and indeed we will get a bit more analysis now of the back of that let's bring in john white is a political commentator and journalist very good evening to you john what do you make of this i mean it's kind of. part of the course for donald trump saying all options are on the table that kind of threat stroke bluff and he's saying russia's got to get out of them as well what you make of this. well this is just further evidence of an empire that's entered its mad dog days in the same week as a trump administration it legally recognized the illegally occupied syrian golan heights as israeli soldier integrity no decision diktats against russia or did it to act in accordance with a treaty that it is sane with the sustained government of israel the legitimate government of venezuela is a see this isn't an empire that entered it's my dog this has taken on the character of a rogue state created a new moral legal or diplomatic restraint applies it's a very worrying development the neo cons are once again taken or the asylum in washington and or how far we have come says twenty sixteen when strong an

after all this could simply crush out of the bloc empty handed political commentator john white as this prediction on how he thinks this week's ballot is going to go down. very unlikely that she will manage to get her was droll deal passed in parliament. at the start time of asking because the majority that voted against it in a conference. last time she tried the second time was one hundred forty nine so she has to convince one hundred fourteen eighteen m.p.'s who voted against it just just one week ago to change her mind within a week to these armies clearly determined to be the prime minister who caused their own eyes delivering bricks at but she's only delivering more and more chaos and division in the country usually when our prime minister loses parliament a parliamentary vote it's a resigning issue because it means she's lost or he has lost the authority of the house of commons and i thought that i thought the whole kind of prime minister lead but she. because we have an extraordinary. parliament that's divided over the issue. about what the public would do as well recent polls j

political commentator and journalist of john white says that russian troops in venezuela send a powerful message to washington. to just further evidence of an empire that's entered its mad ok's in the same week as a trump administration it legally recognized the illegally occupied city in golan heights israeli soldier integrity no decision diktats against russia for getting to act in accordance with a treaty that it's sane with the sustained government of israel the legitimate government of venezuela the choice of a key president nicolas maduro under the country's existing constitutions even though there's only a hundred russian troops and military advisers in venezuela just arrived at the weekend there symbolically it sends a very powerful message because this is a new development in twitter and multiple oddities a new game in town multiple out of tape exists for the washington links to accept or not and the fact that these military advisors are operating in conjunction with the now i in latin america which the u.s. has long considered its body out and we know that the u.s. especially t

could simply crush out of the bloc empty handed here's political commentator john white on how this week's public could go down very unlikely that she will manage to get her was droll deal passed in parliament a time of asking because the majority that voted against it in the commons. last thing she tried the second time was one hundred forty nine so she has to convince one hundred forty nine. voted against it just just one little girl to change their minds within a week to these families clearly determined to be the prime minister who caused their own delivering breck said but she's only delivering more to more chaos and division in the country and usually when a prime minister loses parliament a parliamentary issue because it means she's lost or he has lost the authority of the house of commons and the third kind of prime minister lead but she's managed to hang on because we are in an extraordinary times. parliament divided over the issue recent polls in the u.k. suggest forty six percent would vote remain in a second referendum and only thirty six percent would choose the current terms

could simply crush out of the bloc empty handed after all this rowing link political commentator john white has this prediction of how this week's ballot could go down. very unlikely that she will manage to get her was droll deal passed in parliament a time of asking because the majority that voted against this in the commons. last thing she tried the second time was one hundred forty nine so she has to convince one hundred fourteen eighteen m.p.'s who voted against it just just one week ago to change their minds within a week recently is clearly determined to be the prime minister who goes down as delivering the exit but she's only delivering more and more chaos and division in the country usually when a prime minister loses parliament a parliamentary vote resigning issue because it means she's lost or he has lost the authority of the house of commons and the third i thought the whole kind of prime minister late but she's managed to hang on because we had any and we had extraordinary times. it is not the parliament is divided on the issue polls in the case just forty six percent would vote

