does the white house know what can happen? we have issues that someone from the branch shared information from the white house grounds. or someone on the white house staff to provide the information. >> so i obviously all of what i know has been available through public comments. >> i know they confirmed he was on the white house grounds tuesday. i have seen the kmnts about who he met with. i would refer you to his comment it is a he's made. i'm not going to get into who he met with or why he met with them. that's something that it he has been very clear and i'll let him answer. he is the one who has discussed what he is reviewing and so i will leave it up to him and not try to get in the middle of that. >> i'm asking a different question. does the white house know what happened beyond public accounts and are you satisfied you don't have a leak in the executive branch? >> we're not concerned about that. i know he's -- again, everything i know about what he has done is through public reports that he's made on the record. as part

number one, the white house did not stand in the way of the white house testifying. irman of the committee, and you have said that. i checked with devin nunes' office. they said they had no communications with the white house about cancelling it. seems to me she'd have a tough time testifying because here was a woman who he wwas a prosecuto. she was looking into the russian wiretap. she apparently knew about general flynn's conversation with the russians, and now she's a witness. i don't exactly see how she shifts gears and wears two different hats. >> what sort of wiretap was she looking to? >> i don't know, but she felt like flynn had been compromised, so she had that information from some source. then there's -- >> would that make her a more credible witness if she has all this knowledge of the investigation? >> i don't know because i don't know how you switch between, hey, i'm on your team to now i'm just a bystanding witness. we have to remember this is a very political set of hearings, so i just think she would be a very -- an interesting witness to put it mildl

>> first it was the sort of dead of night meeting at the white house and then the returning to the white house with whatever information he got at the white house. but more than that, to the degree that what he's claiming now goes to weather there was incidental collection on members of the transition team, that's a different issue than we were looking at before. particularly if he says this doesn't involve the russian involvement in the transition team. so in those two areas i think it makes sense for him to recuse himself. >> reporter: and anderson, you notice the relevant question is that congressman nunes was on the trangs sipgs team, and we have been hearing from the ranking members and adam schiff moving forward on it. and this idea that what the chairman has uncovered, what the chairman only knows himself actually ties him into this because of his role in the trump transition and so what adam schiff is asking for is not just that congressman nunes removes himself just from the russian investigation, but everything he's related he has concerns about, the trump unmasking because of

is doing that need to be answered and i have asked the white house their assistance in answering those questions as well. the third point i want to make, to what will be necessary to answer the questions the white house has us to look at in terms of will look res, we into that. we want to find out also if, in these are the same materials or a subset of provided to lier he chairman why that secureittous method, to use a diplomatic term, was provided to the committee. finally, i want to make one issue will l, this not distract us from doing our russian investigation. if that is the object, we will be successful. we are going to look into everything the russians did to we are e our election, not going to be deterred or distracted. important and part of our ordinary oversight and we will oversee them. we will get to the bottom of just what the russians did and how they did and whether there or any coordination collusion with u.s. persons, including those associated with the trump campaign. going to go on regardless, and i'm happy to your questions. >> ca

, they have to go through the secret service. and those white house visitor logs while they are maintained by the secret service, it is the white house who basically keep the keys to the castle here, they are the one who is can decide whether or not this information is going to be made public, and as we have been saying all week, the obama administration made these visitor logs public, you wouldn't be able to search this information in real time, but you would be able to go back and look at that information later on. the trump administration is just not doing that. >> now on today's hearing on the senate intelligence committee and how sharply different it appeared, in terms of everyone surrounding the house committee. for that let's go book to the hill and cnn's jessica snyder, what details did the senate lay out about their investigations because their meetings are going to be behind closed doors? >> reporter: they are, anderson, but the intelligence committee moving full steam ahead on this, the chairman saying he has a full staff already knee deep

who waved him into the white house? y didn't he get this briefing on the hill where there is a skip, which is a secure room to receive intelligence briefings? why did he go to the white house? who waved him in? why did he not tell both democrats and republicans what was said in that meeting? to me, mr. nunes has no credibility. i feel as though the american people should focus on the senate investigation where we see mark warner and his republican colleague working together and they're not taking secret trips to the white house. >> may i respond? >> sandra: nunes response is he did this at the white house to have a secure environment in which to view these documents? >> i don't know if he was meeting with somebody that would only meet at the white house. i don't know what those particulars are, richard. he'll have to explain them in a public forum and make his case. but the question is, it has nothing to do with where he heard the information. it has to do with the information. congress will handle this in a bipartisan w

