obviously they're going to want to hear from the key witness in the mueller report which is don mcgahngahn he can't testify, he shouldn't testify. the president beyond that has called mcgahn all sorts of names and said he's a liar and threatened him and threatened his law firm and incidentally that may itself be witness tampering to keep don mcgahn from talking in a federal ongoing investigation. but for his own part don mac began is trying to get out of testifying as well. by saying if you think about it he really wasn't really white house counsel at all. don mcgahn put out a statement today in response to this lawsuit filed to get him to testify, claiming that he was just a lawyer with a client and that client happened to be the president. and since the president doesn't want him to testify now despite that subpoena to testify he's going to respect his clients wishes and defy the subpoena. unless and until a court order sentences him to do otherwise. that would make a lot more sense had he been the president's personal lawyer. as white house counsel -- with this lawsuit today in any

morning asking a federal judge to speed up a ruling on a panel's lawsuit to force white house counsel don mcgahnittee says the white house is trying to stall its obstruction of justice probe into president trump by claiming absolute immunity for mcgahn. this comes as the committee subpoenas another former trump aide, rob porter. porter is one of the most cited sources after mcgahn in the mueller report. joining me now democratic congresswoman of florida, she sits on the house judiciary committee. congresswoman, we appreciate you taking the time this morning. >> good morning. >> so help our viewers out here who don't follow this every day who want to know, okay, what am i going to learn if rob porter and don mcgahn come before the committee? what am i going to learn i didn't raurld see in the mueller report? >> so most americans have not read the full mueller report and the mueller report states ten particular instances where the president committed obstruction of justice. and we need to bring in the most important fact witnesses. don mcgahn, the former white house counsel is a witness we had ask

in asking the court explicitly to intervene, to compel don mcgahn to testify the committee puts an even finer oint on it. quote, each day mcgahn refuses to testify the judiciary committee is deprived of its ability to carry out the significant article i task to recommend whether the president be impeached and potentially removed from office. so we've got them getting the financial records despite everything trump is doing to help them not get the financial record. we've got them going to court to compel the testimony of all the witnesses they want to hear from about the president's potentially impeachable behavior. and, you know, we've had all of these months of all this blah, blah, blah, do you support impeaching president trump or not, should the democrats try it, is it risky if mitch mcconnell is not -- after all the blah, blah, blah for what is it a year? it's happening now, it's under way. there is an impeachment investigation of president donald j. trump under way right now based on large part on the findings of robert mueller's report. and you might have expected this was coming

after don mcgahn.own to be a contemporaneous note-taker and his loyalty is a little bit questionable. he's the only person to be subpoenaed so far who is not a member of the trump campaign. and when he was interviewed for the job he said he was loyal to the office of the presidency. now, as we know, as i wrote in my piece for cnn.com, anna, he was in the room, he did grow very close to the president and he was in the room at very critical moments. most notably when the president had his big fallout with don mcgahn, asked don mcgahn to fire robert mueller. don mcgahn, according to a report in "the new york times," refused to threaten to resign. president trump asked rob porter to get into the middle of all of that. asked him to ask mcgahn to write a note to the file saying this never happened. so rob porter has potentially got a lot to say. >> okay. we'll see where it goes. thank you, vicki ward, for bringing us that reporting. that does it for me this hour. thank you for joining me. i'm ana cabrera. "t

the committee has gone into court to force don mcgahn to testify.ahn is the key fact witness. >> mentioned 500 times in the mueller report. >> mentioned 500 times in the mueller report. but he testified to mueller that he witnessed at least 10 instances of criminal obstruction of justice by the president. and so he is now the -- the mueller report is a summary of evidence. we want to get the direct evidence. we want his testimony as to those criminal obstructions of justice by the president. and we also want testimony from other people about other violations of law, about the -- you know, the mueller -- the hearing that we had gave the lie to three things the president and the attorney general were saying. they were saying the mueller report exonerated the president, that it showed no collusion with and no obstruction to the contrary all three statements are false. the report did not exonerate the president. the report shows considerable evidence of collusion -- that the. >> it didn't establish to a criminal level of conspiracy but there was evidenc

