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if he can't, that accrues to michael cohen's credibility, not don, jr.'s. >> particularly when michael cohen went under oath before and said what he had to say while he was facing jail time and he was now in prison. thank you both. next, so what was donald trump doing while he was losing a billion dollars over 10 years? would you believe flipping through fabric swatches? the ghost writer paints a picture of a bored failing businessman and joins me here in two minutes. two minutes. >> in the wake of the "new york times" piece, donald trump's billion with a b losses over a decade. we are still wrestling with is he a tax cheat or a stunningly bad business person? charles leerson, the ghost writer for donald trump's 1990 book, surviving at the top, shared htsz observations from the era. trump's apparent deep preoccupation with fabric swatches. to a surprisingly large extent was him looking at fabric swatches. some days he did it for hours. the main thing was that they were within his comfort zone where as the management of hotels and airlines wasn't. here's t

if he can't, that accrues to michael cohen's credibility, not don, jr.'s. >> when michael cohen went under oath before and said what he had to say while he was facing jail time and he was now in prison. thank you both. next, so what was donald trump doing while he was losing a billion dollars over 10 years? would you believe flipping through fabric swatches? the ghost writer paints a picture of a bored failing businessman and joins me here in two minutes. businessman and joins me here in two minutes. eks with mavyret, i was cured and left those doubts behind. i faced reminders of my hep c every day. but in only 8 weeks with mavyret, i was cured. even hanging with friends i worried about my hep c. but in only 8 weeks with mavyret, i was cured. mavyret is the only 8-week cure for all common types of hep c. before starting mavyret your doctor will test if you've had hepatitis b which may flare up and cause serious liver problems during and after treatment. tell your doctor if you've had hepatitis b, a liver or kidney transplant, other liver problems, hiv-1,

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jr. tell the same lies to the intelligence committee about trump tower moscow? if so, why was michael cohen prosecuted for that and donald trump jr. has not been, right? it's not an unreasonable question in these circumstances where michael cohen is literally locked up right now in a federal prison cell for that and donald trump jr. is still out in the wild with these questions still outstanding about the veracity of his testimony on that same topic. but the intelligence committee, the senate intelligence committee, they did at least try to arrange for donald trump jr. to come back in and clarify his testimony. there were reportedly protracted negotiations about him coming back in on a voluntary basis. he reportedly stood the committee up and refused to come back in on a voluntary basis. that's what led to this recent subpoena ordering him to testify, whether he wanted to or not. now, the white house and donald trump jr. have been signaling that they would resist that subpoena among all the other subpoenas they want resisted as well, sh but now tonight, they do appear to have come to

jr. discussing the project in moscow. michael cohen telling committees and they talked about it much more frequently when don, jr. admitted in the house committee. >> by standing firmly behind it, they are defending congress's right to fulfill oversight supports. "the washington post" reports that negotiations over the testimony dragged on. he believed they were defying the authority. trump allies are saying the republican shouldn't cross the president's family. what is this? the roman ofs? a person said catch this. no lawyer would allow the pr stunt from a republican senator, too cowardly to stand up to his boss. and the rest of the resistance democrats. these guys sound like thugs and characters out of a memberster movie. several filed suit including house minority leader kevin mccarthy. congressman, this gets to the thing i wondered about. why don't they stand up to congress to get to the truth with their oversight? why don't they have the integrity. they are on the side of the congress when it comes to the constitution. he tr

michael cohen. what i worry about don jr. e use michael cohen testimony we will be going after everybody in america. richard burr is a wonderful fellow. my problem is not with richard burr. >> sean: i have a problem with richard burr. you and i differ here. >> i don't. >> sean: he spent 30 hours. now somebody that again, admitted to lying before congress, okay? >> right. >> then a criminal referral went forward by jim jordan and mark meadows about the second appearance. and so at this point, all right. i want to ask you this: so we are going to, in the days ahead. we are going to get the fisa applications. grassley, graham memo. bulk of the application is hillary bought and paid, unverified dossier which even the dossier's author doesn't stand by. then we will get the 302 meeting notes with ohr and christopher steele. then we are going to get the gang of 8 material which i understand is not really good about the fbi admitting things they did wrong. the fourth bracket we talk about are a series of emails that have some really s

