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joining me now is cnn's own evan perez. good to see you, evan. evan, the judge was blasting the administration's argument for blocking don mcgahn's testimony. how big of a blow is this going to be to the new white house stonewalling strategy? >> it's a big blow. look, laura, one of the things from watching this court hearing, i was there just a few weeks ago when the judge was just ripping apart their arguments from the justice department because these were some very novel arguments. the idea that the president can essentially grant absolute immunity to everybody, not only people who still work for him but people who worked for him in the past, and that's what we're talking about with don mcgahn, who's been fighting this subpoena for now seven months. i'll read you just a part of the ruling from the judge in which he says, this court holds that the executive branch officials are not absolutely immune from compulsory congressional process, no matter how many times the executive branch has asserted as much over the years, even if the president expr

cnn's evan perez, part of the team that broke that story, he joins us live from washington. individual and the alleged offense, evan? >> well, john, this is a former lawyer for the fbi who no longer works for the fbi. the person was involved in preparing some of the information that was used for this fisa surveillance order against carter page who worked as a trump campaign adviser. this happened back in 2016. as you mentioned, this is part of an inspector general report. michael horowitz is due to provide a report on looking back at what happened at the fbi in 2016 in a couple of weeks. so one of the findings is that this lawyer at the time a lawyer at the fbi altered a document that was used in some part of the process of preparing one of the warrants that was used against carter page. now, there's a lot we don't know about this incident. and about this report. we have a report from t"the washington post" this morning that said in the end it didn't really make a difference in the court approval of the fisa. that was certainly the case. there were plenty of reasons to do th

. >> our senior justice correspondent evan perez is with us this morning. if that happened, it's sort of par for the course, right? but the president says it didn't happen. >> right. exactly, poppy. look. it does exactly sound like the thing that donald trump would do. of course, he's denying it, and it's important to remind people of what exactly happened when the white house released the transcript of the ukraine call. the justice department did go out publicly and said that the president had not committed any crime. at least with regard to campaign finance laws. so what the president wanted, he sort of got from the justice department. what he didn't get was a press conference. and that's what we're told, kevin liptack at the white house has said the president has been talking about that he wanted bill barr to do this press conference. bill barr didn't end up doing it, but the justice department did pretty much give him what he wanted with regard to a public statement saying that the president didn't do anything wrong. now it's been important to note in t

joining me now is cnn's own evan perez. good to see you, evan. evan, the judge was blasting the administration's argument for blocking don mcgahn's testimony. how big of a blow is this going to be to the new white house stonewalling strategy? >> it's a big blow. look, laura, one of the things from watching this court hearing, i was there just a few weeks ago when the judge was just ripping apart their arguments from the justice department because these were some very novel arguments. the idea that the president can essentially grant absolute immunity to everybody, not only people who still work for him but people who worked for him in the past, and that's what we're talking about with don mcgahn, who's been fighting this subpoena for now seven months. i'll read you just a part of the ruling from the judge in which he says, this court holds that the executive branch officials are not absolutely immune from compulsory congressional proce process, no matter how many times the executive branch has asserted as much over the years, even if the presiden

evan perez, cnn, washington. >>> we have a lot to talk about. joining me to do that, senior political reporter from the "huffington post." welcome back. >> great to be on. >> start with lev parnas saying we're hearing from his attorney the accusation that he actually helped set up these meetings between ranking republican on house intel devin nunes and viktor shokin, this former prosecutor general in ukraine. if true, big asterisk, frame the significance. >> it puts a significant dent in the republican defense used this entire week. if devin nunes is standing there saying this is a conspiracy theory, they're waving out all of these ridiculous theories to try to get trump, but it turns out nunes was himself involved in what trump was doing, and knew about it, it sort of vastly undercuts everything he said over the past week, which we should note most of what he said over the past week isn't backed up by any evidence anyway and often conspiracy theories of his own. >> you know, we got a reminder from earl lewis earlier this happened during the rus

cnn's evan perez has more. >> reporter: the justice department invoeestigating a former investigatorser. the altered document is among a number of mistakes expected to be cited in an upcoming report by justice department inspector general michael horowitz. now, despite those mistakes horowitz' report is expected to find the court-ordered surveillance of carter page was valid, and the report is also expected to conclude that the fbi properly opened an investigation into connections between trump campaign figures and russians in 2016. but still there are mistakes including the altered documents likely adding fuel to the fbi by president trump and allies. the low-level lawyer who allegedly altered the document is the subject of a criminal investigation by john durham, appointed by attorney general bill barr to take another look at the intelligence used in the 2016 trump russia investigation. the president has said he and his campaign were illegally targeted by the russia investigation, but the horowitz inspector general report is not expected to support that claim by the president. evan

