gerald nadler, i like to call him gerald nadler, it just kind of keeps it balanced to use that for the chair, he's making basically a mockery of oversight i just want to quote what he said. nadler and the dems are probing alleged obstruction of justice, public corruption and other claims against president trump, not president obama who apparently was critical at the point of the witch hunt, of the surveillance, of a sitting president in the united states, and is still not being held to account. what say you? >> it doesn't just end there, lou. you looked to the radical democrats are now trying to go and get mr. trump's tax returns from all the way back in 2013 so think about that in context. they still won't investigate why peter strzok and lisa page were texting about the fact that the white house wanted to know everything about the trump campaign during all that illegal surveillance, but somehow they think the president's tax returns from five or six years ago is going to create some new sense of clarity for the country it's ridiculous. we need to spend our time ensuring that never ag

the argument that the chairman of the house judicialry committee gerald nadler is all he wants to talk to don mcgahn about is things that retalked to robert mueller about, things included in the mueller report, things that the white house did not claim executive privilege on. gerald nadler saying the moment for the white house to assert some privilege to prevent this testimony from being heard has since passed. the white house is concerned that if mcgahn gets before nadler's committee, he will say those things in a public forum and also the mueller report might just be the jumping off point for questions to mcgahn. so the white house is preparing a case that may wind up in court to keep mcgahn away from the committee. i asked the president about that on his way to atlanta this morning. >> we're fighting off the subpoenas. these aren't like impartial people. the democrats are trying to win 2020. they're not going to win with the people that i see and they're not going to win against me. the only way they can luck out is by constantly going after me on nonsense. >> the president pointing

gerald nadler is threatening to subpoena him if he doesn't show up. the department of justice has shown its willingness to ignore subpoenas. they wanted john gore, who is the attorney who is in charge of the civil rights division at the department of justice to give a deposition to the house oversight committee last week and the department of justice said no, not going to happen. shep? >> shepard: on lawyers questioning witnesses in congressional committees, the republican asking what is the precedence here. what is it? >> nothing in the last couple decades. if you go back to the reagan administration, democrats are pointing out that there is precedent because the then attorney general, edwinmeece and george schultz were questioned by staff attorneys about the iran contra affair. if you go back to 1973, james schlesinger was questioned about possible cia involvement in watergate. so there's precedent but you have to go a long way back to find it, shep. >> shepard: john roberts live at the white house. thank you. ahead, a funeral for the woman killed i

in a statement, gerald nadler saying -- >> mcgahn met with investigators more than 30 hours. it's unclear what more congress could learn in a hearing than mueller did in 30 hours of questioning. it's unclear whether the white house will allow mcgahn to testify or exert executive privilege. might be difficult to make that claim in a court of law. they did not claim any privilege over anything in the mueller report that had mcgahn's name on it. they also did not assert attorney client privilege and not allow him to do an interview with robert mueller. putting the genie of executive privilege or attorney client privilege in the bottle may be difficult. the former chairman of the house committee darrell issa said that he believes mcgahn will testify but with a member of the white house counsel team in attendance. listen here. >> so bottom line is, don is a very smart lawyer. he's already testified. the president has been open and transparent in the way the two previous presidents were not. so i expect him to come but i inspection him to insist on having people behind him that can

eegardless, the chair of the judiciary commi in the house, gerald nadler, is really nlevating this fight. his original positas look, if we get a document and a whole bunch of it is redacted, i'm going to take the subpoena fight. e going to and we're going to fight this out in the courts to get a hold of the full document. now he's saying if there's even one line redacted, if there are any changes whatsoever, we are going to issue this subpoena and we're going to have a fight. robert: andrea jus mentioned how some democrats want to talk about other issues like health care. is speaker pelosi prepared for chairman nadler to move forward in that direction to maybe pursue a subpoena and maybe this becomes a iajor fightn the federal courts? >> i think this is one of those fights that they think is worth fighting. not only because, y know, they believe that this is a very important investigation. and congress has the right to look at the fruits of that investigation. but also because they're conducting their own investigations in several different house committees. and they need that material.

