live from the house judiciary committee friday at 9:30 a.m. eastern on c-span 2. >> c-span today spoke with members of congress about tonight's state of the union address. we hear from maryland senator chris van hollen. >> who are you bringing to the state of the union address? senator van hollen: i'm bringing a marylander, lila johnson and has been a contract employee at the department of agriculture for about 20 years. and she provides janitorial services. she is a wonderful person. and i'm bringing her to highlight the fact in this government shutdown that we just went through, while we have been able to provide back pay to federal employees, you have lots of service contract employees like lila who have been left out in the cold. i'm proposing legislation as part of the agreement to keep the government open that would make sure that people like ms. johnson get back pay. >> in previous shutdowns have contract workers not received back pay and how big of a list could it be to get back pay for those folks? senator van hollen: service contract

lindsey graham talks about his priorities as chair of the senate judiciary committee. judiciary house committee holds a hearing on gun violence prevention. on was a, president trump dominated -- nominated david malpass. he currently serves as treasury secretary for international affairs. you must be approved by the world bank's 12 member executive board. president trump: high, everybody. everybody. we are dealing with a very special man, a very special person. it is my pleasure to announce my choice for the next president of the world bank, mr. david malpass. i have known david for a long time. very extraordinary man. with us today, are his wife, adele, as all of his -- as well as his three children. i want to thank you all for being here and i want to congratulate you will. thank you very much. [applause] where please to be joined today by secretary steven mnuchin, wilbur ross, alex acosta, ben carson, as all --ambassador bob lighthizer, as well as ambassador bob lighthizer. how are you doing, bob? how are you doing, china bob? it is going well. and treasurer jovita, thank you all fo

breaking news and a deadline looming, remarkable standoff between matt whitaker and the house judiciary committee. over at the justice department, what led to the standoff between the acting attorney general, matt whitaker and the chairman of the house judiciary committee and how is it going to end? >> wolf, this was really a last-ditch effort by the democrats to try to grill whitaker while he's still the acting attorney general. bill barr, his replacement, is likely to get confirmed next week by the senate. they only have this one shot to get him in the hot seat. they wanted to question him about how exactly he got the job, this speculation that he was supposed to be a spy for the white house. they wanted to press him on that. whitaker said not so fast. i'm not coming to discuss my confidential communications with the president. jerry nadler had this subpoena in his back pocket ready to use it in case. whitaker is saying if you don't tell me by 6:00 p.m. tonight that you will not try to enforce and serve that subpoena on me i am not coming. we'll have to wait and see if they force the subpoena t

but tonight's news is that the house judiciary committee believes that it has evidence that president trump made that request. the "wall street journal" notes in its reporting tonight, the house judiciary committee is investigating whether mr. whitaker may have perjured himself in his appearance before the panel earlier this month, according to one of the people familiar with the matter. mr. whitaker told the panel at no time has the white house asked for, nor have i provided, any promises or commitments concerning the special counsel's investigation or any other investigation. any evidence that mr. trump sought to intervene in the federal prosecutor's probe could propel further lines of inquiry by lawmakers into whether he has tried to obstruct the investigation into his business dealings. donald trump's business, which calls itself the trump organization, is objecting to a possible house of representatives investigation of that business. the "washington post" reports today that the trump organization has sent a letter to the house judiciary committee demanding that the committee cea

accounting attorney general matthew whitaker is balking at a possible subpoena from the house judiciary committee in advance of his long scheduled testimony tomorrow. that testimony expected to cover topics like what whitaker communicated to donald trump before being tapped to serve as acting attorney general. and house judiciary committee voting today to authorize the subpoena just in case whitaker doesn't show up or refuses to answer questions whether he sought to interfere in the investigation in the southern district of new york or mueller problem. in response, whitaker accuses the committee of engaging in, quote, political theater. from his statement -- the committee now has deviated from historic practice and protocol and taken the unnecessary and premature step of authorizing a subpoena. the justice department also demanded a written assurance by 6:00 p.m. tonight that whitaker won't be subpoenaed tomorrow. we will bring any response to you as soon as we get it and we'll have a democratic member of that committee with us in a moment for more on what's coming next. the daily beast is out to