democrats, they are asking a federal judge to force ex-white house counsel don mcgahn to testify. now get this, even though mcgahn denied he witnessed any violation of the law and that the president told him to, "cooperate fully with the special counsel." at this point, democrats, they don't want to hear the truth. for them, this is one ongoing never ending, every second, every minute of hour of every 24-hour day, political smear campaign. what are they ever going to do to help the american people? when are they going to serve their constituents? that's not going to happen until the 4,992nd investigation into finding no trump-russia collusion or obstruction of any kind. here with the very latest, fox news investigative reporter, sara carter. [no audio] their mind, they are just not going to have him talk to the committee. he's basically thwarting nadler's requests. it will appear that nadler will have a lot more fight in the courtroom before that happens. even if the judge does compel him to speak, nadler's attorneys are oppressed in saying that unless the white house changes thei

is a civil enforcement issue.em that means the don mcgahn case has randomly been assigned to anotherhe court action could go well be on the 20 election. that timeline matters because it conflicts with chairman nadler's recent public statements about moving quicklyna and voting on impeachment before the end of the year. separately,ef a fox news review found that former special counsel investigators are having no trouble finding new jobs with prominent law firms, and prominent law schools, even securing a major book deal after the nearly two year probe ended with no rush or conspiracy or obstruction charges, mark. >> mark: thank you for that, catherine. my goodness, that judicial decision is almost too sane to be true. newly released deferment of justice documents reveal how nellie ohr of fusion gps transmitted material from the trump dossier to her husband, senior doj official bruce order. that information then, of course, filled with the federal government, percolated all the way through, and was used to taint to the trump administration with bogus insinuations of espionage before it

i don't know if that's true, but the -- and the people around trump and don mcgahn, don don mcgahn's determined to tear down the bureaucracy is. that's what don mcgahn's about. and they didn't want anyone like garland in there, because garland's a protector of the bureaucracy. that's what they call this, inside the project, you know? it was always going the to be gorsuch followed by kavanaugh. so gorsuch, i told the story earlier. the day gorsuch's hearing is in the hart building, the first day, some of you may remember his mother was the head of the epa who got involved in a scandal, forced out of a job, her life disintegrated after that. and gorsuch was at the same school as kavanaugh. and i'm sure for a kid in high school, this was a really disorienting thing. in the book i even talk about he went to his mother and said how can you quit, you know? you're being forced out. why would you quit? you told me not to be a quitter. so the day the hearings started, in the hearing room i was in the back with the white house guys who were shepherding him through, and i said, hey, i've got a

the house judiciary committee is suing to enforce a subpoena against former white house counsel don mcgahnhite house has blocked mcgahn's testimony claiming, quote, absolute immunity. mcgahn's lawyer wrote in a statement this when faced with competing demands from coequal branches of government, don will follow the former client's instruction, absent a contrary decision from the federal judiciary. talk to me about the significance of this and the pushback we're gregt detting fr mcgahn. >> this could be a huge lawsuit because the courts never ruled on this issue of absolute immunity. only time a federal judge ever had a crack at it he said it didn't exist in the bush administration. but that did not come part of the case law. so no higher courts have ruled on it even though presidents from both parties, including president obama and clinton asserted this. they say congress cannot call me or my close advisers to testify, period. they're not exerting executive privilege, they're just saying he can't come up to testify. that's what's at stake here. it could mean the difference between the hous

house judiciary committee is trying to force former white house counsel don mcgahn to testify. the panel suing in federal court hoping to make them comply with the subpoena. it is also challenging trump administration assertions of various privileges and immunities regarding former white house employees. former acting attorney general matt whitaker joins us live to tackle that legal debate along with talk of a timeline now for impeaching the president. matt whitaker, minutes away. painting all conservatives as violent white supremacists, what some of the mainstream media are saying tonight. we will debate where the country goes next. ♪ but, uh... what's up with your... partner? not again. limu that's your reflection. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty ♪ if you have moderate to thsevere rheumatoid arthritis, month after month, the clock is ticking on irreversible joint damage. ongoing pain and stiffness are signs of joint erosion. humira can help stop the clock. prescribed for 15 years, humira targets and blocks a source of inflammation that contrib

