mike conaway, someone we worked with for the last several weeks stepped in. now we have a series of ste subpoenas and the chairman says these are related to the issue of unmasking. he have hasn't said whether that pertains to russia or not. let's give him the benefit of the doubt and say it doesn't. okay. we should look into the question of unmasking. it is important that he let mike conaway of do his job and lead non-partisan. i was disappointed in the chairman's tweets. we are doing an investigation here. we are the intelligence committee. the chairman put up a tweet that said that -- >> i have it. >> fake news from media elites. you are showing it. >> seeing a lot of fake news from media elites. others have no interest of violations of american civil liberties. what do you make of this? >> it just saddens me beyond words. we on the intelligence committee has an obligation as investigators to be careful about the language we use. to be clearly impartial. all of that tweet, the word fake news and media he leelites. accusing others of no interest in civil lib

, and you'd hope it'd be mike conaway or you could have the committee vote on subpoenas. that's not what haepd. and devon nunes' signed the subpoenas that were russia related, and again that doesn't look right to my eyes. and then you have these other subpoenas for the so-called russia investigations. >> congressman, thanks very much. appreciate it. >>> coming up a string of presidential tweets. be the you who doesn't cover your moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. be the you who shows up in that dress. who hugs a friend. who is done with treatments that don't give you clearer skin. be the you who controls your psoriasis with stelara® just 4 doses a year after 2 starter doses. stelara® may lower your ability to fight infections and may increase your risk of infections and cancer. some serious infections require hospitalization. before treatment, get tested for tuberculosis. before starting stelara® tell your doctor if you think you have an infection or have symptoms such as: fever, sweats, chills, muscle aches or cough. always tell your doctor if you have any signs of inf

republican mike conaway of texas and democrat adam schiff of california are leading the house investigation. they've asked the white house counsel to confirm whether the -- to produce them toward committee by june 23. but secretary of state rex tillerson has called on saudi arabia, the united arab emirates, but frame, and egypt, to ease the blockade on qatar, saying it him as he was military efforts to combat isis. from under those countries announced plans to cut diplomatics

mike conaway and adam are working well together. there was a little blip there when there were subpoenaed issued by the chairman, around this whole issue of unmasking. that presumably has nothing to do with -- i would hope has nothing to do with the russia investigation since the chairman has said he will not involve himself in that investigation. we are proceeding. we're at a point in time in the house investigation right now where we are getting documents and reviewing documents. you don't want to interview witnesses until you have all the documentation so that you can ask informed questions and really be strategic about the order in which you interview witnesses. obviously, we will work closely with senator warner and senator burr to make sure we're not duplicatiing efforts and make sure we have all the information the other committee has. i think it's going well. >> did you know that chairman nunes could still issue subpoenas? he stepped aside from leading the russia investigation. it surprised people in the public. do you think

republican mike conaway and democrat adam schiff are leading the house investigation. they have asked the white house counsel to confirm if any tapes might exist, and if so, to produce them for the committee by june 23. >> secretary of state rex tillerson has called on saudi arabia, the united arab and to remove thept barrier on qatar. those countries announced plans to cut diplomatic ties with qatar.-- with here is the secretary's statement. secretary tillerson: good afternoon. thank all of you for your patience. i know you have been waiting for a little while.

mike conaway of texas and adam schiff of california are leading the house investigation. a have asked the white house counsel to confirm whether any tapes exist and if so, to produce them for the committee by june 23. next, live, your calls and comments on "washington journal." had a senately hearing on the proposed 28 -- 2018 budget for his department. the national intelligence director, nsa director and acting fbi director and deputy attorney general face any hearing cash at a senate hearing. -- at a senate hearing. weekend, leading civil war historians converge on gettysburg, pennsylvania to explore the civil war world for molecules. takes you to the conversation at the gettysburg college civil war institute. our all-day coverage starts today at 8:30 a.m. eastern and sunday at 9:00 a.m. eastern on c-span3's american history tv. this morning, michael consol of the roosevelt institute discusses republican efforts to overhaul the dodd frank regulations law. a review of the supreme court's decision to hear a major cell phone privacy case. later, education reporter carol bu

month since mike conaway took over. yes seeking these voluntarily right now. that's always the best way in an investigation is to have cooperation. and if that doesn't happen, then i'm sure they will consider whether a subpoena is appropriate. >> do you happen to know whether the chairman, the actual chairman of the house intelligence committee, devin nunes still has signoff on some subpoenas? do you know if he was involved with the ask for these tapes? >> i don't know if he was involved. i do know he has been signing off on some subpoenas. we still need to work with him on nonrussia related matters and he needs to have credibility when we do that. >> congressman swalwell, thanks for being was. >> my pleasure. >> let's bring in our panel right now. carl bernstein, laura coates, and professional foley, i have never quite understood what the white house is playing at here with these tapes. the president said in that initial tweet, you know, james comey better hope there were not tapes of this conversation. and the white h

national cable satellite corp. 2017] works the two leaders of the house intelligence committee mike conaway and adam schiff, gave reporters a brief.

