to officials in the white house or close to the white house, there's also the sense of victory in that it appears that this is all going to end without the president sitting down with robert mueller. that was always a big sticking point from the very beginning and it appears that that is not going to happen, that robert mueller is wrapping all of this up without that sit down interview with the president. that is looked upon as a victory. now inside, there has been some planning and strategizing about how to respond when the report is handed over and when all of this comes to an end. emmet flood within the white house has been meeting with a small group of officials gaming out different scenarios in terms of whether some of the information that comes out is skull tri, they're outlining it, it's a wait and see approach in the white house right now, brooke. >> what about it's wait and see, a lot of places outside the white house for this report, that is certainly not the end of the speculation, pamela. so what are some of the other key questions that still remain? >> reporter: that's rig

thank you for watching, "deadline: white house" with nicolle wallace starts now. >>> hi, everyone, it's 4:00 in washington, d.c., where the nation's capitol and reporters who cover it represent vatican watchers anxiously awaiting the white smoke signal to indicate the report from robert mueller has been completed and handed over to the attorney general. the transmission, expected any day now, to the attorney general may not commence a public viewing of the findings but the early trump responses are coming into focus. it surprises no one before the white house has even seen the report is likely to describe it as an exoneration. the president's constant repetition of a no collusion refrain was designed to condition his base that in short of enurging a secret stash of selfies with trump and putin, no collusion occurred. thus the no collusion mantra. >> there's no collusion. no collusion. >> i did nothing wrong. there was no collusion. there was no obstruction. there was no collusion. no collusion, no collusion. >> mueller's investigation has already born fruits related to russian meddling

is happening and how the white house is reacting. think a lot of people were pitting their eggs in special counsel's basking -- basket hoping when the report was released he would put the pressure on the presidents administration. i think with reports that it is winding down, democrats are taking it upon themselves to release investigations. we saw an come before the committees, and they have shown that they are going to be several different areas, looking at the presidents finances, money laundering, and so they are hitting him from all directions. i think we can expect over the next few months this to continue. pedro: we will show you a little about about the chairman had to say yesterday regarding investigations. here's jerrold nadler. >> this investigation goes beyond collusion. we have seen, of all the norms we depend on for democratic government attacked by the administration. we have seen attacks on the freedom of the press. we have seen attacks on the fbi, on judges, and all of these are corrosive to liberty and to the functi

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this is an intentional standoff being mounted by the white house in a way that no white house really ever has before. quote, the white house has ignored more than a dozen letters requesting documents from house democratic chairman investigating president trump. the white house's refused to share e-mails and correspondence. the move is intentional. those officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to freely discuss strategy says the white house is intent on challenging most if not all house democrats' document requests. we will give you nothing. they're not waiting to find out what they're being asked for. they're just announcing in advance, telling reporter, telling multiple news outlets in advance, no matter what they ask for, we're giving them nothing. and i am sure that is a strategy that appeals to every atom in every molecule, in every cell of this president's body, right? this is -- this fits his personality. oh, the democrats won control of congress? they're going to use congressional oversight to oversee things, to investigate stuff i've done in and this administration

respond afterward just the latest in a growing list of fights between the house and the white house over oversight, brooke. >> you also have new details, manu, on this other house investigation into senior white house officials, including trump family members and their use of personal email. what do you know? >> reporter: elijah cummings said today that he has obtained information that suggests that jared kushner, the president's son-in-law and senior adviser and ivanka trump, his daughter and also senior adviser maybe in violation of the presidential records act in the way they've been conducted government business. he says that kushner has been using the application what's app to communicate directly with foreign leaders and he says that in a meeting he had with kushner's attorney abby lowell, lowell did not deny that he may have -- kushner may have passed along classified information through what's app which cummings says would be a major security breach. cummings also says that lowell revealed to him that ivanka trump did not forward emails to her official account from her perso

the white house press secretary sarah sanders says the white house has not been briefed on it, but cnneporting the white house was made aware the doj had the report about one hour ago. i want to get to craig, our washington bureau chief. you have been waiting for this now for 22 long months. we knew this was coming, but now that it is here, now that the report has been handed over to the department of justice, it is in many ways the beginning. what are you watching for? craig: we are told, attorney general william barr may tell us as soon as this weekend, so say goodbye to this weekend, about the principal conclusions about the mueller report. that is much faster than we expected. we had been given some guidance from the department of justice that he was going to move it rather quickly, in a few days. that would be literally a day or two. that is obviously the top concern right now. i think one of the things we will be looking for is when does the white house find out what is in this report? hard to imagine they will find out the same time as us, partly for the reasons mr. barr was men

