chaffetz: i would like to ask a question.oes the ranking member believe this committee should do an investigation of the dccc? rep. cummings: i think we can look at some things. but what the gentleman is saying is look at things that are unclassified, and apparently he has reports in his hand, and we can see where we go from there. number two, as i said before, we have a bill that i think would resolve this issue very nicely. i think the thing i am most concerned about, and i'm sure mr. lynch is concerned, is we should not turn a blind eye to when we have 17 intelligence agencies who unanimously agreed that there has been hacking with regard to our elections. one of the things i have noticed, there is an effort not by you, mr. chairman, but by i accept that president trump is my president. but the idea that russia could come in and interfere with our elections, all of us should be going berserk. we should be really upset. all i am saying to you is that i think all the gentleman is saying is he has documents that you have ente

you saw it at the chaffetz thing yesterday.he tea party groups in 2010, 2009-2010 at those town hall meetings were adopting left-wing disruption tactics. the left wing is going to be a lot better at using those disruption tactics against the republican congressmen than the tea partiers were in adopting them. >> hunter? >> the big question here is whether or not conservatives and independents are going to be swayed to kind of join this "resistance" movement. jason chaffetz is in a district that's about 70% republican. and if i had to congress, i'd say most of those people shouting at him at the town hall are from the 30% that are not republicans. and the only thing that will move members of congress is their own poll numbers. and you know, in this country, where half of the people are democrats and half are republicans, we need to see a sort of shift for people to care at all. >> well, and erin, that speaks to the wider point, which is you mentioned some of the tea party folks. some of those were in primaries and there were angr

our kuhn law was there. >> reporter: the congressman jason chaffetz.ed out. >> i'm trying to be as representative as i can. >> reporter: a crowd of 1,000 viscerally tired of d.c. blagter. >> why don't you check out your own president right know -- >> reporter: another 1,000 people say police outside. [ chanting ]. >> reporter: congressman chaffetz seeing firsthand the angry tide of voters. in california protesters swarmed this town hall chasing out the congressman. from nebraska to pennsylvania to indiana. knocking on district doors, sitting in uninvited. channelling post election anger, a progressive movement called indivisible. >> you will have three simple targets, your two u.s. senators and your representative. >> reporter: indivisible was founded by former congressional staffers who saw firsthand the power of the tea party to stall president obama's agenda. indivisible plans 3,000 groups and 100,000 members across every congressional district. >> these are the things we need to ask jason chaffetz. >> reporter: it's organized. donald live streaming

chaffetz had to ask to recommend the punishment. typically the president does that, because he's related to the person in question, can't do that. what's interesting here, this is a line with -- in which chaffetz thought that you just couldn't cross. which is interesting. he hasn't been critical of this administration so far. we were wondering when that would break. and so the fact that chaffetz here has to say, look, this is out of bounds, is really telling. and what's telling about that town hall too is chaffetz won with over 70% of the vote, but that district is not entirely favorable to trump. it's a republican district. but i think you're going to be seeing this, the question is, you know, whether this is organic, organized, and what kind of pressure is actually puts on trump. when does this get to the president? >> sam, i wonder what you make of that? first of all, chaffetz a big name republican breaking with the white house. also just that scene yesterday of sean spicer saying kellyanne conway had been counciled. this is an a

congressman chaffetz seeing the national tide of angry voters.otestsers swarmed this town hall chatsing out the congressman. from nebraska, to pennsylvania to indiana. knocking on district doors, sitting in uninvited. channeling post election anger, a progressive movement called indivisible. >> you will have two simple targets, your two u.s. senators and representative. >> reporter: it was founded by congressional staffers who saw powers to stall president obama's agenda. it clims 3,000 groups and 100,000 members. >> these are the things we need to ask chaffetz. >> reporter: it's organized and to indivisible utah. 24 hours before chaffetz's town hall. >> this is in response to the election. >> 100%. from one donald to another, i'm not going anywhere and there are millions of people like me that are going nowhere. and for the next four years, we will be at everybody's door step. >> reporter: the new administration is noticing. white house press secretary sean spicer dismissed these protesters as professional alz. >> they know the tea party was a o

