leading the way is the ranking democrat on the house intel committee.hat would be congressmen i want to work at fake news conspiracy tv msnbc adam schiff. take a look at this painful and this pathetic evolution on the so-called trump russia collusion we now know never happened and doesn't exist. >> chris, unfortunately, i can't go into the evidence. >> you had something hard that you can't reveal? >> i can't reveal that, chris. >> of course, there is one thing to say there is evidence. there is another thing to say we can prove this or prove it beyond a reasonable doubt or there is enough evidence to bring to a grand jury for purposes of criminal indictment. >> i don't think we can say anything definitively at this point. we are still at the very early stage of the investigation. >> last march, you said you had more than circumstantial evidence of treasons you collusion withsh treasonous collusion with russia. be specific. i think americans have a right to know a year later what that is. >> i certainly said that there is ample evidence of collusionment

it is hard to overstate the tragedy of this outcome in the house intel committee. >> i think you and lay out very clearly the importance of this committee. the role that they play. these committees were created in the wake of watergate and they were -- they are a crucial part of government oversight as well as, you know, oversight of the white house as well, reacting to things like russia interference in order so that the congress and the white house can react to it and understand what's going on. that is not what's happening here. it his a partisan bickering math and really eroded a fundamental, fundamental part of the democracy we rely on, but that being said, i'm sure the president is going to use this in his messaging to message against what robert mueller comes up with, but the erosion of this committee will not stop an indictment by robert mueller. robert mueller is still going forward no matter what the president wants and he's going to complete this investigation. he has the ability to bring criminal charges against folks and all the messaging in the world isn't going to stop

happening at apple right now. >>> "early start" continues right now with no collusion found by the house intel committee and election day in pennsylvania. >> no evidence of collusion between the trump campaign and russians. >> the finding of the republicans on the house intelligence committee. no collusion. they claim the russians were not trying to help donald trump win in 2016. >>> a special election with big implications in pennsylvania. today we get the strongest sign yet if republicans are in real trouble for the mid terms. >>> and police in texas are urging vigilance. three package bombs in over a week. two deadly. new information overnight adding to the theory these could be hate crimes. >>> good morning. welcome to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> i'm dave briggs. it is tuesday, march 13th. 5:00 a.m. in the east. we will talk about the pennsylvania election. first, a move stunning by current standards. republicans on the house intelligence committee declaring no collusion. republicans break from the intel community over the question of russian interference in the election. concluding the

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in a partisan vote the house intel committee has voted to shut down its investigation into alleged russian interference in the two thousand and sixteen election finding no evidence of collusion between trump and russia the committee also voted to release the g.o.p.'s report on the investigation but the report however will not be immediately made available to the public it's expected to be released in a few weeks after it's reviewed and declassified by the intelligence community but the house intel committee did publish a summary of its findings reiterating that they found no collusion coronation or conspiracy between trump and the kremlin but democrats of the committee voiced opposition to the move saying it was done prematurely to protect the white house pledging to continue the probe let's take a look house intel republicans have prematurely ended investigation and jump to unfounded conclusions that they've yet to share with democratic members like the nunes memo it's no evil see no evil speak no evil instead of conducting an honest investigation house republicans chose to put partisansh

they've been caught red-handed after the house intel committee concluded there's no evidence of trump russia collusion. and rex tillerson is out as the secretary of state. mike pompeo is in and the democrats interesting are threatening to block the first woman nominated to be the cia director. why? because of her history of being tough on terrorists. ed henry has a full report. that's all in tonight's breaking news opening monologue. all right. president trump's key campaign promise, build that wall, takes a major step forward today. the president toured border wall prototypes during a visit to san diego, california. let's take a look. >> if you don't have a wall system, you're going -- we're not going to have a country. there's a lot of problems in mexico. they have a lot of problems over there. they have the cartels and the cartels we're fighting the cartels and fighting them hard. nobody ever fought them like we fought them. we're looking very much at the wall with some see-through capability on the other side and solid concrete on top or steel and concrete on top. the round piece

in a partisan vote the house intel committee has voted to shut down its investigation into alleged russian interference in the two thousand and sixteen election finding no evidence of collusion between trump and russia the committee also voted to release the g.o.p.'s report on the investigation but the report however will not be immediately made available to the public it's expected to be released in a few weeks after it's reviewed and declassified by the intelligence community but the house intel committee did publish a summary of its findings reiterating that they found no collusion coordination or conspiracy between trump and the kremlin but democrats of the committee voiced opposition to the move saying it was done prematurely to protect the white house pledging to continue the probe let's take a look house intel republicans have prematurely ended investigation and jump to unfounded conclusions that they've yet to share with democratic members like the newest member no evil see no evil speak no evil instead of conducting an honest investigation house republicans chose to put partisansh

