that is the exact mirror of the federal law that chairman neal has been using to get his tax returns. so new york state tax returns mirror federal tax returns. they contain much of the same information, so chairman neal may now be just weeks away from obtaining donald trump's new york state tax returns, which will be almost as revealing as his federal tax returns. in the meantime, the "new york times" has taken a giant step closer to donald trump's tax returns with their blockbuster reporting last night on 10 years of irs transcripts of donald trump's tax information showing that donald trump lost over a billion dollars in those 10 years and did not pay taxes in eight of those years. the "times" article quotes the former director of research, analysis and statistics of the irs on the accuracy of irs transcripts, he will join us in just a moment. house speaker nancy pelosi commented on the "new york times" story today. >> that does tell us, though, that it would be useful to see his tax returns as the law says. the administration shall give -- shall. it doesn't say must, should, could,

house ways and means committee chairman richard neal has just issued speakubpoenas. x who has been covering this battle for the president's taxes. this is quite the escalation, lauren. >> reporter: that's right. richard neal has been saying all day he would have a decision by the end of the afternoon. here it is. he is saying essentially in two different subpoenas, one to the irs commissioner, charles reddig, the other to steve mnuchin, i demand that you hand over the president's tax returns by may 17th. so setting essentially a new deadline for that tax information to be turned over. as you might remember on monday the treasury department said they would not turn over the president's tax returns, so the subpoena is an escalation, but this is going where we thought it was going this entire time, which is right to court. >> how significant is this? >> reporter: well, there were a couple of options that chairman richard neal had at his disposal. one of them was going directly to court, and that is because the irs statute that he was using to get the president's tax retu

now, richard neal has a few options. ahead and say that the treasury department is not fulfilling their legal obligation for this information. or he could file a subpoena on top of that and then go to court that way. so those are a couple of the options. we have not heard yet from richard neal. this request being denied just moments ago. wolf? >> and it's not a surprise, lauren. we never anticipated that steve mnuchin, the treasury secretary, would go ahead and do this. so i assume the democrats, richard neal, and the house ways and means committee and other democratic leaders, including the speaker, they have a game plan in mind to take immediate action. >> well, absolutely, wolf. from the very beginning, richard neal has been clear that he's been building and preparing for a court case. he never expected this to come easily. back when i interviewed him in november, he said that this was all about going slowly, being careful, being deliberate, making sure that all the ducks were in line for when the inevitable court cas

at the start of this process, richard neal says this process has to be careful, not quick because he was pretty much assured this was going to end up in the courts and wanted to make sure that all the paperwork was right in place. >> yeah. >> jackie alemany thanks so much for your time this morning. >> thanks for having me. >>> another democrat teases he may be jumping into the 2020 race. a look at who is expected to be joining the crowded field. >>> former vice president biden faces pushback from congresswoman ocasio-cortez over his plan to come be the climate change, what she's calling a de deal breaker. >>> those stories and bill karins with a check on your forecast when we come back. >>> democratic presidential candidate and massachusetts senator elizabeth warren traveled to the heart of maga country over the weekend to discuss the devastating effects of the opioid crisis. warren greeted a crowd of about 150 people in kermit, west virginia, by asking them to raise their hands if they knew someone who has battled addiction. nearly everyone put their hands up. the less than 400 per

house ways and means committee chairman richard neal has given treasury secretary mnuchin and irs commissioneril 5:00 p.m. this coming friday to turn over six years of president trump's personal and business tax returns. this as the administration faces further investigations into the president following the mueller report. >> the mueller report is in, no collusion, no obstruction, now

chairman neal has the authority to get these tax returns. the authority is highest when there is potential misconduct or conflicts of interest, which may be the case here. my belief is this is all going to come down to justice roberts. justice roberts' clerked for judge friendly one of the great jurists of our time and should believe about the credibility and court of the constitutional system and hope will follow the law, expedite this and rule for cong. otherwise, he risks undermining the credibility of the courts. >> do you agree with chairman neal's approach? he's gone for a subpoena instead of going straight to court? >> i do. i would have done it faster. i think we should have gotten this request out probably months ago. because i anticipated along with other progressive there's would be stonewalling. now we should have the subpoena and i do think we'll be vindicated in court, and i think that he's doing things deliberately to make sure that he's dotting the is and ts for when the case does go to court. >> your response to that questio

