this is all the latest surrounding the controversial chairman of the house intelligence committee. nez in private confirming democrats' long standing suspicion that he believes house republicans must protect president trump from robert mueller. >> it's like your classic catch 22 situation where the process is such a tough spot. >> reporter: speaking at a private fundraiser nunez was secretly recorded saying the house g.o.p. must retain the majority this fall for one clear reason. if we have -- we have to keep the majority. if we do not keep the majority all of this goes away. > reporter: it is the latest controversy in nunez's tenure atop the powerful committee. last year he rushed to brief the president about his concern in secret intelligence reports. >> these intelligence reports are out there and i have a duty to tell him that. >> reporter: despite stepping aside from running the russia probe he continued to exert his influence. privately he mounted his own investigation into the justice department to sow doubt over the mueller probe. >> it's courageous. congressman devon nunez.

he's a republican member of the house intelligence committee.man, as you know, paul manafort, michael cohen, michael flynn, the president's former national security adviser, just to name three members of the trump inner circle who are in serious legal jeopardy. then his former hhs secretary, tom price, scott pruitt from the epa, they've resigned under fire. what do you say to your colleagues, your friends, your constituents about the president's initial promise to surround himself only with the best people. >> well, i mean, that clearly hasn't happened. not in every instance. i think he does have some amazing people around him, some very capable people. especially his national security team. general mattis, mike pompeo, and so he has had a very good team in some cases. in some cases, he's clearly had people who have disappointed him. you have to differentiate degree and scale here as well. mr. manafort and mr. flynn under very different circumstances. the accusations against them are very different. general flynn served his country for many year

house yesterday. all the top national security intelligence officials, they were there.y spoke about what russia did in 2016, what they're doing right now looking ahead to the midterm elections. it was a powerful statement, very coordinated. then a couple hours later, the president spoke at a big political rally for more than an hour in pennsylvania and said this. >> now we're being hindered by the russian hoax. it's a hoax, okay? i'll tell you what. russia's very unhappy that trump won. >> even though putin said that they wanted trump to win. it was a very, very totally different attack that the leadership of the national intelligence community gave than what the president said. he didn't even refer to what they said earlier in the day. >> this must be the rare occasion when president trump was tuned in to television, because that. the was on every channel streaming live for the american people, but the president didn't get the message. it's kind of amazing to think about. and at the same time, that briefing couldn't have happened without the president's endorsement in

nunes directed the house select committee on intelligence to tank the russia investigation and shut itown. they refused to subpoena key witnesses, at least 40. they refused subpoenas on all but one witness and went along with the white house on their gag orders so people didn't have to answer our questions. perhaps more important than all that, he unilaterally committed to and conducted investigations into our own government. so as dni coats said, the lights are blinking red. our democratic process is under attack by the russians. but chairman nunes let the russians off the hook and instead went after our own government and frankly continues to do the same. >> and how about the house speaker, paul ryan? we know he's leaving soon, leaving the scene soon. but do you think as one of his final acts as speaker of the house, does he need to remove devin nunes from leadership of the house intelligence committee, do you think? >> i think he should have done that a year ago. the only republicans i've seen really step up and speak honestly about the russia investigation and what has to take plac

house intelligence committee chairman devon nunes is here he sure hopes he does he will join me live this morning and former attorney general michael mukasey poses the question of what's the downside risk of declassifying as mexico gets the thumbs up from the president, but canada, not so much. all that and a lot more right now as we look ahead on sunday morning futures. the trump adminitration announcing new sanctions against russia over the use of a military-grade nerving on uk soil and new information this morning moscow is upping the ant e in the response, moscow says it will cut holdings of u.s. securities. let's bring in california congressman ed royce chairman of the house foreign affairs committee mr. chairman good to see you thanks so much for being here. >> good morning, maria. maria: your reaction to russia's response cutting u.s. securities >> well i don't think that that reaction is going to be too effective in terms of our market , because of their deminimis position in it but what i do think is that we saw on friday a new two-year low for the russian rouble and at the

trump loyalist and house intelligence committee chairman devin nunes suggested to a private fund-raiser the gop majority in congress is needed to protect the president. >> it's your classic catch 22 situati situation. it puts us in such a tough spot. if sessions won't unrecuse and mueller won't clear the president -- we have to keep the majority. if we do not keep the majority, all of this goes away. >> reporter: cnn has learned the president is expected to have dinner with rudy giuliani at his divorce cour golf course here in new jersey later on, another sign that the trump team is closing in on this crucial decision on whether to give mule their all-important and crucial interview. it seems that the president and his legal team are trying to have it both ways. at many points during the course of all of this, complaining that this investigation has dragged on too long, while at the same time they're now withholding from robert mueller and his team the one thing they need to wrap up this investigation. that, of course, is that interview with the president. >> we're also getting some new

