decades on, don young believes as much as anyone in the value of the work that we do here, and as don young himself has so characteristically put it, those that think that i might retire, quote-unquote, i will not do. he believes in this institution. he believes in the work he does. this on his 16,374 day in the house, we extension tend our congratulations to don, to ann. thank you for your service to alaska and thank you for your service to this country, don young.

speaker, i rise to honor congressman don young. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized. ms. pelosi: i rise to join our distinguished speaker in honoring congressman don young who asends to the position of dean of the -- ascends to the position of dean of the u.s. house of representatives following nearly 45 years of proud service on behalf of the people of alaska. congressman young also holds the distinction of serving as the first dean of the house from the republican party in 80 years. congratulations. on behalf of the democratic caucus, let me extend my congratulations to don, to his wife, ann, and his entire family. despite our differences, it is clear that don cares deeply about our nation. don serves because in his words he's enthusiastic about meeting people and trying to solve their problems. a former teacher, he's an advocate for quality education for all. as a former u.s. army tank operator, he believes in ensuring that service members, families and veterans have the care they have earned. and in honor of

decades on, don young believes as much as anyone in the value of the work that we do here, and as don young himself has so characteristically put it, those that think that i might retire, quote-unquote, i will not do. he believes in this institution. he believes in the work he does. this on his 16,374 day in the house, we extension tend our congratulations to don, to ann. thank you for your service to alaska and thank you for your service to this country, don young. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? ms. pelosi: mr. speaker, i rise to honor congressman don young. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized. ms. pelosi: i rise to join our distinguished speaker in honoring congressman don young who asends to the position of dean of the -- ascends to the position of dean of the u.s. house of representatives following nearly 45 years of proud service on behalf of the people of alaska. congressman young also holds the distinction of serving as the first dean of the house from the republican party in 80 years. congratula

is don mcgahn worried? do we have reason to believe he's concerned that he may be a target rather than a witness of the mueller investigation? >> i've seen no indication that mcgahn himself is under investigation in this. what we have seen a lot of is that mcgahn is a central witness in and figure in all of this because he can provide insight into what president was thinking from a story perspective. i find mcgahn's position incredibly interesting because this is a skilled washington lawyer who had to take the whims of a president and try to keep them legal and try to carry them out and time and time again, we learn about different an in this case incidents where he was trying to take a square and put it in a round -- >> one of those. >> square hole or whatever. yeah. screwed that one up. that is pretty remarkable in this whole thing is how did mcgahn balance his interest and his client and what was ethical and what was legal. >> michael schmidt, incredible scoop tonight. thank you so much. congratulations

he's staking himself against don hague, i'd want to be the don mcgahn character. >> things we never expected to see. and hope not to. >> right. hope we wake up and it's not happening. i enjoy you being here on short notice. thank you for being here. >> be well. >> that does it for us tonight. i had a whole other show. i will save it for you. maybe. see you again tomorrow. now it's time for "last word with lawrence o'donnell." >> come on over and do your whole other show. just hand it to me. i'll just read it. rachel, among the things i never expected to hear from you is i would want to be the don mcgahn in that -- in a story. >> yeah. >> but in tonight's story, it is don mcgahn who prevented what would have been an even bigger event than the firing of james comey. >> given what's been reported about the role of don mcgahn in the white house and the role of his deputies, remember the reporting that one of his deputies lied to the president to maneuver him out of firing james comey when he wanted to. it's trying to imagine the relationship between don mcgahn and the president right now as all

decades on, don young believes as much as anyone in the value of the work that we do here, and as don young himself has so characteristically put it, those that think that i might retire, quote-unquote, i will not do. he believes in this institution. he believes in the work he does. this on his 16,374 day in the house, we extension tend our congratulations to don, to ann. thank you for your service to alaska and thank you for your service to this country, don young. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? ms. pelosi: mr. speaker, i rise to honor congressman don young. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized. ms. pelosi: i rise to join our distinguished speaker in honoring congressman don young who asends to the position of dean of the -- ascends to the position of dean of the u.s. house of representatives following nearly 45 years of proud service on behalf of the people of alaska. congressman young also holds the distinction of serving as the first dean of the house from the republican party in 80 years. congratula