michael cohen opened up. that the original testimony according to reports from don, jr. didn't match. he trump tower in russia that he led on. they had been in negotiationso talk about this. the president's son said i already said everything i'm going to say. now they're trying to get him in. what does it tell but the tenor, how close we are to being done with all of this? >> we're not close according to that but it very much smacks of the same attitude that is going on in the house which is controlled by democrats which is, that mueller is not the end of anything. mueller is just the start of a whole new second round. mueller instead of being the holy grail is just given us, you know, more road maps. i think this is the attitude. as i say, it's a surprise to see richard burr go down that line because, first of all, if it all hangs on michael cohen, here is a man who is going to federal prison, is in federal prison for lying to congress among other things, about this very issue. melissa: very true. so while we have you here, you have an op-ed in the "new york post" that says, quote, we

jr. told his father about this trump tower meeting. michaelen says he believes he did but didn't have, you know, any proof of it, and don jr. also told the committee that he was peripherally involved in the trump tower project in moscow, whereas cohen said that he briefed don jr. and ivanka about ten times on it. so if i had to guess, i would be -- i would think those are a couple of the issues that the committee wanted to go back at him on. >> you know jeffrey toobin, you heard kara say maybe there is one option, maybe he would answer written questions that were posed by the senate intelligence committee. do you think that's enough for chairman burr? >> it might be. chairman burr is not someone who likes to pick fights with the president of the united states and that may be a face-saving compromise for all concerned, but let's just talk about the law. i mean, the law is not that, well, i spoke to you once, i don't have to speak to you again. it is routine for people to be subpoenaed repeatedly to the grand jury or any other proceeding so the

i mean, we don't know if michael cohen right now is aware of the news that donald trump jr. was just subpoenaed to testify to the senate intelligence committee. he is reportedly planning to defy that subpoena and dpas legal consequences for doing so. i mean, does michael cohen know that? i mean, michael cohen has just gone to prison and, remember, michael cohen has just gone to prison in part for arranging to pay hush money to two women right before the presidential election. donald trump jr. is one of the people who actually signed the checks that paid for that whole hush money scheme. but donald trump jr. is at large. michael cohen is in prison. michael cohen is also in prison now for lying to the intelligence committees about the trump tower moscow real estate deal that he worked to arrange throughout the campaign while the president was publicly maintaining that he had no business deals in russia. well, this week donald trump jr. is facing that subpoena to come back and testify again to the senate intelligence committee, reportedly specifically about trump tower moscow be

jr.'s testimony. the other is, in the mueller report, michael cohen said he heard donald trump jr. telling his father about the meeting with russians in trump tower before the meeting occurred. that's also in the mueller report. that's not something that donald trump jr. said to either committee when he spoke to the committees. are those the areas that you'd like to clarify with donald trump? >> those are certainly some of the areas. one of the issues we had with don jr. was his simple refusal to answer whole categories of questions. and this was not the case alone with don jr. steve bannon did the same thing, corwin lewandowski, hope hicks, there were whole sets of questions that these witnesses refused to answer. and this, again, proves just what a falsehood it is when bill barr talks about how cooperative the president has been with the investigations. these witnesses often told us that they would not answer the questions under instructions from the white house. we would ask them, are you asserting some sort of privilege? they would say, no, we've just been asked basically not t

jr. and michael cohen are friends? >> no, it was not well-known, but it's clearly the case, and they've had a friendship that's gone back years. you've seen that the follow wells put out a statement that it's a long-standing friendship. i think they met back in 2012. >> before we get to anything else, isn't that a little weird? i don't think of people moving in the same social circles, but somehow they've been friends even before the whole trump thing happened or trump ran for office. >> well, it's before -- they met in the context of donald trump. >> okay. >> when trump was down in 2012, it was in 2012 that trump gave the convocation at liberty university, and that's where he really came on the stage with falwell. >> i see. >> and michael cohen happened to be there. he was there at that event. so, yes, it's an interesting friendship. it's not what you'd assume. the one lives in virginia. one an evangelical, one a lawyer. >> kind of different guys. here is the second question. so that actually provides a kind of econom