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apparatus of the trump administration. >> reporter: this afternoon the oversight chairman jason chaffetzays there is one white house move he wants to investigate. he sent a letter to white house chief of staff reince priebus asking for more information about those sensitive national security conversations that the president appeared to have out in the open at mar-a-lago. scott? >> nancy cordes on capitol hill. >>> the president has said many times that he would prefer better relations with russia, but now moscow is putting that to the test as david martin reports from the pentagon. >> reporter: cruise missiles are a staple of the russian military arsenal, but one particular type, a land-based cruise missile with a range greater than 300 miles, is specifically banned by a treaty signed by ronald reagan and mikhail gorbachev in tin the cold war. now u.s. officials say russia has deployed just such a missile, capable of carrying a nuclear warhead. it happened secretly in december during the obama administration, but it is now up to president trump to respond to a deployment which u.s. offic

purview of the intel committee. >> reporter: maryland's elijah cummings is the top democrat on chaffetz's committee. >> our committee held three or four emergency hearings on hillary clinton in the matter of a week or two, and if there is any emergency at this moment in the history of this country, this is the moment. >> reporter: senate republicans showed more interest than their house counterparts, calling on flynn to testify. intelligence chair richard burr. >> we intend to cast as wide a net to get answers to all the questions. >> reporter: arizona's john mccain warned that flynn is a symptom of a larger problem. >> i think there is significant dysfunction in the national security apparatus of the trump administration. >> reporter: this afternoon the oversight chairman jason chaffetz says there is one white house move he wants to investigate. he sent a letter to white house chief of staff reince priebus asking for more information about those sensitive national security conversations that the president appeared to have out in the open at mar-a-lago. scott? >> nancy cordes on capitol h

. >>> rb congressman jason chaffetz face off with fiery o protesters last night but there was one thing they agree on. >> kellyanne conway was wrong. >>> millions are strugen after a massive snowstorm slammed the northeast. >>> good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs headquarters here in new york. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. it is unlikely the court battle over president trump's travel ban is over. the administration suffer a setback yesterday, though, when a federal court of appeals unanimously ruled against reinstating the ban. the justice department says it's considering its options. hena daniels is here in new york with the details. good morning, hena. >> good morning, anne-marie. president trump is vowing to keep up the fight after a major setback over his travel ban. speaking just after the ruling the president said the decision was political. president trump is not backing down after a three-judge panel in san francisco refused to reinstate his travel ban. >> we have a situation where the security of our country is at stake. >> the justice department had ar

and chaffetz sent a letter saying should be investigated.howing the republicans are getting nervous that the trump white house is not in control of the ethics issues. >> play this first and you can respond. kellyanne conway responded. >> i'm not going to comment on that narmartha, nothing more toy about it. >> the letter from chaffetz and cummings in the house to the kboft ethics board. they say consider that potentially a serious violation of the government ethics code. we're reviewing that internally. i'm just really happy. i spent a lot of time with the president of the united states this afternoon and he supports me 100%. >> you spoke about that matter and he is not -- doesn't have intention to suspend you? >> spoke about a range of matters and he supports me 100%. it was heartening moment. all i can say to america's women, at some point in your life you ought to have a boss that treated me the way the president of the united states treated me today. >> david. >> i think i admire people who are loyal to employees under the fire. good for

chairman chaffetz, thank you very much.oining us now with more, marc thiessen, fellow at the american enterprise institute and fox news' contributor. austan goolsbee and mara liasso mara liasson. welcome to all of you. good to have you here tonight. let me start with you. what is your reaction to the inspector general call from chairman chaffetz? >> it is interesting. congress will investigate this. i want to say, the first time on this show for me, i'm glad to be here with two people i really respect a lot. [laughter] congress is looking into this and to some extent, republicans are investigating this even though they didn't want to be investigating their own president. chaffetz is looking into one aspect of it. they are a lot of investigations that are happening on capitol hill. i think it's a good thing. i think there are so many questions about this whole story that don't make sense. npr has found out that so far, nobody has uncovered evidence of criminal wrongdoing, so, the question is why would flynn lie to mike pence

congressman chaffetz was raucus.re were hundreds who said they could not get in due to the large crowd already inside. many here said they were angry over congressman chaffetz support of the president and were upset about recent actions taken by mr. trump, including his attempt to ban travel for refugees from seven mostly muslim countries. a couple of other examples. california gop congressman tom mcclintock had to be escorted out of a town hall meeting saturday after rowdy protesters moved in on him. >> this is not what democracy looks like! >> heather: diane black was booed by planned parenthood supporters. others at similar events say they were worried about what was going to happen about the replacement of obama care. >> heather: there's a term for this. it's called astro turf. means people come in from outside their district. not to say some weren't from the member district. if you found out and others found out others weren't constituents after all. >> right. that's a big question here. we did start to hear abo

