanctions and make it worse in the short term, but, in fact, maduro's mismanagement of his government has been a big part of it. >> let's talk about america's motives. i want to play what white house national security adviser john boll on the said two weeks ago. >> venezuela is one of the three countries i call the troika of tyranny. it will make a big difference to the united states economically

if we could have american oil companies really invest in and produce the oil capabilities in venezuela. >> so how much does venezuelan oil factor into america's involvement here? >> oh, it's a huge factor. done that remind you of the kind of bull we heard before the iraq war in 2003, is that somehow it was all going to be a boondoggle for the americans. cost the u.s. very little and wind up being a source of enormous wealth for american companies and american people. all absolute crap. i think that we can see something like that taking shape with venezuela and i think, in fact, those kinds of remarks undermine american policy tremendously with american allies in latin america and in europe who are trying to find a way out of this. there's a deep suspicion of the trump administration's motives on two levels. one has to do with oil.

the other has to do with the wag the dog scenario. the idea that the more trouble trump gets in domestically with the mueller investigation and other issues, the more likely he is to pick a fight somewhere, a fight that he thinks he'll have an edge in and can win. and that certainly has led to problems. >> history does tend to repeat itself. thank you. just ahead a new published report describes a so-called pipeline of undocumented workers to a trump property. reaction next.

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can't question their motivations. they are clearly very credible people. these are very serious accusations. and he's unfit to serve office. >> that's virginia delegate patrick hope on the sexual assault allegations against lieutenant governor justin fairfax. hope plans to launch impeachment proceedings if fairfax doesn't resign by monday. fairfax is denying both accusers allegations and is calling for an investigation to clear his name. he also says it's obvious a vicious and coordinated smear campaign is being orchestrated against me. i will not resign. joining me now is republican strategist and a democratic strategist. david, i want to start with you. the pressure here for fairfax is mounting for him to step down. from local officials as well as legislative bodies to house and senate democrats. do you think he truly believes he can survive this? >> well, i think, phillip, it's good be with you, by the way. this is unlikely that all three

the lieutenant governor, the governor, and the attorney general will survive over the next 100 days. the pressure is mounting on the lieutenant governor. the issue i think is the balance between zero tolerance and due process. in some ways we may need to find a new balance. the me too movement is rightly calling for zero tolerance but that sometimes questions where due process comes in. al franken was pushed out. many people think that was unfair. brett kavanaugh and christine blasey ford felt they were treated unfairly. how do you adjudicate these things fairly that's what justin fairfax will argue. he lawyered up. the other side lawyered up. i suspect these people have to resign because they can't do their jobs at some point. they mishandled the crisis with tremendous malfeasance. >> let's talk about that kavanaugh connection. what do you make of fairfax

calls for an investigation. do you think he factored in how things played out with kavanaugh? >> it's a fair request. he's been accused. he said he didn't do the things he's accused of doing. so there should be an investigation. there was an investigation with the allegations against justice kavanaugh. there should be an investigation here. it is interesting to look at the larger context this is played out in. you have somebody who wants to file articles of impeachment against the lieutenant governor. no one is doing that with northam who has a photograph in his yearbook with a picture of a kkk member in his near book. why is not one filing the articles of impeachment against him with the odious picture in the yearbook? >> legitimate question. david, fairfax is questioning the timing. he calls it is a smear campaign.

all of this is coming out as governor northam is under his pressure to resign. what do you make of that defense? >> i think it looks like a pattern when two people make the accusation. justin is right. you have to have a fair investigation. back to the new balance we find between zero tolerance and due process. governor northam and in some ways the attorney general fail in terms of crisis strategy. what can be known will be known. how they or their campaign or communications staff could not have known about these photographs and gotten an hefd t head of the issue. context is everything. we say when we study and deal with crisis, you will tell the truth eventually. if the truth is dragged out of the governor and attorney general, they are not using it as a learning opportunity. i think all three

eventually be out. they can't do their job. >> if they want an i am pempeac as investigation to find the facts and to question witnesses and get to the truth, that would be a good thing. i really do think it looks like the governor and attorney general are trying to stick it out. they are trying to let this blow over. i think it is the wrong move for them. they are putting their political selfishness above the party and state. it gives the state of virginia tremendous black eye. even more so after you have the protesters carrying torches and screaming blood and soil in charlottesville in 2017. now the governor and lieutenant governor of the state facing these accusations. i think it is a black eye for the state and they should do the right thing. nancy pelosi and chuck schumer, as leaders of the democrats par

party. they should get them to resign. >> it is due process. do these parties have different standards? what is the standard? >> the standard should be whatever the parties want it to be. if the democratic party wants to be the party to have moral authority and speak of social justice issues and racial justice issues, they cannot tolerate this. they cannot allow the governor of the state of virginia to have a photograph of himself with a ku klux klan in his yearbook. that is a democratic party which doesn't want to be known for it especially as you gear up for the 2020 presidential elections. >> david, will this accusation against fairfax lessen the pressure against northam to resign? he is in line for the governor ship. then the next in line to the

governorship is the republican speaker of the house of delegates. >> i think kirk cox is taking office soon. he is fourth in line. the election was so close. i think the democrats don't have much choice here. in some ways, these leaders aside from the moral complex, they will not do their jobs. the challenge is virginia doesn't have an easy system of impeachment. there should be zero tolerance by the democratic party. we have to balance that with due process. there has to be a presumption of innocence. we have to find the new ground here and deal with it. right now, virginia is reeling and the brand is really in trouble. no virginia governor has not served their term since the civil war. i suspect that will change. >> justin, do you think at all this accusation against fairfax is detracting from the pressure that the governor is feeling as

well as mark? >> absolutely. i think, i hate to say this, the allegation against lieutenant governor fairfax is seen as good news by the governor northam and his detract. now in terms of the media attention it is getting and focus and this article of impeachment that may be filed on monday in the legislature. those are all unfortunately good news for the governor. it may allow him to stay under the spotlight a bit and pressure reduced on him which is unfortunate. >> david, what do you think happens next? >> i think eventually there will be resignations. two of the three will be gone soon. they won't be able to govern. justin makes a good point. this relieves the pressure on governor northam. the attorney general looks to have less pressure than the other two. they are different cases, but

need to be dealt with for virginia. these people won't be able to govern very long. they will have to step down. that is pressure that is put on them to do it. >> who would have thought? my goodness. justin, thank you for joining us. david, thank you. >> thank you, fphilip. and the hunt is on for donald trump's tax returns. rets shaquem get in here.

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