think about someone like michael cohen and the fact that he's in jail in part for lying to congress, does that create a credibility issue including in terms of bringing donald trump jr. back? >> maybe. just because michael cohen lied doesn't necessarily mean donald trump jr. lied, as well. but i think it's worth if there are discrepancies pursuing those -- either whether to hold donald trump jr. accountable or to learn the truth. if you take a careful lead at the mueller report -- careful read at the mueller report it appears that donald trump jr. invoked his fifth amendment right not to testify before the grand jury. that's a little bit of speculation reading between the redactions and some of the footnotes. he has every right to do that. if he is going to so invoke the fifth amendment, maybe he needs to do so publicly in front of the senate committee, as well. >> and i want to pivot quickly to this revelation, this story in "the new york times" where reports that the president's outside attorney, rudolph giuliani, is planning a trip to ukraine, quote, mr. giuliani wants to meet with the nation's president elect to urge him to pursue inquiries from the white house

jr. testified that he didn't tell his father about that trump tower meeting to get dirt on hillary clinton. and yet in the mueller report on page 115 it states that michaelbeing in a meeting where don jr. and trump talked about a meeting to get adverse clinton information. >> you know, i think if you're don jr. that's why you don't want to go testify. there are things that you said, probably may have said even in your previous interview with the committee staff and those might not line up with other statements and other information that's come out. we know that michael cohen has also togld investigators that donald trump jr. has more knowledge about the moscow project than he's previously let on. and you've got people on the senate intelligence committee saying he came once for a staff interview, the plan always was to get him on the record in public in front of senators. so they don't see what this excuse is about. it will be interesting to see how this plays out. is he taking the fifth? we don't know yet. >> jack, i'll bring you in now. mueller declined to prosecute don jr. but we did learn new details about the lead-up to the trump tower meeting with

trump, jr., could face questions about his previous testimony. trump associates like rick gates and michael cohen disputing some of trump jr.'s answers. a source close to trump jr. slamming the committee led by richard burr in a fiery statement writing, quote, it is an obvious p.r. stunt from a so-called republican senator too cowardly to stand up to his boss mark warner and the rest of the resistance democrats on the committee. this comes as a constitutional showdown between the president and the house democrats heats up >> the house of representatives find william barr, attorney general, u.s. department of justice in contempt. >> reporter: voting to hold william barr in contempt after barr's refusal to hand over the full unredacted mueller report and underlying evidence to congress. >> we have talked for a long time about approaching a constitutional crisis. we are now in it. >> reporter: the vote coming after president trump claims executive privilege for the first time blocking the release of the unredacted mueller report jerry nadler calling the move unprecedented. >> we are not overre

jr. said he did not tell the president, then the candidate, that the meeting was happening despite the fact that michael cohen has testified that he was in the office with donald trump, the candidate, when trump jr. called and reported what sounded like the preparations for that meeting. and then two days after that conversation, donald trump is saying that soon he's going to share information that's going to become public about clinton. that's one category. but the other is that he directly and specifically in response to a question about whether or not there had been campaign contact with other foreign governments to help the campaign, he basically said, no, he said he was not aware of any. >> and michael cohen said he briefed ivanka and don jr. ten times -- >> on the moscow project. also in 2016 he had a meeting with a representative representing saudi arabia and unit arab emirates. all apparently in context with how to help the campaign. so if he is -- he should be, should be in danger of a perjury charge from the senate intel committee. >> if my boss texted me right now and said could you come to m

jr. already testified. if you have conflicting statements -- >> discrepancies. >> yes. from michael cohen, don jr., it doesn't matter if you're a journalist, in the legal field, law he -- >> whatever you do. >> -- if there's a correctio contradiction, you follow up and keep asking questions. >> and with respect to mueller, i would like to see mueller in my audience. no, you compare the mueller investigation to the senate intel committee. let's be clear from anybody we heard that ever served on the intel committee in the house and senate it's not particularly political. historically they were there to do their job. but we know republicans are not there doing their job. they're not enforcing the constitution rule of law. they are completely partisan on the intel committee. russia interfered for our election and they're covering for the president, who was covering for russia, working with them. the quote from burr, i had a strong relationship with north carolina and burr and i'm surprised he's doing his job. he's doing his job. >> ken, you mentioned the case being closed and what mitch

