while we wait for that press conference which we do think will take place shortly let's bring in john white he's our political analyst to get his take on what's happening john good afternoon we're unsure at the moment exactly what was said during this meeting but looking at the body language and looking at the summary both leaders gave it does look as though it's gone pretty well. well yes indeed the optics are awful of course very important first meeting between these two leaders the first time that kim jong il has ever traveled to russia and so on the symbolic level is very important and of course both countries have a vested interest in what goes on on the korean potential of regards to denuclearization and for the north koreans sanctions relief and russia has a very important role to play and not given its role with a permanent member of the u.n. security council of course it does reaffirm longstanding historic ties that we existed between both moscow and since going back to the soviet era so all in all it's a very important summit and it's a tribute to the role that russia is playing i

cross-like in journalism i'm joined by my guest john white in edinburgh he's a political commentator and writer in london we have george galloway he's a former member of parliament broadcaster and writer also in london we have michael patchett joyce he is a barrister with place chambers specializing in european international law cross-like rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate i'm going to ask all three of you the same question from the very start here is journalism being criminalized george first in london yeah i think you're right to pin there's a systemic problem it's not just about julian assange this is just the latest station for the cross on the via dolorosa heading to the final demise of what's called freedom of expression here in this country and i think in other western countries we have the chilling effect of monopoly on or ship of the so-called mainstream media the chilling effect of the state broadcaster of the b.b.c. the chilling effect of regulators like of com which regulates this program today for example the chilling eff

some analysis now from political commentator and journalist john white joins me very good evening to you john has not been much for briggs it is to cheer les do you think this cross party effort will lead to a way out of the impasse. i personally don't think so in your life i think this could be a trap for coulter and because prime minister to easily sarah lucas to condition to these talks that he must support of the drug deal and jeffrey kluger has a natural resource deal has talked through the of talk to schedule for closely that's what the original saying that talks were inconclusive and that he was surprised that the prime minister's position are not changed as much as he had thought it would be a child whereby the prime minister can engage in these talks about the right and then come out and believe it or recover from looking to accept and that will be a basis for calling any general election hoping that the bad publicity that cruised to generate kovan as a consequence will see him lose our election to the prime minister is an utter crisis a government is in crisis and there need

you so many interesting and insightful guest throughout the day now we have political analysts john white john thanks for coming in is great to have you with us edward snowden has called this a dark day for press freedom the u.s. justice department however is that it wants a songe on computer hacking claims how does that change the nature of the case is this about persecuting publishers if the charge doesn't pertain to the publishing of sensitive documents. so pesky getting julian assange specifically for his rule revealing and uncovering and publishing the high crimes and war crimes and corruptions of the us government needed us politicians and also the british government and it's a shameful day i have to see and the annals of british justice one that reveals that the u.k. legal system is but please think of the us and will system people have exploded to brussels over these last few years and in the context of the wrecks a crisis and saying that britain is essentially have us a little that's not the case the cases that britain is a bustle of washington and it has been confirmed by two th

white and black you cannot do it. for us national security adviser john bolton has announced new. including restrictions for americans visiting the island based on whether they have relatives. today we are also announcing five additions to the cuba restricted list which prohibits direct financial transactions with entities tied to cuba's military intelligence and security services and personnel we are also announcing the apartment of the treasury will implement further regulatory changes to restrict family travel to cuba or another were thank washington it's also lifted a ban on lawsuits being taken against foreign companies in china but it's a decision that could have a major impact on the tough on his biggest trading partner at a time when charles atlantica relations are already stretched our europe correspondent has the story. we're talking about cuba's tourism industry the tobacco industry as well as distilleries on the island all of benefited from large scale foreign investment and all could be subject of lawsuits the european union issued a letter from their top foreign poli

crosstalk in journalism i'm joined by my guest john white in edinburgh he's a political commentator and writer in london we have george galloway he's a former member. parliament broadcaster and writer also in london we have michael patchett joyce he is a barrister with place chambers specializing in european international law in cross-like rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate i'm going to ask all three of you the same question from the very start here is journalism being criminalized george first in london yeah i think you're right to pin this as a systemic problem it's not just about julian assange this is just the latest station for the cross on the via dolorosa heading to the final demise of what's called freedom of expression he in this country and i think in other western countries we have the chilling effect of monopoly on your ship of the so-called mainstream media the chilling effect of the state broadcast of the b.b.c. the chilling effect of regulator like of com which regulates this program.