house ways and means committee chairman richard neal has sent subpoenas to the irs commissioner and to the treasury secretary steve mnuchin for six years of trump's personal and business returns, all of that coming at the end of a week when we saw the former director of the fbi tell cnn that he believes the president of the united states obstructed justice and would have been charged if he weren't president. >> and so in your opinion there was corrupt intent at least in several of those episodes. >> sure looks that way from the report's factual recitation. >> if, you know, they're now -- what, i think it's up to 800 former federal prosecutors who've worked in both republican and democratic administrations who have signed a statement saying that mueller's findings would have produced obstruction charges against president trump if he weren't president. do you agree? >> yeah, i agree. >> no doubt? >> no doubt. >> a week when the house judiciary committee voted to hold the attorney general in contempt for refusing to hand over the full mueller report and its underlying evidence. when the p

chairman neal has been consulting with house lawyers on the next step. >> we'll have a decision i thinky the end of the day. to respond i've been very careful to scrupulously follow the advice of house counsel, and i intend to do that today. >> chairman schiff said earlier that he's confident that you will have the tax returns before the end of this year. do you agree with this? >> i think that the case we've attempted to build is based on substance. we've stayed away from the fanfare and i think some of the hyperbolic conversation and have attempted to reason this through based upon the advice of our attorneys. >> so what's next for the committee? >> you'll have a pretty good idea. >> lauren fox is on capitol hill for us, and we have julian epstein, jeff council to house committee democrats during the clinton impeachment. lauren, you just got some new information there from chairman neal. tell us what you've learn. >> well, that's right. richard neal all day saying he'll make a final decision by the end of the day, depending on what he wants to do when it comes to the next steps in tha

. >> well, the chairman, chairman neal, has been consulting with house counsel and we will pursue everyilable. i don't think the prosise avenue has been determined, but the one thing the administration should understand, we are not walking away from this. we are going to make sure that the law is enforced. section 6103 of the tax code is really clear, it says that the irs shall furnish or freshly department shall furnish tax return upon request of the chairman of the ways and means committee. this is not a choice for them. they don't get to choose which american laws are comfortable for them to follow. we are a country that is governed by law and that does not exclude the president of the united states and they seem to think that upon his election he's exempt from the laws that make him uncomfortable, that's just not the case. >> seems a fairly simple statement and yet the white house is sticking with this plan. big picture it seems that the trump administration is frustrating what was a democratic plan here to pursue a whole host of investigations. i'm going to quote from "the new york

latest request for six years of returns was denied last week, house ways and means chairman richard neal has given treasury secretary steve mnuchin until 5:00 p.m. today to comply with the subpoena and this week mnuchin signaled that wasn't likely to happen either. >> we haven't had an official response yet. i think we have a few more days. we'll comply with the timing of it and i think you could pretty much guess how we're going to but i haven't made a decision. >> the congressman neal who asked for it three different times and isn't surprised by the actions and ready to take additional steps. >> after the election i indicated i thought this would end up in a long court case. i've not seen much in the last few weeks that would dissuade me of that position. >> do you view contempt as a potential option? >> i don't see what good it would do at this particular time. i think that if both sides have made up their minds, better to move it over to the next branch of government, the judiciary. >> translation, see you in court, mr. secretary. now to more on the breaking news. the u.s. set to lift ta

that's why chairman neal has now been signaling that he might even skip subpoenas, he might skip threats of contempt, he might just fast forward straight to the courts to get this settled and to get the president's taxes, as he is legally authorized to do. while we wait for that potential court fight to start over the president's tax returns which, again, we're going to hear about as soon as tomorrow, there is one little piece of this that i think is worth sticking a pin in. this is michael desmond, he is the head lawyer at the white house, the chief counsel, the number two job at the irs. in this case he was hand picked by the president for that job. specifically, he was hand picked and then he was also hand pushed through his confirmation by president trump. "the new york times" reported ahead of this confirmation that the president personally intervened to push along desmond's confirmation. the president personally asked the republican leadership in the senate to prioritize this guy's confirmation vote, even ahead of the confirmation for william barr to be attorney general. wow. the i