richard burr, a guy i came in with in 1994 who is running the senate intel committee's investigation who has scolded rightly many times the houserib republican, everybody conducting this investigation is -- they are not part of a democratic conspiracy. they're all just republicans who, unlike the house intel committee, want to get to the truth. >> i have to side with nunes on had this one, joe. sorry. it's pretty one-sided. this is -- you know, in some ways, it kind of reminds me of the un masking scandal and the pfizer memo, which is -- it may be a stretch to compare these, but the pattern seems vaguely similar, which is the republican leadership on the house intelligence committee tries to find a short-term political gain by rushing something out, distracting headlines, only to -- and we're speculating here, but i think it's fair. later down the road be embarrassed by what they did. and in this case, it seems pretty likely that the house intel leadership will be embarrassed if not humiliated by this product. because there are two more reports that are going to come out on the same topic. one is the senate intelligence committ

in a partisan vote the house intel committee has voted to shut down its investigation into alleged russian interference in the two thousand and sixteen election finding no evidence of collusion between trump and russia the committee also voted to release the g.o.p.'s report on the investigation but the report however will not be immediately made available to the public it's expected to be released in a few weeks after it's reviewed and declassified by the intelligence community but the house intel committee did publish a summary of its findings reiterating that they found no collusion coordination or conspiracy between trump and the kremlin but democrats of the committee voiced opposition to the move saying it was done prematurely to protect the white house pledging to continue the probe let's take a look house intel republicans have prematurely ended investigation and jump to unfounded conclusions that they've yet to share with democratic members like the new member it's had no evil see no evil speak no evil instead of conducting an honest investigation house republicans chose to put part

the house intel committee has put an end to this russia investigation, 14 months, and they will have a vote to release to the public the republican members' final report. the house intel committee realized a summary of the key findings. here are the highlights. after 14 months, interviews with all of these with its, the committee found no evidence of trump-russia collusion. the liberal media, the democrats, lying to the american people. james clapper, number two, former obama director of national intelligence, fake news cnn contributor, he provided inconsistent testimony about his contacts with the media. i guess comey is going to get hired next and then brennan. maybe stormy. members of the partisan press are watching, first reported this last week. it's called investigative journalism, real news. guys might want to try it some time instead of spinning these conspiracy theorys. this wouldn't be the first time clapper has lied to congress. back in may of 2013, let's watch clapper lie. take a look. >> does the nsa collect any type of dapt a at all on millions or hundreds of millions of

to john's point, kerry, was there ever really a question that what we would learn from the house intel committeeould be anything but bipartisan -- but partisan rather? >> so the past years investigation that the house has conducted, if we even want to call it that, has been completely partisan as john says. and this is such a shame for this committee because you know the intelligence committees historically have played a very different role than other committees in congress. they have the trust normally of the intelligence community that they will have access to classified information and handle it properly. they generally conduct themselves in a more bipartisan manner because they're dealing with national security issues. so the intel committees have always been just sort of a cut above when it comes to partisanship. what's happened on the house intelligence committee for the past year really prejudged whatever report that came out. and the shame of that is that to the extent that there are any useful recommendations, for example, on election security, on working with our partners in europe on

in a partisan vote the house intel committee has voted to shut down its investigation into alleged russian interference in the two thousand and sixteen election finding no evidence of collusion between trump and russia the committee also voted to release the g.o.p.'s report on the investigation but the report however will not be immediately made available to the public it's expected to be released in a few weeks after it's reviewed and declassified by the intelligence community but the house intel committee did publish a summary of its findings reiterating that they found no collusion coronation or conspiracy between trump and the kremlin but democrats of the committee voiced opposition to the move saying it was done prematurely to protect the white house pledging to continue the probe let's take a look house intel republicans have prematurely ended investigation and jump to unfounded conclusions that they've yet to share with democratic members like the newest member no evil see no evil speak no evil instead of conducting an honest investigation house republicans chose to put partisanship

well yes in a partisan vote the house intel committee has voted to shut down its investigation into alleged russian interference in the twenty sixth election and they found no evidence of collusion between trump and russia but the committee also voted to release the g.o.p.'s report on the investigation the report however will not be immediately available to the public it's expected to be released in a few weeks after it's reviewed and declassified by the intelligence community but the house intel committee did publish a summary of its findings saying that some associates had ill advised contact with wiki leaks but they reiterated that they found no collusion coronation or conspiracy between trump and the kremlin but as expected democrats of the committee are furious saying it was done prematurely to protect the white house and they pledged to continue the probe let's take a look house intel republicans have prematurely ended an investigation and jump to unfounded conclusions that they've yet to share with democratic members like the news memo it's no evil see no evil speak no evil instead o

