first up, news that the senate judiciary committee is investigating president trump for obstruction ofr dianne feinstein who says the case against the president grows with every single tweet he fires off. listen to this. >> the judiciary committee has an investigation going as well. and it involves obstruction of

under chairman grassley's leadership, the senate judiciary committee has done outstanding work to move these judicial nominees to the floor. i'm grateful for his efforts and i would urge all of my colleagues to join me in voting to confirm mr. ho soon. now, on another matter, our nation faces myriad threats from around the globe. it's the senate's responsibility to provide the service chiefs with the resources to train and equip our war fighters. and provide them with the resources they need to keep us safe. the diverse challenges posed by iran, china, russia, north kor korea, isil, al qaeda, and its affiliates span the spectrum in war fighting and our force must be trained and prepared on sea, air, and land and in cyberspace. these challenges were only compounded by the obama administration's focus on reducing the size of our conventional force. withdrawing our forward presence and placing unrealistic reliance upon allies and special operations forces. in stark contrast to the previous administration, this republican-led congress and trump administration have taken the initial steps t

investigation into james khomeini's at mit and leaking when he gave testimony during the senate judiciary committee why aren't we now also looking into tarmac gate in which you know loretta lynch is talking to bill clinton and then the next thing you know we've got hillary clinton exonerated because it's carelessness and not gross negligence which would have been a crime why aren't we investigating susan rice's unmasking why aren't we investigating barack obama spying and using loretta lynch as as a as a hit person if you will to go in and do all those things that have been done where are those investigations how can we sit here with a straight face and say that there's russian collusion when we have all of these other things including uranium one and. everything else that is going on so twenty johnson. richard about ten things let him get started on some of them go ahead richard yes please james komi testified that he spoke with donald trump nine different times ok and trump did not once asked what did the russians do and you know why it was the same reason that o.j. simpson never said to the poli

information to the senate judiciary committee on the ground it was not impartial and yet the senate y committee subpoenaed the white house tapes by a unanimous vote. later when they fired archibald cox, he was biased according to the president because he wouldn't agree not to seek the white house tapes. there's enormous pressure on the president when there's a congressional investigation, especially when there's a special prosecutor in the case of the nixon impeachment, it was the work of the special prosecutor and the senate judiciary committee that led to the evidence to cause the evidentiary committee to impeach the president. the judiciary committee almost did nothing. and coming back to "the new york times" article today, the same isolation reflect in that article and enormous pressure on the president for not only himself and his campaign and relatives are under investigation. same thing to occurred with president nixon. he was isolated, fixated on watergate, and i think the parallels are very strong. >> and we'll get to more on that, michael, shortly. i want to go to "the wall

there are four committees of record, the house and senate judiciary committees and the house and senatentelligence committees. i sit on the house judiciary committee and i have to tell you we're very, very disappointed in the chairman that he has refused to hold any hearings on any of these issues. we did get a chance to question jeff sessions, and, in fact, i asked jeff sessions multiple times when he came to testify before us about his tremendous lack of recall that seems to suddenly appear when ever he's asked important questions about russia. it is extremely important that congress maintains its jurisdiction over these investigations. don't forget, that robert mueller reports to the department of justice. so, he is not an independent investigator and the department of justice still does have the opportunity to shut down the investigation, something we're very concerned about. we need to make sure that congress is fully in there investigating in both the intelligence and the judiciary committees. >> congresswoman, have you gotten any indication that the white house is planning some s

first up, news that the senate judiciary committee is investigating president trump for obstruction of justice, this from democratic senator dianne feinstein who says the case against the president grows with every single tweet he fires off. listen to this. >> the judiciary committee has an investigation going as well. and it involves obstruction of justice and i think what we're beginning to see is the putting together of a case of obstruction of justice. >> the president renewed talk of obstruction yesterday when he tweeted that he knew that michael flynn lied to the fbi when he fired him. meaning that he also would have known that flynn lied to the fbi when he asked former fbi director james comey to stop investigating flynn one day later. president trump's attorney said he wrote that tweet, not the president. we'll have more in a moment but it seems the president is back behind the keyboard unleashing a tweet storm attacking everything from james comey to hillary clinton and the fbi saying it is in tatters and the worst in history. we're joined by my colleague crime and justice rep

