to susan's point will they press this, republican mike conway seems to not have any issue with that answer. he said yesterday he answered all the questions, it's a rank ranking democrat, that seem to have a problem with it. where does this go? >> right now it goes nowhere because republicans are in control of the committee and they decide the agenda and how farther or how much longer to pursue something. mike said yesterday a lot of questions asked and they feel like they got the answers. democrats don't believe that's true. a tweet that john dean, the former nixon white house counsel, see him as a cnn contributor, he was very much involved initially in the cover-up of watergate and said last night that donald trump, jr. claimed attorney-client privilege today before the house intelligence committee regarding discussions with his father based on the fact an attorney was present. the problem is that junior has no such privilege and congress does not recognize the privilege even when it exists. except yesterday. they recognized that privilege. >> well, that's the exact point here. we're seei

i believe in devin anyone's, i believe in trey gowdy, mike conway is in the thick of this thing. think they are making some progress. lou: devin nunes is obviously making progress because his investigators on the house intelligence committee have produced real results. i can't say that about any other committee over the course of the obama administration that produced concrete results that resulted in consequence. >> i was chairman of a committee for a while. en i served when darrel darrella was the chairman. what does the department of justice do? they say we reached a settlement, they apologize, but the there is no consequence. nobody in hands cuffs. nobody held accountable. we can go from fast and furious to the irs. to uranium one. how many do we have to list out. you can't finds anybody who is held accountable to the government. lou: your best counsel to the president. >> it's your departments of justice. you are the only constitutionally elected officer who has control over there. i don't buy into the democrats about obstruction of justice. let lady justice operate with a b

generally, and look, having said that the house investigation has been beset by bipartisanship, mike conwaynd adam schiff worked very well together and moments to request subpoenas, where we have requested witnesses and not happened quite as fast as we would like and we haven't been told flat-out no. if the investigation is ended and we are told flat-out no on a couple of dozen witnesss that are important we'll obviously explain to the men people who the witnesses were, why we thought they were important and let the american people judge. i do want to say that, you know, in general, it has been a cooperative environment within the investigation. >> a quick word about independent candidate jill stein. green party candidate jill stein. the senate intelligence committee requested documents from the jill stein campaign. is that an area that you're exploring? >> so i have no personal knowledge of that and we also tried to be pretty careful out of not disclosing the ins and outs of our own investigations and this is important. another reason why the house investigation should not be ended too abr

that is when mike conway pulled over and the two and a third good samaritan move nood action. >> yes, i was worryied it was going to blow and it could be my brother or sister or mom or dad. a quick prayer lets get this guy out of here. >> the gas tank was next to the fire that was going on. my first reaction was to get him out of the car. >> i get to the window and the guy is still in there i can see him hanging upside down and kick the window out and kick it and it breaks. and hit the seatbelt release and grabbed the injured driver and pulled him to safety. he was semi conscious and a nurse that pulled over gave him aid on the roadway. >> 60 seconds later the car pretty much blew up. the driver will make a full recovery in part because of the good samaritans. >> i feel good. i don't feel like a hero or anything, i did what i thought was right. >> police say that the cause of the crash is under investigation, the name of the driver has not been released. live in east falls, chad pradelli, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. >>> a deadly accident forced police to shut down a new jer

what we've heard from mike conway they are already preparing part of a report. i spent pa lot of time in the basement of the capitol outside these hearings, there used to be one a week, there were three in one day this week sochlt really trying to wrap this up in a hurry. and democrats are really saying this is a sign they are trying to wrap this up. what we are hearing from republicans though democrats are extending this because they want a political issue in 2018. and they are also saying narrow scope of inquiry we agreed to, this is not a criminal investigation. mueller is the one doing the criminal investigation. and we are answering the questions we agreed we would ask. >> last question to you about speed. bringing that up. here you had nancy pelosi writing to paul ryan suggest thg w suggesting this was moving too quickly. what do you make of the pace of this at this point? how problematic is it as you see it? >> it's all politics. and that's unfortunate. because these are very serious law enforcement issues. they need to be dealt with by special counsel mu

