jeff sessions to a certain extent this watered the president express desires and he now believes jeff sessions was his biggest mistake. part of the reason robert mueller's report had so many direct quotes and direct color between trump and sessions and what he was demanding, part of the reason he had so much detail is because jeff sessions's chief of staff, a man by the name of jody hunt, he gave testimony to mueller's inquiry. jody hunt for the entire duration of jeff sessions' time as attorney general, he basically had a front row seat to this bizarre dynamic between the president and his attorney general. to all the wild demands that trump was making of the attorney general. jody hunt was there to see and hear and witness all of the crazy bleep that trump demanded and expected from his justice department. the chief of staff, what was chief of staff to sessions. he was there for all of it and saw it all happen when trump made the demands. when trump implore and berated sessions for not agreeing to those demands. jody hunt was there when trump fired sessions for the crime of not doin

feelings about jeff sessions are not lightly arrived at. this is not a personal thing or a passing fancy. we know from mueller's report that trump expressed vehement resentment and anger towards sessions over a long period of time. and he ultimately fired sessions for a very specific reason. because the president believed that as attorney general of the united states, jeff sessions should have done much more to use the justice department and to use the u.s. legal system to serve donald trump. to serve the wishes and to serve the personal interests of trump. trump was mad at jeff sessions for not locking up hillary clinton. he was mad at jeff sessions for not firing the special counsel. he was mad at jeff sessions for not shutting down the investigation into russia attacking our elections. the president thought the justice department should just be ordered to do those things for him. because he wanted those things. and jeff sessions didn't give him those things. jeff sessions to a certain extent this thwart ed the president express desires an

jeff sessions to a certain extent this watered the president express desires and he now believes jeff sessions was his biggest mistake. part of the reason robert mueller's report had so many direct quotes and direct color between trump and sessions and what he was demanding, part of the reason he had so much detail is because jeff sessions's chief of staff, a man by the name of jody hunt, he gave testimony to mueller's inquiry. jody hunt for the entire duration of jeff sessions' time as attorney general, he basically had a front row seat to this bizarre dynamic between the president and his attorney general. to all the wild demands that trump was making of the attorney general. jody hunt was there to see and hear and witness all of the crazy bleep that trump demanded and expected from his justice department. the chief of staff, what was chief of staff to sessions. he was there for all of it and saw it all happen when trump made the demands. when trump implore and berated sessions for not agreeing to those demands. jody hunt was there when trump fired sessions for the crime of not doin

take attorney general jeff sessions. sessions: therefore, i have recused myself.angham: moarlier, he had recused himself from overseeing this russia probe because of his own undisclosed contacts with the russian ambassador. the president repeatedly pressured sessions to unrecuse himself and retake control of the investigation. a but mueller finds only asonable inference, not specific evidence, that this was meant to protect the president. desjardins: nextpamichael flynn an manafort. mueller investigated whether mr. trump floated potential presidential pardons for them in order to influence their testimony or cooperation elwith the special cou. mueller writes, "the evidence regarding flynns inconclusive," but, with manafort, "the evidence indicates mr. trump wanted manafort to believe a pardon was possible." brangham: and, finally, michael cohen. mueller looks at whether the president directed his lawyerng to lie to ss about plans to build a trump tower in moscow. the report says, "while there is evidence the president knew that cohen has made false statements," el

including the former attorney general jeff sessions, and today's committee vote was strictly along party lines. mueller said to testify before the same committee next week. >>> center kamala harris says if she becomes president she will push to speed of the process of attempted untested kits. by some estimates the nationwide backlog include some 225,000 cases of reported

