don jr. told his father about this trump tower meeting. ael cohen says he believes he did but didn't have, you know, any proof of it, and don jr. also told the committee that he was peripherally involved in the trump tower project in moscow, whereas cohen said that he briefed don jr. and ivanka about ten times on it. so if i had to guess, i would be -- i would think those are a couple of the issues that the committee wanted to go back at him on. >> you know jeffrey toobin, you heard kara say maybe there is one option, maybe he would answer written questions that were posed by the senate intelligence committee. do you think that's enough for chairman burr? >> it might be. chairman burr is not someone who likes to pick fights with the president of the united states and that may be a face-saving compromise for all concerned, but let's just talk about the law. i mean, the law is not that, well, i spoke to you once, i don't have to speak to you again. it is routine for people to be subpoenaed repeatedly to the grand jury or any other proceeding

that's the problem. >> don trump jr.'s surprise subpoena. s the first trump family member to be subpoenaed. will this be the president's emotional red line? rick, we know the family as you get closer to him, it is a hot button, particularly if you get near his daughter. this is one more example of lawlessness. we will talk about overall lawlessness in the next segment. what -- i am so frustrated as i come on this network everyday and i watch the news and now one more trumpian, no, i won't do anything, i will take the fifth or i won't show up, or not only will i not show up i will thumb my nose at you. logistically at this point is there any playbook? >> well, to go back to the last question, senator burr is a stand-up guy by saying, hey, i'm the republican chairman of the intelligence committee. i'm subpoenaing this guy. the thing that we may see in a positive way -- and i have talked about it a lot on your show -- is that people in washington are sbu institutionalists. they're protective of the institution. you might have republican senators

also are talking a little bit behind closed doors about you know how to proceed in terms of trade don trump has criticized the europeans as well for the large trade surplus that europe has visa v the united states we had you know the conflict about abas and boeing and the state subsidies we had also this conflict about this gas pipeline or three all of the you know agents in the european capitals will likely become more nervous this morning after this weekend's tweets by the u.s. president was stakeholders keep an eye on developments kind of who's in their force in frankfurt thank you contra. now israel is awash in tech companies and startups nowhere more so than tel aviv it's been called the world's startup capital the city where more new businesses are born per capita than any other let's look at the numbers israel's a relatively small country with just under nine million inhabitants there are almost sixty five hundred startups around one for every thirteen hundred people and that's for israel as a whole of course as i just said much about activity is concentrated in tel aviv where there'

>> don trump jr. and ivanka trump. >> okay.iness or did the president or family request the briefings? >> this is in the regular course of business. >> okay. so, one, how much trouble could don jr. be in and two back out of the woods, what is the coming confrontation here within the party between say the president and republicans in the senate? because mick mulvaney told major garrett of cbs that we did not get a heads-up about this i thought was bad form. where are we headed? >> well, two things. i think that donald trump jr. will probably not testify or take the fifth because this to me is an obvious perjury trap for him. he has to realize he's vulnerable on that score. on the bigger picture, yeah, there are some cracks in the republican unity. i think a lot of republicans want to get to the bottom of this, and i do think there's a lot more to come including the mueller testimony. >> yeah, i mean, the case is not closed maybe is what we're talking about here. >> case certainly not closed. >> case not closed on the trade dispu

>> don trump jr. d ivanka trump. >> do you recall how many of these briefings there might have been? >> approximately 10. >> okay. >> in total. >> glor: so, nancy, have we gotten any indication that donald trump jr. is going to show up? >> reporter: it's very possible he could plead the fifth, jeff. we still don't know, and his father wouldn't say today. we do know that the president has advised close associates, white house officials not to comply with congressional subpoenas. and the house speaker said today that if that trend continues, the house is prepared to hold more officials in contempt of congress. >> glor: nancy cordes, thank you very much. the boston red sox visited the white house today to celebrate their world series victory. it was not without controversy. colorskipthe even as did manager alex cora, who is from puerto rico, and said he is not happy with the administration's response to hurricane maria. a dangerous line of thunderstorms is drenching parts of the deep south and plains toni

