now, on the face of it, aaron burr had all the credentials of being a great founder. he was a revolutionary war veteran, a princeton graduate, and a charming and wealthy aristocrat. he eventually became a senator from new york and vice president of the united states, the third, and his predecessors were john adams and thomas jefferson. he was well on his way to a great career, but something set him apart, set his character apart from his colleagues. he inherited his claim to leadership. he was a real aristocrat, if you will. john adams said that he had never known in any country the prejudice in favor of birth, parentage and dissent more conspicuous than in the instance of colonel burr. burr was the son of a president of princeton and the grandson of another princeton president none other than jonathan edwards, the most famous theologian in the 18th century. burr said adams was connected by blood, by blood with many respectable families in new england. unlike the other leaders of the revolutionary generation, unlike jefferson or washington or adams, hamilton, madison

senator burr and senator warner had a joint press conference this week. i think they clearly laid out that they're going wherever the facts take them. we don't need yet another investigation. we know the fbi's looking at it from their perspective. it's being handled appropriately, and it will be handled well. chris: you have promised that the senate will confirm judge neil gorsuch to the u.s. supreme court by friday. two questions. one, do you stand by that schedule, friday vote; and, two, do you have the eight votes of democrats so that you can beat a filibuster? >> well, look, judge gorsuch deserves to be confirmed, you know? unanimously well-qualified by the american bar association, my counterpart, senator schumer, once called it the gold standard. in the majority 99% of the time, 97% of his rulings were unanimous, only reversed one time in a case in which he participated by the supreme court. president obama's former acting solicitor general said there's no principled reason to pose him. that's why he'll ultimately be confirmed. exactly how that happ

how about a round of applause for that last panel, ivanka, dean, will burr. it's a pleasure to welcome you to the white house. thank you so much. i want to thank everyone

the senate committee, burr and warner, had a joint press conference last week. they basically locked arms and said we're going to go wherever the facts take us. i think the american people can depend on the senate intelligence committee investigation to be done on a bipartisan basis and to go wherever the facts lead us. >> so basically, what you're saying is that the president's description of this investigation is fake news, nonsense, phony, total scam. those are phrases he's used since he became president on this. they don't apply as far as you're concerned? >> i'm not characterizing what the president is saying. what i'm telling the american people is they can depend on the senate intelligence committee to do a credible bipartisan investigation and tell us where the facts led them. >> have you seen any evidence -- you're part of this -- there's a lot of gangs when it comes to describing members of the u.s. senate. there is a gang of eight and you're a member of one of these gangs that gets high-level classified intelligence briefings. the same ones that the i

burr it was a lot of uncertainty, and information process. mean, uncertainty, and information process. | mean, were uncertainty, and information process. i mean, were people frightened were people panicking, how would you assess the mood and people's reactions? i think the reaction overall were quite impressive. people were quiet strong. the biggest fright we had

i want to return to a conversation we had with ivanka and will burr. as we think about our skill sets, in new york city, our public high school graduation rate is at 0%. but the readiness of our students for college and careers is only 37%. it's assessed at 37%. so as we look at the pace of change, we look at the digital transformation we see in business and the marketplace and we look at the skills that we -- the disconnect between what employers need and what our students coming into our work forces are prepared to deliver, it would be great to get your thoughts on the priorities of the administration around

we also have asked chairman richard burr to join the program and hope he will do so soon. let me begin with the question of today's testimony. what is the takeaway from what you heard today? sen. warner: today's testimony focused on the foundation. what did the russians do, why did they do it? this is part of russian doctrine that goes back to the oviet era of spreading misinformation and disinformation. they have now taken it to a much more modern space in terms of using cyber techniques. so it was revalidated one more time. i think everyone with perhaps the president would accept the russians were behind the d.n.c. hack, the hack of the john podesta emails. they were behind the use of distributing fake news. the way they do this is they have close to 1000 paid

or smarter for north carolina than richard burr. what we have seen last week in the press conference with mark warner in the previous hearings is that it is true for the entire country as well. when it comes to general flynn, there's a lot of questions to general flynn and a lot of questions about general flynn. while you were on commercial, i was e-mailing to someone working on one of the investigations about where they are on this, and the reply i got about general flynn was his lawyers appear to be nuts. that is not a great endorsement. >> wow. >> well, let's talk about his lawyers. because general flynn's lawyer, we know, was somewhat anti-trump during the campaign. in fact, we have some tweets that flynn's lawyer, robert kilner said during the campaign, he said, donald trump is the bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being i have ever known, #manchuriancandidate. he also said, i have a fantasy that pence resigns and makes a fiery speech invoking reagan as he condemns trump. humor me. what go you make of that, doug? >> any ti

