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i am here to offer a cautionary note about congressional transparency. to be candid this is not a comfortable position to be in. transparency is an important value and one that is essential to the democratic process. professionally as a political scientist i need transparency to do research. my goal today is to point to some of the unanticipated consequences of prior transparency reforms and to recommend that you consider how transparency can negatively effect deliberative processes. transparency burdens to liberation in two key ways. one, it empowers organized groups to press their demands in the legislative process. two , it tends to divert congressional discourse outward towards rather than problem solving. deliberation is the key concern. congress should make information about policy not b difficult for americans to find out what was done or how their representatives voted. americans should be informed about how taxpayer money is being spent and whether governmental purposes are being achiev achieved. any innovations in data sharing or search capabil

i wanted to give a shoutout to the congressional app challenge. we might be needing to talk to some sixth graders and 12th graders about how to help us with this and i'm kind of serious. >> maybe the app challenge should be only focused on things that will make congress work better. yeah. next year's app challenge. we have the technology. so we have a little bit of time before votes are called. i think there are some members of the committee who have other questions. i have one. i just want to reflect what i think we heard today and see if there's nodding heads from everyone on the panel or shaking heads if you think it's a bad idea. so i think i've heard at least a couple of you say let's have a chief data officer, a chief transparency officer as a position that helps drive some of this transparency effort. the there general agreement that's a good idea? mr. reeves is going eh. do you want to express any specific concerns on that? >> yeah. i'm not in favor of it or opposed to it. one of the things i've talked to daniel a little bit about, probabl

let's bring in our senior congressional correspondent, manu raju. so do democrats believe they were set up? >> reporter: no question about it, wolf. they believe that the white house, the president used this comment the speaker made as an excuse to scuttle this meeting because the two sides were still at odds on doing anything on infrastructure. the white house did not have a detailed plan in place, the white house were at odds on how to pay for an infrastructure project. and the democrats believe this this was all an effort to undercut that, what would ultimately be a futile bipartisan effort. now, at the same time, nancy pelosi had been behind the scenes, making those comments about a potential cover-up for days. she made the comment on friday and monday night with other democrats saying, this could be a message going forward to talk about how in their view that there was a cover-up that occurred by this white house, by this president. this is something they have been saying behind the scenes. we heard the speaker say it more bluntly today, but ne

who is paying attention to congressional transparency? he tried to reach out to a broad public but the people who show up are the people who have a stake in the outcome. as we open up committees, what that opens congress up to his more pressure from organized interest. they are the ones with the strongest incentive to pay attention. you want to reach your constituents. you want to reach a broader audience. most americans are not that tuned in to public affairs. we do not want to ask too much of that broad public. as we try to reach out and make the system more representative, accountable -- we wind up making it less representative and accountable to organize groups as opposed to the public. those are the concerns. it is easy to look at early reforms. there is no going back because the idea of closing congress off from the people would never be acceptable. congress is the people's house. congress need to protect its ability to do the work of the institution. >> our goal is to make this institution better. we better serve the american peopl

that is clearly not congressional intent. but to use military force against iran, there is no authorization for the use of military force. clearly under the constitution, congress has the power to declare war. the president must come to congress unless there is an urgent issue about defending america or some two powers. in this case, they are planning the military operations. the proper course is to come to congress. i would hope the president would respect the constitution. this is a pretty fundamental seek and i hope he would congressional approval which i'm not sure he would receive. this week, all senators will get an intelligent. what will you need to hear on this issue? >> i expect that we're going to hear about things that iran is preparinghow they are we know that they were extremely upset, the united date pulling out of the nuclear agreement is going to cost them economic relief they thought they were going to receive by joining the agreement. we also know that they were extremely upset on the declaration as a terror

that is clearly not congressional intent. but to use military force against iran, there is no authorization for the use of military force. clearly under the constitution, congress has the power to declare war. the president must come to congress unless there is an urgent issue about defending america or some two powers. in this case, they are planning the military operations. the proper course is to come to congress. i would hope the president would respect the constitution. this is a pretty fundamental seek and i hope he would congressional approval which i'm not sure he would receive. this week, all senators will get an intelligent. what will you need to hear on this issue? >> i expect that we're going to hear about things that iran is preparinghow they are we know that they were extremely upset, the united date pulling out of the nuclear agreement is going to cost them economic relief they thought they were going to receive by joining the agreement. we also know that they were extremely upset on the declaration as a terror