former trump campaign manager corey lewandowski says he answered all relevant questions for the house intel committeecommittee disagrees. let's discuss with democratic congressman mike quigley of illinois, a member of the house intel committee. good to have you, sir. what do you believe corey lewandowski should talk about that he refused to? >> well, at least three questions he wouldn't answer, his conversations with the president about firing director comey, the meeting at trump tower and the potential firing or attempts to fire inspector mueller. so those are pretty pertinent. it's hard to imagine a criminal trial in which witnesses get to provide lists of questions provided by someone else that we can or can't answer. that's what happened with mr. bannon. that's what happened yesterday with mr. lewandowski. >> what was his basis for not answering? >> it wasn't pertinent. unfortunately, unlike a trial, there's no impartial judge telling that person whether or not they have to answer that question. it's clearly up to the republicans, and they're taking a side out on this one. they're letting witness

in a partisan vote the house intel committee has voted to shut down its investigation into alleged russian interference in the two thousand and sixteen election finding no evidence of collusion between trump and russia the committee also voted to release the g.o.p.'s report on the investigation but the report however will not be immediately made available to the public it's expected to be released in a few weeks after it's reviewed and declassified by the intelligence community but the house intel committee did publish a summary of its findings reiterating that they found no collusion coordination or conspiracy between trump and the kremlin but democrats of the committee voiced opposition to the move saying it was done prematurely to protect the white house pledging to continue the probe let's take a look house intel republicans have prematurely ended investigation and jump to unfounded conclusions that they've yet to share with democratic members like the nunes memo it's hear no evil see no evil speak no evil instead of conducting an honest investigation house republicans chose to put par

learning tonight that the president's lawyer michael cohen was provided secret information about house intel committeer witness. and there is a lot more breaking news ton on the russia investigation. joining me now a member of the intelligence committee, democratic congressman eric swalwell. thank you for coming on. >> thank you. >> another individual with ties to the president is cooperating with robert mueller's investigation. george nader attended secret meetings during the presidential transition between the united arab emirates and trump associates and is now cooperating with the special counsel after being questioned by the fbi back in january. what's your reaction? >> well i'm excited for our country's sake to see the fbi so doggedly pursuing the witnesses. because the it's the opposite of what we see on the house intelligence committee. but, don, this shows that the only way to get to the bottom of this is you have to do a lot of work. you have to subpoena records, travel records, bank records, communication logs. and then you can confront a witness and then you can get their cooperation. it l

. >>> the top democrat on the house intel committee slams the decision by his republican colleagues to shut down their investigation and he came with receipts. the latest details after this. g that's going on in the company. get it for jean who's always cold. for the sales team, it and the warehouse crew. give us the data we need. in one place, anywhere we need it. help us do our jobs better. with domo we can run this place together. well that's that's your job i guess. ♪ it's ok that everyone ignores it's fine. drive. because i get a safe driving bonus check every six months i'm accident free. and i don't share it with mom! right, mom? righttt. safe driving bonus checks. only from allstate. switching to allstate is worth it. >> we are releasing this evening 22-page status report on the investigation. that sets out some of the key witnesses that the majority has been unwilling to bring in, the key documents they've been unwilling to ask for, the witnesses who have come before our committee and stonewalled on key questions so that the public can see how incomplete there effort was. but

the take-aways from the house intel committee zero evidence -- let me repeat. none.o evidence showing collusion between the trump campaign and russia. i hope robert mueller and his merry band of the democratic partisans and donors and witch hunters are all watching tonight. their investigation should be shut down immediately. the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein needs to be investigated. we will explain that.os he is rushing to mueller's defense, saying that the defense, saying that the special counsel is "not an unguided missile." rosenstein is trying to cover himself because the newns information proves that mueller is in and has been in a giant witch hunt. also tonight, the media, the democrats, this is what you have to take away from this. t this has been going on for nearly 18 months. they have been lying to you.u. they have perpetuated one of the biggest hoaxes in americanon history. we'll have more in a minute. here are the other key findings from the g.o.p. members on the house until committee. there is a pattern of russian attacks against america's key

the house intel committee may be completely correct. but we don't know. and i don't think they know. i think the only individual the only group of people who know are mueller and his team of prosecutors. and i think, chris, it is so damn sad because our partisan differences used to extend only as far as the water's edge. you know, we used to be in this country like a couple having a domestic dispute that would turn on an outsider. well, the outsider in this case is russia and we no longer turn on the outsider, instead we're divided by politics. i think it's an attempt at inoculation. it's an attempt to inoculate the administration against whatever might come from the mueller probe. >> so, when you say an inoculation, you mean a coordinated inoculation? >> yeah. well, air karerica, look at the of the announcement. i saw that all-cap tweet from the president of the united states. that thing seemed to be in the word processer or already saved in his android or his iphone and ready to go. i just don't believe in coincidence. yes, i think the white house knew