hire is what the law circumstance you can get don mcgahn's testimony, who was in white house only thereial, so where is that criminal trial? last i looked, there was no crime. lou: james comey, getting a pass, as you know i find that irksome. where is durham and his investigation? i actually expected greater energy in this. i'm not -- i was about to say, i caught myself before i could misstate something myself. i am an impatient person. but this is taking a long time. >> actually, lou, it is not. >> it is not. >> it is not. no, here is why is going on. durindurham has been asked to wa miracle after 3 years of incompetence with sessions, and rod rosenstein then mueller. now, durham is being asked to mop it up. he is moving with incredible speed, he has conducted more than 50 interviews of key personnel, and i'm going to tell you tonight, that james comey, and a lot of others will be sadsom come september, it will be a wonderful time for country for acuaccountability, and a bad tie for a lot of former obama people who broke the law. >> but we now have a justice department that is behaving

you can get don mcgahn's testimony whose in the white house only if there's a criminal trial and what it is you want is material to the issue at that trial, and where's the criminal trial? my goodness, last time i looked there was no crime. lou: and james comey, getting a pass and as you know to say the very least, but joe, where is durham and his investigation and i actually expect a greater energy in this and i'm not, i was about to say, i caught myself before i could misstate something myself. i am an impatient person but this is taking an awful long time. >> actually, lou, it's know the lou: like i said it's not. >> it's not. no. here is what's going on. durham has been asked to work a miracle after three years of in competence with sessions and rod rosenstein and mueller and now durham is being asked to mop it up. he is moving with incredible speed. he's conducted more than 50 interviews of key personnel, and i'm going to tell you tonight that james comey and a lot of other people are going to be very sad come september. it's going to be a very wonderful time for the country, for

. >> he mentioned the mueller report, the judiciary committee is suing don mcgahn, former white housesaying they want him to appear before the committee. he spoke for 30 hours to the mueller investigators. >> yes. >> and we all saw the report. what more do democrats on the committee want? >> i feel like we're in reruns. richard and i were on this show a few weeks ago talking about the exact same topic of impeachment. we keep bringing it up. the democrats keep stepping on the rake and insisting that we talk about it when it's not working for them. they can talk about don mcgahn, foe my nate about all of this stuff, we had two years of a thorough investigation, lop-150i8dedly democratic donor heavy mueller team. they came up with no evidence of collusion. they made no recommendation on obstruction. and we have all seen the mueller report, it's been out there for months at this point. the notion that jerry nadler and adam schiff are going to come up with new evidence on this front that mueller couldn't find? okay, guys, good luck. >> guy benson and richard fowler, hope we're not talking

house democrats are taking legal action in hopes of getting the former white house counsel lawyer don mcgahne their committees under oath. the house judiciary committee filing a lawsuit saying mcgahn is essential into the investigation against trump, calling him the most important witness. shan wu joins me now. so an aide for house speaker nancy pelosi tells us that she signed off on language in that lawsuit that said the committee was trying to decide whether to impeach trump. does that indicate to you that the speaker is moving closer to a yes on an impeachment proceeding? >> it certainly sounds like she's becoming more publicly open about it. i think internally she's probably been balancing the strategy behind this for a while. but i think that's a signal that she's allowed that message to come out. >> don mcgahn's lawyer in response to this threat to call him has said in effect you've got to get a judge to order us. is that proper here? because the lawyer's point here is that they're getting conflicting demands from co-equal branches of government, the white house saying don't testify, t

