it was something very important to our forefathers senator grassley who's the chairman of the senate with the blower protection caucus said because of whistleblowers more than fifty three billion of taxpayer dollars has been recovered because of insiders it's now known that more than five hundred eighty million was lost to corporate fraud sooner grassley says whistle blowers are fired blacklisted and harassed when they're merely trying to do what's right he says because of those willing to speak up that lists cover that some vets were waiting up to two years to see a doctor and all many won't know the sacrifices whistleblowers me to do what they feel is their duty to serve their country senator grassley says they're punished and they retaliate or seem to walk free most of the reward laws began in one thousand nine hundred one known as the lacy act initially encouraging the detection and reporting of illegal wildlife trafficking insiders with vital information or compensated we need times according to grassley it's. quite the opposite for today's whistle blowers he seeking out protect

grassley: i do not think so.t exactly know what his condition is, but what i heard over the weekend, it seemed like me it was not anything to keep him from the center for a long time. as long as we are going to be in session until august 12, instead of having a five-week break for summer break, we will have a three-week break. i assume we will get this done before summer break is over. kevin: there are about eight to 12 republicans undecided about this health care legislation. where do you stand on it? sen. grassley: i stand on voting to bring it up. all 100 senators ought to have a chance to consider and debate it . we have the responsibility to make sure it is brought up. i have definitely a yes vote to bring it up. if you are asking me, like in the iowa press today, it would be a good thing not to do like speaker pelosi said -- we have to pass it to know what is in it. i think people expect us to know what is in a beforehand, and there will be changes now before it is brought up next week, and there will be am

it was something very important to our forefathers senator grassley who's the chairman of the senate whistleblower protection caucus said because of whistleblowers more than fifty three billion of taxpayer dollars has been recovered because of insiders it's now known that more than five hundred eighty million was lost to corporate fraud senator grassley says whistle blowers are fired blacklisted and harassed when they're merely trying to do what's right he says because of those willing to speak up it was discovered that some vets were waiting up to two years to see a doctor and know many won't know the sacrifices whistleblowers and me to do what they feel is their duty to serve their country senator grassley says they're punished and they retaliate or seem to walk free most of the award laws began in one thousand nine hundred one known as the lacy act initially encouraging the detection and reporting of illegal wildlife trafficking insiders with vital information on work compensated many times according to grassley it's quite the opposite for today's whistleblowers he's speaking out

grassley wants to talk to donald trump jr. and paul manafort, the campaign chair manager who was in the meeting. we'll see if they agree to testify or need to issue subpoenas. >> this isn't just a big deal because it's someone who is a close adviser to the president in light of the bombshell news. this is the president's eldest son being sent a letter, asked to testify in a public setting before the senate judiciary meeting. >> that's absolutely right. it's coming from republicans, too. >> right. >> the question i asked chuck grassley, i said what do you want to hear from him? they said there have been a lot of questions. this will be an opportune toy for him to explain what happened. what will be significant about this is this would happen under oath. everything donald trump jr. said so far, of course, hanover twitter or his appearance on sean hannity's program. it has not come under oath. you have to tell the truth under oath and means that his -- all questions about his any past conversations he had with any russian officia

chuck grassley wants to hear testimony from paul manafort as soon as next week as well.rassley is trying to work through the special council office to make sure robert mueller is not going to conflict with this investigation. it's uncertain whether manafort will appear. the fact that the committee wants to talk to donald trump jr. as soon as next week is news. we'll see if it comes to pass. they are threatening a subpoena if it comes to it. >> look, will they come voluntarily? i'm talking manafort as well. grassley noted he wants him to come testify. will they answer questions or take the fifth? let's get -- thank you for the breaking news. as always, you are on top of it all. let's get back to congressman jim jordan, thank you for waiting. dianne feinstein wants donald trump jr. to testify next week in front of the committee. your fellow republican, the chairman of that committee, senator grassley saying he wants paul manafort to do the same next week. >> doesn't surprise me. i don't think it should surprise anyone we want to get to the truth and the facts. >> you think