remember don mcgahn was part of that, too. so you have donald trump trying to assemble around himself a protection force. and feel like all these attorneys around him need to protect him. protect him from what? >> joy is adding a piece in the details. if those were real concerns, anyone working for the president, including a lawyer, could certainly explore them, nothing wrong with that. but just as you said, and lawrence was eluding to this earlier, a prefatory remark russia is on my mind, i need to protect my family finances, so go find me fake reasons for an unlawful firing, okay, now you have other people on the hook for potential obstruction. if you'll permit me. i brought one more aid since we were talking about where the rules are. this is the cfr doj rules it says only the attorney general may remove the special counsel and only for good cause that cause must be specified in writing for the specific reason of his or her removal. if you start asking people, lawyers or others, to falsify those things you're asking people

by saying don jr.ommitted treason by taking a meeting is ridiculous. >> another story that's breaking, rocking the white house tonight that could be another key focus of the russia probe, ahead. like yucatan shrimp covered in chili-lime butter and caramelized pineapple. and if you like hot, buttery maine lobster, get your hands on this petite red lobster roll. for new entrees, explore globally-inspired dishes like dragon shrimp with a spicy soy-ginger sauce. with so many new dishes and all the classics you crave, what are you waiting for? come taste what's new at red lobster. we know life can be hectic. that's why, at xfinity, we've been working hard to simplify your experiences with us. now, with instant text and email updates, you'll always be up to date. you can easily add premium channels,

don. i appreciate that.he difference is what happened with bill clinton, he did this while he was in office and that's the difference and what kennedy did, the affairs he had was while he was in office. the affairs that johnson had were while he was in office. these alleged affairs, they're alleged with trump, didn't happen while he was in office. this happened 11, 12, 13, 14 years ago. so i think there is a big difference and not that we give anybody a pass, but we have to look at the time line and that was before he was in office. and i think the president has changed quite a bit in the last 11 years, at least i had seen that because there is a maturing of the president. >> okay. have you read liss twitter account? because, listen, a number of different things here, he admitted to was the ""access hollywood"" tape. >> that happened. it came out, you were already supporting him when that came out. you didn't take your support away. >> but i didn't support that, don. i didn't support that. >> but you are say

don mcgann is a witness here in a lot of ways.'t forget, sally yates went to don mcgann about general flynn. and that was 18 days before flynn was eventually fired. >> he was the point person. she was -- >> he was the point person. and we've been told throughout this year that don mcgann and the president have had a very uneasy relationship, and there were times that the president wanted to get rid of don mcgann. and so i think if the president listened to him, it's because it's clear that he was also, and maggie, this is your great story, that he, he was hearing also the cries from people outside, from congress and elsewhere, saying that this would effectively create a constitutional crisis and, and i think mcgann was probably of that, of that school and not surprisingly threatened to quit, according to this great story. >> dana bash, if memory serves me, and again, i don't want to conflate events, but there were plenty of people or have been plenty of people on capitol hill warning about the impact of firing or at least months a

if you go back and look at the e-mail that ron gold stein wrote in 2016 to don jr., and don jr. a month later on jake tapper said, no connections, no connections, which was a flat-out lie. and they've told six lies since then. it said in that e-mail that their attorney general, as part of russia's efforts to help. that's not a, hey, we would like to talk about would you like help, that means they already were helping and trump knew it. >> there are people who believe collusion has already been established. >> i think there's clearly been collusion. >> but it's not a legal term. >> it's not a legal term. conspiracy is the operative word. i know a lot of people hate conspiracy laws and the idea of them but there's a reason we have them. >> how much time have you spent with donald trump? how long have you been covering him? >> i've known donald since may of 1988, so almost 30 years now. he hasn't spoken to me once since 2016. he called me up and threatened to sue me. >> because of something you said on tv? >> no, i was working on an article for politico magazine and he said, if i d

