it was admiral mike rogers, the head of the national security agency. he was apparently spotted at trump tower less than a week and half after the election. what was very strange about that, mike rogers head of the nsa, he took personal leave from work, he took a personal day to leave washington, d.c. where he worked running the nsa to travel to new york presumably on his own dime, to go visit the candidate the president-elect at trump tower? incidentally, mike rogers, as an admiral in the navy and head of the nsa he's in the military chain of command he answers to the commander in chief at that time was barack obama. apparently mike rogers did not even tell president obama or the obama administration generally he was doing this, he was taking a personal day to leave d.c., go to new york toisit the president-elect. it was the "wall street journal" first to report on nsa head, mike rogers, playing hooky that day. they were also first to report on why he might have done it, the prospect the president-elect might give mike rogers a big promotion, he might

when that request was made to admiral mike rogers, he recorded that in an internal memo. a source later told nbc news that dan coats and mike rogers actually talked to each other about these requests they had from the president. they exchanged notes, the two of the them, about their conversations with the president and his requests to kibosh the trump/russia investigation. the idea that the president had asked the head of the nsa, the director of national intelligence, had asked them to help quash the investigation, had asked them to pour public cold water on the investigation, these reports that the intelligence chiefs then potentially, you know, not only spoke to each other about them but that made them protentially corroborating witnesses, those were red-hot reports on their own. not incidentally, those reports made for the best nine seconds of video in this trump/russia story. this was dan coats getting asked -- director of national intelligence -- getting asked whether he and the nsa director discussed amongst themselves these requests from the president. watch. nine

in a phone call with mike rogers he asked that mike rogers come out and say there's no evidence so far of collusion between the campaign and russia, but also during that conversation he expressed skepticism over the intelligence community assessment that russia intervened in the 2016 election. >> i assume if he had a basis why he doesn't believe it, it would have been reported by you. do your sources not say, did the president have a rationale why he questioned the intelligence committee on this? >> from what we understand, limited information on this, that he was sort of asking to be walked through again why it is that the intelligence community unanimously is so sure about the conclusion they came to that russia did play a role in intervening in last year's election, and that in addition to that he was trying to convince admiral rogers to come out and say publicly that there was no evidence at the present time of collusion between his campaign and russia, something he pressed with jim comey as well. >> all right. so we have jim comey meets with the president first time, decides to do

and of course mike rogers and mr. coats did not make any public statements as the president wanted them to. >> i want you to respond to the president's attorney, who says that this leak by the fbi is illegal. the fbi leak of information regarding the president is outrageous, inexcusable and illegal. what do you say to that? >> as we reported in our story, we have five sources. we don't say where they're from. we don't identify where they're from at all. >> all right. sari horwitz, excellent reporting. thank you for making some time tonight. >> thank you, chris. >> joining me now, former chief justice department spokesman matt miller. the line from the white house after the comey testimony was the president is not personally under criminal investigation. it now appears to be the case the president is personally under criminal investigation. >> yeah. i think we talked about the time. that was an obviously stupid statement to make because whatever donald trump's status was at the time jim comey last told him he wasn't un

>> both of them, dan coats and nsa director admiral mike rogers testified publicly in june and didn't say very much. in kt ffact, if you remember, t testimony was really awkward. senators asking them, well, why can't you talk about what the president said and they didn't know what to say. as part of this reporting, first of all, we know that the reason they didn't quite know what to say is because they had both reached out to the white house and asked them how executive privilege might affect their testimony. they never heard back from the white house. it was only once in private when they talked to two separate investigative teams that it came out that each of them was asked by the president or at least were saying that the president suggested to them that they make public statements that there was no collusion between the trump campaign and the russians, anderson. >> but it's important to point out that both men are saying they did not feel pressured by