they're trying to square his previous testimony with what michael cohen said, which was that donald trump jr.'s knowledge of the development was more extensive than he said it was. he also made public statements where he said we basically didn't know about this project. so they're trying to square that. this subpoena was issued about three weeks ago, is my understanding, and there's been some toing and froing between the two of them. and now donald trump jr.'s allies are beak building a campaign against richard burr. we've seen quite a few republican lawmakers come out firing shots at him. so this is a civil war inside the republican party in the last 24 hours. >> i wasn't going to start this. i was going to do the fact check. let me put up what you're talking about. this is the statement from donald trump jr. -- or a source close to him. don is a private citizen who's already been cleared by mueller after a two year investigation. no lawyer would ever agree to allow their client to participate in what is an obvious pr stunt from a so-called republican senator. richard burr is sort of -- one

he has said he knew very little, but the president's former lawyer, michael cohe t went to e had briefed donald trump jren times about that. meantime, we're also following the president's comments last night at a rally in florida, a campaign rally. he talked about aid to florida after hurricane michael, saying that the federal government will pay for 90% of that. but he also said that puerto rico has no reason to complain about its hurricane cleanup. >> that's puerto rico, and they don't like me. i have a great relationship with the peopleey've treated all of the standpoint of their leaders because they complained. they want more money. they got $91 million. it's the largest amount of money ever given for a hurricane. >> reporter: now, for florida's hurricane cleanup, the president says the federal government will pay, but they'll have to get some cooperation from democrats to get that through congress. frances? >> tracie, thank you. >>> the battle between the white house and house democrats just hit a major turning point. the president asserting executive privilege using his presidential power to block

jr. right? like michael cohen basically called him a lawyer and burr is offering him this opportunity to show up in front of the committee and confront the convicted liar and default. if he can't do that, then all he has to do is take the dave chappelle one, two, three, four, fail. >> i am sorry, you did that wrong. let's go to joyce. let me read a statement from a source close to don jr. not don jr. don is a private citizen who has already been cleared by mueller after a two year investigation. a source close to don jr. who is so brave that he had a source close to don jr. anonymously call someone a coward. joyce vance, is what this source close to don jr. true, that no lawyer would allow his client to comply with a lawful subpoena? >> every lawyer would compel his client to comply with a lawful s&p. as a lawyer you can move to quash a s&p. you can assert an immunity argument. but if your client is s&ped and doesn't show up there are consequences. i would expect congress will impose consequences on donald t

jr. about what michael cohen, a convicted felon, told the committee. today is the deadline for the department of justice to hand over an unredacted version of the mueller report to the house intelligence committee. it's unclear what is going to happen but we should get more information this afternoon. at the same time, the white house council is sending a letter to gerald nadler today in response to a request for documents nadler sent out. he lays out all the reasons he believes nadler has no basis to ask for the documents related to the mueller request, that runs afoul of executive privilege and that congress can't just go around conducting criminal investigations. in the letter, he says the committee has not articulated any purpose for pursuing inquiries that duplicate subjects that were the subject of the special counsel inquiry. it is to aid and evaluate legislation, not to harass political opponents or pursue an unauthorized doover of exhaustive law enforcement investigations conducted by the department of justice. now, in this letter, the white h

jr.. the committee wants donald trump's oldest son to answer questions about the 2017 testimony abouruearlier this ye president's former lawyer michael he had briefed trump, jr. as many as ten times about a plan to build a trump tower in moscow. the younger trump told the senate panel two years ago he was only quote peripherally aware of the proposal. >>> president trump says federal help is on the way to florida to help people recover from hurricane michael. the president spoke at a rally at panama city hit hard by a category 5 hurricane back in october. he said the government will provide $448 million the in disaster reef to help communities get back on their feet. >> i am doing the most allowed by law to support the people of florida. because of the severity of the storm -- category 5 -- we will have the federal government pay for of the cost in many circumstances. >> 25 people were killed in the storm. about 70% of homes were destroyed by the hurricane that made landfall in mexico beach on october 10, 2018. >>> the time is 6:47. starting this summer drug makers will be liared to release the price of prescription drugs in tv ads,

meanwhile michael cohen said he discussed in detail this project with don jr. and ivanka. so not democrats but republicans on the senate intel committee, richard burr, hey don jr., come down, we need to discuss it. the president said no way jose, don jr. said no way jose, and now that's changed. >> it has changed. one thing that troubles me is it looks like they're going to let don jr. set the terms of the scope of the congressional oversight. which what witness gets served with a congressional subpoena and then gets the set of terms of his own interview? >> i'll tell you what witness, the witness who's the son of the sitting president when the committee is led by republicans and he's a republican in the white house. >> yeah, and that's why this smells even more like a continued cover-up, not like a legitimate effort to really dig in to what this administration has been doing. when i heard this is more of a private interview with the senators and topics will be limited, and the time frame will be limited, i mean that's not the kind of treatment that we accord witnesses who