that's just not the case, don, at all. but when he says, the words in that meeting that when he was talking about haiti and these other countries. he said he didn't say it. there were other senators in there that said he didn't say it. he is accused of having an affair with stormy daniels. she said he didn't. he said he didn't. >> why do you need a $130,000 payoff if you didn't? >> i don't know that that's true. >> do you not believe stormy daniels and the other people in the meeting with him as well? why would you believe him over the other people when there are, it's one him and there are more people in the meeting. >> he says he didn't have an affair with her. and there is no evidence and this is and i think that's an alleged affair was 11 years ago. i believe, i think that was 2006 or '07. >> he said it wasn't him on the "access hollywood" tape as well. he said that wasn't him. >> no, it was him. >> but he said it wasn't him. >> it was him. all i know, that was a long time ago. i'm more interested, don, in who a person

who held the exact same job as don mcgahn holds now. he testified at great length and in incriminating way about his conversations with president nixon. seems incumbent upon don mcgahn given the questionable nature of this exchange, he should be arrow required to tell congress and the american people what the heck was going on. >> the number of people from the white house invoked not executive privilege because not white house, but invented form of that, i just don't want to tell you my conversations with the president because i don't think i should, seems like everyone else has done it, why not don mcgahn? >> we might. congress never knows until it asks. the fundamental fact of the congressional investigations is that republicans are in charge, republicans in charge of the house and senate and these investigations seem much more designed to protect president trump than to investigate him. but that doesn't mean those of us following it from the outside shouldn't say that congress should do its job and get these people under oath, find o

i know don jr. i would vouch for him. >> he didn't order mueller fired and don mcgahn. >> i have said four times in the interview that i accept the reporting. >> if that's what happens, how is my theory wrong about what it could mean to investigators? >> because i can't get inside the mind of the president. this is what i really believe happened. he said there's no collusion here, why do we need this unnecessary distraction of a special prosecutor? and mcgahn told him you can't fire the guy. it will be a disaster for you. and the president said okay. no problem. there's no collusion. fast forward to thee weeks ago the president said i expect mueller to treat me fairly. the guy never got fired. period, the end. if he was that concerned why didn't he fire him? >> he was told it would be bad for you. and the guy would resign. they are looking at obstruction of justice. reports came out they were looking at obstruction of justice. that's what it happened. >> let's see how it plays out. i understand that

>> i wanted to don my glasses, pun intended. hi, don and brooke.e are more than 100,000 people who have shown up. at bicentennial park here in nashville. and that man, keith urban, has been taking down the house in here, playing with groups like lark and poe, a duo that is amazing. you've got to hear their music. two sisters that really have some serious rock 'n roll soul. and he keeps switching things up. he is playing all kinds of music. john mellencamp. he is playing reggae music. he is also playing some of his hits. the crowd loves him. but i want to give you a look at this crowd. it's insane. look. it's people. it's bars you can see. and by the way, there they all are! waiting for new year's eve to pop up. there are fans all over. i got to tell you, it is so cold here. you are lucky to be in new orleans. it is like 9 degrees. it's supposed to drop to a windchill of 2. we've got everything, so many layers on, i don't know what to do. but happy new years to you guys. and you got to come back to us and listen to some of this music. it's amazing.

i'm don lemon. the president of the united states is racist. a lot of us already knew that. today president trump talking with lawmakers in the oval office about immigrants from haiti, from el salvador and africa, said, and i quote, "why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?" but you know who he did say he would welcome here? he said the u.s. should bring in more people from countries like norway. and cnn is told he went on to say why do we need more haitians? take them out. those comments are frankly disgusting. there's other language i'd like to use, but we are on television. but you know what? they're not shocking. not even really surprising. because this is who donald trump is. this is what he thinks. apparently we have to go through this repertoire every time he says something like this or exhibits some racist behavior. this is a man who in the oval office meeting last year said nigerian immigrants should, in his words, go back to their huts, who in that same meeting