>> don trump jr. trump. >> do you recall how many of these briefings there might have been? >> approximately ten in total. >> so nancy, have we gotten any indication that donald trump jr. is going to show up? >> reporter: it's very possible he could plead the fifth, jeff. we still don't know. and his father wouldn't say today. we do know that the president has advised close associates, white house officials not to comply with congressional subpoenas. and the house speaker said today that if that trend continues the house is prepared to hold more officials in contempt of congress. >>> pope francis issued a new vatican law. it orders all catholic priests and nuns around the world to report all incidents of clergy sexual abuse. these reports will go to the diocese, not the police. seth doane has the story from italy. >> reporter: pope francis's sweeping new law makes it mandatory for priests and nuns to report sexual abuse and its cover-up. the decree sets out procedures and timelines for investigations,

grik says silence who says his report into russian election meddling does not exonerate president don trump from criminal wrongdoing. plus the mothers who refuse to give up hope in mexico these women have taken the search for their missing children into their own hands in a country where 30000 people have disappeared and. i'm on the docks. at least 7 people dead and more than a dozen missing after a sightseeing boat sank in the river danube in the capital. the boat capsized and it was struck by another vessel. it was carrying $130.00 south korean tourists and $200.00 crewmembers risk worked through the night looking for survivors. the rain kept flashing dein as rescuers scoured the dark cold water. they were searching several kilometers down stream from the site of the accident looking for people swept away by the rivers powerful currents. and all other boat traffic was halted along a stretch of the danube site of beauty passed as military personnel and divers joined the rescue effort. we found people with serious injuries and someone used to be resuscitated. but they were unable to save a

that could explain some of this, some of this outburst of 14 twdts this morning from don trump on thetigation, the impromptu press conference. he could be feeling pressure knowing that democra are getting closer to getting their hands on his tax returns, and the case today was about deutsche bank and capital one nk handing over his records and the other was donald trump's accounting firm handing over their records. democrats say this is a long gal battle but they are one step closer to getting an inside look at donald trump's finances. laura: the fact that they arett g somewhere with their investigations, does that blunt the call for impeachment by some members of the democratic party? anthony: nancy pelosi is trying to head that off at the pass. she tried to thi morning, but i think there are people within the democratic caucus see donald trump stonewalling, who see how he behaved ae press conference today, talking about no negotiation whatsoever until the investigations end. well, that is not going to ppen. in fact, that could instigate some democrats to push forward on impeachment,

>> don trump jr. d ivanka trump. >> now were these in the regular course of business or did the president or family request the briefings? >> this is the regular course of business. >> do you recall how many of these briefings there might have been? >> approximately ten. >> approximately ten. but, phil in his testimony before the senate judiciary committee, trump junior said he was peripherally aware of it. but i have to say, if there are two people contra dicting each other, for one of them to be michael cohen who is in prison right now for lying, that doesn't really, to me, and i'm just a layman, spell like real trouble in terms of perjury because don junior could just say michael cohen is a liar. that's why he's in jail. >> and so he should. but i think you put your finger on the critical issue. it's the second round we've done with this. rudy giuliani told us the outcome. he didn't want to put him in front of mueller personally because he'd be afraid the president would say something different than

sanctions were reintroduced after washington withdrew from the accord last year president don trump has accused iran of violating the spirit of the agreement despite it passing u.n. inspections was he ever can see joins us live now from washington d.c. well since a the u.s. reinstated sanctions obviously iran has suffered the economically and the reaction that we've seen from the u.s. a few hours after iran took its move is to actually implement or at least announce even more sanctions. right and like the oil sanctions that were recently strengthened by the the trump of ministration these sanctions on the steel aluminum and copper sections of the iranian or of her audience economy target not just those within iran who deal in these metals but also those around the world who want to do business with iran their revenues are potentially going to be frozen by the u.s. if they're found to be doing business with with iranian entities that the work and in the metals but donald trump in a statement says in fact nations are on notice that allowing iranian steel and other metals into your ports w

it's and it is hoping a decision will be made in the fairly near future don trump says he is trying to change things is there's been alleged leaks over his deal of the century from sheldon adelson saying u.s. sanctions military force may be used but he's sending the u.s. as abraham lincoln to threaten iran he says iran is behind the palestinians what do you think about the prospects for one that donald trump is a menace we're seeing this this latest development which is essentially you know brow beating or attempting to browbeat the palestinian or for a t. into submission. with some proposition in relation to the suspects of the occupied territories and with the threat that you know if hamas doesn't go along with it of yet more military action against them i mean this is just so shocking it's a so appalling. you know that the leader of the most powerful nation on earth is acting in this bullying hectoring way and and supporting the ottilie of horror and activities of the israeli state will tourism is foreign secretary jeremy hunt resending next to pompei oh when jeremy hunt threatened