tied to the president unless they start speaking up and we'll see if that happens as the house judiciary committee launches its investigation john hendren there in washington john thank you. now trump has described an invasion of migrants drugs and violence flooding into the u.s. from mexico but this is likely as john was saying that to be challenged in court and legal immigration across the border is at a twenty year low and a wall won't prevent migrants crossing at legal points of entry to request asylum promising the wall will stop the flow of drugs but government data shows eighty to ninety percent of heroin cocaine and methamphetamine through official entry points with marijuana being the only exception the president also made bold claims about the country's murder rate saying thousands of lives have been lost if he didn't but there's little data linking crime to immigration particle and explains. it was the longest government shutdown in history brought on by u.s. president donald trump in hopes of getting funding for a wall in the southern border. eight hundred thousand federal workers went

request of a number of people, the committee will stand in recess for five minutes. >> the judiciary committee, house judiciary committee taking a five-minute break. they have been going all morning for a break for votes. it is an extensive hearing. joyce vance still with me and elliott williams as well. >>> joyce, pick it up where you were loving it oleaving it offe. the whole issue of trying to itch peach the integrity of rod rosenstein and his oversight of the mueller probe. >> there is an important principle of prosecution. prosecutors investigate crimes not people. jordan was insinuating that rosenstein had somehow directed mueller to target individuals, asking whether that information was concealed behind redactions. it seems extraordinarily unlikely to me that that be the case. rosenstein might have, in fact, used names, but that would have been based on predicated investigation indicating that further investigation was warranted as opposed to this sort of targeted witch-hunt that jordan was trying to suggest might have been asked for. >> we're going to take a quick break as well while the com

matthew whitaker and the house judiciary committee, they have reached an agreement. whitaker will testify today. he had threatened not to show up after the committee warned it might subpoena him. something whitaker calls an active political theater, he is expected to answer questions into his oversight of special counsel robert mueller's russia investigation. >> the subcommittee will come to order. >> reporter: ju a nt weill majority democrats arupa >>basis topolitical hack. >> reporter: democrats are looking into how security clearances were granthe white house, how companies got contracts to clean up after hurricane maria and whether the president's decisions have been influenced by his foreign financial interests. they are also looking into the president's tax returns. the president complained thursday that democrats are going nuts, the republicans never did this to pres. obama. marc liverman, cbs news. >>> the house judiciary committee voted 23-13 along party lines to approve the subpoena if it was necessary to force acting attorney matthew whitaker to answer all

that's why this morning the house judiciary committee is taking a rather unusual step. the democrats are going to issue a subpoena to allow jerry nadler, chairman of the committee to keep it in his back pocket and deliver it tomorrow in case he can't answer the questions they are going to have and the question is how much can he and will he reveal about his conversations with the president or will he exert executive privilege? we'll see in the coming days. >> that will be an interesting hearing. thank you very much. >>> now to the two big hearings democrats are holding on capitol hill today. jessica schneider is covering both of them. what should we expect? this is is beginning of what could be characteristic of the next couple of years. very aggressive house investigations of the president that were held back when republicans controlled the committees. >> right, jim. democrats are digging in. first focused on the family separations policy hearing. that will be happening this morning. of course, the policy created an uproar as it was happening. even in recent weeks, a lo

this morning he's appearing before the house judiciary committee. the hearing will pick up shortly, but right out of the gate, it was fireworks. it was fiery, it was contentious, especially a contentious questioning by the chairman of the committee, democratic congressman jerry nadler. big questions going in were essential the following -- what conversations has whitaker had with the president about the special counsel's investigation. did any conversation happen before he was named acting attorney general, and would he try to claim executive privilege? so far some answers, but also raising more questions. manu raji has been watching all this. late out the headlines we've heard so far. >> the big headlines is matt whitaker made clear he did not speak with president trump about the investigation. he said i have not talked to the president about this or service white house officials. he also said i do not believe that he's had conversations with a third party, an individual who may have later paced on notches about the special counsel probe to the pre