there were instances in which mike rogers was discussing how he briefed the president on the russia's involvement in the elections, the intelligence surrounding that. the question is why were you able to discuss those discussions with president trump but not the interactions whether or not president trump asked hem to back down these stories about russia collusion with the trump firms and in coats case to back down this investigation that was occurring that the fbi was launching into michael flynn. i caught up with cam ma la harris a democratic senator on this committee who had a feisty exchange with rod rosenstein during this hearing and also was cut off in her questions by chairman richard burr because he was frustrated about how she was asking questions and she said she wanted to get a direction answer from rod rosenstein about whether bob mueller, the special counsel would have full authority independence to launch an investigation to continue this investigation into the russia med ding issue and as well as any obstruction of justice that may have occurred. she was not satisfied w

that's coming up shortly, and from mike rogers, admiral mike rogers, the head of the nsa, the nationalecurity agency. but rebecca, let me read to you another quote that jumped up at me from the comey written testimony. i felt compelled to document my first conversation with the president-elect in a member o'. to ensure accuracy i began to type it on a laptop in an fbi vehicle outside trump tower the moment i walked out of the meeting. creating written records immediately after one-on-one conversations with mr. trump was my practices from that point forward. explain why that's so important. he didn't write similar memos following his only two meetings with president obama. >> that struck out to me, wolf, for the same reason. first of all, because this was so unusual for james comey. it was not his standard operating procedure until he start meeting with donald trump. that will suggests that he thought there was something unusual, perhaps something untoward going on. he wanted to make sure that he had his side of the story in writing just in case perhaps with came into a situation like t

that's not what the president said. >> mike rogers, he clears the room. he says this. thinks this is what he wants him to do. i don't know why he would not think otherwise. he fires him for not doing it. you are comfortable concluding it wasn't his intent to meddle or direction. >> it is inappropriate. to rise to the level of obstruction of justice is a serious event. >> i don't think we have to go there yet. let's deal with inappropriate. we will leave the legality to later. when you look at everything comey said, what do you see in the pattern of conduct from the president? >> i think the whole thing was inappropriate. >> what does that mean inappropriate? that is a nothing word. it is like when my kid uses bathroom words. it is inappropriate, but i'm not going to do anything about it. >> listen, we are trying to convict someone based on one set of testimony. i think comey was compelling. it was a bad day for the president yesterday. they set it up to be the fbi versus the white house. i guarantee who will lose that. that is the white house. this is a terrible spot f

muller will speak with three top intelligence officials, rich aider ledgeit and mike rogers and dan coats. >> we know that president trump called mike rogers and dan coats to come out and say there was no evidence of collusion. >> 5:07 a.m. new jersey chris christie approval rating has dropped to historic lows according to a quinnipiac poll that finds only is is 15% of the voters approve of his work in office. 81% of voters said they disapprove of his job performance. >>> jim kenny hopes the beverage industry will drop their case against the sweet beverage tax. this follows the decision of a municipal judge last year. mayor kenny said he is pleased with the ruling. >> we hope the beverage industry inside they have not prevailed and they would get out of the way and get the help they need. >> the tax is 1.5% per ounce it has brought in $25 million since january. it will not reach the $46 million the city hoped to take in to go toward education and infrastructure repair this fiscal year. >>> rocky statue is back open to the public. the statue and the area around had been closed since the en

did either dan coats or mike rogers do the same? >> reporter: the answer is yes, when it comes to rogers. he had interaction with the president and documented it in a memo written by his deputy at the nsa, richard lajet. one congressional source i spoke to seesaw the memo said it wasn't like the comey memos. one page and doesn't offer many details of the conversation, but the memo does document it and makes clear that rogers thought it was out of the ordinary. as for coats, they not document the conversation he had with the president as far as the people i've spoken to briefed by him, we're told. >> dana, stick around. a lot more to discuss. another big story happening right where you are in washington. minutes from now senate republicans will file into a closed-door briefing in his own health care bill. then we, the american people, get to find out. cnn's m.j. lee and the rest of the cnn political team have dug up the details what is inside that bill. m.j., what are we learning? >> reporter: john, the big question, we're awaiting th

