has been a lot of pressure mounting on robert a smaller as well on the department of justice the democrats have been calling for a complete an act of version off the report remember that the full report was published $400.00 pages of the report was published in april and a short while before that the attorney general published a 4 page summary in which she said that the president would be completely exonerated and try to keep himself out of the interpretation of the report he wanted to have the report speak for itself but that didn't really work out what happened afterwards was that a fight broke out between congress and the department of justice over and under addicted version over the interpretation of this report because the democrats in congress are arguing that there is enough evidence on obstruction of justice to indict the president but then his attorney general has been saying the contrary and there's been a big debate going on pressure was mounting there will be legal cases to be fought about the question of subpoenas that the white house is blocking and in this situation robert a

catherine: good evening the executive privilege over the record of the justice department said 11th hour negotiations broke down in the house democrats forced their hand. late today the justice department issued a statement highly critical of the democratic chairman jerry nadler that reads in part "it is deeply disappointing elected representatives of the american people have chosen to engage in such an appropriate, political theatrics. all this as the committee reflect a deep partisan divide." >> catherine: after four hours of debate house judiciary committee a first step to hold attorney general william barr in contempt. >> he's refusing to do anything other than provide political cover for the president. the president seeks to take a wrecking ball to the constitution of the united states of america. >> catherine: jerry nadler said attorney general barr refused to comply with congressional subpoena to supply the full council report and underlying records. >> no person out the the attorney general, not the president can be permitted to be above the law. that is what is at stake today. >> catherine: but republicans shot back barr was

the mueller investigation is a witch hunt and a hoax. as of tonight we also know according to treasury secretary mnuchin, the treasury department on the advice of william barr's justice department has determined the democrats' authority under the law to see the president's tax returns, quote, lacks a legitimate legislative purpose and will, therefore, be denied. the department of justice intends to memorialize this advice in a published legal opinion as soon as practicalitible. meanwhile experts say democrats on are solid legal ground in demanding those tax returns. the top democrat anticipates the democrats will proceed to court as quickly as next week, the same week the democrats on the intelligence committee plan on enforcement action against the attorney general. how are all these fights going to play out? joining us now, congressman jim himes of connecticut and congresswoman judy chu of california a member of the ways and means committee. thank you for joining us tonight. great to have you here. >> thank you. >> congressman chu, i want to get your reaction to the news that the treasury secretary steve mnuchin will not comply with chairman neil's subpoena for trump's taxes because you sit on the ways a

heduled to testify about his handling of the mueller report but he backed out when democrats added an extra hour of questioning by justice department and houses calated when nancy pelosi called out barr's testimony before a senate panel wednesday. >> if the attorney general of the united states is not telling the truth to the congress of the united states, that's a crime. >> the justice department said speaker pelosi's baseless attack on the tog is reckless, irresponsible and false. >>> a democratic congressman had fun with william barr's no- show. steve cohen brought a serp ram mick chicken and bucket of chicken. he put it in front of the witness chair saying he's here. ws at have more on the kpix 5 to hit the u.s.-mexico border and it involves dna testing. the department etthesg somerepo unprecedented move, ice will crack down on families. the department of homeland security said the new pilot program will involve a voluntary cheek swab with results expected in under two hours. the department space the program will target human traffickers who are smuggling and exploiting children. >> we're also trying to identify those families

of the materials that they've been demanding, some of the underlying investigative materials that, again, have been at the -- the crux of this fight between the democrats and in congress and the justice department. if you remember, the attorney general bill bar has offered them to come and see the unpredicted report. so far republicans have gone over -- a number of republicans have gone over, but no democrats have taken up this offer. so what the justice department is now doing is saying, look, you could come over and look at unredacted report and get to see some 12 categories of materials that schiff and the democrats have been asking for again in short order as a way to sort of unstuck this -- this standoff that has been going on between the hill and the justice department. we'll see whether or not this is something that is doable for the democrats because, again, he had promised some kind of unspecified action against the attorney general and he's held in contempt by one commit in the house and we'll see whether this is something that at least against the -- gets the ball moving on these negotiations between the two sides. >> we'll see if it will. evan, thank you so much. evan perez in washi