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knowledge of private conversations says it took senator warner and gop committee chairman richard burr nearly two months to negotiate with the intelligence community for access to sensitive information. the a spokesman for senator burr declined to comment though last month he described the committee's access as unprecedented. >> they have been prove vieded thousands of documents and have reviewed to date the majority of documents. we're within weeks completing the review of those dock snumts more than a month ago senator ron wyden wrote senators warner and burr demanding, quote, a thorough review of any and all financial relationships between russia and president trump and his associates. to date that portion of the investigation has yet to begin. >> i think this must move much more aggressively # and particularly on the key issues, open hearings and fog the money, and i have made it very clear to the bipartisan leadership of the committee that this needs to move faster, and it needs be more transparent. >> reporter: republicans and others on the intelligence equipmenty dispute the com

and versus richard burr, i worked for him, you don't see mark warner or richard burr in front of tv. for nunes, it's good if you're a republican and like donald trump. >> there's a sense for a lot of people on the republican side this will be a mammoth investigation, this whole leak situation with susan rice there is more there. therefore, they don't want anything to screw this up. they view this as an unneeded distraction, get somebody in there and plow ahead so that doesn't become the subject. >> it will go on, susan rice, it will go to donald j. trump. we have a national security advisor, general flynn disgraced kicked out 24 days into his term for lying to the russians. an attorney general who had to step aside and recuse himself from an investigation because he lied to the senate about contacts with the russians. and devin nunes had no contact with the russians but they need an independent nonpartisan investigation. >> that's why nunes had to go. >> i thought he sounded really bipartisan. i'm embracing congressman conaway who will now run as a republican for texas being praised

i haven't seen evidence of chairman burr slow walking this.i do, i'm going to poke him. >> let me know. i'll give you a good platform for poking right here on "new day," sir. so this meeting with the full senate and president for a briefing on north korea, unusual. what do you make of it? what do you make of the white house's posturing on north korea? >> well, it's not unusual in the scene we have these kinds of briefings quite frequently. we had one three weeks ago, two and a half weeks ago on the strike into syria, but what's unusual is going to the white house. the logistics, i frankly don't understand why it's not easier to bring four people here than it is to take 100 there. i'm not sure why they are doing it that way. i'm going to certainly go because i want to hear from general mattis and secretary of state tillerson, the various people that are going to be briefing us. so you know, here or there, i think the important thing is to get the information. in terms of north korea, as you have been discussing all morning, this is a really, re

chairman burr has spoken about the first prerequisite, unwavering integrity. in addressing director pompeo's fitness for his position, chairman burr rightly observed that because the cia is an agency that works in the shadow, it requires a leader to be unwavering in integrity to ensure that the operation opera operates ethically and morally. i believe the same holds true for its general counsel. i hope and believe that people who know me well will tell you that i'm a person of integrity. i certainly have lived my life with that goal at the forefront of my mind. a second prerequisite for the job is independence. there have been many times in my life where it would have been easier to go along to get along. but i haven't done so. when the law or circumstances have required, i have told clients and superiors things they didn't want to hear. if i were not prepared to do the same in this position, i would not accept the challenge. and if confirmed for this position, i will tell the attorneys of the office that i expect the same from them. but these qualities, integ

burr: dr. rumer would you , like to take the opportunity to address in greater detail what the russians are doing in the french and german elections? dr. rumer: well, sir, there's a wide effort in the german election to build up this far right party, alternative for germany, adf, to use them as sort of a credible challenger to chancellor angela merkel. there are countless stories that are being spread through fake mediaites, preferring the , about the failures of chancellor merkel. they, as others have pointed out have exploited the story about , the girl that was not raped , but to again discredit her in the eyes of the general public so as to, you know, point out her failure to protect germany against the flood of refugees. that's one of the major policy initiatives that she took when the syria crisis broke out. in the french election, we just just saw something that really was staggering and that is president putin hosted in the kremlin the leading far right candidate and almost with a smirk