let's go to our congressional correspondent, sunlen serfaty. sunlen, how far will jerry nadler, the committee chairman go in this fight with the trump administration? >> well, jerry nadler, wolf, has been very clear that he is not backing down, that he intends to fight this every step of the way. and today on capitol hill, this is something he emphasized yet again. nadler said today that he is now seriously considering using congress' contempt powers to potentially impose -- and these are his words here -- very large fines on people who do not comply with congressional subpoenas. and he was asked, specifically if that would, let's say, apply to people like the attorney general of the united states, bill barr, someone who is in defiance of a congressional subpoena, someone who the house judiciary committee voted to hold in contempt of congress last week, and he could not have been more clear, wolf. he said it would be for anybody who is held in inherent contempt. wolf? >> sunlen, the attorney general, bill barr, and the house speaker nancy pelos

the 2019 congressional directory is a handy spiral-bound guide. order your copy from the c-span store for $18.95. >> the house judiciary committee convened to hear from former white house counsel don mcgann about russia's interference and the mueller report. he failed to appear, define a subpoena. subpoena.g a here is the hearing with jerrold nadler. this is a half-hour. >>> judiciary committee will come to order. without objection the chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. we welcome everyone to today's mr. nadler: this committee will come to order. without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. we welcome everyone to today's hearing and oversight of the report by special counsel robert mueller the third. former white house counsel donald mcgahn ii. i will now recognize myself for an opening statement. more than a year ago white house counsel don mcgahn sat through the first of several interviews of special counsel robert mueller. over the course of those interviews, he

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we're going to show you video of bobby kennedy asking questions in a congressional hearing when he was a committee staff lawyer which the attorney general is now pretending is unprecedented. the news day began with the attorney general refusing to show up to testify to the house judiciary committee. it's not just the attorney general now who is refusing to testify to the house judiciary committee. now president trump tonight is saying he won't allow anyone who has worked in his administration to testify. even if they're no longer working in his administration. that might include robert mueller. nbc news is reporting tonight that the house judiciary committee has now begun discussions directory with robert mueller's team about coming to testify to the committee but nothing has been finalized at this point and no date has been set. the judiciary committee has been seeking robert mueller's testimony through the normal justice department process which requires the permission of the attorney general but that permission might never come now. the president told fox news tonight that he will t

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investigation i should say assist we're not going to comply with congressional subpoenas in any way shape or form and in fact even when you go to independent parties like banks we're going to fight you there as well that's what makes it sort of unprecedented not the individual fights it's the totality of it so now congressional democrats are struggling to secure robert mueller and get him get him testifying so do you think he's going to appear and if he does what happens. you know i do think i do think they'll work something out for robert mueller to appear i think his testimony will be unsatisfying to many democrats i think he won't answer the. key questions that they want for example you know would you have indicted the president but for. the office of legal counsel opinion that a sitting president can't be indicted i don't think he's going to answer that he's going to say you know that that's not appropriate so i think it's going to be frustration on the part of congressional democrats if and when he testifies but i do think that you know i think that he it's important for him to

senior democrats are accusing attorney general william barr of lying in a congressional hearing house speaker nancy pelosi says barr committed a crime by misleading congress about special counsel robert report on alleged russian interference in the twenty sixteen presidential election bar has skipped a hearing in the house of representatives on miller's report one hour from particle hayne who's been following those developments from washington d.c. . a lot of political theater today as the house democrats called for a congressional committee hearing and they basically talked to an empty chair the u.s. attorney general william barr refusing to show up to testify he said he had a problem with the process that they wanted to take which was basically to have members of congress ask questions but allow one of the committee attorneys to sort of ask those follow up so would have made it a much tougher day of testimony for william barr there's a disagreement between the democrats and the republicans on the committee and in the white house over whether that sort of testimony and that sort of c