across talking journalism i'm joined by my guest john white in edinburgh he's a political commentator and writer in london we have george galloway he's a former member of parliament broadcaster and writer also in london we have michael patchett joyce he is a barrister with a place chambers specializing in european international law cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always have.

across talking journalism i'm joined by my guest john white in edinburgh he's a political commentator and writer in london we have george galloway he's a former member of parliament broadcaster and writer also in london we have michael patchett joyce he is a barrister with place chambers specializing in european international law cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate i'm going to ask all three of you the same question from the very start here is journalism being criminalized george first in london yeah i think you're right there's a systemic problem it's not just about julian assange this is just the latest station for the cross so.

travails these publications were happy to run with julian assange dj's journalism because it was as john white has just said revelation of information of criminal activity by powerful states and if that's not the rule of journalism i'm hard pushed to come up with a definition of what journalism is it is the right of the public to know if their governments are committing crimes sometimes you can only reveal those crimes by a criminal action itself i give you a very good example in the building behind me of the daily telegraph one of the big newspapers in the british state published stall in computer disks of the information about members of parliament on a mass scale hundreds of members of parliament fiddling their expenses stealing from the taxpayer and they published it in the public interest and they were right to do saw and commended for doing so but the original act of the theft of those disks was in itself a crime but sometimes like chelsea manning a crime has to be committed to reveal a big our crime in the public interest no i don't believe that ellsberg would been cleared in the courts

further talks which could lead to an exit without any deal it's called commentator and journalist john white says three the most trying to shift the blame for failed briggs it plan on to the labor party. i think this could be a trap for coburn because trying to start recently sarah would do christie condition to these talks that he must who are the draw do this who could be a child created by prime minister can engage in these talks about and then come in and believe it or go before looking direction and that will be a basis for calling an l.a. general election not in the not published yet i cruised to generate code and as a consequence we'll see him lose our election given that the prime minister is an utter crisis the government is in crisis and there needs to be some kind of cathartic movement that will release the pressure has built up over these past few weeks yet you see of course my passion at this juncture to seaton's talks will be assured in any meaningful sense. a people smuggler has shed light on the lucrative illegal trade revealing that it cost each migrant at least two hundred

further talks which could lead to an exit without any deal political commentator and journalist john white says that the reason maine's trying to shift the blame for failed bricks a plan to the labor party. i think this could be a trap for coburn because prime minister to use and he said he would do christie condition to these talks that he must support overthrow do so could be a trial whereby prime minister can engage in these talks about the and then come out and believe getting to go before looking to accept and that will be a basis for calling an early general election hoping that the cruise to jericho then as a consequence will see him lose our election given that the prime minister has an utter crisis the government is in crisis and there needs to be some kind of cathartic moment that will release the pressure as both took over these past few weeks yet you see of course by passionate this juncture don't see that and talks will be assured and a neutral sense. a people smuggler has shed light on the lucrative illegal trade revealing it costs each migrant at least two thousand euros to

further talks which could lead to an exit without any of the political commentator and journalist john white says that the reason why is trying to shift the blame for her failed breaks to the labor party. i think this could be a trap for cauldron because prime minister recently said he would do christie condition to these talks if he must do so it could be a child created by prime minister to engage in these talks about an income and believe looking direction now will be a basis for calling it a really general election. crucial to jericho and as a consequence will see him lose our election trying to citizen us or increases the government's increases and there needs to be some kind of cathartic movement that will release the pressure that has built up over these past few weeks. of course by at this juncture two suiters talks will be assured and a really true sense. people smuggler has shed light on the lucrative illegal trade revealing it costs each miner and at least two thousand euros to be taken to europe from africa the revelations come in a documentary by a canadian investigative journal

further talks which could lead to an exit without any deal political commentator and journalist john white says tories are made trying to shift the blame for her failed brags that plan to the labor party. i think this could be a trap for cauldron because. recently he said he would do just to condition to these talks that he must do this who could be a child whereby prime minister turns in getting these talks about and then come home believe looking direction and that will be a basis for calling an early general election. cruised to jericho as a. sequence will see and lose our election trying to use that as an utter crisis the government is in crisis and there needs to be some kind of cathartic moment that will least attraction as built up over these past few weeks you see of course locally at this juncture don't see the talks will be assured and a million two cents. a people smuggler has shed light on the lucrative illegal trade revealing it costs each migrant at least two thousand euro to be taken to europe from africa the revelations came in a documentary made back canadian investigative