running for democratic primaries or donald trump will tell you that low interest rates remember don trump is saying we need to slash interest rates by another have a hundred basis points what they're not telling you is who that's good for people the people being harmed by this are the ones actually cheering for the hardest and the deepest they're the ones that cheer for our medical system and a health care system that is totally fraudulent and cost them three times more than anywhere else on earth but somehow they're sold a package of goods here he's saying that central bankers have lost all intestinal fortitude to actually put a country through a recession because it's actually regenerative and useful even if they had the wherewithal to do it the political infrastructure will just completely absorb that intent so we are probably not save us something crazy going to see massive massive negative growth except in countries that are so fundamentally crippled that they tip over the entire world that western economies have safe spaces everywhere and we got to the point where we are so afraid o

forces are saying if you come after donald trump jr., if you come for don, you're going to have a problemhave a problem with the base. >> the senate is becoming pomor like the house with the lack civility. i'm hearing donald trump jr. is going to ignore the subpoena. >> he can say hold me in contempt. one ops would be to take the fifth in writing. and what we've heard is the most likely option all in washington y'all guys can guess is going to be some kind of compromise, probably answering questions in "morning joe"? just a bit. >> that does it for us on this friday morning. i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside geoff bennett. "morning joe" starts right now. >>> how much are you worth right now as you're sitting right here? >> zero idea, david. it depends on what's happening with the world and the market. >> let's get back to the assessment of your wealth for ament. >> if you had to liquidate, if you just decided i'm going somewhere else, i'm going to live in a trailer and you wanted to sell off everything, how big would that check be that you put in your pocket when you headed west for the tr

surrounded by such an unsavory and whether it's steven miller, whether it's sarah sanders, whether it's don trump or rudy giuliani, does the voting populist ought to move a little bit when it's not just trump now or others above the law, it's one step closer? there's not the executive privilege, and he's just like you and/or is that a fantasy? >> we're going to test whether trumpism is transferrable? it didn't transfer to roy moore, doesn't always transfer to politics. >> doesn't stick with pedophiles. >> but trump is super teflon to all the normal attacks. a normer politician couldn't say all the things he says about women, a normal politician would have been thrown out like 37 scandals ago. we're going to test now with the subpoena for his son, whether it transfers to his family. i think we don't know. >> rick? >> i think people see the line about the best people, he has literally the worst people around him. he has nobody that will actually go in that administration, and i think at some point i'm hoping the american people will go. he surrounds himself with people that are such -- so low rent,

the lawsuit trump filed against deutsche bank is a different thing. like this don mcgahn thing. i don't know how donald trump thinks he can stop don mcgahn from testifying. he can make an executive privilege claim. it's going to be thrown out. don mcgahn is a private citizen. he doesn't work for donald trump. i don't know how he thinks he's going keep him out of that room. >> thank you both. appreciate it. >>> back in january, which wasn't that long ago, william barr had nothing but good things to say about his friend bob mueller. things have changed. wonder if they're still friend now. age accounts. and zero minimums to open an account. at fidelity, those zeros really add up. ♪ maybe i'll win, saved by zero ♪ at fidelity, those zeros really add up. [kno♪king] ♪ memories. what we deliver by delivering. one-of-a-kind women weg call "mom."e with an engaging new experience... ...ancestrydna can help her uncover her history... ...to tell a story as unique as she is. order a kit for mom (or dad) at ancestry.com - [woman] with shark's duo clean, i don't just clean, ♪ i deep clean carpe

don jr. for that trump tower meeting. and i wonder if that is in part because he thought it would be better handled or those kinds of matters be handled by u.s. attorneys in light of the politics. i think the real concern here is that for the first time in his administration, donald trump has an attorney general he's thrilled with, and that should give us all pause. >> well, and happy memorial day to you on that point. mara, the other part here is how much the democrats focus on this. we just discussed a lot of independent investigations, which should just proceed regardless. that's the whole point. and if the system works, that will happen. then you have the congressional investigations where there is a view that the democrats were cheering on mueller, were looking for a political edge to this, even if they had substantive concerns. mueller finished. they bobbled. they didn't have a clear reaction to whether the multiple incidents of overwhelming evidence of obstruction should be impeachable or not. that's a choice. and

