mr. dean, as a form white house counsel, why would such conversations not be covered by attorney-client privilege? mr. dean: there could be partial coverage of attorney-client. what happened during the clinton impeachment is that this was tested in the courts in the district of columbia. and determined that indeed there was no such privilege, that government lawyers really do owe it to the public to be, when asked, able to report their relationships with their principals. so it was more a matter of, you know, transparency than privacy in these instances. so bruce lindsey was ruled, for example, in the lindsey case to not have a privilege with the first lady, hillary clinton. ms. bass: thank you. before continuing i'd like the witnesses to look at the demonstrative displayed which goes through a timeline of these events. i'd like to ask professor vance, what is your reaction to the events in this timeline? ms. vance: this is the timeline, i'm sort of trying to read it quickly as we look at t. i

mr. dean. in fact, probably had a picture up, how do we actually use the governmental resources to interfere in other people's campaigns. mr. dean is the godfather. they may have had a picture of you, knowing how you do it. and that is here today, again, to talk about a president that obviously you don't like, and interview in ways that you have pled guilty to. i appreciate your right to be here. and i appreciate your right to share it anywhere else. but don't appreciate the fact that here we are again, with priorities in this committee, turned upside down. it is interesting to me and i applaud the chairman for finally getting accommodation processes under the department of justice that he could have had a long time ago. i'm glad we got it there. now maybe we can move forward. maybe we can begin to put this committee in order. but i would just go back and just say that i would ask my chairman on who we do agree on some things, hopefully tomorrow we will have a bill that we agree on, the 9/11 b

mr. dean, do you agree with that interpretation by the special counsel and why? >> well, i think what the special counsel is saying and what the president's asking for is to, as was said by former u.s. attorney vance, is an effort to end the investigation in the present activity and to pretend like they would focus on future activities when there's no basis for that. >> mr. dean, since the nixon administration have you witnessed any future administration commit more obstruction crimes than the nixon administration, yes or no? >> no. >> you would submit that in your view, the nixon administration, compared to every administration after, committed the most amount of obstruction crimes you've witnessed? >> no. i gave a few samples in my written statement and there are probably books will be written comparing these two. >> let me rephrase the question, comparing nixon to just any future administration, would you say there was a future administration that committed more crimes than the nixon admini

mr. dean, how many american presidents have you accused of being richard nixon? >> i actually wrote a book about mr. bush and mr. cheney with a title "worse than watergate". >> so it's sort of become -- did you make money on that book? >> it was a very successful book, yes. >> how much money did you make on it? >> i'm sorry, i don't have any idea. >> more than a million bucks? >> no. >> more than a half million bucks. >> i have no idea. >> how much money do you make from cnn? >> i don't really know exactly. >> i think i'm going to object to the personal -- >> mr. dean has made a cottage industry out of accusing presidents of acting like richard nixon, i would like to know how much money he makes on making these accusations and exploiting them for economic benefit. >> mr. gates -- mr. gates i appreciate you were not born at the time this all happened. it's not by choice that i've done a lot of this. it's that i've been dragged into it. >> who forced you to accuse george w. bush of being richard

love to have somebody with some historical knowledge and legal cross-examination skills question mr. dean. >> saul is right. if you look at the difference in this case versus the one that john dean was in, i mean, for one, we had a special prosecutor that was actually fired. mueller actually finished his investigation. so, it will be interesting. >> okay. all right. after that walk down memory lane with him, also there's a dispute tonight, congressman, about, i guess a record request by house judiciary dems to former white house comes director, hope hicks, who is the executive vice president and chief coms officer for fox and former mcgann secretary annie donaldson. so republican greg collin said the white house never directed the two to refrain from cooperating. but the white house counsel sent a letter to nadler revealing nick mull way knee requested the two not produce any documents. >> so whatever the story is here, the white house is well within its rights is it not, to instruct the former staff to withhold documents, am i right about that? >> you have to make a distinction between e

mr. dean, who wrote that? >> i assume that was mine. >> it was yours. trump's massive cover-up of his criminal behavior as potus he's incapable of accomplishing anything. you know who wrote that? >> i suspect that was me again. >> laura: he should have said that was "i" but that's grammatical stuff. jerry nadler called lessons from the mueller report, presidential obstruction and other crimes. throughout this spectacle, dean reveals himself as nothing more than a bias member of the anti-trump resistance. we knew that. before the hearing began, he appeared on his new cnn home and admitted he wouldn't be establishing anything new or relevant. >> i'm not a fact witness. but i hope i can give them some context. and show them how strikingly like watergate, what we're seeing now and what we're seeing in the mueller report is. >> what the heck is the point of this entire exercise on capitol hill. here now, the man you just saw exposed john dean, jim jordan, the membership committee and former deputy assistant general, let's start with you. glad you department