also breaking this hour, fox news reporting the house intel committee, they are demanding answers abouthony anti-trump dossier from a former obama administration official married to high fusion gps employee. we will expose the media's absolutely reprehensible coverage, 91% negative of president trump's big foreign policy victory with north korea. all of that tonight's focus in tonight's breaking news opening monologue. ♪ we have big breaking news tonight. "wall street journal" just out with a major report. here is the headline. trump lawyers seek deal with mueller to speed end of russia probe. pushing back on some aspects of the story. here is what we are being told at this hour. negotiations underway on how the president will be questioned by the special counsel, robert mueller. and they are close to now determining what is going to happen. my interpretation of all of this means this witch-hunt could finally be wrapping up. the president would be the last person that mueller would want to talk to. by the way, to me, that means that a conclusion is probably coming soon and that would me

he's testifying before the house intel committee. this is what he said to reporters before going behind closed doors. >> i've already answered your questions, haven't i? >> suggestion there that corey lewandowski won't say much more than that. in fact, also perhaps at the house intel committee is in a bit of a winddown mode. how do you see it? >> that's right, a little bit of deja vu. we had lewandowski coming to the house intelligence committee in january. what both republicans and democrats said after that interview was lewandowski basically said i'm not prepared to answer. there wasn't attempt to either assert executive privilege on behalf of the president or deny based on any other privileges that he couldn't answer their questions. just that he wasn't prepared. so the committee has brought him back in the hope that time in between has given him all the preparation he needs to answer their questions. of course a former trump campaign manager. a lot they would be interested in hearing from him. we're hearing from both republicans

in a surprising move to house democrats, republicans on the house intel committee announced that they found no evidence of collusion between the trump campaign and the russians. >> we've seen some perhaps meetings that were inappropriate or ill-advised to have taken and we've seen some chance coincidences where people bump into each other at various places but no evidence of collusion. >> reporter: after the probe they plan to release a 150-page report on their findings based on 73 interviews and over 300,000 documents. president trump praised the news tweeting in all caps, the house intel committee has after a 14-month-long in-depth investigation found no evidence of collusion or coordination between the trump campaign and russia to influence the 2016 election. but for democrats, they're not done. they say the surprise announcement has only worsened partisan tensions on the committee. >> the fundamental problem from the beginning was my colleagues viewed their job as protecting their client, the president, rather than getting to the truth, and i think that's a grave disservice to the

house republican committee concluded their russia meddling probe. democrats reacted, congressman jim hines responded last night tweeting, interesting, i'm on the house intelee and this is the first i've seen of this one-pager and its conclusions. ranking democrat adam schiff said the republicans had pushed a unserious investigative process by ending its oversight role in the only authorized investigation in the house. the majority has placed the interests of protecting the president over protecting the country and history will judge its actions harshly. committee democrats will get to see the report today. >> you've confirmed what we suspect all along, which is the collusion narrative was a lie. >> the democrats have additional evidence that they're not egg showing us that they make reference to over and over, that they have evidence of that, this drafting process, which we'll start in the morning will have a chance to -- >> yeah, let's see it. >>> coming up on "morning joe," house intelligence committee member eric swalwell reacts along with seth moulton. all russia investigations with the phrasing quotes not only in the u.s. are destined to end as mike

also breaking this hour, fox news reporting the house intel committee, they are demanding answers abouthony anti-trump dossier from a former obama administration official married to high fusion gps employee. we will expose the media's absolutely reprehensible coverage, 91% negative of president trump's big foreign policy victory with north korea. all of that tonight's focus in tonight's breaking news opening monologue. ♪ we have big breaking news tonight. "wall street journal" just out with a major report. here is the headline. trump lawyers seek deal with mueller to speed end of russia probe. pushing back on some aspects of the story. here is what we are being told at this hour. negotiations underway on how the president will be questioned by the special counsel, robert mueller. and they are close to now determining what is going to happen. my interpretation of all of this means this witch-hunt could finally be wrapping up. the president would be the last person that mueller would want to talk to. by the way, to me, that means that a conclusion is probably coming soon and that would me

adam schiff, the ranking member of the house intel committee, long time professional trump hater.is now admitting that the scaryscary, damning, earth shattering information that he has now been playing up for more than a year is already in the public domain. really? where is it? watch this. you said you had more than circumstantial evidence of treasonous collusion with russia. what specifically were you referring to and please be specific. because, if it's true, do i believe americans have a right to know a year later what that is. [applause] >> well, i certainly said that there is ample evidence of collusion. i have never use you had the word treason. only steve bannon has used that word. but if you look at the facts that are already in the public domain, they are pretty damning. >> is it enough for mueller to bring charges? because if it isn't enough for mueller to bring charges, what does that mean? >> well,. >> charges of collusion. this is a very important question. that is what is mueller's job and what is our job? bob mueller will make the decision whether there is proof be