jim, of course, this isn't grassley's first attack on mccabe. he sent a letter to the deputy attorney general raising concerns about his independence. >> diane gallagher, thank you very much. now to the breaking news, president trump offering new comments about his son's meeting with the russian lawyer last year and the fall out. cnn's jessica snyder is at the white house for us tonight. jessica, tell us more about this new interview with president trump. very interesting. >> reporter: very interesting, jim. you know, no public schedule for the president over the past four days but he did grant two interviews today. the most recent with reuters, it being the first time that the president has addressed other than twitter donald trump, jr.'s meeting with the russian lawyer and subsequent e-mails that came out just yesterday. the president really reiterating what his lawyer and deputy press secretary said over the past 24 to 48 hours, that he didn't know anything about that meeting. in fact, this is what the president told reuters just a short time

the committee is chaired by charles grassley. it was moderated by senator chuck grassley. >> i reconvene our hearing, i gave my opening statement yesterday, so i do not have anything to add to it but i have a few housekeeping things to take care of. i am disappointed that the two hour rule was invoked to shut down this hearing before we could hear from mr. router r yesterday. he has traveled from overseas to be here today to testify about russia's efforts to manipulate the government media. this is an important topic to discuss. if the other party is truly serious about getting to the bottom of the russian interference investigation, they should hear them out. i thank you hear -- very much for changing your travel plans to be here. this committee very much appreciate your thing is to stay here today. i am going to introduce items into the record, three in number. the first is a statement by the president of the human rights foundation where he alleges that $2and others uncovered a billion corruption scheme involving venezuela gov

grassley: senator feinstein. feinstein: thank you very much.ou are a very brave man, and i respect that and your loyalty to mr. magnitsky. having said that, mr. browder, it is hard for me to understand why the magnitsky act still sticks in the crawl of russia -- craw of russia. and what the lawyer would have to do with that. that is not going to be reversed. it was no chance. the foot ande that government would understand that. thathat is the nature of feeling -- obsession, whatever you want to call it? browder: i believe there are two reasons why this is vladimir putin's single most important foreign policy priority. the first reason, is that we have evidence that he is -- his nominee, sergei verdugi received some of the proceeds of the clot -- crime. feinstein: the crime being what they took from your office? yes, some of that $230 million. vladimir putin, i believe him to be the richest person in the world, i believe him to be worth 200 billion dollars. money held all over. his regime has been come -- committing crimes to get that money so h

this is grassley and the ranking democrat on the committee diane feinstein.d issue a subpoena for the other person who is expected to testify next wednesday, asked to testify, that was glenn simpson, head of that research firm fusion gps, behind the russian dossier. they have issued a subpoena. he has declined to appear. in a key development, donald trump, jr. and paul manafort at least have staved off the process of appearing publicly, at least for now, as they negotiate privately with the committee and with the members about communications they had with russian officials and about that very controversial and recently revealed trump tower meeting that they had with the russian officials during the campaign season, brie annanna. >> now we realize, we assume as they negotiate they will be testify testifying behind closed doors, jared kushner is going to be testifying behind closed doors, both of them before different committees. would this be different if democrats were in control of the senate, if they were the ones heading up these committees? >> reporter: i

even the republican senator from iowa, senator grassley, said that about the cruz amendment. here is what he said quote there is a real feeling it is sumpter fuge to get around preexisting conditions. if it has the effect of annihilating the preexisting requirement we have in the existing bill, and obviously i would object to that, those are the words of senator grassley. members of both parties agree that the most significant potential change to the republican trump care bill is an amendment that will make the legislation even worse. so make no mistake about it. the cruz amendment is a cruel, mean hoax. let's not forget even without the cruise amendment, the substance of the bill is devastating. the cbo reports it would cause cost to go up, care to go down, and force 22 million americans off their health insurance. it would end medicaid as we know it. now, this weekend i had the good experience once again to go to the utica broiler maker. it is a famous road race in my dad's hometown. 15k race. the largest in the country. people from 45 states participate. and as usual, i wa

thank you. >> chairman grassley, thank you for for that very thorough introduction. before i -- david, i ask you to stand to be sworn in. i want to recognize your mother nancy. i didn't recognize her earlier when i recognized your dad. i also want to recognize why -- he left the room, and your daughter alexis who is an absolute doll. if you will, raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear to tell the truth, nothing but the truth, so help you god. >> yes, sir. >> please be seated. david, you're now sworn in. before we move to your statement, i'd like to ask you five standard questions that the committee poses to each nominee who appears before us. they just require a simple yes or no answer for the record. do you agree to appear before the committee here or in other venues when invited? >> yes. >> if confirmed do you agree to send officials from your office to appear before the committee and designated staff when invited? >> yes. >> do you agree to provide documents or any ore material requested by the committee in order for us to carry out its -- our oversight and