chairman of the house intelligence committee is caught on tape saying the house needs to keep its republican majority. silent treatment. russia responds to the latest u.s. sanctions calling the move blatant hypocrisy. as the russians worry about the punishment why has president trump been so silent on this topic? and securing the vote bill nelson claims russians have penetrated florida's voter registration roles. are election systems across the country prepared to defend against more cyber attacks. i'm wolf blitzer. you are in the situation room. >>> president trump is spending his vacation keeping everyone guessing about whether he will agree to an interview about robert mueller. the president delivers another very angry rant about the russia investigation and adds cryptically perhaps ominously stay tuned. what is he threatening? i'll speak with congressman of the armed services committee. and our correspondents and specialists are all standing by with full coverage. let's begin with jim acosta covering the president in new jersey. the president still hasn't made up his mind apparently abou

you are the chairman of the house intelligence committee.ou are elected by voters toto make these judgments. bureaucrats elected by nobody are telling us, threatening us basically that it hurts national security. you are the one with the power, why don't you send it to me, we will put it on the air and let the public decide? is there a penalty for that? >> just remember, i'm not the one with the power. hypothetically, could i go to the house floor, could i go out in my official duties until the american public what's in the rest of that fisa? i could.oo however, you already see -- remember, most of the media and the left is against us. they don't want the rest of this out. they want to keep this hidden. can you imagine a field day would have against me or if any other republicans talked about what is now classified information? the fact of the matter is -- >> tucker: then who cares! so you have journalists arguing on behalf of of holding information back. that's insane. you live in a world where journalists are saying the public should know

we welcome a member of the house intelligence committees, joaquin castro of texas.s us from washington. there is a lot of partisanship in washington. i would hope, republican or democrat, we don't want foreign enemies meddling in our elections. what can congress due to protect us? >> most americans are very surprised to learn that there isn't a single federal law for the -- or even a state law that that establishes a minimum level of cybersecurity systems.n for voting when you hear these stories about hackers being able to get into voting machines, there isn't a single law set up to protect against that. astonishing.is so we should be able to agree as americans, not as conservatives or liberals or anything else, but as americans that our voting systems and our democracy should be protected. but there hasn't been, by and large from a strong effort made to do that. we need to get that done. david: we already have special councilroller with -- ueller. -- counsel m what can you do when you have people, through the internet, tamper with our elections? >> that's right. fi

. >> house intelligence committee chairman devin nunes, has arguably done the most of the whole administration to get in the way of the russia investigation. now this secret recording showing the important role he believes the house, the house of representatives plays in protecting the president, so for that let's go to manu, on this recording, what is nunes heard saying. >> he's heard to kathy mcmorris-rogers, why it's so important to keep the -- because they need to protect the president from the mueller investigation. a pretty stark assessment from the man who ran the house intelligence committee and who ran the russian probe for a time. and using his power to help skull that and clear the president of collusion with the russians. here's what nunes says. so there lies the classic catch 22 situation, where we were in such a tough spot. th i mean we have to keep all these -- we have to keep the majority. if he do not keep the majority, all of this goes away. >> reporter: now no comment from kathy mcmorris-rogers office or speaker ryan's office. but he has taken steps to go after the investiga

. >>> i'm joined by a member of the house intelligence committee which interviewed donald trump junior last year. are you confident that donald trump junior, the president's son and a campaign adviser, was truthful in his sworn testimony to your committee? >> i think that most of the people that came before us need to come back. i can't talk exactly about what they said, but i can tell you that mr. cohen, mr. trump, i would say seven or eight others, there is new evidence that's come forward or reporting that brings into question their ver veracity so i would like to bring them back. we don't have the power to compel them to come back. the majority of the republicans refuse to issue subpoenas almost to everyone in this and they went along with the white house gag order. so unless things flip and unless the mueller investigation is allowed to do this or has time to do this, the american public won't know. >> just to be clear on that gag order, don junior sat before a committee for a number of hours and answered questions, but that has not been made public, those questions or answers? >>