hearing yesterday matters threatened to hold barr in contempt that is if the department of justice does not comply with the democrats new offer on learning more about the mueller report nadler's cent bar, a new letter saying the committee could work wi-h the d o j to prioritize and narrower set of evidence from the special counsel to turn over to congress nadler's letters still insists that the d o j grants, congress, the ability to see unredacted grand jury material related to bob mueller's findings which barr has argued he's legallof m eastern time to respond. let's get check of the weather around the bay area and see what edwards is dancing a >>you saw that you he was he was trying to communicate. try to tell you it was singled of lack of forecast receive go to my looking good. it will be cooler this weekend fact those temperatures really get a drop you know you have these nice 80's outside i think comes go to mild partly cloudy skies breezy too temperatures generally in the 60's. yeah, it looks like a good weekend ahead. those see some cooler temperatures rolling in the bay area and probably running a little bit

been in discussions with the justice department about mueller's appearance because mueller, after all, remains an employee of the justice department. on another front, democrats on that same committee weighing their next move. attorney general bill barr stood them up today after spending hours yesterday testifying before the senate committee. house judiciary committee chair jerry nadler of new york dramatically gavelled the hearing into order this morning anyway and later blasted barr for not showing up and for with holing the full mueller report. >> the failure of attorney general barr to come to the hearing today is simply another step in the administration's growing attack on american democracy and its attack on the right of congress to be a coordinate branch of government. we will make one more good faith attempt to negotiate and to get the -- to get the access to the report that we need and then -- and then if we don't get that we will proceed to hold the attorney general in contempt. >> and how long are you going to give the attorney general to answer your questions? and to negotiate in good faith before you hold him in contempt? >> a day or two. >> spe

the president did commit obstruction of justice, shep. >> shepard: the defense department responding to democrats on capitol hill and voting to hold barr in contempt of the congress. >> right. the justice department is just responded to the chairman of the judiciary committee and said they're willing to make an accommodation with congressional democrats, but they say in response, the attorney general has taken extraordinary steps to accommodate the judicialry's request for information regarding the special counsel's investigation. but to date, chairman nadler has not reciprocated and refusing to minimally redacted version and posing unreasonable terms on his offer to testify before the committee. the house chairman said he wants to see the full report and the underlying ed. he says -- >> chairman nadler says if the justice department present as good offer to see the full report and the ed, he can always postpone that vote to hold him in contempt on wednesday. shep? >> shepard: thanks, rich. a private jet was on its way from las vegas to mexico but never showed up. now the search is on for the jet and the 14 people that are now missing s

of but what are the democrats scared of. >> democrats are pressing the department of justice to provide them with a full unredacted copy of the mueller report. >>> sentencing is expected this summer for five pharmaceutical executives convicted in the fentanyl bribery case. after deliberating for 15 days a jury in boston returned a guilty verdict against executives at insus therapeutics, accused of giving kickbacks to doctors for giving large addictive amounts of the fen nil spray for patients that did not need the painkiller. >>> a man is suspected of killing two people and injuring four others, 22-year-old trystan terrell, who waived his right to appear in court yesterday. there is no clear motive in the shooting. he had been enrolled in the school and with drew this semester. a memorial continues to grow for the shooting the chancellor says the school plans to have an independent external review of the response to the shooting >> it really hits close to will to your school until it does. >> people are scared to come out and fearful >> the university says counseling services will be available for students and staff in th

yesterday that letter is now threatening to hold barr in contempt that is if the department of justice does not comply with the democrats new offer on the they want to learn more about the mueller report adler has sent bar a new letter saying the committee could work with the d o j to prioritize a or narrow said of evidence from the special counsel to turn over to congress nadler's letter still insist that the d o j grant congress, the ability to see unredacted grand jury material related to bob mueller's findings which barr has argued he's not allowed to provide legally nadler's giving bar a deadline of monday at 09:00am to respond. >>as well as political crisis now moving to the forefront in washington today, the issue and meeting at the pentagon, the acting secretary of defense says all options are on the table. emily schmidt explains what that may mean. >>for the first time in months president trump and russian president vladimir putin talked by phone friday. >>i had a very good talk with president putin probably a over an hour. and we talked about many things venezuela was one of the topics you want to get some hum