the president was as mad as bannon had ever seen him and he screamed about how weak jeff sessions was. sessions recalled that the president pulled him aside to speak to him alone and suggested that session should unrecuse from the russia investigation. the president contrasted sessions with attorneys general holder and kennedy who he said developed a strategy to help their presidents where sessions had not. according to notes written by sessions as chief of staff, the president said the attorney general is supposed to be the most important appointment. kennedy appointed his brother. obama appointed holder. i appointed you and you recused yourself? you left me on an island. i can't do anything. in a nut shell, this is what the entire obstruction section of muelleray report boils down to. we get the plot about russia attacking russia and the trump campaign welcomed their help in that election and opening an investigation into the attack including whether there was coordination between russia and the trump campaign. in volume two, the other plot of trump as president, once trump became p

preparing to issue subpoenas to presidential son-in-law jared kushner and former attorney jeng jeff sessions and others. will they comply? and unleashing on the u.k. president trump attacks britain ambassador to the united states calling him a very stupid guy after leaked diplomatic communications revealed critical remarks by the ambassador. and now britain foreign secretary jumps in calling the president's attacks unacceptable and wrong. i'm wolf blitzer and you're in "the situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> breaking news, a federal appeals court wraps up a hearing on a trump administration backed challenge to obamacare and two of the three judges suggest they may favor striking down the entire health care law. that could be millions of americans could lose coverage. >>> also tonight, president trump is defending labor secretary alex acosta whose facing the demands that he step down. acosta was a u.s. attorney a decade ago when he cut a secret plea deal for multi-millionaire jeffrey epstein who faced sex charges and now with epstein facing new charges for allegedly

he fired jeff sessions and got a new attorney general. nominated and confirmed.nd his new attorney general got right to work absolving the president of obstruction of justice immediately upon receiving the special counsel's report, keeping that report under wraps for weeks while he publicly painted it as an exoneration of the president. william barr has been hard at work launching the kinds of investigations that donald trump has waited for so long for, the kind that are premised on the idea that maybe the investigators of russia's interference in our election and americans accepting that interference, the people who investigated those things, well, maybe they are the real criminals. another thing we know from the mueller report and also from great reporting and from career government officials trying to raise the alarm is that it's not only the justice department that's been under this kind of pressure from the president. donald trump has also been trying very hard ever since taking office to bend the intelligence agencies to his will in the same way. and if tru

have no qualifications and then appointed william barr but that's not the point when he fired jeff sessions. maybe nothing happened but do you have any concerns over how the investigation concluded? >> well, i have continuing concerns about the ongoing investigations in particular. yes, i have concerns about the ending of the other investigation. we have little if any visibility into for example white the special counsel decided not to pursue an interview with the president and why not subpoena the president. the president played robe a dope with special counsel for a long time and i can understand from a personal point of view why the prospect of entering into a lengthy litigation to finally get the interview before you can conclude investigation was not attracted to people who had voted devoted their whole lives to living in a bunker working on this investigation but nonetheless there is no way to get a better answer to those questions and the questions that were of greatest importance in terms of the president's state of mind were the ones that he precisely refused to answer even in writ

[laughter] and did you see jeff sessions? he was shaking hands with the man who took his job. you would have to find another person to take my job... [laughter] and that person's gonna need to find a new hand. [laughter] in fact, the only person who left with dignity is omarosa. - whoa! what are you talking about? apparently, omarosa got dragged out of the white house kicking and screaming. - exactly... [laughter] and it worked. trump hasn't fired a black woman since. [laughter] mm-hmm. - i... i don't think-- - thank you. - i don't think trump has hired a black woman since. - that's not my point, okay? my point is, you teach people how to treat you. i remember the last time i got fired, i was laying hands like it was sunday morning, okay? i told them, "if i'm not making money, y'all not making money." that's why there's no more circuit city. [laughter] - wow, dulcé, i'm not gonna lie. i wish i had known all of this before i hired you. - oh, no, that's not gonna happen unless you fire me and since you're not gonna do that, there's nothing to worry about. [laughter] is there? -