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first to the white house. john roberts reporting live. >> good morning, shep. this took the white house by surprise. john bolton upon hearing the news going on in venezuela just at dawn this morning woke up the president at 6:00 a.m. to inform him of what's going on. the president tweeting a short time ago, i'm monitoring the situation in venezuela very closely. the united states stands with the people of venezuela and their freedom. i think there's real concerns here at the white house whether or not this is actually going to work. john bolton came out in front of west wing a short time ago and called on the nation's defense minister, vladimir padrino and the chief justice of the supreme court to make good on their pledges to back juan guaido in his attempt to oust nicholas maduro. juan guaido several weeks ago called for a day of nationwide protest tomorrow. pulled the trigger on all of this today. so it seemed to come early in some venezuelan officials that might have thrown in with guaido took a different tack instead. because padrino, the defense minister i

he mentions you in the piece too, here's what he writes, john, white house dounl john dean famously told nixon there was a cancer within the presidency and that it was growing. what the mueller report shows with crystal clarity, the cancer in the presidency is president donald j. trump. 46 years, is there a cancer on this presidency too, john? >> i think there is, don. i used those words to make sure i had the president's attention that morning and that he was listening to what i had to say and i took him through all the problems that he was confronted with. that's the morning i met the real richard nixon. he responded exactly the opposite the way i thought he would when i thought he would end the cover-up after raising every single problem i could raise in an hour and 50 minutes. he now have a president that's in his 800th day of his presidency, and i've got to say it's very grim. it is not a healthy presidency. and i don't know that we can wait until 2020. this man is learning how it operates and he can do great damage. >> so you're agreeing with conway that this is heading towards imp

jon: john roberts our we've white house correspondent. thank you so much. breaking news this evening wamu see there. kirstjen nielson is out. as head of the department of homeland security. and she has been in the job ever since her predecessor prommer -- former boss left to become chief of staff, john kelly. kirstjen nielson is out. >> we'll pause for one moment to let our fox stations join us. this is fox news coverage of the resignation of homeland security secretary kirstjen nielson, i am john spot in ne -- jon scott in, president just tweeting out his homeland security secretary is resigning, let's go to alison barber live at the white house. reporter: hello, president trump said that secretary nielsen will leave her position, replacing her as acting department of homeland security secretary will become missioner of -- commissioner of cust o customs d border protection kevin mcaleenan . nielson replaced her old boss general john kel who left department of homeland security to move on as white house chief of staff. her future? there had been questions a

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she white house correspondent john roberts love for us outside the white house now. >> good afternoon too. she will indeed have a chance to question the new dhs nominee, whenever that person is named. we don't know if it's going to be the person he was the acting or if the president will choose somebody else. or when that might happen. kirstjen nielsen will be staying on the job, as he pointed out, until wednesday. that will ensure an orderly transition to the new acting dhs secretary. kevin mcaleenan. i have known kirstjen nielsen for a few years now. she and i had a lot of conversations, background briefing sessions, she always insisted she was doing whatever she could within the confines of the law to try to secure the border. here's what she said as she was leaving for work this morning. >> i showed the president's goal of securing the border. i will continue to support all efforts to address the humanitarian and security crisis on the border. other than that, i'm on my way to keep doing what i can for the next few days. >> democrats had a lot of unkind things to say about kirstje

white house confirms it is still considering the option. voices on both sides address the issue of the weekend. john lawrence reports. >> reporter: the white house is fanning more controversy, this time, threatening so-called sanctuary cities. x i am proud to be the city of the sinks -- mayor of a sanctuary city. d,alifornia, who limit es are cooperation with federal immigration employees. >> we can give them an unlimited supply, let's see if they are so happy. they say they have open arms. >> sarah sanders stressing this is just an option, not president trump's first choice. however. >> the democrats would step up and help the president fix the loss, this could all go away, we would not have this discussion, that would be the best thing for the country. >> democrats say the president is abusing his power by turning migrants into ponds. >> he should not use it as retribution. >> this is, again, his manufactured chaos he has created over the last two years on the border. >> others believe this is at a breaking point. something has to give. >> we are not securing the border, we are not enforcing laws,

john roberts reporting live at the white house. john? >> trace, good afternoon thou. it's unclear why the president decided that he was going to talk about his conversations with don mcgahn on twitter this morning. the white house has been behind the scenes crafting what they believe will be a strong case to try to keep mcgahn away from capitol hill by exerting and asserting executive privilege. the president talking about hi private conversations may put that in jeopardy. he said as been incorrectly reported by the fake news media, i never told don mcgahn to fire mueller. if i wanted to fire mueller, i didn't need mcgahn to do it. i could have done it myself. gerald nadler has been making the case that the white house is already waived any claim to executive privilege by allowing the mueller report and all of the citations related to mcgahn to be made public. the president tweeting about what he didn't or didn't tell mcgahn only potentially inviting more scrutiny. the president has talked about this before. in january of 2018. here's the citation about that from the m