let's begin with the senate judiciary committee. shimon, what did feinstein have to say about the russia probe and possible implications for the president? >> hey, fred. what she was getting at here today was that it has been very difficult. she said this. to get at the truth. it's a frustration that has been felt by many. including those investigators on the special counsel team. we know how two players that were part of the trump campaign, one of them worked in the white house now have been charged and have admitted and pleaded guilty about the center issue here and that is contacts with russian officials. what you see here is no doubt could be playing out into a bigger case and some kind of experience and more of an organized effort to lie, not admit the truth to investigators. feinstein touched on that today. here's what she said about her own committee wanting to investigate and start to build out an obstruction case. >> i think what we are beginning to see is the putting together of a case of obstruction of justice. i see it i

i do believe that the house judiciary committee, the senate judiciary committee and the relevant intelligence committees are fully capable of looking into these concerns and making sure they're aired fully, as they were today in the house. i continue to have real confidence in special counsel robert mueller. >> the justice department, as you heard, they handed over these very blunt anti-trump text messages sent by an fbi agent who has since been demoted. do those texts show a bias against the president in the mueller investigation? >> no. but they show that that fbi agent had some strong personal opinions. once that had come to light, he was removed. he was not in a position of leadership of the mueller investigation and i don't think this compromises or even complicates the ongoing mueller investigation. >> do you believe robert mueller is safe in his role as the special counsel? >> i think it's important to make it clear that there are bipartisan efforts to make sure that the independence of the department of justice, respect for rule of law is moving forward. as you know, senator until lis

this week on capitol hill, the senate judiciary committee looks at regulations governing firearms sales and background checks. able hear from officials with the fbi, atf, and u.s. air force. at 10:00rage beginning a.m. eastern on c-span3. on thursday, fbi director christopher wray testifies at it judiciary hearing on c-span3.

we saw that on display wednesday during a hearing by the senate judiciary committee when senator john kennedy, republican, questioned a trump nominee matthew petersen about his qualifications to be a district court judge. >> have any of you not tried a case to verdict in a courtroom? mr. petersen? have you ever tried a jury trial. >> i have not. >> civil. >> no. >> criminal. >> no. >> bench. >> no. >> state or federal court? >> i have not. >> have you ever argued a motion in state court? >> i have not. >> have you ever argued a motion in federal court? >> no. >> just for the record, do you know what a motion in writ is. >> probably not a good definition here at the table. >> do you know what an extension doctrine is. >> i've heard of it -- >> how about the pullman extensive doctrine. >> i -- >> you see that a lot in federal court. >> we should note senator kennedy is well versed on the law. two law degrees, taught law and knows what he's talking about. bring in executive vice president of the leadership conference, spent 14 years working on the senate judiciary committee as then chair

investigation into james khomeini's at mit and leaking when he gave testimony during the senate judiciary committee why aren't we now also looking into tarmac gate in which you know loretta lynch is talking to bill clinton and then the next thing you know we've got hillary clinton exonerated because it's carelessness and not gross negligence which would have been a crime why aren't we investigating susan rice's unmasking why aren't we investigating barack obama spying and using loretta lynch as as a as a hit person if you will to go in and do all those things that have been done where are those investigations how can we sit here with a straight face and say that there's russian collusion when we have all of these other things including uranium one and. everything else that is going on so twenty johnson. richard about ten things let him get started on some of them go ahead richard yes please james komi testified that he spoke with donald trump nine different times ok and trump did not once asked what did the russians do and you know why it was the same reason that o.j. simpson never said to the poli

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the topp -- haslinda: democrat on the senate judiciary committee says there is a potential case of obstructingg against the president. senator dianne feinstein told nbc she has been talking about indictments and please involving former trump eight including former national security adviser michael flynn. president trump has celebrated the tax vote in the senate, saying it makes him unbeatable for reelection in 2020. he also said the corporate tax rate could be 22% in the end, having previously said 20% was the level at which he would support the republican proposal. every percentage point change in the corporate rate equals about $100 billion in revenue over 10 years. visited the world internet conference and china to call for future technology to be infused with the privacy, security and humanity. he spoke at the opening ceremony at an event designed to promote china's vision of a more centered and controlled internet. apple has been criticized for core operating with china removing uncensored communications. china's one thank you as it is hna group's fundraising in the local bond market, and