dean. from the white house. >> mr. president, in a reaction to john dean's testimony?ean has been a loser for many years. i have been watching him on one of the networks that is not exactly trump-oriented. i guess they paid him a lot of money. john has been a loser for a long time. he was disbarred and he wants to prison. other than that, he is doing a great job. host: that was the president yesterday. if you would like to watch john dean's testimony in its entirety, you can go to c-span.org and type in john dean at the search bar at the top of the page. from mississippi now on the republican mine, go ahead. caller: good morning. i would like to make a comment in regard to your last guest, the fact that he does think that there was obstruction. i would like to point out that mr. alan dershowitz, who is a andus harvard law professor devout democrat does not think that there was any obstruction after he read it. i would also like to say that it of all a joke to me, these people who are not qualified, who have no law background, to make an opinion or comment about whether

mr. collins: i would extend my thoughts and prayers to ms. dean as well. i am a little under a year, in fact, will be unyear from losing my mother. for all of us we go through that and it's an expression of love. however, i will come to this hearing today and say we are continuing -- i appreciate the chairman's understanding. i appreciate the chairman outlying a great deal conclusion from the mueller investigation, that was the foreign interference in the russian part of this. what is amazing, though, and i agree with the chairman's assessment of being attacked and that something we've known the russians were always a part -- for some of us we have been talking about the russians for a long time. but it's about priorities. the question of priorities is if we were attacked, as the chairman just said, then the priorities should go to the battlefield on attack and not run by the side show to hear from the commentators. we should actually go to the one that the -- mr. mueller actually said was we have a problem here, we're showing you. using these indictments.

mr. deana cottage industry out of accusing presidents of acting like richard nixon. >> mr. gates, i appreciate you were not born at the time this all happened. >> the hearings come amid a tense democratic debate whether to formally begin impeachment proceedings, which now is supported by the chairman of the committee jerry nadler. and a number of members by his panel. >> the president repeatedly tried to interfere in the ongoing criminal investigation. he tried to fire the special counsel and he wanted to lie about the special counsel and say he had conflicts of interest. the clock is ticking. >> what problem is there if you guys continue your current course of action? >> the problem is we may not be able to get the witnesses we want. >> reporter: now, the democrats and the justice department did reach an agreement today to review documents related to the mueller probe including fbi and know its full committee and staff can begin to review at least some of those documents. i'm told tonight the

cheney with the title "worse than watergate." >> so, mr. dean has made a cottage industry out of accusing presidents of acting like richard nixon. i would like to know how much money he makes based on making these accusations and exploiting them for his own economic benefit -- >> you can -- mr. gates, mr. gates, i appreciate you were not born at the time that this all happened. >> do you believe if we turned the lights off here and maybe lit some candles, got out a ouija board, we could potentially raise the specter of richard nixon? >> i doubt that. >> well, more now from congressman ted deutch. we spoke earlier. congressman, watching this hearing today, i mean, republicans relitigating watergate, democrats focusing on the mueller report, yet another example of kind of a tale of two hearings. was anything accomplished? >> sure. today was actually a really important step forward in getting to the truth, anderson. what you saw today over the course of four hours was a very throughoutful and deliberate approach to what was in the mueller report an

attorneys, a mr. deanwho was the white house counsel during the nixon years, were able to provide information about what the report actually meant from their expertise. so i think that was helpful, but, obviously, none of them are fact witnesses. >> yeah, and a lot. a big point was made about that, that these were not fact witnesses, john dean said that, himself, these are folks offering analysis of something that's out there. obviously, you put john dean out there. he has been a very outspoken critic of this hearing as well. he was an outspoken critic of george w. bush, called for the previous president's impeachment at one point. what would you say to critics that say what you are trying to do with there hearing is put on a show for your base. trying to give them something that maybe would be substitute for impeachment for them? >> well, as you know, we have tried to get fact witnesses before the committee. we've issued subpoenas, the fact witnesses will be issuing those subpoenas. john dean was a witnes