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not with jared kushner, not with ivanka herself. >> lawrence, you just mentioned congressman chaffetz. i think we have some sound from the town hall he had tonight and this came up. [ "do your job" ] >> hold on, when kellyanne conway said what she said about buying that particular product, that was wrong, wrong, wrong. i called it out. they need to investigate it, what kellyanne conway was wrong, it should never happen again and there should be some accountability there. >> eugene, i just called you my first tv husband by the wrong name. i am deeply sorry. but, eugene, what is the cross pressure with republicans on the hill on the ethics front? republicans -- we suffered so many losses as a party for getting branded with all the scandals and all the resignations and all the lobbying, abramoff. is there a fear of this sort of ethics problem hanging over the party's brand? >> yeah, there's a fear of that and there is also a fear of crossing president trump, you know. and also angering constituents. so, it's fascinating because republican congressmen these days have had two sets of anger

republican house oversight chairman chaffetz wrapping up a pretty fiery town hall here. challenged all about the trump travel ban. this is brand new. a voter asking why those seven countries were picked in the ban while other countries with a more demonstrated set of immigrant threats, pakistan and saudi arabia and 9/11 hijackers were from, why weren't they included? >> she asked a very good question of pakistan and saudi arabia. honestly, i don't know the answer. >> i don't know the answer. our political panel's going to weigh in on all of this. travel ban, the breaking news and this set back for the trump administration straight ahead. now? excuse me. again? be right back. always running to the bathroom because your bladder is calling the shots? you may have oab. enough of this. we're going to the doctor. take charge and ask your doctor about myrbetriq. that's myr-be-triq, the first and only treatment in its class for oab symptoms of urgency frequency, and leakage. myrbetriq (mirabegron) may increase blood pressure. tell your doctor right away if you have trouble empty

we saw in utah, residents looking chaffetz in the face saying do your job. they were not talking about something specific. they were talking broadly. to see him suggest that there could be leaks that are more important and what could come is problematic to many of the voters. >> some are concerned that some of the information that could come out during the congressional investigations could be classified information and the worry that classified information could be leaked to the detriment of the united states. >> sure. what democrats are saying, the broader concern at this point is national security. if conservatives are committed to national security as trump kpa campaigned on, they want to get to the bottom. >> eugene, stick around. we have more to discuss in the next half hour. >>> meeting overseas for the newly minted secretary of state. his first face-to-face in that position with his russian counterpart. this an mornimong the swirling with the campaign. we will discuss that next. why do some cash back cards make earning bonus cash back so complicated?

. >> reporter: congressman jason chaffetz vigorously led the investigation into hillary clinton's e-mails. but says he has no plans to investigate flynn's ties to russia. >> we've been asking for months for basic oversight but our chairman jason chaffetz has not lifted one finger. >> reporter: chaffetz is, however, investigating whether white house counselor kellyanne conway crossed a line by promoting ivanka trump's brand on television. >> i fully -- i'm going to give a free commercial here. >> reporter: this as chaffetz demands answers into these pictures, the president and the japanese prime minister at mar-a-lago huddling with advisers after learning north korea launched a missile. club members witnessing it all, some posting pictures on facebook raising security questions. >> look at mar-a-lago you'll look at kellyanne conway and ivanka brand but not >> at this point, i am holding out all my options. >> reporter: mary bruce, abc news, washington. >> mary, thanks. >>> the president is scheduled to hold a joint news conference at noon eastern today with prime minister benjamin netanyah

our chairman jason chaffetz has not lifted one finger. >> reporter: chaffetz is, however, investigating whether white house counselor kellyanne conway crossed a line by promoting ivanka trump's brand on television. >> she is just -- it's a wonderful line. i own some of it. i'm going to give a free commercial here. go buy it online! >> reporter: today, the office of government ethics said there is "strong reason to believe" conway violated ethics rules and recommended "disciplinary action against her." this as chaffetz demands answers into these pictures -- the president and the japanese prime minister at mar-a-lago, huddling with advisors after learning north korea launched a missile, club members witnessing it all, some posting pictures on facebook raising security questions. so you'll look at mar-a-lago, you'll look at kellyanne conway and the ivanka brand, but not the trump team's ties to russia? >> at this point, i am holding out all my options. >> holding out options, mary bruce. live on the hill tonight, and how likely is it we'll see general flynn called to the hill to testify? >