sanctions were reintroduce stuff to washington withdrew from the accord last year president don trump accused iran of violating the spirit of the agreement despite it passing a u.n. inspections will form this week and cross live now to share a town see who is in washington d.c. for us i guess the message iran is sending with their statement is that the status quo as it has been for the past year is really unsustainable as far as they're concerned a message which i guess hasn't been received in that way in washington considering that almost from imposed further sanctions. right the question is now the pressure is still on them for the other signatories of the deal to try and come up with some sort of all terms of mechanism for keeping trade up with with iran these these new sanctions like the oil sanctions that were imposed then strengthened quite recently attempt not just to target those with in iran involved in the steel aluminum and copper industries but are also going to attempt to target the finances and revenues of those who do business internationally with iran in in the iranian

>> don trump jr. . >> do you recall how many of these briefings there might have been? >> approximately ten. >> okay. >> in total. >> the response from a source close to the president's eldest son is in a statement to cnn. "no lawyer would ever agree to allow their client to participate in what is an obvious pr stunt from a so-called republican senator too cowardly to stand up to his boss, mark warner and the rest of the resistance democrats on the committee." richard burr is a so-called republican? ten years in the house, ten years in the senate. wow. only in trumpland. what the statement doesn't tell you is reportedly jr.'s lawyers went from, quote, let's talk about it to coming in to considering pleading the fifth after the mueller report came out. now what makes this different than so many other subpoenas and efforts of congressional oversight is that this president can't claim privilege. this president can't have his heavies run interference. not this time. jr. is outside their protection because

have said they would retaliate but they have not elaborated on that that's even telling too don donald trump described and his comments before you announced the status that people see the u.s. like a piggy bank where everyone is dipping in including china so these measures aimed to punish china but what will be the impact on the u.s. consumer right u.s. consumers will pay more i'm reading maybe in a few months but they will pay more and the reason is these tariffs are hitting so many supplies they include rubber gaskets that consumers that businesses in the u.s. made to finish their products they include bicycles that consumers outright buy with ten percent tariffs which they were before on these items businesses had the option of either swallowing these costs or passing them on to the consumer or seeking another supplier they often ate the cost with twenty five percent tariffs it's harder and harder to do that when they can't find a new supplier so consumers will see prices go up and when they do find a new supplier that of course hurts china right turning much if you know is there any hope

. >> i rear mimind up beating don trump is the goal. >> my good friend andrew martin is waiting for democratsainst donald trump. but we have nine months. >> bernie and biden are hoping to be the working man's candidate. looking at the primary straight, iowa and new hampshire, who among those two do you favor in those primaries? >> new hampshire i would probably favor bernie at this moment, being from next door. biden, i would give him an advantage in iowa. bernie has deep support, the question is how broad and biden has broad spoupport and how dee is it? it going to winnow out and which of these other candidates is going to break through? i think kamala harris is a sleeper candidate. she checks a lot of boxes for the democrats. >> let's talk about kamala harris. it's early in february. harris and booker are really making themselves present in south carolina. how crucial is that state for those go candidates in particular? they're not polling at the top yet. >> it's incredibly important. as y where kamala harris has a bit of an advantage, california is early this year. it on super tuesday. tha

within a day of the release of the mueller report, president trump sought to have former white house counsel donahn declare he didn't consider the president's 2017 directive that he seeked robert mueller's dismissal to be obstruction of justice. he rebuffed the request. the second sentence in the article. mr. trump has publicly denied mr. mcgahn to fire the russia probe since the release of the report in which mr. mueller detailed that directive in a request by mr. trump that mr. mcgahn deny that conversation ever happened. if i wanted to fire mueller, i didn't need mcgahn to do it. i could have done it myself. mr. trump tweeted. >> seems like literally with nothing 24 hours. >> talks about the exchanges between donald trump and his lawyer, the white house lawyer don mcgahn. there's a whole discussion. the stoiry leaked out about tha exchange. donald trump tried to get mcgahn to say those facts weren't true. don mcgahn refuse to do so as well. it seemed so nuts. i hate to use that word that you have a person who has been painted in a bad light, the president for trying to get people to bend to h