house ways and means committee chairman richard neal has given treasury secretary mnuchin and irs commissioner until 5:00 p.m. this coming friday to turn over six years of president trump's personal and business tax returns. this as the administration faces further investigations into the president following the mueller report. >> the mueller report is in, no collusion, no obstruction, now the senate tells its committee it is starting over again, and what the american people want us focused on in washington, d.c. is the kind of things i was talking about, at the steel factory today and on a farm here in minnesota. they want us talking about this growing economy. they want us talking about making america more secure. i really do believe and i hope that congress will get the message that we'll move on. >> ellison barber has the latest from the white house. ellison? >> hi, jon. the department of treasury says they have their subpoena, but officials would not comment beyond that. president trump is talking and commenting on this on twitter writing in part quote i won the 2016 election partially ba

. >> rebecca buck, the chairman of the ways and means committee, chairman neal, has been cautious so. how soon do you >> well, wolf, i think cautious is the keyword there. and we saw the statement from neal today saying he's going to consult with counsel on this but he's going to evaluate his options. and what democrats want to demonstrate here is that they're taking their time, they're not rushing into anything, they're not being rash. they want to bring the american people with them, make sure they understand their rationale so there isn't any political backlash. so as lauren laid out in her report, lauren fox, there could be a subpoena, could be legal action taken moving forward and those are the options before the committee, before neal. but i think they are going to be cautious and take their time here and not rush into anything because they don't want to take a political risk, they don't want to overstep. >> the trump administration also missed the house judiciary committee's deadline for the unredacted mueller report. but the justice department extend said an offer to negotiat

house ways and means chairman richie neal has called for those returns as the law allows him to do.nd treasury said no, they won't hand over the taxes. the subpoena deadline 5:00 p.m. eastern tomorrow. we will see what happens. i'm also honestly looking forward to seeing what happens in response to this court order from judge emmitt sullivan today ordering that portions of that unredacted mueller be -- be -- >> it was unredacted day a little bit. i i mean, and really powerfully interesting new information to put it mildly that was unredacted in that court filing. > yeah, the flynn stuff about what flynn cooperated on and then just like the follow-up rulings from the judge oh, and by the way, i want the recordings of the intimidating phone call from the president's lawyer when he called you in the middle of the night and told you not to cooperate and the phone call of you talking to the russians and i'm ordering the justice department tote publicly release an unredacted mueller report. >> the thing about wanting to hear the recording makes perfect sense to me because when you p read

at the same time, house ways and means chairman richard neal has a job to do and is meeting with counselstep to do the oversight, which includes the taxes. a member of this committee wants to get tough with the president. he is democrat lloyd doggett here to make his case. welcome to the show, sir. >> thank you, chris. >> first, "the new york times." what's your takeaway? >> it's shocking. you know, the president's demonstrated that he's a loser and not just any loser, he's the biggest loser as far as individual taxpayers in that period of anybody in america. knocking out the competition in some years almost 2-1. it does raise another question as well, how does someone who is such a big loser eventually get bailed out by a foreign bank? what other kind of money from abroad was floating in to keep him afloat? so there are many questions out there. these were older tax returns. it certainly demonstrates another reason why we need the more recent returns. >> obviously in the 2000s he got the gift of that reality show. and in fairness to him he wound up doing it the right way. it became a bi

and the economic partnership it has with many countries in the european union. could -- the neal arms treaty? as i understand, russia has chinased the topic with the-- how have we not seen -- until the chinese part? talks with china -- step with chinese partners. on.crisis is going russia is going forward to. [indiscernible] i do not see that. russia would criticize china in not joining the treaty although russia would like to update new arms control and regime -- as far as i am concerts. our military experts also to be part of the foreman. so i guess this is the picture that we have now and russia , russiave -- well thinks that it would be better for everyone if we negotiates but ate arms control this stage there is nothing we can really do. action we canar do now basically. and the last thing about the standards in the arctic -- this is an adjusting question because china -- has grown and china would like to step up its presence and even if you look at the maps, you will see this is one of the same shipping lanes. china on the way that it needs to have cooperation that russia w

house ways and means committee chairman richard neal has given treasury secretary mnuchin and irs commissionerars of president trump's personal and business tax returns. this as the administration faces further investigations into the president following the mueller report. >> the mueller report is in, no collusion, no obstruction, now the senate tells its committee