mr. dean has mod a cottage industry out of accusing presidents of of acting like richard nixon. >> mr. gates, i appreciatia were not born at the time this all happened. >> reporter: the hearings come amid a tense, debate on informal impeachment proceedings by chairman of the committee, jerry nadler and a number of members on his panel. >> the president repeatedly tried to interfere on the ongoing criminal investigation. he tried to fire the special counsel. he wanted to lie about the special counsel. and say that he had conflicts of interest. the clock is tucking. >> reporter: what problem is there if you continue your course of action? >> the problem is we may not be tubl get the witnesses we wanted. >> reporter: one reason some have called for impeachment is what they view as stone walling from the administration, not turning over documents. the justice department did agree to provide some documents, review those materials and head off a tlt, holding bill barr in contempt. they've begun to r

mr. dean said he was there to educate. no he wasn't! as there because john dean was supposed to raise the specter of a trump impeachment. the minute breakdown president nixon could surely be used to bring a president trump. a purely political stunt. i am tired of lawyers and legalism speared and the definition of obstruction. and all the rest of the lawyers wrangling. what is going on with house democrats has nothing to do with the law. it is pure politics. and lousy politics at that. they know they cannot impeach the president. but they think if they trash them enough they might still win in 2020. i may be foreign-born but i'm here long enough to know that america cannot drag down the president try to deal with crisis at home and abroad. at the very pomona president wins an immigration fight with mexico has democrats trot out john dean in the cause of impeachment. a political charade, dressed up as a legal inquiry. to the democrats, do they not understand that china is watching all this? trashing the president of china leverage. undermi

mr. deans michael cohen a guy that sits in prison today for lying to congress. today, chairman nadler brings in front of the judiciary committee a guy to talk about obstruction of justifiable who went to prisoner in 1974 for obstructing justifiable. >> in the last two years did you know you sent 970 tweets about donald trump? all 970 tweets about donald trump are anti-donald trump. you are functionally here as a prop because they can't impeach president trump and you sit before us here with no knowledge of a single fact on the mueller report on a hearing entitled lessons from the mueller report. brian: this is what he thinks of president trump he has horrible things to say about ronald reagan. he said steve. he wrote a book about that. has no idea how much money he made. deadbeat don. calls him deranged don. some of the things included in 970 geets. ainsley: almost 1,000 tweets. brian: jerry nadler says i have the perfect guy to kick off my show. supposed to to just elicit information. this is

>> what will happen is the chairman will make his statement and introduce mr. dean and mr. n quite frankly it will be questions, very short amount of time to ask questions for each member from each side. it will be a long hearing and it will probably be contentious and i don't think we'll see much accomplished quite frankly. >> shannon: you predict it will be contentious. what role will you play in that hearing? >> i will be making my statement as to mr. dean and the hearing itself because i think what we are seeing is something that is just absolutely a travesty and desperation on the part of the democrats. they want to impeach president trump. >> shannon: when you found out they had called in watergate star witness and former nixon white house counsel john dean, what did you think? >> my first thought was my staff told me and i said they're punking me. i thought this can't be true. john dean. here is a guy with no veracity at all. he was the cover-up master of criminality. that's what every investigation said. 19 discrepancies that the senate committee found. and here he i

mr. dean, who wrote that? >> i did. >> haven't we been too long -- who wrote that? >> i assume it was mine. >> we are witnessing trump's massive cover-up. he's incapable of accomplishing anything. you know who wrote that? >> i suspect it was me again. >> it was you. >> laura: he should've said that was i. it's just grammatical stuff. today the judiciary committee. lessons from the mueller report. throughout the spectacle, dean revealed nothing more than a grossly biased member of the resistance. before the hearing began, he appeared on his new home, cnn, and admitted he wouldn't be establishing anything new or even relevant. >> clearly not a fact with this but i hope i can give the some context and show them how strikingly like watergate what we are seeing now and is reported in the mueller report is. >> laura: what the heck was the point of this entire exercise on capitol hill? you know, the man you just saw, congressman jim jordan, member of the judiciary committee. former deputy attorney assistant john u. how could the dems think that this was going to advance an