i'm don lemon. and these are the words we heard today from two people close to president trump. those words are uninformed and unprepared. uninformed and unprepared, it's not me saying that. it's the president's chief of staff and his former campaign manager. chief of staff john kelly told democrats behind closed doors candidate trump's border wall promises, were his word, uninformed. a source also saying kelly has worked to educate the president and move him away from those campaign promises. promises the president's base expects him to keep. and then there's the russia investigation to tell you about. adam schiff saying former campaign manager corey lewandowski told the panel he was unprepared to answer questions about what happened after he left the campaign. while trump former campaign executive steve bannon could be back before the house intel panel tomorrow. that as the government edges closer and closer to a shutdown on the eve of president trump's first year in office. a mess that could have

i know that some blacks are good people. >> but don, but don, if you're a racist, you're assuming thatll people who are not like you are bad people. >> no, no, no. >> or subhuman. don, that's what -- and that's why i felt the need to speak out because we can't have shifting definitions because we really are approaching a transformation point in america. it's no longer the economy, stupid. it's the demographics, dummy. and there is a lot of white anxiety out there about -- and legitimate anxiety -- >> about the changing demographics of the country? >> yes, because we live in a country -- >> no, no, let's go through that. we live in a country where the demographics are changing, it's becoming less white. >> correct. >> okay. you're making my point. so, then, if you're a white person who is afraid of that, or that is concerning to you, what is that saying, that you are losing power in some sense? you're losing an advantage in some sense? >> i think, i think it says a number of things to a number of different white americans. and the genius that donald trump tapped -- well, the genius of d

don, here's the key. who got what they wanted? that's what people remembe. 2013 was all about gutting aca, obamacare. the republicans didn't get what they wanted, but they put us through a shutdown. the public says, republicans did that for nothing. 1995-'96, what did the republicans want? they wanted to limit president clinton's ability to make budgetary policy. they didn't get what they wanted. they lost. so i believe that 2018 will all depend on whether -- which side gets what it wants. if daca is not guaranteed as a result of the shutdown, the democrats will look like the losers. and despite the fact they have the moral high ground, politically they'll be hurt. if the republicans give in on daca and accept the bipartisan agreement that was floating around and the president dropped last week, then the president will look like the loser. so i think it depends on how this plays out. i don't think you know who will win or lose the blame game until we know how this thing ends. we know the shutdown will end. it's how it ends that ma

we'll keep our eyes on this, don. this is something that clearly they're trying to work out a deal but important to remember. it takes both chambers here to do something so even if the when they would reach a deal - tomorrow, this would have to go back to the house of representatives. it is one reason that the house is staying in washington for the weekend. >> listen to this, don, as they call this gavel here. >> 50 and the nays is 49. >> majority leader? >> i had a motion reconsider to vote. >> motion entered. >> i want to call my colleagues apart of the white house and press secretary tonight, presumably on behalf of the administration simply says we'll not negotiate the status of unlawful immigrants while democrats hold our lawful citizens hostage over their reckless demands, appropriately represents the white house's view of where we are and mr. president, what we just witnessed on the floor was a cynical decision by democrats shoving aside millions of americans for political games. the government shutdown was 100

i'm don lemon. 11:00 p.m.n of the east coast live with huge breaking news on the russia investigation. a source confirms to cnn tonight that president trump ordered robert mueller, the special counsel heading up the russia investigation, fired this past june. the only thing that stopped him was when his own white house counsel, don mcgahn threatened to quit rather than carry out the order. let's discuss now. i want to bring in now walter shab, former director of the office of government ethics. good to have you on, walter. you tweeted this. i want to read it and then i'll ask you question base it. you said before you canonize mcgahn remember he threat pressured sessions not to recuse. i bet his objection was not that firing mueller was wrong but that it was dangerous. also, this is not the first leak to paint mcgahn in a good light at trump's expense. if i were trump, i'd wonder about mcgahn. what would you wonder about him? s. >> well, the question is where are these leaks copping from? and who stands to bene