investigation into james khomeini's at mit and leaking when he gave testimony during the senate judiciary committee why aren't we now also looking into tarmac gate in which you know loretta lynch is talking to bill clinton and then the next thing you know we've got hillary clinton exonerated because it's carelessness and not gross negligence which would have been a crime why aren't we investigating susan rice's unmasking why aren't we investigating barack obama spying and using loretta lynch as as a as a hit person if you will to go in and do all those things that have been done where are those investigations how can we sit here with a straight face and say that there's russian collusion when we have all of these other things including uranium one and. everything else that is going on so twenty johnson. years and richard about ten things let him get started on some of them go ahead richard yes please james comey testified that he spoke with donald trump nine different times ok and trump did not once asked what did the russians do and you know why it was the same reason that o.j. simpson never said

diane feinstein the top democrat on the senate judiciary committee does carry a lot of and her opinions interesting, but it does not mean congress will do anything and that there will be hearings. if there were, that would move things along. she has some interesting arguments coming that the president and saying that he basically saying mr. flynn was lying and that was why he had to fire him, because he was lying to the vice president and the fbi, in her view shows the president new of the falsehood, then the president fired the fbi director james comey who was investigating whether there was russian collusion, so she is putting those things together. an interesting argument and the seems to indicate that there may be requests by democrats for there to be some hearings on this on capitol hill. hand, senate other republicans did manage to pass a tax reform bill. it was pretty close, coming down to the wire. the first major legislative , how with antially contrast with the russia investigation? if they get tax reform through, that is a big win, something investors and wall street wanted.

what we learned today is the senate judiciary committee by feinstein's lead is trying to now look at obstruction. >> all right, it is a lot. we will look at a conversation and let me give you an idea of how the white house now is in the midst of damage control and the white house said the tweet was written by the president's personal lawyer john dowd. jeremy trump's tweet went out while he was in a motorcade. if this is all from the doing of the president. >> there are a lot of questions surrounding this tweet. what it does is is suggests that the president knew at the time when he fired michael flynn that he had lied to the fbi which of course is a crime, the crime that flynn was charge and pled guilty to on friday. now the white house and more precisely his personal attorney john dowd is saying he is the person who actually drafted this tweet. i spoke with him and he said while he drafted the tweet, he did not post it himself. he thinks it was the president's social media director who posted it. reporters traveling with the president yesterday and at the time when the tweet went ou

haslinda: the top democrat on the senate judiciary committee says the investigation into the alleged e trump campaign in russia suggests a potential case of obstructing justice is developing against the president. senator dianne feinstein told talking about the indictments involving former company aims including national security adviser michael flynn. president trump has celebrated the tax vote in the senate i saying it makes him unbeatable for reelection in 2020. he also says the corporate tax rate could be 22% in the end, having previously said 20% was the level he would support the proposal. percentage point change in the corporate rate equals about $100 billion in revenue over 10 years. a first visit to the internet conference in china, fused with privacy, security and humanity. tim cook spoke there. apple has been criticized for their act in china. a group is fundraising in the local bond market and stoking concern about the debt burden. sold a 270 day you want bond to an 8.2% loss last week. month, another airline subsidiary issued similar maturity notes at the highest rates in

they've also taken out of the action, probably the most articulate member of the senate judiciary committee al franken, we have no idea who's going to be replacing him on that committee, and allegations that had roger stone and fox's fingerprints all over them. this is a big mess. i think the next two weeks it's going to be critically important to watch out and make sure bob mueller isn't left in washington, d.c., alone with donald trump, that's not a good situation. >> here's the thing to david's point. they're saying these e-mails were obtained unlawfully, right? they sent this letter to congress. i want to play again what trump is saying about the e-mails. in a sense he said he was going to fire mueller. >> not looking good, it's not looking good, it's quite sad to see that, my people are very upset about it, i can't imagine there's anything on them, frankly. as we said, there's no collusion. no collusion whatsoever. but a lot of lawyers thought that was pretty sad. >> lawyers. lawyers for his transition team about mueller's team had to push back saying they didn't do anything wrong. wha