could simply leave the block out all his political commentator john white and hard this week it could go down. very unlikely that she will manage to get her was droll deal passed in parliament. time about asking because the majority that voted against this in the commons. last time she tried the second time there was one hundred forty nine so she has to convince one hundred forty nine. voted against it just just one little bit to change their minds within a week to some leave clearly determined to be the prime minister who goes delivering the exit but she's only delivering more to more chaos and division in the country usually when a prime minister loses parliament a parliamentary issue because it means she's lost or he has lost the authority of the house of commons and the third kind of prime minister late but she's managed to hang on because we had it and we are in extraordinary times ok i'm back with more global news updates in a moment stay with art interest. they put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. that you'd like to

has also not made the media so far to face our questions so that makes me worry of whether he is john white or not if you wanted to have a request for interview you don't get that opportunity we see more and more government officials using the social media which makes them directly accessible to people however i'm very disappointed that the distribution of this information is highly choreographed so it's very frustrating that we're limited into. the kind of information government authorities want us to hear. social media as you know that's where the game is that's where it's going to be even in the future will be the medium through which there will be a gauge of political discourse and it will be the medium through which we mobilize . i can't imagine the world without a good look at this point it's great to live in a world in which you know millions of people are going to talk to each other. the kind of fast change that we've seen over the last three years without the social media would have been impossible. the value of social media has been realized to the extent that. you can you can fin

members of both parties should come together and say no. >> john: the white house has already said ifuild the block the emergency declaration lands on the president's desk, he will veto it. he gets full support on that front from louisiana republican senator john kennedy. >> i'm going to support the president using the national emergency, was not my preferred option but is not exercising power congress has not given him. >> john: congregants -- congress would need two-thirds majority and in the senate 67 v. south carolina senator lindsey graham says the vote override just or not they are. >> the president has one and when he goes to court he will win because the court will say congress did act. they couldn't override his veto so i feel good about what he's doing legally. >> john: the white house insist the crisis isn't real and getting worse. pointing to an explosion of cross-border apprehensions this year. >> 76,000 illegal individuals came across the border just last month alone. that would fill metlife stadium. that is a massive number of people coming across the border. if that do

our chief white house correspondent, john roberts, is live there at the white house. john?we got notification from the pool that the president has put pen to paper and issued the first veto of his administration. vetoing the measure, which would block his emergency declaration. in doing it, the president said he would veto this reckless resolution. that's what it was. we're on track for a million people rushing our borders this year. people hate the word "invasion" but that's what it is. the president at the veto signing, the attorney general, william barr that backed the president up. the vice president was there, kirstjen nielsen was there, a number of angel parents who have had children killed by people in the country illegally. we don't have notification that the pool has exited the oval office. they don't have reason to hang around much longer now that the president has signed it. we should get the play-out soon. in total, probably 15 minutes, maybe longer. a lot to chew over this afternoon. we'll see what some of the opposition members on capitol hill might have to sa

white house with the very latest. joe. >> reporter: good morning, john. this business with the security clearances really has the potential to be a showdown between the white house and the house oversight and reform committee with the potential for a subpoena to compel the white house to give up information it does not want to give up. adding to that, we have the latest reporting from my colleagues here at cnn indicating that the president once again overruled white house officials in order to give an advantage to a member of the president's family. multiple sources tell cnn that president trump pressured then chief of staff john kelly and white house counsel don mcgahn to grant his daughter a security clearance against their recommendations. the revelation contradicting ivanka trump's past denial. >> the president had no involvement pertaining to my clearance or my husband's clearance. >> reporter: several sources say it is feasible that ivanka trump was anne i wear of the red flags raised during her daughter's background check all those presidents have t