we'll see what chuck grassley has to say. think you're going to see these senators particularly the democrats obviously really try to look at the relationship that donald trump had with james comey and get this nominee christopher wray to comment on that, this idea of what would you do if the president asked you to pledge your loyalty, what would you do if the president asked you to drop an investigation as he apparently did with james comey? what do you think of your relationship with the attorney general? how do you see that relationship playing out because we of course we know james comey in some ways had an odd relationship with his attorney general, not only jeff sessions but loretta lynch before that. i think there's going to be some sort of looking backwards at what happened with james comey as a way to try to look forward and see how he sees things. >> you're looking at chuck grassley now the chairman of the senate judiciary committee. >> we're here for a very important nominee hearing. you're welcome. the committee i

and i know senator gres grassley made a comment about that too. the intelligence community, and this has now been public, concluded with high confidence that russia intervened in the 2016 election in order to den great secretary clinton and help elect donald trump. do you have any indication that russia interfered in our elections -- >> sorry, go ahead. senator, the only thing i've been able to review on that at the moment is the public form of the intelligence community's assessment, the summary. i don't have access to all of the classified information. but i will tell you from what i reviewed i have no reason whatsoever to doubt the assessment of the intelligence community. >> you read the classified sections if you're confirmed? >> it would be one of the first things i want to see. >> thank you. because i -- you see the actions of russia in europe and number of other parts around the world trying to expand their influe e influence. you see them wanting to influence people's other elections, the last thing they want them to do is interfere with

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to testify, charles grassley, where is that on the scale? >> it's significant. you look at it outside of this administration and this moment, this is a person that received an e-mail saying i have a contact with the russian government that has opposition research, this is the heart of the meddling question. this happened. sure, if you're investigating the meddling to have that person come in testify. that is as donald trump jr. is someone that complicates things. but in other administration any other time, of course you'd ask them to testify. >> was it the conclusion of the reporters that the e-mail seemed to suggest at least there might have been other contact that we don't have context? >> there's certainly the implication in the e-mails that donald trump jr. released, there's very much the suggestion that there was a phone call between him and the center of this, that they had a phone call. tried to set a phone call up. there was this period there was supposed to be this phone call, donald trump says thanks for your help in this. the next day, donald trump jr

construct grassley wants him to testify before the committee.thing about donald jr.'s potential testimony? >> reporter: not at this point. except that they expect that all of the people involved related to the courthouse will cooperate. this is one of those things where the white house will say in the business of its agenda and issues relating to a sprawling russia investigation to the attorneys who are designated for each of the players, whether it's donald trump jr., jared kushner, who serves as a special adviser to the president. the president's own outside legal team. so that's where it gets difficult to get answers from the white house directly. we did see today how the president

and charles grassley is saying -- >> who thinks that it is?president. >> right. >> i mean, any normal human being would understand that that's not how you operate, specifically in the world of politics, which we all know is extremely dirty, right? politics is about as dirty as it gets. this goes one step too far as far as getting -- >> his own nominee for the fbi director said this is not what you should be doing. he said, call the fbi if you do this. so presumably, president should call the fbi, i guess. but charles grassley -- >> i don't think that's going to happen. >> the senate judiciary committee chairman wants donald trump jr. to testify. caitlin, this is just setting up a very unusual situation for this white house, where they're going to have to watch -- it was bad enough when the white house thought they had to sit there and watch james comey testify, but the prospect of the people around the white house sitting and watching television, the president watching television, he says he doesn't watch a lot of television, but he watches a