you have a source telling you that the white house, somebody at the white house -- >> the morning of onday testimony, i talked to a senior official at the white house who said watch nunes's testimony, he's going to lay the predicate here and directed me to an article in the hill about incidental collection. so very clearly saying we know what nunes is going to say, and out of this hearing what we want is a conversation about incidental collection. nunes goes and gets these secret documents and we have that arguably charade taking the focus away from comey testimony that the fbi is investigating donald trump associates and putting it on the side of incidental collection. and it's not just yates that was going to be trouble to the white house, there were two other witnesses who were going to be hostile to the white house, that is clapper and rogers. you basically have the white house and nunes blowing up this investigation. >> you also had sean spicer from last week saying wait until the end of the week and see what comes out and the president himself saying -- >> exactly. trump's comme

she went and warned the white house council that mike flynn did not tell the truth and in turn, the white house did not tell the truth about that. the white house's answer when they were confronted with that -- and remember they didn't do anything, they kept him on board, and their answer was that she came and gave us a heads up, she didn't make clear what was being investigated, and i think when you look at these letters, it is clear they will contradict what the white house said. >> as someone that has been in the white house for a long time, are you excited about what you're seeing in the white house intelligence meeting. >> i'm surprised that chairman nunez is acting in such a partisan matter. they have skirmishes, but we see it time and time again. the other thing that surprises me is how enempt it has been. it makes it of he was just trying to get out of it. you can't get in, it's like a comedy act. >> i think it is very tough for chairman new tez to try to continue to lead this investigation. technically he can continue to lead it as long as his colleagues support him. it has to be

we have and will invite the senate and house ranking members and chairman up to the white house to viewin accordance with their schedule. >> the house intel ranking member adam schiff saying today that he accepts the white house's invitation. >> if they're ready tomorrow, i'm ready to go tomorrow. the letter that i got from white house council certainly raises far more questions than any it answers. highly concerning to me that on the same day that this "new york times" story reports, and i don't know whether the "new york times" sources are accurate about whether the two people mentioned in that story, but the fact sean spicer yesterday had no idea who may have been involved in that review by the chairman. today they suddenly do. >> with me margaret carlson, e.j. di on, and bill crystal founder and editor of the weekly standard. margaret, i guess there's a best and worst case scenario for nunes and the white house, best case is this is sort of keystone cops and really bungled this and made us all suspicious. worst case scenario is what? >> well, that, you know, nunes sussed out a tweet

these men are perceived as likely to be perceived as being at the white house. the other thing is that nunes explicitly denied that his source was a white house staffer. he said it was an intelligence official. i confirmed just moments ago that cohen-watnick is a white house official. >> that's very important. as he white house official. because "the new york times" called him a senior director for intelligence at the nsc. is our reporting different? >> no, no. that's his title. >> but not defense intelligence as you just said. >> okay. let me go to kelly. sean spicer, very defensive during that briefing last hour. essentially saying this is all just process and that reporters are obsessed with the process of how this information was gathered, right? >> yeah. and just picking up on your conversation with ken, because the national security council does take people from intelligence sxagss other departments across the government, although ken ran this down and found out the individual in question is a white house employee, it makes me wonder if chairman nunes would

the white house appears to be tracking, listening in on, monitoring the fbi's investigation of the white house. the white house is tracking that investigation by listening in on intention intercepts, obtaining those transcripts and leaking that information to try to pervert the course of the investigations? if the white house has its clause into the fbi investigation of trump and russia, if they have penetrated it or tracking it in that way and taking parts of it and putting them out to throw smoke screens out there, if that's happening, how do you fix that? what's the remedy there? remember the house intelligence committee joins us next. member committee joins us next. member committee joins us next. amember committee joins us next. member committee joins us next. i never miss an early morning market. but with my back pain i couldn't sleep or get up in time. then i found aleve pm. the only one to combine a sleep aid plus the 12 hour pain relieving strength of aleve. and now. i'm back! aleve pm for a better am. or how high the pollen count, flonase allergy relief keeps your eyes and nose

according to the "washington post," the white house then sought to block their testimony but the white house denies this. meanwhile, nunes is also continuing to face criticism over his actions last week when he traveled to the white house to personally brief president trump on allegations that he'd seen evidence e at u.s. intelligence may have incidentally swept up communications by trump's transition team after the november election. nunes, whoho served on trump's transition team, later revealed the evidence he saw was shown to him on the white house grounds the night before by a source he has refused to identify. no democrats on the house intel -- intelligence committee have seen the evidence. meanwhile, the senate intelligence committee is preparing to question jared kushner, president trump's son-in-law and a close adviser, about a previously undisclosed meeting he had with the head of a state-run russian bank currently under u.s. sanctions. on tuesday, white house press secretary sean spicer defended the administration's actions duduring a heated exchanange wih april ryan of ameri

