connolly: yes. how and when and will congress pursue impeachment if that is the full issue in front of us? it is concerning because it is a matter of the constitution, not new york statute -- it was written by our founders to deal with situations such as the one we face with donald trump. investigationsre on the other five committees that have some role in investigating the president. public opinion is hearing from president trump saying he was exonerated, declared completely free by the mueller report. i you concerned if democrats continue to pursue these investigations, there will be some in the public is the democrats as grasping for straws and how do you prevent that? i do not want to be pursuing these issues and have the public think it is a fishing expedition. on the other hand, i took an toh when i got elected defend the view -- the constitution, not the president or my party. i have a constitutional obligation to pursue these matters on the gravity they represent. take where we are right now

o of think we all sort champion what connolly did. think he demonstrated the kind of frustration that individuals intellectually for the kind of rhetoric politicians are making against immigrants. i'm happy the prime minister of australia sided with the kid, condemning that rhetoric, especially after the massacre. for a senator to say that after a massacre is just egregious. to go to mickw mulvaney. this was truly an astounding moment, the acting chief of staff of president trump, who was speaking on fox news. this is the chief of staff of the president of the united states who found it necessary to say this. >> thehe preresident iss not a e supremacist. i'm not sure how many times we have to say that. amy: "the president is not a white supremacist. i'm not sure how many times we have to say that," he said. christian picciolini, you come out of that movement, you were an avowed, proud white supremacist for decades in the 1980's and 1990's. president trump tweeted t this weekend over 20 times. not want did he mention the massacre. -- n

congressman jerry connolly is our guest. county in the washington metro area. the foreigner of affairs committee and also oversight and government reform on government operations. we have two reporters to cover congress that will be asking you questions. well, congressman, thank you for joining us. you are on the oversight committee. no longer government oversight reform. the

connolly is acknowledging reality, which is that impeachment is a political process. it's subject to, you know, political reality, which is that it's going to be perceived as being a partisan process unless you convince a significant number of republicans that this is an honest attempt to get to the truth and determine what are high crimes and misdemeanors and proceed from there. i think we've just seen mr. nadler, chairman nadler, speaker pelosi, other leading democrats be very careful with this because they lived through the bill clinton experience. they understand that, you know, going through, subjecting a president to this sort of process, and if they don't have a bipartisan public case behind them, it can actually ricochet and build support for the president. and ahead of the 2020 elections, they don't want to see that happen. they don't want the perception to be that democrats are trying to overturn the results of the previous election by throwing him from office. >> ken, what about the question of precedent and what precedent the democrats and by extension con

jerry connolly of virginia joining us. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> house intelligence committee, they used to have a strong tradition of bipartisanship, nonpartisanship, republicans and democrats working together. that is gone. >> at least for now, i think that's right. >> have you ever seen something like that in the house intelligence committee, where the chairman -- i know they have had problems with devin nunes. last time he was forced to remove himself over some issues. it's getting worse. it's pretty extraordinary. >> yeah. i think this is a pattern that has not only affected the intelligence committee but frankly the entire congress. increasingly, my republican colleagues have decided that it's to justify, and rationalize his behavior. as you heard obviously for a lot of democrats, adam sc hichlt ff key among them, this is profoundly offensive, given the stakes. it isn't normal. it isn't okay to be collaborating with, coordinating with russian operatives about the presidential election. that's not normal.

congressman jerry connolly is our guest. county in the washington metro area. the foreigner of affairs committee and also oversight and government reform on government operations. we have two reporters to cover congress that will be asking you questions. well, congressman, thank you for joining us. you are on the oversight committee. no longer government oversight reform. the committee has just asked president trump for 10 years of his financial records. what do you expect to see in those records and what are you looking for? >> this is a follow-up to the public hearing that we had with the president's personal attorney. falsifiedent financial records in order to qualify for loans and other types of financing, that he inflated the value of his properties. we saw yesterday a story in the washington post that collaborates that and document it. underestimated- the value of properties. this is a follow-up to that testimony, just how bad was that and were about -- the laws violated? this occurred before he became president. >> this is a president who has -- he conti