. ♪ >> the "los angeles times" reported today mccord implicated two nixon aides and white house counsel john knowledge of the break-in. >> it's hard to put events of this magnitude in perspective. nevertheless, the scandal has now moved right to the doorway of the oval office in the white house. >> the president has asked me to announce that he is, today, receiving -- sorry. that the president has, today, requested and accepted the resignation of john dean from his position of the white house counsel. okay. >> good evening. in recent months, members of my administration and officials of the committee for the re-election of the president, including some of my closest friends and most trusted aides, have been charged with involvement in what has come to be known as the watergate affair. in any organization, the man at the top must bear the responsibility. that responsibility, therefore, belongs here in this office. i accept it. and i pledge to you tonight from this office that i will do everything in my power to ensure that the guilty are brought to justice and that such abuses are purged from

ellison barber is at the white house now with more. >> ellison: john president trump has spoken about the attack a number of times in the last 24 hours he's talked about it on twitter here at the white house on the south lawn as well, as at that campaign rally in wisconsin. he told the crowd there in wisconsin that the evil of anti-semitism and hate must be defeated. president trump: tonight, america's heart is with the victims of the horrific synagogue shooting in poway, california just happened. our entire nation mourns the loss of life. we forcefully condemn the evil of anti-semitism and hate, which must be defeated. >> ellison: the president said law enforcement's response was both courageous and incredible. he singled out an off-duty border patrol agent for bravely returning fire. the president said that officer helped to disrupt the attack, and save lives before leaving the white house yesterday, president trump described the attack as a hate crime and said it was hard to believe. president trump: my deepest sympathies go to the people that were affected, the families, their lov

first, john roberts live at the white house. hi, john. >> good afternoon. the president has been hearing a lot of criticism from both sides of the political idea over the idea of shutting down the border, this is all about leverage. going into this morning, the white house was still talking about potentially shutting down the border. the president, as you pointed out, did appear to take that off the table in the late morning when he met with a group of people on opportunity zones in the cabinet room. the president saying he's going to give mexico one year to take care of the problems of illegal migrants of coming through the country or he would slap tariffs from cars coming up from mexico. a lot of u.s. manufacturers build cars in mexico. if that didn't work, putting tariffs on cars, he would shut down the border. the president said there's, of course, a new trade deal between the united states and mexico that has not been ratified by congress. he said this idea of national security is more important than trade. listen here. >> now, we have a deal, usmca. i

she white house correspondent john roberts is at the white house tonight. >> in the oval office, presidents >> i know nothing about wikileaks. it's not my thing. i know there is something having to do with julian assange. i know nothing really about him. it's not my deal in life. >> during the 2016 campaign, the president had plenty to say about wikileaks. >> i love wikileaks! some brutal stuff, i'd read it to you. wikileaks unveils horrible, horrible things about he really clinton. wikileaks is amazing, shows she's a real liar. wikileaks has done a job on her. >> it's unclear why ecuador suddenly decided to evict julian assange, but two cochlear events in the timeline, the finding of no collusion by the mueller investigation, and last july's trip to meet the new president of ecuador, where the two leaders discussed barr's alleged crimes. >> the united states has always cherished our relationship with the ecuadorians. and we are determined to renew that relationship for the mutual benefit of both our nations. >> the president says he trust attorney general william barr to handle the assange

after the nixon white house tried to block nixon aides including john dean from testifying to that committee, sam ervin literally called the press conference and said he would issue arrest warrants for any white house officials who didn't turn up to testify. and of course, we know they did ultimately turn up to testify. but i mean, even looking at the whole historical record on that and the number of times that's been hinted at or threatened, we're there. we have already jumped right to the point where subpoenas are being defied and jail is being threatened. i mean, right away, we are up to that point again within eight days of the redacted mueller report being made public. and it still is only the redacted version. and don't worry, you are not the only one who may be feeling a little shaky about where the country is headed next here given how fast we seem to be careening down this cul-de-sac. ultimately, the issues of accountability for what we have just been through are very much still in process. that doesn't even necessarily feel like a process but at least feels like they're still in mo