in 20 minutes we'll see the acting attorney general matt whitaker appear before the house judiciary committeequestions from house democrats. he may not provide many answers. this is a first. this is the first time an administration official will appear before a democratic-controlled chamber and face questions that they can't control. so talk to me about the impact of public hearings over time. if this is the first of many, what is the impact on the political discourse? >> a couple of things. first of all, there will be a handful of members who are good questioners. most of them are not. those who have prior experience as prosecutors and what have you, they will be good. they'll pin him down. whether he'll answer anything or try to stonewall it as the term is used, we'll find out this morning. i think it is important for the public. we'll learn a lot just from the questions. where they are going, what they're thinking. he'll have to deal with this. >> you mentioned you think the white house now is in bunker mode. watching everything come in. you also told one of our producers earlier you wish

ago, in good faith, i voluntarily agree to appear and testify on february 8th before the house judiciary committee. we have devoted considerable resources and numerous hours to my preparation, and i have looked forward to discussing the important work of the great men and women of the department of justice. unfortunately, the committee now has deviated from a historic practice and protocol and taken the unnecessary and premature step of authorizing a subpoena to me. the acting attorney general, even though i had agreed to voluntarily appear, such unprecedented action reaches our prior agreement and circumvents the constitutionally required accommodation process. based upon today's action, it is apparent the committee's true intention is not to discuss the great work of the department of justice but to create a public spectacle. political theater is not the purpose of an oversight hearing, and i will not allow that to be the case." matthew whitaker says he will not go to that hearing if the chairman nadler will guarantee to withdraw a subpoena. wow. and around and around we go. let make it be the b

the first actions of ts to democratic house was bill.uced that it moved forward out of the house judiciary committeeterday. the is a small step, but in united states where after the pulse shooting in orlando, democratic wagers leaders had to stage a sit in on the floor house of representatives, pushing and then come just for discussion and debate on gun laws, having one of these bills passed the house will be a huge victory. , the background check legislation is likely to be blocked by the senate. there is no action in washington does not mean there is no action nationwide. across the u.s. in the past year, at least 67 gun control gun violence prevention bills have passed in the state legislatures. all caps of different initiatives here. there have been funding bills for gun violence prevention, to raise the age for access for some automatic weapons, gymnastic violence bills. and most importantly, eight states have extreme risk protection orders passed. one of the most evidence-based bipartisan kinds of legislation to give law enforcement orr families away to temporarily remove guns from someone who

roadblock in front of the president's wall that they can first off as you mentioned the house judiciary committee the house is newly controlled by the other party by democrats is now going to investigate the president the head of that committee representative jerry navl we believe your declaration of emergency shows a reckless disregard for the separation of powers and your responsibilities under the constitution there's definitely going to be hearings that will of course be very public there will also likely be after that legislation that would seek specifically to stop the president from taking this emergency action however that would have to pass the senate and then a presidential veto so what is likely to happen at the same time is those court challenges there will be outside groups some of which have already announced they'll do that could be some within the congress itself and then other interested parties like the state of california which is it said that it would challenge it as an overreach and the basic problem at the bottom of all this is that the u.s. constitution gives congress the p

michael conway, former counselor in the house judiciary committee during the impeachment inquiry of president nixon. on to another story for the moment. the talks of a potential risk to u.s. national security. that's according to the democratically controlled house oversight committee's new report. they are investigating allegations of ongoing efforts by the trump administration, get this, i hope you're sitting down, to transfer sensitive u.s. nuclear technology to saudi arabia. the chair of that committee, congressman elijah cummings, issued the report after several whistleblowers warned that the administration's rush to transfer these highly sensitive technologies in violation of the atomic energy act, which ensures that nuclear materials are properly managed, and acting without congressional review. ak0rding to the report, those whistleblowers "warned of conflicts of interest among top white house advisers that could implicate federal criminal statutes." this is where it gets good. "beyond that, what is so worrisome here to experts is that this transfer of u.s. nuclear technology," again,

we talked to the chair of the house judiciary committee and he said this is a terrible power grab unprecedented in american history and upset the separation of power. the chair of the house appropriations committee, she may consider putting riders in future legislation to harness the press. heather: all administrations test the limits of executive power, a number of cases over the supreme court, this is not the first time this has happened. why does it bother members of both parties? >> republicans think it sets a bad precedent, you don't know what comes next but if you start to move around in these appropriations bills all these programs and pet projects you have constituencies along lawmakers and robbing peter to pay paul. if you move money from dhs to defense or from ships to airplanes or the wall or something like that somebody will cry foul and say you are taking our money. there is a constitutional issue, article 1, section 9 of the constitution says congress has the power of the purse and you wonder if they are playing within the rules. shannon: we will not do an overnight government shu