so, we now have devin nunes out, mike conaway in as the chair of that committee. you're a ranking member on that committee. adam schiff from california said just a couple days ago he believes that now a reset button of sorts has been pushed. he's confident that conaway wants to lead this investigation in a bipartisan fashion. do you have confidence that the committee can operate in a way that will tell us ultimately what happened during this election? - well, i trust the judgment and statement of my ranking member, adam schiff. isn't he wonderful? have you seen him? he's so wonderful. and, from texas we have congressman castro on the committee as well. (crowd applauds) and, he's been wonderful in that regard. so, i'm hopeful. i have the longest experience on intelligence in the congress, been there since like the early to mid 90s as a member, and as the ranking member and also ex officio as speaker and leader. so, i know something about that territory and i trust, i think you always have to be trusting that they can be. but, what we do need and 67% of the american

the new chair, mike conaway, has worked well. >> what do you expect to see in the weeks to come? >> i want to hear from these relevant witnesses on the trump campaign that have personal, political ties to russia so we can get to the bottom of this. >> you have two issues. you have russian interference with the u.s. campaign. you have financial and business ties between the trump advisers and russians. >> yes. >> you want to get hold of that . >> we want to see if the political, personal and financial ties converge. for example, jared kushner. he was meeting with a sanctioned russian bank during the transition period. he says it was for his roles on the transition team. the bank says it was to conduct business with the kushner company. both explanations are problematic. >> how do you find out the answers? do you have the tools to get to it, or is the speculation everybody talks about for months to come? >> we need access to relevant documents. we want to make that progress with the president out-of-the- way so we can tell the american people what happened. and all this chaos in wa

the committee's top republican and top democrat, congressman mike conaway and adam schiff of california announced they have sent out some letters. the first goes to james comey asking for any notes or memos he may have about his discussions with the president. second letter to white house counsel don mcgahn. that letter asks, are there recordings or memos of trump's conversations with james comey. if yes, the committee wants copies, as would the mueller investigation, and the senate intelligence committee investigation. both comey and the white house in this case have until june 23rd to respond. busier than average friday. let's bring in our starting panel for tonight. rick stengel is with us, former underseth for public diplomacy and public affairs at the united states state department in the obama administration. also happens to be the former managing editor of "time" magazine. matthew nussbaum is back with uswhite house reporter for politico. and we welcome to the broadcast, shannon petty piece, white house correspondent for bloomberg. welcome to you all. in fact rick i'm going to st

again, i can just assure you that we are still trying to work with republicans since we had mike conawayin as the chair. we are back on track. we're going to be bringing jay johnson in, the former homeland security to talk about whether the russians were able to get into any elections system. i hope we can report back soon as to what we've reviewed. >> eric, a big, big fan of the warriors. congratulations on the nba win. they're in your district. i know they are. >> they're in oakland, just outside, yes. thanks, wolf. my pleasure. >> you had nothing to do with the win except you were cheering your home team on. >> yes, i was. >> this hour the vice president mike pence is up on capitol hill meeting with senate republicans. this after the president and vice president lunched with 13 key republican senators over at the white house during the last hour. the president was asked at that meeting about when he'd be ready to sign a bill. >> as soon as we can do it. >> as soon as we can do it. that could be a while though. these meetings are part of an all out effort from the house to push through

mike conaway, republican, member of the house intelligence committee, leading the investigation after the refusal of devon nunez, chairman of the committee, adam schiff, ranking democrat, what he promised an aggressive investigation and they are already under way. they are not going to stop until they get answers. they will issue more subpoenas at the same time and we just got word from adam schiff that jeh johnson, will be called to testify. presumely people are telling him now, get ready to testify before this house intelligence committee. ted yoho, member of the house foreign affairs committee is with us. what is your reaction when you hear? looks like these two members have pretty good cooperation in this investigation. >> i have a lot of confidence in chairman conaway and adam schiff. chairman conaway is very detailed oriented and very serious about what he does. this is a nonpartisan issue. this is something goes after facts along with adam schiff. this is what the american people want. american people want closure. they want to find out what is behind this and let's move on. as