overnight, gerald nadler calling on the attorney general to cancel that press conference.leader chuck schumer saying b of this moment has resulted in a crisis of cdence in his independence and impartiality. and now they're calling on mueller himself to testif a doj spokesperson telling nbc news barr will address the redaction process this rning inhat press conference. and white house intersections over the last few weeks. now, the report is expected to be sent to congress between 11:00 a.m. and noon eastern and later posted on the special counsel's website. all setting up ael lik showdown here in washington. >> going to be a busy day there. live coverage on mo of the nbc stations and put a copy on nbcnews.com. >>> the white house is investigating north korea's claim thursday that it test d a guided weapon. it would be the first significanpo wea test in nearly half a year. however, experts say it was likely some type of anti-aircraft system and not a ballistice. missil north korea says its leader kim jong-un directed and the test on wednesday. all of this comes at a time wh

the judiciary chair gerald nadler obviously intent on creating a political crisis if not a constitutional crisis. congressman matt gates serves on the armed services committee and is a caucus member and like his fellow republicans said they voted against that subpoena. congressman great to have you with us. first i must say a splendid green tie and i would like to get your thinking about nadler's intent. >> no, this is the anatomy of so sore losing. these are precisely the people that told the country that had actual evidence of collusion and now that they have been caught in a lie they are running out of a place to run so they continue to sort of i guess harass the president in a variety of different ways and it's our job to show the country what's really happening here. it's the same witchhunt but just a different broomstick and these democrats are going to continue to pursue our president even in the absence of evidence. seems like they have no shame. i would think that if i told a lie to the country for 22 months i would really say sorry. lou: i don't think i would expect sorry from n

. >> president trump pointed out the tweet this morning the house judiciary committee gerald nadler in 1998 was opposed to the release of the starr report which was eventually released in its entirety. democrats are saying that precedent to release the mueller report and james comey talked about the bad things that hillary clinton did without charging her is precedent that we should learn everything that mueller knew. however, i remember when comey did that back in 2016, democrats hit the roof. shep? >> shepard: yeah. thank you, john. the president said there's calls to start the whole process over again. that's not it. the call now is for the american people to see what they paid for. wish the president once said he was all good about. you're headed down the highway when the guy in front slams on his brakes out of nowhere. you do, too, but not in time. hey, no big deal. you've got a good record and liberty mutual won't hold a grudge by raising your rates over one mistake. you hear that, karen? liberty mutual doesn't hold grudges. how mature of them! for drivers with accident forgivene

interesting, 17 of the current democrats in the house, including gerald nadler.dn't want the starr report, the independent counsel law which they changed, they didn't want that reacted. pam bondi, the author of the introductory explainer to the mueller report, alan dershowitz is with us. i begin with you. you know, the attorney general doesn't have to release anything. actually, the democrats wanted that law changed back in the time after the independent counsel statute and then the clintons ken starr report. but explain to people that this is fully at the discretion of the attorney general. explain that the attorney general quoted mueller on conclusion, no underlying crime. he also to reap the standard of obstruction, how we would need intent and he would need an underlying crime and it was revealed that not only rod rosenstein and the attorney general quickly determined no obstruction but it was ongoing as the entire mueller investigation was under way? >> well, of course the attorney general did exactly the right thing. and if this had been a democrat who were

this is part of a larger and wider sweep of letters that were sent out now about a month ago from gerald nadler. he had signaled that some of the people he originally sent the letters to would need subpoenas to cooperate. it's unclear whether these are the four or five people who had given such an indication. clearly they had cooperated with other parts of the mueller investigation, it looks like they probably will cooperate, but they may need a bit of a nudge to cough over the documents. >> i'm certainly curious personally to see what is in the report report or not in the report rag the misleading statement mark corealo was out on a podcast talking about that incident. that's just one of many related to obstruction that we don't have details on. >> yeah, there's obviously some conflicting stories that have been given. mark corelio has been given that same over and over again, and the one that hope hicks game i think in a "new york times" story that came out a couple months bag knock dealing with the testimony that hope hocks had delivered to investigators in the robert mueller probe. so i thin