"cnn tonight" with don lemon, the man starts right now. >>> this is "cnn tonight." i'm don lemon. so what happened? the federal government shut down for three day, throwing washington into turmoil. and for what, exactly? there is no deal on daca, which is supposed to be the democrats' line in the sand, right? it's just mitch mcconnell's, quote, intention to bring it up. a spending bill passed by congress and signed by the president tonight, it just kicks the can right down the road, funding the government for less than three weeks. why did we go through all of this you know what? so who are the winners and who are the losers in all of this? we know the daca folks lost. the democrats lost. really, the american people. has anything really changed? what about the deal maker in chief? where has he been? and what about february 8th? will we be right back where we started? hmm. stay tuned. let's get right to cnn political correspondent dana bash, pamela brown, political analyst april ryan. thank you all so much for joining us. i think those are very legitimate questions. we went through

always a pleasure. >> thanks,don.ery much. >>> when we come back, president trump certainly knows his way around a lawsuit. and he's given plenty of depositions in his time, but will any of that help him if he is deposed by robert mueller? >>> president trump no stranger to depositions, but he has never faced a higher stakes interview than one with robert mueller. let's discuss. cnn contributor john dean is here, a former nixon white house council, and senior commentator ken cuccinelli is here as well. president of the senate conservative's fund. good evening, gentlemen, so good to see you. thanks for coming on. john, sources tell cnn that lawyers for president trump are expecting a request for the president to meet with special counsel robert mueller. and they're hoping to get some guidelines on the interview. how do you see this playing out? >> well, i think the lawyers will probably try to get written interrogatories, which will not be acceptable at all to the special counsel. i think he'll want to talk to the pres

we can't know because don mcgahn isn't talking. if i was donald trump, i would be awfully nervous about don mcgahn right now, not following your order and a lot of stories coming out that paint me as donald trump in a bad light and don mcgahn in a good light. >> so i want to ask you about some conflicts of interest that the president apparently had presented to mcgahn for his reasoning to why mueller could be dismissed. three things. mueller was involved in a disagreement, apparently, over fees at a trump golf club. mueller's previous work for a law firm that represented jared kushner, and because trump interviewed mueller for the fbi director job after comey was fired where the reasons president trump thought perhaps this wouldn't be such a bad idea to fire mueller. are those valid concerns of conflict of interest? >> no, they're comedically bad reasons. i mean, if you're looking for a cover story, you really could do a better job than that. the idea that he can't conduct the investigation that he would have been authorized to con

cnn tonight with don lemon starts right now. >>> this is cnn tonight, i'm don lemon. the president of the united states is racist. a lot of us already knew that. today president trump talking with lawmakers in the oval offi office, he said, why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here? you know who he did say he would welcome here? he said, the u.s. should bring in people from more countries like norway. why do we need more haitians, take them out? those comments are friendly disgusting. there's other language a would like to use, but we are on television. you know what, they're not shocking. not even reilly surprising, because this is who donald trump is. this is what he thinks. apparently we have to go through this repertoire every time he says something like this, this is a man who in the oval office meeting last year said nigerian imgrants should go back to their huts. all haitian immigrants have aids. the man who based his entire political career for years on the racist birther lie that president barack obama was born in africa. a man who

and don mcgann threatened to quit. at the time the president was considering three issues as possible conflicts of interest. one was a dispute over fees at a golf club that mueller had been a member of, never completely understood what was that about. it was seen widely by legal experts i spoke with as a flimsy reason. the second reason was mueller had, up until that point, worked at the law firm that also employed a lawyer for jared kushner, the president's son-in-law. and the third was mueller had interviewed to be the enter is eupl fbi director replacing james comey and could be a witness in the case. the last was the only one that had even sort of a whiff of credibility about it. it made no actual sense as a conflict. the last two, i would point out, both issues were pushed out by trump advisers at the time on background to discredit mueller and not to say and therefore he should be fired but to stoke the perception that he should not be in the job that he was in. but also at the time, chris ruddy of news max went

