>> i hardly recognized elijah cummings. he was my ranking member in the obama administration and we were lied to by eric holder. we had to hold him in contempt. elijah cummings never said by the way, we should impeach him when we discovered that he had lied to us, he had covered up information, he had obstructed us. the reality is i think the president's team headed by rudy giuliani said this very well. this is about searching for the thing that's going to stop the president from winning reelection. they couldn't undo the election. they're trying -- not to impeach him. i don't expect to see articles of impeachment. they're trying to get his tax records. his business records. they're trying to use the power of subpoena not to do oversight over some known misconduct but in fact to see if they can find something that they can use against him in the re-elect. >> charles: you mentioned your former colleague. i want to share the house oversight committee now chairman elijah cummings was on "face the nation" signaling his next mov

. >> reporter: a memo from elijah cummings says tricia newbolt felt this is my last hope to bring integrity into the office. >> the things she has told us -- >> reporter: newbold told the committee about two senior white house officials still on the job, both drew objections on staff.

his attorneys are suing elijah cummings to block a subpoena for the president's financial documents.which was a great way to start the day. now you have to talk about legal documents. >> i'd like to start every day with an egg roll, whether it's

, elijah cummings as the chairman of the committee basically withheld this from the ranking member. that is against the committee rules. so they basically sign fees memorandums of understanding, secrecy so kind of like a pact between all of them to basically go after and target president trump. one of the things that they wanted to, u.s. l -- the accounting firm all in the private sector and they want ale documentation in all financial records, back to 2009. this is incredible. and they will have a huge fight on their hands. because once again, the investigation, robert mueller's investigation has been wrapped up. they found no conspiracy, no collusion with russia. we have seen it on the other side. as far as obstruction, no obstruction charges whatsoever. they are looking for something else, digging deeper but a huge fight on their hands. i know congressman georgia and others are very angry about this. and i don't think they will get any documentation in a time soon. >> sean: kimberly come after thursday, this is all they got. we already have from the mueller report, no collusion.

elijah cummings said no to that.s that an objectionable request from the white house, to have an attorney there with him? >> that's the interesting question. that's what they'll have to sort out in the litigation. the white house is saying there might be privileges, how can we protect the privilege the democrats are saying that your guy will tell him not to answer any questions. so that's the push and pull. i think the judge will eventually decide that there are some privileges here. >>> let's talk about don mcgahn, the yew dishary wants him to testify. may 21st, they want a whole list of docs, and doug collins societies this -- instead of looking at materials, they demand additional materials that they no are subject to confidenceal privilege, and is he right? >> to do that they need the evident. they don't just knead mueller's report. they actually need witnesses, testimony, they knead documents and they're entitled to all of that. >> so legally there's no issue here? >> right. >> the question i guess becomes what

elijah cummings went to the accounting firm and asked for ten years of the president's financial statementsof that request, mazar said they'd only comply if cummings issued a subpoena. he did that. the trump organization said the company should not comply. the latest development just moments ago in federal district court in the district of columbia, the trump organization sued to prevent that accounting firm in moving forward with the subpoena request saying that the subpoena in the view of the trump organization exceeds constitutional limits. one passage here, poppy, says because cummings subpoenaed threatens to expose the plaintiff's confidential information and lacks legitimate legislative purpose, the court has the right to declare it invalid. real ratcheting up in the fight between house democrats and the white house on a number of these requests, including over the president's finances. >> all right. it's significant. it's fascinating. i wonder if there is any precedent for this. we'll try to get our legal minds on that. >>> this morning to illinois and a new fwitwist in the investiga

. >> elijah cummings on his latest escalation with the trump administration. then -- >> is he going to accept that in 2020? >> tom perez on the republican indifference to the mueller report. plus, the lawyer who argued the census case joins me live. joe biden's big announcement about his big announcement. and is donald trump about to get another primary opponent? >> people asked me to give this serious consideration. >> all in starts now. >>> good evening from new york in for chris hayes. democrat igic leaders are resisting calls to open impeachment after the mueller report presented strong evidence that the president committed obstruction of justice. in a long conference call last night, speaker naps and other house leaders urged members to stay the course and stick with the plan of investigating the president through the various committee probes already under way. that, democratic leaders say, is how they are going to hold donald trump accountable. while democrats are doing business as usual, the white house is going to war, fighting every effort at oversigh