could end congressional oversight. if if it stands you can blow off a congressional subpoena -- remember what they did today, they didn't assert executive privilege over a narrow scope of documents they said it applies to all the documents in the mueller report -- >> and witnesses. >> yeah, and witnesses, witnesses that can come up and testify. if that stands those four individuals i think will be the architect of a change in the constitution of this country. >> let me ask you one thing, so the courts rule on this, and they order the executive branch to comply with the subpoena or produce documents or testimony, what if the white house says no? is this not a banana republic. >> that's where you have your constitutional c constitutional crisis. the andrew jackson quote, now let them enforce it? >> isn't that why taking impeachment off the table is like asking democrats to go to battle in a banana republic with their hands tied their bank? the only thing donald trump is afraid of is the television of impeachment, not imp

it was really -- congressional oversight? it was really interesting when you have subpoenas, when no accommodation process has been put in place, contempt issues that have been part with no process and no time going through, i just submit to you this, whatever your opinion on the mueller report, great. glad you had it. you didn't get it here today and are you not getting it from this committee because this committee undoubtedly doesn't like the author. i want to talk to the author of the report, they just want to talk about the report and make innuendo. it's the middle of the day when this committee who has charge of immigration, who has charge of intellectual property. who we touch none of with a crisis at the border, we have an admission that the economy is good. jobs are happening. unemployment is the lowest rate. i guess at the end of the day we can't find something that the mueller report let them hang their i word, impeachment on, which they can't agree on, because the president is continuing to do his job. we're here a

the 2019 congressional directory is a handy spiral-bound guide. order your copy from the c-span online store for $18.95. >> democratic presidential candidate john delaney holds a meet and greet with voters in hollis, new hampshire, today. we'll show that to you live at 7:00 p.m. eastern here son c-span and also -- here on c-span and c-span.org. then tomorrow, another democrat running for president, beto o'rourke, campaigning at a house party in bedford, new hampshire. and that's tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. eastern. also live on c-span, online at c-span.org, and you can listen in with the free c-span radio app. host: you are meeting representative susan wild, who serves the seventh district of pennsylvania, a democrat. good morning to you. guest: good morning. host: one of the first thing you are actively involved in is protecting worker rights. can you give us a sense why you chose that? guest: my district is made up of people who are workers, people who live often paycheck to paycheck. the promises i made on the campaign trail had to do with issues th

the tug-of-war between executive privilege and congressional oversight as you see it play out , who doou think has the better argument?

congressional ov congressional -- congressional oversight is what we are tasked with.g oath when we became representatives and working for congress and we intend to carry out that oath and we intend to make sure the american people have the facts, have the information that they need and then the rest will just play out on its own. >> lastly, as a georgian, your state's governor just signed this controversial bill today called the heartbeat bill to ban abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected which could be as early as six weeks into a pregnancy. just your reaction to this? >> i was very disheartened and very disillusioned this is happening in my very own state and that is the reason why while i'm here in washington i'll continue to champion for women's reproductive health care for women to be able to choose for themselves what is best for their bodies. i'm very dissatisfied with the fact that we would be taking from -- from women their ability to have health care services provided then. women should be able to decide for themselves what is best for their bodies wit

he has been directed by president trump to defy the congressional subpoena.n welker has more. >> reporter: president trump is directing his former white house counsel don mcgahn to defy a congressional subpoena to testify. the white house cites justice department opinions going back four decades that say senior officials like him have absolute immunity from testifying. the president speaking out. >> i think it's a very important precedent and the attorneys say that they are not doing that for me, they are doing that for the office of the president. >> reporter: mcgahn sat for more than 30 hours of interviews with special counsel robert mueller. democrats say he's a key witness on obstruction and accusing the white house of stonewalling. >> let me be clear. if don mcgahn doesn't testify it's time to open up an impeachment inquiry. >> reporter: michigan congressman justin amash a frequent critic of the president tweeting after reading the mueller report, president trump has engaged in impeachable conduct. the president calling amash a loser and a lightweight. >