this hour i'll talk with michael cohen's lawyer, lanny davis, and house intelligence committee member jim himes. and our correspondents and analysts are also standing by. first let's go to our white house correspondent kaitlyn collins. kaitlyn, we heard from the president in a new interview. we also heard from him on twitter. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. the president's first public remarks since michael cohen implicated him in a crime yesterday. and the president is attempting to rewrite history about when he knew of these payments that michael cohen made to these women who allege they had affairs with trump, which contradicts a tape that says otherwise. and wolf, that comes as the white house is struggling to mount a defense of any kind in response to cohen's claims. president trump under siege tonight as one aide's conviction and another ally's guilty plea engulf the white house. the president commenting on michael cohen for the first time since he said under oath trump directed him to pay two women who claimed they had affairs with trump. >> did you know about the payments? >>

sophie shevardnadze dollar trial has locked horns with his own intelligence and law enforcement how damaging can the rift between the white house and the american intelligence get why. i asked him a decade ca veteran groff larsen. points to the american spy agencies and in a public scandalous political struggle with the investigation of president trump putting the spotlight but his national. agency. professionals at the cia and f.b.i. escape the polarization of politics. public and will therefore radically change the situation in the country. we're all from out larson former cia veteran who served as moscow section chief among other politicians welcome to the show it's really great to have you with us. now wolf the american intelligence community has been accused of being politicized many times in a bush sheriffs' the politicians use it to justify iraq now the agencies are again the world in a political scandal i know you pride yourself on your colleagues for being patry arctic nonpolitical but can you really be about politics in this line of work i mean that sounds kind of like fairy tale almost. i think it's a standard you ha

good evening, we begin tonight with "keeping them honest" new evidence the chairman of the house intelligence academy is not impartialen the russian investigation evidence that he is protecting the white house, not seeking the truth and it comes straight from the chairman's own mouth, words caught on tape that he sees the role of house republicans as shielding the president in the robert mueller investigation. it was obtained by a progressive group, fuse washington, and private fund-raiser by cathy morris rodgers, the congressman speaking, shall we say, his truth. >>> so therein so it's like your classic catch into situation where we were a -- this is what puts us in such a tough spot. if sessions won't unrecuse and mueller won't clear the president we're the only ones, which is really the danger. that's why i keep and thank you for saying it by the way, i mean, we have to keep all these seats. we have to keep the majority. if we do not keep the majority all this goes away. >> if this was an isolated statement it might be seen differential, a partisan fund-raiser. keep in mind this is not one

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this as the republican chair of the house intelligence committee is caught on tape talking about how congress needs to save the president from mueller. i want to bring in now cnn contributor frank bruni and senior political mcommentator david axelrod. good evening to both of you. the nunes thing is just unbelievable. we will talk about that. i just want to talk about this "washington post" article by richard cohen. and it's an opinion piece and the headline is, "trump is the president the founding fathers feared." okay? and it talks about his ignorance, his dishonesty, his contempt for civil liberties and on and on and on. is there some truth to that? >> i think there's a lot of truth to that. i thought it was -- it was a fascinating op-ped because it pulled back in a way that we sometimes don't and sort of listed the whole laundry list of what donald trump has done as president, how he's debased the presidency. and when you pull back and you look at it, you realize we're not, you know, talking in too frightened a fashion when we're here at this table tonight. if anything, we're not

he sits on the house select committee on intelligence.achel maddow obtained a tape from him at fundraiser about the russia investigation. let's listen to what he was recorded saying. >> if sessions won't unrecuse and mueller won't clear the president, we're the only ones, which is really the danger. i mean we have to keep all of these seats. we have to keep the majority. if we do not keep the majority, all of this goes away. >> spelling that out there in very explicit terms, i'm going to read a couple of the highlights because the audio was tough to hear. sessions won't unrecuse and mueller won't clear the president, we are the only ones. what does that tape tell you, ned price, of the outlook of some republicans here on this investigation? >> well, the problem, david, is that devin nunes is not a bystander in all of this. he is the chair of the house intelligence committee, one of the two u.s. committees on capitol hill that are investigating these series of crimes from russian hacking to everything else. so the fact that he is broadcast