house intel committee that the president's lawyer michael cohen was provided secret information about intel committee testimony from another witness. a violation of committee rules. to recap, no chaos. there is nothing to see here. i want to bring in sara sidner and laura cotes with more on the stormy daniels lawsuit. sara good evening to you. a porn star is suing the president to end the hush agreement she entered into before the 2016 election. what more do you know? >> this is really, don, the first time there are public court documents that allege donald trump knew all about the hush money paid to adult film star and director stormy daniels before the presidential election. we looked at the dates, ten days before the presidential election. what's interesting is on the first page there is interesting information. you see all the aliases there. stephanie clifford is also known by her stage name stormy daniels. everybody knew that. but she is known by peggy peterson, a pseudonym they wanted to use in this particular thing, an ailius. look down further when it says plaintiff versus don

house intelligence investigation be put out to pasture. we got two other vehicles by which we can get serious work done. the senate intelligence committee and ultimately mueller will publish a report. so, the house intelst became sort of a vehicle for leaks and partisanship on both sides, and it is probably best that it end. >> so you have, though, you have the independent counsel. and it is going to be so interesting to be able to see if this senate intel committee can cross the line in a bipartisan fashion. a lot of people i think doubt they'll be able to do that even though so far it has been a much better model of bipartisanship. either way, shawn, do you think that when mueller's report comes out or when his findings are made public that it is just going to be another partisan football? >> i think the ground work is kind of already being laid forward, the idea that it will be a partisan football once the report is released. unless, of course, the report finds there was no collusion between the campaign and russia, but, you know, the truth is that, you know, if these investigations -- if the senate investigation and the mueller investigation are consistent in their findings, we already know there

gillette - the best a man can get. >>> democrats on the house intel committee say there are more yes,be answered and more witnesses to be interviewed in their russia investigation. republicans say they're wrapping up the probe. joining us is house intel committee, ranking democrat congressman adam schiff of california. if it's supposed to be over, what work is there left for you to do, sir? >> probably the most important work after the republicans put out their report and we put out ours. we're going to seek the release of the entire transcripts of all the witness interviews. the republicans have said they're committed to doing this. if we can't come together on a unified report, the next best thing is giving the american people all the facts. i have to tell you, chris, i'm skeptical they'll keep their word on this. when you read these transcripts, you not only will learn a host of facts that the republicans won't include in the report, don't want the people to see, but you also see how fundamentally unserious the republicans were about this investigation, how unserious many of their

the house intel committee about to release unclassified information from this report. idge joins us live. >> reporter: they're expecting the house intelligence committee to vote and we expect the vote along party lines with the document send to the intelligence agencies for review and declassification and we're standing by for developments and reaction on the vote. meantime, the committee's ranking democrats have said there's dozens of leads they want to pursue including an intervi interview with christopher wily and if the allegations are accurate the misappropriation of private data say serious invasion of the privacy interests of the american people and they bear directly on our investigation in the election and raise questions on cambridge analytica during the time frame. >> bill: there's intrigue that will probably last some time. what are you learning? >> reporter: the attorney general's personal lawyer said jeff sessions is not under criminal investigation for lying to congress and in the office of special counsel said after interviewing the attorney general and

. >>> coming up, as we were just discussing, republicans in the house intel committee say they are done with the russia investigation. robert mueller, however, is far from finished. those stories next. >>> tonight the republican-led house intelligence committee said they are done with the russia investigation, claim thanksgiving have found no evidence of collusion, coordination or conspiracy between the trump campaign and the russians nor putin expressed preference for p president trump, even though the intelligence committee said they unanimously did. special counsel robert mueller shows no signs of slowing down. the "new york times" now reporting the president is considering adding a new lawyer with a very specific background to his team, representing president bill clinton during his impeachment trial. julian ainsley has written about the investigation. joyce vance, a former u.s. attorney for the northern district of alabama who just joined msnbc news and msnbc as a contributor. and matt miller is a former spokesman for president obama's department of justice. and matt, he will begin

house" with nicolle wallace starts right now. >> hi, everyone. it's 4:00 in new york. mission not quite accomplished. one of the congressional committees investigating donald trump's ties to russia was onto something. the house intel committee which abruptly halted its probe into russian collusion, even though it still had unanswered questions about money laundering collusion and obstruction of justice. the democratic members of the house intel committee releasing a 21-page status report citing unfinished business about major threads of the investigation, including whether president trump sought to obstruct the fbi's investigation into mike flynn by pressuring fbi director comey to drop the investigation by repeatedly requesting his loyalty, and by firing him. the testimony of key witnesses, republicans refuse to interview, folks like george papadopoulos, mike flynn, paul manafort and rick gates who have all been known to be in contact with the russians during the presidential campaign. and more information about potentially damning findings like this one. quote, as the committee has learned, candidate trump's private business was actively negotiating a business deal in moscow with a sanctioned russian bank during