. >> are you negotiating with mike conaway, the top republican on the committee on this investigationn negotiations with him on that? >> i have begun discussions with him about it earlier in the week. now, mike was at the ball field practicing during the terrible attack. i think he's quite properly taking time to deal with that. i look forward when he gets back next week and i didn't have a chance to see him to discuss it further. i do think that if there is anyone trying to interfere with what the fbi is doing we need to put a stop to it. we need to make sure bob mueller gets the resources to do his job and is free of interference and if there has been an effort to interfere or obstruct we need to inform the american people. if we discover evidence of that, that's also something we would share with bob mueller. >> congressman adam schiff of california, top democrat on the house intelligence committee. came to us straight from the congressional baseball game. i appreciate you swinging by the studio on your way back. thanks for being with us. >> thank you. >> much more ahead tonight, s

. >> apparently, mike conaway who is taking this on as the counterpart to adam schiff, the republicanho played devin nunez says he wants affirmation from the white house that there were no tapes, a tweet isn't good enough. >> a tweet certainly isn't good enough. we gave a deadline for today and hopefully we'll have a declaration. individuals may have to be called in. i would like to see, at least on the judiciary committee for individuals to be called in. >> you have the president questioning the independence of robert mueller, saying he's hired a bunch of lawyers who are clinton supporters. >> the president would be well-served to really get out of the way. every time he has put himself into this investigation it has just disrupted it. so we want robert mueller's investigation to be an honest one that makes progress with the resources they need. we want the house investigation to proceed so we can report back to the marn peopamerican people. it was mentioned that an independent commission as john kerry advocated for is the best way to get to the bottom of this, declassify the facts a

about six weeks ago we got a new chairman in mike conaway.inuing to request documents from people, bring people in, and i feel like we're moving forward. >> finally, congressman, i have to ask some of your democratic colleagues today have let it become known they think leader pelosi's time as leader may be up. do you think it is time for new leadership among democrats in the house? >> i continue to support nancy pelosi. she is the democratic leader, and there is no election coming up. so she's our leader. >> did anything about the georgia sixth district loss last night concern you? >> you never want to lose an election, and i know that we've lost a few special elections. but every single one of these elections has also been in a race where in a regular year, we really have not had a real chance to win. so candidate ossoff's improvement on the democratic candidate in terms of the percentage was something like 20 or 23 points. so that's an incredible improvement. i believe that democrats will take back the house of representatives in 2018. but

. >> you call him chairman, mike conaway, the republican helping the lead the investigation. the claire is still michael nunez, right? >> he is. conaway is chair and we hope it stays that way. >> nunez recused himself. some are suggesting maybe not completely. you want to respond to that? >> i don't believe he should be signing any subpoenas as he has been doing or reviewing any documents. and really leave it to be a honest independent investigation that can make progress. we have seeb that under chair conaway and ranking member and back it where we were about a month and half ago. >> there was a senate intelligence hearing today and both director of national intelligence, director of nsa, they both said they couldn't answer questions posed by the senator, they need to work through the legal downs el at the white house. even suggesting in a closed door session. what does that tell you that both intelligence officials are saying? >> i believe if they could have denied what was being alleged in the washington post this moshing they probably would have done it. but if they did he

mike conaway of texas, he's a suspected person and a level guy and working with adam schiff and i think them have a desire to get to the truth and to get -- follow the facts where they go. they will be doing their job on behalf of congress. so i think the intel committee in the house as well as in the senate are going to stay on this case and do everything that they can to get to the bottom of what happened, particularly the question of russian interference in the u.s. election and whether there was a trump campaign participation in that. >> and i think, after the testimony that we saw from the senate intel committee, the house intel committee now asking for copies of these james comey's memos as was reported. we are looking at a columbia law professor to potentially provide those to the senate intel committee at this moment. what do you hope to find in these james comey memos? >> well, what we're all looking for is more context. there's really three things at stake here. number one, what was the reason that comey was fired. was the president leaning on him demanding a loyalty pledge, w