now you do have the republican leader of that -- the russia investigation mike conway saying he answeredstions, but adam schiff the ranking democrat feels very differently. the president's son is asserting attorney-client privilege because there was a lawyer in the room as to why he wouldn't answer those questions. are you comfortable with that? >> i really don't know all the details of what happened there. i would rather have time to find out why he did that and what will be the circumstances of why he took the fifth. >> but those are the details. he said i can't answer your questions about the conversation with my father because there was a lawyer in the room. is that correct use do you believe of attorney-client privilege. >> it might be technically correct. i assume they've done their legal work. the important thing here is we conduct a -- mueller continues to show the integrity he's generally shown in the past. he has a great reputation and keep the investigation focused on what it was hired to do. what i fear is a lot of his subordinates that have been in the papers and in the medi

mike conway, the schachairman oe house intelligence committee who do not dismiss these servants. >> and we have a special counsel is because rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general in the justice department, decided we needed one. mueller was appointed fbi director by george w. bush. the idea that nancy pelosi and chuck schumer are behind the scenes orchestrating this is not born out on facts. >> thanks very much. good analysis. >>> just over an hour or so from now. president trump will be joined by congressional republicans passage event at the white house. we'll have live coverage as a new cnn poll shows the bill is very unpopular with the american public. might it cost the gop at the bl ballot box in november? our panelists are standing by. they'll weigh in on that and a whole lot more. jardiance is the only type 2 diabetes pill proven to both significantly reduce the chance of dying from a cardiovascular event in adults who have type 2 diabetes and heart disease... ...and lower your a1c. wow. jardiance can cause serious side effects including dehydration. this may cause you to f

mike conway, who is now overseeing the russia investigation has proved a bit more impartial, but notf interested in getting to the bottom of the crux of what the house intelligence committee should be investigating, that is allegations of collusion, allegations of cooperation between the trump campaign and the russian federation. that's why, yes, i put my stock in bob mueller's team. we have seen cooperation on the senate intelligence side. i think bob mueller, it will be up to him and his team of capable, able prosecutors to get to the bottom of what happened here. >>> ned, great talking to you. julia, thank you as well. >>> president trump expected to sit down with republican and democratic leaders in the next hour. yes, as they are known these days, chuck and nancy, will be back in the white house. or at least that's the plan. it was last week they were all scheduled to meet and the president tweeted, blasting the democrats and that led pelosi and schumer to back out of the meeting. today, they are back and there are very high stakes. we are one day away from a gompbment shutdown.

s response, mike conway said he had answered all our questions, but democrats not satisfied. adam schiff wabts more answers about the meeting with his father and why he's not disclosing this information. >> thank you very much. going through these e-mails, just remembering obviously the predicate of this entire meeting. the premise was information that would incriminate hillary clinton to which don jr. said i love it. especially if it's laettner tte summer. jackie speier, she's on the community there with donald trump jr. today. congresswoman, good to have you with me. i appreciate it. so donald trump jr. took questions from you, your committee, for about eight hours. what's your take away? >> he has a serious case of amnesia. and he was pretty nonrespontive on issues that frankly, you would have a recollection of considering it was just a year ago when donald trump was the candidate. he was by his father's side, he was campaigning with his father. and you get this impression in listening to him that he didn't spend much time talking with his father. >> you say serious case o

mike conway, the -- >> the republican person after nunes had to recuse but didn't really.e republican running house intel. >> they're already writing parts of the final report. adam schiff is raising heck about this. he says not only is it too early to end this investigation but if republicans try to end it before we think it should be, we'll continue to do that work. mueller certainly will continue to do his work. if there are more allegations, more bombshells that come out of those separate investigations, republicans will to have answer for that because they ended their committee investigation early. >> something else the republicans on the committee are doing are trying to revive debunked lines of investigation. and you have the epic debunking. you and shep smith are the definitive debunkers of the uranium one scandal. it was looked into. it's been vf gated. it has been debunked as a political scandal. and i wonder if you can just speak to the -- the inane nature of house republicans who run the committee. they are not minority members going rogue against a committee t