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john roberts from the white house. thank you. as congress awaits the release of the report, there are calls to make the full report public. democrats held an emergency conference call this afternoon to discuss their next steps. peter doocy is live on capitol hill with that part of the story. peter, might you have any info from that conference call? >> reporter: we do, hot off the presses, some details from the democratic caucus emergency conference call where 120 plus members listened for 35 minutes. we're told that impeachment was never discussed. but the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, told all these members who were dialed in that she is going to reject any offer of a classified briefing about the mueller report. she is insisting that any doj presentation about the report has to be unclassified from the start so that members can talk about it publicly. part of what we've been given about the top of this call, this is a quote from pelosi. the purpose of the call is to hear from our chairman so i'll be very brief and only say

chief white house correspondent john roberts is live from the north lawn at the white house with more. hi, john. >> reporter: good afternoon to you. that statement from yesterday afternoon and that's the last thing the white house had to say about all this as we are an anxiously anticipated what might come out of the justice department. i think the president has a better idea. he went and played a round of golf this morning, rather than waiting for the report to come out. as peter doocy was mentioning a second ago, as well as eric, it's likely going to be tomorrow at the earliest that we're going to see the principal conclusions of that report, let alonnie of the facts behind the case. william barr was up early this morning, leaving his home in virginia for the justice department where he's been spending the day reviewing the report. there you see him coming out of the house there. and he will meticulously go through this and likely have to communicate with the white house counsel and emmett flood who is the president's point person on the mueller investigation on the summary in the e

turn over to the house all documents that they are seeking on white house security clearances? >> johni'm involved in that since they have some nonsensical private citizen is a white house official, all i can say is the white house counsel in the department of justice are handling that and whether i like it or not i will leave it to them. >> chris: meaning what when you say whether you like it -- >> john: what they are going to respond to the congress. >> chris: to know whether they are going to turn over the papers? >> john: i don't know. i think it's up to them. if i were a private citizen i would have a lot to say about this. >> chris: well, you know me too well, you've dangled a piece of meat in front of me. if you think that congress doesn't have a right of the information? >> john: look, for my days at the justice department i've been a strong proponent of executive privilege and the ability of the executive branch to function free from unwarranted congressional interference. so if by chance stance that the white house counsel and the justice department take, i will be fine with

that president trump pressured top white house officials to grant his daughter ivanka a security clearance. sources say the president pushed his then chief of staff johnto get clearances for ivanka and her husband jared over concerns from intelligence officials. >> and ivanka denied this outloud on tv. so based on this new reporting, that denial is either a line or suggests there's a universe where she did not know what her father was doing. we will discuss whether the existence of that

white house counsel dismissed the committee's request for security claims documentation. meanwhile cnn reports the president intervened to help his daughter ivanka get her security clearance despite objections from the chief of staff john. they didn't think she qualified for this kind of top-secret clearance. last week "the new york times" did the same thing to her husband overruling objections to his son-in-law, jared kushner. why are these two people such a problem for the fbi that they can't get cleared? for more here's ted lieu, congressman from california and member of the house judiciary committee. thank you so much. it seems to me this whole investigation by the president, everybody, mueller, house democrats who are now in charge in new york district and new york justice department up there in new york and southern district, they're all coming at him. they're coming at his kid, his soi son-in-law, they're coming at his past business practices. congressman, you have do know this is political war, you have a red line going after my past business and you're not going after my family. we're going to war and he's saying he's not give you nothing, we're going to stonewall you. your thoughts? >> thank you, chris, for y

you mentioned the contemporaneous memos, but it wasn't just john kelly. white counsel don mcgahn wrote contemporaneous memos about this, kelly saying ovals ordered to do it and mcgahn outlining concerns as well. why go along rather than take a stand because they're supposed to be advisers and know more than him on this matter. >> it sounds like they were doing cya to create a paper trail to make it clear it was not their decision, it was up to presume. in a way it is true, and they probably should have taken a stronger stand, but ultimately it is president trump's responsibility. he is toying with american security. we don't know why, by the way, why jared kushner should have been denied a security clearance. there's been suggestive stories. there was a report in "new york times" that intelligence services in various countries including the uae and others had assessed that he was easily compromised because he was naive, he had close access to the president, and he had vast business holdings. of course, he was desperate for money. we know he was desperate for re