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monday's filings seek to compel testimony from former white house counsel don mcgahn, who has refusedth the committee subpoena claiming he has immunity. it reads in part, "on march 4th, 2019, the judiciary committee opened an investigation into threat to the rule of law, encompassing alleged obstruction of justice, public corruption, and other abuses of power by president trump, his associates, and members of his administration. this contradict recent claims from house speaker nancy pelosi and a chairman during nadler, who announced "formal impeachment proceedings" earlier this month. here is republican congressman andy biggs earlier. >> the chairman has been garbled on messaging, and what he wants to do. he has been wanting to impeach president trump literally since president trump won the election. don't forget we've had multiple resolutions in congress to do that. nadler supported all of those. but he needed to get this investigation going, and he basically started that in january when he became chairman. >> katie: the argument from democrats was that robert muir's report is what w

first, why can't don mcgahn tell the white house to pound sand and that he's coming in to talk to us. these folks if they have nothing to hide, they'll cooperate with an investigation of this magnitude. that would help us make this determination sooner. second, obstructing congress is also an impeachable offense. the president should not benefit from telling these folks don't come forward, don't cooperate, and then say you don't have anything because he's obstructed us. that's something we can hold him to account on. >> and let's get to new details about the president's trip to el paso. a source says none of the eight patients accepted the offer to meet with the president, they had to invite two patients already discharged back to the hospital. what does that say to you about this visit yesterday? >> it was unnecessary, i hate to say that because during times like these whether it was president george h.w. bush going to miami after hurricane andrew, president clinton going to oklahoma city after the bombing there, presidents pull our country together, and every time this president see

trump's various attempts to obstruct justice including ordering his former white house counsel don mcgahnre mueller. but trump has repeatedly insisted falsely without offering any details that article 2 of the constitution, which is about the executive branch, gives him the power to fire mueller and do whatever he wants. he's repeated that argument over and over including during a rambling speech yesterday. >> article 2 allows me to do whatever i want. article 2 would have allowed me to fire him. nobody ever mentions article 2 it gives me all of these rights at a level that nobody has ever seen before. we don't even talk about article 2. then i have an article 2 where i have the right to do whatever i want as president, but i don't even talk about that [ laughter ] >> seth: first, "i have an article 2" is such a new york way of saying it "it's not jaywalkinghen i do it, because i got an article 2 right here, buddy. [ laughter ] stop your honking. [ cheers and applause also i like how he says "i don't talk about that" even though he constantly talks about that. he's like a grandparent who

does trump, we know he asked don mcgahn look into how he would process jim comey and hillary clinton, mcghan served as sort of a guardrail. what is the war on justice 2.0 now that he's got an ally like bill barr there? now that we have some of these investigations winding up, does trump take his toys and go home, lit jim comey live his life? doesn't seem very trumpian. >> sure, it doesn't. that's a great question. we don't exactly know and there is a big difference between trump's rhetoric and his tweets and the potential power he has as president of the united states to either overtly order an investigation or to encourage a culture where his subordinates investigate people who he think are the deep state rivals working against him. i think you can be sure we will continue to see sort of imperpetuity, anti-comey tweets and states and dements and gaggles and potentially chants at rallies whenever the mood strikes the president. the question is if he stops at rhetoric or tries to look to a now very friendly department of justice from that point of view and push it further. it is notabl

you can, however, hear donald trump saying what he said about don mcgahn.y now we know he's going to say, i hereby order you not to appear. he will fight that tooth and nail as he fought the others. >> to that point, john, i'm curious to get your thoughts and to play devil's advocate here for a moment. you can almost hear that the white house is going to say, look, this has already been adjudicated with the mueller report. this is over. stop wasting your time. what do you say to that potential response coming out of the white house? >> well, it's been adjudicated against the white house, for one thing, because trump apparently had this mantra of sessions, unrecuse yourself, unrecuse yourself. that's why he was trying to reach out for rachel brand to become the new a.g. and she could control the special counsel. twice with porter present in the room, he -- that is trump -- said to sessions, you know, i'd like to kill this investigation of me and i'd like you to go look at hillary again. and on top of that, what you have is rob porter making notes, and he had

of 2016ed in spring with don mcgahn helping with very strong input from the federalist society and the heritage foundation creating that list of judges that president trump issued to instill confidence in some of the more establishment republican voters. it obviously did the trick. this is why we have the vacancy of antonin scalia a pending. on the lower courts, there have been a record number of appointments to the very powerful appeals court posts. through the former white house counsel don mcgahn in league with leonard leo of the federalist society of just screening people looking for developing teams at the district court level, the appeals court level for the supreme court. by putting out lists of names and encouraging people to buy thethese positions, opinions we are seeing generated below. many of these people would probably be ruling and writing as they are doing, but there is a lot of attention getting opinions in the lower courts that are almost designed to play two people from the federalist society that would be looking for folks to move up in sequence. i went to new orlean