no one is saying richard burr shouldn't be in charge of an investigation of the white house on these issues. so, you know, that makes it even more sort of troubling frankly for him because nunes in comparison to burr looks like the best he's sort of bumbled this a little bit and that's going to really undermine anyone's confidence in him. in the white house i think it helps them a bit and speaker seems to have full support of him right now. i don't think he's going anywhere. >> john, i did not mean josh, i meant john. even though i did call you josh. i get called lui all the time but it's lui. kelly, on that note that john's bringing up here, when we look at the senate and i asked again representative kildee did he lose confidence in his own -- in the house's investigation, and is he now looking at the senate for what might be the true closest to an independent investigation into those big questions about the russia connection question. are we there? is that basically where it's going to end up, kelly? >> well, i think it's very telling that we've heard about of course general flynn

so i know that senator warner and senator burr and intelligence committee will be very careful here. and it is just way too early as adam schiff said today to be talking about anything like this. and i know they won't be doing anything about it without talking to the justice department if this is an ongoing investigation as we believe it is. >> senator, let's talk about pli political irony here. you're not been around as long as i have, but i got to tell you there is an old phrase what goes around comes around and here are these people that were trucking in the business of saying we're going to put people in jail like it's soerk somewhere, pakistan, where are if you lose an location, we put you away. they were talking like that just a few months ago and now talking immunity. did you think of the phrase lock her up when they were throwing that line out in cleveland? >> as a former prosecutor and someone who has had to be very careful before you jump to those conclusions, i can't tell you when i had that job for eight years how many times i would say we are still looking at the evidenc

burr has not signed the letters.w the requests for the materials hasn't gone out. >> how long does it take to sign a letter? i signed two things today without -- >> there's the trump campaign itself, e-mail, phone records, memos. they haven't even been requested at this point. >> we will be in the mid-terms worrying how much hacking is going on. i'm exaggerating. nice to see you. >>> u.n. ambassador nicky is talking about strikes. >> does everybody like nikki haley? should we keep her? >> and what is this about, president obama, is he going to get more vocal? he took some subtle jabs at his party today. when heartburn hits, fight back fast with tums smoothies. it starts dissolving the instant it touches your tongue. and neutralizes stomach acid at the source. ♪ tum -tum -tum -tum smoothies! only from tums that gives you better taste and better nutrition in so many varieties. classic. cage free. and organic. only eggland's best. better taste. better nutrition. better eggs. gave us the power to turn this enemy into an

republicans are supporting burr.they believe that this investigation needs to be thorough and it could take time. >> has the senate committee had issues getting intelligence? >> indeed they have. there have been negotiations that took place for nearly two months, i am told, between richard burr and the top democrat on the committee with the intelligence community to get access to the top secret classified data. they have been going through that data over the last couple of weeks when they reached an agreement to actually look through that information. but there are concerns there's not enough staff members to go through the information. today they announced it hired two new staff members, a republican and a democrat, to go through -- help go through the information. the question is when do the trump associates come before the committee? we don't know that yet. >>> look closely. there's a little girl in the middle of the road. she fell out of a moving bus. thankfully, she's alive. what we know about her frightening fa

chairman burr, advice chairman warner, members of the committee. it is an honor to appear before you as the nominee to be general counsel of the central intelligence agency. i want to thank president trump and director pompeo for their trust and confidence in me. i also want to thank senator kaip kane for that nice production. it was a great privilege and pleasure to meet not just one but both of my home state senators as part of this process. i'd like to use this opportunity to tell you a little bit more about me and what i view as essential qualifications for a cia general counsel. i come from a national security family. as senator kaine alluded, my father devoted his life to the marine corps and to this country. he spent 36 years in uniform seeing active combat in world war ii, korea, and vietnam. there is little doubt that good intelligence kept him and his men alive during those years. he would later write about the remarkably good intelligence brought by bold foreign agents during his fight. when he returned home in 1970 run we are formed the

