anita kumar is at politico.next, a discussion about executive privilege, congressional oversight and the tension between house democrats and the white house over the mila report we will be joined by jeffrey rosen. -- mueller report. we will be joined by jeffrey rosen. ♪ >> tonight, on the communicators. the pushbacking by, our closest ally is probably the u.k.. but germany and other countries in europe and around the world are basically saying you have not given us evidence of cybersecurity doing -- wrongdoing by huawei. it will be used to spy on americans. he is joined by a wall street journal telecom and technology reporter. >> i have been able to be an advocate for a safer american cyberspace. i am basically saying look, we need the best technology. we need to be able to compete. it is critic important that we address the risks. i have never been told what to say or what i can't say. frankly, when you look at the bigger picture, we don't speak to the china government and they don't speak for us. >> watch the

we're back with our guests for our double jeopardy round, anita kumar and jeremy peters. anita, this has a slight edge to it, but let me proffer the following. what is the real cost to a booker or a beto or a hickenlooper or a gillibrand to come out for impeachment? i could argue it will be the cheapest thing they do all week. what's the consequence to them? >> right. i mean, you're exactly right. obviously, though, the democratic party is split. the country is split on this. clearly leaders in the democratic party, nancy pelosi to name one, don't -- don't want to do this right now. so, i mean, they could lose support, but you're right, those are the ones that are, you know, polling so low they have to do something. i don't know that it could hurt them at this point, right? they're just trying to get noticed at this point. and they're hearing from their base. they're hearing from people when they're out there, people are talking to them, pushing them, and you've got to say that robert mueller's words yesterday, whether he meant them or not, really did open the door. you sa

we will preview the week ahead in washington with anita kumar and ann edgerton. also, the discussion of the constitutional battle between congress and the white house. jeffrey roche and of the national constitutional center will be with us. be sure to watch weston journal live at 7:00 eastern monday morning -- watch washington journal live at 7:00 eastern on monday morning. >> u.s. represented patrick mchenry of north carolina talks about federal reserve board policy, who the president might choose for federal openings, and more. newsmakers today at 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. history tv, today at 6:00 p.m., on american artifacts, a tour of the rise up rights on the lgbtq exhibit. the stonewall prayed on the gay wall street workers who socialized there. it was a place where gay people could come. >> at 8:00, on the presidency. here about the watergate tapes from jeff sheppard who worked with nixon's defense team. >> the president said this, the president said this, the president decreed to do that. anything thatind says the president gave an order or acknowledge

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joining me now is charlie didn't, a former republican congressman from white house and anita kumar, anssociate editor for "politico." thanks for being here. congressman, let me begin with this. adam kizinger said on memorial day you're doing this. what do you think is at the heart of the president's praise of kim jong-un there and even aligning with him on joe biden? >> well, congressman kinsinger is absolutely right that president trump is shattering norms, traditions and conventions. it's simply reprehensible that the president would side with kim jong-un in condemning, you know, the former vice president of the united states. we used to always have that statement about, you know, the politics ends at the water's edge. this has been shattered, it's inexplicable why president trump would side with this dictator. at times he engages in this moral equivalence and looks at kim jong-un and justin trudeau on the same moral plain, and it seems to the very transactional nature of this president and his completely you be conventional and disruptive take on foreign policy. it's simply wrong-he

anita kumar and brand-new podcaster chuck rosenberg, our thanks for joining us again on the broadcast tonight. coming up, his modest book received giant attention because of its 20 simple rules to avoid tyranny. tonight we will ask the author how trump is doing, where those rules are concerned when we come back. >>> it was just announced there was no collusion with russia, the most ridiculous thing i have ever heard. there was no collusion with russia. there was no obstruction and none whatsoever and it was a complete and total exoneration. >> that was our president the day the attorney general released that four-page summary letter. that's what led mueller to write about the public confusion that was being let loose. effective that moment, of course, as we've been reporting, the report did not declare total exoneration. our next guest writes in his book on turnny and we quote you are submit to tyranny when you renounce the difference between what you want to hear and what is actually the case. we welcome back timothy snyder, yale university professor, professor snyder was actually a

joining me now, politico white house correspondent and associate editor, anita kumar. ngton post" national security reporter, nick. thank you both for being here. really appreciate it. anita, i want to start with you and your reporting. . look, on its face, i was in the rose garden yesterday, the president unveiled this big immigration plan and there was nothing for democrats in it. and so everyone was scratching their head saying, hey, how is this even going to get to the front door of congress? is this really more of a political document for 2020? >> i think he kind of told us that yesterday. i mean, he mentioned democrats several times yesterday in his remarks. here's the difference between republicans and democrats. and remember that line where he said, hey, if democrats don't want to pass it now, i'll just come back and do it when i take back -- when republicans take back the house and senate. so i think he's treating it as one. his campaign is treating it as one. it's really telling they didn't even really speak to democrats beforehand. >> yeah, even the republica