impeachment but writes in a letter a that the next steps forward will be informed by her chairman and gerald nadler isn't ruling it out. >> do you think this is impeachable? >> i do think that -- if proven, if proven, which hasn't been proven yet, some of this -- if proven, some of this would be impeachable, yes. obstruction of justice if proven would be impeachable. >> another chairman, adam schiff, says it's not possible without bipartisan support. >> i think it's certainly the case that impeachment would be unsuccessful if the republican party continues to place party above country, continues essentially to back the president no matter how unethical or dishonest his conduct may be. >> reporter: a growing course of progressives are demanding it, louder, elizabeth warren, you saw this along with rashida tlaib and alexandria ocasio-cortez, all of this as the president punches back on twitter, writing how do you impeach a republican president for a crime committed by the democrats. make america great again. and his senior advisor, kellyanne conway delivering news the democrats don't want to hear. >>

gerald nadler has been making the case that the white house is already waived any claim to executive privilege by allowing the mueller report and all of the citations related to mcgahn to be made public. the president tweeting about what he didn't or didn't tell mcgahn only potentially inviting more scrutiny. the president has talked about this before. in january of 2018. here's the citation about that from the mueller report. after news organizations reported that in june of 2017, the president had ordered mcgahn to have the special counsel removed, the president disputed these accounts and privately told mcgahn that he had simply wanted mcgahn to bring conflicts of interest to the department of justice's attention. some of the president's specific language that mcgahn recalled from the calls is consistent with that explanation. substantial evidence, however, supports the conclusion that the president went further and in fact directed mcgahn to call rosenstein to have the special counsel removed. there's a discrepancy there. it's one that you can bet the democrats are going to say c

. >> gerald nadler subpoenaed don mcgahn. he said mcgahn will be the first in a series of hearings based on the mueller report. >> it's clear what jerry nadler and others are trying to do here. they don't want to get to the truth. they want to get to this president. at this point, i don't know what jerry nadler thinks he's going to get that robert mueller didn't ex-second for political points with the base. >> it's not clear how long speaker pelosi will keep her liberal members in check. neil? >> neil: all right. so where does this stand? the markets are saying one thing. investors betting on the fact that this is a relief, it's not a big deal and certainly impeachment is a stretch. then there's those that follow what the politician are yapping and and could it be an oddity doing forward? we have scott levinson and david munson and kat timpf. and the markets are betting that this is a release. this is as far as the mueller report and not buying the i peachment talk. >> i'm not buying the impeachment talk. it's for political p

late today house judiciary chairman gerald nadler, democrat of new york issued a subpoena for former white house counsel don mcgahn. congress wants to hear from mcgahn because he's so prominently mentioned in the special counsel's findings. in fact just tonight there's this, michael schmidt writing in "the new york times," that mcgahn, quote, served as the unofficial narrator of the special counsel's report on whether the president obstructed justice. he is cited 157 times, more than any other witness. jerry nadler released a statement that read in part, mcgahn is a critical witness to many of the alleged instances of obstruction of justice and other misconduct described in the mueller report. on sunday in an interview with our very own chuck todd chairman nadler was asked about a sensitive topic for democrats. >> do you think this is impeachable? >> yeah, i do. i do think that this if proven, which hasn't been proven yet -- if proven some of this would be impeachable, yes. obstruction of justice if proven would be impeachable. >> and you're going to go about to see if you can prove

the chairs of all of the key committees on these topics in the house, the judiciary chairman, gerald nadlerf, the oversight committee elijah cummings, maxine waters, elliott evening l. they released a joint statement calling on attorney general william barr to cancel his press conference on special counsel mueller's report which as the chairs note is scheduled to take place before congress is set to receive the report tomorrow morning. i'll read you part of it, quote, these new actions by the attorney general reinforce our concern that he is acting to protect president trump. the attorney general previously stated i don't believe it would be in the public's interest for me to attempt to summarize the full report or to release it in serial or piecemeal fashion. he should let the full report speak for itself. with the special's counsel's fact gathering work concluded it's congress's responsibility to assess the findings and evidence and proceed accordingly. this is essentially the chairman including the chair of your committee judiciary telling the attorney general to get out of the way here?