>> reporter: and the contents of that memo, of course, poppy, have been what chairman richard neal who hasequested the president's tax return has been arguing all along, that 6103 the irs statute he's using is indisputable. that the treasury secretary has no right not to turn over six years of the president's personal and business tax returns. but, again, a subpoena was defied last week when they did not hand over that information. we expect this fight going to court pretty soon. poppy? >> okay. lauren fox, important reporting. keep us posted on how that hearing continues. thanks so much. >>> you may have noticed that we still have not seen robert mueller testifying before the house judiciary committee or any committee. now we're learning why. the notoriously reserved special counsel is said to be balking specifically testifying in public, cnn's laura jarrett has more on this from the justice department. to be clear is he saying no to any testimony or your public testimony, does that mean he's, therefore, open to private or closed door session? >> you nailed it, jim. the real negotiations

neal: i want to thank the gentlelady for -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. mr. neal: well, i would yield myself 30 seconds. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. neal: i want to thank the gentlelady for her support of the bill before us and her leadership on addressing the unfair tax that's plagued tribes making taxable distributions to their children and young adults. the kiddie tax was enacted to prevent wealthy families to shifting income to minor children. the rationale does not apply to funds distributed by indian tribal governments because indian tribes are not taxable entities and their distributions, therefore, could never be intended for the purpose of a tax deduction. the ways and means committee will work to address this problem with the goal of excluding such tribal government distributions from the kiddie tax provisions, and i yield back. ms. moore: if the gentleman will yield? mr. neal: i will yield the gentlelady 15 seconds. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. ms. moore: thank you so much. this is the fi

well the simple truth of the matter neal is that america has a very very very dark secret a despicable history that is gruesome it's based on there and murder and unfortunately that's the reality so what we have to do is instead of painting over it is teach our young people how to address that going forward but painting over it isn't the solution if we hide our head in the sand nothing changes we can't just the races or erase the vestiges of how it deals how it affects us in the present day by just simply saying it didn't happen. we should take on this long though do we need to be more sensitive to these rules might be offensive to people not. oh not only must we remove the george washington mural at george washington university but we must expunge and bowdlerized every reference of anything from the subject of history that in any way triggers any kind of sense of discomfort any reference any mention rurik but out of the history books and they are no reference to the pyramids in egypt they were built by slaves in fact recently in my own new york a song that was eighty three years old a

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other potential wrongdoings that trump or his administration has done, whether it's emoluments violations or things of that nature. so nealhe beginning been very strategic in trying to, again, lay down these markers. that's why he sent multiple letters. it was to show eventually when it does reach the courts because that's where democrats expect it to head and they have from the beginning. this is what we did. we took every step possible to get these attacks documents before we came to you. and the law that. >> also made the requests very narrow. so they feel as though the law is very much on their side which says the treasury secretary shall, not should, it's not a suggestion, shall turn these over. >> that's a good point. there are a lot of very clear things that this administration is essentially treating as optional when they're not. congressman, there is also a report in "the new york times" tonight about deutsche bank. the "new york times" is reporting there were suspicious transacts in accounts held by the president and his son-in-law jared kushner that employees of the bank advised should be sent essentially to th

neal issued a notice friday. mnuchin hasold the committee he won't hand over the president's tax records because the request lacks legislative purpose. neal says federal law is on his side and that the committee has never been denied a request. >>> president trump has escalated the u.s. trade tensions with china, threatening to raise tariffs again on all the imports from china. this comes after the chinese delegation left meetings with the u.s. officials in washington with no deal. nikole killion is at the white house. good morning. >> good morning to you. he insisted that his relationship with china's pretty is strong even as he moved to raise tariffs on chinese goods which could impact millions of americans. trade talks between china and u.s. lasted zwruft two hours friday and ended without a deal. the nearly one-year trade spat reignited an all-out trade war. overnight they said they're going to raise tariffs on china valued at $300 billion. this comes after president trump slapped 25% tariff on $250 billion worth of chin