donald trump asked don mcgahn to get rid of bob mueller. mcgahn refused.ews broke that he had told mcgahn to fire mueller and mcgahn had refused. trump said, mcgahn needs to send a letter saying that as well. mcgahn refused. number two, jeff sessions, much beleaguered attorney general of the united states. donald trump on multiple occasions, according to the mueller report asked mcgahn to unrecuse himself vis-a-vis the mueller investigation. remember, donald trump says the whole aren't mueller investigation happened is because jeff sessions recused himself. repeatedly asked him to unrecuse himself through intermediaries and sessions obviously refused. he was fired the day after the 2018 election. >>> let's go to the next one? gary kohn, senior economic adviser to trump. gary kohn was taking papers that donald trump signed regarding trade agreements off donald trump's desk, so he could not sign them, kohn believed trump would be doing damage not just to the u.s. economy, to his presidency and the country as well. the last example, jim mattis. we know he had

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don mcgahn is no longer white house council and no longer there is the top seat of the judiciary committee. this process would have new people in charge. but i was told the new leadership and judiciary committee would approach this with very similar goals and styles as to mcgahn and grassley. >> for now, it is all speculation. the notorious rbg has no plans to retire. we wish her health and speedy recovery. thank you for joining us. still ahead, without any notice, u.s. immigration services has eliminated a deferred action plan and now migrants undergoing care could face deportation. >>> and a fine of comey violated policies but he wouldn't be prosecuted. how he's responding. those stories and another check onle the path of hurricane dorian. ♪ i planned each charted course ♪ ♪ each careful step ♪ along the byway ♪ much more ♪ much more than this ♪ i did it my way (announcer) verizon is america's most awarded network and the only one with the galaxy note10 5g. right now, when you buy one, you get a galaxy note10 free. that's verizon. [fa♪mers bell] (burke) a "rock and wreck." seen it. cover

. >> the house judiciary committee has filed suit against don mcgahn and a move to force him to testifyd to ongoing investigations the filing states that quote, mcgahn is the most important fact witness and its recommendation to articles of impeachment. the panel has also asked a federal judge to strike down the white house's continued claim that former aids are immune to subpoenas to testify. he stated this, when faced with competing demands, don will follow his former client's instruction. >> twitter has locked mcconnell's campaign at team mitch. took the punishment for the account sharing a video of protesters sharing threats outside his home. the video violated their violent threats policy and will only unlock if the campaign agreeds to remove the video. hours after the el paso shooting, they tweeted a picture from a fundraising event calling him, quote, grim reaper of socialism and fake tomb stones. >> let's take a turn now and check on the weather. >> give us some up lifting news, if possible. >> all the storms went through the northeast yesterday. a little better through the week

it was a key legacy issue for don mcgahn when he was in the white house.s a key legacy issue for leader mcconnell. this is something when you have voters as they say in public polls who say i don't like the way the president speaks and i don't like his tweets and i don't like some of his actions. this is something that a lot of republicans and not just base voters but sort of moderate republicans can get behind and it makes them feel reassured that they made the right decision the first time and that they might be correct in re-electing the president to a second term. so for him it is a paramount importance. >> it is mitch mcconnell's legacy issue. ashley parker, sahil kapur, have a great holiday weekend. thanks to both of you. >> thanks, chris. >>> are you ready for some football? america's golden girl sure is. "one more thing" next. back? about 50% of people with severe asthma have too many cells called eosinophils in their lungs. eosinophils are a key cause of severe asthma. fasenra is designed to target and remove these cells. fasenra is an add-on inje