. >> is this something the chairman of the committee or mike conway running the investigation, have eithersaid to you that they are trying to shut it done soon. >> well they've been i think fairly vague when i ask which are we scheduling witnesses three a day when it took months for you to schedule some of the witnesses wove asked for a long time ago. why don't we have the witnesses that you're scheduling out of state come before our committee after the holidays? why are we not scheduling any interviews for the new year when there are dozens of interviews to be scheduled. i can't get an answer. that tells me that there may be marching orders from the top that they got to bring this to an end. we have seen steve bannon, the president and others amp up the heat on congress to shut us down. now the republican senators have acknowledged the president weighed in with them to try to get them to shut down the investigation. the house members haven't been willing to comment about whether they received similar pressure from the wlous. but they seem to be acting like that. >> they're act being like

i gave the letter to adam and mike conway.text. donald trump has been sworn in. lowers his right hand, is speaking for -- >> there's a huge crowd. >> biggest crowd ever. >> amazing. >> most incredible speech since sermon on the mount. he does this. and 11 minutes into donald trump's inaugural speech -- >> according to a whistle-blower. >> -- he's texting to a business associate, hey, we're going to rip up those sanctions and a lot of people are going to make a lot of money. it's breathtaking. we said the other day on this show that what's so remarkable is donald trump didn't think he was going to win. it was about money. even now that they're in power, it's still about making money. >> it is still about making money. a lot of shady things in here. first of all, the trump family owns a lot of businesses overseas and they are talking to their business partners overseas in the name of -- not in politics. we're seeing a lot of shady discussions in here. this can blow even a bigger story. secondly, nuclear facilities in the middle

have to remind our viewers, president trump, even the day mike flynn left that night, i think it was like 4:00 in the afternoon, kellyanne conway was on tv, saying the president

mike flynn was leaving. that afternoon, kellyanne conway went on tv. then suddenly he wasn't. esident trump has never really said anything bad against mike flynn. he blamed mike flynn leaving on a whole thing from the media. >> one tell when something's really big news is when your phone lights up with text messages that are unsolicited. in the last ten minutes, that's exactly what happened as i waited to chat with you. >> why don't you read those texts for us, bob? >> some of them are off the record. however, to summarize the feeling around the republican party and around this white house, they are troubled, to say least, about this development, because they know general flynn was so close to president trump as a confident during the campaign and inside the white house. >> who do we think is troubled? don jr. is troubled? don jr., up until a few days ago, is saying come at me, i got nothing. mike flynn's son has continued to be aggressive. i mean, just last week, i think it was thanksgiving day, on twitter, mike flynn jr. put out a tweet, calm down, everyone, nothing to see he

have to remind our viewers, president trump, even the day mike flynn left that night, i think it was like 4:00 in the afternoon, kellyanne conwayas on tv, saying the president stands with mike flynn, and then the president after the fact said it was the media, we were pushed into this, mike flynn's a good guy. so walk us through this. >> i think you laid it out really well in terms of why these 18 days are so critical. one of the significant things that has come up in our reporting is that people who have been interviewed by mueller's team believe that he's trying to figure out if there was some sort of cover-up. if -- to the extent that the president would have had any role or any awareness of that. the other thing that's significant about this is if you put it against the backdrop of the president's tweet last weekend where he said that he had to fire mike flynn because -- not just because he lied to the vice president, but because he lied to the fbi. in terms of the obstruction of justice inquiry, this particular period of time could be very significant in determining when the president knew that michael flynn had lied to th

conway did that interview. and later on "face the nation," here's what mike pence said about flynn's conversations with kislyak. >> it was strictly coincidental they had a conversation. they did not discuss anything having to do with the united states' decision to expel diplomats or impose a censure against russia. >> well, today's charging documents suggest clearly otherwise about that and about more, and as the repercussions are just beginning, we are learning more about the events described in them, and the circumstances surrounding them. so with that, for the very latest, i want to go to pam lo brown. so just walk us through what happened today in court, specifically what flynn admitted to lying about. >> anderson, flynn's charge to lying to the fbi and the plea agreement center around confidences he had with russian ambassador to the u.s. serge kislyak in december last year. and the court documents filed, we learned on december 29th. flynn called his subboar nat kd mcfarland, where they discussed the sanctions being imposed on russia. others at that meeting include reince priebus, steve bannon and kellyann