house? >> absolutely. you stole my thunder. the chairman of the intelligence committee, him, had a press conference. o tell all the information that he had in violation of the duties that he holds as the chairman of the intelligence committee. come on. who does that? devin nunes does that. and it is wrong. >> who walks out of a hearing, an intelligence hearing -- if you want the american people to believe credibly that there's actual, real oversight in congress, who walks out of an intelligence hearing to report what's going on in the hearing, portions of it, that will be damaging rhetoric for the democrats and goes back into the hearing as the ranking member, who would by the chairman if -- >> [ overlapping voices ] >> the onus is on the chairman of that committee not to go over to the white house, not to go over to the white house to tell the white house all the information that they had just gotten from that investigation. >> why can't both of you have a point by the way? hold on a second. why can't both of you have a point that you don't like that schiff goes out and talk to the media. nobody sho

instead we see the house intelligence committee turn into a de facto arm of the white house. >> de factoes, paul ryan green lighting it, is running absolutely as an arm of the white house. it shows the most sort of sacred part of our national security oversight role as being corrupted by donald trump. >> two things here. first of all, you are both exactly right. there is no honor here. nobody is doing the honorable thing. but i just think that, you know, when you talk to these members of congress, they say oh, well, it's what the base wants and i need the base. but you know, it's so convenient because these same members of congress were participating for years in whipping up -- whipping the frenzy within that base and feeding into the fox news, the conspiracy theories, all of that stuff, and so they've played along and then now for them to turn and say, oh, well, this is a bridge too far. i think it's a little too late. >> a-- for that. >> you can make an argument in some policies it wasn't state-run media, but state had an impact on fox news. to your point it's media-run state, fox-run

house in a way we have not seen before. to have the director of the fbi, the intelligence director, the homeland security secretary, and others speaking about this, it seemed that the white house was turning a page on russian election meddling. then the president, of course, with the biggest megaphone of all not talking about that, not amplifying that message. the white house says they are on the same page. they say privately the president is giving this directive for his officials to say on this, and he is taking it seriously. wolf, publicly he's doing anything but. by calling it a hoax yet again, it is certainly sending a message that the u.s. is not taking this seriously. there's no other way to draw attention to something than to have the president talk about it in public. and so far, the president has been unwilling to do that. when you talk to supporters of his and long-time friends of his and ask them why he can't do this, they say this is the one thing the russian election meddling that simply getting to him. he does not want to be seen as illegitimate. he does not want to be seen that his 2016 victory was anything bu

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. >> democratic congress member of the house intelligence committee joins me now. i want to play something about what senator blumenthal had to say about this today. >> these tweets adding to each other amount to evidence of criminal intent. there is now right now, a clearly credible case of obstruction of justice against the president of the united states. >> do you agree? >> yes. i think it is a pattern of behavior. rarely in these prosecutions do you have one big bombshell act. especially post enron where we beefed up the laws allowing for this sort of prosecution. they understood it was going to be a pattern of behavior, accuracies, activities, clearly the president, not just in his tweets, but the talk of pardons of people who are on trial right now, implying if they didn't go along and cooperate with the investigation they could be pardoned. the sheriff's pardon in arizona clearly telling folks you don't have to abide by lawful subpoenas. firing comey, and asking for his loyalty, threatening to fire mueller previous time. you put it all together and i think w

cohen is that he's clearing his conscience, i think the house select committee on intelligence shouldve him back, let him clear the air, it was disturbing -- >> let me stop you there. are you calling him back right after labor day? >> that would be up -- look, the ranking democrat, adam schiff, has refused to let the investigation stop on the house side, however difficult, we've gone forward interviewing witnesses and reviewing documents. it will be up to the ranking democrat whether or not to ask mr. cohen back but i would welcome him back. his attorney, mr. cohen's attorney, says he has information that the mueller investigation would like. well, if the mueller investigation would like that information, i'm sure the house select committee on intelligence would so let him clear the air on whether he was in prague in 2016 meeting with russians, whether he was the conduit in general flynn in 2017 to lift sanctions. what was the $500,000 payment from the russian oligarch used for. was that the money used to pay off the porn star? >> help me with that connection because that $500,000 fro

this a little bit differently we do have a statement also from the leading democrat on the house intelligence committee which has also been looking into collusion between the charm campaign possible collusion between the trunk campaign and russia whether or not russia interfered in the two thousand and sixteen elections he said that this guilty plea potentially implicates the president. for illegal campaign finance violations and adds to the president's legal jeopardy so clearly dramatic developments in court still playing out no official response from the white house as of yet ok thank you kristen salome's a new york where we're off to alexandra via genea now with andy gallacher the latest on the man of for trial andy. yeah as you've heard already found guilty of eight of the eighteen charges that he faced this was a three week trial this was the fourth day of deliberations there were lots of questions from the jurors to the judge but in the end they came back and found him guilty of tax and bank fraud those charges in themselves i mean he could potentially spend the rest of his life behind