connolly of virginia. let me also thank our ranking member, mr. mccaul of texas, for working with us on this bipartisan legislation. madam speaker, vladimir putin has left no doubt about his intentions to expand russian influence, undermine democracy, and splinter the alliances and agreements that have long kept russia in check. we've seen this through russia's direct attacks on democratic institutions, including our own. remember the presidential election of 2016. through a pernicious and widespread misinformation campaign designed to distort reality and in no clearer way through its illegal occupation of parts of ukraine and parts of georgia. it's shocking in the 21st century to see a country trample on a neighbor's sovereignty and seize territory by force. it goes against everything we've worked for since world war ii for a europe that's whole and at peace. it's been five years since russian forces moved into crimea and staged a sham election in an attempt to give their occupation a gloss of legitimacy. but there's nothing legitimate about it.

those, the reaction, the fallout, the plan for what's next, and in hour we're talking with gerry connolly, a member of the oversight committee. here onset we'll be joined by white house spokesperson hogan gidley. we're talking with voters in one key swing state. is this really changing anyone's mind? and the new reaction this morning from candidates on the 2020 trail. we are lucky to have the best team of reporters and analysts set up covering every angle this morning. and before we begin, some background about what you'll see on this show. context and clarity, we hope. this is a major political moment. and you probably have strong feelings about it no matter which side of the aisle you support. no matter where you are keep in mind it's a good thing the special counsel did not find that americans involved in the 2016 election conspired with russia. not everything in the mueller report that we know of is necessarily a good thing for president trump. although, he seems to think it is. and this does not mean we have all the answers because we do not. there are big unknowns here. to break the

connolly: i thank the chair. h.r. 1, the for the people act of 2019, which i'm a proud co-sponsor of, delivers on the promise to reform american democracy by protecting voting ights and our elections. improving the transparency of campaign finance and promoting ethics and accountability. key to safeguarding voting rights censuring that our voting system is secure and free from interference by foreign actors. my amendment to h.r. 1 would help states implement voting systems' security improvements in order to enhance the integrity of our federal election infrastructure. adapted from the fast voting act, h.r. 1512, which i recently reintroduced with my colleague, representive jim langevin of rhode island, this amendment to h.r. 1 would award supplementary grants to state applicants based on evidence of previous election security reforms and plans for implementing additional innovations. this race to the top model would incentivize states to adopt best practices, including providing voter machines that are less than

. >> congressman connolly, appreciate your time. thank you so much. >> my pleasure. >> back with carrie cordero, ken kuch nelly, shan wu and gloria borger. ken, i could sense you want to say something. >> well, one thing congressman connolly said there that is shocking is i hope judge jackson will compensate for that. so he wants judge jackson to incorporate his view of this sentence today for paul manafort being light and so extend her sentence for that reason. that would be -- first of all, i don't think judge jackson is going to do that. judge jackson's job as a judge is to look at the case in front of her. and i'm confident she'll do that. so -- but -- >> i'm not sure -- i don't know if he meant -- >> a request for something like that -- >> i don't know if he meant -- >> well, that's what he said. >> you could also -- i mean, we'd have to ask him. but you could also interpret it as something compensates for something else that he feels is an injustice but not intentionally -- i don't know. it's splitting hairs here. i understand

east five years all know what are most of the issues most in ukraine's minds correspondent nick connolly talk to voters in the capital kiev. would like oh economy to grow we need new jobs so the people can find work here instead of immigrating with the disease. we all want peace but we understand that it won't be easy to achieve it this good i'm voting for a candidate who will be to most guys liking. this. but. we need to defeat corruption in all countries incredibly reaching we solutions and potential of the corruption in ukraine is simply destroying us from the less corruption fewer theft so that we start living well like a normal european country. first of all our oligarchy need to start investing in ukraine's economy stop taking all their money abroad to off shores. and e.w. correspondent nick connelly joins us now from care of them hit winners and the polls have just closed is it too early to talk about winners and losers. good evening rather nick well i'm here absolutely ms lewinsky's election policy in the mood is very optimistic he's just been playing thank. you it's a terrible f