in fact, we're begin running over the norms of congressional oversight. we're asking for things that we don't -- but i am glad about one thing. i am glad that the chairman read into the record today the mueller report. i'm glad he quoted directly from the mueller report. i just wish my chairman would go read the rest of it which he has been offered to read, which he has chose not to read. but he did leave out one thing. he read mcgahn's testimony beautifully but he left out what he doesn't want to have to come back to and the frustrating thing that has brought us here again and again and again and that is the conclusions. there was no collusion. there was no obstruction. there's nothing here. after two years of doing this, we can read it in, you can talk about how you don't like it, you can talk about what you would like to ask, but the end of the day we're going to read in the quotes that will make the headlines but we're not going to read in the bottom line of what was concluded. the mueller report found that there was no collusion and no obstruction. t

and as the congressional black caucus, we are here to raise the alarm. raising the federal minimum wage would save, even if we went to $12 an hour would save four times as the proposed rules by ensuring that workers earn more so they can afford food. i would at this time yield to you any additional closing thoughts that you may have as we close out this special order hour and thank the american people for listening. thank you, mr. speaker, for the time. we ask that the record remain open for five legislative days to revise and extend extraneous material. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. horsford: i would ask to enter in the record, information from the center of budget and priority. trump administration changing changes that would reduce or eliminate assistance to millions of low-income americans. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. horsford: i thank you, mr. speaker and i thank you and the co-anchor. this has been a very enlightening topic for us to bring attention to. each one of us have constituents that have been impacted t

donald trump tells deutsche bank not to hand over his financial records in an attempt to block a congressional subpoena. also want to show investors by just an earnings report from apple i phone sales are down but services are off. and millionaires playground monaco want to go green and not just from all that money. under the law in berlin while the leader of the world's most powerful country is suing germany's flagship lender donald trump hopes a lawsuit will stop dortch a bank from handing over his business records to congress democrat what democrat led committees subpoenaed the documents last month betting that if the president has financial skeletons the german bank knows where their bird. the lawsuit is a trump family affair with the president's three eldest children also filing suit against georgia bank germany's leading financial institution provide a mass of loans to the trump organization when other banks were put off by the president's multiple bankruptcies. the congressional committees are interested in where the door to a bank was expecting something in return or whether there were

congressional committee couns counsel.akfast twice with michael cohen and he clearly is one that has to deal with what he did for donald trump and now he is going to jail for other things that came out of that investigation. and i remember the last breakfast we had i was saying to him be strong talking as a minister as you would to anyone. he says i'm going to jail. and the cold reality that i think a lot of people forget here is that people are going to do time as a result of some of their engagements with donald trump that brought other things to light. this is as serious as it can get in american politics. >> i want to remind everyone that he acted on all of these things at the direction of trump. i think the other question he is going into his prison term is why am i the only one going? he was his right hand man and fixer. now he is starting to serve his sentence. >> when you look at this and on the day this man is spending his last day with his family, you have donald trump talking about who should testify and who sho

was it congressional republicans g thesee been scrutiniz events for months? trumpt -- toluse: the president said people have been calling on him to declassify documents related to the mueller investigation. he has an attorney general who has shown himse willing to pull out all the stops to defend the president and back up the president's assertions that there were improper spying on his campaign in 2016 and this attorney general willow have to about through the intelligence community and declassify documents. robert: is that intelligence community worried about methods being exposed? nancy: they are, the director, dan coates, voiced thatce c, saying some of the material is very sensitive. it's unusual to see one leader in the intelligence community plling another to on the brakes. but that's the message he's sending because there is a worry abt where thi goes. molly: it's pretty incredible. hole argument is that the president is disregarding the conksitutional chnd balances and undermining the rule of law and in order to prevent the democrats from investigati