taped conversation reviewed by "reuters" which nbc news has not obtained, michael cohen is reportedly heard saying jerry falwell jrgraphs, personal photographs, from becoming public. i actually have one of the photo photos,michael cohen said, without going into specifics, it's terrible. falwell declined to comment through the article but his attorney denied the report in the "washington post." quote, while the falwells have a long-standing friendship with michael cohen they never engaged or paid cohen to represent them in any likely or other professional -- legal or other professional capacity, and cohen did not resolve a legal matter on their batehalf." was the legal photograph connected to that in some form or fashion? that's what we asked "reuters." >> there is no link that we could find between the fact that there was an endorsement and this claim that michael cohen had assisted the falwells in this other matter involving these personal photographs that they didn't want exposed. >> i think chris hayes' eyebrows say it all there. no clear link. tim, your reaction to the story -- >> wow. >> you drew the short st

. >> lisa: one aspect is michael cohen said he told don jr.mp tower project at least ten times. don jr. told congress he had only heard about it peripherally. that's something they should look into. or has this already been exhausted? >> david: how would you even get it through court? when you got michael cohen, a disgraced witness in many ways. go back to the trump tower meeting. here's what happened at the meeting. nothing. they were emailing his assistant, "get me out of this meeting." nothing invalid was given. just like any of the campaign, somebody says they have something, it goes nowhere. on top of that, mueller devoted hundreds of hours to that meeting. but how much did he devote to christopher steele on the.ca? >> kennedy: they have the opportunity to issue further indictments before he closes the report, and he didn't. don jr., if you broke the law, could have been indicted. >> lisa: more "outnumbered" in just a moment. don't tell your mother. dad, it's fine. we have allstate. and with claimrateguard they won't raise your rates just

jr. made related to a june 2016 trump tower meeting with russian individuals who are claiming they had dirt on hillary clinton as well as discussions he may or may not have had with michael cohen related to a potential trump tower in moscow. now, both of those issues were issues that donald trump jr. testified about previously. he's testified in front of three committees for dozens of hours. we know right now that while the committee has subpoenaed donald trump jr. there is currently a standoff. donald trump jr. is not planning on continuing to capitol hill. the considerations are either pleading the fifth or not showing up at all. based on the statements that sources close to donald trump jr. have released attacking the republican chair of the committee richard burr making clear in their eyes this was a pr stunt. it doesn't look like this standstill is going to change anytime soon. basically things aren't actually over. the case not quite closed. guys. >> all right, not quite closed. phil, thank you for that. the next subpoena could have bob mueller's name on it. democrats are determined to hear from the special counsel, but president trump is trying to block his testim

jr. believes they want to compare what michael cohen is in jail for lying to congress and compare what he said to what don jr. said, that the president didn't know about the trump tower meeting and donald trump jr. had only peripheral involvement in the trump tower moscow project. it appears that is exactly what democrats want to do. listen to senator richard blumenthal of connecticut. >> i want to hear about what the truth is as to what he said to his father about the meeting in trump towers with russian agents. why he said he was only peripherally aware with the moscow negotiations when he was in the thick of it. he truly misled the judiciary committee. now he needs to be held accountable. >> the source that we spoke to donald trump jr. says if the committee needs the information, donald trump jr. will find a way to get it to them. the source questioned is the committee looking for a sound bite or are they looking for the information here. at the same time that this is going on, democrats are now trying to figure out when to schedule a vote in the entire house of representatives to hold

jr. claimed he did not know muchch about that atat all w whe testified in front of the senate judiciary y committee. michael cohen, trump's ford motor lawyer, said that was not -- trump''s former lawyer, said that is not true in that donny knew a great deal ababout this. at the v very least, there is te potential for pererjury invevestigation because it is possible that donny did nonot tl the truth to the senate judiciary committee but i don't think we know more yet about what they intend a probe or what not be revealed when donnie eventually testifies. no me go back to the house vote in this question of executive privilege. how does the current situation compare to what happened when president obama asserted executive privilege in 2012 to block the release of documents related to secretive than running sting operation called fast and furious? the house voted at the time 255 to 67 donald attorney general eric holder in contempt of congress. four years later, district court judge ruled against obama's assertion of executive privilege. ian millhiser, your response? >> so i thinks actually there are a lot o of