but this is serious stuff, don. and it's a remarkable breaking story because it does show and complete the pattern that we've been seeing. >> yeah. carl, i've got to ask you, and i asked in the tease before the break, did he learn nothing? did he learn nothing from the blowback from firing james comey? has he learned anything over the past year? >> well, actually, he's been very successful in his own terms, which is to say he acts as if nothing sticks to him. and in fact, very little has. and he, if you talk to the people around him, they will tell you, this is his operating presumption. that if he can get his base riled up about a witch-hunt, that is more important than the lying we just saw, more important than firing mueller or giving pardons. he believes on some level i'm told he can get away with just about anything. and in fact, he has in many regards. and now he has for the last two weeks the republicans on capitol hill tethered to him, tooting a line that is so much in his defense at a moment when they ought

what are you calling for with don mcgann?don mcgann should go back in time and undo what he did. >> thank you very much for expressing your strong feelings to us this morning. appreciate talking to you. >> thank you. >>> we are following a lot of news this morning, so let's get right to it. >>> "the new york times" published a blockbuster story about president trump's efforts to keep control of the russian investigation. >> it speaks to the very depths of deprivilege tea of the white house. >> i have never heard of anything like that. >> it's absolutely his decision. >> this author is, quite frankly, a crack pot fantasy news faction writer. >> we're caught up debating the mental health of the president. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> good morning and welcome to your "new day." it's friday, january 5th, 8:00 in the east. we have two big stories following. first, the man behind the explosive tell-all book behind the white house, and dropping even more eyebrow raising claims about donald trump, and

i'm don lemon. we have big news on the russia investigation to tell you about. it comes straight from the president's mouth. president trump telling reporters tonight he's looking forward to talking to special counsel robert mueller. his lawyer is responding to that tonight. we're going to tell you what he says. remember this is the president who in the rose garden back in june said he was 100% willing to talk to mueller. then just a few weeks ago he said there might not be an interview. so definitely maybe. the president also spoke about hillary clinton, his chief of staff, john kelly, and deputy fbi director andrew mccabe, and you'll hear all of it tonight. we have more breaking news as well. cnn also learning that robert mueller has given the president's lawyers possible topics he wants to ask as a part of the interview with the president. mueller's team wants to question former white house chief strategist steve bannon about the figrings of national securiy adviser michael flynn and fbi directors james comey. sources also saying cia director mike pompeo has

i don't see don mcgahn as leaking type. that's not the type of lawyer he is.ot the lawyer that i met and spent a little time with. so i don't see that but that's out there. and i'm sure people are asking that question. but here's the bottom line which is the important thing to remember here is that if president fires bob mueller he'll be in a lot of trouble, he knows that and realizes that, so i'm not sure that's a focus here. what the president ought to go doing is focusing on agenda and stop worrying about the mueller investigation. it's going to happen. the president should stick with his agenda. >> does that prejudice the investigation all the leaking? >> i don't know. it might help the investigation. certainly leaking to that book, that michael wolff book, but then again president trump and his political people invited author right there in the white house to go around interviewing people. of course, the president who throws staff members under the bus and fires people with regularity is going to have more leaking going on for example president bush. we h

i'm don lemon. 11:00 p.m.east coast live with hunl breaking news on the russia investigation. a source confirms to cnn tonight that president trump ordered robert mueller, the special counsel heading up the russia investigation, fired this past june. the only thing that stopped him was when his own white house counsel, don mcgann threatened to quit rather than carry out the order. i want to bring in walter sh autobiography abfrrm director of the office of government ethic

i'm don lemon. 11:00 on the east coast.e with the breaking news for you, the federal government could shut down in less than 25 hours. that's after the house passed a short-term bill to avoid a shutdown. now you know, it's really up to the senate, where republicans are desperately trying to find a way to get the 60 votes they need to pass the bill. to do it, they need to convince some democrats to vote yes. if that doesn't happen, it looks, and it looks like it won't, the lights could go out tomorrow. so our congressional and