the world this is our international from the team myself you know neal hello and welcome to our top story russia's foreign minister has said he does not believe there's any real support for a u.s. military intervention in crisis stricken venezuela even among top officials in washington. made the comments following talks with his american counterpart mike pump ale on the sidelines of the arctic forum in finland. picks up the story. but. it wasn't a good idea to shed light on any of the details pretty much but he did respond to my question about my statement from this weekend that russia must get out. of venezuela and also about the possibility of on call said intervening militarily things that are loose. consent to do this and we tried not to concentrate on those statements which are publicly discussed because they are being affected by many factors the don't have anything to do with real politics concentrators and real politics incentives from my contacts with the us late an american and european colleagues i don't see any suppose it's moved to reaction and media at the after this i asked the russian foreign minister

the chairman of that committee richard neal, house ways and means, he has made it clear after treasury secretary mnuchin turned down their request again that he's essentially weighing his next steps. he said i will consult with counsel and determine the appropriate response. he could, of course, subpoena, he could, of course, hold him in contempt of congress. those next steps clearly being looked into right now. this is the second missed deadline and mnuchin as you just saw there when he said that they would not turn over the six years of tax returns says that he determined that the committee request lacks a legitimate legislative purpose, of course, that not going to fly with democrats up here on the hill. >> does the law matter? it's the overriding question with so many of these things. sunlen serfaty on the hill, thanks very much. >>> also on that topic, at last check more than 600 former federal prosecutors signed an online rebuttal to the attorney general's decision against charging the president with obstruction of justice. the signatories served under presidents of both parties

justice department, attorney general william barr will publish a legal opinion as if that has any legal weight. richard nealssued a statement saying that he will consider what action to take, what legal action to take but if this is a legally unprecedented territory that we have entered tonight. the chairman said i'll consult with counsel and determine the appropriate response, that response is something that no chairman of the house ways and means committee has ever, ever had to come up with in a situation like this, every single time the chairman of the finance committee demanded to see tax returns under that law, those tax returns have been immediately delivered by the irs. that is the way the law is supposed to work. we're joined now but freshman democratic congresswoman katy porter from california. she's a member of the house financial services committee. congresswoman katy porter, thank you for joining us. i want to get your reaction. this is a very simple law as you know and you're a law professor, you know how to read these things. there is not much in the tax code that is simple but this is and sim

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stylistically, whether or not you sort of -- you are in tune with the way that he has been pursuing this, richard neal having a different approach than all of the other members of congress and all the other combatants who are fighting all these other fights with the white house, richard neal having a different approach is to be expected given that his fight is the effort to get the president's tax returns on a totally different basis than all the other fights in washington are taking place on right now. i mean, he's got this law he's trying to have enforced. he's simply telling the treasury department and irs to follow the clear law and do what the law says they must do. now, how do you win a fight like that if you're richard neal, the chairman of the ways and means committee? i think we can surmise his strategy is to keep it simple. he knows the law is on his side, he knows the law is a clear and simple thing here, he just has to press that point until some court compels the trump administration to follow the law. that's how he's pursuing it. how do you try to win this fight if you're the other side,

neal. a saudi arabian ship sent to pick up weapons in europe has been hounded by protest along its journey in france activists succeeded in preventing it from collecting its cargo claiming that the arms could be used against civilians in yemen now a french flag has been projected onto the vessel this is in spain but we did claims that the ship left the airport carrying material that will not be used in a combat e.u. countries are under increasing pressure over their arms sales to riyadh to explain all is r.t. shala doing. well amnesty international has blasted several european union states saying they have failed to poll their obligations in regards to the arms trade treaty because they're selling weapons to saudi arabia with arms that will likely be used in the war in yemen the bar has been bouncing off european ports like a pinball this is a serious test of the country's resolve to uphold the obligations on the arms trade treaty and e.u. common position on arms exports several states have food this test in the space of just a few days now the concern is that some of these weapons could b

the world this is your r t international my names you know neal hello and welcome great to have your company top story serbia has put its military on full alert after kosovo sent special police units into the contested region serb dominated north arresting a number of individuals suspected of quote criminal activities. of of the will of developments are likely to inflame tensions between the 2 neighbors belgrade has warned it will react swiftly if serbs in kosovo are threatened or. serbia lost control over kosovo after a nato intervention in 1099 and refuses to recognize its 2008 declaration of independence well let's dig a little bit deeper into the details nod quarter joins me in the studio with more on what we know hi don so essentially i've got an ongoing as far as i understand police security operation in cost of poland that's been going on for a number of hours yeah absolutely these tensions with serbia between serbia and kosovo began with this special police operation deployed into actually a serb majority area of northern coast of all the serbian president alexander of which has put the military on full