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cnn's senior justice department correspondent evan perez joins us with details. lain what you've learned. >> well, anderson, this is a former attorney at the fbi, and this person was involved in helping prepare the application that was eventually approved by the court that oversees the foreign intelligence surveillance act, surveillance of carter page, who was as you remember one of the trump campaign aides who was under investigation by the fbi. it appears that during the course of preparing this work, this attorney altered a document that was used in the preparation of this fisa application. now, we don't know a lot about exactly how this was done, but this was uncovered as part of the investigation done by the justice inspector general michael horowitz. as you know, that report is coming out in early december. and as a result of this, this is now a criminal investigation being handled by john durham, the prosecutor that attorney general bill barr appointed to do a more wider, broader look at what happened in 2016, looking at the intelligence that was brought in

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evan perez joins me now. if the judge rules in the house's favor, what happens next? well it could mean that don mcgahn will have to at least show up to answer the subpoena. right now he's been fighting for several months, erica, this subpoena from the house for testimony related to the mueller investigation and so if the trump administration loses in this round with the judge, we may still see some appeals but at least it means eventually that don mcgahn could be forced to show up to answer the subpoena. >> and what is the impact then on some of the other witnesses, the john bolton and mick mulvaneys of the world. >> again, if the democrats win this, it means the judge will pierce this wall that the trump administration has built around all of the witnesses saying there is absolute immunity, meaning they don't have to show up to -- to respond to these subpoenas. so it could mean that charles kupperman or john bolton may end up in the same place. but keep in mind, we're talking about months and months away from now. and the democrats are moving a lot more quickly on t

evan perez, cnn, washington. >> the white house is denying it blocked former national security advisor using his twitter account. bolton is back on twitter after more than two months off the platform. he claims the white house used software to block access to his account. the white house press secretary is pushing back on that, suggesting his age may be to blame. >> i don't know a lot about but seems -- i will use my father as an example. somebody of an advanced age may not understand that all you have to do is contact twitter and reset your password if you have forgotten it. i'll leave it at that. >> the back and forth between bolton and the white house comes after bolton's lawyer says he has relevant information on ukraine that's not been disclosed. chris whip will ple is with us. he is author of "gatekeepers." how do they define this one? >> this is a juvenile spat as far as i'm concerned and i don't put much stock in anything st f stephanie grisham says. we have seen the white house lie about almost everything. there's a fascinating dance going on between the white house and bolton

cnn's evan perez joins us now with the highlights.s the most important thing we're leerarning about yavonovitch's testimony? >> reporter: we're seeing her reaction to her being mentioned, essentially, on the president's phone call with the ukranian ambassador. here's what she said in response to some of the questions on this. she says that she was shocked and that she was apprehensive when she learned that the president had prooifivately bro her up and told the president of ukraine, which was zelensky, that she was about to go through some things. she said in part, i was shocked and i was apperehensive about what exactly that meant. we know the president was listening to some of the criticism of ambassador yavonovitch, was certainly hearing from rudy giuliani, his personal attorney, as well as from others that she was not popular over in kiev and that was one of the reasons that was driving this effort to try to get rid of her and, of course, that was a successful effort in the end. you can see that she is describing a little bit of h

and we have senior correspondent evan perez. let's talk about the timeline first, right? so, evan, we've heard this timeline of as far back as february, you had giuliani talking about the bidens, and we've also learned from this transcript that giuliani was talking to ukranian officials, really, into late 2018 as well. >> right. this is marie yavonovitch's testimony in her deposition. she says in late 2018 is the first time she learns that rudy giuliani is running this shadow campaign behind her back, essentially trying to smear her. it appears that there are other people in ukraine who want her gone. and keep in mind, she viewed one of the most important parts of her job fighting corruption in ukraine. there were certain people in ukraine who were not happy about what exactly she was doing. so the smear campaign took off and certainly got to the president's ear. i'll read you a part of what she says. the reaction from ukranians certainly who were talking to her. she says what giuliani did cut the ground from underneath us. and she said, it hampered the u.s. embassy's effo

evan perez, we're back with you at the top of the hour.an you tell me about the former ambassador's deposition? >> the importance of marie yovano yovanovitch, if there was a crime committed she was at the center of it that is one of the important things i think prosecutors are going to be taking a look at as you mentioned, she described this shadow policy that was being driven by rudy giuliani, the president's lawyer, by other people around giuliani in ukraine, who were spreading smears, trying to get her out of ukraine. and she makes the connection simply to her own efforts that she was making in ukraine to fight corruption. one of the things she talks about, is that she learns in november, december of 2018 from ukrainian officials that rudy giuliani a

i want to go straight to evan perez who's "out front" live. obviously a lot in this ruling but some crucial developments tonight. what's the bottom line? >> reporter: erin, some very hard words from this judge who says essentially 250 years worth of history. she says presidents are not kings. she is basically taking not only the don mcgann question, the question whether it geese beyond don mcgann. it goes on to john bolton and some people in the administration claim even if you make don mcgann. she is saying absolutely not. and then, of course, as you pointed out, she's saying that the president is himself not immune. what does this mean when don mcgann does show up if he does show up? it means that he may still, however, refuse to answer certain questions because of executive privilege. we don't know, erin, how long it will be before this all gets resolved. we know the justice department says they're going to appeal the ruling. we're looking at an appeals court ruling in the next couple of months before it may even get to the supreme court. w