it's interesting to see what is in a tax return, why don mcgahn made up information.ney to do that. that will come out. it's going to take time to do it. >> shannon: a lot of folks are interested to see what comes out in the inspector general's report as well. tonight, michael and robert, thanks for your time. >> glad to be with you. >> shannon: night court convenes next. wisconsin's governor accused of black listing conservative journalists. you, the jury, the ebb side. before nexium 24hr mark could only imagine... a peaceful night sleep without frequent heartburn waking him up. now that dream is a reality. nexium 24hr stops acid before it starts for all-day, all-night protection. can you imagine 24 hours without heartburn? but it's not really something yoyou want to buy.. it's not sexy... oh delicious. or delicious... or fun. ♪ but since you need both car and home insurance, why not bundle them with esurance and save up to 10%. which you can spend on things you really want to buy, like ah well i don't know what you'd wanna buy cause i'm just a guy on your tv. esuran

objective, each of those wins could bring more democrats on board if we start to see people like don mcgahn testify in front of congress or parts of the redacted report come out. if we start to take up to the point where three quarters of the party is for it, pelosi will be in a tight spot to say no. >> and pelosi also trying to gauge while you have more members of congress, democrats pushing forward, mock american voters who have been polled, the numbers are fairly low, against impeachment proceedings. thanks so much to you both. we appreciate it. still ahead, president trump's top pick for director of nag. plus more heart ache for one of the most famous family in american politics. what we're learning about the sudden death of the granddaughter of robert f. kennedy. you don't live in one corner... ...fragrance shouldn't either. air wick's new technology releases fragrance upwards and outwards, unlike glade. so now you can fill every corner with fragrance. upgrade to air wick. has been excellent. they really appreciate the military family and it really shows. with all that usaa offers why

and again went to see president trump about this case and actually faced a lot of pushback from don mcgahnjohn kelly, then chief of staff and rob kelly who were very worried about the messaging. because the case was so connected to the immigration. it was against the trump administration's position on immigration. he had been -- his whole case centered around the fact that all these undocumented workers were found at his kosher plant in iowa. >> okay. so it's kushner who plays this pivotal role so why in the end did the president's advisers not put up more of a fight against this commutation? >> the question i say in the story, pick your battles. they felt that it was precisely because there was so much bipartisan support. it was precisely because it did seem as though the sentence was extraordinarily severe. 27 years, it was two years longer than actually the prosecutors had asked for. there were questions as to whether the judge in the case had been involved in the raid. those kind of issues is what made them think there are battles to fight with jared kushner. this may not be it. clearl

lawsuit that was filed just yesterday from the house trying to get the former white house counsel don mcgahntheir committee. they need him to testify because they're trying to decide whether or not to impeach the president. also the speaker of the house nancy pelosi for months has put the brakes on, but increasingly leaving the door open pointing to the committee, blessing language in the lawsuit that said the committee is actively conferring articles of impeachment. her public rhetoric has shifted slightly, so her allying believe she's keeping the doors open. the question is ultimately if the democrats do decide to go forward or simply taking a more aggressive posture to help their case in court to convince federal judges to side with them by saying they need this information from the trump administration in order to decide on whether to move forward, but today, brooke, we at cnn are adding jerry nadler the he chairman of the commit year to the list of the supporters, significant that his role of this chairman of this key committee. that puts it at 120 democrats supporting formal proceeding

if don mcgahn was the key witness with obstruction of justice with volume two, rick gates was the key witness when it came to volume one. rick gates was at the center of and in many instances the source for some of the most damning findings in mueller's report whether it related to wikileaks, the trump tower meeting or the funneling of internal polling data to russian oligarchs. it was rick gates behind the mueller assertion that aides reacted with enthusiasm to reports of wikileaks hacks. that is how mueller attributes it. rick gates recalled candidate trump being generally frustrated that hillary clinton's emails had not been found. in one heavily redacted passage mueller writes not only was it centered around the leaks but trump himself appeared to be aware of the upcoming data dumps. according to gates, by the late summer of 2016 the trump campaign was planning a press strategy, a communications campaign and messaging based on the possible release of hillary clinton's emails by wikileaks. quote while trump and gates were driving to la graurd airport, redaction, redaction, redactio