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should ben chaffetz pursuing these leads. it has been a month. republicans, you won.hey need to go back to being america's party, not putin's party. this at the end of the program. several guests joining us this morning. .he first is william mauldin we will talk about the future of after theecially visit from the canadian prime minister yesterday and statements made by both about the agreement and what might take place as renegotiations take place. two, we will be joined by republican members of congress. one representing the freedom caucus and the other representing the study committee. how they plan to go forward in a republican congress under the republican white house. those conversations and more coming up when "washington journal" continues. ♪ i had a piece of information that bob would have wanted. i did not articulate that to myself. when i look back and ask myself why i did this bad and stupid thing, i think that's what it comes down to. , barbara feynman talks about working as a researcher and ghost writer for hillary clinton mcardl mccullouh bernstein and b

and it's a big deal to chairman chaffetz. >> it appears mr.dn't want to take questions about general flynn who is under criticism with those contacts with the russian ambassador, perhaps misleading the vice president, as well. do you agree with nancy pelosi that his security clearance should be revoked pending the completion of the investigation? >> yeah, i think that's an appropriate action. but, george, there's something else that needs to be asked. that is -- did the president instruct general flynn to talk to the ambassador? and did he know about it? if he knew about this conversation, when did he know it? that, to me, that is the key question. and we need to find out what that answer is. now, keep in mind, that he really -- that is general flynn, put the vice president in a very awkward and a very sad position. to have him go out national media and say that these were just some casual conversations that had nothing to do with the sanctions and then for general flynn to be walking that back, that's not good enough. he is a national securit

jason chaffetz also drafting a bill to allow federal agencies to move out of d.c. to other, less expensive parts of the country that could have a huge impact on the local work force. >> nice try, trying to get some answers. >> scared him out of the room. >> all too used to it. >>> senator tim kaine may have a reelection battle on his hands. carly fiorina said that she is considering running against kaine in 2018. but she acknowledged it is too early to make that decision. she has been living in fairfax county for the past six years now. senator kaine has already said he will run for a second term. >>> crime was the big topic at a metro board meeting today after the agencies police chief released his report. and there is more good news than bad. as first reported by news4, overall crime on metro is down and transit police have been doing a better job with fare evasion. they say that's because they have identified the areas where most people are getting past without paying. also the possibility of allowing vendors to sell food and drinks during the evening rush hour.

>> chaffetz.'s going to investigate a few lines of confidential information that were released in multi-hundred e-mails with hillary clinton for several years, you have the president just here talking about what's going to happen with north korea. he practically briefed an entire dinner party in top secret, special access program, information in public, which is essentially, you know, it's the indy 500 of releasing -- >> we actually have those photos. louise, i want to bring our audience up to speed. that was saturday night at mar-a-lago, president trump sitting at the dinner table with his dinner guests, possibly looking at images or information at least around that north korea missile test that happened over the weekend. what is stunning to your point that president trump just tweeted out concerns about leaks coming from washington when he himself may have been leaking information right there. people may have been taking photos. >> oh, please. after the steel dossier, if i were donald trump, i w

on donald trump. >> there is angst in chaffetz's district.pite his move to seek disciplinary action for trump advisor kellyanne conway, there was concern whether as chair of the g.o.p. house oversight committee, chaffetz will investigate potentially questionable dealings in the trump administration. >> the town hall took place and reliably democratic salt lake city. a contrast from earlier in the week when chaffetz met face-to-face with president trump. >> it was an honor to meet with the president. doesn't happen every day. first time i have been in the oval office. >> the republican from utah is not alone in finding frustration at home paid california g.o.p. congressman tom mcclintock had to be escorted out of a town hall meeting recently. rowdy protesters furious over his support for the travel ban. >> this is a long, long way away from any other kind of kumbaya out moment. the polarization, the political dysfunction, they are all going to continue. >> if all this looks and sounds familiar, think back to the election of president obama in

amy: crowd members booed as chaffetz took the stage. they chanted, "let them in!"s at least a thousand more people were denied entrance to the packed high school auditorium. protesters demanded that chaffetz launch ethics investigations into president trump and other administration officials over numerous conflicts of interest. other protesters called out chaffetz over his support for selling off public lands in utah and across the southwest. in north dakota, construction crews have resumed work on the final section of the dakota access pipeline, after the trump administration granted an easement to allow energy transfer partners to drill beneath the missouri river. the construction resumed as opponents of the pipeline filed a last-ditch legal challenge in a federal court in washington, d.c. thursday. they're seeking an order halting construction while a separate lawsuit filed by the standing rock sioux tribe proceeds in court. u.s. district judge james boasberg says he'll hear arguments on the motion on monday. in syria, russian airstrikes killed three turkish sol