want to get your reaction to what the members of the judiciary committee and the broader democratic caucus seem to be threatening. how does the justice department respond? >> if i heard nadler correctly, he said we're not afraid to use our inherent contempt authority. i take that to mean using a sergeant in arms to get the attorney general. we're a long way away from that. they haven't even subpoenaed him to appear yet, but it's quite a threat to make, i think, at this stage, especially when it's really about form over

robert, the democrats are rushing any possibility of accommodations between the justice department and democrats. they went back and forth saying we will accommodate you as they can. they don't want any of that. back to her point. i want to play some. old sound from 7 years ago that the democrats were dismissing this whole idea of contempt. i think we have it. let's watch. >> contempt of congress, contempt of congress not only to monopolize his time, to undermine his name. >> some of my colleagues on the other side seem almost giddy about today's vote. after turning this investigation into an election year witch hunt. >> laura: [laughing]. i love the witch hunt! the witch hunt word is back. it depends on whose ox is gored. >> consistency is the goblin of little minds. i was paying attention in law school. i don't understand the point of a contempt proceeding under these circumstances where the attorney general is following the law. that's why they are citing him for contempt. look, it's not a constitutional crisis. this is blown out of proportion. i do think it's the last gasps effort

the president of committing crimes he added that it is the job of the u.s. congress to hold the president accountable raising the prospect of house democrats beginning impeachment proceedings. the justice department gave washington's media less than 2 hours to prepare for the special counsel statement in the 2 years since his appointment robert mueller had never publicly commented on the investigation but on wednesday with his office formally closing down he seized the opportunity to push back against president donald trump's repeated claims that the investigation had cleared him of any wrongdoing. if we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime we would have said so we did not however make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime. also stressed that charging the president with a crime was not an option his office could consider justice department policy holds that it is unconstitutional to charge a president with a federal crime while he's in office. trumped reacted with a quick tweet saying there was insufficient evidence and that therefore he was innocent case closed. but congressional democrats believe melissa statement confirms that they are right

can be permitted to be above the law. >> democrats are afraid of what the attorney general will find when he completes his own review of fisa abuses of the justice department. democrats are resolved to neutralize bill barr by attacking him in the office and his integrity and career. >> harris: governor, as we watch this we see some legal and some politics. what do you make of it all? >> gov. huckabee: it's mostly feeder, let's face it. this is not a serious discussion of the issue. this is all pontificating, trying to get their points out. the best thing they can do is turn the cameras off. for that matter, turn the lights off. put only the members of congress in the room and say, "you guys talk about this." but get the cameras and microphones out of there. the reason this goes on like this, and it produces nothing but extraordinary partisan rank or, is because nobody in that room is serious about resolving the issue. they are serious about trying to present their side, make their side look good. make the other side look bad. it's a waste of time and money. >> harris: you know what's interesting, capri, we were looking seconds ago. the toggle might be betw

of going to school and never walking out. >>> and i'll talk to a member of the -- of the house judiciary committee. what happened inside. they're meeting with the justice department this afternoon as democratso hold bill barr in contempt. >>> the new president of the national rifle association is apologizing now to georgia congresswoman lucy mcbath. in an interview carolyn meadows was asked about a congressional election in her home town of murrieta georgia where a democrat flipped a conservative district while championing gun safety. and she lost her son jordan davis to gun violence back in 2012 and let me show you what this new nra president said, quote, it is wrong to say, like, mcbath said, the reason she won was because of her anti-gun stance. that didn't have anything to do with it. it had to do with being a minority female. meadows now telling "the washington post" that her comments were insensitive and inappropriate and congresswoman lucy mcbath is with me now. a pleasure to have you back. thank you so much. nice to see you. >> thank you. i enjoyed being with you. >> so we'll get to her apology in just a second, but first when you first heard about those comments from the new nra pr

on capitol hill, where democrats are discussing their next steps in the face of several missed deadlines and continued defiance from both the white house and the justice department. you know, phil, there was a meeting today between the department of justice staffers, house judiciary committee staffers. what have you learned? >> all systems go, wolf. those are the words from one house democrat on the judiciary committee, who just emerged from a closed door meeting of democratic members to discuss next steps forward. they are still planning at this moment to hold that contempt vote related to the attorney general, william barr, and their subpoena for the full unredacted mueller report, as well as the underlying investigative materials. now, as you noted, earlier today, there was a meeting here on capitol hill between justice department staffers and committee staffers. i'm told that the justice department did lay out an offer that would have included expanding the universe of people who could come to doj and view the mueller report, at least at this moment in time, that was not good enough for house democrats, at least those emerging from the closed door meeting ju