john dean had been nixon's white house counsel. president nixon tried to keep john dean from testifying after they called him to come testify before the watergate committee. nixon held a press conference and said of course he would object to dean testifying. he said quote no president could ever agree to allow the counsel of the president to go down and testify before a committee. of course he felt that way. it was a nice try from nixon, but it didn't work. it didn't work thanks in part to the response it earned from sam irvin that was the head of the watergate committee in the senate at the time. >> he let loose a blast which people will be talking about for sometime. ervin said none no circumstances will he accept unsworn testimony and if subpoenas are issued for white house aids and those aids don't appear, he will ask the senate to issue warrants for their arrest. >> oh, you want to stop white house staff from giving sworn testimony, mr. president, we will arrest them. we will arrest your white house aids and your former white h

white house says it is time to move on. sources tell fox news they intend to fight a subpoena democrats issued to john mcgann. white house told carl klein, the former chief of white house personnel security to the fry a subpoena issued by the oversight committee, klein did not show up in the scheduled deposition. in a brand-new interview with the washington post donald trump says he does not want current or former white house aides providing testimony to congressional panels. donald trump said comply with the request is unnecessary after the white house cooperated with the special counsel. as for the mister position elijah cummings says the committee may schedule a vote to hold mister klein in contempt of congress. shannon: mueller's investigation and the partisan posturing that followed it worse than russian interference? let's turn to nelson and former cia station chief dan hoffman. good to have you here. what about the idea this was russia's plan all along, to create chaos and division, you have both sides of the aisle at each other's throat. in some way, there were attempts to directly influence the electi

anybody who had anything to do with johnson john kelly, the former chief of staff in the white house, is being run out of this administration. >> and, john heilemann, this is part of a much big are plan for donald trump and something that they've talked about, "they" being donald trump and jared kushner and people around them for a long time. that is a suspicion of professionals, a suspicion of state department professionals, of bureaucratic professionals. when you'd ask them, well, who is going to run it, well, we are, we're going to run it all from here. this is more of the same. looks like steven miller may be -- tell me, is it steven miller running dhs from the white house? >> it looks like that's the case. >> there's a suspicion of professionals and suspicion of people who are career servants, people who have policy experience and understand the way the government works. part of what he apparently is upset about is the fact he has appointees in place who heaven forbid think there is such a thing as the rule of law. so the president tells the secretary of homeland security he want

john roberts at the white house where this is going down. john? >> neil, good afternoon to you.s interesting, this

ana, back to you. >> joe johns at the white house. joined by former federal prosecutor and cnn legal analyst laura coates and white house correspondent for reuters jeff mason. jeff, let me start with you. sarah sanders has said we consider this to be case closed. that is a direct quote. are they justified in thinking that? >> i'm not sure they're justified in thinking that. i think that's the position of the white house, but that's certainly not the position of democrats. i think you're going to continue to see pushback from the democrats on that, probably for some time. >> so if the white house believes it's case closed, why is trump still hammering on the dishonest and treasonous, fraudulent and phony russian witch hunt? >> number one, he feels that the conclusions that attorney general bar laid out are the ones he cares about the most. the rest of the world and no doubt the white house as well is curious to see what's in that report. he feels it's case closed because of the top line headlines that came out a few weeks ago. that's w

joe johns joins us outside the white house with more. we've learned a lot over the last 24 hours about howe exactly this went down. what can you tell us? >> reporter: absolutely true, poppy and also important to say that out in front the administration is trying to put the best face on it. kevin hassett, the economicing adviser to the president, who had a lot to say last week about the debate to close the border was out here saying nothing to see here, things running smoothly, people come and go at the white house, even kind words for kirstjen nielsen. cnn's kaitlan collins, my colleague here at the white house for cnn reporting that everyone from the president's chief of staff, nick mulvaney, to the influential adviser steven miller, to the national security adviser john bolton had either butted heads with kirstjen nielsen or otherwise was critical of kirstjen nielsen and the way she was operating over at homeland security. so clear she was isolated here at the white house. also very true that she didn't have a lot of friends on capitol