he wants to get a fresh body other than mr. dean who testify to such a try to persuade the public. yet. those are the tea leaves that speaker pelosi is reading. she saying that they are just not in favor of impeachment. >> and democrats. it is not a 50-50 split but it is unfavorable right now among democrats. >> right. it has to change. >> because of 20/20, they're worried if it spirals out of control it will help the president. >> what many people don't remember his back when the impeachment of president clinton occurred in 1998, then speaker newt gingrich lost, republicans lost a lot of season and that he lost his job a speaker because it was very very unfavorable and people were not happy about it. chris pelosi was asked today about the comments reportedly when she said in private, the president should go to prison. her response to that today was quote - i'm done with him, i don't even want to talk about him. you think she will stick to that? or did that is her signaling to democrats hey, let's just hit the pause button for second. >> i think she is speaking to the democrats who

demo at an xfinity store, call or go online today. >> mr. deanstry out of accusing presidents of acting like richard nixon. >> mr. yates, i appreciate you were not born at this time this happened. >> we sit today in this hearing with the ghost of christmas past because the chairman of the committee has gone to the speaker of the house and sought permission to open an impeachment inquiry but she has said no, you are functionally here as a prop because they can't impeach president trump. >> bret: republicans fired up about the witness being called. john dean. former nixon white house counsel. a big figure in watergate as you remember. in that same committee room years and years and years ago. the president didn't like it either. can't believe they are bringing in john dean, the disgraced nixon white house counsel who is a paid cnn contributor. no collusion. no obstruction. the democrats want a do-over which they'll never get. a.b., there were moments in which he basically made the case that don mcgahn should testify -- white house counsel currently

in an era with only three television stations, that's right, we only had three stration, mr. dean was on all of them for hours at a time. bring in another convicted felon, biased one at that, a person who tweeted 907 times anti-trump propaganda. to bring him to these chambers was another embarrassment to the majority party. the democrat leadership has dug a deep, deep hole for itself and by practical purposes has started this impeachment process and hearings. nevertheless, in contradiction to public wishes t. appears the judiciary chairman will continue to dig a deeper hole by calling such slanderous offensive witnesses and move forward with impeach. . having done over 38 town halls across the state of kansas since january, everywhere i go folks tell me the same thing, it's time to move on. mr. speaker, we have real problems that need to be addressed. my folks back home are dealing with floods and tornadoes. the farmers can't get their crops 2349 field. china and the european union are blocking us from exporting our commodities. all of these things are things we cannot control. we

mr. dean made a cottage industry out of accusing presidents of acting like nixon. >> i appreciate you were not born at the time this happened. >> the hearings democratic debate over to formally begin impeachment proceedings. which now support by the chairman of the committee nadler and a number of members on the panel. >> he tried to interfere on the criminal investigation. he tried to fire the special counsel. he wanted to lie about the special counsel. and say he had conflicts of interest. the clock is ticking. >> what problem is there if you continue the current course of action? >> the problem is we may not be able to get the witnesses we want. >> one reason why democrats have called for impeachment is stone walling from the administration. not turning over documents. but there was a development today. they agreed to provide documents related to the mueller probe. review those terms and satisfy the demands and head off a threat holding barr in contempt. democrats and republicans began to r

. >> mr. dean, i understand your history of someone in a similar position but chose differently, what do you think don mcgahn was afraid of? why do you feel he needed to protect his chief of staff and other advisers? >> i think he is someone we learned from history. >> that witness is here on "the beat" tonight. he joins me momentarily. i want to join with mellissa murray also a clerk to judge sotomayor and a writer for the nation magazine. good to have you all here. what do americans take away from today's hearing, the very first on the mueller report? >> this is the first designed to bring to the american people, lay it out that's comprehensible to contextualize history. john dean is saying this is almost exactly like watergate. it's not exactly. we don't have tapes and president trump's m-o. but there are a lot of parallels, just as impeachment was appropriate therep john dean is laying the case impeachment might appropriate here as well. >> it was interesting. you said john dean a couple times,

mr. dean. >> harris: it was spirited. president trump also took dean at his credibility. >> he's been a loser for many years. he was disbarred and he went to prison. of them that he's doing a great job. >> harris: all right, you basically are going to be an opinion witness in parts of the mueller report investigation tomorrow, we are hearing. my part is, why do we need a watergate person who committed a crime, admitted so, to come in as an opinion witness? because he's not a fact witness. how do we know? he just told us. >> andy: first of all, looking at that, i feel i should bring my mom down with me tomorrow. [laughs] it sounds like they are really made to the witnesses. >> capri: you might get that from the d side, for sure. >> andy: began, along the lines of political theater, they want to link trump with watergate. but i just think it's such a pale comparison. and maybe this is because i remember watergate very well. i remember dean's testimony very well. you wouldn't have had the speaker of the house saying, "i'm so