chuck grassley has the ability as a chairman to subpoena them and bring them forward.that point, they would have to take the fifth amendment. >> thank you so much. congressman joaquin castro, we appreciate your time today. coming up, more on the breaking news, the white house insisting president trump stands by attorney general jeff sessions after the president expresses his regrets about appointing sessions in the first place. >>> plus today's remarkable testimony that led up to the decision on parol for o.j. simpson. >> i've always thought i've been pretty good with people and i've basically spent a conflict-free life. day 13. if only this were as easy as saving $600 when you switch to progressive. winds stirring. too treacherous for a selfie. [ camera shutter clicks ] sure, i've taken discounts to new heights with safe driver and paperless billing. but the prize at the top is worth every last breath. here we go. [ grunts ] got 'em. ahh. wait a minute. whole wheat waffles? [ crying ] why! hey you've gotta see this. cno.n. alright, see you down there. mmm, fine. okay,

last night charles grassley chairman of the senate judiciary committee sent out a tweet and it said thishat the senate judiciary committee schedule is set for the remainder of the term and then he got to a point where he said ag no way. what's that mean? well, that's a pretty strong sign that charles grassley is not about to be scheduling any attorney general confirmation hearings when he just did that about six months ago for jeff sessions. so, the word there from grassley, don't bring another nominee because my committee is not going to move on any sort of nomination. if you fire jeff sessions. now, then that came with a one-two punch and that was from lindsey graham this morning. stopped him in the hall of the office building and was asked flat out what would it mean, lindsey graham if president donald trump were to fire jeff sessions and then in turn move to do away with the special counsel in the russia investigation. robert muller. graham did not pull any punches. listen to what he said. >> the chairman of the judiciary committee sent a very chilling tweet yesterday. there will be

grassley: did either of you ever review classified documents in which mr.rump, his associates, or members of congress had been unmasked? dir. clapper: oh, yes. sen. grassley: you have? can you give us details here in this? dir. clapper: no, i can't. sen. grassley: ms. yates, have you? sally yates: yes, i have and, no, i can't give you details. sharyl: all concerned have said their actions were not politically motivated and were in the interest of national security. it's in this context that congress will decide whether to renew government surveillance powers that expire at the end of the year. hoekstra says significant new safeguards should be added. pete: i think in too many cases, congress has become deferential to the intelligence community and to the executive branch, and they have to exert themselves. sharyl: interestingly, erosions that you say occurred under republicans continued under democrats with president obama. what does that tell you? elizabeth: it tells me that when congress or the president invokes an emergency to expand surveillance authori

chairman, thank you very much. >> very good. >>> thank you to chairman grassley for joining us. the question that i raised in my opening statement had to do with a congressional committee and a criminal investigation, both looking at the same piece of evidence. let's just say tax returns. just to seuss an example. if hypothetically a special counsel had through its own devices and authorities obtained a subject's tax returns, congress is not constrained in any way through its own authorities, to look at the same evidence that a special counsel is. is that correct? >> senator whitehouse there are two different ways to get tax returns. your question becomes first one and then the other. the easiest way to get tax returns is to subpoena them from the person who kept their own copies when they turned them in and if a prosecutor could get them that way which is quick and easy for them, then so can you. the more difficult way is to get them through the internal authority, called section 3106. of the tax codes privacy provision to get authorization to get them. there's a different auth

, getting more information than senator grassley can get, and he said i can't tell you why. i said yee-gosh, a senate official cannot get as much information as a private citizen? we read about foya getting it and releasing it before we are made aware. >> i think it's obviously important for the fbi working with the department's help and approval to be as responsive as possible to this committee and especially of course to its chairman. i'm not familiar with the particular circumstances surrounding foyafoya -- foia. >> i don't expect you to respond to this next question with anything about mr. mccabe, but i use mr. mccabe as an example. in my opening statement, i mentioned that -- the deputy attorney general has failed to explain to this committee what he's doing to deal with the conflict of interest. in a general matter, do you think it's appropriate for any fbi official to participate in a criminal investigation of someone who was an adverse witness in a pending eeo proceeding, and if so, what will you do to confirm that that does not happen on your watch? >> mi want to ma

senator chuck grassley is threatening subpoenas if both don't agree to appear.ared kushner agreed to speak with other senator the in a closed session. manu raju has details. what are they saying about these requests for trump jr. and paul manafort? >> reporter: they're saying they need to respond by tomorrow and tell the committee tomorrow whether, in fact, they do plan to appear in this hearing next wednesday. so far we have not heard whether or not they will, but senator chuck grassley and senator dianne feinstein, leaders of the committee, telling me earlier today they're taking this very seriously. grassley raising the specter of sending over federal marshals to deliver the subpoenas if they don't comply. >> are you concerned donald trump jr. and manafort have not yet accept at the invitation to appear before the committee next week? >> am i concerned? no. i'm not concerned. because if they don't, they'll be subpoenaed. >> we're having a hearing next wednesday so obviously we want to hear right away so we can get the subpoena. i hope they accept the subpoena