. >>> the president's taxes, the mueller report, congressional subpoenas, the white house defying congress on all three, showing disdain for basic checks and balances. >>> he is not bluffing, the president's threats are real. critical trade talks resume tomorrow. >>> i'm just over the moon. >> it's a boy, and that's -- well, that's about all we know. the baby of prince harry and the duchess of sussex is now 7th in line to the throne and finally, a "game of thrones" conversation i understand. for once, good morning, everyone, welcome to "early start," i'm dave briggs. >> congratulations to them. >> congrats to the happy couple. >> harry was beaming indeed, wasn't he. >> good morning, everybody, i'm christine romans, tuesday may 7th. 4:00 a.m. in the east. let's begin with breaking news overnight. two journalists for reuters jailed in myanmar are free this morning after more than 500 days in prison. they had been sentenced under myanmar's official secrets act for reporting on a massacre of rohingya citizens. now they have been released just weeks after their final appeal was denied. they rec

philip swagel as the director of the congressional budget office. effective june 3, 2019, for the term expiring january 3, 2023. signed sincerely, chuck grassley, president pro tempore of the senate, and nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: the chair lays before the house the following message. the congress of the united states, pursuant to the international emergency economic powers act, 50 u.s.c. 1701, i eepa, the national emergency act, 50 u.s.c. 1601, the section -- in section 301 of title 3, united states code, i hereby report that i have issued an executive order declaring a national emergency to deal with the threat posed by the unrestricted acquisition or use in the united states of information and communications technology or services designed, developed, manufactured, or supplied by persons owned by, controlled by, or subject to the jurisdiction or direction of foreign adversaries. foreign adversaries are increasingly creating and exploiting vulnerabilities and information and communications techn

investigators and congressional committees? >> well, first of all, rev, thank you so much for having me on. i think it's important to realize that very early on in the administration, we got letters directing us to preserve all information related to the mueller investigation, all investigations, any information, any emails, any correspondence. we had a clear directive to preserve those documents, preserve emails, preserve text messages. so i thought it was very interesting that after my discussion with general kelly in the situation room when i went to take my things, i was instructed that i had to leave seven boxes of documents that came from the campaign, the inauguration, the transition, and they would not allow me to get them. you know, the good thing is that, you know, the trump administration isn't that bright. they sent me tons and tons of emails about these boxes saying, we still have them. we'll decide when to give them back to you. but as of now, rev, i have not received anything from those boxes, and now they're ref

caller: congressional -- congressional oversight. get on it, impeach the swamp.ost: if you are saying both sides are right, the president is right in exerting executive privilege over the document? caller: yes. host: why is that? caller: he is right. the constitution rule of law states it. do you want to amend the constitution? more power to the congress. int: walt is next pittsburgh, democrats line. caller: how are you doing? good morning, everybody. i have a couple questions i have to ask make sure i am on the right track. is it legal for attorney general divulgedive all -- testimony from grand jury? host: that is the argument from the justice apartment, that it would go against certain laws. go ahead. caller: okay, that is illegal. has he not offered this to anybody in congress to come and look at it? host: a lesser redacted report to certain members of congress, yes. caller: right. i do believe the reason he is doing this and they can see everything they have to see, but then they cannot leak it. that is what is trying to be --vented, from leaking out taking

he has just been told by the white house to defy a congressional subpoena that ordered him to hand over documents about the things he described to robert mueller as a witness in that inquiry. the president also threatening that that witness to the mueller investigation don mcgahn will be blocked from testifying to congress about what he told mueller. judiciary chairman jerry nadler has now threatened overtly that former white house counsel don mcgahn may also be held in contempt, may also have to face the legal consequences for that if he continues to defy the subpoenas, whether or not it is at the white house's request. right? that's about trying to block information about the mueller inquiry from coming to light, through questioning of don mcgahn and the submission of documents from him to a congressional committee following up on mueller's findings. today, attorney general william barr, voted by the judiciary committee to be in contempt. he will soon be voted by the full house to be in contempt. it's not because they don't like william barr or they object to his recent behavior in so

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post," who has inside scoop of what happened behind those closed congressional doors last night. we also have jennifer rogers, former federal prosecutor and cnn analyst. david gregory, political analyst. and abby phillip, white house correspondent. rachel, give us color of what transpired behind closed doors, where the democrats began in a heated debate about impeachment. >> yesterday was sort of a tipping point for a lot of house judiciary committee members, when they got news the white house was not going to allow don mcgahn to appear for testimony he was scheduled to give this morning at 10:00 a.m. another example of stonewalling from the white house. they were fed up. in their traditional monday night leadership meeting, four house judiciary committee members, who are also part of pelosi's leadership team, confronted her about this and said, look, it's time to begin an impeachment inquiry. it'd help us get the documents, the witnesses, the testimony that the white house has been stonewalling. pelosi and leadership, they basically pushed back. pelosi said that if we do this, i