. >> john dean was white house counsel for president nixon, mr. dean, a pleasure sir. let's begin with full transparency here, we won't know the full details of this hearing until a transcript is released. but just for now what sort of information do you think democrats are trying to get from her testimony today? >> well, she was obviously an important witness to the special counsel. i think they'd like to get some of that material and understand -- have an actual voice behind the things she gave mueller. so that's one of the things, obviously, he -- she's been close to the president from the outset, they probably like to know some of the things from the campaign, the transition. and she still has on going contact with him. the concept they're invoking to prevent her from testifying brook, really is unheard of, it's just way beyond any norm. >> on the point of on going contact, we have new reporting that they are -- her attempts to distance herself seem to be happening lately, and i want to come back to that, about privilege, john dean. privilege is not being asserted

. >> now mr. dean, i have no problem with you having an opinion. you pay your debt to society. you have made your opinion clear. in the last two years did you know that you sent 970 tweets about donald trump. all 970 tweets about donald trump are anti-donald trump. >> sean: did i mention that he was a liar, obstruction of justice and a felon? and his testimony smacks the democratic desperation. the house democrats want to impeach president trump over a hoax, no collusion, no conspiracy, no obstruction. he is not a fact witness. and recommending no charges paid to the general, deputy attorney general. presented no indictments in a nothing to do with department of justice policy or any constitutional issue. as oh, even mueller said. compare that to the independent counsel ken starr who will join us in a moment. following his 1998 investigation into then-president bill clinton, ken starr detailed 11 specific felonies where he could be impeached. but lost his law license and was impeached. but back then jerry nadler and his fellow democrats pushed hard. they did not want the starr

they stopped me very shortly after that and said no, mr. deanead that testimony, which was 60,000 words and would take eight hours. had i known that in advance, i assure you it wouldn't have been 60,000 words and closer to six. >> so i think that that date that you were there that we just saw the video was july 11th, 1974. >> june 25, '73. >> that's interesting, because you appeared before the judiciary committee on the date i'm saying. >> that's right. that's when i appeared before the judiciary committee in the house. >> today you'll be back there all these years later. we have your prepared statements here, but i would rather hear it from you. tell us what your overarching message is to them. >> there's a little nostalgia because i worked for that committee at one point, too. the first government job i had and rose to be the minority counsel of that committee. i spent a lot of time in that hearing room and know some of the fellows on the staff but don't know any of the members anymore. what i'm going to try to do for the committee -- i'm clea

. >> mr. deanas made a cottage industry out of accusing presidents of acting like richard nixon. >> this committee is now hearing from the '70s and they want their star witness back. >> today chairman nadler brings in front of the judiciary committee to ucttalk about obstruction of justice. >> i did not go to prison. >> joining me on set is joyce vance, former u.s. attorney for the northern district of alabama who, as you just heard, testified at that hearing. in full disclosure an msnbc and nbc contributor. and tom dupree assistant attorney general in the george w. bush administration. thank you for being here. joyce, i have to start with you. what do you think was accomplished yesterday and how do you answer republicans' criticism that bringing in john dean and people who aren't engaged in the specifics of the mueller report don't necessarily provide new information to move the ball forward. >> you know, yesterday was a starting point and i suspect democrats would have much preferred to have don

i grew he with mr. dean, the senate probably won't convict the president. but it strikes me this is what people hate about people in washington, d.c., the willingness to say these kinds of crazy things put him in jail behind closed doors and not follow through on the actions when given a cans by their own conference that wants to do it. >> i'm sorry. >> congressman -- okay, go ahead. >> i'm sorry i have to laugh. because i just heard scott say put him in jail. remember lock her up? let me see who went to jail, the campaign manager is in jail. we don't know what flin -- what time flin is going to -- his lawyer is in jail. lock her up. spo republicans feel that nancy pelosi saying that he should go to jail is somehow crazy but they support a president of the united states whose campaign was lock her up. so number one, there is that going on. but look, let's be clear. what nancy pelosi and democrats want is for the president to be held accountable for his actions. and nef read the mueller report. and it's clearly established in the mueller report that he says

mr. dean was white house counsel when he warned president nixon that there was a "cancer growing on the presidency." you can watch live coverage of testimony today at 2:00 p.m. eastern on c-span3, and also watch our live coverage online c-span.org.rg -- justice clarence thomas spoke at the supreme court historical societies annual lecture last week. he talked about retirement plans with david rubenstein, of the economic club of washington, d.c. [applause] david: thomas, thank you very much. you have to get out of here by the end of you have 24 opinions june. to go, are you going to make it? justice thomas: i don't know my colleagues, i'm out of here. [laughter] justice thomas: i don't know my colleagues, i'm out of here. >> you have a bus that you like to driver around the country. when you drive around the country, and you get out of the bus, do people recognize you right away? justice thomas: well, yes and no. i know that's kind of both ways but that's what happens. so we did 23 states last