, elijah cummings, the chairman of the committee, basically withheld those from the ranking member, and that is against the committee rules. they basically sign these memorandums of i understanding d secrecy, so it's kind of like a pact between all of them to go after and target president trump. one of the things they wanted was trump's former accounting firm while he was in the private sector, and they want all the documentation, all financial records going back to 2009. i mean, this is really incredible. they are going to have a huge fight on their hands. once again, the investigation, robert mueller's investigation, has been wrapped up. they found no conspiracy, no collusion. we've seen it on the other side. as far as obstruction, there were no obstruction charges whatsoever. now they are looking for something else, digging deeper, a huge fight on their hands. i know congressman jordan, congressman meadows and others are very angry about this, and i don't think they are going to get any of that documentation anytime soon. >> sean: kimberly, this is all they got. we read the quote fro

what's being argued right now -- and you've mentioned the no -show today, is that elijah cummings --it's tradition, but it's a bad tradition -- he wants to get somebody in a deposition who is a current representative of the executive branch, lawyers from executive branch. many people who can assert why something shouldn't be answered. in the last days of the last congress, democrats had no problem insisting that the people from the obama administration and others have that representation, including james comey win again. including peter strzok. it's interesting how elijah cummings wants it one way when he wants a witness not to have counsel, and the other way bottom line, don is a very smart lawyer. he's already testified. the president has been open and transparent in the way those two previous presidents were not. so i expect them to come but i expected to insist on having people behind him that can advise him as to when to answer question and when a privilege might be appropriate. >> melissa: how big of a risk do you think it is? we know exactly what the questioners would be going

the chairman of your committee, elijah cummings, suggests even if the effort would not be successful, still be worthwhile because it would put you guys on the right side of history. do you agree? >> well, the way we get on the right side of history is by doing the investigations that are going to be under way next week when we begin to meet. we have been here before and we have to be very careful. we do have precedent to guide us. that is the impeachment of president clinton. i think that many members may not recognize what that entailed. impeachment is essentially an indictment that begins in the house. that could happen in the house. i'm certainly not sure it would. but if it did, it would then have to go to the senate, where two thirds is required. first of all, the senate is controlled by republicans. two thirds of the senate, even if it were controlled by the democrats, would be difficult. now, when president clinton was impeached, the house did indict. that's what impeachment is, indict. but the senate did not district. so impeachment did not occur, and clinton was more popular

democratic congressman elijah cummings, chairman.rsight committee is moving to subpoena the personnel security director at the white house during president trump's first two years in office. and at today's hearing they discounted the whistleblower's

light on whether or not he is going to be willing to accommodate with these requests now that elijah cummings is in charge and is demanding these documents. now, we do know that in this letter cummings wants to see information related to the security clearances of not only jared kushner and ivanka trump, but also john bolton, the national security adviser. we have reported that the president got involved in granting jared kushner and ivanka trump security clearances even though ivanka trump in that clip just there said she did not know that her father was involved. when we reported that we had sources telling us that maybe ivanka did not know that her father played a role in her getting a security clearance. all of this is coming to a head as white house officials have been pretty uneasy about the topic of security cleerns for over a year now, kate, ever since that rob porter scandal happened where there was so much scrutiny on how the white house was granting people security clearances not just security clearances but also those interim clearances and that's what led to john kelly former chi

democratic congressman elijah cummings, chairman. house oversight committee is moving to subpoena the personnel security director at the white house during president trump's first two years in office. and at today's hearing they discounted the whistleblower's allegation. the witness trisha newbold was afraid of retaliation. >> she's crying out. she's begging us to do something. >> you issue a big memo and a big press release after interviewing one witness. i've been on this committee ten years and never seen anything like this. >> oh, please. >> i mean, every day that we go on without getting to the bottom of this matter is a day that we are putting hundreds if not potentially thousand of americans at risk. i mean, really. what is next, putting nuclear codes in instagram dms? >> we remember going to talk with the attorney for whistleblower trisha newbold later this hour. first though, house judiciary chairman jerry nadler is planning to authorize a subpoena tomorrow to get access to the full unredacted mueller report. of course at th