is he too close to the white house, even as committee chairman? is he doing too much, they ask, in the course of my reporting to engage with white house people, white house personnel in pursuit of information. >> julie pace, my clue tonight that this had gotten too much even for the most loyal trump surrogates was when jack kingston, the former member of congress from georgia, said on cable tonight, quote, i don't think they're organized enough to orchestrate this. in effect calling artillery in on the trump white house to say, no, they don't do that good a job, that this could have been planned out, but that's the extent of the response so far tonight. >> this is just a really bizarre situation because you have the white house initially saying that this whole idea that congressman nunes would have gotten this information from the white house then rushed back to the white house to brief the president about the information doesn't pass the smell test and

or on the white house grounds, that he later returned to the white house. in my view there's no legitimate reason to with hold that from the committee. that is charges responsibility of overseeing these issues. >> there's nothing normal and what's taken place over the last week. it's certainly not normal to receive information that you can't share with your own committee members but you share with the president particularly if it involves associates of the president. none to have committee members have seen it. none of the democrats or republicans have seen what the chairman is referring to. >> the details as they have been reported go to a spy novel. nunes swapped cars and slipped away from staff. it goes on to report it's in that stretch of time when the chairman appears to have reviewed the classified intelligence files, files brought to his attention by sources he will not name. chairman nunes in an interview on cnn today defended his actions. >> i've read a lot of reports that aren't true. >> well, tell us what is true. >> number one i wasn't sneaking

made their way to the sort portico of the white house. you can see a picture there. he so, roughly where the line, it says, white house, where that line ends is the south portico and that's where the president either walks out to marine one or the president greets foreign dignitaries when they arrive at the white house. as of now, we're told by sources that this person never made it inside. they were arrested somewhere between the fence and the south portico. at least in the last 15 minutes or so what we've been able to hear and folks we talked to is the system worked the way it was supposed to. our kristin fisher, who is at the white house now and looking at a live picture, things have returned to normal in the past 12 hours or so. this is america's news headquarters from washingtons, as we continue our coverage. i'm leland vittert. >> i'm laura ingal in for elizabeth prann. kristin fisher standing by at the white house. what more have you learned? >> looking around you wouldn't know less there was a breach at the white house of this magn

she worked at the rnc before she came here to the white house. eaving here and she'll be going to head up one of the outside groups as a senior o senior adviser to help the president's agenda outside of the white house. but it is also a sign that things are not going along as smoothly here as they would like leg is lafbly speaking. one of the biggest defeats of this administration so far is they are trying to put things back in order and get things back on track. this is one of the shakeups. we're not sure if it's the last shoe to fall here, but it's the one that's happening right now. >> i suspect it won't be the last shoe. there's often shakeups early on in new administrations. it comes curiously as ivanka trump takes on a major new official role as a major office in the west wing of the white house. not just the informal adviser. but she's now a special assistant to the president. she won't be taking a salary or anything like that, but she is now a government employee. >> indeed. ivanka trump will not be taking a salary, wolf, but she will be a

that is before the trip to the white house. then you have the evening trip to the white house. we don't know who he met or what he saw. we only have the chairman's word -- >> did you see the same document he saw at the white house? >> none of us have. that's the problem. democrats haven't seen it. republicans haven't seen it. we only have the chairman's word for what it stand for. the president of course claiming that what the chairman has seen somehow vend case him. we can't conduct an investigation that way. that's not sustainable. it's not credible. i would love to plan a way for us to get back on track. but i'm not willing to say something is legitimate if it is not. i hope we can find a way to get this investigation fully moving again for our part as democratic members. we are plowing ahead. continuing to review the documents and making our witness list and planning to go forward. >> as of right now, you don't even know what documents were that he reviewed at the white house. do you have any reason to believe that chairman and the source he had at the white house broke any

did the white house could not be in on nunes' visits. monday night, this is "hardball." >>> well the "new york times" reported today that president trump's son-in-law and adviser will speak to investigators. "the white house counsel's office was informed this month that the senate intelligence committee wanted to question mr. curb ner about meetings he arranged with the russian ambassador. the meetings took place during a previously unreported sit down with the state owned development bank. we'll be back after this. we've got that thing! you know...diarrhea? abdominal pain? but we said we'd be there... woap, who makes the decisions around here? it's me. don't think i'll make it. stomach again...send! if you're living with frequent, unpredictable diarrhea and abdominal pain, you may have irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhea or ibs-d - a condition that can be really frustrating. talk to your doctor about viberzi. a different way to treat ibs-d. viberzi is a prescription medication you take every day that helps proactively manage both diar

thank you. >> did the white house know? he white house know about the intel before you were briefed about it. thank you, guys. i've answered all the questions over and over again. >> the house of the intelligence committee is a popular man these days, and i'm sure because he's a nice guy but no explanation for his middle of the night excursion to the white house last week to view secret documents from a secret source he then called a press conference to talk about the next day and ran back into the white house because he said he needed urgently to brief the white house what he had just learned at the white house the night before. until that makes sense, expect more scenes like this of him being chased down capitol hill hallways by inquiing reporters. here's a very simple part of it. the question of who let him in? who went bzz so he could open the gate? who cleared devin nunes to enter the white house grounds last tut night? that -- last tuesday night. that is an answerering question the white house should be able to answer.