the attorney general in contempt of congress. good morning, tracie. >> reporter: hi there, laura. good morning. good morning, everyone. there were discussions going back and forth overnight between the justice department and the lawmakers, the democrats in charge of this vote today. the trump administration was trying the get them to call it off. this letter hit capitol hill overnight. the justice department threatening to claim executive privilege over the entire mueller report, much of it already public. and the underlying evidence, unless democrats cancel today's contempt vote against attorney general william barr for not implying with a subpoena to provide the full report. this kind of obstruction is dangerous, democrat jerry nadler, said overnight. 6th confirms today's vote will happen. >> what is the president afraid of? >> reporter: they are telling don mcgahn not to share documents. and saying robert mueller should not testify. >> there is no reason to testify for someone who has already issued a 448 report -- 448-page report. >> case closed. >> the case is not closed. >> it's far from over. >> reporter: democrats plan to keep digging. and they want to keep digging not just into the president and obstruction but the big issue

the anti-trump dossier to secure surveillance warrant for trump campaign aide. >> is trying to destroy william barr because democrats, he is going to get to the bottom of everything. >> the justice department issued a statement calling the session political theatrics. democratic chairman jerry nadler told supporters he expects the contempt resolution to go to the house floor. shannon: thank you very much. fox news has confirmed the republican-led senate intelligence committee has subpoenaed donald trump junior. testifying before the senate judiciary committee in 2017. some gop lawmakers are not happy. rand paul saying apparently the republican chair of the senate intel committee leaked a memo from the majority leader. the house judiciary chairman slamming the president for stonewalling his committee subpoena. the president dared the democrats to keep pushing. >> they want to do investigations instead of investments. they want to do what they are doing which looks so foolish. maybe i read it wrong but i think it drives us right onto victory in 2020. >> radio host in washington dc larry o'connor. welcome to you both. what do you make of that, the president says the more they come after him i

of the justice department. the job of the justice department is now over. there is an election in 18 months. it's a very democraticrocess. but we are out of it. we have to stop using the criminal justice process as a political weapon. >> jesse: well, jedediah, i watch the entire hearing today. >> jedediah: that's brutal. >> jesse: i don't think they laid a glove on william barr. he seemed composed. he seemed polished, and kind of out lawyered a lot of those politicians. >> jedediah: he has the patience of a saint. some of that questioning from kamala harris, the ridiculousness of how all of a sudden, you're not supposed to believe mueller's evaluation i mueller's evaluation of the evidence. ted cruz reminded everyone of the scope of the lawyers in the scope of the subpoenas in the interviews that went into the process. most people would look at this and say it was a criminal investigation. no crime was found. done, close the book. lets go of her pizza. because the derangement exists and they are so committed to this, they have have obsessed about it. the point of the media narrative is important. the fact that mue

of the mueller report. escalating the acrimonious battle with the democrats and department of justice. kevin, when it comes to the monday deadline that says let's get the unredacted report. the underlying evidence. how will william barr respond to the deadline? >> i think it is a wash. i think the democrats don't move the needle on this next week with barr. i don't think the republicans move the needle. i think the democrat who showed up with kfc chickchicken. the political theater of this is something that the american people in both parties are growing sick of. what they are not growing sick of is they want to hear from robert mueller. even republicans to some extent would agree. a.g. barr said he would not block the testimony of special counsel robert mueller, but lindsey graham saying he doesn't feel that is necessary. the pressure, i think, is going to come from democrats to get mueller to testify publicly. >> he will not stand in the way from the testimony from mueller. talk about that, john. do you see him actually testifying? >> i think we see signs that actually house judiciary