>> i'm sorry, i don't have any idea. >> mr. deanas made a cottage industry out of accusing presidents of acting like richard nixon, i'd like to know how much money he makes based on these accusations and exploiting them for his own economic benefit. do you believe if we turned the lights out, lit candles and got out a ouija board we could raise the specter of richard nixon? >> i doubt that. >> well, it seems to be -- it seems to be the objective. >> well, even before today's hearing, the prospect of dean testifying appeared to get under donald trump's skin. last night president trump called dean a "sleaze bag attorney" and said today he can't believe they are bringing in john dean, the disgraced nixon white house counsel who is a paid cnn contributor. according to a new npr poll, 22% of americans now support impeachment proceedings against the president. i'm joined by robert costa of "the washington post." elizabeth hoelzman who voted to impeach president nixon in '74. there she back then. we are going back in time tonight. robert c

. >> what's the strategy behind calling mr. dean about issues like water in the 197 0z when this was all unfolding. >>well, i think it provides some important historical context. certainly mr. dean knows about a corrupted situation. he knows the power of a coverup. i think he's going to provide a really important historical context, the former u.s. attorneys that will testify today, will we begin to really bring in the actual witnesses in the mueller report. >> all right, congressman david cicilline, thank you very much today. robert costa, thank you for your reporting. and still ahead on "morning joe," "the washington post" bureau chief is here with her new book on the great successor, a revealing look at the young dictator and the millions of people forced to support him. you're watching "morning joe." we'll be right back. we'll be right back. make fitness routine with pure protein. high protein. low sugar. tastes great! high protein. low sugar. so good! high protein. low sugar. mmmm, birthday cake! pure protein. the best combinat

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now, mr. deanwhen he testified in the 1970s before the watergate committee, but i still think he has a lot of mental acuity and a lot of insight that we can benefit from. and it reminds people about how important the process was before we ever got to impeachment. >> look, i'm not disregarding, sir, your perspective on this, but i will share we spoke with one of our legal experts in the last hour who said testimony from john dean is not going to move the ball forward, in her opinion. she thinks it's time to subpoena robert mueller. that he needs to answer the questions. so why not subpoena mueller? >> i don't think it's an either/or proposition. i certainly would agree that we need to hear from robert mueller. if that requires a subpoena, so be it. i guess i have to be honest with you. i was really struck by the hubris of mr. mueller in his press statement where he took no questions in asserting that, a, his report spoke for itself, which is patent i untrue. and b, he wasn't going to answer any ques

maybe about mr. dean, perhaps joyce, but they're going to try to paint this as a circus.uddenly want to comply with any of this. the tactics here are clear. they're going to stonewall and say no to everything. they're willing to run the risk of being held in contempt, of this going into court further and hoping they can tie it up for the months ahead. their plan is to run out the clock and paint the democrats as a party of overreach. they're trying to deny the constitutional right congress has for oversight. they're trying to say they can only have that power if they can prove a legislative purpose, which is not written in the constitution. but the white house here, they're going to steamroll over there. they're not going to playing ball at all. >> congressman crowley, how big a test is this for the judiciary committee to actually, as joyce was talking about, to educate the american. you're trying to move the needle on public opinion, is this the way to do it? >> the scoffing at subpoenas, joyce mentioned it earlier. that would have been enough to drive people to testify

that's mr. dean. needlessly tweeting and venting on twitter.o years all the democrats talked about was the mueller report because they knew it was loaded up with 13 angry democrat trump haters. later increased to 18. but despite the bias, when report came out, the finding were no collusion and the facts led to no obstruction. they are bringing even at cnn sleaze bag john dean. sorry no, do-overs. go back to, woman of achievement nancy pelosi says she wants the president to go to jail. that doesn't seem to be working. welcome back to washington, mr. president. back to you in new york. steve: no kidding. it was quiet when he was over in europe. >> semi quiet. steve: doug mckelway, thank you so much. brian: some ways to go we know in the next two weeks boomerang will be in full effect. michael horowitz report. forensics what led to this whole mueller report. what led to the investigation of the president and see if there is any wrongdoing. a lot of people seem to be covering themselves right now. ainsley: a lot of people sick of talking about this