i do want to get your take on all the drama surrounding the house intel committee.ard from eric swalwell talking about he first learned they were wrapping things up on twitter. we've seen the intelligence community stay we stand by our findings, stand by everything we saw. even this, as chris stewart says, they got it wrong. is the house intel jumping the gun a little bit here, or was it time to wrap things up because it's become such a partisan distraction? >> how many years do we want to spend on this? we spent a year, a lot of money. we have three major investigations going on. i see no evidence of collusion. i've seen evidence of maybe mistakes in judgment. but i see no collusion. even the special counsel has only gotten indictments on people for activities before they joined the trump campaign. so i don't really understand why we need to -- are we going to spend the whole trump presidency investigating the trump presidency? i think condi rice is right. there comes a point where you put your cards on the table, tell the american people the information you have a

this house intel committee will. the senate intel committee will. but the partisan rhetoric is just making it more confusing fem for everyone. we should look to see whether or not there's the evidence that it actually happened. >> but erin, what alexi is saying here, just the partisan snach nature of all of this, how much does it undercut congress' credibility? does it as a result bolster the public's confidence in the mueller probe? and i'm looking at pew research numbers yesterday, 61% of the people polled here believe either very or somewhat fair will be the outcome of this investigation. it is being conducted fairly. >> critics are saying that the more republicans or trump loyalists hit these investigations as being corrupt or a witch hunt or politically tainted, the less acceptable the findings will be to the public. that's what they mean when they say it's an effort to undermine the findings here. but, remember, there are red lines being set up all over the board. at the same time, there is political cover. the president is going to point to t

and also breaking this hour, fox news recording the house intel committee. they are demanding answers about the phony anti-trump dossier from a former official married to a high-ranking fusion gps employee. and we'll expose the media's coverage, 91% negative. all of that the focus in tonight's breaking news opening monologue. all right. trump lawyers seek deal with mueller to spend end of russia probe. they're pushing back on some aspects of the story but here is what we're being told. negotiations are underway of how the president will be questioned by the special counsel and they are close to determining what is going to happen. my interpretation, it means this witch hunt could finally be wrapping up because the president is the last person mueller would want to talk to. and that means to me that a conclusion is probably coming soon. and also breaking, more breaking news on a bombshell development that we broke on this program last night. sara carter will join us. the uranium one informant said to have proof of a clinton foundation quid pro quo. revealing

republicans on the house intelligence committee declaring no collusion. republicans break from the intel community over the question of russian interference in the election. concluding the kremlin was not trying to help donald trump win. they are shutting down the year-long investigation despite not interviewing key witnesses. >> we interviewed 75 witnesses and looked at 300,000 plus documents to find. we have seen perhaps meetings inappropriate or ill advised to have taken. we have seen coincidences of people bumping into one another. we have no collusion of the trump campaign or the clinton campaign. the preference for trump is not supported by the evidence. >> the president tweeting approval in all caps. praising the intel committee for no evidence of collusion of the campaign. one republican member tom rooney of florida offered harsh words for the panel. >> we have gone off the rails and basically a political forum for people to leak information to drive the day's news. we, as you alluded to, we lost all credibility. >> the republicans move accelerated into the disintegration of part

no one is smiling bigger to see the house intel committee tear themselves apart now than putin.on as someone testifies it's leaked. congress do your job in a professional way. let's get through it and let's get back to the very serious business of oversight of our intelligence community, funding our intelligence community that's keeping america safe. fine, go testify. >> we'll see what happens. we don't know if he will answer questions. >> without question. i think that what lot of peep wondering who's left after this. this sort of seems like it would mark some sort of turning point. once we gotten to this witness, how many more can there be? we need some sort of cloud hanging over forever. whatever the outcome is, let's get on with it. >> what's interesting is, the real focus is the bob mueller investigation. house and senate intelligence committee are -- cory is going to see the house intelligence committee. he may not answer questions. he cannot refuse to answer questions to bob muler. this isn't that important. because so many of the focus now is on mueller. i would say to y

she's reporting that the house intel committee is investigating former secretary of state john kerry and his role in the dossier. we just told you kerry's state department were receiving anti-trump information from long-time clinton allies. investigate that cnn? former state department official. remember jonathan winter? he met with former british spy christopher steele. and state department official, victoria newland? she said steele gave the state department pages of information that she turned over to the fbi. so here's the key questions. what did john kerry know now, when did he know it and did this information from steele and clinton's allies make it to his desk? the house intelligence committee chair, devin nunes sent a list of ten key questions about the dossier. but it's unclear if john kerry is one of them. sarah courter will reveal all in a report coming up in moments. right now, even more evidence that the fix was in for the fbi's corrupt clinton e-mail investigation. tonight fox is reporting that trump painting agent peter strzok was told that hillary clinton's private se