the president didn't do. second, democrats are afraid of what the attorney general will find when he completes his ongoing refewview of fisa abuses of the justice department, including how the investigation began. multiple errors have suggested those reports could be explosive, end careers and lead to criminal prosecution. rather than face that, democrats have decided to try to neuralize bill barr by attacking him, his integrity and career. what a mean spirited step it is. meanwhile, our economy is surging, unplomt among several minority groups is at an historic low. cratering support for impeachment but democrats have no plans, no purpose and no viable legislative agenda beyond attacking this administration. how many bills passed by this committee have been signed into law? mr. chairman, i implore you to see reason. i ask recognize the insincere politics that seem to be yielding no dividends for the american people. last week's pharmaceutical markup i said i stand ready for you. i will not be a bystander as we asail the attorney general. our democracy deserves better. finally, i would like to quote a fellow member of congress. i treat trooet assertions o

not commit a crime, he would have said so, but he would not look into the crime because of a department of justice rule. democrats jumping on the bandwagon. 38 call for impeachment in the house, republicans say that formeformspecial counsel robertr closed the door on this probe, and so this congress. david: edward thank you. >> andrew mccarthy, great to have you here, what did you make of mueller's statement today? >> i don't think he could have helped the democracies more by anything he would have said in testimony. you know basically david, he said is if on obstruction. if i had thought there was nothing be o obstruction i woule said so. in this system, it is for congress to deal with president at misconduct. you know if you are jerry nadler, he gave you everything you needed at-this-point. david: steve forbes here, why did you think mueller capitulated, this is different from tone of report he told attorney general barr, why did he cave? does he have the backbone of an eclaire or what? he's to go to cocktail parties with these people. >> i think what you saw today was evident in report itself. it seems to me t

of back and forth last night about whether this vote would even happen. the justice department telling lawmakers that they would claim exece privilege over the whole mueller report. all the underlying eviden, the democrat in charge of that committee shot back that they are going to hold this vote anyway. the justice department wanted em to cancel it. so basically the negotiations at were going on back and forth over this fell apart overnight. the vot is set to happen. it's not a final vote, it's a committee vote, but it begins the process and a pretty unusual, unprecedented process of holding the attorney general following for not that subpoena, not complyi with that subpoena to turn over the entire mueller report on russian election interference. >> tracie potts for us this morning on citol hill. thank you. >>> a saddened to a weekend dedicated to honoring a hero. world war iieteran frank daschle died on return from his flight. a nonprofit paid f him to tour it. on his way home the ea95-yold collapsed. american airlines has offered to fly his family and body to thee finalng spot in michigan at n cost. >>> today the residents of the flower branch apartments will call on the government to prevent anothe

the coming days? >> keep in mind, as of last night, the democrats and the justice department were still negotiating. department sent a bunch of talking points around last night, defending their position. jerry nadler was walking out of pelosi's office, it seemed like he had her backing to do whatever he wanted to do. right now there's a little posturing and negotiation. it seems nadler is ready to pull the trigger on a contempt vote but anything could happen. keep in mind, this really is like a negotiation. and what nadler is trying to do is to pry open, the full report. but the broader principle is he wants to establish congress' right to have whatever it wants coming out of doj. this is really about principle, less than the smipecifics of wh they're fighting over. >> blake, thanks for your time. >>> former president joe biden was rallying in nevada. biden took on president trump but was left temporarily speechless as i just was, by one supporter's remarks, watch this. >> really does -- >> that's very nice, thank you. >> trump is hitler! >> the last thing -- i'm not going to too down to his level.

the president of committing crimes he added that it is the job of u.s. congress to hold the president accountable reason the prospect that house democrats could begin impeachment proceedings. the justice department gave washington's media less than 2 hours to prepare for the special counsel statement in the 2 years since his appointment robert miller had never publicly commented on the investigation but on wednesday with his office formally closing down he seized the opportunity to push back against president donald trump's repeated claims that the investigation had cleared him of any wrongdoing. if we had had competent that the president clearly did not commit a crime we would have said so. we did not however make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime and also stressed that charging the president with a crime was not an option his office could consider justice department policy holds that it is unconstitutional to charge a president with a federal crime while he's in office. trump reacted with a quick tweet saying there was insufficient evidence and that therefore he was innocent case closed. but congressional democrats believe statement confirms that they are right to