john: we are entering a new frontier, no question. kristin fisher, thanks. an emotional afternoon at the whites president trump lauded a hero with the medal of honor. >> today the name of staff sergeant travis atkins will be etched alongside of the names of america's bravest warriors. >> john: the son of army staff sergeant travis atkins accepted the award on behalf of his dad today who died in an effort to save his comrades back in june of 2007. staff sergeant adkins tackled an insurgent wearing a suicide vest. using his own body to shield his fellow soldiers from the explosion. it cost atkins his life but saved three of his teammates. a true american hero. the president plans and other bypass of congress to replace obamacare, so why are members of his own party skeptical about the plans? our panel will tackle that after the break. i can't believe it. that we're playing "four on four" with a barbershop quartet? [quartet singing] bum bum bum bum... pass the ball... pass the rock.. ...we're open just pass the ball! no, i can't believe how easy it was to save hundreds of dollars on my car insura

fixations the president seems to have including the mueller report and the husband of a white house staffer. our joe johns live at the white house. it's just past 6:00, joe, the president's been quiet so far. i don't expect it to last. >> reporter: that's for sure. fixations is kind of the word when you think about it, because the big picture is really interesting here. the president of the united states spending days on end obsessing and complaining about a pair of american war heroes and the effect that they've been having on his life. senator john mccain, the late senator john mccain who was a p.o.w. in vietnam as well as special counsel robert mueller who was a marine captain in vietnam and won a bronze star there. the president has set this up as donald trump against two men who distinguish them sexes decades ago as defenders of the united states. it's not clear what he's getting from this and his allies are even asking him to stop. [ chanting usa ]. >> well, you better love me, i kept this place open. >> reporter: standing before workers alt a military tank factory, president trump launching into a

let's to to john roberts at the white house with the fallout of this. john? >> good afternoon to you, neil president don't forget reince priebus was the first to learn that he was fired by tweet. the thing that is going on with the president, kellyanne conway and her husband, george, have an unusual pathology. over the weekend and monday, george conway kept tweeting an't the fact that he believed the president had some sort of mental disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, suggested the president was not mentally stable enough to hold the office of the president. the president fought back. kellyanne conway stayed silent until today when she did a brief phone interview with political when she said of the president, do you think he shouldn't respond when somebody, a nonmedical professional, accuses him of having a mental disorder? kellyanne conway siding with the president. she said the president is obviously defending me. he can say, honey, you're a distraction, we love you, you'll always be with the family but be with your kids. go make a million dollars

trump's position in may so troubled officials that at least one, white house chief of staff at the time, john kelly, wrote a contemporaneous internal memo about how he had been ordered to give mr. kushner the top-secret clearance. the white house counsel at the time, donald f. mcgahn, also wrote an internal memo outlining the concerns that had been raised about mr. kushner -- including by the cia -- and how mr. mcgahn had recommended that he not be given a top-secret clearance. he had authority to do this, and it's just like, we never met with russians. oh, we met with russians but nothing was discussed. they change their story when they get caught. >> i don't know if he's adjusting, but facing the realities of the world of divided government. this is someone who was in business for a long time. he could have ndas, he could have lawsuits where you make a settlement that's sealed, so details like this were less likely to come out in the public domain. >> so lying is okay? >> whether it's okay or it's not okay, it seems like there is a pattern, as you point out, and this has been part of his pr

>> reporter: publicly right now, john, the white house says they're going to cooperate with this request, but behind the scenes they are preparing to actually push back on this, because they believe the president has a right to confidentiality and that's being violated by this sprawling request from these democrats. part of that pushback could include trying to limit the number of documents that they have to produce, especially including those from president trump's time in the white house, potentially those including his communications with former white house counsel don mcgahn as well. so be on the lookout for that. white house officials have been expecting an onslaught of investigations since the democrats took back the house in the midterm elections, but they were surprised by just how big and how broad that request from chairman nadler yesterday was, and right now they say they're trying to essentially brace for more like that and potentially including democrats going after the president's tax returns in the coming days and potentially weeks. now, right now how the view inside the w