burr was stern. we know that our challenge, he said, is to answer that question for the american people. the senate investigation amounts to a correct test for republicans under the trump, a chance to prove their willingness to ask uncomfortable questions of a republican president, even if the answers might weaken his and the party's standing. democrats are skeptical, but they were also mindful of the senate most likely remains their best hope on capitol hill for gathering information, making them disinclined to abandon the senate intelligence committee's investigation. the f.b.i. is also investigating. on wednesday, mr. burr and his democratic counterpart on the committee, senator mark warner of virginia, offered some evidence of what they have reviewed so far, saying they have begun to schedule the first of at least 20 interviews. mr. warner drew attention to reports of perhaps 1,000 internet trolls in russia generating fiek fake news stories and targeting them at swing states like wisconsin, michi

senate intelligence committee chairman richard burr indicating that rice may be called to testify in the committee's investigation into russian's meddling in the 2016 election. burr's fellow republican senator john mckane conceding that the unmasking of names was legal while maintaining that rice's actions should be examined for any potential political motivation. >> she did have the authority to do it. what was the motivation for doing it? i think is the question. >> reporter: i'm reed binion reporting. >>> ivanka trump speaking out for the first time since she became assistant to the president. she is answering critics in an exclusive interview with "cbs this morning." >> if being complicit is wanting to be a force for good and to make a positive impact, then i'm complicit. i don't know that the critics who may say that of me, if they found themselves in this very unique and unprecedented situation that i am now in, would do any differently than i'm doing. so i hope to make a positive impact. i don't know what it means to be, um, complicit. um, but, um, but, you know, i hope time w

chairman. >> thank you, senator burr. if i may editorialize that's a commitment that almost all of us share. senator casey? >> doctor, good to be with you. thanks for coming to visit our office, to talk about some issues. i'll raise some other issues now that we didn't have a chance to review in my office. the first is the over the counter monograph system which many would argue is ineffective and in need of improvement and i've been working with senator isaacson legislation to reform the over counter-mono graph to modernize it and in particular to modernize the drug regulation and ensure that both safety and efficacy information is communicated to consumers in a timely fashion. so i would ask you first about that system, your view of it and secondly ask you if you would commit to work with us in this process to create a better, safer and more efficient regulatory structure for over-the-counter drugs. >> thank you for the question, senator. any time a problem persists from when i was there ten years ago to today is an ind

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and i think that chairman burr is wrong that it's not entirely in his committee's purview. let's not forget general flynn was the head of an american intelligence service before he left to join the trump campaign. so chairman burr should be very interested what the head of an intelligence service has been up to. >> listen to what elijah cummings said today about the white house response to this and the investigation's interest in getting help from the white house. >> i honestly do not understand why the white house is covering up for michael flynn. i don't get it. after the president fired him for lying. >> these guys are playing games. and when you see mr. spicer, you can tell him i said that today. they're playing games. they have told us they have documents. and then they said executive privilege. and then they said some of them are before the inauguration. the republicans are not helping us. you got to understand that. they are not helping. we cannot come to a conclusion here and get the documents, then they'll have to be subpoenas. >> michael isikoff, where is this hea

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house and trying to prop up trump and where you have the democrat and north carolina senator richard burr, a republican, who is the chair who was a trump supporter, they've come out and struck a different tone with their hearing and saying there is evidence to this effect. >> let's listen to this. >> you understand we're not going to get into sources and methods. if not, who is ever going to come to our committee? but i can tell you that those reports are mostly wrong. >> mostly wrong? >> has he lost credibility, jay? >> it's clear that it's difficult for nunes to conduct this investigation. adam schiff, the top democratic on that committee saying it's really impossible for them to continue this hearing, this investigation on the house side. it has, in fact, strengthened calls from some members on both sides of the aisle for an independent group to investigate this because it's clear that congress is having a lot of problems doing it. that said, there is still a lot of confidence in the senate process. you have richard burr and mark warner, republican and democrat, working together quite

conduct this partisan they started exercise, sure we can trace it all the way back to the hamilton burr duel. the fact of the matter is that republicans blocked merrick garland using the mostck unprecedented maneuvers. now we are likely to block judge gorsuch and that means that neither party has gotten their party's choice in the last two years. so mr. president, we can go baco and forth and blame each other, but in the recent history of the vacancy caused by justice scalia step, we both lost. we lost merrick garland because of the majority leader's unprecedented loc aid and republicans will lose on judge gorsuch because we are doing something that we think is reasonable and asking he be able to earn 60 votes as so many others have. we think the two are notbo equivalent, but in either case, we both lost. we are back to square one and republicans have total freedom of choice in this situation. no one is forcing them to break the rules. they don't have to treat the nuclear option as if it is their first and only option. it is a bold choice. to my friends on the other side, the answer isn