chuck grassley, you don't mess with a tough guy like him from iowa. he's been very clear that if they don't come he's going to issue a subpoena. >> if it gets to that point and a subpoena is issued, then you would have donald trump jr. and paul manafort making a decision, right, as we saw ultimately that michael flynn made, which is do they come and testify as they have been compelled to do, or do they take the fifth amendment, right? >> that will be their decision to make, and i have no idea what decision they'll make. i just think it's very important that while this investigation is going on, that congress does its duty. we have a duty of oversight and we also have a duty to follow through to protect our election system. 21 states had their election equipment attempts at hacking it. we know that now. we didn't know that six months ago. so we have obligation even beyond whatever happened with the trump campaign to protect our election system so that americans can vote and that is our whole democracy is founded on this simple principle that everyone h

senator chuck grassley is the chair of that committee. didn't get much attention because the president blew up the transgender policy in the military, and the health care fight and lots of other things going on. but tomorrow will be day two of the judiciary committee holding hearings that appear to be designed to make it seem like the real russia scandal has nothing to do with the trump organization. the real russia scandal is a democratic scandal. we've been talking for several days about chuck grassley's efforts to try to turn the russia/trump scandal around and try to make it into a kind of counter-narrative, it's all about hillary clinton. it's all about the democrats

senator grassley can get?" and he says, "i can't tell you why." and i said, "ye gods." a senator can't get as much information as a private citizen gets? and often the letters that we send for information, we read about foya getting it, and we read about in the newspaper before we get an answer to our letters. >> well, senator, as we discussed in our meeting in your office, i think it's obviously important for the fbi, working with the department's help and approval, to be as responsive as possible to this committee and especially, of course, to its chairman. i'm not familiar with the particular circumstances surrounding foya productions of any of these materials. i agree with you that that strikes me, just listening to you describe it, as an odd situation, to put it mildly. >> yeah. i don't expect you to respond to this next question with anything about mr. mccabe. but i use mr. mccabe as an example. as i noted in my opening statement, the department refused to provide an unredacted copy of mr. mccabe's recusa

i know senator grassley made some comment about that, too. the intelligence community -- this has been public -- including the fbi, cia, nsa, concluded with high confidence that russian intervened in the 2016 election to help elect donald trump. do you have any doubt that russia interfered with our elections hoping to elect donald trump? >> senator, the only thing i have been able to review on that at the moment is the public form of the intelligence community's assessment, the summary. i don't have access to all the classified information. i will tell you that from what i reviewed, i have no reason to doubt the assessment. >> will you read the classified sections if you are confirmed? it would be one of the first things i want to see. >> you see the actions of russia in europe and a number of other parts around the world trying to expand their influence. you see them wanting to influence other people's elections. the last thing we want them to do is interfere with ours. i don't want any other country to, but especially a country that is as a

grassley wants manafort to come before his committee. the question is, if that's going to step on bob mueller's investigation here. >> the white house has known since january that the house and the senate intelligence committees were going to be investigating this matter, including any links to the russian government by any political campaign. so they were on notice that this is something that was going to be getting a lot of scrutiny. they were going to have to be testifying, providing documents. any other white house in which there were people with some experience handling scandals in the past would have known the first thing you do is an internal review. you collect every e-mail, every document, every memo, assemble it. try to get some assessment of what your exposure is, and then you make decisions about how you're going to deal with it. it's not clear -- we know that simply wasn't done in this case. >> in fact the instinct throughout has been exactly the opposite. and we see a little microcosm of that just this weekend. you start --

we did contact today charles grassley, who happens to be the chairman of the judiciary committee who says the most important people are paul manafort, who happens to be the former campaign chairman for donald trump as well as donald trump jr., and to a lesser degree, apparently, jared kushner. let's listen to what he had to say about bringing those people to capitol hill. >> whether it's trump jr. or kushner or even the president of the united states, they seem to want to be very open and transparent about it, and this is a wonderful opportunity for them to be transparent, tell their story. they'll be under oath nap ought to satisfy everybody on the committee that they're getting straight scoop. >> reporter: so either this week or next week is what grassley has to say about bringing donald trump jr. and paul manafort to capitol hill. the holdup is apparently paperwork. we're told at least from the manafort team, they haven't received a written invitation as yet. grassley said he and senator dianne feinstein, the ranking democrat, on that committee, working to try to figure out the wo