house oversight chairman elijah cummings. trisha newbold, she has worked on democratic and republican administrations. >> she told investigators, 25 individuals had a wide range of disqualifying issues, concerning personal conduct, financial problems, drug use and criminal conduct. a source tells cnn both jared kushner and ivanka trump are on the list of 25. important to note the president is legally entitled to order a security clearance for anyone he wishes. chairman cummings comparing the clearance overrides to hillary clinton's use of a private e-mail server as secretary of state. >> if the violations are accurate, and i do think they are, as ms. newbold has told us, i think this is a million times worse. what you have here are people who literally have the top secrets of the world, and they have not been properly cleared. that should alarm each and every american. >> jared kushner responded last night on fox news. >> over the last two years that i have been here, i have been accused of all different types of things, and

just in, the trump team is suing chairman elijah cummings over a subpoena.elker back at the white house. safe to assume, at this point, the president or the trump organization will not provide elijah cummings with the information he wanted? in fact, they are suing him. >> reporter: that's what it says. congressman elijah cummings is using his subpoena power in an improper way. this is a statement by jay sekulow. we will not allow presidential harassment to go unanswered. of course that term, presidential harassment is one that's been coined by president trump. what, specifically, are we talking about? elijah cummings, the house oversight subpoenaed a range of different financial documents from president trump. this is, effectively, to say, no way, we are not turning them over. this is a step too far. does this relate to the president's tax returns? i'm told it does not. that is a separate issue. we are talking about a range of financial documents from president trump's past. this lawsuit filed on behalf of the trump organization as well as the president's bu

learn more at theexplorercard.com. >>> congressman elijah cummings is chair of the oversight committee known for backing down when pushed. that's why it was greeted with some surprise when he said this week that he would allow for a delay in the enforcement of a subpoena that he has already sent to the president's accounting firm, a firm called mazar's, which seeks ten years of trump's financial record. the president of course has filed a lawsuit to try to block mazar's from responding to that subpoena. in response to the president filing that lawsuit, it was a little surprising when chairman cummings said okay, he was going to put a delay on this. he would be hope that wait until after there could be an initial court hearing on the president's lawsuit. that will happen in about three weeks. and i know there has been some impatience out there that chairman cummings might allow for that delay given that the trump strategy here is clearly to run out the clock and delay everything as much as they can. why would you give them a delay? here's i think one little hint as to why chairman cummi

, nancy pelosi and a lot of these committee chairman, like chairman another of judiciary, and elijah cummings of the oversight committee, who are saying, let's not rush into impeachment. all of thetigate various aspects of this report. we haven't even seen the full unredacted report yet. robert mueller himself, let's hear from bill barr, the attorney general, then let's proceed cautiously and deliberately and investigate every aspect of what robert mueller has put out there in his report. you have these two very disparate wings of the party that are struggling to unify in this post robert mueller report world. colleagues,our hill covering the story, this meeting, and you are tweeting about it. democratichis," leaders on conference call seek to reign in calls for impeachment, but some rank and file question that approach, arguing there's plenty of evidence to launch impeachment proceedings." you also note that at the same time, that subpoena by the goesiary committee chair out to former white house counsel don make again. is that a next message -- don mcgann. is that in next message? -- a mixe

. >> reporter: a memo from house oversight committee chairman elijah cummings says tricia newbold felt this is my last hope to bring the integrity back into our office. >> things she has told us a shocking. >> reporter: she told the committee about two senior white house officials who are still on the job. both drew objections by staff but those objections were overruled despite concerns such as foreign influence. none of the 25 people were named in the memo. the committee has already been investigating the security clearances of nine senior officials including the president's son-in-law and white house advisor jared kushner. fox news laura ingram asked if he posed a grave concern. >> i can say i work with some phenomenal people and i think over the last 2 years the president has been doing a phenomenal job to identify where the national security priorities are. >> reporter: he was celebrated at the white house yesterday. >> his life became extremely complex. and he wouldn't trade it. i don't think he would trade it because what he's doing is incredible. >> reporter: jim jordan of ohio

congressman elijah cummings of maryland chairs the house oversight committee. we will show the hearing beginning with his opening statements. >> we will hear from secretary of commerce the honorable wilbur ross about preparations for the 2020 census. ourconstitution requires government to conduct a census every 10 years. the constitution also requires personount every