mike conaway is doing a great, great job of continuing the investigation in a thorough, bipartisan mannero continue to do that so that the american people trusts what comes out once this is all complete. >> from your perspective, it's best that congressman conaway and the ranking democrat, adam schiff, if they continue to lead the house intelligence committee investigation and let the chairman devin nunes stay aside? is that right? >> well, it's his prerogative and recusal is a very specific legal term. and he hasn't yuused that. nobody on the committee used that, but while he has stepped down from this investigation, i think chairman conaway has been doing a, a very good job of being methodical and continuing this in a, in a bipartisan way. >> let's talk about this announcement, the statement from the white house, about syria. the white house 3u9-oputting ou statement, syria preparing for another chemical attack against civilians. the trump administration saying they will pay a heavy price if there's another chemical wrepeas attack. what can you tell us about that. >> wolf, the you know,

sometime in the next few weeks, house intel ranking member adam schiff along with congressman mike conawaymeet with special counsel robert mueller. thank you for watching. we'll see you back here tomorrow night at 6:00 p.m. eastern. go to my facebook page. dy some videos today from inside the hearing room that you won't see anyplace but on my facebook page. go to my facebook page to see a lot of videos. "hardball" with chris matthews starts right now. >>> sessions in session. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews up in new york. donald trump's attorney general faced tough questions on capitol hill today. jeff sessions was grilled by the senate intelligence committee about his role in the firing of james comey. comey's testimony last week and sessions' own meetings with the russian ambassador, meetings he didn't initially even admit. well, sessions' testimony comes nearly a week after comey testified that the president spread lies about his firing and questioned the attorney general's role in his dismissal. president trump has said the fbi was in virtual turmoil under

and so the chair should truly step aside and allow mike conaway and ranking member schiff to work together and not interfere in our own investigation. >> there is, just to be clear about what unmasking is for folks that have not tracked this, it's the practice of essentially removing the redaction of the name of a u.s. person in an intelligence report. that redaction is there to protect their privacy but can be removed at request. devin nunes has said that the obama white house abused that or has intimated they have. this is from "the washington post" just shortly ago. the republican controlled house intelligence committee asked u.s. spy agencies late last year to reveal the names of u.s. individuals or organizations contained in classified intelligence on russia's meddling in the 2016 election, engaging in the same practice that president trump has accused the obama administration of abusing current and former officials said. what do you make of that? >> again, chris, the unmasking claims by the president or by chairman nunes have always been a distraction from the russia investigation. u

. >> congressman mike conaway is the lead republican member who is in charge of this investigation now that deven nunez has recused himself. he's the chairman of your committee. congressman schiff, thanks for joining us. >> thank, wolf. >>> we have to take a break break. we're standing by to see if the white house or personal lawyers will testify on this. more coming up right after this. there's nothing more than my vacation.me so when i need to book a hotel room, i want someone that makes it easy to find what i want. booking.com gets it. they offer free cancellation if my plans change. visit booking.com. booking.yeah. on a perfect car, then smash it into a tree. your insurance company raises your rates. maybe you should've done more research on them. for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise your rates due to your first accident. switch and you could save $509 on auto insurance. call for a free quote today. liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance. >>> we're following multiple breaking stories including the bombshell testimony that the fired fbi direc

they put out a joint statement, the leader of the investigation, mike conaway, and the top democrat, adam schiff, talking about who they were targeting. in this case, michael cohen, and michael flynn, the fired national security adviser. they're sending subpoenas for personal records and kind of following suit with the senate intelligence committee for business records as well, something they believe will avoid any effort to invoke the fifth amendment. but as you noted, there are also three separate subpoenas. now, does this mean there's some grand split inside the committee? maybe not in the committee, but certainly with the committee's still chairman, devin nunes. i'm told from committee sources that democrats had no knowledge that these three subpoenas were being sent out. under committee rules, devin nunes as the sitting chairman has unilateral authority to issue any subpoena he wants. now, the rules recommend that he consults with the minority, but he did not. now, why do these subpoenas matter? guys, this goes to the heart of why devin nunes is no longer overseeing the russia i

fortunately mike conaway has stepped in on to preside over the investigation. he works very well with adam schiff and we're making progress today. just want the president to say away from our investigation, to not repeat what he did with director comey or what he did in the past with our committee. >> so what will you do differently, what would you like to do differently after he seeing what transpired on the senate side today? >> we want to listen to all relevant witnesses. we want them to honor the invitation that we have extended. we want to review all the documents. so if we sent a witness a subpoena or an invitation, that also means to provide us documents. allow us to question them in a public setting to the degree we can. and then make a report to the american people about what happened. but right now, the cost of the chaos that the president has created is it is affecting not just or ability to conduct the investigation, but all the other work that we're supposed to be doing so people can put food on their table, a roof over their head or provide opport