[hip-hop music] ♪ - jeff sessions is the 15th high-profile firing of the trump presidency.hat trump is firing so many people from his administration? - because he can get away with it. every time trump fires one of these bitch asses, they smile and nod and then they crawl away. scaramucci was up there crying. sean spicer went back to wherever his chin was... [laughter] and did you see jeff sessions? he was shaking hands with the man who took his job. if i had to shake hands with the person who took my job, you would have to find another person to take my job... [laughter] and that person's gonna need to find a new hand. [laughter] in fact, the only person who left with dignity is omarosa. - whoa! what are you talking about? apparently, omarosa got dragged out of the white house kicking and screaming. - exactly... [laughter] and it worked. trump hasn't fired a black woman since. [laughter] mm-hmm. - i... i don't think-- - thank you. - i don't think trump has hired a black woman since. - that's not my point, okay? my point is, you teach people how to treat you. i remember the

jared kushner, jeff sessions, rod rosenstein, john kelly.is going to say sure, right, any time? >> what we've seen so far is they have blocked it and not let them go and testify or people who have testified they haven't let them answer a lot of questions. what's interesting about that tactic are a lot of people on that list are people that did not work in the administration. corey lewandowski, david pecker. those are people that are not subject to the same privilege excuses that the white house has used with other people that worked in the white house closely with the president so that will be interesting to see how that plays out, what did those people do. corey lewandowski is protected by any presidential privilege from working in the west wing. >> and david pecker is central to the idea of what did you know about the hush money payments, did you help president trump hide alleged affairs. >> yeah. >> it's just one more battle that looks likely to ending up in court. there are also house democratic subpoenas on issues like the president's t

>> jeff sessions?ng to, you know, deal with the subpoena the way they're supposed to. there's so much obstruction even with the subpoenas, so we need to move forward, but look, this is something that needs to be dealt with, but the vast majority of people in the united states are worried about their job. they've got two or three of them, and still can't make ends meet. they're worried about their health care. they're worried about the fact that we have a mental health crisis in the united states. and so i'm trying to make proposals like put a mental health counselor in every school so that our kids are okay, so we're dealing with the trauma that our kids are on, that our kids have, how do we fix the food system that's broken and making us all sick. fix the health care system that is a disease care system, doesn't do anything to keep us healthy. these problems are so huge, and i'll just say this. the american people want ideas on how we're going to solve them, and i'm giving them those ideas on how to s

. >> do you have an idea of how they concluded that the firing of jeff sessions of something on trump's mind because they can exert control over the investigation and then trump lo and behold fired jeff sessions and appointed matthew whitaker who seemed to have no qualifications and appointed bill barr and that's not in the mueller report when he fired jeff sessions and maybe nothing happened, but do you have concerns over how the investigation concluded? i have continuing concerns the continuing concerns about the mueller investigation and we have very little if any visibility into why the special counsel decided not to pursue, and the president played rope-a-dope with the special counsel for a long time and i can understand from a personal point of view why the prospect of entering into lengthy litigation to finally get that interview before you concluded the investigation wasn't attractive to people who had devoted their whole lives living in a bunker working on this investigation, but nonetheless, was there no way to get a better answer to those questions and the questions that were

jared kushner and jeff sessions could be subpoenaed. >>> laborsecretary alex acosta is defending his handling of a sex crimes case involving a new inrk billionaire jeffrey eps when he was attorney general more than ten years ago. pe cut a deal that manyle say let epstein off easy. now epstein is behind bars and charged with sex trafficking. acosta said given the evidence at the time, a triay.was too risk many are calling for acosta to step down. >>> d.c. policere investigating the shooting death of a man inside of a barber shop in anacostia yesterday. itapned on mlk avenue. fouaymen were seen running aw from that scene. no arrest have been made and tna victim's me has not been released. >>> the "washington business journal" is reporting that developers want to make an amazon fulfillment center in prince george's county 1 million square feetrger than first planned. it would beuilt in a westphalia town center neighborhood. some neighbors are not happy about the idea. the planning board will consider the new plan next week. >>> next w k, will mark 50 years since the apollo 11 moon landi