but i think the fact in a elijah cummings is calling these people, they're from the early days of the trump administration also reminds us of the friction that there was between the intelligence community and this office. it's almost as if the intelligence community says about these people, what the system says about these people, the system that is designed to protect our country, i want these people in anyway. so to hell with the intelligence community, i'm going to do it my way. >> and that's really troubling. mika, by the way, those subpoenas i understand are actually from the judiciary and jerry nadler. >> got to get our subpoenas right here. >> let's move over to politics for a second. mayor pete raised $7 million. it was a big shock. he was not expected to do that well. and up also have big news coming out of kamala harris's camcampa. >> yeah, announcing she raised $12 million from 218,000 individual contributors in the first two months of her presidential bid. harris's campaign tells nbc news the average individual contribution in the first quarter was $55. that's higher than

the head of the oversight committee, elijah cummings, say they plan on trying to depose gore, writinging pattern of obstruction. the showdown of subpoenas from democrats within the trump administration appears to be just beginning. back to you in new york. cheryl: blake, thank you. let's bring in attorney deborah bloom to comment. this seems to be a showdown between the powers of congress and the powers of executive privilege. >> congress has limited powers. they have the power of oversight. they don't have enforcement mechanisms. if somebody refuses to comply with the subpoena, then congress can hold them in contempt but they would need to go to the department of justice to actually move forward with the contempt, to have sanctions. we can see a lot of stonewalling if there's refusal to comply with the subpoenas. cheryl: one of the thing the president has been clear about on twitter and vocally as well, he wants to block all subpoenas and this as elijah cummings who is staging the fight against the white house, what about don mcgahn, former counsel. so elijah cummings i would think c

>> yeah, that's what elijah cummings told me last night. in his view, what's happening with the security clearances is a million times worse than what happened with hillary clinton and the e-mail controversy. in just a matter of moments, this committee behind me, the house oversight committee, does plan to discuss this, what cummings has threatened to do is subpoena at least one individual, carl klein, who is the head of, former head of personal security at the white house over questions about why he may have overridden concerns by this woman, who cummings called a whistleblower who raised concerns about a number of individuals, that they should not get security clearances only to later get security clearances. cummings called it systemic. it shows that the white house is not taking security seriously. but again, republicans simply do not agree with this, calling cummings' effort here reckless, so expect some fireworks at this vote that's going to take place momentarily. potentially subpoenas could be on the table in a matter of moments. >>

i know elijah cummings, he will fight back. >> he's a tough guy. >> he is. tough and fair. >> ro khanna, thank you for coming in. >>> tom freedman's take on the mueller report impeachment and the recommendations or nonrecommendations and the immigration wars. why is he now concerned. he's convinced apparently there really is a crisis at the u.s./mexico border. but, is fast enough? or, do you want speed and style? introducing performance, born of refinement. the lexus rc line. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. omar, check this out. uh, yeah, i was calling to see if you do laser hair removal. for men. notice that my hips are off the ground. [ engine revving ] and then, i'm gonna pike my hips back into downward dog. [ rhythmic tapping ] hey, the rain stopped. -a bad day on the road still beats a good one off it. -tell me about that dental procedure again! -i can still taste it in my mouth! -progressive helps keep you out there. -i can still taste it in my mouth! staining be done... behr presents: outdone yourself. and stay done through every season. behr

upload your logo or start your design today at customink.com. ♪ >> katie: house oversight chairman elijah cummingsby president trump and the trump organization yesterday. president trump's lawyers moving to block subpoenas for financial information from the president's businesses. chairman cummings responding, "the president has a long history of trying to use baseless lawsuits to attack his adversaries, but there is simply no valid legal basis to interfere with this duly authorized subpoena from congress." the suit asked the federal court in washington to keep chairman coming cummings from obtaining records from the accounting firm the president and his businesses use. jay sekulow, counsel to the present, sing this in a statement -- "will not allow congressional presidential harassment to go unanswered to." charlie? >> charlie: what's happening is the democrats are trying to assemble the greatest taxpayer-funded opposition research file on donald trump they possibly can. that's all this is. they were disappointed by the mueller report's of the star to reposition all of their strategies a couple m