papa new guineas prime minister has quits after 7 years on the job peter neal's resignation follows weeks of high level defections from the ruling party he says a change of leadership is needed to ensure a planned reforms aren't delivered former prime minister julie is chan will take over as leader upcoming talks between u.s. president donald trump and japan's prime minister shinzo abby are expected to focus on trade and north korea trump arrives in japan on saturday for a 4 day state visit there are they offered to help diffuse u.s. tension with iran so far from some gauge ment's with they have been in the cultural including traditional japanese similar wrestling it's also expected to meet new emperor and iraqi 2. joins us now live from tokyo when i was just at the start of this visit of course but i did it all for of mediation goes on with the u.s. president. well we have had no official reaction yet from the u.s. president donald trump today was really all about leisure and sports as you mentioned they played golf they attended a sumo tournament and they're sitting down to dinner right

one of the most powerful democrats in congress has issued subpoenas now for president trump's tax returns. richard nealing six years of the president's returns after the treasury department refused to turn them over. he has sent subpoenas to the irs commissioner and steve mnuchin setting up a likely lengthy court fight. this is democrats facing what they call unprecedented stonewalling by the trump administration. joining me now is steve bannon. i want to get your reaction, first of all, to the reporting about mcgahn. do you think mcgahn is an honorable guy? do you believe what he told the mueller team about what he says the president asked him to do is accurate? >> well, i think, you know, the president at the time waived executive privilege, sent his white house counsel up and had over 30 hours of questioning. i was sent up, reince priebus was sent up, everybody in the white house. the president said go up and spend as much time as possible. i think it was over a million and a half documents. a hundred and some witnesses. >> do you think mcgahn was honest to what he said to mueller? >> i think you've

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it has possibility to transform certain areas of the country that are really underserved by capital. katia: how much money do you think will actually be invested in opportunity zones this year? nealo put a number on it, but secretary mnuchin put $100 billion as the number. hard to put a number on it, but there has already been a lot done. not just high net worth investors deferring capital gains and hoping to invest in opportunity zones, for complete deferral of gains. creating anbank opportunity zone, you have keybank, you have goldman sachs, and foreign companies like dhl, who announced two days ago they acres of land in south carolina for elitist tics facility. we are doing a project in jasper county -- for a logistics facility. we are doing a project in jasper county, south carolina. we think it really creates a lot of opportunity. and if you look at what amazon is doing in our neck of the woods in virginia. potomac yards is just outside an opportunity zone, and amazon bought options on opportunity zone land. the key thing behind the legislation, it is really a jobs program, so real estate was just the first leg. the investor interest early on was developers and people invest

of this act was modeled off of important work that was passed in chairman neal's home state of massachusetts where their mmrc has been in place for over 20 years. pennsylvania is now equipped with an mmrc that will produce a report within three years of its first meeting, which was last october. examples of ways to implement changes and recommendations of maternal mortality review committees are through organizations known as perinatal quality collaborative policies, collaboratives, or p.q.c.'s. in states like north carolina and massachusetts, a collaborative is a network of teams that works to improve the access and quality of care for both mothers and babies across prenatal, labor and birth, newborn, and postpartum services. these teams can identify processes that can be improved. and quickly adopt best practices to achieve their collective aims. in closing, ways that we can move forward and address maternal mortality. currently, the preventing maternal death act is providing applications or an opportunity for states to apply for funding to create their mmrc's. as a next step and as we look forward, the mama a

one of the most powerful democrats in congress has just issued subpoenas for president trump's tax returns. the ways and means committee chairman, richard neal, is demanding six years of financial records with subpoenas to the treasury secretary and the irs commissioner who had spurned an earlier request. and faced with what they call unprecedented stonewalling by the trump administration, house democrats are considering wrapping together multiple contempt citations into a single package for a floor vote. the judiciary committee has already voted to hold the attorney general, william barr, in contempt. chairman jerry nadler says a deal is still possible in barr's case, but he's setting an ultimatum for testimony by the former white house counsel, don mcgahn, threatening possible contempt action. nadler says negotiations are still under way for special counsel robert mueller to testify. house speak i'll speak to jerry connolly and our correspondents and analysts will have coverage of the day's top stories. let's start with manu raju up on capitol hill. this is a significant escalation that we're seeing right now. will the subpoenas get the de