he's about to testify in front of the house judiciary committee.re expecting questions about what the acting attorney general said about mueller's time line and what he has said to the president about the investigation. i want to bring in "the washington post" phil rucker. phil, walk us through the chess game that played out yesterday. what it all meant? whitaker threatening to bail on the testimony if the committee didn't promise not to subpoena him? if he was showing up any way, what did all that matter? >> steph, it was a real game yesterday back and forth, back and forth between the justice department and chairman nadler, the democrat in the house, over whether the democrats would subpoena whitaker to testify. whitaker wanted in writing a promise not to subpoena. they ultimately agreed late last night to go ahead with this testimony today and all it served to do frankly was raise the stakes for this event today, draw more attention to what whitaker may say and the sorts of questions he may be asked in particular about the mueller investigation

. >> one thing we should be looking at is what the house judiciary committee intends do here. e house judiciary members asked for the department of justice to refer to them any everyday it is to say assert their own constitutional per ogtives and say look, you had to decide whether or not there was prosecutable crimes here. >> based on what you know about barr and the justice department how do you see this unfolding? >> it sounds easy but it will make everybody unhappy. barr is seen in this town as a pro. he is not a spring chicken. he is coming at this before the senate. i don't care if i get fired. he is not going sit there and say i will do something for the president. he is going to say i want to try to do what's right. there's a flip side. a lot of people were interviewed. we interviewed people. that's the mueller team speaking. we interviewed people that said things that were uncomfortable. those people are private american citizens. how much information do you want to reveal about what they said during interviews? they are still private citizens. some of them, sean spice

accounting attorney general matthew whitaker is balking at a possible subpoena from the house judiciary committeeadvance of his long scheduled testimony tomorrow. that testimony expected to cover topics like what whitaker communicated to donald trump before being tapped to serve as acting attorney general. and house judiciary committee voting today to authorize the subpoena just in case whitaker doesn't show up or

democrats demanding to know whether whitaker told the truth in his testimony before the house judiciary committeelwell is on the committee and he joins me now. so good to have you here. >> yeah, don, thank you very much. >> what do you think of this "new york times" report? >> i never thought the acting attorney general was worthy of being taken at his word and that we should test his accounts, you know, that he gave us, because it was contradicted by "the new york times" and other press reporting. and now this story today shows that we need to get him back in. we probably need to hear from other witnesses and subpoena other documents. >> if these allegations are true, is that obstruction? >> oh, geez, obstruction was like ten exits ago with most of these characters. yeah, it's really, what can we do to intervene and make sure that, you know, the rule of law, which is the long pole in our tent of democracy still stands. at this point, don, we have to just make sure that rule of law is standing. and how do you interdict? >> so let me ask you, do you have -- do you believe or do you have evidence t

this morning we do know that the house judiciary committee voted to preemptively have that subpoena readye matthew whitaker comes before the committee and isn't ready to answer questions. today we know that is controversial and matthew whitaker is saying he may not even appear at that hearing. we also know that the energy and commerce committee, the subcommittee, had a hearing on family separation. in a few hours, the ways and means subcommittee is going to have a hearing on presidential tax returns, and there was a hearing on global warming in the natural resources committee. a lot of oversight happening very quickly. and we do know that there are more than 11 committees at this point that are looking into more than 20 issues ranging from family separation, the president's finances, tax returns. there's so much to investigate, including the russia probe, security clearances in the house oversight committee. there is just a huge number of things that democrats want to look into. i asked them this week, what do you think about the president essentially saying he doesn't want you looking in

hill tomunless lawmakers assure him he won't subpoenaed, a move the democratic-controlled house judiciary committee has threatened if whitaker refes to answer certain questions about his conversations with the esident. the white house blasting democrats for playing what it called pointless political games.p mr. trighing in earlier today. >> should he testify tomorrow, mr. president? >> he's an outstanding person. i would say if he did testify, r 'd do very well. >> reporter: whitalling the subpoena threat unprecedented, unnecessary, and premature. some democrats are worri whh aker could interfere wit the mueller probe after he publicly criticized it before taking his current position. >> i hope and expect thathe subpoena will not be necessary. but unfortunately a series of tr bling events over the pa few months suggests that we should be prepared. >> reporter: it's the latest battle line as democra escalate their oversight of the president and his administration. fueling those tensions, nbc news has learned tonight from the house intelligence committee the democratic chair, adam schiff, has hired a