initially appointed because he had been an attorney general democrats breathed a sigh of relief and said someone who knows the justice departmentprotect the justice department and not serve as the president's lawyer, now of course, democrats are deeply disturbed by what they hear and see from bill barr but i think that bill barr, if anything, democrats should be disappointed in robert mueller and the mueller report because it did not come out the way they had anticipated and it did not say that the president or anyone in his senior staff had kind of colluded with the russians, so here we are. i mean, i think that until we get to the bottom, both of the investigation into russian spying, and the origins of that investigation, this issue is going to remain partisan and we've got to have a report that satisfies everybody in terms of facts, jon. i'm not sure we're going to get there but i think that's what bill barr is trying to do. >> jon: very quickly one republican has jumped on on board the impeachment train and chad pergram describes as a contrarian republican says that contrary to barr's portray all mueller's report reveals p

of the justice department who have left have become. such as james comey. their view generally is that this is worse for the democrats than it is for trump depending how it plays out. democrats are now having to hand wring and wrestle where w this idea of impeachment. and if things stay where they are then this is more of a moment for the president the get through even though it wasn't a great day for him. the broader view is that sfats status quo is good for the president in the current atmosphere. if they are not moving towards impeachment, but they are talking about it. he can still run against it. nothing changes. there are no new data points that come out. so they are really liking to like the way things are light now. the concern is that if they go move to impeachment there is concern what does that do with the executive privilege. does that then mean a bunch of former white house officials are going to be on the hill forced to testify? how do they manage is that? so it is more in the defense of,

because the department of justice guidelines that it wasn't appropriate for him to testify before congress on his reports are no evidence of conspiracy between the trump campaign and russia democrats though continue to demand the release of an uncensored version of mahler's report where we're live in washington d.c. where a white house correspondent can be alkyd is standing by but 1st let's go to mike hanna also in washington d.c. so mike robert mueller has now walked off into the sunset after saying that charging a sitting president was never an option legally so what more did you have to say mike. well certainly the special counsel may not have stepped down but his words are going to reverberate for weeks and months to come essentially he said what he had said in the report that was delivered to congress however what's interesting and what's important is what he repeated in the 8 minute set he spoke to reading from written notes he said twice that he could not. solve president trump of the crime of obstruction of justice this he mentioned twice a very important emphasis and certainly this is something that will be taken note of in congress but this is exactly what the special co

of the white house of the fallout of the mueller report. that was judiciary committee has scheduled a vote over whether to hold the attorney general in contempt of congress after the justice department missed the democrats deadline to turn over the full unredacted mueller report. you're watching "outnumbered." i'm harris faulkner. here today, melissa francis, fox business network anchor dagen mcdowell, fox news contributor jessica tarlov, and then the center seat, gopac chairman and veteran republican strategist, david avella is with us. great to see you. happy monday. >> david: happy national beverage day, ladies! >> jessica: i did not done that. >> harris: having sparkling water. [laughter] really, it's right behind me. democrat surging up the pressure prayed the president is pushing back. that's judiciary committee will vote wednesday on whether they don't like their thread to hold attorney general barr and contempt will happen. meanwhile, democrats also pushing for special counsel robert mueller testified. the house judiciary committee has set a tentative date of may 15th for that. president trump treated this over the weekend. after spending more than $35 million over a two-year period, interviewin

of this is that if you were treating donald trump like a normal candidate, then you are basically engaging in supporting his ability to weaponize information and to use the authority of the justice department to attack the democraticss, which we have seen for two years and there's really no excuse for letting that go by. >> wise words. thank you both. really appreciate you joins us. >>> coming up, the scandal no one is talking about when it comes to billion dollar loser donald trump. we'll talk about next. we'll talk about next. i got cones, anybody wants one! oh, yeah! get ya some! no, i can't believe how easy it was to save hundreds of dollars on my car insurance with geico. ed! ed! we struck sprinkles! [cheers] believe it. geico could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. and relief from symptoms caused feel the clarity of non-drowsy claritin geico could save you fifteen percent by over 200 indoor and outdoor allergens. like those from buddy. because stuffed animals are clearly no substitute for real ones. feel the clarity. and live claritin clear. introducing miracle-gro's next big thing: performance organics. this new organic collection of soil and plant food is what you've always wanted. no comp