here's dean reynolds. >> mr. noor, do you wish to say anything to the court? >> reporter: and former minneapolis police officer mohamed noor did. >> the moment i pulled the trigger, i felt fear. >> reporter: he was talking about the night of july 15, 2017, the night justine damond called 911 to report a possible sexual assault in an alley near her home. noor testified that when he and his partner arrived, there was a loud slap on the cruiser, and damond suddenly appeared at the driver's side window. noor said he feared for his life, reached across his partner, and opened fire on the unarmed 40-year-old woman. he was convicted in april of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter, and today... >> i don't want to lose my family. >> reporter: ...he pleaded for mercy. >> i have to accept they caused this, and i have to live with it for the rest of my life. >> reporter: the woman's fiance, don damond, told the court so will he. >> i miss you so much. every day. every moment. ( sighs ) i don't understand how such a thing could happen to you and to us. >> re

pretty aggressive comments coming out of mr. dean pushed back and in watergate there was a crime, no russian collusion here, what's the parallel other than he wants to be in the light. maria: william barr are looking at and no mention, kristin, of the fact that you had cabal of people putting finger on the scale in 2016. >> by in large, i'm looking at what voters are thinking about this, mostly moved on. there are things outlined in mueller report that are concerning about what russia was trying to do. and so absolutely good that the report was done, good that there was information sort of pulled together about what russia was attempting to do but in terms of this president, you know, his job approval hasn't moved since the release of the report, if anything kicked up a little bit, with new information out there, by in large voters said i'm glad it's done, now let's move to fixing infrastructure, getting our economy, et cetera, et cetera. >> the democrats won't let them drop the issue. they want crime even though there's no real crim

when there's a lot of anxiety about an aircraft crashing into a building they all cut away from mr. deanguess i thought rhetorically the republicans of the judiciary committee probably did a better job than the democrats of making the most of the john dean thing. i think one of the members called him the ghost of christmas past which i thought was a memorable line. i'm not sure what it did to advance the cause of the democrats. it was sort of the best they had. host: let's get to the callers. diane is up first from oak harbor, washington. public in color. called because i don't agree with what's going on. if it's for the people, you are wasting our money and i don't believe in what you are doing at all. repeat if youn care at all about the people then you should not be doing what they are doing at all. -- when you say you, i assume you don't mean the two of us. you mean the house democrats. caller: i mean the house democrats and all of them. pelosi, the whole bit. this is ridiculous. this is a free republic and i can't understand what's going on. host: ok. guest: i think what is going on

mr. deanhite house counsel when he warned president nixon that there was a "cancer growing on the presidency." you can watch live coverage of testimony today at 2:00 p.m. eastern on c-span3, and also watch our live coverage online c-span.org.rg -- justice clarence thomas spoke at the supreme court historical societies annual lecture last week. he talked about retirement plans with david rubenstein, of the economic club of washington, d.c. [applause] david: thomas, thank you very much. you have to get out of her

mr. stanton. >> no. >> ms. dean. >> no. >> miss macarthur powell. >> no. >> miss escobar. >> no. >> mr. collins. >>aye. >> mr. sensenbrenner. >>aye. fetz.. chaf >>aye. >> mr. gomert. >>aye. >> mr. jordan. >> yes. >> mr. radcliffe. ms. roby. >>aye. >> mr. johnson of louisiana. >> aye. >> mr. biggs. >> aye. >> mr. mcclintock. >> miss lesko. >>aye. >> mr. rosenthal are. >> aye. >> mr. klein. >>aye. >> mr. armstrong. >> yes. r. steube.s tm >>yes. chairman nadler: has anyone voted who wishes to vote? legitimate from florida. no.lerk: he votes in mr. johnson of georgia votes no. chairman nadler: gentlelady from california? mr. bass boats no. anyone else? . call the report? clerk: mr. chairman, the vote is no's.s, 22 chairman nadler: the motion is -- the motion is approved. the gentleman from florida is recognized for the purpose of an amendment. sounds of protest] nadler: those in favor say aye. >> mr. chairman? mr. chairman. i seek recognition. chairman nadler: the vote is agreed to. chairman nadler:. >> you will not recognize members of the committee who want to speak on this motion? mr. ch