franken, probably most articulate member, certainly one of the most articulate members of the senate judiciary committeeught attorney general in perjury trap. those are the senators we need and we need congressmen to step to the plate. and one of the leading members is apparently going to resign. this is a very vulnerable situation over the next few weeks, and we need to get through it so robert mueller can finish his job. >> malcolm, listen to congressman gates, he has been leading charge against mueller. producers were researching this. turns out he was using the same word, didn't get as much attention but same word last month. >> we are at risk of a coup d'etat in this country if we allow unaccountable person with no oversight to undermine the duly elected president of the united states. i would offer that is precisely what is happening right now with the indisputable conflicts of interest that are present with mr. mueller. >> look at that and the playbook. you're student and author of history, this is one of the themes in last days of nixon. even a private eye who covered this book "silent coup" tri

one of those suits on the senate judiciary committee, diane feinstein.omments came after michael flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi. >> i think what we are beginning to see is the putting together of the case of obstruction of justice. we see this in the indictments that have taken place and the comments being made. attitude at the white house, the comments, the continual tweets. investors see more concerned about the progress of the republican tax reform bill. s&p futures pointing upwards. europe opened in the green this morning after the senate voted 51-49 in favor of the plan early saturday morning. joins us now. has this got legs? what we are seeing in the moment and the dollar stocks. on the dollar leg of things, we have priced in a situation where we saw -- what we thought that tax rate was going to rumble, and it is quite likely now we will get the tax reform passed in mid-december and signed into law. that is an upside risk for the dollar. it can go on from the dollar leg for sure. guy: how long will it take us? peter: it depends. there is

. >>> joining me now is senator richard blumenthal, a member of the senate judiciary committee. senator, thank you for being with us. you were attorney general for the state of connecticut for a long time. you know about investigations. the president says he nows believe the special counsel robert mueller is going to send him a letter exonerating him. is this how it works, generally? >> very rarely. i can say not only as state attorney general but also as a former united states attorney, this kind of letter is sent exonerating, it's rare, virtually nonexistent in the case of the president. it may happen but this investigation is mounting in intensity and scope. it is not the beginning of the end. it is the end of the beginning. and there will be more indictments and more convictions, i think, as a near certainty before this investigation is over. it has penetrated the white house. it's nearing the oval office. and so the creation of these false expectations is really a disservice to the president and the country. >> obviously the white house lawyers, the president's lawyers on th

. >> this week on capitol hill, the senate judiciary committee looks at regulations governing firearmsackground checks. they will hear from officials from the fbi, atf and u.s. air force. live coverage wednesday beginning at 10 a.m. eastern on c-span3. on thursday, fbi director christopher wray testifies at a house judiciary oversight committee. we will be there live at 10 a.m. eastern on c-span3 as well. weekend, cia director mike pompeo and

this week on capitol hill, the senate judiciary committee looks at regulations governing firearms sales and background checks. able hear from officials with the fbi, atf, and u.s. air force. at 10:00rage beginning a.m. eastern on c-span3. on thursday, fbi director christopher wray testifies at it judiciary hearing on c-span3. >> now we take you to salt lake city where president trump announced that large parts of two national monuments in the state totaling over 3 million acres would no longer receive protection under the antiquities act. he made the announcement in a speech at the utah state capital more than 250 miles away from the site. [applause] sen. hatch: thank you. introduce the to president of united states of america. i've been given the redundant task of introducing the most famous man in the world. it's a bit like telling someone what the internet is. if you don't know by now, you've probably been living on another planet. we'd like to welcome you to planet earth. if you need us to take you to our leader, he's right here. i might mention i am set to bring him up here. humor

the top democrat on the senate judiciary committee says investigations of links between the trump camstruction of justice cases developing. she is talkingn about indictments of former trump aids, including michael flynn. president has celebrated the tax vote in the senate i sang it makes him unbeatable for reelection in 2020. he says the corporate tax rate could be 22%, having said 20% was the level he could support the republican proposal. every percentage point change in equals $100 billion in revenue over 10 years. prides itself on law and order, but is being called a haven for piracy. top boxes allow unauthorized streaming of movies, tv shows, and sporting events from around the world. $32ine piracy will cost billion in global revenue this byr, topping $50 billion 2022. grease and international creditors have agreed new reforms must be undertaken in exchange for new loans. the accord came after the two sides reach common ground. conclusion would not only released fresh loans, but health athens to regain the trust of investors. global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 j

the doj asked the senate judiciary committee for unredacted records from the committee's 2016 investigation into planned parenthood and the potential sale of human tissue. the committee told the doj the records would only be provided if it sent a letter asking for the records and assuring they would only be used for investigative purposes. also on the hill tonight, shutdown averted. the house and senate passed a bill to prevent a government shutdown this weekend. the measure passed mostly along party lines and will keep the government running through december 226789 the vote came up as top congressional leaders from both parties met at the white house to talk about healthcare and daca. new tonight, hundreds of people came to the lincoln memorial to remember the life of bee san guy sar. three weeks ago us park police shot and killed him after he allegedly led them on a car chase. the fbi is now investigating the case. fox5's corey coffin was at night's gathering. >>reporter: a friend of the family tells me that the lincoln memorial is one of your's favorite spots which is why they chose this