late today house judiciary chairman gerald nadler, democrat of new york issued a subpoena

house judiciary chairman gerald nadler issued subpoenas today for a full unredacted version of the report, what's likely to be a protracted legal fight. and intends to call mueller himself as well as other witnesses to testify before the committee. attorney general william barr scheduled to appear on may 2nd and he's going to have a lot to answer for because the mueller report does not say what barr told us it said. both in his four-page summary of mueller's findings and in his stunningly political press conference yesterday before releasing the report. barr distorted or straight up lied about the report to clean it up and make it look better for the president. the report states that mueller's team applied the framework of conspierce l co co conspiracy law, not the concept of collusion, which isn't an actual legal term, but that's not what barr said yesterday. >> the special counsel found no collusion by any americans. there was no evidence of the trump campaign collusion with the russian government's hacking. the special counsel confirmed that the russian government sponsored efforts to

congressman gerald nadler saying congress was likely given a road map if they'd like to open an impeachment hearing. >> the mueller report outlines disturbing evidence that president trump engaged in obstruction of justice and other conduct. >> a lot to get to in this hour. thank you so much. we've got the experts here. i appreciate it. shimon, i'm going to start with you because chairman nadler, you saw him there, he thinks mueller wrote a rad map to provide to congress. and he opponents out ten instances where he thinks that may be fair game that congress should explore. >> and he could be perhaps right, and we'd have to hear from mueller. certainly the attorney general has not given us any indication that's what mueller intended to do here. but perhaps when mueller does appear, if they do bring him in, they said they will, and if if he does testify there's a lot for congress to work with. but it is something they can at the very least begin hearings on, begin investigating, start subpoenaing people, start trying to talk to people and put together their own story and narrative as to what

. >> committee chairman gerald nadler says congress should see everything mueller found.18998 he was opposed to the star report. >> it's grand jury material. it represents staples which may or may not be true by witnesses, salacious material. all kinds of material that it would be unfair to release. >> the starr report was eventually given to congress but president trump couldn't help but marvel at nadler's about face. >> jerry nadler was on the opposite side of this and he thought it was a disgusting, terrible thing to even think about giving the starr report. but now we should give the mueller report. >> president trump would not say today how the white house would respond, what action the department of justice would take if the house judiciary committee does issue subpoenas for the mueller report. but the president said he will put his full faith and trust in attorney general william barr to do the right thing. bret? >> bret: john, thank you. federal prosecutors say a woman carrying two chinese passports and a thumb drive containing computer malware lied to secret serv

late today house judiciary chairman gerald nadler,

when i read the report the one thing i took a break to watch is see what gerald nadler would say.the time he was speaking i was 1,000% she was he was going to talk about the inquiry. but because of what i experienced i wonder if more of your colleagues are expecting it might come around to this, this might have jarred something significantly loose compared to how people felt about this issue before. >> i think that's a good point, and it very well may have. i hope everybody in congress actually reads the report. i think it's important, but it's exactly where you started this question. this isn't what i had planned to do. i got into the race for president because of my life's work about what's happening to working families across this country and how it is that the road is getting rock yr and steeper for working families. we have a government that works better and better for those at the top and worse and worse for everyone else, particularly for those families of color. a wealth tax and universal child care and student loan debt, and all those things are there. elizabeth warren.co

the battle over the mueller report is far from done, house judiciary committee gerald nadler is seekingull redaction of the report. in addition he wants bob mueller and others to testify before his committee. joining ne now is the judiciary committee chairman jerrold nadler. congressman, welcome back to "meet the press," sir. >> good to be here. >> let me get your reaction with some of mr. guiliani, let me start with something from the mueller report and curious your rer action to it. on on instruction, congress can validly make obstruction of justice statutes applicable to corruptly motivated official acts of the president without immer missible against his article two functions, did you believe basically the call is in your court, not bill barr's? >> no, i believe that that is already the law and that sends an explanation why he disagreeses with attorney barr's wild far out legal theory the president cannot commit obstruction of justice no matter what he does, because he is the head of the justice department. he is saying that congress can make corruptly motivated acts by a president

house judiciary committee chairman gerald nadler wants a vote on wednesday authorizing subpoenas to demandunredacted version of the report with all the background materials. in a statement, nadler saying congress requires the full and complete special counsel report without redactions as well as access to the under lying evidence. president trump tweeting his thoughts on the move this morning saying no matter what information is given to the crazed democrats from the no collusion mueller report, it will never be good enough. the justice department today had no word on how it might respond to congressional subpoenas. in the meantime, the attorney general, william barr, who was here at the white house for a prison reform event right now continues to work with robert mueller on how much of that report can legally be released to congress. bret? >> bret: john roberts live on the north lawn, thanks. several democratic presidential hopefuls here in washington for a forum hosted by political and labor groups. we have a live report from there a bit later in the show. one of the things democrats are