you have the house intel committee. obviously, devin nunes who tried to recuse himself but couldn't help himself shuttling back and forth to the white house being played as donald trump's dupe. >> new warnings for russia this morning after the poisoning of a former spy in great britain. the british government is demanding answers from the kremlin by the end of the day. >> it's now clear that they were poisoned with a military grade nerve agent of a type developed by russia. >> used as a fine powder, it can apparently cause heart failure within a minute. >> i'm speaking to teresa may today. it sounds like it would be russia based on the evidence they have. >> a terrifying mystery in austin, texas. police there are warning residents not to open any unexpected packages after a series of deadly package bomb explosions. >> what we do know is the individual or individuals that are involved in this, these suspect s have a certain level f skill to construct a device like this and deliver that device to your target without havin

house intel committee, the republicans said, okay, case closed, no collusion. but adam schiff, democratic ranking member on the committee said this. regarding the key witnesses that he says the republicans have refused to interview. he included former chief of staff rice previs, sean spicer, kelly anne conway and russian lawyer natalia slutskya. i don't know if there's any juice left. it's so partisan. i think everyone has written it off and they're waiting for the senate to come forward and robert mueller. your thoughts? >> i think you're right. i thought it was extremely disappointing that the republicans in the majority would not want to even try to attempt to look like they presented a fair conclusion to this investigation. they didn't even inform the democrats. they allowed them to go on tv and talk about how unfair this process is. that's a shame. that's their duty when it comes to intelligence. it shouldn't be politicized. even if it is, you should fight and bend over backwards to make it look like you are trying to be nonpartisan. they didn't do that. a

as republicans on the house intel committee wrap up their russia probe.ttee democrats very much disagree and they vow to keep on digs. we're going to debate it. all that plus our hash tag one lucky guy "outnumbered." busy news day at the top of the hour. >> jon: on the firing of secretary of state rex tillerson, the president saying he made the decision himself acknowledging that he and tillerson disagreed on a number of issues. acknowledging he is on the same wavelength with mike pompeo, the man tapped to replace tillerson. >> i respect his intellect. i respect the process that we've all gone through together. we have a very good relationship for whatever reason, chemistry, whatever it is. why do people get along? i've always right from the beginning, from day one, i've gotten along well with mike pompeo. >> jon: joining us now, senator mike lee, a republican from utah who sits on the judiciary committee. we are all assuming it's a slam dunk that mike pompeo becomes the new secretary of state, but he will at some point require senate confirmation. does h

house judiciary committee chairman, bob goodlatte, issued a subpoena foe the d.o.j. to send over documents on the rigged clinton e-mail situation on fisa abuses, andy mccabe's firing, and comey's firing. the house intel committee announced the russia probe is over and the publicly released gop final report, new information in that, finds no evidence of trump-russia collusion. it exposed deep state leaking. fisa abuse, and blasts the former director of national security, james clapper, for giving inconsistent testimony like mccabe about contacts with the media. is that lying you understand oath a stunning investigative report from sara carter, robert mueller and his top propertior, the guy that they say is the pit bull for mr. mueller, andrew weiseman, tied to one of the biggest scandals in u.s. history. the media ignoring this. an exclusive, you heard about the iranian one informant, speaking on camera right here tonight, for the first time about being enter viewed by the fbi as part of the investigation into the clinton foundation. yeah, there's a real investigation going on, the f media talking about stormy. the hill's john solomon has that report and those details. that and so much more in breakin

in a closed door meeting with house intel committee, the denied setting up a back door dr meeting. >> it would only be designed to hide those communications from our own government. >> reporter: the white house, industry leaders and the president's own staff are waiting to see if he signs a proclamation on tariffs for steel and aluminum. reporting from washington, tara pal may palmieri, abc news. >>> international women's day and abc7 news was on the scene when janitors walked off the job to join the services international union. the union will hold a rally at noon to demand better working conditions and higher pay for janitors. union leaders say women make up the majority of janitorial wo workers in the u.s. >>> new developments involving travis kalanik saying he's starting a new investment fund that will center on real estate, e-commerce in china and india. he founded uber in san francisco in 2009 but was pushed out as ceo last year. >>> a third eastbound lane is set to open on the richmond/san rafael bridge next month. now officials want to study the possibility of a third westboun

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it seems the house intel committee that the republicans are giving the president what he wants.s some document somewhere that he can say look, no collusion. he has been saying it ahead of any documentary evidence of that. but it now appears they are going to give him twhachlt do you make of it? >> yeah, not just no collusion. but the russians weren't even trying to elect him. i suppose in one sense we could congratulate devin nunes because it has been clear for a year now that he was going to go out of his what i to turn this committee really into an arm of the white house or an arm of the president's legal team. but even when you recalibrate your expectations and you know that's what his goal, he still manages to exceed expectations. and go kind of above and beyond. and this report really, it's a farce in so many ways. it's a farce in its conclusions about what happened, given that they allowed witnesses to come in and refuse to answer questions with no follow-up, no subpoenas, no attempt to hold anyone in contempt. and it's a farce in claiming putin wasn't trying to elect trum