some of it was confirmation, as jerry connolly said. some of it confirmed things they had heard otherwise. some of it as you heard was possibly new. some of the high profile statements seemed new. this, again, i not in any am position to verify what he said. but that would be, mr. cummings had, i trust his judgment. he had some questions about suspicions that might be true. >> would that be an impeachable offense? >> i'm not going into that. we have two investigations, a mueller report we're all anxiously awaiting, and as was indicated, one thing i saw widely reported was that the witness said that other issues that he was aware of were under consideration by the southern district of new york. so let's see what that is. but again, impeachment is a divisive issue in our country , and let us see what the facts are, what the law is, and what the behavior is of the president. i've said to some of you running up and down the hall, right now, what i'm concerned about is the president's undermining of the constitution of the united states, whi

. >> i'm joined now by gerry connolly, a member of the house oversight and foreign affairs committee.at's your reaction to this report that the president overruled both intel and the top lawyer at the white house and what can your committee do about it? >> my reaction was maybe not surprised, because we've been plaguing this issue of the issuance of interim security clearances bypassing the normal approval process since early in the course of this administration. and we particularly flagged jared kushner, because we knew that he was having trouble getting a clearance. we didn't know that the four tries failing the president despite what he said and you played it on camera, that he didn't even think he had the authority and even if he did, he wouldn't do it. that's a lie. he did do it. >> and so elijah cummings says he wants documents. how beautiful about your chances of getting them without a subpoena? >> i think it's probably going to be difficult, because this white house has been uniformly uncooperative in the request for documents across the board. one of the documents i want to s

connolly: thank you, mr. secretary. sec. pompeo: i pray we get justice for mr. shelby, his family and friends. -- mr. shelby, his family and friends. shogi, ihhis family and friends. secretary, it is great to see you. we are proud of you in this body and your efforts. i want to begin by applying the president and your department for taking steps to recognize the israeli sovereignty over the goal line heights. as you might recall, i wrote you a letter last year in that regard, encouraging that recognition and i think this time, with iran, their proxies, terrorist organizations, all of them on the border, there is no more of an important time than now to take this action. inpeak for all of the people the district that i'm privileged to represent that are proud of this action, and say thank you very much and we offer our support and assistance. what is preventing the administration from formally placing a diplomatic close -- post in loss of 00-- lhasa. sec. pompeo: it's something we continue to review. we are trying to make sure we get each of the steps right. what

. >> we had jerry connolly on. he said this is fishing for a pardon. >> it's possible. he is speaking to an audience of one. audience of one being jmedonald trump. the judge has been sympathetic to the manafort team. he criticized what mueller was doing. at one point saying they were only putting pressure on manafort because they wanted him to cooperate. it was a big splash when he said that. this is the second time that we're seeing this paul manafort team put this in these arguments that the core mission, what the mueller team was brought to do was the russia collusion investigation. they keep highlighting nothing so far -- there have been no charges against manafort that would suggest any kind of collusion. >> the president says no collusion. it matches very much what he asserts as well. is there a case to be made by the manafort team that these are things that normally would not be pursued legally? is that just not true? >> i think that this argument that this is outside the scope of what mueller is supposed to be looking at is something that -- they may have credib

an investigation they're going to pursue. >> i want to can you about that, again, representative connolly said, i think, wednesday or thursday, he was talking about the optics of hearing from the family. of course, now, the committee wants to hear from ivanka and don junior. and he was saying two subjects of the criminal probe of these people in the southern district of new york, and he says it may be better to let that play out before the committee and talk to them afterwards. what is your thought process? >> that make sense. i think normally, and they've done this so far, congress is trying to keep their investigation on one track and not interfere with criminal investigations. because at the end of the day if they do anything, if congress does anything to upset, interfere, i wouldn't say obstruct, but in some way affect the criminal investigation before it's completed, it could jeopardize that investigation. these people don't want to talk publicly until they've resolved their criminal trial. >> real quickly, how vulnerable is the president based on what we though so far? >> i think ve