. >> you spoke to senator chuck grassley. he wants donald trump jr. to testify, as well. what did he tell you? >> the first time we heard a republican chairman of a key committee call on donald trump jr. to testify. grassley telling me that he actually planned to send a letter requesting donald trump jr.'s presence at his committee. >> what do you want to learn about? >> over sight the justice department. i think it has raised a lot of questions. the real way that i feel comfortable is ever since president trump was elected it seems like every conversation that has come from somebody in the family where there has been some sort of issue they seem to always to be very, very open. and i just think that he would have the opportunity to say whatever he wants to say. >> grassley and senator feinstein are not ruling out the threat of subpoenas if donald trump jr. does not agree to come before the committee. feinstein telling me she wants him to come before the committee as soon as next week. one question is will this interfere with bob mueller's investigation. that is one reaso

and that tweet from chuck grassley, grassley has shown a real willingness to sort of stick himself finger in the white house's eye. this is a definitive statement exercising the power he has to say no way. woof been back and forth on that for yoors. the senate is simply going to stay in information lost lawsuits trying to got these appointments through the senate. i don't see this as an option unle unless. >> his latest yesterday morning attacked both the attorney general, jeff sessions, and the acting director of the fbi. quote, why didn't attorney general sessions replace acting fbi director andrew mccabe? a comey friend in charge of the clinton investigation but got big dollars, $700,000 for his wife's political run from hillary clinton and her representatives. drain the swamp. so is jeff sessions the swamp? but there are several factual errors. jeff sessions was not the attorney general when the fbi was vgting clinton. jeff sessions said he would recuse himself pr before he was conformed. andrew mccabe had an oversight role but was by no means in charge of it. and whool he received su

anyone chairman grassley supports, usually guaranteed my support. so look forward to your service, continued service to the country. i do have just a broad question about cybersecurity. during the debates, we in congress have had about cybersecurity, we have been unable to overcome the silos that congress itself has built when it comes to jurisdiction over this issue. and the concerns we've had about the organization of the department of homeland security since 9/11 and the challenges that it's had just culturally just dealing with so many different disparate agencies under the umbrella of dhs, but i would be interested in your views about the shortcomings and maybe the opportunities that we have to deal with the cyber threat because it seems to me like we're doing a poor job as all of government approach. >> senator, thank you for the question. also thank you for meeting with me privately and going over some of these issues. i think it's a tremendous opportunity in the department to have an integration of business enterprise towards this. the elici

thank you senator grassley for being a cohost of that work. as to the subject of the hearing let me be clear congress and the executive branch are capable of conducting concurrent investigations. it is essential to legislating in holding the executive branch accountable and ensuring the system of checks and balances is working. the presidential election demand the common understanding across the country on the fact of what did or did not happen and whether the rule of law is being properly followed in the damaging rift to the democracy. it is the role of the congress to provide the public with the fact. as the chairman mentioned, we released a report on the history of the congressional investigation that shows the public benefits in both the legislative and executive branch examines the same event and we identified four important elements for the successful investigations that vb bipartisan, have a clear scope that they have leadership support and the chairman hear evidence of that and forth as being well resourced which is something we can ta

the top republican on the committee, the chairman, chuck grassley, and the top democrat on the committee, dianne feinstein, both told me today they want dronald trump jr. to testify before the plan aanel at ruling out subpoenas. >> reporter: what do you want to ask him or learn about? why the committee wants to question him? >> well, very much because our oversight of the justice department, and i think it's just -- it's raised a lot of questions, but the real way that i feel comfortable inviting him is ever since i've -- ever since president trump was elected, it seems like every conversation that has come from somebody in the family where there's been some sort of issue, they've seemed always to be very, very open, and i just think that he would welcome the opportunity to say whatever he wants to say. now i -- >> reporter: would you get a subpoena? >> let's wait and see what he does for, from our letter. >> now, jake, why this is significant, it's the first time a republican chairman of a committee has formally invited donald trump jr. to come testify. at least publicly acknowledging t