which is the buffer zone next to the white house fence. t the secret service, that is when the alarms went off. these are the apprehension dogs deploy out onto the north lawn of the white house. nice of the secret service officers from the uniform division deploy as well with their long rifles drawn. out across the north lawn. they're going towards northeast corner of the white house complex. and we also saw lafayette park where there were hundreds of folks gathered on a beautiful sunny saturday looking at the white house. they were cleared off by the secret service. as far as we can tell this person has been apprehended. it is being questioned by the secret service as is their standard procedure on a day like today. and now we kind of weight. we are locked down here inside the press briefing room as often happens. not too many press years because the president is not here on this beautiful saturday.and we wait for the secret service to give the all clear. they will search whatever area they needed to search. out there near this perhaps par

i want to go to the white house. jim, the president was asked about the flynn immunity request during a white house appearance with members of the national association of manufacturers just a little while ago. listen to this. >> any comment on michael flynn, mr. president? >> no comment from the president on -- when asked about michael flynn. the white house had refused to comment on the situation until the president actually tweeted about it earlier this morning. here's the question. does this somehow complicate how sean spicer will need to address this in the upcoming briefing this hour? >> well, wolf, i don't think sean spicer is going to be able to do what the president did during that discussion with the national association of manufacturers. he's not going to be able to simply bite his tongue and not make any comments. we should point out the president did put out a tweet earlier this morning about all of this saying that mike flynn should ask for immunity and that this is a witchhunt, excuse for a big election

we begin with a bomb shell report and a potentially damning one involving the white house and the head of the house intelligence committee. "the new york times" is reporting the last 1 1/2 hours or so, that two white house officials helped give the republican chairman devin nunes intelligence reports that he then shared with president trump. but did not share with his own committee or for that matter as far as we know anyone else. according to the reporting of the times, one of those officials is michael ellis. he's a lawyer that work on national security issues. he reportedly worked for the house intelligence committee. the second man is a 30-year-old named ezra watnick from the national security council. according to several reports, president trump saved his job after the national security advisor, lieutenant general h.r. mcmaster told colin watnick that he was moved to a different position. that apparently happened because of concerns that the man was too political, too pro trump. much of that pressure came from officials at the c.i.a. the white house refused to comment. a reporter

the white house was pressed today. how many jobs will this move create and will coal jobs really come back in big numbers for those families who heard the promise. cecilia vega at the white house. >> our incredible coal miners. >> reporter: surrounded by coal miners, the president, with the stroke of a pen, signing a sweeping order to roll back most of president obama's climate change legacy. >> with today's executive action, i am taking historic steps to lift the restrictions on american energy, to reverse government intrusion, and to cancel job-killing regulations. >> reporter: the order calls for a review of rules curbing carbon emissions in the u.s. it strikes rules mandating that climate change be considered in federal policymaking. it does not address the 2015 paris climate deal, an international agreement to cap greenhouse gas emissions. the president also promising to >> we are going to put our coal miners back to work! >> reporter: today, president trump said miners he's met want to get back to work. >> i said,

or was associated with the white house. the narrative on that has changed in the past two press briefings. let's watch. >> will you rule out that the white house or anyone in the trump administration give chairman nunes the information? >> i'm not aware of it but it doesn't pass the smell test. speak it appears there was cooperation in this process. the white house granted chairman nunez -- >> i will be glad to take a look at that and figure out whether it is accurate. >> martha: the door is open to the possibility that i came from the white house. does that matter? why? >> devin hasn't told us it came from the white house. i don't think the source matters, martha, nearly as much as whether or not the underlying information is authentic and credible. keep in mind, devin has also says this has nothing to do with russia. for those who missed at the first time he said, he said it again. nothing to do with russia. we have gotten to the point for the chairman of the house intelligence committee cannot go gather information relate

we believe from the east side of the white house. he made it all the way up to the south portico entrance which if you're looking where i am, i'm on the north side of the white house. it would be on the complete opposite end. this is a well-known entrance into the white house. this is where the president would exit and enter if he were leaving on a trip to get on marine one. it's also a place where presidents often greet guests that come to the white house through that entrance. it's also very close to the white house residence where president trump was at the time that this man was arrested. we're told the man did have a backpack with him. we don't know the contents of that backpack. we also don't know what his motivation was. the white house was put on a orange level security which is one of the highest security levels that the white house can go to. but after the man was apprehended and the grounds were searched, the security situation was put back to normal. i can tell you i've been here since about 9:00 this morning and there was