so far there are five white men running. two johns are running. they are white men.uch as it's diverse, it still is a field that's likely to be half white men. if joe biden gets in, it looks like he might. beto o'rourke and bernie sanders on a number of other white men. there's been a conversation about whether they are at a disadvantage. none of the metrics show they are disadvantaged. i don't know if any sector in the world where a white man could be a disadvantage. >> this is an interesting discussion about women and how we fit into the broader discussion. when you talk about diversity, one thing he made a point of saying because an audience member asked him this question. you're a white guy. why should you be the nominee? there is a diversity of views as well and of experiences. in a field where you have a lot of candidates running left on -- let's say health care. talked a lot of substance last night. he's very open about the fact that he doesn't support medicare for all. he doesn't support getting rid of private insurance. he thinks that's the wrong way to go b

white house's efforts to push back. the house oversight committee wants to question john kelly, the former white house chief of staff. they want to question a lot of officials, because they feel they're central to the investigations. john kelly is at the center of one of the disputes. the chairman of the house oversight committee wants to talk to john kelly about how the white house has handled the security clearances, in particular kushner, the president's son-in-law who we reported the president asked officials to grant him a security clearance unilaterally. the problem here is that the white house is trying to make this difficult for these democrats who are eager to investigate the president. the democrats have reached out to john kelly directly multiple times. that's something that the white house is not okay with. they say these democrats should be going through them first to then get permission to talk to these officials, even if he atho longer work in the white house. when the white house counsel found out the oversight committee reached out to john kelly, he sent them a stinging rebuke in this letter saying, i

we could also have them request information from former white house chief of staff john kelly, whitel don mcgahn, the former white house counsel, i should say. and pretty striking comments over the weekend from house judiciary chairman jerry nadler. he talked about the scope of information requesting what it potentially could lead to. he said it could be used to begin these investigations to begin to present the case to the american people about obstruction of justice, corruption and abuse of power. he said it's very clear to him the president obstructed justice but he said that impeachment is a long way down the road. and we have heard from president trump tweeting over the weekend calling this presidential harassment. >> on another issue we've seen rand paul writing an editorial. he's going to oppose the president's emergency declaration. that makes four republicans. enough to get a majority in the senate to oppose this but certainly not to override a presidential veto which has been promised. speaking to republicans on the hill, do you see any momentum for it to get to that number

elijah cummings tweeted earlier today that he asked staff at the white house whether or not two memos written by john kelly, then white house chief of staff, and the white house counsel about jared kushner's security clearance even exist. according to cummings, the white house declined to confirm or deny the existence three times. tonight, white house now defending president trump's power to grant a top secret clearance to his son-in-law and top white house adviser jared kushner. over the objections of officials who raised concerns about his background check. >> was the president involved in jared kushner's security clearance process? >> we don't discuss security clearances. i'm not going to discuss my own. i will tell you that the president has the right to do what was described. >> counselor to the president kellyanne conway not standing by ivanka's trump in an interview that her father wasn't involved in the process. >> the president had no involvement pertaining to my clearance or my husband's clearance."the new york times" reports that the white house ordered john kelly to give him clearance. >>

white house. back to you. >> all right. joe johns at the white house. joining us now john avlon. john, twiebt pi want to put up screen so people get a sense of what was going on in the president's head. look at this. almost every word is filled with rage and bio at a number of subjects on john mccain, "saturday night live," all kinds of fox television lineups. much of that that we had up on the screen a moment ago the president wrote after he went to church on sunday. >> yeah. >> which is awfully nice. >> yeah. seems like he's doing it wrong. i mean, church is about the forgiveness of sin, it's about -- it's clear the bio binge. the president seemed to have it dialed up. this is not a man who seems at peace. this is a president who's talking to the television in public and screaming at it. and belittling the office by focusing on dead senators and comedy reruns as you said in the lead. this is not the portrait of a man who's in particularly a good place. because compared to your own lives, folks, what did you do sunday? spend time with your family and friends. you probably didn't