in a newly leaked audio recording, house intelligence committee chair devin nunes of california says republicans must keep control of the house in order to protect president trump from special counsel robert mueller's investigation. listen carefully. situation2 [indiscernible] we have to keep misery. if we don't keep missouri, all of this goes away. cosi as chair of the house intelligence committee, which is responsible for conducting the yearar-long investigation into russia's interferenence in trums ties to russia. in new town, north dakota, hundreds of people marched in honor of olivia lone bear and other missing and murdered indigenous women across the country. the march came days after olivia lone bear's body was found in lake sakakawea, nine months after she went missing. in education news, the common application used by students to apply to college will no longer ask students for their criminal histories. the move is a victory for proponents of "ban the box," a movement to stop employers and universities from asking for criminal records. the national football league's preseason

shevardnadze and dollar trump has locked horns with his own intelligence and law enforcement how damaging can the rift between the white house and the american intelligence get well i asked. ca veteran groff larsen . wants the american spy agencies are murdered in a public scandalous political story with the investigation of president trump putting the spotlight but his national. agency. fissions of the cia and f.b.i. escape the polarization of politics. public and will therefore radically change the situation in the country. were all from larsen former cia veteran who served as moscow section chief among other politicians welcome to the show it's really great to have you with us. now wolf the american intelligence community has been accused of being politicized many times in a bush sheriffs' to politicians use it to justify iraq now the agencies are again in a political scandal i know you pride yourself on your colleagues for being patry arctic nonpolitical but can you really be about politics in this line of work i mean that sounds kind of like fairy tale almost i think it's a standard you have to strive for i've been a li

our country suffers because of that, and anderson, because the house intelligence chairman cannot show unity and protect us from future russian attack the, as we speak, the russians are attacking us, and they are not afraid of us. they believe that devin nunes and the president have give n them a green light. there is too much corruption, and that is what this election is going to be about. >> thank you for your time. and now, let's get two more views. obvious obviously a fan not of the president, and also the president of the senate conservatives fund. rick, i mean, these comments by nunes, it is a surprise when it comes to defend ing ting the prt and the things that we have seen him do? >> well, devin nunes said out loud what everyone has known for a long time and he has admitted the culpability in an effort to obstruct the ties of the president of the united states to russia and he is now facilitating what is essentially a conspiracy to facilitating for political purposes only an investigation that could get into the heart of the russian meddling in the elections. it is one of the m

but the thing here, the big picture is devin nunes, the head of the house intelligence committee, very important job in washington, d.c., still continues to demonstrate to us he cares nothing about the russian attack on the 2016 campaign. he cares about christopher steele, bruce ohr, and all these, you know, wacka-doodle conspiracy theories that would somehow protect donald trump. as a guy who were first about steele and the dossier, i can -- i'd love to sit down with devin and tell him that you're completely wrong, you're out to lunch, stop wasting your time and do what needs to be done, which is to protect our elections from further russian intervention when we have evidence that it's still continuing. it's just gotten to be absurd. >> david, you met with christopher steele. what would you tell devin nunes about him if he wanted to talk to you about him? >> i'm sure what the mi-6 and mi-5 guys would say if they thought it was worth speaking to devin nunes, would say. he is a respected professional. he's worked 20 years with british intel and then he worked with the fbi and other u.s.

and it also begs the question, why in the world did the republicans on the house intelligence committee think that now was the time to end the investigation? the american public just, in my opinion, don't have confidence in congressional republicans and their integrity anymore. >> we'll see how that plays out in november, in the midterm elections. as you know, congressman, russia has now officially publicly responded to that news conference over at the white house yesterday, by the nation's top national security and intelligence chiefs. russian spokeswoman denying that russia had anything to do with cyber warfare in 2016 against the u.s. she says the two-year hysteria -- her words -- she says, the two-year hysteria mocks the entire political system of the united states. what do you make of that? and do you feel that the government is doing enough to counter the ongoing threat, right now, from russia? >> obviously, the russians will say anything to strengthen their position. and it's sad that in many cases, it seems like the president is also going along with this, trying to downplay wha