mcgahn to cover that up and create a false paper to the president ordered cory lewandowski to get jeff sessions to curtail the investigation. then went to great length to show how those acts that almost every element of the crime of obstruction of justice. that's what we establish today and we established he also tampered with two two witnesse. those are all felonies and we hope the american people see this for what it is. [inaudible] >> so for people who haven't read the mueller report are followed the issues this removes that surprising. for people who have not this closer might. they saw for the first time robert most industrial section of justice by donald trump. we have a felon right in the white house. [inaudible] >> will we actually read back is onwards to and he agreed to them and those words show the donald trump committed multiple acts of obstruction of justice which is a felony. it's not even misdemeanor. these or straight of felonies that robert morgenthau said he would go to jail for a very long time. [inaudible] >> yes. [inaudible] >> well, the critical thing is the american peopl

jeff. he then asked sessions to resign and he agreed. now, this is the stuff the democrats want to put in the public record. keep in mind, if you believe the mueller report's evidence which is from trump's own people, this is the stuff that could have undone the presidency. there could have been a saturday night massacre. hope hicks told mueller the only time she saw trump that upset was when the infamous access hollywood tape came out. trump appeared desperate to get control of the investigation as it took down his advisers and saddled him with the highest prosecution rate of any president at this point in their term. sessions recusal made the effort harder. mueller probing whether trump's attacks were trying to make his life so miserable he might leave giving trump the chance to pick a new boss for mueller. >> so jeff sessions takes the job, gets into the job, recuses himself, i then have -- which, frankly, i think is very unfair to the president. how do you take a job and then recuse yourself. if he would have recused himself before t

corey lewandowski, the former campaign manager of the trump campaign told the attorney general, jeff sessions, allegedly to limit the investigation because on future campaigns and exclude the president from being part of that investigation. but in addition, two other areas, telling lewandowski to tell sessions if he doesn't meet with lewandowski, that trump would actually fire jeff sessions, and the alleged witness tampering that apparently occurred, according to the mueller report, dealing with paul manafort, as well as michael cohen and others. they talk about dangling pardons and the like. those are areas that democrats in the house judiciary committee want to ask. and then when we get to the intelligence committee part of the hearing, which will be after the judiciary committee probe, they're going to ask him about contacts with russians and wikileaks as part of the broader investigation into russian interference. that's how that is going to break down. on the republican side, different. they're going to be talking about the origins of the investigation, they want bob mueller to talk abou

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so you look at the appointment on jeff sessions and bill barr. these are two men who literally have fought every step of the way any type of criminal justice reform. in fact, in the case of bill barr wrote the book for mass incarceration. and so when you look at his -- >> what is the -- >> he literally wrote out the memoir on what it looks like to use mass incarceration, the need for the drug war, the need to ramp up here. and hasn't disavowed that in the last 30 years as many people have who have looked back on the policies and say you know what, i went too far. and that there were -- not even unintended consequences but impacted the communities too harshly. so i think it's really important to look at the trump record in that context. secondly, actually one more thing on that point. they in fact tried to roll back criminal justice reform so significantly they were trying to prevent people who went through the diversion program to become federal employees. they'll set up by states and localities and courts so that people don't end one a convictio

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house judiciary committee voted to authorize subpoenas to jared kushner, former attorney general jeff sessions, rod rosenstein, john kelly to trump's now awaiting sentencing mike flynn, campaign manager cory lewandowski and david pecker from the national enquirer and editor there as well who helped the president with his hush money payments to cover up alleged affairs before the elections. a lawyer named keith davidson is uk subpoenaed. michael cohen was the other lawyer involve and he is already serving federal prison time for his in them. jeff sessions' chief of staff who has been the man at the center of this huge debacle for the trump administration over this census thing which we will talk about in a moment. jody hunt and rod porter who was gently nudged out of the trump white house after domestic white house allegations from both of his ex-wives put flesh on the boness to why he couldn't get a security clearance despite the fact that you need one if you are staff secretary to president of the united states. a nice bunch subpoenaed today by the judiciary committee. a nice bunch whose subp