. >> elijah cummings has clashed with his republican counterpart over security clearance. we're expecting a vote in that committee this hour. plus, president trump is considering pointing a new czar. stay with us. i don't keep track of regrets. and i don't add up the years. but what i do count on... is boost® delicious boost® high protein nutritional drink has 20 grams of protein, along with 26 essential vitamins and minerals. boost® high protein. be up for life. the latest inisn't just a store.ty it's a save more with a new kind of wireless network store. it's a look what your wifi can do now store. a get your questions answered by awesome experts store. it's a now there's one store that connects your life like never before store. the xfinity store is here. and it's simple, easy, awesome. >>> the house oversight committee will vote soon on whether to issue subpoenas to officials. this hearing turned contentious when chairman elijah cummings clashed with jim jordan. >> over and over again i hear these comments about oh, they're just trying to embarrass the president. no, t

the house oversight committee is chaired by congressman elijah cummings of maryland. >> the committee will come to order. without objection, the chair is ho

the chairman of this house oversight and reform committee, elijah cummings is from baltimore. heavy democrat, no republican could ever win that. now th nadler, new york city, another one. waters, l.a., same thing. pelosi, san francisco, same thing. we have a handful of democrat who run the house of representatives a handful that have the iron fist. they come out of these very specific areas of the country, it basically represents 90 miles on one end of the country, maybe hundred 20 miles on the other end of the country with the big country in between. all those red places and purple places even a handful of members of house of representatives were trying to take down the president of the united states because he's of a different party and philosophy. let me suggest this. if they succeed, it's the greatest act of voter suppression in american history, over 63 million people voted for this president and what this handful of radical democrats are saying is too bad, it's also the greatest disenfranchisement in the history of the country, over 63 million people are being told that

elijah cummings, oversight. adam shift, max seen maxine waters.ident trump complains democrats will never g satisfied. >> no collusion, no obstruction and start this process all over again. these are democrats that want to try and da mean this country shouldn't be allow. >> still democrats continue pushing for the full mueller report. >> they have turned over the entire report within a day or two. taking place here sharp break through and it is indy fenceable. >> not releasing sensitive material. >> everything should be released if it is legal. should not have classified information. >> attorney general says by mid april, democrats are saying they want it now. charles? >> mike, thank you very much. even if democrats voted for, could bill barr do it? unredacted version of the report might never be seen. fox news senior divisional analyst judge janet napolitano. >> if you ask me literally, can bill barr, attorney general take the report and hand it to congress, answer is no. he is regulated by and this is a phrase everybody is going to hear, 6e sect

. >> reporter: last week, elijah cummings, the oversight committee chair, issued a subpoena for 8 years of president trump's records. today, president trump fired back to block it. the lawsuit, 14 pages long asked the federal court in washington to prevent oversight chairman, elijah cummings from obtaining the presidents financial records. the filing saying, "instead of look working with the president to pass bipartisan legislation that would actually benefit americans, house deare singularly obsessed with finding something that can damage the president politically." in a memo to committee members friday, he explained the presidents financial records are needed to corroborate allegations made by michael pridents former personal lawyer told that president had inflated and deflated the value of his assets. >> we need to make sure congress has the information and have the public know the information . >> the lawsuit comes as democrats discuss whether to impeach the president. the release of the redacted mueller report raises questions of obstruction of justice despite the attorney general

. >> house oversight chairman elijah cummings calls the president's actions a massive, unprecedented and growing pattern of obstruction. he says these employees and personal attorneys should think very carefully about their own legal interests rather than be swept up in the obstruction schemes of the trump administration. >>> getting the white house to pay attention to attempted russian interference ahead of the 2020 election. one reason it's so hard that senior west wing staff felt it wasn't a good idea to bring up issues related to russia in front of the president. >> one person who does not need to be reminded about russian influence is hillary clinton. president trump's 2016 opponent penning a new op-ed for the "washington post." she writes the debate about responding to the sweeping and systematic attack and holding president trump account ablg for obstructing the investigation and possibly breaking the law has been reduced to a false approximate. choice. >>> clinton urges democrats to conduct public hearings to help the public better understand the allegations in the mueller re