>> juan: john roberts at the white house. john, thank you very much.o recap those of you just joining come of robert mueller the board report has been submitted to the department of justice. we are joined by catherine herridge in our washington bureau. >> i'm going to head down to the justice department, but we've got some information, the tick-tock of events over the last hour. we have confirmed a letter was sent to the chairman and ranking members of the senate and house judiciary committee's notifying them to the special counsel robert mueller investigation was completed. let me just read from that text, says "special counsel robert mueller the third has concluded in the investigation of russian interference. delma." attorney general william barr says, "he may be in a position to advise you, the committee, of the special counsel's printable conclusions as soon this weekend." this is the first time that we've indication that the attorney general may be able to move very quickly in terms of releasing some information and the findings to congress with

jericho or against his own best judgment it's worth keeping in mind that before he went to the white house john kelly had been a four star marine corps general and had some real appreciation of what it meant for someone to have a top security clearance israel's attendee general says he plans to indict prime minister benjamin netanyahu in three separate corruption cases national who has dismissed the allegations as politically most of aces. at least ten people have been killed in an attack apparently targeting the home of a judge in somalia's capital police say a car bomb was detonated in a plot to assassinate omar the chief judge of somalia's appeals court says it was behind the attack pakistan's prime minister says his country will release a captured indian pilots on friday as a gesture of peace a day earlier india and pakistan said they shot down each other's fighter jets in the disputed kashmir region pakistan says it downed two indian planes and arrested the pilots india said it shot down one pakistani aircraft and lost one of its own next stop witness. it. on the group when i was young to

a chemist named john white will develop a new method of refining seabird guano effectively into gunpowder. the price is going to be a bit higher than what imported from england. english saw peter cost around $.11 a pound in 1863. about $.14oke cost and it comes without having to be nice to the british. about $.14 and it comes about having to be nice to the british. from 1863 on he's producing potassium nitrate out of sodium nitrate at the same costs as importing potassium nitrate from england. he's producing it in massive batches of around 500 tons at a time. he's producing 500 tons of the stuff per year. the entire confederacy with all of their efforts to launch a crash nitrate production process is making about 20 tons less than a single guy is at one factory. he hasn't bothered to scale this up yet and he still able to meet all of the union's requirements for nitrate out of it. doesn't provide all of the union gunpowder it is a supply independent of england that gives the union additional leverage. there are several other issues that crop up with. one i always get what i teach this les

i want to hear the story about how you almost worked for the john roberts, not the one we know today at the whitelaimer here. john roberts, we're about to talk about your past. i lived in ottawa, canada. our version of what was it mtv was called much music. john roberts, our white house reporter, was a vj there. all the ladies -- we all had huge crushes on him. and i got the opportunity to send in -- >> dana: there he is looking like freddy mercury. >> do i explain -- >> dana: you wanted to work for john roberts. >> yes. hearts throbbing. and i love your wife. i'm married, too. so don't worry about that. i had a chance to audition for much music. i almost got the job. i didn't. i was so heart broken because i was like i will never meet j.d. roberts, we'll never be able to have something special together or introduce def leppard together. a few years later, i'm in houston and i turn it on. there he is with pat benatar. i turn on the tv, cbs news. i said is that j.d. roberts? he doesn't have the long flowing hair and introducing def leppard. he's at the white house. listen, that's -- >> dana: a sma

our reporting is that cnn that president trump pressured then white house chief of staff john kelly then white house counsel apparently others to give ivanka trump her security clearance. reporting is also that it's totally possible she did not know her father intervened in getting her security clearance. i have got to tell you, the thing about this is that the white house is in a state of circle the wagons. they figure out how to handle it including a letter from the chairman of the oversight committee to the white house from january 23 really set off alarm bells. today sarah sanders, we asked her about the story about ivanka trump. she had to give the same answer she gave a couple of weeks ago about the husband of ivanka trump, jared kushner. she said we don't comment on security clearances. that's not our policy. her rhetoric has really stepped up as the white house tries to deal with this. she is using words like calling this a small radical fringe of dem it kras who were doing this. using words like outrageous. the white house is trying to deal with what is coming at them from capit