don mcgahn will not be before the committee and if he is, they will not be saying anything they want him to say. but the fact that the president told him to fully cooperate and he denies he ever saw witness and he's a lawyer, and he is the white house counsel, and he gave mueller 30 hours, the american people need to see this for what it is. this is now everything. it everything through the prism of 2020. thank you. and when it comes to jeffrey epstein, there are definitely a lot of unanswered questions tonight. as we speak, yes, the media mob is going wild with conspiracies, speculations, they are obsessed with epstein's mysterious wealth, his high-profile connections, in fact, former president bill clinton flew on epstein's lolita express over two dozen times. a high-profile hollywood actors including kevin spacey also apparently flew on his plane. many others took trips to island. donald trump, well, he knew epstein himself. epstein would sometimes hang out at mar-a-lago. donald trump threw head out of mar-a-lago. why? he banned him from the club after complaints that he was mistr

the trump administration and this inquiries is the former deputy counsel of the white house under don mcgahnmebody who has been aligned with this administration from the beginning. according to a source who has been directly involved in these proceedings has told me they ultimately see this going to the supreme court. the timeline being one they believe will be wrapped up a ahead of 2020. as reluctant as deutsche bank and the accounting firm may be now to confirm or reveal any details about the president's business dealings or tax returns, it may ultimately be that we know more about this ahead of 2020 which is when it could matter most. >> why are they slow rolling this? why would deutsche bank slow roll this information? >> they're looking after their own interests. they've been accused of money laundering. the bombshell in this was that donald trump was a player with the russians at deutsche bank in laundering money. we don't know. they're protecting themselves. >> thank you, all, very much. >>> so how do you get a good graded from chris cillizza in your political mid-week grades? >> i th

and what beef seen before, is the white house, with aids like don mcgahn, annie donaldson, they've tried some sort of executive privilege. now we're learning about a tactic they may try to pursue when it comes to cory lewandowski, someone who has not worked in the white house ever since trump has been in office and hasn't worked for the president since the 2016 campaign. we're now being told by three sources that inside the white house there are preliminary discussions about trying to invoke executive privilege to stop or limit cory lewandowski from complying with the subpoena. now, invoking privilege before has worked, because they make this argument that the president should be able to have conversations with people that are at the highest levels of his own government without those officials having to go, testify or divulge what the president spoke about. what we have not seen before, is the white house try to do this with someone who's never worked in the administration like a cory lewandowski. the discussions were preliminary. they've been having these discussions, they were waiting

special counsel, he didn't deny access -- even the white house counsel, which i thought was insane, don mcgahn got 30 hours before the andrew weissmann team that was g that place, and all of the democratic donors. all right, thank you both. we are going to follow, sara and andy. what happened in 2016, as we follow this story, and john is right, this is what we will have revealed step by step, day by day throughout the fall. seemingly all of this done at the direction, if you listen to it and he is saying, can have a counterintelligence to unless the obama/biden administration -- in fact, that would represent the biggest abuse of power scandal in american political history, because they wanted to impact the outcome of an election. they spied in multiple ways, overseas and through the fisa process by premeditated fraud on the fisa court, and naturally, you would think that one of the oldest and most established newspaper in the country, paper of record, "the new york times," you would think they would be all over this story. nope. guess again. said "the times," they spent three years publishing

the white house has used executive privilege in an attempt to block other foreign aides like don mcgahn, hope mix and any donaldson before testifying before congress. they all held positions in the west wing. lewandowski has only informally advised president trump since his work on 2016 -- on the 2016 campaign ended. >> america's longest ever war in afghanistan could be drawing to a close. president trump is expected to meet with his top national security advisers today to review a u.s. taliban peace plan that could end the war. critics say it could amount to a surrender for the u.s. and a betrayal of the afghan government. >> it's expected to formalize a significant withdraw of u.s. forces from afghanistan from about 15,000 troops to 8 or 9,000 troops. it includes commitments by the taliban to counter terrorism efforts in afghanistan. sources say the proposed deal has at least one crucial omission. it is not expected to secure a commitment by the taliban to hold its fire on the afghan people or the afghan military. >>> an officer at a rhode island detention facility has been placed on