sounds like what elijah cummings wants to know what happens to the person that did it. >> this afternoond maryland democrats praising the white house whistle-blower for her courage. >> all she gets is a chain of people telling her to go back to her desk. to be quiet. so she comes to our committee. this woman is an american hero for what she's doing. she's standing up for the american people and she says this is her final hope to come to the oversight committee. >> a high profile freshman democrat said the committee must get to the bottom of this issue. >> every day that we go on without getting to the bottom of this matter is a day that we're putting hundreds if not potentially thousands of americans at risk. i mean, really, what is next? putting nuclear codes in instagram? >> on the other side, the white house press secretary say the democrats are trying to exploit the issue and call it shameful. >> let's not forget three million americans have security clearances that worked for the government and by exploiting one you're exploiting all of their personal information. i think democrats

this is elijah cummings.issued a subpoena to mazars u.s.a., the accounting firm for the trump organization and other entities. today, eric trump in a lawsuit through the president's outside attorneys fired back that there is no legitimate legislative purpose for this subpoena. here's part of what the lawsuit reads. >> now, sources say that the subpoenas go far beyond just a request for the president's financial record. they're asking for the financial records of all the president's business entity, his personal financial records, even the financial records of the trump family children, including baron and tiffany trump. the oversight committee chairman elijah cummings said the president uses baseless legalities to protect himself. this complaint reads more like political talking points than a recent legal brief and has inaccurate information. the white house is engaged in unprecedented stone walling on all fronts and they have refused to produce a single document or witness during this entire year. the presid

oversight chair elijah cummings, democrat of maryland, spoke earlier on this network about the president's effort to stop congressional inquiries.nd >> when we allow these things to happen, basically what the congress is doing and that is the republicans in the congress is allowing president trump to take away our power and in turn take away the power off our constituents. >> there's also news tonight about the only person convicted thus far in the mueller investigation. one paul manafort. he's now officially a federal prisoner. we learned today he'll do his seven plus years at the federal potentiary. that's at canaan township, pennsylvania. the bureau of prisons says he was transferred late last week. his expected release date would be christmas day of the year 2024. time now for our leadoff discussion on a tuesday night. the aforementioned robert costai national political reporter for "the washington post," moderator of "washington week" on pbs. maya wily, former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york, now with the new school here in new york. and david jolly, a fo

. >> house oversight committee chairman elijah cummings has a new memo based on an interview she provided last month. according to cummings, newbold saying her office initially denied the clearances due to issues with conflicts of interest, financial problems, personal conduct and drug use and criminal conduct. >> she had gone to her supervisors and they basically turned a blind eye. >> cummings plans to subpoena the white house's former personnel director as part of his probe into the security clearance process. the white house did not respond to a request for comment. ranking member jim jordan arguing that republicans have been blind sided by the allegations calling the memo unfortunate and disappointing and accusing democrats of cherry picking information h the back and forthcoming as the house judiciary committee as they prepare to vote tomorrow for a subpoena for the full unredacted report from mueller. >> i think all of us need to see the report and should settle for nothing less. >> a new republican health care plan will be after the 2020 election, despite touting the issue over th

. >> the house oversight committee chairman elijah cummings said security clearance issues in the trump white house are a million times worse than hillary clinton's e-mail server issues. the oversight committee is looking into a whistleblower's allegations that the white house has given security clearances, quote, without the proper analysis, documentation or a full understanding or acceptance of the risks. we've also learned the former personnel security director inside the trump white house says he's willing to be interviewed by the oversight committee and asked not to be subpoenaed. also tonight president trump threatening to shutdown the border with mexico, but a top aide saying the president has yet to make a decision, and he is talking about health care again. just in the last few minutes a lot has happened, and we're going to bring all of this to you this hour so make sure you stay tuned. let's bring in now max boot. also susan glasser is here, april ryan as well. april is the author of "under fire reporting from the front lines of the trump white house." good evening, good to ha