the acting attorney general matt whitaker, he has decided that he will testify before the house judiciary committee. the announcement came after days of contentious wrangling as whitaker threatened not to show up unless the committee promised not to subpoena him. the facebook a prime example of democrats asserting their new control of the house for oversight of the trump administration. >> democrats vowing to press whitaker on two subjects today, first his decision not to recuse himself from overseeing robert mueller's russia investigation despite his past criticism of the probe and second his conversations with the president about the russia investigation. the president recently told the "daily caller" there have been no such conversations. yesterday the president was asked whether he thought whitaker should testify. >> he is an outstanding person. i would say if he did testify, he'd do very well. he is an outstanding person. very, very fine man. >> this may be whitaker's only congressional testimony as the head of the justice department. william barr is on track to be confirmed as permanent attor

the house judiciary committee is expected to present matthew whitaker on his relationship with presidentmp and the russia investigation, and he threat not to shop after the committee want they may subpoena him, something that whitaker caused the active political theater. >>> a massive fire broke out at the new soccer training club in rio the genaro and the blaze broke out in the dorm where the players were sleeping. 10 were killed and three injured. >>> there is an investigation into the massive explosion and fire in san francisco. we found the third-party contractor that triggered the blast has faced several violations in other states, three in california. >>> open ha a sickout this morning rallying for the teachers and the rally oakland tech at 9 am. >>> the bridge was shut down for hours yesterday due to falling chunks of concrete on richmond-san rafael bridge. we have kiet do live with an update. >> reporter: we are at the toll plaza looking live at the westbound lanes and all lanes are back open. this is the traffic flowing into san rafael, a huge relief for tens of thousands of dri

we talked with jerry nadler the chair of the house judiciary committee earlier. he said this is a power grab and it would upset separation of power. the chair of the house appropriations committee said she might consider putting riders in the future legislation to try to harness the president. >> all right. we know all administrations test the limits of executive power. i covered a number of the cases over the supreme court. this isn't the first time this has happened. why does it bother member of both parties so much? >> the republicans think it sets a bad precedent. you don't know what comes next. if you start to move around in the appropriation bills, all of the programs and the pet projects have the constituencies among the lawmakers of both parties. you are robbing peter to pay paul. if you move money from defense to ships or airplanes or wall, someone cries foul to say wait. you are taking our money. there is a constitutional issue here. article 1, section 9 of the constitution says that congress has the power of the purse and if you cede that to the executi

quite a battle between the attorney general and the democrat leading the house judiciary committee. attorney general matthew whitaker and new york congressman gerald nadler, the kphaeur man of the judiciary committee going back and forth in a power struggle over whitaker's appearance before nadler's committee. whitaker writing, quote, consisting with longstanding practice, i remain willing to appear to testify tomorrow provided that the chairman assures me the committee will not issue a subpoena today or tomorrow and that the committee will engage in good faith negotiations before taking a step down the road. the tpheb move would appear to be up to chairman nadler. >> dana: there's a new effort to get the president's tax return. >> reporter: yes. the tax writing committee, they are interested in getting at president trump's tax returns so they're gonna talk about presidential and vice presidential tax history in the hearing. we got a bit of a preview earlier from the house speaker, nancy pelosi. >> they are prioritizing their work and in terms of the taxes, it's not a question of jus

in his combative, often evasive testimony before the house judiciary committee, whitaker did little to ease concerns that he's nothing more than a political hack, installed to run interference for the president. the acing attorney general defended his decision to not recuse himself from oversight of the mueller investigation, despite having been advised to do so by ethics officials. then he denied interfering with the investigation or discussing it with the president but given the opportunity too declare the legitimacy of the special counsel's work, whit canker declined to do so. guilty pleas from manafort, flynn, papadopoulos and dozens of indictments including 13 russian nationals, three russian companies and roger stone. would you say the spemgs counsel's investigation is a witch hunt? are you over seeing a witch hunt? >> congressman, as i've mentioned previously the special counsel's investigation is an ongoing investigation and so i think it would inappropriate -- >> you'd stop a witch hunt, wouldn't you? >> it would be inappropriate for me to talk about an ongoing investigation.