trump is you should all bear in mind don mcgahn and john kelly were basically at war with those two for much of their time there for both of them in the white house that the relationship was toxic. could it have played a role? maybe it could have. john kelly has been accused of others of playing favorites in terms of the security clearances and who was impacted negatively by them. that said, it is a yes or no question as to whether the president did this. he said no. we later learned that wasn't true. >> since your report, and it is similar to the cnn report. since that's come out. people defended the president's power to do this which is not in question. what they haven't tried to explain is the lie. >> right. >> that's just hanging out there. >> right. look. again, i think we have discussed it before. when i asked the president that question, we were already in the process of trying to report on whether this had taken place. because we had gotten a tip that there was a memo that indicated that the president had either directed or ordered the clearance to be issued. frankly, at that point i expected the president to say yes. i thought we w

another important part, the white house not getting a review of the mueller report before hand in terms of the looking at it for executive privilege. let's go to john roberts, he of course is our chief white house correspondent, i understand he has new information. good afternoon again. >> just got off the phone with the member of the president's legal team, who told me that they're fully comfortable with this decision to leave this all in the hands of the attorney general william barr. that barr has got a long and storied reputation in the department of justice and he is a person who is fully capable of fully understanding the implications of executive privilege and will no doubt make the right decisions in terms of what goes to congress. and what does not go to congress. that said, the president's legal team said that they would be comfortable to get it all out there, every bit of it, that can be released, at least, according to the parameters and the confines of criminal law. you can't put up grand jury testimony, not supposed to say things about misconduct by individuals who were not charged. but the president's legal team is fully comfortable

companies the president promptly tweeted he ordered the withdraw of news sanctions contradicting john bolton. white house press secretary sanders offering this explanation. president trump likes dhachairm kim and he doesn't these it will be necessary. more than two hours after president trump sent that tweet there is to figure out what he meant. weeks ago when he was meeting in vietnam he wasn't giving the north koreans anything. he wasn't giving up anything. it certainly seems like a concession not just to north korea but also to china. >> thank you. let's talk about all of this. first off, the president's lawyer telling the washington post today it's like waiting for a baby. if the report is good i'll give out cigars. the question is will giuliani be giving out cigars? >> given his behavior, who knows? it doesn't look like we are getting a report today unless mueller wants to torment all of the employees from cnn and msnbc to make them stay at work or something like that. >> when it does come out and at this point it would be a delivery, it would be the beginning of this process, the indications

>> reporter: the white house has called their request overly intrusive and the standoff over internal members which according to "the new york times" were written by chief of staff john kelly and white house counsel don mcgahn urging against the clearance. the president ordering it be given anyway, and cnn now reporting he also pushed for his daughter ivanka trump to also get clearance. those memos contradicting previous statements like this. >> the president had no involvement pertaining to my clearance or my husband's clearance, zero. >> reporter: the president's not responding to questions about those security clearances, instead lashing out at democrats and their sweeping new investigations. >> it's a disgrace. it's a disgrace to our country. they just say presidential harassment, but that's okay. >> reporter: the judiciary committee demanding documents from 81 current and former thump administration officials, his family and related companies. >> there has to be a check on the executive. >> reporter: investigating everything from the sit-down with vladimir putin to that trump tower meeting and even whether the trump family are profiting from the presidency. amid