today congressman gerry connolly of the oversight committee said it's all about methodically buildingase. >> how do you reconcile that growing belief that criminal activity took place and hesitation, even reluctance to consider impeachment? >> well, i think what you're describing as hesitation or reluctance, i would rather describe as trying to be methodical and building a case here if a case is to be had. we can't ignore criminal activity. but remember, this is the first public hearing, the first. it has to be a process. when we look back at watergate, that was almost a two-year process and it worked. it persuaded the american people that the person they put faith in didn't deserve it. >> leading off our discussion now, democratic congressman lloyd doggett of texas, also with us former federal prosecutor, barbara mcquade she is an msnbc legal contributor. and jill wine-banks, a former assistant watergate special prosecutor and an msnbc legal analyst is with us. congressman, i want to begin with you and the ways and means committee, your attempt to obtain the president's tax returns.

we are expecting to speak to congressman jerry connolly within the hour. we'lle that for you tonight. news4 at 11:00. >> thank you very much. >>>or some perspective on this historic day, we are now joined by american university political history professor and author of the case forea iment, allen lickman. mr. lickman, a pleasure to have you with talk to me about what was the biggest surprise to you, going over the barr summary, andas ere been some sort of a historic equivalence to other presidential probes that you have studied in the years? >>ig thest surprise to me was how little this summary dealt with a critical findinge f ueller investigation. that is that the russians interfered withct our en in an extensive way, in a partisan way,o t help elect donald trump. that is so important, because it's forward looking. we now need to hear from the president exactly what he is going to do to prevent similar interference in the 2020 election. this probe is so different from others, because all we're getting is a summary. look, i am an historian. and i look at p

norm connolly is of course talking about winner take most stocks.gement. [closing bell rings] we had extraordinarily busy hour. the dow with a nice move up 142 points. s&p above 2800. closing at 2810. nasdaq up 49. that is it for closing "countdown." connell: president trump issuing emergency order grounding all boeing 787 max 8 and max 9 jets. continue to the destination, stay on the ground. that is kind of the big news this afternoon. the dow closes up almost 150 points. we're up about 220 or so prior to the president's announcement. look at rest of the market, s&p 500, nasdaq composite higher for three days in a row. we close in the green. a hot going on. good to be with you. i'm connell mcshane. melissa: i'm melissa francis. this is "after the bell." we have fox business team coverage on biggest stories.

"outfront" tonight, gerry connolly. good to have you back. >> good to be with you. >> you've seen the information that jerry nadler has. do the emails prove trump dangled a pardon or not at this point? >> on their face they certainly don't prove it, but they certainly create, i think, circumstantial evidence that merits a lot further scrutiny. when you use phrases like you can sleep well tonight and you have friends in high places, what does that mean? i mean are we going from friends in high places that sleep well tonight otherwise you'll sleep with the pistons? what is billion said there? and remember as you said, erin, if you're dangling a pardon in exchange for silence and obstruction of justice, that's a crime. >> right. let me try to understand. so you're saying they don't prove it, but there's obviously circumstantial evidence here. you want more information. so what do you not have? do you have all the emails preand post? do you have everything you need? and if not, what are you missing? >> i think we're going t

>> you should ask congressman connolly that as well. dancing around a number of subjects. you heard the chairman in his statement today after our meeting that there were certain investigative equities in areas in which our witness didn't want to go. other than that, he cooperated fully. >> so even behind closed doors, he would not go down certain roads because of ongoing investigations? >> i think it's fair to say that in both investigation, in both hearings there were areas in which mr. cohen didn't want to go. >> did he give you any new names that we didn't hear yesterday? >> again, i didn't want to get into the substance and facts of what was said. the transcripts will be made public. >> he did make reference to ongoing references to illegal activity. in response to representative alexandria ocasio-cortez on illegal activity potentially related to taxes, i only have one question, i'm going to try to make it yes or no. did you hear references to illegal activity that we did not hear yesterday? potentially illegal activity? >> in his h

we also spoke to the virginia congressman gerry connolly by phone. >> i think we have to and before we do that, congress must have the entire report. an annotated and unsummarized by the attorney general. >> the house majority leader tatement thata the full report needs to be released. congress must remain abulwark of justice and the rule of law and house democrats will do our part to ensure that it performs it's duties faithfully under our constitution. rats told me tonight they want to hear from the attorney general. they want to hear from robert mueller himself. this fight clearly f from over. back to yo >> sir, thank you so very much foreing here with us tonight. >> good to be back. >> good to have you here. now that we had a few hours to digest the summary from a.g a.g. barr, do you think the summary is eugh to put this to bed or do the american people need to see t full mueller report. is there something that the american people would get from the fullort that they aren't already getting or seeing from this summary? >> well, of course, i have not seen the report but i will tell o