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the house judiciary committee voted 24-17, a straight party line vote, to g g chairman gerald nadlerssion to issue subpoenas to the justice department, demanding it release the full unredacted report. >> we're going to work with the attorney general and for a short period of time, in the hope that he will reveal to us the entire mueller report and all the underlying materials and we'll go to courtoet permissn to vehe 6c albuha doesn'trk, thenh issue the subpoes. gen attorneyer wil br unti pducehe full report to congress. barr didn't deliver it. but he's promised to provide a redacted version of the special counsel report this>>> n deadly involving a boeing 737 max jet. "the wall street journal" reports that investigators say ethiopian airline pilots followed boeing's emergency procedures before that plane crashed. however, they couldn't get the plane to start climbing again after shutting off an automatic flight control system. all 157 people aboard that flight were killed. doubts about that system prompted the u.s. and other countries to ground 737 max aircraft. boeing is working on

. >> resolution offered by chairman gerald nadler resolve that upon the adoption of this resolution, the chairman of the committee on the judiciary is authorized to issue -- >> without objection, the resolution is considered as read and open for amendment at any point. i will begin by recognizing myself for an opening statement. in late 1973, the nixon administration had an idea. when special counsel archibald cox asked the white house to turn over recordings of conversations president nixon offered instead to provide the tapes to senator john stennis of mississippi, nixon proposed that stenice who was hard of hearing would listen to recordings himself and provide summaries of the tapes to the special prosecutor. the nixon justified the proposal as a means to protect sensitive information that would not ordinarily be made part of the record. in hindsight, of course, we know that president nixon had ulterior motives. in any event, cox had a job to do. that job required him to evaluate the full record for himself and he refused the president's offer. president nixon ordered him fired t

the committee voted 24-17 to give judiciary chair gerald nadler permission to issue subpoenas to the justice department for the final report, its exhibits, and any underlying evidence or materials prepared for robert mueller's investigation. a look now at remarks from congressman nadler talking about the need for subpoenas and republican congressman matt gae gates on his opposition to subpoenas for the full mueller report. >> the trump administration has an idea. they want to redact the mueller report before they provide it to congress. the department of justice says the proposal is a means to protect sensitive information that would not ordinarily be made part of the record. but we have reason to suspect this administration's motives. the mueller report probably isn't the, quote, total exoneration, unquote, the president claims it to be. and in any event, the committee has a job to do. the constitution charges congress with holding the president accountable for alleged official misconduct. that job requires us to evaluate the evidence for ourselves, not the attorney general's summar

that's what gerald nadler is doing, keep the investigation going, and as he's doing that, the democrat-runways's tax returns. the president says i won't give them to you because i'm under audit, big fight coming inevitably, the democrats will shout "cover up." the game plan is obvious at all cost, change the public's perception of no collusion. meanwhile, there is a growing crisis, a genuine emergency on the border. fox news griff jenkins has video of migrants camping out in the streets of arizona roaming the streets, holding facilities over run. they're pouring into america virtually unchecked, yes it is an invasion. isn't that what congress shall be looking at? migrants gaming the asylum laws, that's something congress should at least be debating. border enforcement needs more money congress should give it to them, but they'll do none of the above. the democrats thought mueller would win them the 2020 election but when his report said no collusion they turned on a dime and demanded a retrial of collusion. investigate everything. well, there's two more years of this still to come i think they