cnn reached out to the white house and muellers office to comment. >> obviously, dan coats and mike rogers failed to comment on this before the senate as they were testifying. >> exactly. >> why, dana? >> reporter: one of the sources i spoke to said coats and rogers asked for guidance from the white house on whether the president would claim executive privilege, which would have meant in that hearing or any hearing at all. they couldn't talk about their conversation with the president. they didn't get an answer from the white house before the testimony. they weren't sure what to say and it was awkward and contentious in the public hearing. we are told in private, the briefings were much more forthcoming about the conversation they had with the president. >> as for the accounts, james com comey likes to take notes. >> rogers interaction is documented, yes. a memo was written by his deputy at the nsa at the time. one congressional source who i spoke with who saw the memo said it's not like the comey memos, it's one page and doesn't have the details like comey's did. the memo does make clear,

keep in mind dan coats and mike rogers both testified here recently and would not talk about their private conversations with president trump. what did the president ask? what was their response? what could be key here the deputy of the nsa, richard leggett, according to that report, may have documented some of that conversation and be willing to talk about it with the fbi now. keep in mind when the former fbi director testified here, james comey, he said he had assured the president several times that he was not personally under investigation. then comey was fired and according to these reports, the look into whether or not president trump was trying to obstruct justice started after comey was fired and after he told nbc he was thinking about russia when comey was fired. the question here, did the president ask any of these national security officials to intervene in the investigation. that's what they're going after. mr. trump's attorney, his personal attorney called this fbi leak as he describes it outrageous, inexcusable and illegal. frances. >> thank you. there's heat and a whole othe

york times" list the intelligence officials to request an interview which requires dan coates and mike rogers and rick liggett who the "wall street journal" explains they documented a significant phone call between rogers and president trump. tra tracie potts is live in washington, d.c. >> reporter: we're learning about what may be going on inside this fbi investigation. keep in mind that dan coates and mike rogers both testified here recently and would not talk about their private conversations with president trump. what did the president ask? what was their response? the deputy at the nsa richard liggett who according to that report may have documented some of that conversation and be willing to talk about it with the fbi director testified here james comey, he said that he had assured the president several times that he was not personally under investigation. without then comey was fired and according to these reports they look into whether or not president trump was trying to object the struck justice started after comey was fired and after he told nbc that he was thinking about russia wh

cnn has already reported the president asked coates and the nsa director mike rogers to publicly deny his campaign cooperated with russia in the 2016 election. sources told cnn both coates and rogers were uncomfortable with the president's request and refused to comply. >>> the white house still can't or won't confirm that president trump has confidence in attorney general jeff sessions. this as a source close to sessions tells cnn the ag offered to resign after a series of heated exchanges between two. the frustration brewing since sessions recused himself from the russian probe three months ago starting a chain of events that led to the appointment of special counsel robert mueller. for now we get cnn's jim acosta at the white house. >> reporter: the white house still cannot say whether president trump has confidence in attorney general jeff sessions. earlier in the day at the preefg white house press secretary sean spicer was asked that question and said he could not answer it. >> how would you describe the president's level of confidence with jeff sessions. >> identify not had a d

dan coats, national security -- director of the national security -- national security agency, mike rogers, they say that president trump asked them to deny any collusion with the russians. why isn't that obstruction? >> well, i don't think we have obstruction yet, either. i have to agree with matt. there's a pattern that's developing and one of the most troublesome pattern i see is that he is dissembling and if you remember what happened to nixon, actually it happened to clinton, too, when they got into impeachment territory, is it was the lying that got them there. not the obstruction. nixon didn't leave office because he obstructed justice. he got caught in a final lie that lost his support and so he packed it in and left. but there are hints of a pattern here where he keeps doing things that i think in the non federal criminal law sense, rather in the impeachment territory, could result in obstruction which is a very different standard than the criminal law standard. >> matt, what do you think of that? why isn't this obstruction? >> well, first of all, several of the acts are constitut