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. >> you want it file bid john kelly and the white house counsel. what is the committee prepared to do to get them? >> this goes back a ways. it is not just -- it's in the about the kelly memo. it is about lots of documents. >> a subpoena? >> a subpoena. >> are you prepared the subpoena john kelly and those document ps? zbli don't know that we'll need to subpoena john kelly. my hope is he is enough of a patriot he will come forbard and voluntarily explain why he memorialized the concerns in a memo. >> if you hear from him on that topic will there be other topics you want him to talk about? >> that obviously is always something that is negotiated unless they are compelled to testify. >> so he would have some ability to negotiate the per am ters of that. >> what would the committee stance be? >> i think we have a need to know about this issue. >> about this particular issue. that will drive us. we welcome his cooperation. >> after his testimony this week which took over washington many democrats are wanting to dig deeper when it comes to the trump org

john roberts has reaction from the white house. would be going david spunt live at the justice department. david? reporter: good evening priest i would just appear to be attorney general bar 's entourage leave the justice department about five minutes ago at the doj headquarters but he had a long day here reviewing the documents.got here about 11:00 this morning and when he joined the trump administration in february, he pledged to be as transparent as possible when it comes to this investigation. when the molar report was complete. we have many of the attorney general leaving his home this morning on his way to actually check out this document for the first time. it was delivered late yesterday afternoon. but today the attorney general had a chance to see exactly what was inside. it is not being circulated around the entire department and for good reason. it's not like this is going to be emailed to all doj employees. doj officials want to keep this as close as possible as they look into this to make sure any classified informatio

to give a top secret security clearance to jared kushner over the objections of the white house chief of staff, john, over the white house counsel, don mcgahn, and over the cia. as national security adviser, do you have any concerns about jared kushner having access to the nation's top secrets? >> i don't have any concerns. i deal with jared all the time on the middle east peace process and a number of other issues. i trust him. i have no idea what the story is on the security clearance. it's not something that falls within my area of responsibility. but if asked do i trust jared kushner, the answer is, yes. chris: you do not think he is a security risk. >> i do not. chris: will the white house meet a deadline tomorrow to turn over to the house all documents about -- that they're seeking on white house security clearances? >> well, you know, i'm involved in that since they have some nonsensical ideas about me which i'll one day be free to discuss as a private citizen, but all i can say is the whys counsel and the department of justice the are handling that. and whether i like it or not, i will leave

joe johns is at the white house this morning. two reports, two separate papers, a lot of good reporters on the lines on the white house isn't denying reports about the president mandating kushner get the top secret security clearance. >> nothing so far from the president indicating otherwise. look, there are a couple of questions raised by the "new york times" reporting. first, what is it in jared kushner's background that's raised the issues in the first place? we have never gotten to what specifically that is. even people on capitol hill have been asking. but there are some other questions as well including the memos to the file from john kelly, don mcgahn, the white house counsel. what's that about? contemporaneous recollections of events. still not clear. perhaps the most important thing is the question of candor. the president himself has said he was going to leave this up to john kelly, the then chief of staff. of course kelly said it was a president who ordered him to give the security clearance to jared kushner. even jare

john mccain's family. we have two reports from the white house this morning. we'll start with riflbs'sen welker. kristen, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning to you. the white house and washington bracing for the report byun special l robert mueller which could be released at any minute. mueller aiming to answer the key question, did the trump campaign collude with russia to meddle in

white house failed to comply with the request. meanwhile cnn is reporting trump pressured then chief of staff john kelly and white house counsel john began to grant security clearance for his daughter and senior advisor, ivanka trump. when they both refused, he reportedly granted her the claimants directly. the news comes a week after the new york times reported he ordered john kelly to grant his son-in-law jared kushner top secret security clearance last year, despite the objections of intelligence officials. the republican-controlled senate confirmed allison jones rushing who once interned for a far-right, christian anti-lgbt group, to a lifetime federal judgeship tuesday. the 37-year-old trump pick came under fire from democrats and civil rights groups, namely for her time working as an intern with the alliance defending freedom, which the southern poverty law center classifies as a hate group that has attempted to re-criminalize homosexuality in the u.s. and has defended sterilization of transgender people. the senate is expected to vote on more rigight-wing trump judicial nominees in the coming days. banking giant jp morgan ch