. >> the senate judiciary committee is meeting to hear evidence on sexual harassment charges that haveudge clarence thomas. >> he spoke about acts that he had seen in pornographic films involving such matters as women having sex with animals. >> this seemingly personal matter is being aired out in front of this jury of all-white men. and it created quite a spectacle. >> this is a circus, and from my standpoint as a black american, as far as i'm concerned, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks. >> clarence thomas decided to fight back by invoking one of the most painful elements of black history, which was designed to point out the burden of being black. >> the final count was 52-48. the closest successful confirmation vote in supreme court history. >> no matter how difficult or how painful the process has been, this is a time for healing in our country. >> it's not exactly a rage but it's definitely a much noted trend. the whole new wave of black films with black stars by black directors. right now in new york, a new black film is being premiered just about every week. among tho

. >> the correct answer is for tho house and senate judiciary committees to start subpoenaing these guysg them in under oath, and i want to see 10,000e of the tweets that the one fbi agent apparently sent to his girlfriend that has all sorts oe anti-trump stuff in nature. but more than that, they need to bring comey in and say, tell us again why you did not swear in hillary clinton. why was she not put at risk of perjury the way that you didla - the way that general flynn was? i think that they need to bring in the entire team that was involved in the hillary clinton investigation. this stinks so badly that we really need to be protected. and under our constitution,he one of the protections is thete power of congress to investigate into the house and senate judiciary committees are -- one thing they should ask is the deputy fbi director whose wife got to $900,000 in donations, why did he not recuse himself? how can he possibly be neutral? these are the things thatt congress should be asking right now.w. >> sean: what do we do if they never really investigated hillary clinton? because we

dianne feinstein, the ranking democrat in the senate judiciary committee says there is no evidence she has seen that there has been cooperation. but the democrats say don't quory, we'll keep going forward. the ranging member of the senate intelligence committee hasn't found any evidence of russian collusion. i was there, it doesn't exist. lou: your book, i love the messaging. a lot of people are trying to keep trump from being trump. they walled him off a little bit there. but they are also having some good success. >> the president got elected by being true to himself and who he is. he led a movement to defeat the corrupt hillary clinton campaign. they had 900 people in brooklyn. we had a small dedicated group. and the president understood and had his finger on the pulse of the american people. he understood what he needed to do and that's what he has been doing ever since. the people in the deep state, the career politicians in washington on both sides of the aisle don't like him because it's a change agent. lou: daca. the president obviously changed his mind. ryan and mcconnell are

. >> reporter: that as the democrat on the senate judiciary committee says the possible russian collusion investigation is also progresses. >> the judiciary committee has an investigation going, as well and it involves obstruction of justice. i think what we are beginning to see is the putting together the case of an obstruction of justice. >> reporter: senator diane feinstein says the evidence of the case is coming partially from the equal tweets from the white house. >> president trump has officially endorsed republican roy moore in the alabama senate rates as new allegation of sexual assault do not seem to have a significant impact on moore's chances. a new cbs news poll found 71% of the voters in the strongly conservative state say the allegations against the candidate are false. multiple women have come forward to accuse moore of inappropriately pursuing them when they were teenagers. moore leads democrat doug jones by about 6 points. >>> congress goes back to work today on a sweeping tax reform plan. when asking who the big winners would be in the house and senate bills, he said. >>

that lawyer has told the senate judiciary committee in testimony we've obtained that wasn't true.sian lawyer and was one of the first things don junior asked her about. do you have information about illegal contributions to the clinton foundation? when she told them she doesn't, he apparently lost interest and the meeting faded. >> where does that leave people who are following this story? are we supposed to believe that the trump side was looking for dirt on hillary clinton and for whatever reason that's not true? that didn't, wasn't forth it coming? >> may not be true. growing indications getting from lawyers close to the case, this trump tower meeting may be exactly as described by the russians. the more significant aspect may be what donald trump, for the president, said about it, in a misleading statement he dictated on the son's behalf where he said this was a meeting about russian adoptions. really it wasn't that. it could go more to the obstruction of justice question. >> the idea that somebody on the trump side maybe even the president was trying to redirect people's atte