so first, your reaction to the news that this judge is not going to stand in the way of congressionalpoenas of financial records of the trumps. >> i'm pleased and i'm not surprised. and i'm learning the reporting through you. so thank you for that. i've been in a judiciary hearing where we're doing the markup on a very important bill, the daca bill. but i did talk with chairwoman waters this morning. and have learned over the course of my relationship with her how she has been attempting to dege information from both deutsche bank and capital one about what appears to be very irregular banking transactions with trump and the trump organizations. so i'm pleased and i'm not surprised. it was the right ruling and i won't be surprised that the president and his administration and his personal minions will appeal because they're doing everything in their power to stonewall. >> and what are you looking for in these financial records? i mean, the president, i'm sure, has referred to it as a fishing expedition. is there something that you know is there? or are you just looking to see what is?

the 20 19th congressional directory is a handy spiral-bound guide. order your copy for $18.95. c-span is live this evening from 2020s, new hampshire where candidate john delaney is hosting a meet and greet with voters in the first primary state. he is a former u.s. congressman from maryland. he talked about his criticism of fellow democratic candidate and vice president joe biden and has been critical of some plans for medicare for all. he has not yet met the threshold to join the democratic candidates in the debates. expecting the candidate to be here shortly. [background chatter] announcer 1: c-span live from hollis, new hampshire. john delaney will be hosting a meeting greet here with voters in the first primary states. he is a former u.s. congressman from maryland and has criticized fellow candidate and former vice president joe biden. as the pbs newshour reports, he hadn't met the threshold of support needed to join a national democratic debate. while we are waiting for the congressman here in hollis, we will look at the week ahead in washington. >> a senior house reporter

in lincoln and grant's illinois, they lost 14 congressional seats. the results of indiana and ohio were worse. than the scandals and national depression, voters were responding to reconstruction, which won indiana newspaper -- one indiana newspaperman called it climb -- crime and wonders for the treatment of the south. everybody is democratic now. unsurprisingly, these officers made a few claims to national reconciliation on this night. jeopardy was the victory narrative itself, one that at least a month's eastern claim, trumpeted emancipation as a linchpin. carrying chips on their shoulder boards, speech makers drew down targets.but two former confederate foes in the south, and former blue coated compatriots in the east. these have been placed initially by the progress of various campaigns and waited at the 2 grand review of the armies. man armybrated 90,000 had on march of may 23, while sherman's 60,000 men, the army of the west, 178 regimen strong, marched the next day. symbolically, the parade appeared to emphasize the accomplishment of the easte

president trump ignoring demands by congressional democrats for access to wednesday and to documents. house speaker nancy please says the president is the trying to provoke democrats. don't tell anybody i told you this. trump. i'll use his name, okay. trump is goegt us to impeach him. that's what he's doing. every single day he's just like taunting, taunting, taunting, pause he knows that it would be very divisive in the country but he doesn't really care. he just wants to solidify his base. we can't impeach him for political reasons and we can't not impeach him for political reasons. >> in the meantime, house judiciary committee chairman jerry nadler's staff was meeting with justice department officials to try to reach an agreement on congressional access to the mueller report. this is an effort to avoid a contempt of congress vote against attorney general william barr which is set for tomorrow. barr is refusing to hand over the unredacted version of the mueller report and the underlying evidence. cnn political analyst and "washington post" congressional reporter rachel ba deis on ca

congressional lawmakers are questioning it more. marc liverman is here in new york with new details about what may have led to the escalation in tensions. good morning. >> good morning, anne-marie. iran's leaders believe the u.s. is preparing to attack them. they're leaving them to prepare possible counter strikes. iran says it's not an option rngs but is skeptical whether real diplomacy is possible with the u.s. president trump is hoping tensions with iran subside. >> mr. president, are we going to war with iran? >> i hope not. >> he told acting defense secretary patrick shanahan the same thing, he does not want war with iran. however, the american buildup in the persian gulf continues. the group on the uss lincoln has arrived south of iran. u.s. intelligence officials claim they have evidence of credible threats, including satellite missiles on iranian boats to possibly strike targets on land. on thursday the white house briefed a group of top congressional leaders known as the gang of eight on this. house committee chairmanned a