certainly don trump jr.'s team is not pleased with the subpoena. a source close to him says, quote, no lawyer would ever agree to allow their client to participate in what is an obvious pr stunt from a so-called republican senator too cowardly to stand up to his boss mark werner and the rest of the resistance democrats on the committee. certainly strong words from a source close to don jr. a source says he is considering invoking his fifth amendment rights or not showing up at all. >> that's happened before as we saw last week with barr. nadler, the chair of the house judiciary committee, now threatening to subpoena mueller. i think it's subpoena because a week ago they were confident mueller was going to come testify, yesterday on cnn he said he is not as confident and now a potential subpoena. why? >> reporter: there's so much back and forth over the potential robert mueller testimony. clear that it's still a work in progress, active negotiations going on, but there were certainly significant definitive words from the chairman last night saying o

president, donald trump, lashes out on twitter against a variety of targets, including former white house counsel, don mcgahn for declining to clear mr. trump in public. >> calling for national unity. the united states ramps up military pressure in the gulf. >>> curb plastic waste. guess which country isn't on the list? we look at the world's plastic crisis. >> welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm george howell. >> i'm natalie allen. newsroom starts right now. >>> our top story, u.s. president, donald trump, wrapping up a busy week lashing out at a former white house counsel, after reports that don mcgahn refused twice to say publicly that mr. trump did not obstruct justice. in a tweet, the president writes he was never a big fan of mcgahn. he denies he was going to fire special counsel robert mueller. >> that followed a twitter tirade on saturday morning. mr. trump sent 62 retweets in the space of an hour. among the targets were the mueller report and the democrats. he tweeted his favorite talking points on china, border protection and jobs. he is focusing on the

donald trump goes on the attack against former white house counsel don mcgahn following reports he twice said to trump no to requests to publicly state he did not believe the president obstructed justice. >> good day. where wall street is reeling from the escalating trade war, let's start this monday with the market melt down. it was sparked by the president's twitter feed and china retaliating with $60 billion -- after the president began his morning by pouring more gasoline on this fire with another round of tweets predicting the economic pain he is going to heap on the chinese and claiming there is no reason for the u.s. consumer to pay the tariffs, dismissing the reality acknowledged by the director of his national economic council just yesterday. >> in fact, both sides will pay. both sides will pay in these things. of course, it depends -- >> if it is a tariff on the goods coming into the country, the chinese aren't paying. >> no but the chinese will suffer gdp. >> u.s. businesses and u.s. consumers who pay. >> yes, to some extent. i don't disagree with that. >> joining me to talk a

on a bipartisan basis they subpoenaed don trump jr.se there were discrepancies between what came up in the senate intelligence committee and what was reported in the mueller report. that's a valid inquiry and valid oversight. >> i want to play you something that something that he said to my colleague. >> making it impossible for to you avoid that? >> making it increasingly difficult. nobody should testify and nobody should give documents to congress. that's a way of neutrering congress. >> that's why you call it a constitutional crisis? >> yes. >> congressman, do you -- and the reason i say this is when you go out and cover the campaign trail, voters look at all the things you're doing with white noise. you know, it's not -- none of this is breaking through. >> i've had various town halls and people are paying attention to the mueller report. i think that they know that something really bad happened. and they want us to do oversight. at the same time, they want us to walk and chew gum at the same time. they want us to perform our inves

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first of all, you have said it could not have gone better for don trump jr. with the subpoena. do you say that? >> i think that's right, harris. look what we've started with. started with an open ended subpoena to come in and really face unlimited time, unlimited scope, unlimited questions. after playing hard ball, telling the committee, hold me in contempt. i'm not gonna come in. i have already talked about this for 25 hours. after he did that, committee comes back and says, okay, okay, let's limit the scope, only a couple, three, four, issues. let's limit the time, only an hour or two. you've seen these hearings. it takes them an hour just to introduce everyone. >> harris: amen. >> thirdly, what i think is the home run with the bases loaded, it's a closed door hearing. so you're not going to have the cameras. it's not going to be a bunch of pomp and circumstance and everybody kind of trying to play to the cameras. >> harris: really, politicians playing to the cameras? you talked about playing hard ball, threatening not to show up. on the flip side, the questions may be crispe