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brett connolly with a greatass on the breakaway. in the back of the net. 22ndoal of the year.aps take a 3-1 lead. and that's all they needed. because braden holtby was a brick wall, playoff ready with 35 saves on 36 shots. he had 19 in just the second period alone. capitals beat the flyers 3-1. head coach toddap reardon with the team's response. >> liked how some of our leaders stepped to the f nt in the third period when things weren't going great after the second. in particular, i thought tj oshie was real force in the third. d kind of gotur team going in that regard. that to me is -- you need different people to step up in different ways. and i thought that his play in the third insred our team. >> capitals back at home on carolina.ainst and by the time the hockey playoffs start, we'll have a new ncaa men's basketball champion. this fst weekend of games wrapping up today, and plent of upsets. not to mention hearts breaking with each busted bracket. second round in the suggestre on. tenth seed iowa taking on second seed, tennessee. iowa trailed by as many as 25. second half,

newsmakers is up next with gerry connolly. thank you for being with us.oy the rest of your weekend and have a great weekend. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] ♪ >> here's a look at the schedule ahead today on c-span. newsmakers is next. gerald connolly of virginia talks about the mueller report in the top issues in congress including border security, the budget, and democrat's relationship with israel. trump35, president's rally in michigan. hearingst noon, budget on capitol hill, starting with the joint chiefs of staff testifying before the house armed services committee about the pentagon's request. on q and a. , joan, court reporter talks about her biography of cheese -- chief justice john roberts. >> however john roberts votes now that anthony kennedy is gone, he will determine the law of the land. so, the liberals want him to come over and ensure over a little bit, but the conservatives are tr

and maybe brett connolly gets there. and maybe nick backstrom.nd you've g all these guys with 20 or more goals. by the time you get to the end of the season, that's a tough thing for any team to defend against, because if you shut down one line of the playoffs, then you've gothese other guys that are going to be able to step up. that's been a big deal. i think this tea actually is a little better than they were last season. >> and you can o catch more sherry and john's conversation tonight on "the round table"n sports. 4. 35 p.m. right here on nbc >>> still a little bitter about the lack of support from my co anchors over heik. so my 3-month-old kid, d.c. united not big on traveling away from home. since june 2017, they're 2-19-8 on the road and actually't hav won a regular season away game since may. ugh road test today against nyc-fc. that coupled with the fact united has never won in then bronx four meetings. ben olson's squad trying to build off last week's season-opening win against the defending mls champs. firs half, new york and blue. the

remember we y toldou brett connolly one goal away from 20? nailed it.joos sets up his 2th of the dason. fifth time he'se it in his career. fifth capital to do it this year. cousin n kuznetsov now on the brink of s,20 goal he has 19. caps up 3-1. celebration not oven. nicklas backstrom to alex ovec win to tomilson finding the back of the. net backstrom gets an assist on t goal. his 50th of the season. sixth straight season he's had 50 assists, b 2oming theth player in nhl history to hit that mark. capitals beat the devils 4-1. an important two points for washington. they're looking forward to their next point, the tampa bay lightning, the team they just lost to three days ago. >> last game was a good battle and we're expecting that again so, you know, we're going to have to take care of ourselves here and get readyo play the best team in the league tomorrow night. so important points and another measuring stick game. we're looking forward to it. and another chance to get a crack at them. it's always nice when you have that feeling and you play them so's