mr. stanton. aye. ms. dean. aye. ms. mccarsle-powell? aye. miss escobar? aye. mr. collins. no. mr. sensenbrenner. no. mr. shabot. no. >> mr. gomer. no. mr. jordan. no. mr. buck. no. mr. radcliffe. no. ms. roby. ms. roby votes no. mr. gates? mr. johnson. no. mr. biggs? no. mr. mcclint ok? no. ms. lessco. no. >> mr. rushenthaler. no. >> mr. klein? no. mr. arm strong votes no. mr. stuby votes no. >> has everyone who wishes to be recorded been recorded? has the gentleman from tennessee been recorded? has the gentleman from tennessee wish to be recorded? >> how does the tennessee wish to be recorded? >> mr. cohen votes aye. >> we have two more people coming in. >> mr. chairman. >> the gentleman from, the gentleman from georgia. after all the eloquent speeches today, i forgot, am i recorded? >> mr. colins, you're recorded as no. >> madam clerk, how am i recorded? >> mr. nadler, you're recorded as aye. >> i wish to be recorded as aye. >> mr. chairman, gentle lady from texas. >> how am i recorded? >> ms. jackson lee you're recorded as aye. >> that's correct, thank you. >> the gentleman fro

dean: contract lending. mr. coates: contract lending, yes. rep. dean: give us a quick definition of that. mr. coates: i don't have access to the normal routes of banking to buy a home and so a contract lender comes in and pretends to sell me the home and gives me the responsibilities of the homeowner, the upkeep, the maintenance, taxes, et cetera but holds onto the deeds. it is a high tech buy rent option. rep. dean: the other practice that wells fargo participated in in a huge way in the early 2000's, 2005 as quoted by a former wells fargo loan officer, they went into black communities through their churches and pushed sub prime lending on those folks who would have qualified for regular mortgages and she said, we went right after them. she's a former member of wells fargo. wells fargo mortgage had an emerging market unit and targeted black churches because it figured we could convince congress to take sub prime loans. that's recent. that's ongoing kind of stuff. that's egregious. anybody who says this is a thing of the past just isn't paying atte

mr. -- congressman dean phillips. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from minnesota is recognized. mr. phillips: i want to thank my colleague for yielding. mr. speaker, this bill is long overdue in the u.s. and in my state of minnesota. we are home in minnesota to a thriving community of liberian refugees who fled two civil wars and an ebola outbreak. like my good friend, louise stevens. she escaped civil war. she left her life behind. she left on a friend's floor for over a year just for the chance for the american dream. and now she's over 60. she's worked hard in minnesota's health care industry for 18 years. she is the mother of american children. she pays taxes and is here legally under d.e.d. because of that d.e.d. status, she still has no path to citizenship. the same is true for thousands of liberians in america. i'm so proud to help lead the dream and promise act and finally, at long last, change that. that is the american dream, and at long last should be our reality. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore

this as watergate figure john dean warns congress that mr. trump is a lot like richard n nixon.the new inquiry into the origins of the russia investigation. who is being targeted? and lavish spending. the national rifle association under new scrutiny for reportedly paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to supposedly unpaid board members. is the nra breaking the rules? if so, will it pay the price? we want to welcome our viewers around t in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer and you're in "the situation room." >>> we're following breaking news on a deadly helicopter crash on a new york city skyscraper near times square. it's still unclear why the chopper slammed into the rooftop in the r 1

dean warns congress that mr. trump is a lot like richard n nixon. we're learning more about the scope of the new inquiry into the origins of the russia investigation. who is being targeted? and lavish spending. the national rifle association under new scrutiny for reportedly paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to supposedly unpaid board members. is the nra breaking the rules? if so, will it pay the price? we want to welcome our viewers around t in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer and you're in "the situation room." >>> we're following breaking news on a deadly helicopter crash on a new york city skyscraper near times square. it's still unclear why the chopper slammed into the rooftop in the rain 11 minutes after takeoff, spewing fire and smoke as terrified new yorkers watched from below. one person is dead, the pilot. the mayor of new york city tells me it's a mystery as to why the pilot was flying in the area in an erratic path. he said there's no indication of terrorism. also breaking, the justice department agrees to g