so mike conaway could subpoena those.ember, he might be annoyed about it. >> you can make it to the press. >> that's a very good point. i wish we had more time, but the one thing we thought is wait a minute, this could get a much more involved in widespread than was initially thought. i cannot imagine mueller would be keen on this committee subpoena aimed at everyone and his uncle and providing for his task and what is up to. in other words, these guys could be tripping over themselves. >> that's right. one of the things we were trained as he's got to have evidence that center what you're doing. mr. mueller is going to be looking into this. a lot of people have faith in what he's doing. if you think about subpoenas, it doesn't necessarily mean you know there's been a mayor, but you've got to have a good faith belief if you issue a subpoena. they clearly have concern about why the united nations ambassador with having something to do with the unmasking information involving american citizens for potentially political purpo

. >> that was congressman mike conaway speaking from the capitol a few moments ago describing the shooter as a big fat guy. we know he's a middle-aged white guy. that's about all we have. although at this point it does seem as if his story is starting to jibe with a number of other witnesses. it sounds like two weapons were involved, this rifle according to witnesses and also a pistol. the congressman saying it looked like a nine millimeter. again, all of this very early. we've also just found out, peter reported on this meeting that's going to happen on the hill. that meeting set to happen roughly an hour from now, 11:15 eastern time, an all member house meeting with lawmakers in washington d.c. >> we also await a knew conferen -- news conference from the alexandria police department. they've been out with a very short comment but we do expect to hear from them again. >> kasie hunt standing by at the capitol. good morning, what do you have? >> reporter: craig, savannah, good morning. it is a very somber start to the day here on capitol hill. what i just saw transpire right in front of me

national cable satellite corp. 2017] works the two leaders of the house intelligence committee mike conaway and adam schiff, gave reporters a brief. good afternoon. adam and i came out to visit with you quickly. two reasons why. i will explain one and adam will expend the other. just wanted to make sure that you know that we have an active investigation going on. we are pursuing it aggressively and on a bipartisan basis. documents, people, whatever the case may be, we have been pursuing that. know, we willolks continue to do the investigation you.ight way in front of we want to make the american public aware that we have an aggressive investigation going on right now. we follow every leader and talk to every witness and try to get to the answers to the questions we all want. thank you for being here this afternoon. i turned to my colleague, adam. colleague.o join my we discussed to the desirability updates, to say we are following up on a number of requests we have made witnesses to provide information and testimony voluntarily. at least a couple of the witnesses we have sought have decided

republican mike conaway of texas and democrat adam schiff of california are leading the house investigation. they've asked the white house counsel to confirm whether the -- to produce them toward committee by june 23. but secretary of state rex tillerson has called on saudi arabia, the united arab emirates, but frame, and egypt, to ease the blockade on qatar, saying it him as he was military efforts to combat isis. from under those countries announced plans to cut diplomatic ties with qatar, accusing it of supporting terrorism fears the secretary of state. secretary tillerson: good afternoon. thank all of you for your patience. i know you have been waiting for a little while. three weeks ago the president joined members of the gulf cooperation council in a strong show of partnership, repudiation of extremism and a plan to defeat terrorism of all kinds in the region and around the world. now the situation in the arabian gulf over the last few days is troubling to the united states, the region and the many people who are directly affected. the united states wishes to reaffirm our commitment t

let's let mike conway finish his bat and we'll leave. conaway finished. they started gathering balls up. desantis and i walked off the field. i fist pumped scalise. i run around the mound. then we get to the parking lot. scalise -- desantis already in the camplet i'm getting in when this guy approached us. reporter: how are you feeling today? mr. duncan: i'm shaken up. my colleagues were targeted today by somebody that wanted to kill them. trent kelly from mississippi played third base when desantis left. one of my best friends. he was the closest person to the shooter so he was targeted first. by the grace of god he was missed. and he zig-zagged across the field as the guy continued to ship. he saw the whip, steve scalise, get hit. i don't think he'll ever -- and this guy fought in iraq. he's a war veteran and active duty national guardman from mississippi. he's faced fire before but not in a baseball uniform. not in a peaceful setting practicing the american sport of baseball. but he zig-zagged across the field to get away from an active shooter who wer