to me there has been this pretext all along that was cooked up, and we all know that, that the jeff sessions department of justice was so intent on enforcing the voting rights act they had to ask this question. that was preposterous. it was cooked up by wilbur ross and steve bennett and all those folks. the president today came right out and said why he wants this information. i want to play for you and get your reaction to hearing him be explicit about what they're after. take a listen. >> not the one you needed for congress. you need it for congress, for districting. you need it for appropriations. where are the funds going? how many people are there? are they citizen? are they not citizens? you need it for many reasons. >> sorry, that was from friday. but he is being very clear here that they want worry and representation and everything around citizens. >> that's right. they want to change the rules. we've known from at least the 14th amendment that every person is to be counted and included in apportions house of representatives seats among the states. they appear to want to revisit that

. >> jeff sessions recusal handed oversight to another official with no ties to trump.bun oneself of trump's earliest endorsers and met with a diplomat that led the doj to recommend his recusal to avoid a conflict of interest. >> nevertheless, trump viewed sessions decision as a betrayal. >> the president also told advisers that he theed an attorney general who would protect him the way he perceived robert kennedy to have protected their presidents. the president made statements about being able to direct the course of criminal investigations, saying words to the effect of, you're telling me that bobby and jack didn't talk about investigations or obama didn't tell eric holder who to investigate. >> he has this coral yoeny. understanding of power. you are with him or against him. so he wanted an attorney general who would carry out his will exclusively. to the exclusion of the task of the attorney general, which is to enforce the laws of the united states, whether or not the president agrees with. >> the report states the president direct campaign manager to deliver a me

the biggest names in former special counsel robert mueller's investigation, including jared , jeff sessions, and rod rosenstein. the president's top economics kudlow, terry -- larry praised congresswoman alexandria causey accord has. they appear to find common ground. he said, you are right. the phillips card -- phillips curve trade-off does not exist anymore. that is news breaking. she got it right. he confirmed the phillips curve is dead. the fed is going to lower interest rates because we are growing rapidly without any inflation. i look forward to supply-side discussions. >> larry kudlow also tried to diffuse work -- tried to diffuse rumors the president wants to replace fed chair jerome powell. unemployment ratings have fallen to a new low. an employment rate among people eligible for benefits held at 1.2%. global news, 24 hours a day, on air and on tic-toc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i'm mark crumpton. this is bloomberg. ♪ life from bloomberg world headquarters in new york, i'm shery ahn. alix: live in toronto, i am amber.

a democrat running for president and basically the democratic platform in 2020 is to subpoena jeff sessionsfree health care to illegal immigrants, i'm pretty bullish on the president's reelection chances. >> melissa: should they have waited until after the newly testimony? a >> jessica: if it ends up pushing it back, yes. i think the date is out there. july 17th. he needs to be in front of the judiciary committee on july july 17th. i unsurprisingly disagree with you. i have no sympathy for mike flynn. there has been a lot of rank or within the democratic party about a lack of oversight. for those who believe he should be moving toward impeachment, this is exactly what they want to to c. "if we are going to go along with your plan, nancy pelosi -- which is to see what we find our lease committee hearings -- have the committee hearings." this and talk about the impeachment hearings for alex acosta. for president trump. >> harris: who is pushing that in your party, though? she is right. so would newt gingrich tell you that she is right. he sat on the couch and said the same thing. history woul

jared kushner and jeff sessions could be subpoenaed. >>> alex acosta is defendinghis handle of the jeffrey epstein case. he cut a deal that many people say let epstein off easy. now epstein is behind bars and charged with sex trafficking.ac sta said given the evidence at the time, the trial was too risky. many are calling for acosta to step down. >> d.c. police are investigating the shooting death of a man inside of a barber shop yesterday. four men were seennn rng away from that scene. no arrest have been made and the victim's name has not been released. >>> the washington business journal is reporting that amazon wants to make a facility 1,000 square feet larger than first planned. some neighbors are not happy abou the idea. the planning board will consider the new plan next week. >>> next week, will50 mark years since the apollo 11 moon landing. >> in honor of the anniversary he sith sewni smithsonian is ex big screen set up whichwill sion missions of the m including the lunar landing. we talked to one local woman wh0 was just 1 years old when that happened. >> not many houses, househol