president don trump has praised the immigration policy of the hungary and prime minister trump welcomed viktor orban to the white house on monday u.s. officials say the visit is part of an effort to reengage with central european countries as china and russia's influence grows in the region mike hanna has more from washington d.c. . well it's the 1st time viktor orban has met with a u.s. president a formal meeting since 1980 when he met bill clinton he was then a young reform guiding hungry into a new democracy in the post soviet era however since then he's driven his politics sharply to the right subsequent presidents george w. bush and barack obama have refused to have any formal meeting with him whatsoever because of his right wing politics not so president president trump held this meeting with him welcoming him to the white house viktor orban the saying that he and the u.s. president shares similar positions on immigration he's pointed out that both the u.s. and hungry of among the handful of nations that refused to sign the u.n. migration treaty for example this is what president

and that's because donald trump is playing a big con on america. i call him con don.orker knows he's a conartist. we know his tricks, his playbook. i know how to take him on. i have been watching him for decades. he's trying to convince working americans he's on their side. it's been a lie since day one. >> president trump wasted no time welcoming de blasio into the race with a tweet labeling de blasio among other things the worst mayor in the u.s., making it clear there is no love lost between these two new yorkers, to say the least. for more on this, joining me is "new york times" reporter david goodman. good to have you here. thank you for be here. if that's the welcome reception president trump has offered bill de blasio, the reaction from the hometown paper, the "new york post" is pretty similar, allowing the picture to say everything, if you will. if that's the case, that's the reception he's getting, what is the case that mayor de blasio is making for his candidacy right now? >> the mayor has a convincing case to make in that he's the mayor of the largest city

least they went to bed knowing that they did the right thing. >> so don junior told lawmakers that he was only peripherally aware of the trump moscow deal but michael cohen testified under oath that he briefed don junior and ivanka about ten times. the committee is only allowed to ask follow-up questions on this topic. do you think they'll be able to get to the bottom of this by only being able to ask follow-up questions? >> well, if you did nothing wrong and you're 100% exonerated as the president has claimed, and his son has claimed, then it should be a pretty short interview. but, again, we've seen don junior's prior explanations on this where he's been twisted like a pretzel. again, don, if we just take a step back, our country was under attack by the russians. the president's foreign policy aid w aide was offered a preview. then the president's son takes this meeting where they're offering dirt against his opponent. then his father asks for them to keep doing it. it's pretty clear they welcomed this, they wanted this, and now they should have to answer for this. >> with the 2016 trump tower meeting, don junior said that

it's don mcgahn who packed the courts with conservative judges to include the two justices that donald trump got in the supreme court. so what do you make of the fact now that the president and the white house frankly is trying to press don mcgahn to get on the same page as president trump when it comes to the mueller report. >> yeah, i think this is another example of the president taking action in a way that doesn't necessarily positively serve himself. you know, this president is at the end of the day very concerned with perception, and it's clear that he's consistently wanted mcgahn to correct the record to reflect what the president wants the public to believe, whether or not that's, you know, accurate. clearly don mcgahn does not agree with that and has refused on a number of occasions as we saw outlined in the mueller report to explicitly say that the president did not want him to fire robert mueller, and he's refused to coalesce under this political pressure to put out a statement yet again. i do think don mcgahn's public testimony could potentially be the most problematic thing for

don jr. testified that he didn't tell his father about that trump tower meeting to get dirt on hillary clinton mueller report on page 115 it states that michael cohen recalled being in a meeting where don jr. and trump talked about a meeting to get adverse clinton information. >> you know, i think if you're don jr. that's why you don't want to go testify. there are things that you said, probably may have said even in your previous interview with the committee staff and those might not line up with other statements and other information that's come out. we know that michael cohen has also togld investigators that donald trump jr. has more knowledge about the moscow project than he's previously let on. and you've got people on the senate intelligence committee saying he came once for a staff interview, the plan always was to get him on the record in public in front of senators. so they don't see what this excuse is about. it will be interesting to see how this plays out. is he taking the fifth? we don't know yet. >> jack, i'll bring you in now. mueller declined to prosecute don jr. but we did le

don mcgahn declined to put out a statement. donald trump was angry and believed that don mcgahn had shown disloyalty by telling investigators for the special counsel that trump's attempts to maintain control over the mueller investigation, this means don mcgahn has to testify. but if he comes before your committee, wouldn't it perhaps be worth asking him whether or not the fact that he considered actually doing this. and then the mueller report comes out and shows that donald trump committed obstruction of justice. >> let me say this. as you know, we voted this week to hold the attorney general in contempt of congress. we expect mr. don mcgahn to appear before our committee on the 21st of this month. if he does not appear, respect the subpoena that he has received, we can go down that same path for him. and you better believe when he comes before the committee, we are going to ask him after the mueller report showed at least ten instances where the president either obstructed justice or attempted to obstruct justice, tried to get witnesses