mike rogers testified over and over again last week before that committee that he wouldn't say in open session whether or not the president had asked him to intervene into the fbi's ongoing criminal investigation of mike flynn. it was interesting, the director of national intelligence testifying at the same committee, he kept seeing he wouldn't testify about that either, but he didn't have a reason why he wouldn't testify. admiral rogers, head of the nsa, at least he had a reason. he said his discussions were classified with the president for some reason, and he said that gave him a reason not to talk about it in open session. but that excuse not to talk about it in open session also means those senators would have expected to get his reel answers in closed session at that skiff where they met with him late this afternoon and into this evening on capitol hill. there are only 100 people in the whole united states senate. after their hearing last week on wednesday fold the next day on thursday by their open session with james comey, followed immediately thursday afternoon by their classi

he also, mike rogers, and you once worked at the fbi, he called this investigation by the fbi, they're the lead investigators right now, a witch hunt led by, quote, very bad people. what message does that send to the men and women of the fbi? >> well, not a good one. for a whole host of reasons. first of all, these are the men and women who are defending us against terrorist attacks and they're going after spies and they're also putting criminals in jail and gangsters and everyone in between. and this personal attack between the president and really anyone, the fbi in a broader sense, to me, it's so unpresidential. if he wanted to learn how to control this, he uses the power of the presidency to do big things. and have big sets of conversation with the american people, well beyond what he cans of hillary clinton or what he thinks of the fbi agents doing the investigation. very harmful and the reason we talk about this every day is president donald trump. >> that's exactly right. >> he cannot leave it alone. he would be so much better off to take chris coons' advice and shut up. >> now,

>> i think that also to extent military specially performed well in the hearings, mike rogers, admiral who heads nsa who is particularly forceful and clear, shows the advantage of having experienced pros in your second level of witnesses and so forth, they did a good job. lou: if i may say, in my opinion, the admiral slapped down as gently, quietly and professionally, a number of senators that could have been to keep it proper and straight forward. i thought all of the intel chiefs made every one, every single one of the democratic senators who got up on their high horses and went as low as they could, looked like what they were. de-- deminimus and petty. >> mike was a steel first in vidinside a velvet glove. lou: i thought all of the people represents whether it be the fbi or nsa, or whatever the agency, they did it just a terrific job. i thought that the line of attack from the left in that hearing. i don't know about you, but i was surprised by the shallowness, partisan fo fervor expressed and rudeness that resulted. >> this is one that i think that the president and the white house

that is mike rogers. he had his deputy at the nsa do a memo.the memo it was one page. it was nothing like the comey memo. it wasn't detailed according to the clock and -- and all of that. it was just a general, you know, contemporaneous documentation. dan coates didn't even do that. you know, it has certainly been one of the many clouds hanging over this administration ever since the "washington post" reported last month the conversations happened. what exactly did the president say to them? at least -- there are a lot of details i'm sure we don't know. these were classified briefings that happened last week both with the special counsel's office and with the senate intelligence committee. at least at first blush. they didn't feel that it was untoward. it's going to be up to robert mueller to decide how inappropriate it was. >> up to robert mueller. trump loyalists say, okay, maybe the president shouldn't have said that to james comey about can you shut down the flynn investigation, shouldn't have had these conversations. he's a guy who ran his

officials: recently retired deputy nsa director richard ledgett. ...national security agency director mike rogers......and director of national intelligence dan coats.sari horwitz, washington post: "we know that president trump called dan coats and mike rogers on the phone and asked them both to come out and personally say that there is no evidence of collusion."the washington post's sari horwitz......speaking to c-n-n about what the paper reports were trump's efforts regarding the investigation......and the post's reporting that the president spoke with coats about the probe into michael flynn's russia ties.sari horwitz: "the president said 'can you do something to get fbi director comey to back off of on the investigation of former national security director flynn?'"both coats and rogers have testified that they were not pressured by the trump administration. i'm reid binion reporting. (pam) we are following breaking news out of southern california. where police are in a standoff with a man on a roof. you're looking live at that picture right now, you can see officers on the ground ttrying to t