senator grassley set the subpoena tonight. he's canceled the testimony from don jr.nd paul manafort and instead of hearing from them next week on the collusion issue, the nate instead will play host at an open televised hearing to the big republican pushback theory they have been gearing up for on conservative media for a couple of weeks now. this is the big pushback in which they will claim that there is a russian scandal but it's not a trump-russia scandal. it's the democrats. and the dossier on trump, that's the real russia scandal. that's from russia and the scandal is about hillary clinton and the democrats. it's -- we have known this was coming. now as of tonight we know it is arriving wednesday morning in the senate. and the first subpoena has just gone out for that. so that's all happened tonight. that's all been reported tonight and also the white house spokesman, sean spicer resigned today and anthony scaramucci was hired as white house communications director and there are many rumors that reince priebus is going to be next to go. the spokes minnesota for

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i said, how do you justify citizen grassley getting more information then senator grassley can get and he said i cannot tell you why. a senator can't get as much information as a private citizen gets and often the letters that we send for information, we read about the newspaper before we get an answer to our letters. >> senator, as we discussed in our meeting in your office, i think it is obviously important for the fbi working with the department's help and approval to be as responsive as possible to this committee and especially of course to its chairman. i am not familiar with the particular circumstances surrounding the productions of any of these materials, i agree with you that that strikes me just listening to you describe it as an odd situation to put it mildly. >> i don't expect you to respond to this next question, with anything about mr. mccabe but i use him as an example. the deputy attorney general has failed to explain to this committee what he is doing to deal with the conflict of interest. in a general manner, do you think it is appropriate for any fbi official to part

clearly this doesn't seem to be what chairman grassley was hoping for.want manafort and donald trump jr. to testify next week publicly. >> yeah, no question about it. but according to sources, this was kind of a case of something is better than nothing. they believe the threat of the subpoena, the threat of the public hearing was enough to kind of bring paul manafort, donald trump jr. and their lawyers to the table. flow is a negotiation. they have said they will negotiate to provide documents. they will negotiate to have a closed door interview. and chuck grassley took to twitter, the chairman of the judiciary committee and said there will at some point be an open hearing. now the schedule for the interviews, the documents and the public hearing that supposedly is in the works, that has not been set yet. but they do feel like they have some leverage. they used some leverage. and now those two individuals will at least sit down with committee members. it is worth noting, jake, one subpoena was issued today to glen simpson, the head of the firm fusion gps

grassley sending a letter to donald trump jr. today or tomorrow. they are writing the letter today and hope to send it out by before the end of the week in order to see if he can testify as early as unique week. some developments on the house side of the capitol. the house intelligence committee had planned to interview roger stone, that former trump adviser on july 24th, but abruptly canceled his testimony. he is no longer going to testify. stone's camp telling me tonight that they got no explanation why, just that the committee was not ready to move forward. that's going to be delayed until the august recess, according to stone's attorney, anderson. >> also, what kind of reaction has there been on capitol hill today over donald trump jr.'s explanation about why he took the meeting? >> a lot of republicans are pushing back and actually the president's explanation, when the president said at his press conference today that it's standard for donald trump jr. to take such a practice because that's what you do in politics, some republicans are saying,

. >> dickerson: but here's the challeng coming from senator grassley, your own party has worked on thelth care issue. on your plan he said this, and let's listen to the audio. i want to get your reaction. >> sure. >> there is a real feeling that that is trying the get around preexisting conditions. if it subterfuge and it has the effect of annihilating the preexisting condition requirement that we have in the existing bill, then obviously i would object to that. >> dickerson: your response, senator. >> well, chuck grassley is a i think it's important for republicans not to be deceived by the attacks that are coming out of chuck schumer and the democrats. chuck schumer this week blasted the consumer freedom amendment, which is i think --. >> dickerson: your amendment. >> yes. because chuck schumer doesn't want us to pass this. chuck schumer wants this to fail. so no republican should be deceived when chuck schumer... chuck schumer made the argument, he called it a hoax. look, i'll note that chuck schumer and obama know a lot about health care hoaxes. obamacare was sold to the american p