>> we're doing a bipartisan investigation thanks to the great leadership of senator burr our chairman and our vice chairman, senator mark warner, and leaders like angus king, who i think you'll be hearing from shortly. we're trying to avoid the distractions outside of the senate intelligence committee's investigation. we are well under way, getting unprecedented access to raw intelligence from the intelligence community to get to the bottom of this. we want to understand the extent to which russia has attempted to influence and interfere in our elections and to undermine our democracy and also the look at things like unprecedented perhaps illegal leaks of classified information. >> dickerson: i want to get to that question of leaks in a minute, but this question of whether there are any ties to the trump campaign, that's a legitimate area of enquiry. the committee is engaged in that. it's in the a witch-hunt. >> it is a legitimate area of enquiry. the former director of national intelligence james clapper said earlier last month that there was no evidence of collusion with the parties

now on the senate side, we've seen comedy between senator warner and senator burr. but at the same time senator warner and his staff can only move as fast as the majority is willing to take them in this case. >> matthew, there is this report in tim's story that is interesting about possible witnesses. it says the committee has sent letters to various individuals and entities to ask them to preserve documents relevant to the investigation. carter page, roger stone and federal agencies have reportedly been among the subjects of these requests. what are the legal implications of those requests? >> i think what they're trying to do is put people on notice that if you destroy documents after receiving this notice, you can potentially be charged with obstructing of justice. that was their way of at least showing, trying to show the world that they are taking this investigation seriously. but i think what tim's reporting and other reports we have seen today shows is that chairman burr might not be. and you go back to february when we found out that chairman burr had gotten

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partisan, they started an exercise, i'm sure we could trace this all the way back to the hamilton burr duel. at the end of the day, they have to confront the simple choice. are you willing to break the rules of the senate or can you work with us on the way forward? i for one hope that we can find a way to compromise. justice gorsuch, judge gorsuch was not compromised.merric so was chosen with any consultations totes not that there is merely equivalency. as my friend the majority leader has said, quote, i think we can stipulate that in the senat citt takes 60 votes on controversial matters. if anything is a controversial, important matter, it's at the selection of the supreme court. and senator mcconnell has v repeatedly stood for the need,, the ripeness, of 60 votes on important and controversial issues.0 if senator mcconnell wants to change his view on the 60 votes all of a sudden, and republicans decide to go along with him, it won't be because democrats started it because that's not true. it will be because democrats won't confirm any president trump nominated justice because that's

i think that senator burr has moved too slowly. he's eventually done the right thing, but he has to be prodded every step of the way, and i don't think that's good. >> reporter: would you urge him to step aside from this investigation? >> well, i have some faith in mark warner, and so far, mark has done things, you know, gotten the things we've needed. it's just taken a very long time. >> reporter: you also called on jeff sessions to resign as attorney general because he did not disclose those contacts that he had with the russian ambassador. do you think they would be worthwhile for sessions himself to be interviewed by the senate intelligence committee? >> yeah, i think -- look, there are lots of questions about jeff sessions. that's why i called for him to resign, and the attorney general's a special office. it's the chief law enforcement of the land. you have to be impeccable. so, if there are outstanding questions about you, as there have been with jeff sessions, a, i don't think that person is the right person for attorney ge

i found this piece pretty eye opening because we all watched richard burr stand up there and they werepposite of what we've seen with nunez on the outside which has been wildly dysfunctional and said we're going to get to the bottom of this. read your piece and they haven't done anything. >> right. maybe it was suppose to be the adults in the room. they were working together, methodically getting to the bottom of this. when you actually look at what they've done and what they haven't done, it is pretty stunning because they have a limited staff, until now it's been three republican staffers. two democratic staffers, one of whom is a junior aid who is going to law school who had been going down the viewing intelligence community documents that went into that january 6th assessment concluding that vladimir putin had campaign in the election to help elect donald trump. that's all well and good but to the questions that have been raised ever since donald trump took office, even before he took office, about whether there was collusion, about whether there was collaboration, about some of th

how about a round of applause for that last panel, ivanka, dean, will burr. it's a pleasure to welcome you to the white house. thank yoo