chaffetz is an old friend of the show. chaffetz is chair of the house oversight committee, which is responsible for holding a president accountable and investigating any president if necessary. chaffetz said, "before my bum even hit the chair, the president said, 'no oversight. you can't talk about anything that has to do with oversight.'" and then described a chitty-chatty president eager to learn about postal service reforms. naturally, trump wants to know about postal service reforms. he needs to know how many stamps to put on chaffetz' balls when he mails them back to him. ( cheers and applause ) ( laughter ) what else? oh, president trump's travel ban was in court yesterday, and as of this taping, we still don't know what the ruling is. i'm tivo-ing democracy. so don't tell me how it ends. and earlier today president trump was on twitter again, pressuring the judges to uphold his ban, tweeting: "big increase in traffic into our country from certain areas, while our people are far more vulnerable, as we wait for what s

they want chaffetz to know we're not happy.t down miss conway for supporting ivanka trump and plugging her. i don't see anything wrong with what they're doing. >> except that it's stepping business from getting done. that's what the americans want. they want to see economic growth, job opportunities. >> it's not going to happen. we're going to have coal dumped into our rivers. betsy devos stepping into a public school for the first time in our life. we're seeing dodd-frank. we want the banks to have less regulatio regulation. we're not draining the swamp. >> the little guys did want this. the fact is, we have not seen 3% growth at all under president obama. people want to know why they're wages haven't moved in 20 years. >> not only have we not seen economic growth, we have not seen anything. it's gridlock. the voters rejected the policies of incrementalism. they want sweeping change. that's why they wanted government control at the el if a level and did it in state capitols. that i flipped the keys to the republicans and said

it was questioned by the republican chair jason chaffetz. that is hardly no one. let me move on to the question about voter fraud as well. president trump, on voter fraud, suggested in a meeting with senators, that thousands of illegal voters were bused from massachusetts to new hampshire and that caused his defeat in the state of new hampshire and the defeat of senator kelly ayotte. it's prompted a response. ellen winetraub said i call upon the president to immediately share new hampshire voter fraud evidence so that his allegations can be investigated promptly. do you have that evidence? >> i actually, having worked on a campaign before in new hampshire. i can tell you that this issue of busing voters into new hampshire is widely known by anyone working new hampshire politics. it's very real. very serious. this morning, on this show, is not the venue for me to lay out all the evidence. i can tell you this, voter fraud is a serious problem in the country. you have millions of people who are registered in two states. who are dead who are registered to vote. you ha

hotel is up in the air since the aformation jason chaffetz is the chair.last week, chaffetz requested an unredacted copy of the hotel's leasing contract, a potentially hopeful sign, however we don't know if he'll follow through with a good-faith investigation. but we do know the d.c. hotel is not the only major conflict of interest for the current president and what if i were to tell you one member of the first family put in writing their intention to cash in on the presidency. that is thing 2 in 60 seconds. >>> today, a settlement was reached between first lady melania trump and a maryland blogger. in a defamation suit over an article the blogger published last summer. the first lady's also suing the british tabloid the "daily mail" for defamation over a similar article they published. according to the lawsuit filed yesterday, her lawyers made this remarkable statement about damages to america's first lady. "as a result of defendant's publication of defamatory statements about plaintiff melania trump, her brand has lost significant value and a major busin

jason chaffetz won re-election with 73.5% of the vote.people interviewed that were at this were not local constituents they came in from scottsdale, arizona driving over 600 miles to protest him. this is something all together different. it has a bit of a feel of grassroots, of astro turf instead of grassroots activism. and it, you know, it's definitely something real that's happening. there is a lot of outrage on the left. but this is a little bit too incoherent to be compared to a tea party protest. >> martha: just staying with you for a second, molly, are they all democrats and liberals or some of these people never trumpers? we saw what happened in utah during the presidential election and perhaps some of them weren't happy with him for sort of the flip flop on president trump? >> right. well, another place where there was a protest was tennessee where diane black had her town hall protested. that's a state that went overwhelmingly for trump. whereas with utah even though he beat hillary clinton by almost 20 points, there was a large

chaffetz is like an exterminator who comes in the kitchen, turns the lights on, roaches run and he's,ght. nothing to do here. ( laughter ) another interesting reaction from new york congressman chris collins. i've never heard of this guy before today, bu but i will nevr forget him now. >> you have no curiosity about this even though it deals with the heart of national security? >> well, to be honest, i just live in a world where i always move forward. in a busy world, you don't dwell on the last at this point in time general flynn decided to resign -- >> come on, congressman. it's valentine's day and for the love of truth you can't say you just want to move on. >> it's the world i live in. i call it a guess what now what world. guess what he resigned, now what, we have a lot of issues to deal with. >> trevor: guess what, that's bull (bleep), now what we're going to make fun of your ass. we live in a guess what now what kind of a world. kind of like a douchebag "hakuna matata." guess what, simba, your dad died. now what? we dance! ha ha! ( laughter ) during a scandal like this, to be h