witnesses include the director of national intelligence acting director of the fbi and mike rogers and department of justice. our live coverage beginning at 10:00 a.m. eastern on cspan3 and our free cspan radio app. >>> later today a hearing on the budget priorities for missile defense programs, our live coverage of house armed coverages beginning at 2:00 p.m. eastern here on cspan3 and our cspan radio app. >>> now a look at nonproliferation. the high representative for disarmament affairs spoke in washington. this runs 30 minutes. >>> we are honored to have us with the new united nations and representatives of secretary general for affairs. she comes to this position with many year of experience at u.n. headquarters in the field at headquarters on u.n. reform, development, peace keeping. she was also for that international relations in tokyo. in her case helping to guide the secretary general and u.n. member states. on the often devicive to reduce and eliminate and how to enforce other weapons of mass destruction in particular right now the chemical weapons convention. in the first fe

robert mueller will interview director of national intelligence dan coats and nsa director admiral mike rogers amid reports about them to tamp down the investigation into allegations of collusion between the trump campaign and russia. >> do you solemnly swear to tell the truth? >> reporter: a week ago former fbi director james comey told senators that he believed he was fired by mr. trump because of the fbi's ongoing russia investigation, which comey was leading at the time. >> do you believe this will rise to obstruction of justice? >> i don't know. that's bob mueller's job, to sort that out. >> reporter: ron hosko, a former assistant director of the fbi, says while obstruction of justice is hard to prove the allegation itself could hurt the president. don't you have to prove intent? >> getting to intent to obstruct or impede is going to be very important. and it could be that they never are able to build that case in a meaningful way. however, damage could be done, political damage could be done during the process. >> reporter: mueller's appointment a month ago to oversee the investigationre

the team planning to interview director of national intelligence didn't cause and mike rogers is partf the investigation. a spokesman for the president's personal lawyer says the fbi leak of information is outrageous, inexcusable and illegal. a spokesman for the special prosecutor declined comment. lauren: keeping a close eye on the markets. the location, put global market action overnight. tenacious tackler for the most part. they can do pencil and quarter of 1%. kospi and south korea 10 half of a percent. shanghai composite up slightly in china. lori: let's check how markets are performing. meadows across the board. the cac down then within one half of 1%. lori: bank of england mentioned today japan will begin their meeting in yesterday we did have the dow closing higher and enough and high yesterday. nasdaq lower and features for the nasdaq down 64 points. cap futures down 67. lori: oil and gold commodity check. gold is down 13 bucks on the heels. we will get into that were shortly. lauren: another rough day on wall street after checking features. joining us now to talk about what'

you got director of national intelligence dan coats, acting fbi direct, nsa director mike rogers and deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, all set to testify. >> overnight coats at the center of breaking news. president trump asked coats if he could intervene with james comey to back off his investigation of former national security adviser michael flynn. unnamed officials tell the "post" it came after a briefing on march 22nd two days after comey said whether the trump campaign colluded with russia. >>> coats decided complying with the president's request to intervene would be inappropriate. cnn reported that the president asked them to deny his campaign cooperated with russia in the 2016 election. both coats and rogers were uncomfortable with the president's request and refused to comply. >>> this morning the white house won't or can't confirm president trump has confidence in his attorney general jeff sessions this as a source close to sessions says the ag offered to resign after a series of heated exchanges between the two men. the frustration brewing since sessions recused him