jr.'s orbit. he was pushing it with michael cohen. michael cohen now has testimony out there of which he says don jr., i briefed him almost a dozen times on trump tower meeting. that goes to the question of why was the trump campaign so willing to accommodate russia during the election? it was because they had business interests that they were presuming they would continue under the belief that donald trump would lose. so both of those are huge issues that are simply contradicted by too many others for the senate committee to ignore and one would suspect that don jr. has to take the fifth so that he doesn't perjure himself. >> i want to play something that don jr. said about the mueller report. >> the mueller report came out. that's the bible. the mueller report came out. and they said he did nothing wrong. the only thing is it's oppo research. >> he's got schizophrenia when it comes to the mueller report and sometimes it's the bible and a complete load of lies. it depends on the day when you ask him, i suppose. the reality is mueller

senate judiciary committee and the sworn accounts of other people, particularly michael cohen and rick gates, about donald trump jr.'s account of the trump tower moscow project that michael cohen was working on during the campaign, and also what the president's son told people about that trump tower meeting in new york and whether he explained it was about the russians offering dirt. not enough to charge donald trump jr. with perjury, but certainly senators want to ask him about. >> our team just caught up with senator richard blumenthal in the capital. peter, stick around for this. he said if don junior does not comply, he ought to be put in jail. how does that work? how would that be a possibility? what would have to happen? >> well, the full senate would have to vote him in contempt, which is a big question because, again, the senate is run by the republicans. if that happens, that would be referred to the u.s. attorney. now, in the case of william barr, the u.s. attorney will not prosecute a contempt citation against his boss, the attorney general. in the case of a private citizen like donald trump jr., there'

michael cohen recalled being in donald j. trump's office when trump jr. told his father that a meeting to obtain adverse information about clinton was going forward. cohen did not recall trump jr. saying the meeting was connected to russia. the tenor trump jr. had previously discussed the meeting with his father although cohen was not involved in any sucherings request. in a meeting with senate judiciary committee trump jr. stated he did not inform his father about the e-mails or the upcoming meeting. similarly nets manafort nor kushner recalled candidate meeting with trump jr., answered questions no recollection of learning at the time manafort kushner participated in a meeting 2016 potential negative information about hillary clinton. veselnitskaya was in new york on june 9th, 2016 for appelt proceedings in a civil forfeiture litigation. veselnitskaya called a soviet born u.s. lobbyist -- redacted. when she learned he was in new york, invited him to lunch. he told office worked on issues related to magnitsky aktd and worked on litigation. a russian born

jr. needs to come before our committee again because i am of the opinion that he was not truthful in talking to the committee. now the real question is, we have michael cohen who lied to our committee and is now in prison, and the question becomes is somehow donald trump jr. going to be treated differently because he's the son of the president and lied to the committee? that's the question that should be asked. >> well, you, i'm sure, have gone back and take ann closer look at what he told your intelligence committee. specifically what did he lie about supposedly? >> i think he should be given an opportunity to testify more specifically to the committee. he also had a lapse of memory more often than not when he testified before our committee, but there were a number of times when he was not truthful to our committee, and the mueller report actually makes that very clear. >> what was it about, the trump tower meeting or something else? >> yes, it was the trump tower meeting and his engagement in the campaign. >> the subpoena for the son of the president of the united states, that's obviously very, very extraordinary. how far can the senate intelligenc

committee wants a complete do over to compare his testimony to what they heard from michael cohen some months back. donald trump jr. believes it's unreasonable. the president weighed in today on the possibility special counsel robert mueller testified before congress, saying that it's up to attorney general william barr whether he does that. bret? >> bret: john roberts live in the north lawn. that meeting happening with the chinese. if anything comes from it, we'll bring it like to you here on "special report." the trade war kept the stocks in the red today. the dow down 450-point before finishing up 149. the nasdaq also plunged early before settling at minus 33. president trump renewed his attack on democrats on the obama administration on the russia probe. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge looks at the focus of justice is now shifting towards investigating the investigators. >> a source familiar with the matter confirms the fox news that the investing that was used to secure a surveillance warrant in three renewals for trump campaign aids. based on the heavily redacted records, the first survei