a long pass ahead to brett connolly, shoots and at first not ruled a goal. they look at it.ly gets his 14th of the season. hits the camera. -- excuse me, 17th. caps up 2-0 n on a power play in the second period, john carlson with the great keep-in. then over to ovi in his office. ovechkin's leaguedi leang 40th goal of the season, getting closer to 50. 4-30 o. 0, caps. not swing down. jake of vrana hustling. wraps it around the goal. nicklas backstrom, nice hustle and feed from vrana. caps up 5-0. flyers score three, but does it really matter? caps win it 5-3. braden holtby's 250th win. second fastest ever to reach that mark. >>> andiz theds hosting the mavericks and a lot of fans wanting to see dirk nowitzki, the 21-year veteran, hasn't announced his retirement yet, but getting ovations at every arena this season. bradley beal getting quite the ovation in the first. beal driving. absolutelying it down. beal putting the mavericks' defender straight u on a poster. what a slam for bradley beal. skip it ahead to the fourth. wizards down one. ball kicked out to trevor arena. ariz

here's gary connolly. >> look, we have a lot of new members.to what happens on the floor. i think threats and intimidation are not the way to deal with colleagues. >> you think they're ready for this group on capitol hill? >> i think congressman connolly's comments were in the context of some vote that is the republicans were forcing on the floor that week. in private settings my colleagues on the capitol hill team at politico were reporting that alexandria ocasio-cortez and other freshman members were sort of threatening more moderate democrats with primary challengers. mr. connolly is someone who's more of the established democratic members, if you will. he was saying that sort of there is that tension. he was acknowledging it, i think, in the aftermath of those votes that republicans had forced that many moderate democrats had actually voted in favor of. >> it's that attention that got aoc on the cover of one of the new york tabloids yet, but not necessarily in a favorable vein. coming up, more on the president's former fixer michael cohen b

all right let's take the story now to brussels i'm joined by tony connolly he is the europe editor for ireland's national broadcaster or. could even do you told me so you know you've been listening you've been reporting on this and seeing what's what's happening is the european union in a position to say yes to this delay and to do it with a with a. let's say a good conscience and no worries that it will actually turn out badly. well there's there's two things that are going to help either she can get through next wednesday on the twentieth against the all of them it's a it's a much more simple calculation for the e.u. they would be quite happy to give her a two or three month extension just to be able to get the legislation through the house of commons select it the eventual ates from the e.u. which would be then probably and may or end of june if he doesn't get the deal through next week then owes us helping of a time number for the e.u. but each capital has its own particular set of requirements reactions to this i think in particular and fronts the french government of president ab

brett connolly comes up with a turnover. already got one goal. make it two.18th and 19th goals of the season. he's also closing in on 0. caps up 3-1. later in the same period, dmitry orlov tozn evgeney kusov, tom wilson, right there, 20 goals for the first time in his career. one of four 20-goal scorers on the team. they win 5-2. still up on the islanders in the metro dision. >>> football news, landon collins, the redskins six-year 4 million safety formally intro ced today. playing for washington. a dream come true for collins. he grew up idolizing the great shawnaylor. collins joins six other crimson tide players on the roster including jonathan allen and ryan anderson both crucial to landon collins. >> we know each other like the back of oh our hands.n weow how each other plays, how we get after it, why we love this game and where we came from we are bama made. we know what it takes to win. all we want to do is win. playing with guys you know are going to get out there just as much as i'm after it. that makeser a big dice. >>> maryland looking for the first

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generations was able to forge a connection with people but the democratic congress wolf is is gerry connolly was one of those who couldn't understand why there was such a lack of communication between the white house and democrats on capitol hill he said people like me susan twenty fourteen this was way into the presidency people like me want to be allies i mean i am an ally so work with us reach out to us you know we're not the enemy well i should say things like that yeah i would take one democratic house but he wasn't so he wasn't alone there was the well i think we had a very good relationship with democrats in the house i mean nancy pelosi i mean that's the only way we passed health care law wall street reform all of the major initiatives of the armed presence he relied on very close cooperation with democrats in the house i write in the book that there was this idea that democrats or republicans would criticize obama for not reaching out when he did they wouldn't extend a hand in return. of where he invited they were saying you couldn't win whatever you do now with republicans you know