and don junior saying, i love it, especially for later in the summer. later in the summer we got all those wikileaks and that's when those started to really hit and donald trump seized on them and rallied his base against hillary clinton. this was a big deal when we found out about it. to get these transcripts, betsy, what could we possibly learn that we don't already know from this meeting? >> it's possible we'll learn more details about the way the meeting got set up, about the way don junior was connected to some of these russian and russian-linked characters who initially pitched him on having the idea of the meeting. i certainly would expect we'll be able to learn how the meeting itself went and if there was any additional follow-up. that said, one important thing to keep in mind is that the investigation has been really unusual. while the senate intel and the house intel committees have stayed largely focused on the russia question, the senate judiciary committee actually has taken a weirdly different lens, one staffer for chuck grassley who share

i'm don lemon. 11:00 on the east coast.he federal government could shut down in less than 24 hours. that's after the house passed a short-term bill to avoid a shutdown. picture live in the capitol in washington. it's up to the senate to find a way to get the 60 votes they need to pass a bill. to do it, they need some democrats to vote yes. if that doesn't happen, and it looks like

i'm don lemon. this is hugely significant. the president, president trump ordered robert mueller, the special counsel heading up the russia investigation fired this past june and the only thing that stopped him was when his own white house counsel threatened to quit rather than carry out the order. this story was first reported by the "new york times" and also reports that mueller learned about his near firing only in the past few months as his investigators interviewed current and former senior white house officials. it has now been confirmed by t

i'm don bell. let's go back to tlesley is sta. >> the sixers 4-game road trip against the bucks and after playing joel embiid the orange and black will play 33 games in 66 days. the flyers just like everyone else. practice they did this. >> up next for s >> a 13-year-old boy from south jersey got the super bowl surprise of a lifetime. the eagles super fan found out today that he is going to minnesota for the big game. cole fitzgerald received tickets as a gift from a minnesota vikings fan who won them at a charity event. that same fan saw a previous story we did when cole got unprecedented access to the eagles team earlier this season. >> want to thank the fan sorry for his season, good luck next year. and, yeah. >> oh, yeah. the vikings fan asked to remain anonymous. cole, a cancer survivor who has overcome many obstacles is now getting ready for a trip to minneapolis. >>> our morning team is back tomorrow from 4:30 to 7:00, for our entire team, i'm ukee washington. the late show is next. thanks s

i'm don bell. let's go back to the stud joe where lesley is standing buying. >> the sixers continuing the 4-game road trip against the bucks and after playing joel embiid sitting this one out. the orange and black will play 33 games in 66 days. the flyers just like everyone else. pulling for the eagles. after today's practice they did this. >> up next a super bowl surprise for south >> a 13-year-old boy from south jersey got the super bowl surprise of a lifetime. the eagles super fan found out today that he is going to minnesota for the big game. cole fitzgerald received tickets as a gift from a minnesota vikings fan who won them at a charity event. that same fan saw a previous story we did when cole got unprecedented access to the eagles team earlier this season. >> want to thank the fan sorry for his season good luck next year. and, yeah. >> oh yeah. the vikings fan asked to remain anonymous. cole a cancer survivor who has overcome many obstacles is now getting ready for a trip to minneapolis. >>

>> that's an easy question, don.s john said it's a very hard standard, it's harder than impeachment. it includes the vice president as a necessary party. >> so then why continue on with the hearings to, to the lay person, average person listening at home, watching at home they'll say, well, if nothing can happen to the president, it doesn't seem he's going to be prosecuted or removed from office, why continue wn with these hearings am. >> look, i don't think we should be talking about it. frankly, it's not news worthy. it is a left-wing conspiracy theory at this point -- >> why continue the investigation at this point if the president aparpears to be above the law or there's no reppercussion of this president. >> i think we're mixing the 25th amendment and what you want to address. >> he will be prosecuted for whatever it is mueller may or may not come up with, we've been saying it's been very difficult to remove a sitting president from office, why continue wn with the investigations? i think that's a very simple qu