your reaction to this, the ending of the house intel committee investigation by the republicans comingver. as i asked robert costa at the top of the broadcast, how can we trust that committee now to deal with real national secrets that in a way are all of our business? >> what's missing from that decision is the fact that we were attacked by a foreign government, and they were attacking our democracy and yet, we can't conduct a non-partisan, an objective investigation into exactly what happened. it had become such a polarized conversation we're not putting the best interest of this country above our party politics. >> congresswoman, thank you very much for joining us in the studio tonight. congresswoman stephanie murphy of florida. >>> coming up for us, both major parties are watching the pittsburgh suburbs where the polls open really just a few hours from now and there is great interest in the result will be announcing here tomorrow night. that and more when we continue. from the very beginning ... it was always our singular focus, a distinct determination. to do whatever it takes, us

it's the house intel committee. >> just one parties on the cheap. >> just one party o the committee and we're going to get a dissent by the democrats. we'll get some of it next thursday and it's going to b very controversial on that point and also on the central point they're making which is there is no evidence that there's been any collusion. pete: abby, was it slow coming out, susan and what's the significance of the u.s. adding its voice to thisay andg us too. >> of course it's slow. the bottom line is thathe united states and united kingdom have handd long-sg special relationship and this week, i think we did not show ourselves to be the very best friends of great britain in the world. we signed only and did sort of the formal things that one would do as allies but the president of the united states was not there right alongside teresa may, who gave really one of the speeches of her career in parliament this i week which she personally blamed vladimir putin r this attack. the nerve agent, is one of the deadliest things manufactured in the former soviet union. there are only two pos

no evidence of collusion, house intel committee republicans closing the door on the investigation, whitese democrats are calling foul play. congressman chris stewart joining us next. stay with us. how do you win at business? stay at laquinta. where we're changing with contemporary make-overs. then, use the ultimate power handshake, the upper hander with a double palm grab. who has the upper hand now? start winning today. book now at lq.com. . david: no collusion, gop house intel members concluding investigation finding no coordinating between the trump campaign and moscow. republicans will send reports to democrats before releasing the findings. joining us is representative chris stewart, member of the house intel committee. congressman, it wasn't just the question of whether republicans were working with the russians. there were a lot of questions whether democrats were working with the russians through fusion gps, which may have relied upon russians to get information for the trump dossier, was that looked into? >> we were, that wasn't the focus. the irony is extraordinarily rich, some

. >> you know, jack, the house intel committee has -- can we go back to that? to get away with it, john. then what is the purpose of this committ committee? >> well, it is an intelligence committee. it used to be nonpartisan. >> it doesn't look like it has teeth. >> they have no teeth. and the reason it has no teeth is, it takes the majority of the committee to put them in contempt. the full house is controlled by republicans. they're not going to do it. even if they did do it, it goes to the u.s. attorney, who is a republican appointee and he's not going to enforce it. they're going to get away with it. >> and good night, folks. seriously. jack? >> yeah. look, i mean, it does go back to speaker ryan. if speaker ryan wanted this committee to act like a congressional committee and get to the bottle at bottom of thes and not have their way with the committee, things would be different. but john's quite right. it's up to the majority, whether to hold somebody in con cement, until, you know, perhaps the other party after the elections is in the majority. and then,

. >> i think that the democrats need to continue to look into the evidence that the house intel committeeat. this -- there is a lot of information that we know that the house intel committee report did not include. there's been a lot of discussion about whether or not people were interviewed, whether or not they actually answered questions in those interviews, so there is more information that should be looked at. on this issue of collusion, this is not necessarily -- this doesn't necessarily have to be an investigation about collusion. we need to understand what happened between people on the campaign trail and people associated with the president, not because people are against the president but because we need to understand that from a national security perspective. so while i know this is largely a partisan issue between democrats and republicans, there's a lot of information that still needs to be looked at and analyzed. >> and i'm sure they will be. robert mueller, rebecca, is looking into all of this as well. you heard congressman castro say mueller already has what he described as

why the announcement came today, just one day after she testified for nine hours before the house intel committee on the russia investigation. the 29-year-old was perhaps the most important person on the campaign and in the white house this when it came to access to the president. she was loyal professional and basically understood the president like a family member. david bossie, trump's 2016 deputy campaign manager joins me in just a moment with his thoughts on this very surprising news today. but we begin with chief national correspondent ed henry at the white house with all of the breaking news tonight. good evening, ed. >> the day began around here with a little bit of chaos about the president again beating up on the man that he has called his beleaguered attorney general. that overshadowed just a few hours later by this abrupt and unexpected exit by the communications director hope hicks. as you mentioned, she is only 29. yet had become very effective, influential in the west wing. the president's longest serving aide who got high marks for helping shepherd the tax cut. why her exit statem