mike lee both defended romney. he received draft deferments for bone spurs and never served in combat. white house counselor kellyanne conway made a point of telling cnn earlier today, wolf, that the president spoke with romney over the phone and they had a, quote, wonderful conversation. wolf? >> jim, did the president sign the waiver to keep the u.s. embassy in tel aviv in the meantime despite all of his language, all of his statements? >> reporter: right, there was some question about that earlier today. a senior administration told us the president signed that waiver keeping the u.s. embassy in tel aviv earlier today before his speech. so while the u.s. policy is changing, we heard the president lay that out, the biggest symbolic example of this change won't really happen for years from now until that embassy moves to jerusalem. white house officials told reporters over here, wolf, it was not as simple as switching the signs at the u.s. embassy in tel aviv and the u.s. consulate in jerusalem, wolf? >> jim acosta at the white house, thanks very much. let's get some more on all of this. democratic senator ben cardin of ma

i actually talked to kellyanne conway, who said that while pence was on his way over to that game, he called her and asked for advice. she knew they would get along, mikeego to the greater good. he spent that game kissing the ring, he told trump it would be the privilege of a lifetime to serve him. afterwards mens made a point of going to the press and talking about how great trump's golf game was. >> that's the way he operates, that he needs a lot of praise, a lot of aformation, right? >> it most definitely is, i think that make pence has either an instinct or has been coached very well, because this is a president who loves cheerleaders and he especially loves those that are cheering for him, when i dealt with then businessman donald trump, his big complaint, his initial big complaint about barack obama is that he had stopped being a good cheerleader. if you're around donald trump, and you want to get along with him, complimenting him is always a good idea, and stealing any bit of the spotlight is a bad idea. the vice president seems to know that. >>. >> you also write the vice president believes in something called servant leadership. explain what t

mike flynn, that surely meant they were going to come interview others. they were probably going to come interview steve bannon. they were probably going to interview kellyanne conway, reince priebus, others, maybe even the vice-president, maybe even the president. there probably were numerous strategy sessions that maybe the president presided over, maybe he was briefed upon, at which they discussed, how do we get the fbi off of our trail? and when you put the president atop a large discussion, a large meeting, an ongoing role in a meeting, that in effect is sitting on top of conspiracy to obstruct justice. >> julia, you report that the d.o.j. assumption was that flynn would get canned right after sally yates dropped this bomb in the west wing. what is the status of mueller's investigation into exactly why 18, why it took 18 days? >> so, the status as we know now is that his team has been questioning people who were in the white house during those 18 days. a lot of those people are in the white house now, like chief counsel don mcgahn. he's trying to figure out a lot of what jeremy just ran through, kind of who knew what when, and what conversations transpired aro

i talked to kellyanne conway, who said that while pence was on his way to that game, he called her and asked for advice. she said, she knew they would get along because mikem to subvert his ego to the greater good. those were her words. he ended up -- he spent that game, you know, kind of kissing the ring. he told trump that it would be the privilege of a lifetime to serve him. that he would definitely win. afterward, pence made a point of going to the press and talking about how great trump's golf game was. it was kind of putting on the performance and showing trump that he could be the obedient, loyal deputy that i think trump was looking for. >> michael, people who know the president say that's the way he operates, that he needs a lot of praise, a lot of affirmation. right? >> it most definitely is. i think mike pence has either instinct or has been coached very well. because this is a president who loves cheerleaders. he especially loves those who are cheering for him. when i dealt with then businessman donald trump, his big complaint is -- his initial big complaint about barack obama was that he had stopped being a good cheerleader. if you are around

mike, this is like childbirth. they just brought me to another reason i would like you to be with me on this one. and that is when i joined him. kellyanne conway -- everyone knows her story. when paul manafort left the campaign, she was elevated to campaign manager. that was a good day for as. in the two months i was there, going all the way from the end of june until the end of august, we were able to manage a loss of six electoral votes going from 162 154. -- 160 to 154. the race was pretty tight most of the way. mid-september, just a few points differential. if you fast forwarded eight weeks from this point, you find that the race ends with the popular vote at about the same place. a two-point lead for clinton. if you work in third-party candidates, which is often done in polling, having a head-to-head between the republican and the democrat and then throwing in third-party candidates, you get a different rate. what i like is what happens and how close the race becomes and what it looks like depending on how you set up the scale. look at the top one. the scale up. -- 50% and then down to 38%. the one at the bottom goes from zero up to 50. d