you saw this in the mueller report where he contemplates or orders don mcgahn to fire mueller, he doesn't do it. he tells things and everyone says he is blowing off steam or joking in the case of the pardons. does it matter to you whether the orders are effectuated? if the president is impotently lawless, if he tries to break the law but can't get subordinates to do it, does that matter from the standpoint of impeachment? >> here's what matters. is he abusing his power? and is he intending for his orders to be carried out. the president is quite clever. he does back off of these things, and we haven't been able to get someone to give us the actual testimony indicating that he intends for this to happen. i understand that these are stories that have been reported, sources that have not been clearly identified. but if you can get the proof positive evidence this is what he intended, then the carrying, following through on it is not going to be necessary. >> right. >> because he is encouraging the breaking of the law. and the president can't do this, not and stay in office with a congress th

house judiciary committee filed a lawsuit to enforce a subpoena to get former white house counsel don mcgahno testify about his time in the trump administration. democrats on the committee view mcgahn as a key figure in the obstruction of justice cases that are outlined in the mueller report. the trump administration is preventing mcgahn from testifying. there is a lot of calls for opening an impeachment inquiry that revolve around that obstruction of justice case as well as the president's corruption, reports of him profiting off the presidency and more. but there is a school of thought that the president's racist language itself is enough to trigger impeachment. that's the theory put forth by texas congressman al green, who in an impeachment resolution voted down last month specifically cited trump's comments attacking for democratic congresswomen of color as invaders, as a high misdemeanor warranting impeachment, trial and removal from office. >> in all of this, the aforementioned donald john trump has by his statements brought the high office of the president of the united states in cont

they're saying it's officially impeachment probe as they force testimony from mueller's star witness, don mcgahn and this filing says it's about determining impeachment and a leading voice for impeachment hearings. how are you? my voice is coming and going so i ask for aefeveryone's patienc. is this actual impeachment? >> i think the chairman is exactly right. our committee has been engaged in the process of determining whether or thought the president of the united states has committed high crimes misdemeanors and whether we will make a recommendation to the full house and we have been in the fact gathering, investigation period of this inquiry, subpoenaing witnesses, production of documents, lit ga galitigatinging for grand jury proceedings. we have one purpose too, dete determine whether or not it's appropriate >> it is interesting that on as something as big as removing a sitting president there's stig still this confusion. the ranking member says your chair nadler is either uninformed about what a formal impeachment inquiry is or deliberately misleading the american publicic to score points

the underlying evidence of the grand jury testimony, we need that so that we can ask don mcgahn what he previously testified to. these why we're getting the evidence and it's in the same court that's doing the impeachment inquiry. i think people will be very pleased with what his results are. >> there are some people who say this is not the job of congress. we need you to get on it. there is concern if democrats look too week, there could be a response. there are others who say you should be single minded of purpose here how. do you do all that? >> we can do both. we can hold the president accountable. we can hold him accountable for his misconduct. we're talking rural broad band and getting that passed. we're talking about an infrastructure bill, getting that passed. we're talking about bringing health care to folks that don't have that and getting that passed. i think the democrats are going to campaign on improving people's lives. we can't just say for politics, let's ignore the gown safety. >> for politics, something that has the overwhelming majority of support in this country i

house democrats asking a court to hurry up and decide on what it will or won't make don mcgahn do.ommittee filing a motion to expedite a ruling on a lawsuit monday and compelling the former white house counsel to testify. mcgahn is the most cited witness in special counsel robert mueller's report on the president's potential obstruction of justice, and democrats view his testimony as crucial to building their case against the president. >>> you've got to love this one, former president jimmy carter ready to put hammer to nail once again in resuming work for habitat for humanity after hip surgery last spring. he'll help build 21 houses just months after hip surgery. he's undergone various other treatments, including treatment for cancer in 2015. tough dude. >>> secretary of state mike pompeo says he's done apologizing for what america stands for. pompeo just wrapped up a speech at the american legion convention in indiana where he told the audience ignore the critics, america is, get this, great. >> some of our leaders would say that the idea of america or of americanism means inher