are the white house, if you disagree with the the white house, but if you put yourself in their shoes, why would you want sally yates to testify? she's not going to say anything that is going to be helpful. so that is -- that is taking a look at what would be happening. but also looking at what -- let's take a look at what sean spicer said. he sort of blew this off. like oh, the hearing wasn't notified. actually, yes, the hearing was notified. he said this is 100 % false. it's not. it is well reported out. so just his defense of this. and then the other thing is we've seen manu raju, senior congressional reporter here at cnn asking nunes about the cancellation of this hearing, what happened, and was this something you did at the behest of the white house. come on, guys, is what nunes said and blew it off. there's no denial coming from nunes ats that what's happened. >> how do you see it? >> well, where is this going? he said today when he said that the post piece was 100% false, he talked about what those letters meant and that the white house technically did not evoke executive privi

and he says the white house will have no comment on this tonight. the whole discussion of general flynn, of course, the white house is watching this. but they are not having official comment on this tonight, anderson. >> flynn resigned from the white house, i guess, a month ago, or a month and a half ago. clearly, his shadow still looms over this white house. >> it looms large over this white house, anderson. and i think it will for some time to come. largely, because he was so engrained in the campaign. michael flynn was so close to this president. he wasn't some adviser who was brought on sort of at the end. he was, you know, along for the ride throughout here. but the -- all these questions of michael flynn, if he would testify at some point in the future, it's all hinging on what is happening here at the white house right now. all these classified documents. all the conversations between russian meddling. that's why this is a potential very serious issue for the white house. because it goes directly into the heart of everything that's hanging ove

nothing to say. >> nunes duked by the white house? a bold claim by nancy pelosi. >> was he used by the white house? >> he was duped. some can say, this is not fair to the american people. >>> any moment, the president set to speak in the roosevelt room as he sits down with the national association of manufacturers. we'll have that for you when we get it. >>> good morning, everyone. i'm chris jansing, live from washington. we begin with new reaction to the latest bomb shell in the russia investigation on capitol hill. michael flynn's lawyer announcing his client has a story to tell, and a congressional source confirming the ousted national security adviser wants to tell the senate intelligence committee what he knows. but in exchange for immunity. this morning, president trump tweeting, flynn should ask for immunity, in that this is a witch hunt. excuse for big election loss by media and dems of historic proportion. you'll remember on the trail, both flynn and then-candidate trump had specific views about immunity when it came to hillar

our cnn senior white house correspondent joins us now from the white house with more on this. jeff, good evening to you. there are serious questions facing the white house tonight and people are asking if there is a cover-up. we're learning serious information about the president's former national security adviser, lieutenant general michael flynn. fill us in. >> reporter: well, don, as you said, michael flynn through his lawyer has offered to testify in this ongoing russia investigation before the house committee and the senate intelligence committee as well as the fbi, in exchange for some type of immunity we're being told. we do have a statement from his lawyer. you saw part of it a second ago. he also goes on to say this. he said, general flynn certainly has a story to tell. he very much wants to tell it should the circumstances permit. that is very interesting there, don. gem flynn certainly has a story to tell. we don't know exactly what he means by that. what type of a story he wants to tell. but certainly a tantalizing bit of information if you're one of those investiga

this guy was on transition, had communication with the white house. eard through the reporting nunes is going through the hall and talking about this, the white house wants him to stand up on this stuff. i think that's a very valid question that schiff asked. >> it looked like he was marching to the thune of the president. >> yes. and he was marching, indeed. it makes it look tainted. it makes this investigation look very tainted. i talked to both democrats and republic cans and both sides of the aisle are saying what happened to checks and balances? >> yes, good point. >> what happened to checks and balances? check mate or checkered now? i talked to someone, a former intelligence official from the obama administration, they said, and this is with president trump, they said, you know, he does not look like an innocent man. all of this happening now, it just makes you wonder what is going on and why did this information have to come to the white house today to the president? >> ken, also, it fits such a pattern that april just said, because first of all

they would "conclude that the white house does not exert executive privilege over these matters" p the white house did not respond and took no action that prevented miss sally yates from testifying peer that is the story peer that is with the documents show. with that, i'm glad to take some questions. >> reporter: i would like to follow up, there are reports that even though they hearing that was set for the 27th was not scheduled, it was canceled by devin nunes prevent the white house from publicly invoking a claim of exec at a privilege. can you speak to that? >> press secretary spicer: i hope she testifies. i look forward to it. let's be honest. the hearing was actually never notified -- it is a huge -- if they choose to move forward, great, we have no problem with her testifying plain and simple. the report and "the washington post" is 100% false. the letters they faintly publish on their website all back up everything i just read. all the letters are available on their website, hate to give them the traffic, but their reality is that they specifically say if you do not respond, we