. >> one of the most stunning things about this scandal is john kelly and former white house counsel don mcgahn are on the record against overruling the process. they wrote contemporaneous memos security clearances were rejected for jared kushner knowing that at the highest levels of the white house staff we might arrive at in moment and getting on the record as being -- >> it's about the corruption of the process. are there going to be top secrets that go out the door to the iranians because there's a secret spy in the white house? no. i disagree with the idea there's house-of-thousands of secrets at jeopardy. what's disturbing about it is the corruption of the process and the fact this is about conflicts of interest. it's not about secrets. it's about the fact this guy got a security clearance and he has business in saudi arabia. he's reading top secret material about saudi arabia. he has business in india and he's reading top secret stuff about india. it's a conflict of interest. the highest levels of people should know that. one of the things having gone through this process and

as well as luxury living quarters in the middle of the train there's a special room for him john wife and white next to separate carts for body guards there are two restaurants one is for the supreme leader himself and the second one is for the and tired delegation there's even a special section for the leaders limo and they're the one that we saw on the station square that massive armored vehicles can actually fit into one of those. well it turns out that in a sense cam john is counting on vladimir putin as a kind of a middleman in delivering his messages to the rest of the world leadership it looks like chairman kim is hoping that his message will get all the way to washington through russia as well to some german king also be directly to tell the us about his position and about the questions he has in connection with the situation on the korean peninsula we also found out that the russian leader as confident that pyongyang essential desire is international. security guarantees guarantees for sovereignty and when it comes to dating poor ization according to mr putin the only way forward is th

. >> john, the white house says this is the first finished section of the president's border wall.about 2 miles

john. >> good morning. the whiteweek to deliver a proposal to the president for a merit-based immigration system for the united states. the president, of course, has been calling for a merit-based immigration system since the campaign. he points to countries like canada, australia, new zealand, all of which have a points-based immigration system. the president also wants to end the visa lottery program and chain migration. both of which draw fierce opposition from democrats but the president is saying, as you mentioned at the top. the roaring american economy is enticing people to head for the united states in numbers that we haven't seen in decades and the need to change the laws is greater than ever. listen here. >> president trump: our laws are so bad the combination of having a great economy and having the weakest immigration laws anywhere in the world by far and we have catch and release and we have chain migration and visa lottery. we have things that nobody in their right mind would have. we're trying to get r

>> as the country watched white house counsel john dean turn on his president. >> i began by telling a cancer growing on the presidency. >> dean testified that the watergate burglars were blackmailing white house aides. >> the white house was now being directly subject to blackmail and i didn't know how to handle it. >> i told him i could only make an estimate that it might be as high as a million dollars or more. he told me that that was no problem. >> it was john dean's word against the president of the united states. >> for nothing less than richard nixon's presidency may ride on whether the public believes john dean or not. >> most republicans continued to stand by their president. but then, from a little known white house aide a dramatic twist. >> my name is alexander porter butterfield. >> are you aware of the installation of any listening devices in the oval office of the president? >> i was aware of listening devices, yes, sir. >> it was a bombshell. >> the pressure is on the president to produce those tapes. >> had it not been for the tapes i'm convinced richard nixon would

chief white house correspondent john roberts starts us off tonight with an idea called everything fromitically brilliant to despicable and criminal. good evening, john. >> john: john. >> john: everybody has got an opinion as to what is going on. as to whether the president is blocking or calling a bluff, it might be a bit of both. but the president is thinking about doing seems to be illegal. but that's not stopping the president from threatening to do it. >> in the roosevelt room today, president trump made it official. he is considering moving illegal immigrants from the border to states and cities, he says, should welcome them. >> we are giving strong consideration to helping people after a 20 day period because again you are not allowed legally to hold them for more than that. we will move them to sanctuary cities. >> john: 20s states, those towns have lost policies or practices to make it difficult for the federal government to enforce immigration laws. the whole speaker whose district is in a sanctuary city ripped the president for trifling with people's lives. >> this adjust ano

roberts reporting live from the white house. john?it's been 21 years ago since there was talk about impeaching a president after a special counsel released a report. the president taking on the talk swirling around washington. he said only high crimes and misdemeanors can lead to impeachment. there were no crimes by me, no collusion, no obstruction. you can't impeach. it was the democrats that committed the crimes, not your republican president. tables are finally turning on the witch hunt. the democrats are split over the idea of taking on impeachment proceedings. many remember what happened to republicans after they impeached president clinton 20 years ago. he was acquitted by the senate in that letter to her democratic colleagues, nancy pelosi writing "while our views range from proceeding to investigate the findings of the mueller report or proceeding to impeachment, we agree that we should proceed around a path of finding the truth." listen to this. "it's also important to know that the facts holding the president accountable can