current nsa director mike rogers and dan coats. >> we know that president trump called dan coats and mike rogers on the phone and asked them to come out and say there was no evidence of collusion. >> the spokesperson for the president's personal attorney condemnedded reports -- condemned the reports. >>> commonwealth court upheld the beverage tax saying it does not duplicate the state's sales tax this follows a decision by the municipal judge last year. it adds 1 1/2 cents per ounce on sodas and other sugary drinks. it has brought in $25 million since taking effect. it will fall short of the $46 million the city hoped to take in. >> if you have a bad experience on a flight recently you want so far as to complain about it. you are not alone. maribel aber describes why travelers can't get no satisfaction. >> customer complaints against airlines soared, the department of transportation fielded 1,400 complaints in the months. complaints jumped 70%. there were high profile incidents that sparked the increase. >>> do you closed at a another record nasdaq and s&p 500 slipped. futures are po

dni dan coats and nsa mike rogers. closed session today with your committee, he is testifying.ming? >> i hate to disappoint you, mika, but i'm not going to talk about who is coming before the committee and what we're going to be talking about. i'll have to pass on that one. just know that the committee is continuing to work. by the way, we have responsibilities beyond this investigation. people think this is all we're doing, it's all that congress is doing. as you noted a few minutes ago we passed a resolution on russian sanctions in the full senate yesterday and our committee has other responsibilities. there's a lot going on aside from this investigation, but clearly that's the main focus of our work. >> got t john heilemann. >> without talking about what's going on today, mika noted that you expressed frustration with dni head coats and with the head of the nsa last week. you also expressed the expresse frustration with attorney general sessions this week pointing out that the questions they weren't answering, that they couldn't cite a legal basis for their refusal to answer

admiral mike rogers in that hearing saying three years i've been around here and not one instance of it. >> eboni: i saw a look of disdain on its face. these are men that operate with a high level of integrity. that's why they take these jobs and they are proud to do them. the suggestions from some of the senators that the they were somehow manipulated. i think he found that offensive. when some of the senators didn't get the answer they were looking for, and that's the problem. when you ask a question within intended to answer and you don't get what you want. >> eric: this hearing was supposed to be a hearing whether we should free up section 702 of the fisa act. i think most people on the committee, probably both sides, agree with re-upping it but they spent most of the day on the russian probe. >> kat: it was like the pregame for tomorrow's party. it's going to be a very, very long, long, long party. going to be the same kind of attitude. you kind of saw what i think tomorrow's going to to look like with comey and it's correct that until this stuff is out of the way, other things

david: the two gentlemen the special counsel wants to hear from, dni dan coats and mike rogers, these two men testified what is thed interest in hearing from them? kevin: they are trying to collect evidence. typesave worked in these of investigations in the past. that's what it's going to come down to -- whether or not there is any evidence. withresident is toying whether there is any audio recordings, to -- so to speak. that's what congress is trying to get their hands on. the authorities have a little more leeway in collecting that information, but the people you mentioned, mike rogers and dan coats have not been forthcoming. have testified they would like to keep certain conversations between themselves and the president quiet and personal between them. that is frustrating several lawmakers, including republicans on capitol hill. of theyou read from one two tweets that he fired off this morning. centered onent apprenticeship and this was supposed to be a week focused on workforce developments. other events have interceded. on the an update shooting yesterday and talked about workfo

the paper reporting five people who say director of national intelligence mike coats and dan rogers, head of nsa and his former deputy, have agreed to be interviewed. >> what we're looking at, the big basis of the investigation is whether or not the president obstructed justice by intentionally trying to meddle in the investigation between the intelligence committee and his campaign. what we're going to find out addition what they're hoping to find out, the senate intelligence committee, from dan coats and nsa director mike rogers is whether the president asked them to do anything that would potentially have to make them intervene. when we heard from them last week at senate intel committee hearing, they couldn't get answers. senators from both parties, you saw big frustration on their faces from senator rubio, senator king, trying to get to the bottom of this and being careful with their wording not necessarily they've been told to do anything but at the same time they never felt inappropriately pressured. >> take us inside that dynamic, the point you were talking about with the sen

officials: recently retired deputy nsa director richard ledgett. ...national security agency director mike rogers of national intelligence dan coats.sari horwitz, washington post: "we know that president trump called dan coats and mike rogers on the phone and asked them both to come out and personally say that there is no evidence of collusion."the washington post's sari horwitz......speaking to c-n-n about what the paper reports were trump's efforts regarding the investigation......and the post's reporting that the president spoke with coats about the probe into michael flynn's russia ties.sari horwitz: "the president said 'can you do something to get fbi director comey to back off of on the investigation of former national security director flynn?'"both coats and rogers have testified that they were not pressured by the trump administration. i'm reid binion reporting. ( james ) breaking news from overnight... the death toll from a deadly apartment fire in london rose to 17. dozens of people are still recovering and the death toll is expected to rise. the fire broke out early yesterday morning.