john connolly is going to be our next president. why are you doing this? i say, he is my buddy, my friend, and i believe in him. and we started from there and we ended up not winning, we lost to reagan in the primary. but george was the last person standing. and we had delegates. and that is how he made it on the ticket and became vice president for eight years which of course led to his presidency. mr. boston during the course of : that campaign, i'm curious, was there any real friction between you as the campaign manager and your best friend? mr. baker: i have said it before, it is hard to be a campaign manager for a friend. it is easy to lose the friendship because you are the person who has to say no, you have to make another trip. no, you have to get out there. no, we can't do this but you must do that. there were a lot of times when we could have lost the friendship. but we didn't. the toughest time i think was may of 1980. we had run a good race. we were the only candidate in the race other than reagan who had accumulated some delegates. but mathema

. >> reporter: virginia's gerry connolly said there is good reason for democrats to continue the multipleons into the president. on everything from his tax returns to the trump organization. >> i think there is lots of legal perils still out there, and i think it's a very rich environment for further investigation and scrutiny. >> reporter: but with mueller find nothing concrete evidence of collusion or obstruction of justice, democrats know impeachment is now likely off the table and that they need to avoid being seen as overreaching by voters in 2020. at the start of the year, more than half of democrats were already calling for their party to keep focused on their own agenda instead of investigating the president. republicans said mueller's conclusions are proof it's time for democrats to move on. >> so i sincerely hope that now at last our friends on the left will be able to put aside their fixation on permanently relitigating their loss in 2016. >> reporter: south carolina republican lindsey graham, who in the 1990s played a central role in the clinton impeachment saga reminded democ

john connolly was by far the greatest politician i ever knew. he was governor of texas. should have been president but they only had one delegate and couple million dollars wasn't nearly enough. i've had so many things that people helped me because i was a democrat and then when they helped me because i was republican. but i've always got along with -- neither one of them were many love with me but neither one of them really hated me. >> did it give you some bargaining advantage that you -- >> i think so. i've had to knock on the door of the white house and imply -- one time, i said that i think the president wanted me to vote a certain way. i said, well, i got a brother that always wanted to be a federal judge. he turned and the guy who was standing there, he said hall, this isn't a place to ask him for this. i said hell, he's asking me for something, i said i'll ask him for something. he was thinking about it. he turned and asked them if he could get confirmed. i said wait a minute, mr. president. he's not a lawyer. that brought a big laugh. every time i saw him after

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speaking of cohen, gerry connolly told the washington post:quote, set a rich table, he says we are now looking at a 10 course meal, much more to come. shannon: they say investigations are only beginning. joining us, the power panel. kevin chaffetz ricochet.com's editor-in-chief and kelsey boller from the heritage foundation. a little more from the spokesperson for nancy pelosi saying this, the impropriety, lack of transparency, they give the house reasons to investigate accidents, will take all necessary steps including litigation if necessary to obtain them. sounds like they are ready to rumble. >> this is something that should have been done as soon as trump was sworn in honestly. there was reason to question his financial dealings, some of his contacts with russia and some other improprieties, nancy pelosi's spokesperson waited out perfectly. i think the democrats are doing what they are supposed to do. congress members took an oath to the american people not just to the president and when the gop had control of the house they didn't look into this stuff, they sat on their hands, co

. >>> and congressman from virginiaweeted this, gerri connollie tweeted toll on i6 is $46.50 and we're crawling at 13 miles per hour. outrageous. time to provide relief. he had a silar tweet last week, saying time for heard in richmond. >> at least fixing the potholes right. >> it's not potholes, it's money. hey, we want to pause for a moment and say happy birthday to virginia mcluren of d.c. >> not just anybirth. today is miss virginia's 110th birthday. according to a facebook page.ed she mo d.c. in 1941. this is video from her visitth white house when she was just 106. miss virginia was so excited. she said visiting the white house was som that she never thought she would live long enough to get to do. and that was,f course, when barack obama was in the white house. >> we just got word that michelle obama has tweeted her a happy birthday. i'm sure the obamas remember her. >> of course. >>> a viral video helped trigger a recall. and we're going tou show the very dangerous situation that happened involving a 5-year-old who had to be rescued. >>> and the largest cocaine bust in nearly 2