we have sent the white house a reply. i'm more than willing to come to the white house at the earliest opportunity to review the materials. i did make clear in my letter, however, that it will be ultimately necessary to share these materials with the full committee and we will need their cooperation as well to work with the agencies who have custody over the original documents. when analyzing questions whether something is properly the subject of incidental collection or whether it was properly unmasked or the distribution list is appropriate, that is impossible to do without consulting the agencies to find out how the materials were gathered and why there was a need to know in case of any unmasking of names. this is not something that is going to be apparent on the face of the document. and also not something that i think either chair or ranking member alone can somehow adjudicate. i did express in my reply to white house counsel, though, my profound concern with the way these materials are being made available to the com

>> john roberts at the white house. thanks. more on the house investigation into the russian manner and devin nunes. the white house says it expecting ranking member adam schiff to meet today to view the documents at the center of the controver controversy. i've just been told that adam schiff has just arrived to do that. we have video and we'll show it in just a moment. chairman nunes said that he viewed intelligence reports on the white house grounds, showing us is officials may have incidentally monitored donald trump or his top aides while conducts foreign intelligence that did not involve russia. nunes shared the investigation with reporter -- well, he shared knowledge of it. he didn't share details at all. he did brief the president and shared nothing with his fellow committee members in the house intelligence committee. the chairman refused to reveal his source. fox news confirms two house staffers provided the documents to nunes. back to john roberts. this is much about something else and nothing about the matter at hand

>> did it come from the white house? >> we have to keep our sources and methods very, very quiet. >> he wasn't willing to rule that out. it gets more and more mystifying. >> today the house is voting to repeal and replace the disasr known as obamacare. >> he doesn't know that the vote on obamacare has delayed. >> this president has essentially campaigned on being a deal maker. >> if you can't make a good deal with a politician, there's something wrong with you, you're certainly not very good. [ horn honking ] >>> yesterday, devin nunes did something stunning. >>> yesterday, devin nunes did something stunning. something that no intelligence committee chairman before him had ever done. today he apologized for it, which is something else that no chairman ever does. because a chairman is supposed to be smart enough to never cause an insurrection on their own committee with members calling for his resignation, calling for him to be fired, demanding that speaker paul ryan remove him from that chairmanship. in a closed door meet

. >>> also breaking tonight, the mystery meeting at the white house. the republican congressman leading the investigation into russia's meddling. now, new questions tonight about his secret meeting on the white house grounds. >>> the school plot revealed tonight. the plan to shoot it up and bomb the school. the honor student and her alleged arsenal right here. >>> the two plane crashes. one into a home, the other breaking apart in mid flight. authorities say the family was coming home from spring break. >>> and the consumer warning tonight. if the phone rings, the one question they warn you not to answer. >>> good evening and it's great to be back with you here on a monday night. more on that secret meeting at the white house, but we do begin tonight with another major headline playing out right now. severe storms hitting at this hour. 15 million americans warned that this could be a dangerous night on the roads. reports of tornadoes already, this large twister in mississippi. giant hail smashing into this windshield in texas. authorities in several sta

white house fence. great response by secret service. cnn washington correspondent ryan nobles joining us live from the white house. so ryan, when we talk about these bike racks, we're talking about the barriers right behind you that are the barrier before you get to the white house fence. so now explain what happened. >> reporter: that's right, fredricka. we can show you the lay of the land with how it works in terms of security. it's a popular tourist spot. people are coming up to see the white house and these expanded bike racks, as they're called, put in place after security breaches where people attempted to hop over the fence on to the north lawn and there's a sign here that says, restricted, do not enter. what we're being told and i talked specifically with an official familiar with the situation is that a suspect hopped over one of these expanded bike racks and as soon as you do that, you can see uniform secret service agents that patrol this front of the white house. as soon as you jump over this fence, they're going to be on you immediately and that's exactly what happened in this case. within two minutes,

the white house's response? >> it doesn't seem to make a ton of sense. >> yesterday, march 30th, the new york times reported two white house officials played a role in providing chairman nunes with the evidence he is describing. within minutes of that report hitting, the white house invited the highest ranking members of the house and senate to view news classified materials recording the 2016 election. let's discuss with this norm eisen and former george w. bush vice other. gentlemen, what did the president know and when did he know it? when did the white house know it? why is it relevant? >> good morning. thanks for having me. the questions about the president matter because since the russia scandal broke, during the campaign, my bipartisan colleague, professor payne and i said donald trump has a disturbing mystery at the middle of his finances. he denies russian financial connections, but his son before mr. trump ran for president said, they see a lot of russia money in their businesses and russia is very impo