elijah cummings has the ability, especially since it's a house oversight committee, they acan check intowhat others are doing, including the white house and donald trump. they have the congressional ability to do this, but ultimately whether or not the white house concedes, agrees, acquiesces is left to be seen. >> katie phang, as always, we appreciate your time this morning. >>> in the battle among 2020 democrats, 35% of potential voters who might decide the winner. we'll tell you about that. t. if you have a garden you know, t. weeds are lowdown little scoundrels. don't stoop to their level. draw the line with the roundup sure shot wand. it extends with a protective shield and targets weeds more precisely. it lets you kill what's bad right down to the root while guarding the good. roundup sure shot wand. got weeds in your grass too? try roundup for lawns. kills weeds, not the lawn. roundup brand. trusted for over 40 years. state of the art technology makes it brilliant. the visionary lexus nx. lease the 2019 nx 300 for $359 a month for 36 months. experience amazing at your lexus dealer

brooke. >> we'll keep the ear to the ground on what elijah cummings might say. >>> news off capitol hill. and to the latest whiplash policy maneuver out of the white house. that the president just commented on. it turns out that the saying of repeal and replace and means repeal now and replace later. like way later. less than one week after making a major promise to replace obamacare, the president is punting and pushing health care reform after the 2020 election. this is what the president said just a second ago. >> did mitch ask you to delay this? >> no, i wanted to delay it myself. i want to put it after the election because we don't have the house, so even though the health care is good, really good, it is much better than when the plan comes out, which we'll be showing you at the appropriate time, it is much better than obamacare. so when the plan comes out, you'll see it. it is possible that democrats would want to do it. it is much better for the people. but i'm assuming they won't because the democrats never do anything that necessarily is going to be anything other than politica

the administration telling the chairman elijah cummings that gore should be allowed to bring a d.o.j.ney. a bold call from john delaney's campaign. the hopeful says the president should step aside and let the vice president take over. if the president is not concerned with the continued threats posed by russian hacking he should step aside and let mike pence perform the duties expected. the idea that the president can't spend five seconds standing up to vladimir putin should trouble every american. congressman steve king telling iowans he can relate to the suffering of jesus christ. congressman king equating the recent controversy with the hours before christ's crucifixi crucifixion. listen for yourself. >> for all gnthat i've been through, i'm at certain peace and it's because of a lot of prayers for me. when i step down to the floor of the house of representatives and look up at those 400 some accusers, we just past through easter and christ's passion. i have a better insight of what he went through for us partly because of that experience. >> president trump and the first lady will

president trump says they are fighting all the subpoenas and chairman elijah cummings is calling the esident's position massive unprecedented growing pattern of obstruction, who's right? is chairman cummings right here? >> i think he's right that there's a massive obstruction by the white house, but this isn't the first time we've seen administrations resist subpoenas. i think what's a little bit different about this administration is they're so blatant about it. i served in congress in 2012 during the whole fast and furious episode and eric holder hadn't turned over documents to congress defying congressional subpoenas. that ultimately went to court. years later those documents were turned over, i think the real question is, how does this congress go about enforcing the subpoenas? what is different is that the number of subpoenas that the president is blatantly ignoring. congress will have to figure out how to enforce this. i don't know the last time this was done, i guess years ago they've actually imprisoned people for defying subpoenas. there's some talk, i saw an article today th

according to a letter from elijah cummings, a career white house staffer who has served both democrats republicans in the white house says that trump's white house pushed for security clearances despite, quote, serious disqualifying issues. issues like foreign influence, conflicts of interest, even drug use. the staffer alleging the white house overruled concerns for 25 individuals, and a source tells cnn tonight that two of them were indeed jared kushner and ivanka trump. and now the oversight committee plans to issue subpoenas to the white house to find out exactly what went on. manu raju out front liveoon capitol hill. and what else are democrats saying this whistle-blower told them? these are obviously very serious allegations of widespread seeming abuse. >> reporter: yes, serious concerns raised by trisha who's served in democratic and republican administrations for 18 years, now working in the personal security office at the white house. she raise said concerns not only about the 25 individuals whose security clearances were granted despite these concerns that were raised but als

and on top of all of that tonight elijah cummings tonight has announced to members of his committee that if they have a problem with what he's about to do they can come talk to him about it over the weekend. but unless somebody talks him out of it right now his intention is that on monday morning he is going to deliver a sme subpoena to a company called mzars usa. trump organization executive and the president's long time perm lawyer michael cohen testified to elijah cummings' committee earlier this year about the president allegedly committing bank fraud and allegedly committing insurance fraud by misrepresenting his assets and insurance standing. michael cohen provided to cohen's committee a few years of financial statements. comings and his committee started investigating cohen's claims. as part of that investigation this financial firm that works with trump expressed to comings' committee while they didn't have any intention of resisting the committee's inquiries they would rather not respond to a simple request from the committee to hand over information. they would prefer to respon