is accurate that the white house counsel instructed members of its staff to no longer contact jeff sessions, the former attorney general, after he had recused himself from the russia investigation. these are things we'll find out more from these dozens and dozens of pages of this transcript that have just now been relationed. but it gives you a sense of the effort that the white house is going to prevent some of these answers from being made to the house committee. >> very interesting indeed. evan, thank you very much. evan perez reporting. joining us now, congressman steve cohen. he's a democrat. he serves on the house judiciary committee. congressman, thanks so much for joining us. as you know, your committee just released written answers from annie donaldson. she was the chief of staff to the former white house counsel don mcgahn. she was a really important witness in the mueller report. but white house lawyers blocked her from responding to more than 200 questions, citing executive branch confidentiality interest. is your committee going to fight to get more answers from her? >> we will

includinghe president's senior adviser and son-in-law jaredku shner and former attorney general jeff sessions. >>> today,l loca actors, activists and politicians will e participan a nonpartisan reading of robert mueller aers repo report. > labor secretary alex costa is defending hisandling of a major se crimes case a number of decades before as a growing number of lawmakers ask him to step down. he went easy on billionaire jeffrey epstein in a plea deal. epstein was currently facing new sex trafficking charges and pled guilty in 2008 to state charges, including soliciting prostitution from a minor in exchange for video game much more serious federal charges. he was sentenced to 13 months behind bars. wewe did what we did because wanted to seek epstein go to jail. simply put, the palm beach statr attney's office was ready to le epstein walk free, no jail th time, nog. >> acosta went on to say given the evidence he had at the time, going to trial would have been too much of a risk. >>> a former redskins player is asking for help that he is in dire need of a kidney transplant. retired defensive

president according to cory lewandowski, hiss former campaign manager, telling lewandowski to tell jeff sessions the then attorney general to restrain what the investigation is about. the fourth is lewandowski saying then the president said to sessions if you don't meet with me the president is going to fire you, and the fifth one is what the democrats consider to be witness tampering. inducements for manafort not to cooperate, inducements for cohen not to cooperate, and then threats to his family according to democrats after he did stop cooperating. do you think democrats could actually make that case with those five elements? >> it's a lot of stuff. it depends on how much mueller wants to stay, he wants to amplify. as we've been talking about, the best way might be to have a member of the democratic side recite the fact and just ask mueller to agree with him and maybe he'll embellish a little bit. it the way you laid it out, if bob mueller just laid it out as you said it and talk about how significant those things were, that will be a momentous thing. >> i want to welcome our viewers all aroun

rod rosenstein, jeff sessions. also have david pecker, who of course ran the nation"nation enquire enquirer", who was embroiled in some of this stuff as well. this potentially sets up a difficult set of decisions for some of these folks. some of them will obviously have executive privilege on their side for some of these issues. john kelly would be somebody that might come to mind. there has been a long tradition of, you know, officials that work in the white house in official capacity. that way being able to rely on that. tphoeurbgs core kwr hraou wanow lewandowsky spent amount of time on the campaign. whether they line up with obstruction of the special counsel investigation, which obviously launched in the wake of the firing of jim comey, that's another question. there are some people who are private citizens or who potentially have slightly more complicated or nuanced roles. rod rosenstein, of course, a long-time justice department lawyer. it will be interesting to see how he handles this kind of subpoena. we h