the justice department has notified the house judiciary committee that acting attorney general matt whitaker will not, i repeat, will not appear before tomorrow's scheduled hearing if the house issues a subpoena to him. joining me now, msnbc correspondent garrett hake live on the hill. what does this all mean? >> reporter: stephanie, if everything stays as it is right now, ting means we should still expect to see whitaker on the hill tomorrow. here's how we got here. house democrats were very concerned that whitaker would choose not to show up here unless they subpoena him or if he came and declined to answer questions, they'd be stuck in a position where they couldn't get the information they want. so house democrats voted to authorize a subpoena, to make sure whitaker shows up. they haven't given it to him yet. they haven't presented it to him yet. now you have the doj saying if you do subpoena him, he won't come. so if house democrats sit on this authorization, we may still see matt whitaker here. where we'll get into trouble is if he shows up and refuses to answer questions and house dem

whittaker has been called back for a private deposition and a second go with the house judiciary committee. with that i want to get started with pete williams. it has been quite a day to say the least. we have all been glued to that television taking in what that acting attorney general had to say. give us your biggest take away. >> he said repeatedly that he has not tried to second guess mueller's investigation, that he has not done anything to restrict it, to cut off the funds, he has not told the white house, the president, or anyone in the white house what mueller is up to. that's one of the questions, here is one of the exchanges he had about that. >> at any point since that briefing have you communicated any information you learned in that briefing to president trump? >> mr. chairman, i know that there is a unique -- >> it's a yes or no question. it's a yes or no question. have you communicated anything that you learned in that briefing about the investigation to president trump, yes or no? >> mr. chairman, as i have said earlier today in my opening remarker remarks i do not intend t

do you plan to invite him in front of the house judiciary committee? are you going to subpoena if need be? >> well, the chairman of the committee has already written to mr. whitaker requesting some clarification on inconsistencies. in the letter he acknowledged if he didn't provide it, they intended to bring him back for a sworn deposition. i think there's no question mr. whitaker will be expected to answer the questions either in writing or in a deposition and come back before the judiciary committee to either clarify or correct the system he gave before the committee. >> given what you've read and heard, do you believe as andrew mccabe is saying he believes it's possible president trump may have been a russian asset. do you think it's possible there was a crime committed here? >> i don't think there's any question that that's a possibility. we should recall that if you start listing all the facts in the public domain, the trump tower meeting, the contacts between the trump campaign and russians and lying about them, the president's unwillingness to s

our next guest is a member of the house judiciary committee, steve cohen of tennessee. congressman, first of all, i just have to get your reaction to that testimony you heard today, both to his demeanor and in many cases his refusal to answer yes and no questions. >> well, he came in to stonewall us, that was his purpose. he had an audience of one, which was donald trump, and when he was a football player and i can certainly see him as a football player, he was a tight end, and that's generally a blocker in the iowa program. he was a blocker today too. he's still in the same role he was when he played for the iowa hawk eyes. he didn't show me anything to say he should be the united states attorney general. i have met many and this man does not measure up to them in any way whatsoever. he was treading water and stone walling. >> in a lot of people's eyes, making a mistake of being disrespectful to the chair declaring his time up and repeatedly saying in answer to questions, rather than answering them, i can see this is a very important issue to you. did you feel he was t

this week, acting attorney general matthew whitaker appears before the house judiciary committee to talk about the special counsel investigation into russian appearance during the 2016 election. this will be mr. whitaker's first time testifying before congress since taking over for former attorney general jeff sessions who resigned in november. that is friday, 9:30 eastern on c-span two. there are nearly 100 new faces in congress following the midterm elections. from tennessee, all republicans. voters in the desk -- second district elected tim burchett, who has held office as the mid-1990's, serving as mayor and terms in the state senate and house. congressman mark green came to national attention as president trump's nominee to be u.s. army secretary. he withdrew his name from consideration after his nomination to criticism for statements he had made about transgender people and muslims. congressman is a west point graduate who served 20 years in the u.s. army, first as an infantry officer and later as a military doctor. he spent time in afghanistan and iraq, taking part in the mission