as you recall, michael cohen told congress he believed donald trump jr. did tell his father about that. i think we should congratulate and thank chairman burr for sticking to his guns here and saying if you lie to a congressional committee, we're going to drag you back here and ask you further questions about it, and if it goes into the point where we think there's purjurous testimony, they should have a referral to the department of justice. >> phil, the last point jeremy just made is so important. what do you think is the major driver that changed donald trump jr.'s mind to come in and talk? do you think it was, indeed, the kind of quiet power and authority of republican chairman burr of north carolina? >> it appears to have been just that, brian. although, there may be more to this story than we know at this hour. but this was a pretty dramatic reversal for donald trump jr. and, frankly, it surprised me because trump jr. through his allies communicated in no uncertain terms last week that he viewed this attempt to bring him back, this subpoena, as a po

michael cohen, and, yes, he might be lying, michael cohen said he briefed donald trump jr. and ivanka trump ten times on that deal. >> yes. >> we have not seen the president's taxes. one of the number one reason we want to see the president's taxes is to understand where his business interests lie. >> right. >> it is where he could be compromised, where he could be vulnerable. from seeing the taxes or what we saw of his taxes in that "new york times" report, he lost an enormous amount of money in business. he rebuilt himself as a brand of a rich and powerful guy. all of this gets you closer to understanding what motivates him. >> there's one year where he claimed $57 million in interest but there's no underlying investment that he had that would actually have held that. you know, stephanie, people are trying to get this information and it looks like it is getting harder to do so because on wednesday, yesterday, the president took the highly unusual step of exerting something called executive protective, namely the full unredacted mueller report and identifies underlying evi

michael cohen is a worthless witness and if i were donald trump jr.'s lawyer, i would tell him you don't need to go back into this environment anymore. >> democrats in the house have taken the first step to hold a sitting president accountable for crimes they may have committed. jerry nadler along with ted deutsche and eric swalwell introduced an act that would pause the statute of limitations. the no president is above the law act is an attempt to make sure presidents do not become immune to criminal charges altogether simply because they cannot be indicted while in office. the justice department has previously conclude that had a quote, sitting president is constitutionally immune from indictment and criminal prosecution. >> joining us again from washington author of the washington post's early morning news letter powerup, jackie alemany. how successful will this push to pass a bill to pause the statute of limitations on crimes by a president be given that congress is so divided? >> that's a great question, and i think it is sort of the worst kept se

reporter: trump jr., for instance, told the senate judiciary committee that he was "only peripherally aware of negotiations" over a trump tower moscow deal. his father's former lawyer, michaelohen, told a different story. >> who were the family members that you briefed on the trump tower moscow project? >> don trump jr. and ivanka trump. >> do you recall how many of these briefings there might have been? >> approximately 10. >> okay. >> in total. >> glor: so, nancy, have we gotten any indication that donald trump jr. is going to show up? >> reporter: it's very possible he could plead the fifth, jeff. we still don't know, and his father wouldn't say today. we do know that the president has advised close associates, white house officials not to comply with congressional subpoenas. and the house speaker said today that if that trend continues, the house is prepared to hold more officials in contempt of congress. >> glor: nancy cordes, thank you very much. the boston red sox visited the white house today to celebrate their world series victory. it was not without controversy. colorskipthe even as did manager alex cora, who is from puerto rico, and said he is not happy with the

jr. testified in 2017 he was only peripherally aware of the plans in moscow. but michael cohen said he briefed trump jr. on the project about ten times. the president not men shopping his son last night while rallying supporters in battleground florida. instead blasting congressional democrats. >> it was going to be like we want the mueller report. now they say murl? -- mueller report? no we want to start all over again. >> as democrats and the white house are involved in an escalating standoff with the house judiciary chairman delivering this blunt assessment. >> we're now in a constitutional crisis. >> reporter: the judiciary committee voting to hold attorney general william barr in contempt of congress for refusing to turn over the full mueller report. >> we are in danger. we need to respond. >> reporter: some democrats invoke impeachment. >> how can we impeach without getting the documents? >> reporter: but the white house is blocking the release of the full mueller report by asserting executive privilege with republicans arguing democrats are playing politics. >> let