the committee. >> this could drag on and on. jerry nadler met with democrats on the panel after the meeting between committee staffers and department of justiceit ended without a resolution today. are house democrats any closer to seeing the full, unredacted mueller report and the underlying evidence, they want that as well in. >> the fact they are moving forward with this vote suggests this is going to drag on and on and on. you can see as david referred to, the political gamesmanship that is at work on both sides. democrats while they are highlighting just how obstructive they believe the administration and the doj, specifically, are being, republicans are saying this is over. mitch mcconnell said case is closed as concerns the mueller report. republicans are trying to portray democrats now as over stepping. as being irrational, rash. the longer this drags on, the more republicans will potentially be able to make that case. there's a risk for democrats in making this a fight. >> all this kocomes as they are telling don mcgahn not to cooperate with congress. what is the administration so afraid mcgahn may reveal give dn fa -- given the fact

of this is that if you were treating donald trump like a normal candidate, then you are basically engaging in supporting his ability to weaponize information and to use the authority of the justice department to attack the democratic process, which we have seen for two years and there's really no excuse for letting that go by. >> wise words. thank you both. really appreciate you joins us. >>> coming up, the scandal no one is talking about when it comes to billion dollar loser donald trump. we'll talk about next. and outdoor allergens. like those from buddy. because stuffed animals are clearly no substitute for real ones. feel the clarity. and live claritin clear. (burke) at fso we know how ton almost evercover almost anything. even rooftop parking. strange forces at work? only if you're referring to gravity-and we covered it. talk to farmers. we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ ♪ applebee's bigger, bolder grill combos. now that's eatin good in the neighborhood. and relief from symptoms caused feel the clarity of non-drowsy claritin by over 200 indoor and outdoor allergens. like those from buddy. because stuffed animals are clearly no substitute

country is acceptance of allowing the highest levels of the department of justice and the fbi to succumb to politics. dirty politics that frankly was anti-american on the part of the democrats and the russians that they worked with. lou: is already too late, congressman. the fbi and the justice department remain in the grip of toxic political corruption and i believe only the attorney general -- i believe only this attorney general with great energy and focus and commitment, can clean it up and that he must bear congressman matt gaetz, i understand you will be with the president tomorrow as he visits northern florida. have a great trip with the president. that is a great big old airplane you will be on. >> we love the president in north florida. i will give him your best. lou: please do, as always. thank you very much, appreciate it, congressman matt gaetz, one of the good guys. up next, president trump firm arm reaching a fair trade deal with china. we take up today's developments. national security expert, christian whiton joins termites, feasting on homes 24/7. we're on the move. roger. hey rick, all good? oh yeah, we're good. we're good. termites never stop trying to ge

linked to the wider scandal that led to the arrest of top politicians and businessmen tema denies any wrongdoing. the u.s. justice department is accusing democrats on the house judiciary committee of engaging in politically motivated attacks after they voted to hold attorney general william barr and contempt of congress for refusal to release and unredacted copy of the modern report on allegations of collusion with russia and stead to censored version of the report last month he's being accused by democrats of misrepresenting special counsel those conclusions to protect president trump and another development on the alleged collusion the us senate intelligence panel has subpoenaed the president some junior he's reportedly being summoned to provide answers about his contacts with russia senators reportedly looking to question him about his twenty seventeen congressional testimony on plans for trump tower project in moscow and on another front democrats in the new york state senate have approved a bill that one of. the president state tax returns the bill has to be approved by the new york state house to refusal to release that information as a br

it comes on the heels of a letter from special counsel robert mueller who said he objected to barr's characterization of the reports' conclusions. democrats learned today the justice department will not comply with a house subpoena fo an unredacted version of that report. >> if negotiations don't result in compliance, the next step is a contempt citation against the attorney general. >> the white house responded to today's hearing saying democrats sound desperate and must be mad at mueller for not doing their bidding. >>> a pastor in a small texas town is coming to the defense of a bay area woman kicked off the train by a conductor. >> here with this woman's story tonight. >> it's pretty wild. wait until you hear this. this widow boarded a train in texas to make the move to the bay area to be reunited with her daughter. mom almost didn't make it. she watches over her dog at her home. she is one of two support dogs that belonged to her late husband. the other is sunny. >> a big girl. >> reporter: juanita rode the train from the former hometown in texas. she said everything was fine until the new attending came on duty. the attendant ordered her off the train and said the dogs