way into the gop conference meeting, and he repeated a line from trey gowdy, another member of the house intelligence committee. he says, it doesn't matter if he went to waffle house or the white house, it's all the same. peter king added if it had been the house of pancakes, same deal. i am an ihop girl myself. that's the line of defense from republicans here for mr. nunes. you saw in the beginning i tried to get mr. nunes to clarify whether he was considering of recusing himself. he wouldn't answer directly but did say that this investigation would continue to proceed as it had. however, i will say that this week it's clearly not actually proceeding the way it had been. the intelligence committee does not plan on meeting this week, which is unusual. i mean, even when there isn't a major investigation like this one into russian meddling, they typically meet once or twice a week to go over what's going on around the world. their monday meeting canceled. the tuesday meeting canceled. the one with fbi director comey and rogers canceled. at a standstill regardless of what director nunes says. >> we'll check back with you after we watch speaker ryan live. >>> i want to head elsewh

it didn't happen in the clinton white house or the bush white house. do not care about standards. they should be more concerned doing their best for the american public. >> sloppiness, inexcusable. then the president tweets it's his effort getting the jobs creating when exxon did it in 2013. >> companies like exxon mobile, companies like goldman sachs don't have errors like this. things are different in washington. we are going to take a break. >>> next, is the health care plan something democrats can work with? a democratic congressman joins me next. >>> house republicans are moving forward on their plan to repeal and replace obamacare. they will eventually have to go through congressional democrats who want to protect president obama's signature policy. i am joined by a democrat, a member of the house intelligence committee. there's a new cnn/orc poll out asking voters about obamacare. we dug into it and looked specifically at democrats, that's who you should be thinking about. 40% of them would like to leave obamacare as it is. 48% said, if there's

the white house danced around a report in the "new york times" that two white house officials provided information to house intelligence committee chairman devin nunes, intended to bolster president trump's claim he was wire tapped by former president obama. >> i'm not commenting on the reports, not getting into it. >> reporter: the white house press secretary sean spicer revealed the administration sent a letter to the intelligence committees offering what the west wing sees as helpful details. >> we have sent a letter within the past few hours to both of those committees that there was surveillance that occurred during the 2016 election that was improper and that we want people to look into this. >> reporter: just last week spicer pushed back on the notion white house officials would be involved in assisting nunes when he made the mysterious trip on the white house grounds. >> it doesn't seem to make a ton of sense, so i'm not aware of it but it doesn't really pass the smell test. >> reporter: spicer was pressed on those comments today. >> i was very clear that i said based on what c

or on the white house grounds, that he later returned to the white house. in my view, there is not legitimate reason to withhold that from the committee. that is charged with the responsibility of overseeing these issues. there is nothing normal about what has taken place over the last week. it's certainly not normal to go and receive information that as the chairman of a committee you can share with your own committee members but you go and share with the president particularly if the investigation involves associates of the president. as far as i know none of the committee members have seen it. it's not just an unwillingness to share with the democrats. none of the republicans nor democrats have seen the information he was referring to. >> according to the "washington post" after taking a brief phone call congressman nunes swapped cars and slipped away from his staff, congressional officials said. the post goes on to report it's in that stretch of time when the chairman appears to have reviewed the classified intelligence files, files that were brought to

look at the white house's statement tonight. at the end, the president wants to focus on tax reforms. it does not say healthcare and tax reform. you are sort of turning our attention. does this going to make us focus more on his taxes? the more we hear about his ties over seas, places like russia and you see rachel maddow covers it every night of the week. the more people want to see it. when is the irs going to be finish of this audit that the president said they're going through. kellyanne conway says in her first interview after the inauguration, no one cares about his taxes. this issue has been litigated and clearly that's not the case. look at all the attention that's been giving tonight alone. >> stephanie was the first two to point out what we use to put in effect and that's the shiny object rule. >> that's right, we have russia and everything that's going on. this is what happens. you cannot ignore it and you cannot decide you are not going to cover the story, guess what, all of our focus goes into this and tomorrow it wi

peter alexander joins us live now from the white house. he's also dry. am i the only guy standing outside? what's going on over there? >> you're on an island right now but i think there's some people at the white house who feel similarly in effect when it comes to this health care bill, they feel they've done everything they can and now it's up to house republicans. the president said he's done negotiating but he isn't done with his so-called art of the deal deal making. this is what he wrote. he was going after the conservative members of that freedom caucus, tweeting the following "the irony is that the freedom caucus, which is very pro-life and against planned parenthood allows planned parenthood to continue if they stop this plan. beyond that we've just now heard from planned parenthood speaking out on this topic. they just sent us a message. they said in part while the president tweets and plays politics, we're busy fighting to save health care that one in five women rely on right now. so there's some of the politics that continues on the health care