. >>> congressman gerald nadler demanding the entire unredacted mueller report, all of it made publicat's what he wants. but that is not what he wanted when bill clinton was under investigation in the '90s. brian kilmeade has the story for us. >>> and a second woman is accusing joe biden of inappropriate and unwelcome behavior. i say his presidential bid is on life support and that actually is bad news for the democrats. my take on that is next. your daily dashboard from fidelity. a visual snapshot of your investments. key portfolio events. all in one place. because when it's decision time... you need decision tech. only from fidelity. . . . i'm working to keep the fire going for another 150 years. ♪ to inspire confidence through style. ♪ i'm working to make connections of a different kind. ♪ i'm working for beauty that begins with nature. ♪ to treat every car like i treat mine. ♪ at adp we're designing a better way to work, so you can achieve what you're working for. ♪ that's it. i'm calling kohler about their walk-in bath. [ sigh ] not gonna happen. my name is ken. how may i help yo

>> nowhere is trump derangement syndrome more of an epidemic than gerald nadler's you were west sidess from him. i am sure he will be leading the charge to leak the terms and the contact with mueller. if anything maybe the attorney general is being too transparent. there is grand jury testimony here. this is a group of people on capitol hill completely deranged about the president and cannot be trusted to not leak illegal information. brian: think about the context. jerry nadler chair of the judiciary committee they would be overseeing potential impeachment proceedings. keep this a secret. adam schiff chairing the house intel committee have access to some of the redacted material and for two years he has been saying i have evidence of collusion when the facts don't support that. >> they want to keep the lie alive. that the president does is not deserving of this office. they have activated crazy base that will not let them quit on this crusade to discredit the election of 2016. it isn't going to end because the attorney general is attempted to be courteous and cooperative. they don't

here is the house judiciary chairperson gerald nadler.t outlines disturbing evidence that the president trumengaged in obstruf justice and other misconduct. just imagine what's remains hidden from our view. mueller comes out on the first and second of may. your thoughts? >> let him testify. i don't have a problem with that let him come in and say hey, i spent two years interviewing 500 people, an entire team of lawyers, spent $25 million. it ain't there my guess is mueller will be a pretty impressive witness. he will be a witness for ending the process. look at poor jerry nadler's problem. the left wing of his party is going berserk. they all want to find a way to keep this up. his presidential candidates are going berserk. he can't, as chairman, not look like he is doing something or they will frankly take away his chairmanmanship. that's the dance in the house right now. ed: mr. speaker, one of the dramatic parts of the report is this idea when the oval office when he finds out that there has been a special counsel the president blister

gerald connolly who '70s the house oversight committee. congressman connelly, these summaries, why do you think they need to be released immediately, as congressman nadler is calling for them to be? >> i think we're very concerned, anderson, that as time goes by, a certain narrative that may be highly inaccurate sets in, and that narrative, of course, the one the president has propounded, that full exoneration, nothing to see here, let's move on. well we haven't seen the mueller report. we haven't seen the summaries that his staff prepared of the report. we've only seen one four-page summary of 400-page report plus supporting documents. and there is nothing like seeing the real document for all of us to make up our own minds. >> so you're afraid that people -- because that was something that was also echoed according to reporting from some of the people on mueller's team that they were afraid this had already kind of set the stage in people's minds for forming an opinion? >> that's right. that's right. and there is so much -- last time we met, we talked about this. let's take obstruction of justice. the only thing we know in direct quotes through the ba

gerald in beautiful sea at that time tell. we appreciate it. -- seattle. >> let let's get on to the mueller report. jerrold nadlerother than general said there was no obstruction of justice. he decided that. mueller did not say that he entitledded to defend the administration and not entitled to with hold evidence from congress. there may not be evidence beyond beyond a reasonable doubt which is high standard of criminal conspiracy with the russians but there was in plain sight open collusion with the russians. ashley: joining us now, brad blakeman, former deputy assistant to bush 43 thanks for being we get the report. no obvious collusion not at all, not good enough for mr. nadler the ag is not giving us the whole story. my feeling they put all the eggs in the collusion basket, it blew up on them, now they suggest there is something, hidden. that the attorney general is sanitizing this report. >> we knew this was going to happen. democrats would never be satisfied with a result that did not fit their rhetoric for the last two years. the fact is, when republicans were in power, democrats screamed for special coun