political for "the washington post" and moderator of "washington week" and anita kumar. thanks to all of you. robert costa, you spent time with the speaker of the house. we played a clip of that. let me begin with you on a question what is next for house democrats, this contempt measure passes the house judiciary committee and awaits a vote in the full house. it sounds like nancy pelosi is on board with it. when can we expect that vote to take place? will this be soon? >> it should be soon based on my conversation with speaker pelosi. she is willing to bring it to the floor but as much as the speaker is raising serious concerns about the white house's relationship with congress and the refusal to deal with certain requests from capitol hill, she also respects the process and she wants her committee chairs like jerry nadler of new york and adam schiff on the intelligence committee from california to be leading the process. so it is a process that's playing out. she's trying to stave off a lot of the impeachment talk for the moment saying that all the issues around impeach

joyce vance who spent 25 years as a federal prosecutor and anita kumar is back with us. good evening. joyce, i'd like to begin with you. why these two women, what is the chance they'll show up and part three of my first question to you is, where does the democrats actual power reside? if they don't have the power to say to private citizen, wait a second. you respond the subpoenas and you appear before us. >> last part of that question, first. this is this foundational rule of law question. do we still have a rule of law in this country? does the white house have to follow it? if congress can't issue a subpoena and expect to have it enforced whether in the courts or because individuals do their duty then we really don't have much of a constitutional republic left. i would expect to see the courts enforce the subpoenas. i would expect to see them enforce them swiftly. there's not much of a question about whether congress is entitled to hear testimony. the white house made a pass at this immunity argument but there's no law, no cases that support that. some authority, altho

. >> joining me now, anita kumar and also julia ainsley. thank you both for being here. and anita, let me start with you because this is your reporting right now, politico, and we should underscore that we here at nbc news are still working at confirming this and finding out whether this is what the president was teasing there. but what are the con toirs of this plan that you and your colleagues at politico are reporting on and how would that affect what we're seeing at the border right now? >> sure. what we're hearing is that administration officials mostly at the department of homeland security where looking at some kind of rule which would be sort of an executive action that the president could take or his department could take that would not -- would no longer allow people that are coming through mexico, the southern border, into the united states to claim asylum. so people coming from central american countries. and recently those are the people that the president has been talking a lot about. he has been talking about how there is such a problem in central american

joining me now, "washington post" white house bureau chief phillip rucker, politico correspondent anita kumar, and former republican congressman ryan costello. thank you all for being here. great to have you all on set. phil, what -- how does the president sort of justify kind of what happened and does he really think that he comes out on top of this back and forth with democrats? >> well, he felt good about the theatrics of the moment yesterday and thought that he won that news cycle of the blast of 30 minutes, whatever it was. but over the long haul, this is perhaps not a sustainable position for him. he is effectively saying i refuse to govern and work with the congress until these investigations stop. but these investigations, if you talk to democrats on capitol hill, they will tell that you they are doing their rightful duty of oversight to look into these matters and that they are following what the voters want them to do. so they are at a stalemate here clearly and unclear wlahat the president's next step might be. >> so if the president thought he won the news cycle, so did the congre

coming up monday morning, we will preview the week ahead in washington with anita kumar and .loombergolitics editor and a discussion of the constitutional battle between congress and the white house over the mueller report. jeffrey rosen of the national constitution center will be with us. he sure to watch c-span's "washington journal" live at 7:00 eastern monday morning. join the discussion. >> next, prime minister theresa may takes questions from the members of the house of commons. after that, senator cory booker of new jersey meets with voters in new hampshire. at 11:00 p.m., another chance to see q&a with david maraniss. now, british prime minister theresa may takes questions on national health service funding, brexit, lending for schools and programs to assist working families. this is 45 minutes. rd in that regard. >> questions to the prime minister. janet devi. >> question number one, mister speaker.

up this morning, we preview the week ahead in washington with politico white house correspondent anita kumar and an adjutant. about thescussion constitutional battle over the mueller report. be sure to watch "washington journal" live at 7:00 eastern this morning. join the discussion. ♪ brian: david david: -- brian: david maraniss, when did you decide to name your book "a good american family." david: it wasn't the first title of the book. for a long time i was calling bottom bottom was where the hearings were conducted in new york. it was early on in the process and i knew i wanted to bring a lot of people in the room, not just my father and my family but the chairman of the committee and the f.b.i. informant and so that was the nexus of the piece. but in the end it really was more -- it's not a home woir in a sense, it's partly that, it's more history but i knew once i came across the quote from charles potter, a congressman from michigan, who expressed surprise that someone from a good american family could be a member of the communist party at any point, i said that's it. because i knew m

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i'm joined now by contributor ron asana and anita kumar for politico. thanks to all of you for being here. really appreciate it. ron, i have to start with you. how significant is it and for the president? >> significant both for the economy and the president i think. if you are in the white house and you get a string of numbers like the last several months, of course, last month we saw even stronger job growth, you get to take credit for that. it may very well be at least in part due to some of the president's policies and the fact that the federal reserve stopped raising interest rates in december and end kated a wait and see policy with respect to hikes or reductions in the future and so that difficult fourth quarter in terms of markets and the economy, seems to have gone away and globally seeing that to be true, as well. it is a goldilocks set of numbers. i made my first communion in 1969. that's how long it was that we saw this number. so the job growth is actually quite healthy and we have still more jobs than workers and there is some indication t