just hours from now the acting attorney general matthew whitaker will appear before the house judiciary committee? how much will he say and what will house democrats do to try to force him to talk? whitaker had refused to appear until democrats promised not to issue a subpoena during the actual hearing. >>> also this morning, kellyanne conway saying a woman assaulted her physically in front of conway's child and other children. she says it happened this past october. the woman we've learned has been charged, though denies the allegations. the alleged assault happening just days after the polarizing confirmation hearings for supreme court justice brett kavanaugh. >>> and then there is the explosive blog post from amazon founder jeff bezos in which he accuses ami the publisher of the "national enquirer" of, in his words, extortion and blackmail. head of ami david perk of course a long-time friend of president trump. the company for its part has not yet commented on bays goes's allegations. >> i want to bring in maggie haberman, noc times white house correspondent and so excited to see you i can bar

confirming tonight that acting attorney general matt whitaker will testify tomorrow before the house judiciary committeeeatened not to appear if the committee subpoenaed him for refusing to answer certain questions. but the committee chairman says a. won't be necessary, as long as whitaker cooperates. joining me now is congresswoman shelia jackson lee, a texas democrat who sits on the committee, always outspoken and we're glad to have you here. thank you for joining puus. >> thank you for having me. >> first, i have to get your reaction to this incredible story about amazon's jeff bezos claiming extortion and blackmail for political reasons from the "national enquirer's" parent company. does it seem like the owner, who is david pecker, is still doing donald trump's dirty work? >> i might say that this is probably capital letters on deja vu. i was stunned by the reporting, but obviously, this is the same individual who was the take care man during the trump campaign. and that is, of course, for miss due gal, for stormy daniels, who innocently thought they were going to have big headlines in the enquirer,

on friday, he will testify before the house judiciary committee on his role overseeing special counselobert mueller's investigation. watch live friday at 9:30 a.m. eastern on c-span two, c-span.org or listen live with the free c-span radio app. from capitol hill, a hearing on the trump administration's policy of separating migrant children from their parents crossing the southern border. minuteur hour and 45 hearing begins with administration officials talking about how the decision to implement the policy was reached. energy of the house committee here from child health experts on how the separation affects children's mental health. committee will come to order.

joining us tonight, congressman andy biggs of arizona, congressman biggs also serving on the house judiciary committee and the science -based technology committee, member of the house freedom coccus. it's great to have you with us. let's turn first, the pentagon announcing plans for a large troop withdrawal by the middle of march, fall by complete withdrawal in syria by april. isn't it about time as the president stated in his state of the union, indeed, and i think briefly stated, great nations do not fight the endless wars. >> is going to bring that up. i think that's exactly right. he laid out the broad scope. he's now directed his generals, he is the commander-in-chief. the generals are obeying and following that command. i know we'll take care of our partners in the kurds who helped us fight isis. i know we have nato allies, turks and we also have to continue to monitor what is going on with isis. the reality is, we have been in some of these places in the middle east for 18 years. in the president's right, we can't keep fighting these endless wars. >> lou: the president is right. as you confirm

on friday, he will testify before the house judiciary committee on his role overseeing special counselobert mueller's investigation. watch live friday at 9:30 a.m. eastern on c-span two, c-span.org or listen live at the seat -- free c-span radio app. hill, a hearing on the chubb administration's policy of separating migrant children from their parents crossing the southern border. this four hour and 45 minute hearing begins with administration officials talking about how the decision to implement the policy was reached. members of the house energy and commerce oversight committee ar from child health experts on how the separation affects children's mental health. committee will come to order. good morning.