trump oddered mcgahn to fire mueller which is a request the president has publicly denied making. >> i never told don mcgahn to fire mueller. if i wanted to fire mueller, i would have done it myself. >> pamela brown is out front live outside the white house. what are you learning this hour in. >> we're learning more about the white house reaction to the episodes laid out about don mcgahn and the president's request to him to dismiss the special counsel. we have learned through sources familiar with this matter that the white house reached out to don mcgahn's lawyer william burke asked burke to ask his client to come out and say that the president's directive to fire the special counsel robert mueller was not obstruction of justice and that don mcgahn rebuffed that request. a source familiar said was because bill barr had already come out and said that publicly he didn't obstruct justice. the calculation was made among don mcgahn and his attorney that it wasn't necessary. the white house was aware that don mcgahn had told the special counsel his more than 30 hours of interviews. it appears the white h

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mcgahn two times in the last month to say president trump did not obstruct justice. don mcgahn refused and president trump thought mcghan showed disloyalty telling the special counsel about mr. trump's efforts to maintain control of the russia investigation. he said down with mueller's team for more than 30 hours of questioning. they documented how in january 2018 president trump pressured mcghan to deny the reports he tried to fire the special counsel. in that case mcghan also rejected the president's request. the former white house county had been subpoenaed to testify before congress. white house advisers were trying to stop that from happening. the chairman of the house judiciary committee tweet this -- the president cannot keep mcghan from testifying. francesca, let me start with you. you cover the white house day in and day out. help me to understand the degree the white house tried to shape this narrative, not from the release of that redacted report but what we've seen overnight. >> and what we saw in the report by the way matches up with the new reporting, which

don jr. in recent days is just one of many examples of trump trying to stonewall congress, right? comes to don mcgahn testifying, comes to the mueller report itself, comes to the backup data and all of the volumes of that. don jr. now. is the president taking this too far on all of these inquiries saying no, no, no, no, no? >> both branches have constitutional interests at stake. congress has a right to conduct congressional oversight and the president has the right to keep some things secret, such as i would say discussions between him and the white house counsel. what the supreme court has made clear what president trump can't do is declare blanket resistance to refuse to send any witnesses to the hill to allow any documents to be produced. the supreme court has made clear it's an issue by issue, document by document process. you can't say i'm producing nothing. i think both sides here from i see rushing they want to have some kind of constitutional confrontation rather than stepping back and reaching a deal which is the way most presidents and congress settle these conflicts. >>

mcghan may have saved trump from himself. >> that's right. don mcghan is a seasoned lawyer who joined the trump campaign at the very beginning and helped guide the campaign through the legal parameters of the election and figuring all of that. but more importantly in the white house restrained the president from his worst impulses that would have gotten him into trouble or his administration into trouble. it's not just on the mueller investigation and these russia matters, but, you know, when trump wanted to sign executive orders that were illegal, it was don mcghan's job to explain what the law is -- >> that's illegal. >> -- and do things differently that would be legal and would avoid these court challenges that could be difficult for the president. the problem with mcgahn and trump is mcgahn is a lawyer and acted like a lawyer. trump wants somebody who's going to bend the law and break the rules and figure out a way to allow trump to do things the way he wanted to anyway. and don mcghan is a real lawyer. he was not going to do that. >> this is

so go directly to petmeds.com now. >>> this is "cnn tonight" i'm don lemon. the trumpitself up for another showdown. with house democrats. over president trumps personal tax returns. treasury secretary steve mnuchin refusing to release them. the head of the house ways and means committee his next move could include issuing a subpoena. meanwhile, they've set a vote wednesday on whether to hold william barr in contempt. of congress for ignoring a subpoena it turn over the unredacted mueller report. justice department officials are waiting tomorrow to see if they can reach deal. and the white house trying to back track from the president's weekend tweet that robert mueller should not testify before congress. an official telling cnn the president was just expressing his opinion because the investigation is over and it is time to move on. lots to discuss. john dean. gentleman, good evening. so good to see all of you. president has been all over the place when it comes to mueller testifying. is he worried his claim of can exoneration is going to go up in flames? >> i think h