in an area that could very well have been decisive in the election. >> ranking member of the house intelligenceee, adam schiff, on the hush payments paid to stormy daniels and karen mcdougal before the 2016 election. let's bring in george watkins, white house aide to george w. bu bush and rick, i'm going to go to you first here. can you see where congress was coming from when they say these payments could have been a decisive factor in such a close election? >> he's right in the sense that it could matter. did it matter? it's really hard to know exactly, but this was what most would consider an enormous amount of money to keep voters from getting information that they might have used to make a decision. so in a sense, yes, trump cheated. >> what do you think? you worked in the clinton campaign. do you think these payments may have determined the outcome of the election? >> yes, because i think everything mattered in the election. the comey letter, that mattered in the election. russia attacking our democratic infrastructure and spreading fake news and propaganda, that impacted the election. but

according to the republican majority on the house intelligence committee, the feds started the russia investigation in july of 2016 after george papadopoulos told australian diplomat that the russians had dirt on hillary clinton. the diplomat gave that information to the fbi. while the u.s. intelligence community has not confirmed parts of the dossier, there are elements of it that are confirmed true. no part of it to fox news knowledge has been confirmed false. the special counsel, robert mueller, is a registered republican. the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein who appointed mueller is also a republican. attorney general jeff sessions who swore in rosenstein is also a republican. president trump, a republican appointed sessions. the dossier is 35 pages of research memos. christopher steele wrote it. he's a former british intelligence agent. a research firm called fusion gps compiled the memos. they allege conspiracy between the trump campaign and the russian government to help mr. trump win the election over hillary clinton. republicans supporting marco rubio hired the research

sophie shevardnadze don't trump has locked horns with his own intelligence and law enforcement how damaging can the rift between the white house and the american intelligence get well i asked him a decade ca veteran groff larsen. wants the american spy agencies are mired in a public scandalous political cycle with the investigation of president trump putting intense spotlight but his national fame. agency. the professionals at the cia and f.b.i. escape the polarization of politics. public and will therefore a radically changed the situation in the country. we're all from out larson former cia veteran who served as moscow section chief along other politicians welcome to the show it's really great to have you with us. now wolf the american intelligence community has been accused of being politicized many times in a bush sheriffs to politicians use it to justify iraq now agencies are again the world in a political scandal i know you pride yourself on your colleagues for being patry arctic nonpolitical but can you really be about politics in this line of work i mean that sounds kind of like fairy tale almost i think it's a standar

implications for the president are seen differently by others adam schiff the ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee saying that it increases the president's legal jeopardy and potentially implicates him in campaign finance violations it's hard to other news people across india paying tribute to those killed by the floods in carrying out the worst to hit the state in a century in the northern city of the hudson thousands hundreds of people even took to the streets to pray for those affected by the floods more than four hundred people are confirmed dead. so far candlelight vigils were also held in the capital new delhi where volunteers have been collecting relief materials to send to caroline. but after the days of torrential rain there is some good news coming out of carol of the flood waters are finally receding but more than a million people are still in makeshift camps after their homes were washed away and are thomas reports now from the town of menar where some evacuees residents decided to go home despite the risks. we've met daniel thomas in an evacuation camp fisherman rescued him

he spoke to the house intelligence committee, your committee, last year. and i'm guessing he didn't reveal the same things he revealed in court this week, correct? >> ana, i made a pledge not to reveal exactly what it is that any of the witnesses said during our closed interviews. and i'm going to keep by that pledge. but let me say this, i think that mr. cohen is in a new face of his life, a more candid phase of his life, and yes, i absolutely would like to see him come back before the committee and answer some of the questions put to him before as well as new ones based on the most recent revelations. >> do you also want to hear from david pecker and allen weisselberg granted immunity in the case? >> absolutely. but there's a long list of people that we should have heard from and we didn't. and the list grows on a daily basis. ana, if you step back and think about all that we have learned just over the course of the summer that we did not know since the republicans in the house prematurely terminated the russian investigation, it is an amazing amount of