do-over on jeff sessions then both eric and don jr. like "whew!" [ laughter ] "wow, that was close oh, man! trump's not the only story in politics right now the very first democratic debates are this week down in miami. most of the candidates are busy with debate prep while bernie sanders spent the day on the beach with a metal detector >> steve: aw [ laughter ] >> jimmy: "another bottle cap! [ light laughter ] yeah, all the democrats are on the campaign trail and this weekend bernie sanders and elizabeth warren actually ended up on the same flight to florida. bernie was sitting right in front of warren. look at this this is a real photo somebody took look at that [ light laughter ] when warren saw bernie in front of her, she told the flight attendant, "you know, on second thought, i will take those headphones thank you so much. [ light laughter ] yep. warren was behind bernie or as she put it, "for now." [ laughter ] hey, did you notice the passenger next to bernie look at this guy yeah [ light laughter ] he's thinking, "i just know t

they starritarget officials likd kushner and jeff sessions along with nation"national enquirer" publisherecker, people the committee's democratic chairman says connect their ongoing investigation into allegations of obstruction of justice, public corruption and abuses of power. >> today we focus on 12 additional witnesses. these include government officials who worked or continue to work in close proximity to the president. these witnesses also include those outside of government who have critical information in connect with our investigation. we will not rest until we obtain their testimony and documents so that this committee and congress can do the work that the constitution and the american people expect of us. >> and not surprisingly today's vote fell along party lines with the republican ranking member criticizing what he called a subpoena binge. >> if the goal is truly to get information or testimony, our chair is failing. as is repeatedly said, if the goal is for political theater, we are winning. >> nbc news correspondent ken dilanian and former fed prosecutor anne-marie mcavoy.

also jeff sessions' chief of staff, jody hunt, who is still at the justice department, who has been the man at the center of this huge debacle for the trump administration over this census thing, which we're going to talk about in just a moment. jody hunt has been subpoenaed, as well. as has rob porter, who was gently nudged out of the trump white house after serious domestic violence allegations from both of his ex-wives put a little flesh on the bones of the story as to why he couldn't get a security clearance despite the fact that you really kind of need one if you're going to be staff secretary to president of the united states. so, all in all, a nice bunch subpoenaed today by the judiciary committee. a nice bunch whose subpoenas have been authorized by the judiciary committee. they've been sort of plodding along in this very deliberate process of requesting testimony and then demanding it and then still not getting it and then demanding it some more and then ultimately making noises about how some day they'll win all of this in court. these new subpoenas are part of that slow roll

and it's been very clear since the trump presidency and since jeff sessions and now cosigned by attorney general barr that that resource is no longer available to us. this is -- this is a very important moment that we have to recognize. and so this is true with policing. sessions announced he'll do no pattern and practice investigations of unconstitutional policing. that means the baltimore investigation would have never happened. the ferguson investigation would have never happened. we're seeing the incursions in the department of education. we're seeing what ben carson is allowed to do in hud. we're seeing across the board a full-on retreat from the federal government being involved in enforcing civil rights law. >> someone says, well, there is the president's words and his tweets and then there is the actions of the government, what is your understanding of the action between the world view the president articulates and a tweet like "go back to your country" and the way he has run the federal government? >> well, you can find exactly what we think in two lawsuits we filed. we were fir

and was also told to tell jeff sessions if he doesn't meet with cory lewandowski he's be fired. this is a clear effort by the president to stop the investigation being conducted by the special counsel and i -- i have a lot of questions about that. >> do you think robert mueller needs to go beyond the scope of his report. >> i don't. i think he needs to answer the question and frankly tell the story to the american people. he investigated this for 22 months. this is -- this report is explosive. it has damning evidence against the president. all mr. mueller needs to do is recount for the american people exactly what he found. this will be the first time most people actually hear what is in the mueller report. most people haven't read it. i, of course, did. a lot of american people have not. this will be their opportunity to hear from the special counsel what he found. the evidence of misconduct of the president. the efforts to obstruct the investigation and that will be very, very powerful. mr. mueller is not going to -- my guess is he won't add anything new. but he'll very, very

