i agree that with jim hines and with a lot of other people saying, there's a lot of new faces here.table. elisa come of them. >> harris: i want to quick follow-up to that. why can't we do both? wake as she mentored somebody? may be a deputy. is it she's been in power for so long for it i mean, loudly prayed i mean actually on purpose, not just somebody who came by the office and got a quick pep talk for nancy pelosi. why not do both? it would be real interesting. and why are you laughing, congressman? >> steve: she has not been open to sharing power. ultimately it's about who is running the house of representatives and the new congress. >> harris: okay. >> dagen: really quickly, "the wall street journal" writes "it's important for the democrats remember that they ran moderate and won in the midwest and the swing districts that were unhappy with president trump." and now you've got to get in the back of the train. they are going to be writing in the caboose. that was the journal's editorial in terms of policy, because they believe that nancy pelosi's going to be pushing $15 minimum w

joining me now is democratic congressman jim hines who sits on the intelligence commity tim o'brien is executive editor of bloomberg opinion. and let me start with you, from a legal standpoint here, a couple of pieces here. the president yesterday going after the ninth circuit, and we've heard him do this before. the chief justice, though, then stepping in as we just heard there from john roberts and the president choosing in public to go back at the chief justice. what do you make of that? >> well, it's astonishing and i would say probably unprecedented for the chief justice to step out in this way. it framers of the constitution understood that the judiciary is not supposed to be politicized. and i think what trump is doing is trying to attack any critics, that is the federal courts that's holding him accountable to capture the referees. the way this is setup are these people have life 10 consider, and they have salary protection for a reason. but we all as americans need to keep our eye on this issue because it really matters who's confirmed to the federal bench. that being said and

i will talk about that and more with congressman jim hines of the house intelligence committee and theormer director of ethics water schwab. first, two reports tonight. our chief white house correspondent jim acosta is standing by with the president's latest comments on the special counsel investigation. let's begin the breaking news on cnn's dropping its lawsuit against the white house after the trump administration publicly backed down. let's go to our chief media correspondent brian stelter. brian, update our viewers on the very latest. >> this is a victory for cnn, wolf, but more importantly a victory for the free press. less than two weeks after that post midterms news conference when trump was desperate to change the subject and he kicked jim acosta out of the white house, the press pass has been restored, not just temporarily like it was on friday, but now permanently restored by the white house. this is clearly a capitulation of the lawsuit that cnn filed about a week ago. here is the statement from the network about this decision by the white house. quote, jim acosta -- today

joining us now is jim hines of connecticut. thanks for being with us.ere was a mass shooting in connecticut, so you have some connection, but everyone has a connection at this point because the number of mass shootings that have taken place in this country. what were your thoughts first off when you woke up to the news this morning? >> well, i'm embarrassed to say, john, as you eluded to, my first thought was, here we go again. it is this week's mass shooting. and, you know, that's a really hard way to think about this. i contrast where we are today with how we felt about sandy hook, which was obviously in magnitude and with what happened with young children being killed, completely appalling. this has become a weekly thing. nobody does anything, especially the congress where i work. 35,000 americans dead a year as a result of gun violence and congress can't find its way to studying the problem. i worry, as i said, we become desensitized to this. the kind of thing that should cause the country to rise up and say, we will change this tomorrow, is just th

. >> jim hines has a theory to why he thinks house republicans are calling comey and lynch. let's listen to him. >> i understand especially now that it turns out that the president's daughter was doing exactly what donald trump ran on using a private e-mail account for government business. i understand how they might want to go back to the hillary clinton thing. >> they kind of stuck with the hillary clinton thing for quite some time. it's not necessarily a new thing but the democrats want to talk about ivanka's e-mails. >> there's some internal debate within democratic circles on capitol hill about how much they want to make something like ivanka trump's e-mails front and center when they launched a wave of subpoenas with the new congress. some feel it's time for pay back or some karma in terms of what trump world did with hillary clinton e-mails to see if they can get a taste of their own medicine. a lot of other democratic lawmakers and aides would think it would seem too transparent and there are much more things to focus on in terms of issue p -- subpoenas. numerous adm

democratic congressman jim hines is a member of the house panel. he joins us now. i want to remind our viewers that we're showing on the side of the screen the airport where we expect the president to be arriving any moment. if the president does make comments, where may have to jump in and we want to hear what the president has to say. this idea of a $50 million penthouse to putin as part, kind of floated as part of a way to get this trump tower project happening in moskow, does that sound remotely appropriate to you? i mean, is that a bribe? how do you see that? >> well, i guess we've got to get the facts behind that. i don't know the details of the story because it's just breaking. but if a very valuable penthouse, anything of value is offered to a foreign leader in the context of you asking for that leader's help on something, yeah, i think that sure looks an awful lot like a bribe. stepping back away to the news we heard earlier today, there's been a great deal made about whether it's illegal for the president when he's the nominee, he's not yet president of t

and meanwhile on capitol hill, congressman jim hine is joining us from the hill. and first of all, what is your take on the revelation from "the new york times" that manafort has been back channeling the white house even before the president responded in writing in what has been called the take home exam that if president's lawyers delivered with his input to mueller. what does this tell you? >> it tells us, all of us one thing and one thing only, and in combination with the revelation that manafort had continued to lie to the special counsel, and subsequent to the plea agreement, any prosecutor will tell you that people don't do that and what is going on here? one thing is going on here sh, that is that paul manafort is still on the president's team, and providing information no the president's lawyer which is helpful to the president, and hiding something or at least being perceived as being on the team, because of course he is playing for a pardon. that is the only explanation that makes any sense right now, and it is a perfectly credible explanation, because t