saying that the embassy has now been liberated the big question is is that legal. no it's not neal under the vienna convention on diplomatic relations articles $44.45. the host country in this case united states is obligated to protect. the property. of a foreign nation like venezuela and they have no right to enter those premises you know venezuela is like that that land there is like venezuelan territory under the vienna conventions police may not enter that the people who were staying there have been kicked out they were there as invitees of the venezuelan government given that the u.s. had no authority to send in security officers to expel those people even in times of war the vienna conventions provides the host country has to protect and respect another country's foreign embassy and property and that did not happen here ok seems pretty clear to me what's happened here which is that the u.s. has said well we don't recognize the leader of venezuela it was venezuela we recognize somebody else and we have their invitation to come in and throw weight around on this you know sovere

our correspondent in amman kozyrev has been covering the mh 17 tragedy since it happened earlier gave you know neal more on the latest developments. 5 years have passed but it's only seems like it happened yesterday you know i was there one of the 1st reporters on the scene so we have the malaysian prime minister who says malaysia accept the results of the investigation however they accepted to a certain point they accept that the plane was brought down by a russian missile but to this is that has not been concluded and this is what malaysia has a problem with the moment also there is absolutely nothing that supports the investigators claim that the weapon was actually smuggled from russia and after the d.d. was taken back from the korean territory which there were claims that the missile belongs to the russian military moscow obviously denied all those claims and what they did was actually trace its origin back to the soviet union the missile was manufactured in the soviet union but then it was routed to ukraine and this is way it remained. for the rest of the time and also russian defense ministr

neal our top story a court hearing. on julian assange just possible extradition to the u.s. house has been postponed in london it comes as the whistleblowers help taken the phone turn for the worse to be transferred from the cell in belmarsh prison to off the spittle wing parties pauli brings us more. extradition hearing isn't taking place any longer to the sound was actually meant to be here in person he was meant to pen via video link but he's not even well enough to appear via video link again innocence has been moved to the post it's a wing old belmarsh prison that's up to a maximum security prison where 7 out of 53 eccentric specifically when he went into the ecuadorian embassy back in 2012 and went to the state of the brain and so about the face of his health to take a listen what we know is that there was support from the medical board of. the fact that they did this and that may put him on the world speaks speaks so you know being in a higher security might start maximum security because it is difficult for anyone but julian spent 7 years confined in the ecuadorian embassy bef

important official information by our correspondent has done a press conference took place not too long. information coming out. well yes indeed neal finally some officials have come out and at least we have some understanding of what happened now the most important bit we've heard a confirmation of the official number of people who have deceased in this tragedy and that is forty one which is a bit of a hike from the previous figure which was thirteen this confirmation we heard from a representative of russia's investigative committee and forty one people confirmed dead now also some of the relatives and of the family and just friends of those who were onboard the u.s. still in the airport there sitting in a room just over there with where you can see the russian policeman just to go over there and that's where they have been gathered so far are we talked to i talked to at least i talked to one of them and she told me that basically they have medics and psychologists kind of talking to them and helping them to cope with the situation but they still have no information as to what happened to their loved ones they don't have any list

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my names you know neal and you're welcome to the program our top story the un's top official on torture sees julian assange has been subjected to inhumane and degrading treatment and it happened both during the years he spent in the ecuadorian embassy in london and in belmarsh prison where he's now currently incarcerated arties going underground spoke to needles melzer the full interview airs on saturday july 5th consequences clearly she will not be able to access medical care for several years the much more seriously is. illusory leap of faith by the extremely hostile and increasingly arbitrary she has the looks the street for several years so she really really shows all the solutions that are typical for a person that has been exposed. live in a program that was artie's daniela hawkins from paris down bring us up to speed on what else the u.n. expert had to say on the songes treatment and indeed one of those claims based on did he say. well milt meltzer is the united nations special operator on torture as a former red cross official human rights expert he's worked for about 20 years with victims of violence