the list includes jared kushner, former attorney general jeff sessions, and former national securitydviser michael flynn. they also authorized subpoenas for executives. it's over hush money paid to women who had affairs with president trump. it's up to committee chairman jerry nadler to decide whether to issue the subpoenas. chronicle" says california lawmakers approved a measure requiring president trump and other candidates to release their tax returns from the last five years to get on the state primary election ballot. the bill is now in the hands of governor gavin newsome. a similar measure was vetoed two years ago by then governor jerry brown. is a spokesman for newsome did not say whether he would sign the bill. >>> and "usa today" report shows that just a few sips of sugary sips of sugar per day increases the risks of cancer. a study in the british journal says drinking about 2.4 ounces of sugary drinks a day was associated with an 18% increased risk of cancer. a typical soda is 12 ounces. it includes fruit juices, and other drinks. obesity is considered a cancer risk. the re

and when that didn't work, he directed corey lewandowski to tell jeff sessions to limit the investigation so it's no longer centered on donald trump. there are multiple occasions of obstruction of justice that many americans will be hearing for if first time tomorrow. >> do you believe that donald trump and his people were the american connection to the russian effort to screw with our elections in 2016, the american connection? >> so what's going to come tomorrow out of this hearing and the hearing with intel are three main goals. first, that the russians attacked american elections 2016. second, that the trump campaign embraced that interference, gave them internal polling data, knew interference was going to help out on trump. and third, the president committed multiple acts of the crime of obstruction of justice to interfere with that investigation into the interference. >> well, break a leg tomorrow, you and the other members. i hope you get to the truth. i hope as hell the american people hear all that's in that report tomorrow night because it will be good for the history of our co

including the former attorney general jeff sessions, and today's committee vote was strictly along party lines. mueller said to testify before the same committee next week. >>> center kamala harris says if she becomes president she will push to speed of the process of attempted untested kits. by some estimates the nationwide backlog include some 225,000 cases of reported sexual assaults where evidence has not been tested. harris says she would proposes spending $100 million a year to cut into that backlog. harris says this in a statement. "the federal government can and should prioritize justice for survivors of sex abuse, assault, anbacklog within a year back when she was california's attorney general. >>> today, president trump hosted a social media summit at the white house. but some key bay area tech players were not invited. >> reporter: president trump invited republican leaders and some conservative media organizations to the white house to hear concerns about so- called "social media bias." >> free speech is a bedrock of american life. our constitutional rights must be fiercely p

jeff sessions, donald swarts and eger, mitt romney, rand paul, jim acosta, amazon, bloomberg, mccae o'donnellbernie sanders, joe biden, hillary clinton, cnn. to larson, uk ambassador. macy's. [laughter] ms. warren. crying chuck. lying ted and his wife heidi. [laughter] according to the media those are all women of color because he only targets women of color. please. he even went after mulvaney. >> it is a fantastic financial. >> just get that just get to it. >> the media need to say he only goes after minorities. >> i wish we could prove that they are wrong. >> i have given my answer. >> low-energy person. >> crooked hillary clinton. i got more indian blood in me pocahontas crazy bernie. lying ted. what is your name? lying ted cruz. >> believe me there is plenty of subject matter right there. [laughter] >> but he is a racist because today everything is racist even the moon landing to celebrate the 50th anniversary washington post tweets the culture that put men on the moon was white and male the new york times noted the soviets won the space race for equality. so the system they killed tens

trump's direction to former campaign manager corey lewandowski to tell former attorney general jeff sessions to limit the investigation to exclude trump and focus only on future campaigns. trump's follow-up to endow ski to tell sessions, trump would fire him if he didn't meet with lewandowski and trump's alleged witness tampering of paul manafort michael cohen and others, encouraging them not to cooperate dangling pardons and congratulating manafort for not flipping if you just. >>list those off 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, you can essentially make it clear to the public and to congress that mueller found substantial evidence to charge obstruction of republicans plan to press the special counsel about whether his team was biased we got a lot of questions about how robert mueller's team was assembled. >>and probe why the investigation even started in the first place. >>that's the basic questions of understanding of you've got is and where it started a little has been released about how the special counsel robert mueller is preparing. >>those past his pro long he's more than ready. >>director mueller will b