. >>> let's turn to congressman denny heck, a member of the house intelligence committee. i'll start with you on this. are you confident that michael cohen told you the truth when he was before your committee? >> no, not at all. he was not in his candid phase when he came before us i don't think. i think he is now. it would be instructive and fascinating have him back. i would like to think we would be able to at some point. >> the president said many things in an interview. he talked about impeachment, the first time i've heard him speculate about that eventuality. take a listen. >> if the democrats take back power, do you believe they will try to impeach you? >> well, you know, i guess it's thing like high crimes. i don't know how you can impeach somebody has done a great job. if i ever got impeached, i think the market would crash. i think everybody would be very poor. because without this thinking, you would see -- you would see numbers that you wouldn't believe in reverse. >> what do you think of that? >> well, i'm going to take offense on vice president pence's behal

i'll speak with democratic congressman mike quigley, a member of the house intelligence committee. and our correspondents, experts and analysts they are all standing by. but let's begin with cnn's kaitlan collins at the white house. there ice n there's not many answers today but in a story directly from the president. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. as the president is facing enormous pressure here, he's attempting to rewrite history of when he knew about those payments that michael cohen made to the two women who claim that they had affairs with the president. that's causing a headache for his aides back here at the white house who are rattled by the news that michael cohen made yesterday and are still struggling to mound a defense of any kind in response to this. ♪ president trump under siege today as one aide's conviction and another allies guilty plea engulf the white house. the president commenting on michael cohen for the first time since he said under oath trump directed him to pay two women who claimed they had affairs with trump. >> did you know about the payments? >> late

because the house intelligence committee and as far as i know the senate intelligence committee never issued a subpoena to at&t to get the phone records of who was on that call, we don't know. in my gut, do i think it's quite possible that president trump knew? yes. but again, that's something that should have been subpoenaed and perhaps robert mueller knows the answer to that question. >> on the same day that paul manafort, the campaign chairman for the trump campaign, he's found guilty on eight counts, could spend many, many years in prison right now. 69 years old. your reaction to that? ten counts there was a hung jury on. >> think about that for a second. split screen basically today you have the man who the president entrusted to be his campaign manager. >> chairman. >> the chairman. but basically, the number one person, maybe number two person in the campaign. going to court, getting convicted and then his personal lawyer of many years, his confidant, his fixer also making a plea agreement and will be sentenced later on. this is a horrible day for the president but really also a

behind closed doors at this fund-raiser though, house intelligence chairman devin nunes and the number four republican in house leadership mcmorris rodgers appeared to indicate that republicans in congress do support impeaching rod rosenstein but don't want to do it yet. answering a question from an audience member at this fund-raiser for rodgers answering a question from an audience member whether or not those impeachment articles against rosenstein actually had any support in congress, devin nunes explained that there is support for the impeachment of rosenstein. he said you won't get at argument about that from our colleagues but he said basically they're not talking about it now before the election. they plan to pursue it a, once the election is over and b, crucially, after republicans have confirmed trump nominee brett cab anyhow to the united states supreme court. now, this is not a plan that congressional republican leadership has talked about publicly. quite the contrary. apparently they are talking about it behind closed doors. >> but also on things that came up in the house o

the house intelligence committee, and recently and importantly for the discussion today, went to south. you were there in the region. first of all, what can you confirm about any sort of continuation in the nuclear program via the north koreans? >> we don't know the answer to that question, yet. it shouldn't surprise anyone he would continue this program. harris, this will take a long time, this isn't the kind of thing you do between tuesday and the weekend. when i was an air force pilot, i was representative of b-1 and we were involved with the start negotiations and assault negotiations with russians. my gosh, those took eight years, in some cases longer, i think realistic expectations are important here. the reality is, we are making progress and evidence of that is, for example, mike pompeo going back to the region tomorrow. i know mike well, i trust him. he wouldn't be doing this if he didn't feel like there is an opportunity to do something if you'd ask me a year ago, i would have said no, i don't think kim jong-un will agree to denuclearize the peninsula, there is an opportunity

. >> in a moment i will speak to texas congressman who serves on the house intelligence committee but begin with the former counsel to the mayor of new york city and john flannery. i should be clear you were not former counsel to that former mayor of new york city. we cross adeline into -- well into weird at which point. truth is not the truth. >> all i keep thinking is, if this as your attorney you're treating as your "spin doctor" maybe what you need is a shrink. this is really not good lawyering. we have to remember a couple things about rudy guiliani. i mean it when i say he's more of a "spin doctor" than a lawyer. he's not spinning well but out there as the front person to essentially lay out the arguments the trump administration wants the american people to believe, not so much what he wants the prosecutors to believe. he's signaling to the people even though donald trump has said repeatedly he wants to talk to mueller and wants to participate in the interview and been cooperative, nonetheless he won't do it and the reason is because he will be trapped in perjury, a really biza