. >> a source says the president at least discussed the idea t evan perez, what is the he latest? >> keep in mind, the reporting from "the washington post" and certainly from o-- that much is clear. it is important to note that even if the president didn't get a press conference from his attorney general, he did get a lot from the justice department. you'll remember that at the time that the white house released the transcript of the july phone call, the ukraine phone call, the justice department publicly announced they had reviewed it, criminal prosecutor his reviewed the call and determined that the president did nothing wrong, at least when it came to campaign financial laws. that much the president did get. it is clear that the president wanted more from his attorney general. he wanted a public statement from the attorney general, perhaps a press conference, and he did not get that. it's important to also note, poppy and jim, that even if the justice department sort of tried to say this was a closed case, that there was nothing here, we now know the prosecutors in new york, th

this particular thing evan perez has broken the story on does sound serious to me it. >> does.t do you think? >> republicans will look at this, we don't know a lot here. the probe opened on shoddy biased evidence and they want to go after the president. we know it was on multiple diplomatdata points. it was also papadopoulos' meeting and et cetera. you know there were multiple data points that went into that. this is significant because someone has been charged with a crime here. >> not charged. >> big difference. the possibility of someone being charged with criminal investigation. it does not appear to change what led to the investigation at the beginning and would be the key point. >> that's a very important thing. we certainly talked to people who have gone in as part of this review being done by michael horowitz. one of the things they say, they expect there were mistakes that will be uncovered because the fbi is made up of human beings, they make mistakes but they believe it should not undermine the reason for this entire investigation. this investigation came about becau

carrie cordero and evan perez join our conversation. if you read the subpoena, wow. >> right, wow. good news for any of the people involved. but if you're rudy giuliani, there's a couple things that should worry you, right? if you're simply, again, a subject of this, right, and there's a fine line between subject and becoming a target, you have to be worried that nobody's called you to try to get your side of the story, right? certainly if you talk to some of the lawyers involved, people who are representing the other two gentlemen, parnas and fruman, they believe their clients are not the goal here. they believe that this is meant to flip them and roll on someone else. and who else is directly in line of that? it has to be rudy, right? so rudy giuliani, who says that he's not heard anything from prosecutors, his lawyers say they have not heard anything, any requests for information from prosecutors. you have to be concerned that what the prosecutors are doing is building a case broadly and certainly homing in on rudy and anyone else who may have been involved in whatever conspirac

cnn's senior justice correspondent evan perez is live in washington with details.been a concern certainly by the fbi and the justice department that the saudi government was using people here inside this country to try to spy on saudi dissidents. of course, we saw that concern increase after the murder of saudi dissident journalist jamal khashog khashoggi. these two former twitter employees are accused of essentially using their access to sensitive data inside the twitter system to be able to pass on this information so that these saudi dissidents could be targeted by the government. these two are both accused of being agents of the -- of a foreign power, along with a third man who allegedly was acting as a go-between for the saudi government, passing along payments, including luxury watches in order to pay for what these men were doing. one of these men is still in this country. he's already appeared in court in seattle. the other two are back in saudi, are believed to be back in saudi arabia. that's the reason they're not yet in the hands of u.s. authorities. but

let's bring with evan perez. it looks like rudy giuliani was trying to use his access to the president to drum up some business for himself. >> reporter: that is right, jim. it looks like this is another case of rudy giuliani double dipping while at the same time he was representing the president trying to dig up dirt on a potential rival, joe biden and his son in ukraine, he was also trying to drum up business from ukraine officials including lutsenko who was a former top prosecutor in ukraine. it is not clear what the business was that giuliani was supposed to be doing for these ukrainian officials but we're talking about as much as $300,000 he was looking to be paid according to documents that were -- that were obtained by the "new york times." "the washington post" is reporting there is a separate deal for $200,000 to do other business in ukraine. as you mentioned, at the same time, jim, that the president's lawyer was representing him for free and allegedly trying to come up with this political dirt to help

gentlemen, evan perez had news in the last hour that the inspector general found what we believe to beem made in one of the fisa applications for carter page. what i want to know from both of you, my understanding is this. andrew, you can't talk about it. you're restricted from discussing the report or the investigation. right? >> that's right. i am currently -- i've reviewed the report. i'm in the process of that. and i've agreed not to speak about it in any way until that process is over. >> all right. i'll respect that. jim, you have not seen the report. is that accurate? you haven't reviewed it? >> that's correct. >> all right. so there is no -- i'm not going to mess with the nda. and if you haven't seen it i'm not going to talk to you about it. but as you know when anything comes out that is of importance to the audience that has to do with either of you we'll come right at it. you know that. and that's why there's mutual respect. thank you for dealing with that with me about that. let's get into what we do know now. andrew, how close did the democrats get after fiona hill, after