in particular, elijah cummings to block a congressional subpoena of the president's financial records. the house oversight committee issued that subpoena. it was just last week in the lawsuit trump's lawyers accuse democrats of being singularly on saysed with finding something they can use to damage the president politically. harel harelipman is a former u.s. attorney. there any precedent for this kind of thing? >> i'll tell you one thing there's not a precedent for. the president suing members of congress personally. there's all kinds of doctrines that make it normally that the president would not sue elijah cummings. that's unprecedented. the arguments are close to unprecedented. the arguments are no valid legislative purpose. it's the exact opposite, ironically, of what trump said to defend his actions in the immigration case. you have to defer to me. you can't second guess. here he's saying no valid legislative purpose of oversight, and yet, we just saw when michael cohen testified there's a lot of standard oversight that congress would be going into. an unprecedented parties, and

and democratic chairman elijah cummings said she came forward at great personal risk.ried about retaliation, worried about frankly what republicans may do learning about her coming forward. republicans pushing back saying there is absolutely nothing wrong with what they're hearing. nothing like what happened with the hillary clinton e-mail situation. and they're saying that the way that elijah cummings handled this was completely reckless. we have back and forth from the hearing just moments ago where fireworks erupted. >> i mean, every day that we go on without getting to the bottom of this matter is a day that we're putting hundreds if not potentially thousands of americans at risk. i mean, really. what is next? putting nuclear codes in instagram dms? this is ridiculous. we need to get to the bottom of this. and in order to do that, we have to issue subpoenas because people in this administration are not cooperating. and every day that there is an insecure line of communication that could be leaked, that could be hacked, that could be screenshotted without proper cha

what elijah cummings says he has this whistleblower who has come forward. her new is trisha newbold, an adjudications manager in the security office. she talked to the committee and detailed dozens of times where there were concerns raised offer overruled by officials in the white house, and she says since 2018 there have been 25 instances, including those two senior white house officials. now the question is -- that cummings has had is this shows the white house has complete disregard for the protocols, for disregarding concerns over national security. one of the things that she points out, according to this memo, the whistleblower says that there was an unusually high number of intrim security clearances that were given to individuals who were later deemed that they should not have had access to classified information, so this is just going to be one of a number of investigations that this committee and other committees in the house plan to do. he plans to subpoena one individual to come forward to ask for more information. the white house has yet to resp

yes, congress does oversight as well, but the white house and its fight with elijah cummings is sayingou have a constitutional grounds to legislate. yes, oversight. oversight though is supposed to end up in legislation. what kind of legislation could they come up with by going after his finances? >> well, that's exactly right. congress has to prove that this is something that's in the legitimate legislative sphere. and of course people can make any sort of argument to try to connect it to that, but at the end of the day, is it going to be reasonable or persuasive? i don't think they have that here. i think they could say they are looking at potential impeachment and that's something that's within congress's authority. and i think obviously that's what this really pertains to at the end of the day, but they cannot go on fishing ek pe -- fishing expeditions to try to get more information because one investigation didn't yield what they were looking for. liz: robert mueller -- 14 potential cases for prosecutors. misgivings about the steele file were out there two years ago among the fbi a

elijah cummings said committee investigators are still hoping gore will appear today. at any moment we're expecting word that former vice president joe biden has joined the 2020 presidential race entering as the 20th candidate in a very crowded field at this point but also as an early front-runner who will face high expectations and rely on the political network he has built over his five decade career. one that includes two previous runs for the presidency in the 1988 and 2008 cycle. biden is warning his supporter of the importance of his campaign's fundraising performance. politico actually is reporting that biden held a conference call with top donors last night urging them to quote do what you can right now. quote the money is important. we'll be judged by what we can do in the first 24 hours, the first week according to three people on this call. people think iowa, new hampshire are the first test. it's not. . the first 24 hours, that's the first test. those early states are way down the road. we got to get through this first biden said unlike several current memb