. >> meanwhile, the top democrat on the senate judiciary committee dianne feinstein says president trumpl likely be facing an obstruction of justice case. i think what we're beginning to see is the beginning of putting together a case of obstruction of justice. i see it in the hyper frenetic attitude of the white house, the continual tweets, and i see it most importantly in what happened with the firing of director comey. and it is my belief that that is directly because he did not agree to lift the cloud of the russia investigation. that's obstruction of justice. joining me now is cnn legal analyst page pate. page, always great to have you on the show. thanks. let's start with that controversial tweet from president trump that's caused quite a legal firestorm. and of course he sent this out. this was about the firing of his former national security adviser michael flynn, a tweet that the president's lawyer john dowd now says he wrote. and this is what it says. "i had to fire general flynn because he lied to the vice president and the fbi." that's a critical part. "he has plead guilty to

dianne feinstein, who's the democrat from california who was also the top democrat on the senate judiciary committee was on "meet the press" this morning and she says she sees the threads of an obstruction of justice case coming together and that michael flynn, who you of course know, pled guilty to lying to the fbi about his contacts with the russians, well, she says flynn was not operating as a rogue agent, that he was in fact taking direction from someone higher up in the trump food chain. take a look. >> i do not believe that general flynn was a rogue agent. i think he had to have been directed. now, whether the special counsel can find that evidence or not, whether we can, i don't know yet. but i see that that's where this is going. >> so all of this sours what should be a celebratory weekend here at the white house, celebrating the senate passing that gop tax plan, having it scrape through the senate early saturday morning. instead, all the attention is focused on mike flynn. flynn, by the way, who is now the fourth campaign official implicated in criminal activity, alex. >> joining me now, er

. >> the top democrat on the senate judiciary committee, dianne feinstein, says the senate is piecingogether a possible obstruction of justice case against the president. >>> former "access hollywood" host billy bush is reaffirming that it was donald trump's voice on the video that recorded him brag being crude and inappropriate behavior toward women. trump told at least one u.s. senator and other people he didn't believe the voice on the tape was his. however, he directly confirmed the remarks and apologized for them a month before the presidential election last year. >>> up popular among -- unpopular among many and passed in the dead of night. pat toomey is explaining what will happen after the tax overhaul. he was a contributor to one of the late changes to the bill. he attempted to add an excise tax exemption for hillsdale college in michigan. however, the senate voted to strike that amendment. toomey will be discussing what's next with theable in at the u.s. -- the senate bill at the u.s. customs house at 11:00 a.m. if the legislation passes, it would bring the first overhaul of

there was no collusion, whatsoever, because when he met with his staff of the senate judiciary committee in september, he said he did not recall some key details, and he said his father was not aware of the june 2016 meeting in trump tower. we'll see how lawmakers respond after, poppy. >> indeed. manu raju, thank you very much for the reporting on the hill. also this morning, what did vice president mike pence know about michael flynn's lies to the fbi and when did he know it, considering he was leading the transition team? these are more questions being raised by special counsel robert mueller's investigation. our senior washington correspondent, joe johns, joins us live from the white house. what has changed in what we've learned about mike pence's position on all of this now? >> reporter: well, poppy, probably, the most important thing is my colleague, jeff zeleny, reported this morning that pence world is preparing for the possibility that the vice president might be called in for an interview to talk about what he knew and what he didn't know. of course, it's the timeline that cause

this is just as the top democrat on the senate judiciary committee is now joining the call to subpoena that very same donald trump jr. to get him before their panel. and, there is movement on the special counsel's investigation, as well. deputy campaign aide, rick gates, may be facing more legal trouble. a lawyer for gates, one of four people charged in that probe, says that they have been told more charges could be coming from special counsel robert mueller. cnn's manu raju is on capitol hill, following all of this very latest. so, manu, what's going on behind closed doors right now with don jr.? >> reporter: well, donald trump jr. has been before the house intelligence committee for about an hour. he came to capitol hill this morning, avoided the cameras, avoid eed press at all costs, wt to the back doors to get into this meeting that we expected to last several hours. this committee has interviewed several of the key players who are in that june 2016 trump tower meeting, which donald trump jr., of course, was promised dirt on the clinton campaign. the people who were at the meeting,