>> absolutely, don. already we're seeing unfolding the beginnings of the political blame game with this potential shutdown, and it's been really interesting to see the democrats, who of course a few years ago in 2013 were saying that a shutdown would bring chaos, now saying that it's necessary to be able to push through an immigration deal. some saying that they don't want the short-term spending solution. they want something longer term. really it's a role reversal from what we saw in 2013. i want to bring up some interesting polling that i was looking at earlier from 2013. after that shutdown, republicans were widely blamed for that shutdown. of course you remember ted cruz and some others held up the government spending measure over concerns over obamacare even though they were blamed for that shutdown, of course, they won the senate in 2014. so you have to think that some democrats tonight are thinking about the way that played out and what it might mean for them. is this a risk politically that coul

and as always, don got what don wanted.n, who not only came up with the idea for theroadcast, but ran it for 36 years. >> new opening, take two. >> kroft: and on this day, they rolled the tape again, and rolled the dice on don's grand experiment. >> reasoner: this is "60 minutes." it's a kind of a magazine for television. >> wallace: richard nixon and his entourage. >> kroft: and the very first story set the tone for what was to come. "60 minutes" had the only camera in the room as richard nixon and friends watched the vote at the republican convention. ( laughter ) it gave him the nomination for president. ( applause ) >> richard nixon: sit down, get to work! ( laughter ) >> wallace: how does richard nixon, if elected by a majority? >> kroft: interviewed by mike on the second program, the candidate made a remark that history would note. >> nixon: the most important thing about a public man is not whether he's loved or disliked, but whether he's respected. and i hope to restore respect to the presidency at all levels by my

don mcgahn is a professional, he's got a reputation as a very fine lawyer. he would be committing malpractice as white house counsel if he didn't alert the president. so the president said i don't care, i want him gone. i want him gone. and i order you to get rid of him. and there are various things that don mcgahn could have done to carry out that crime and it would have been a crime because it clearly would have been an ongoing obstruction of an important piece of the system of justice. but not wanting to commit a crime and perhaps worried about how he had already been implicated, in the firing of comey, and in trying to pressure jeff sessions, not to recuse himself, don mcgahn did what any decent lawyer would do and that is to say, mr. president, i will not commit this crime, i can't do it. in fact if you make me do it, i'll quit. and of course at that point, the president backed off. but it shows a great deal about his corrupt motives and eliminates the possibility of any defense that he was simply a novice at the political game and he didn't know what h

can i add one thing, though, don, about this? fusion gps testimony which struck me is that in the dossier one of the theories that underlie how did the collusion theory come to arise was between the trump business organization and, you know, former soviet union states of the world. and bannon said remember in the "fire and fury" book this is all about money laundering. and this dossier and this testimony of simpson gives further credence to the thought there is a financial connection between the trump organization and russians or people connected with russia and at lites of what was the former soviet union, and i think will embolden mueller to look further at money launder [the red line that trump drew as part of his investigation. >> his finances should not be part of -- >> it becomes relevant in this testimony today shows how that is the case. >> thank you all. appreciate it. fascinating conversation. >>> when we come back, why president trump televised his bipartisan meeting today as he tries to hammer out an immigration deal.

don mcgahn is the white house counsel. and donald trump's personal counsel is ty cobb and john dowd. do those two functions representing the white house, represent the president ever diverge, and do you see any signs they could diverge in where you understand this investigation to be now and where you think it's heading? >> we haven't seen that publicly yet, but there's a lot we don't know, nicolle. for example, when don mcgahn was called as a witness, did he assert any privileges? attorney/client privilege or executive privilege? conversely, has robert mueller tried to invoke the crime fraud exception which he did in the manafort case to get a lawyer to come and testify. you can do that if the lawyer has information about what you think is a crime. so this is a secret investigation. there's a lot we don't know. we haven't seen any signs in public that the interests of donald trump the client are diverging from the interests of the united states government. but it's an interesting sort of line of inquiry to pursue. >> and