some of the 2020 democratic candidates today reacting to mueller's statement today, which he announced the conclusion of his tenure as special counsel and his resignation from the justice departmentarized, the 2020 democrats' response was pretty uniform. this is the biggest impeachment referral you will ever get. i didn't actually see any of them departing from that line. so what happens with that? according to current nbc news tally, people have been sort of trying to track this through public statements, of the 435 members of the house, there are 46 democrats and 1 republican, michigan dock man justin amash who have openly called for opening an impeachment inquiry. nearly four dozen members of congress, including the vice chair of the judiciary committee who was just our guest here moments ago. you know, after the saturday night massacre in the fall of 1973 when nixon fired his way through the justice department to try to get rid of the special prosecutor who was investigating him for watergate, after that there was a stampede toward impeachment proceedings against nixon among democrats in the house. it almost went without saying that impeachment proceedings would open. similar

of the people who are running the department of justice. lawrence, what is important about this document, this letter is it's republicans and democrats but there is one signature that people have ignored, don heir was department attorney general of the united states department of justice under george h.w. bush. '89 and '91 or '90. the same time bill barr was head of the office of legal counsel and bill barr replaced mr. heir. for mr. heir to sign this document is not only a courageous act, he is saying that bill barr's analysis of obstruction of justice is insane. >> and congressman johnson, let me go to you on this. i want to get your reaction to the prosecutor's letter and where it stands between chairman nadler and the attorney general. >> it actually an extraordinary letter. it a development that gives me confidence about the fact that we'll be able to protect our republic, preserve the rule of law and ensure we get down to the bottom of any attempts by the trump administration to obstruct the mueller investigation. >> and what about -- what do you know about chairman nadler's negotiations at this stage with the attorney general or the att

political opponents or to pursue an unauthorized do over of exhaustive law enforcement investigations conducted by the department of justice. now, democratse furious with that letter and that response. jerry nadler had these words to say to the white house. >> this is the white house claiming that the president is a king. this is the white house saying that the justice department says they can't hold the president accountable because you can't indict a president and now they're saying neither can congress. so the president is totally unaccountable annual above the law. no president, no person in the united states is above the law. this is preposterous. >> reporter: we're also still waiting to see if the justice department is going to comply with a document request from the house intelligence committee adam schiff and he said earlier to my colleague jeremy erb that he is still having tauks with the justice department but obviously not a lot of cooperation from the trump administration on these documents requests. >> one of the most striking conflicts here is over the president's tax returns because the law seems -- well, the law is clear,

i'm one of the prosecutors and spent years in the justice department. my colleagues were not angry democrats. these were basically people who devoted much of their lives to law enforcement. you know, when you sit down and read the mueller report, as i have over the past week after the sort of chaos of it just coming out, i mean, you know, what you get out of the second part is a picture of a concerted effort by the president to obstruct this investigation from even before the day he took office, throughout the period covered by there. you know, it is true that it is a unique situation because, you know, an ordinary person who is under investigation for obstruction of justice can't fire the fbi director. the president is in a unique position. certainly, if you compare it to richard nixon, if you compare it to bill clinton, both with the obstruction of justice, this is greater, i think. that's why you get the bipartisan reaction. >> if david gregory is asked, is this enough to indict someone who is president of the united states, would it be a simple yes or no answer? >> i'd be inclined to say

he offered to let the chairman and five other democrat leaders review the less redacted at the department of justice, including a 99.9% unredacted volume on obstruction. in an odd move for anyone demanding access to information, the chairman and the other elected democrats given access have declined to view that report. the attorney general also volunteered to testify before this committee about the report's conclusions and his role in sharing the report and as we all witnessed, the democratic gamesmanship forced the attorney general to forego the scheduled hearing last week. on monday the justice department offered to meet to discuss accommodations. yesterday they made a reasonable offer to avert this spectacle and once again they were rebuffed and the chairman declined. perhaps then the democrats believed that there has been an unreasonable delay in the justice department's response to their subpoena. no. that's not true either. in fact, the chairman is moving to this contempt resolution at lightning speed. it has been less than 20 days since the chairman nadler subpoenaed documents from the justi