here's the deal, we got our hands on the written testimony to the senate judiciary committee. says don jr. asked during that meeting if she had evidence of legal donations to the clinton foundation. the lawyer for trump jr. declined to comment. and hey, if this is not enough for you, the president's personal lawyer is now disputing reports, the special counsel's team subpoenaed deutsche bank for the president's records. we have a lot to get to with kasie hunt following developments on the hill. ken delanian is also with us on the hill. kasie, first to you, this is appearance number two for don jr. on the hill. he'll probably be asked about the june meeting, right? >> reporter: this is his first appearance before the house intelligence committee and that investigation has spent a lot of time and democrats, in particular, have spent a lot of time trying to reconstruct the trump tower meeting with the russian lawyer. and so they at this point feel they have talked to basically everybody in the room who is able to talk, paul manafort, now ensnare in the special counsel's investiga

she answered written questions by the senate judiciary committee. this whole thing is a big misunderstanding. promising help from the russian government calling her a russian government lawyer were wrong and exaggerated. she had no ties to the russian government. she was not there to provide incriminating evidence. even if all that's true, the first question practical that donald trump jr. asked her is whether she had any evidence of illegal contributions to the foundation. that he thought was coming from the russian government. that's i think the significance. the other significance is the grand jury robert mueller wants to lock in what happened in this meeting. they're trying to figure out why donald trump said what he said about it calling it about russian adoption. >> so we have this corroborate this e-mails or the e-mails that we got that donald trump jr. released corroborate this statement. right? they took the meeting because they believed they were going to get dirt on hillary clinton. and the trump side of the campaign says when they found

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nbc news is reporting that the russian attorney told the senate judiciary committee that don jr. asked her if she had evidence of illegal donations to the clinton foundation. she reportedly said he lost interest after she had no information. >>> the white house is not confirming or denying whether president trump plans to pardon michael flynn now that flynn has pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi. cecelia vega asked the president directly. >> reporter: with mike flynn's plea bargain creating new problems for the white house, the president was tight lipped on whether he would pardon his former national security adviser. any plans to pardon general flynn? >> thank you very much. >> any plans to pardon general flynn, mr. president? his reaction is decidedly mixed, from uncertainty -- >> we'll see what happens. >> i feel very badly. he's led a very strong life. hillary clinton lied many times to the fbi. nothing happened to her. flynn lied, and they destroyed his life. >> reporter: former fbi director james comey testified he had no reason to believe hillary clinton lied. flynn agreed

feinstein who is the top democrat on the senate judiciary committee made the statements today on "meet the press." >> i think what we are beginning to see is the putting together of a case of obstruction of justice. i think we see it in the indictments. the four indictments and pleas that have just taken place. >> senator feinstein said she is led to believe that special council robert mueller is putting together the obstruction case based tweets. >> president trump is fighting back. >> indeed. as the alleged interference with our elections from russia comes closer to t next election. >> the special council's probe in to russian medaling in the 2016 presidential election and possible collusion with trump campaign officials. trump tweeted, i never asked comey to stop investigating flynn, that tweet, rebutting last spring's sworn testimony by comey that trump had asked him to go easy on his investigation in to trump's former national security adviser, michael flynn. >> what he wanted me to do was drop any investigation connect to flynn's account of his conversations with the rush oons. >

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she was treated poorly by the senate judiciary committee and clarence thomas was confirmed to the supremeourt where he's had l kinds of law.and in shaping and law that has been damaging to people with less power in the united states. however, her testimony kicked off a conversation, a reexamination of sexual harassment not just as a kind of behavioral quirk, but as a pattern of behavior that does damage to women as a class within the public and professional sphere. that was a hugely important conversation. it did not obviously fix the behavior or alter the power structure in any kind of permanent way. but it -- but it was a part of a conversation that we're picking up in a very big and loud way right now. and i think that's part of how these revisions work. they don't happen all at once. >> okay. >> you don't get rid of just a couple of bad apples and fix it. >> right. >> but we're in this long process. and that is part of it. >> mary? >> i think rebecca is absolutely spot on there. we look here, we get very optimistic and we think things are now, it's really going to change. and of cours