matt whitaker today before the house judiciary committee.the wasn't much of a hearing and less of a investigation. whitaker confirming it's his hope and judgment that mueller's investigation is wrapping up perhaps within a month or so. mueller now under significant deepening scrutiny himself. our next guest john solomon reporting that mueller's previous possible cue forrial conduct questioned by the fisa court as far back as 2002. solomon reporting that adam schiff and fusion gps founder glenn simpson may have themselves been colluding, colluding it turns out that well with one another at the aspen institute in july of last year. president trump tweeted about solomon's reporting, exposing schiff's hypocrisy. now we find out adam schiff was spending time in aspen with glenn simpson of gps fusion who wrote the discredited and fake dossier, even though simpson was testifying before schiff. john solomon, great reporting. as always. let's start with first today, the reporting that schiff and reynolds -- simpsonso on were together in aspen. how mu

on friday, he'll testify before the house judiciary committee on his role overseeing special counsel robert mueller's investigation. his first appearance before the committee. watch live friday at 9:30 a.m. eastern on c-span2, c-span.org, or listen live with the free c-span radio app. >> the chair of the house oversight committee elijah cummings spoke about protecting voting rights. his committee is working on h.r. 1, a campaign finance and voter rights bill. reminder the house is in a brief recess. we do expect them to return shortly when they do we'll have live coverage here on c-span. mr. cummings: thank you very much. i am going to yield myself a few minutes. ms. the things that hobert and mr. mehgrani gave me hills when i read it was the 2016 opinion of the fourth circuit court of appeals. you know, we're sitting around here acting not like it's not inalienable right to be able to

to senate confirmation, voted along by party lines in the senate judiciary committee today and senator graham, top republican on the houseate judiciary committee saying barr reassured him he will not use executive privilege to cover up wrongdoing. senator blumenthal saying they want to know about all wrongdoing not just the ones that have been charged. jake? >> barr said he would not allow the white house to use executive privilege to cover up wrongdoing but today senator patrick leahy said that's not enough. >> long-held abuse of executive power koss essentially be weaponized by president trump, a man who derives any limit on his authority. >> weaponized, what do you make of that? >> he has more expansive powers than i'm. and then the guy in charge has to follow those laws. that's the neat feature of our democracy. what was the question again? >> about weaponizing his power. >> i think his greatest strength is that he is basically a conventional political actor. he served doj under hnc.w. bush has openly expressed his affection for mueller and has made concrete promises about not cutting this off or standing in the way.

national emergency to access funds for a border war with mexico democrats who control the house judiciary committee launching an immediate investigation into the announcement saying it raises constitutional issues venezuela's president has accused the u.s. of trying to destabilize this country in an interview with al-jazeera nicolas maduro also criticized european nations accusing them of supporting u.s. military intervention. in memorials have been held for at least forty four indian security forces who were killed in an attack in indian controlled kashmir prime minister narendra modi has blamed pakistan for backing you so a crushing response. well now to haiti where the president juvenile moyes is refusing to step down despite weeks of anti-government demonstrations at least eight people have died in the on rest which respond over rising prices and government corruption. has more from the haitian capital port au prince. after a brief calm on thursday protesters once again took to the streets of port au prince demonstrators marched near the presidential palace calling for the resignation of the ha

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on c-span three, the house judiciary committee altering on preventing gun violence and at 235 p.m., senator lindsey graham, chair of the judiciary at then -- speaks federalist society. next from century hall outside the house chamber, members of congress react to the president's state of the union address. >> an hour and a half ago, president trump began his second state of the union speech about a quarter of it was devoted to immigration issues. and now here in statuary hall, off the hall house chamber is where the press is gathered, members of congress come out to give their reaction to this beach, we will begin with reaction from congresswoman paul of washington, a democrat first of all. the democratic women were all dressed in white for what reason? >> it was very powerful and you saw must all of us were on the democratic side of the chamber. they were a couple of moments whpr

and that was the point of contention between him and the chairman of the house you judiciary committeey precedent, settings tone for what democratic oversight was going to look like for the next two years or more. from the administration's perspective, they didn't want to set the precedence of every cabinet heb goica cabinet member going before committees with a subpoena hanging over their head. from the democrats' perspective, they wanted to show that they are willing to use august the tools at their dispossess al to exercise the kind of oversight they thought has been being laing in the republican controlled house, to show they won't get stone walled by this administration. but the two sides seemed to have worked it out. so perhaps that is the sort of deal making and negotiating we might see in these negotiations going forward. >> steven boyd from the doj says we do not believe that the committee made legitimately expect the acting a.g. to discuss his communications with the president, so expect privilege to be invoked. might it bring in the southern district, might it bring in whita