as you say, the head of the nsa and mike rogers saying they did not feel any pressure from the white house nor president trump directly in influencing the russia investigation. appetizer, so to speak, at of tomorrow's main event. james comey testifying for the first time publicly since the president fired him. women good story crossing on the bloomberg with jennifer jacobs. we are reporting that the white house, as well as the rnc and trump political orbit from super pac's are treating this as a presidential debate. they are ready for political battle mode. they want to put pressure on mr. comey for his ties to the obama years. this is just the beginning. they knew this is an opportunity. they think if they can get there tomorrow, health reform, and muster eight legislative victory, that's a they will be able to move forward. david: kevin cirilli talking but flipping the script. the president we did this morning, i will be nominating christopher wray, a man of impeccable credentials to the new director of the fbi. details to follow. let's walk through some of those details. yell law

. ♪ >> dana: dan coats and mike rogers testified today on capitol hill.re they disappointed many senators by refusing to comment on any personal conversations they had with president trump. rogers and coates said it would be appropriate to disclose discussions with the president in an open session but they were more forthcoming when asked if the white house ever tried to influence an investigation. >> are you aware of any efforts by anyone in the white house or the executive branch looking for advice from other members of the intelligence community on how to potentially influence an investigation? >> no. >> no. >> has anyone ever come forward and said i just got a call the white house saying what's the best way to influence someone on an investigation? >> i never received anything. >> i have no knowledge of such call. >> dana: on, let me talk to you. i talked to some of the democrats -- warm, they think after today's testimony and what they know about fbi director comey, they don't think there's going to be anything new. they think it continues to be a di

the nsa director admiral mike rogers was spotted going into a closed door session of the senate intelligencerogers is in a closed briefing right now, what do you know about him? >> well, it's happening, he has a message still ongoing, a late evening session, this anderson after last week when rogers testified in the public session, but would not answer a number of questions from lawmakers, specifically a key question, whether or not president trump asked him to tamp down stories about potential collusion between trump associates and russian associates. rogers was asked by president trump to tamp down those stories but he refused to talk about that in an open session, saying he would be more willing to talk about this in a classified session. members of this intelligence committee saying it's classified. as they left these hearings of unclear, whether or not they have any more answers to that question, they asked last week if there was an effort in any way to interfere. >> do you know if coats is going to be called in as well, because he also didn't answer. >> he also did not answer, he was n

and richard ledget, a former deputy to mike rogers have agreed to talk to mueller's team as early as next week. a spokesman for the president's personal attorney provided this reaction, quote, the fbi leak of information regarding the president is outrageous, inexcuable and illegal. two things to note. one, it's not a denial of the story in chief and two, the post does not say that their sources, and there are five, are inside the fbi. let us at this point bring in tonight's starting panel. white house bureau chief for the "washington post," phillip rucker, white house reporter for the associated press jonathan le mere and two attorneys are with us tonight. a 25-year veteran federal prosecutor, joyce vance, who spent almost eight years as a u.s. attorney, among the first five u.s. attorneys appointed by president obama. and jeremy bash is back with us, former chief of staff at the cia and pentagon. former chief counsel to the house intelligence committee. phillip, i'll begin with you largely because of the work again tonight of your newspaper on this eventful, emotional day. your pap