that's that's why congressional investigatorshy want this so badly.ve this is more than white collar crime we're looking at and money laundering, this could go to the heart of why he's joined at the hip with russia. >> frank, do you think the president is going to at some point long for the days when the only people looking for him were under one roof, under the room of robert mueller, looking at potential criminal violations. he's now exposed in some ways on many more fronts sort of incapable of protecting all of those exposed flanks. sorry for the image. >> he's very much corn erred. he's encircled by investigations. i think one of the attractive arguments for impeachment is thatim it does put everything kd of e under one roof so there wod be one centralre focus and one centralnd investigative body. but he can't make this go away. here's the other neat thing i see through my law enforcement lens. he can't go a week without committing or coming close to committing another crime. what no one is seeing yesterday is that he came close to violating the b

the 2019 congressional directory is a handy spiral-bound guide. for $18.95.opy nancy pelosi accused attorney general william barr of lying to congress. she is followed by republican house leader kevin mccarthy, who also comments on the attorney general's testimonium the mueller report. this is a half-hour. . day. i lost sleep after watching over and over again the testimony of the attorney general of the united states. how sad it is. how sad it is for us to see the top law enforcement officer in our country misrepresenting, withholding the truth from the congress of the united states. i think it's -- as i watched him, i kept saying what could possibly be motivating the attorney general of the united states to disrespect the constitution of the united states, separation of powers, the right of congress to know? what possible motivation could the attorney general of the united states have to dishonor the office that he holds right there for the whole world to see to misrepresent the facts to the congress of the united states? and i began to connect

attorney general who's refused to testify at a congressional hearing about the mole report bill barr wanted to avoid lawyers questioning him about russian collusion and donald trump's election he's been threatened with contempt by the house of representatives for refusing to answer questions barr has cleared the president of collusion but the democratic party wants to see the full and censored version of the report pedicle hay and ask more from washington d.c. . a lot of political theater today as the house democrats called for a congressional committee hearing and they basically talked to an empty chair the u.s. attorney general william barr refusing to show up to testify he said he had a problem with the process that they wanted to take which was basically to have members of congress ask questions but allow one of the committee attorneys to sort of ask those follow up so would have made it a much tougher day of testimony for william barr there's a disagreement between the democrats and the republicans on the committee and in the white house over whether that sort of testimony and t

every president has had to deal with some level of congressional oversight. it seems president trump wants none much reit. i talked to some democratic staffers yesterday thatti said president's temper tantrum works for them because it allows democrats to say hey look, we told you this back in 2016 during the campaign donald trump is all aboutdu himself, he's no for the country. do you think the president's approach to thisnk could end up blowing back on him? >> that's a good question. a pollgo that came out this wee showed that roughly 54% of americansy oppose his re-election. i think it also would be a mistake for democrats to assume that he can't be re-elected. his approval ratings aren't that bad overall. they are notd that far off fro where obama was before re-election a year off. do theyn follow the process he and look at the evidence and the 11 possible incidents of obstruction that mueller outlined for them? you know, ensure that they don't set a precedent where the president is above the rule of law or do they continue these kind of piece meal approac

now we know it was a letter sent on march 27th before that congressional testimony saying very clearly that mueller was concerned about the way that this report was characterized, some of the findings, and when he was asked about this yesterday in his senate hearing, barr said, look, what i was referring to was a report in "the new york times" that said that prosecutors -- unnamed prosecutors had concerns about the mueller report and i didn't know anything about those unnamed prosecutors. nevertheless, democrats are simply not satisfied with that response. and you heard that rather serious charge from the speaker of the house accusing the attorney general of the united states of lying and committing a crime. but it all harkens back to the past testimony and the question is what do democrats do going forward and at moment it is not clear what they will do other than hold the attorney general in contempt over a separate dispute, not over allegations that he may have lied to congress, erica. >> manu raju, thank you. >>> john sale and caroline pleasing are back. they say the attorney gener