it was a disclosure that put the white house on its heels today, namely who at the white house cleared him for his visit. >> you said i don't know the members of congress have to get cleared in there. who in the white house signed him in essentially? >> i don't know that -- i'll be glad to check on that. i'm not sure that's how that works, but i will follow up on that point. >> reporter: we floridaed up on that point, and members of congress do have to be cleared onto white house property. so it seems someone in the white house knew devin nunes was there. who that is remains a mystery, at least for now. >> randy, joins us. i mean it's fascinating to see that long time line. congressman nunes spoke out this evening. what did he say about who led him onto the white house grounds? >> he was asked directly who cleared him onto the white house grounds, and he refused to say. we do know, anderson, that he would have needed a white house staffer to actually clear him to get through that ground. even throw he's not giving out a name, that is how the process wurkz. this is not some big secret o

the white house doesn't have an estimate. sean spicer turning the focus from workers to coal companies. the industry is applauding this order. >> cecilia vega at the white house. cecilia, thank you. >>> we're tracking severe storms tonight. a tornado watch up in several states at this hour. 14 million americans at risk for damaging storms going into the night. a wild 24 hours already. this supercell in decaturville, tennessee. another possible tornado blowing this car upside-down. and in lubbock, texas, hail forcing this driver off the road today. ginger zee tracking the threat into the night and tomorrow morning. but first, adrienne bankert from the storm zone. >> reporter: tonight, residents of already hard-hit areas of the south bracing for more extreme weather. trees toppling onto cars in tennessee. that photo showing the supercell moving through decaturville. residents believe a tornado tore through here, tossing a mobile home. >> the wind picked it up, rolled it over and threw it against these trees right here and just c

or is it some of that could have gone to the white house? >> these were described as executive branch documents which would likely mean that they reside here in the heart of the executive branch, either the white house or the eisenhower executive office building. i think it's safe to say that the source of the documents was on this complex. >> jenna: there are so many questions, although more recent, thank you for the explanation on that and breaking news from john roberts, we appreciate that as always. in the meantime, we have that drama playing out, republicans shifting priorities as they turn the page from the failed health care bill to set their sights on a very ambitious task, tax reform, we have a fox news contributor and senior politics writer for "u.s. news & world report." i'm wondering if you can clarify this for our viewers. there is all of this conversation, if healthcare went this way, that impacts tax reform. why are there to connected? is that the right thing to do to make that connection? speak i think it is, not just tax refo

of the white house. they literally never got in touch with me. they tried to say again and again i had reported surveillance on trump tower, a wire tap at trump tower i certainly did not. i reported the target of this warrant was two russian banks and that permission was given to look at previously collected material on u.s. persons. so no american was the target. the server at trump tower provided, as i reported, fresh evidence in order for the claim to be brought back to the fisa court. but the target wasn't that server ever, it was any communication between two russian banks and involved alleged offenses of money laundering and russian money going into trump's campaign. if there was a tap, then president trump is in real trouble. obstruction of justice trouble. >> you in your article mentioned links in terms of your sources with the counterintelligence community. what are those links and what have they told you, if anything, since your initial report in november? what brings us up to date? >> you'll un

let's get right over to the breaking news, the white house denying that it's been interfering in the investigation of contacts between russia and trump campaign officials. let's gets to our senior white house correspondent jeff zeleny. what's the latest on this, jeff? >> wolf, the white house is trying to change the subject on this, even talking about trying to revive health care but that's done little to brush aside this russia investigation which tonight is hanging over this white house like a storm cloud. the white house going to new lengths to downplay a growing russia cloud hanging over the administration. >> if the president puts russian salad dressing on his salad tonight, somehow that's a russian connection. >> reporter: and questions over russia are intensifying from the white house to capitol hill with the house intelligence committee investigation has erupted in a partisan fury. the administration refusing again today to say who invited the committee's chairman devin nunes to the white house grounds last week to review classified information. the white house also denying su

at the white house we have jeremy diamond. jeremy, something highly unusual from this white house, not just one apology, but two. >> reporter: that's right, john, what we're hearing now is h.r. mcmaster, the national security adviser to the president and white house press secretary sean spicer apologized to their british counterparts over spicer's remarks yesterday when he read out loud this comment from a fox news commentator which turns out to be completely false, which was that gchq, the british intelligence service, had wiretapped trump to our. the british, as nic just reported, are firmly pushing back on that. the white house is learning their words don't just have political consequences but diplomatic ones as well. this is not the first time that spicer has put his foot in his mouth, so to speak, with regards to defending the president's claims of wiretapping but now it provoked what is essentially an international incident. while this one is one with a friendly power, in the future this could be an incident with a countr