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cyber command, admiral mike rogers. this hearing is just over an hour. >>> the subcommittee will come to order. i want to welcome everyone to today's hearing of the emerging threats and capabilities subcommittee of the house armed services committee. with the president budget request released earlier today, this is our first opportunity to explore this request and the major implications for key defense missions. i think it is fitting that the first area we will dive into is cyber. this is an increasingly important area on overseeing the department's progress in building and maintaining cyber forces to protect, defend, maintain, and when necessary conduct offensive operations in cyberspace. as we move towards developing the fiscal year 2018 and daa, i have made cyber and cyber warfare one of my main priorities. in the coming weeks, mac thornberry and i, and the house ranking member adam smith stand to introduce legislation that strengthens congressional oversight of sensitive military cyberoperations, including mandating

what director of national intelligence, dan coats and national security agency director admiral mike rogers discuss. they've both been called into private interviews with robert mueller. they both say that the president made them uncomfortable to make public statements about the russia meddling investigation that would make the presidebene president. trump loyalists say misleading the country about white house tapes is no big deal. democrats disagree. >> it definitely bolsters and provides evidence for obstruction of justice. clearly, the president's purpose or motive here was to have an effect on comey's testimony and i think that the intent was to intimidate or threaten him but to go to the merits, jim comey's testimony never changed. >> obstruction is part of the political debate. what special counsel mueller concludes about the president's conduct is the judgment that matters most. ti "time" puts the special counsel on the cover with the caption "the lie detector." pretty partisan debate. we don't see the classified briefings. you see this partisan thing. what else did we learn this pas

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russia case and it's hard to imagine that the president was calling dan coats and mike pompeo and mike rogers all whom people we barely know, he wasn't asking the same questions. jeff sessions knew about that when he signed up, there was a massive scandal and makes him, you know, really as attorney general. >> of course, we're talking about it as a criminal case. in impeachment there is no system or standard. it is literally whatever the house -- there's also no standard of proof, it's not a matter of beyond a reasonable doubt so you don't need all those courtroom standards to be cleared in impeachment, it's actually a lower threshold. the threshold we saw used with president nixon for this, certainly if applied here would absolutely lead to such an article of impeachment in the house. >> well, it's important to note that back in the '70s, the republicans didn't control congress, you know, i'm not an expert on politics and the winds are going to blow in congress, let me tell you, certainly, i will expect -- and really, i think what we're seeing here, today, is a number of very unusual that ar

if jeff sessions does today what mike rogers tried to do there and say under executive privilege or myh the president are privileged, then it will be asked, did the president ask you to invoke executive privilege? if not, then you can't simply say executive privilege would dictate that i can't cover it. unless the president tells you directly i want you to invoke it on this one thing, it's sort of a meaningless turn. now, that said, that doesn't mean that former senator and attorney general has to answer. he can still say, i prefer not, as rogers did. but this is grossly misused, ov overused and misunderstood. >> he could say these are private conversations i've had with the president. >> and at that point, as jeff toobin has said a number of times, you can hold him in contempt but that weeks and months to get answers. the truth of the matter is, you probably don't have a lot you can hold back on. >> stand by. we'll have a lot more of our special coverage coming up. the attorney general of the united states, jeff sessions, will testify before the senate intelligence committee. we'll re

at that hearing tomorrow, andrew mcce, the acting fbi director will be there and nsa director, mike rogers who has already testified about russian interference in the election, and as much as dan coats might not want to discuss his conversation with the president that's being reported tonight about the president asking him, certainly they're going to ask questions about that. >> they certainly will. they were in the subject matter and democrats are going to try very hard. this is true comey questioning, as well. and, listen, how much do our intelligence officials defer and say there's an active investigation. at the end of the day, though, all of this is going to lead to getting the president of the united states under oath and democrats taking the house. those are the two triggers. let's not over play it, i think we'll see our intelligence chiefs defer a little bit and say there's an active investigation, we'll defer on issues. >> before we go, you've done hearings like this how to approach the subject when the witnesses don't want to talk about it, what do you expect to see. >> i think v