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of the white house counsel.en has the document, if he took it with him when he left the white house. you are pointing to an interesting point there that as a private citizen, he is in a somewhat different position than the people who are still employed at the white house. >> yesterday, the president said he always cooperates. he will cooperate with nadler. today, he and his team, they are sounding different. >> you saw a different -- two statements come out of the white house. first they said we have gotten this letter from nadler. we will review it. that was it. short and simple. then later on you got the statement from sarah sanders going after -- a blistering statement essentially ended with the democrats don't want the truth, they just want go after the president. that was something the president echoed on twitter. likely, ed sarah to that out. they think the democrats have overstepped. they have cast way too far -- too wide of a net. they're going to end up failing because instead of targeting certain lines

the white house braces for the mueller report to drop. there's a new escalation in the battle between the trump team and house democrats who are investigating the president. tonight, the administration is rejecting a request for documents on mr. trump's private communications with russian president vladimir putin. lawyers for jared kushner and ivanka trump are disputing new claims by the house oversight committee chairman. elijah cummings says some senior white house officials have used personal e-mail to conduct official government business. he accuses kushner of communicating with foreign leaders through a private messaging app. this as the president is upending a u.s. policy announcing it's time to recognize israeli sovereignty over the golan heights. the president says he wouldn't know if that helps benjamin netanyahu's reelection. it's in less than three weeks. i will get reaction from an on thissy anthony brown. our correspondents and analysts are standing by. first, jim acosta. the administration is doing battle with house democrats

the white house missed that deadline. part of the request for information jerry nadler asked to learn more about that hush money scheme that the president apparently was involved in to silence stories about those alleged affairs that he had. these are something this committee wants to look into. nadler last night in a town hall in new york was asked about michael cohen, asked about the president. he said the president has committed crimes. >> we're not talking about what michael cohen said. he was indicted. michael cohen was indicted for illegally paying off a woman to not talk about what had happened to her in order -- no, he was indicted for this and he pleaded guilty. in order to affect the election. that is a crime. he pleaded guilty to that. the indictment said that he did so at the request of individuals numb number one. individual number one being the president, makes him part of the crime. >> reporter: he went onto say the president was not protected by justice department guidelines preventing a sitting president

we learned this afternoon, the white house has rejected a request from house democrats for documents relating to trump's private discussions with vladimir putin. and oversight chairman elijah cummings of maryland, accused the administration of obstructing his committee's investigation into use of private e-mail accounts by white house officials. he's demanding documents related to jared kushner and ivanka trump. cummings said, a lawyer for jared kushner told the committee in december that kushner had been using whatsapp on his phone to communicate with foreign leaders. abby lowell argued his client was in compliance with the law. because he took screen shots of the individual text conversations and sent them to official e-mail accounts. according to cummings, lowell told the company, ivanka trump continued to receive official e males on her private account and did not always forward them to her white house address. abby lowell said kushner denied using whatsapp to communicate with foreign leaders. he said the conversation was about e-mail use prior to 2017. all this, of course, is a

about the fact that it is the white house.le nine signed by richard nixon tine signed by a republican, i could make the case that title nine is the most important over the last 46 or 47 years. a lot of competition for that. i think it's that big of a deal. for donald trump to not celebrate that and to say bring it in you can have them there as i have seen where you have eight or ten all at the same time. it's mind boggling especially 2019 for him to be making this decision. >> it's one they can fix right now. thanks so much. >> thank you. >> you can follow me on facebook and twitter. our coverage continues right now. thanks for watching. >>> happening now breaking news, white house pushback. the president stops at demands for documents and complains democrats are taking a wrecking ball to his life. the white house plans to push back against congressional investigators. lawmakers have already calling for a criminal probe on the kushner security clearance. >>> cohen returns. the president's former fixer will head back to capitol

breaking news as the white house braces for the mueller report, rejecting a request for documents on president trump's communications with vladimir putin. house oversight committee chairman says he has new information that senior white house officials, including ivanka trump, have used personal e-mail accounts for government business and he claims presidential son-in-law jared kushner has used a messaging app to communicate with foreign leaders. >>> also breaking, the president moves to overturn a half century of u.s. policy by saying it's time to recognize israel's sovereignty over the golan heights, captured in 1967. the president denies it's a bid to support benjamin netanyahu in a closely contested election in less than three weeks. i'm speak with steve cohn of the judicial committee. and our correspondents are standing by with full coverage. chief white house correspondent jim acosta. jim, as the white house prepares for the mueller report, it's digging in against the democrats. >> reporter: that is correct, wolf. white house officials like the rest of washington are on the edge

jen palmieri, the white house hosted a team, searching them fast food at the white house.ll, to this point, christine brennan, the great sports writer, has pointed out, there has not been a women's sports team individually celebrated at the white house, despite the wnba champs coming to washington year after year, they've done days of service but they've never been invited the way the men's teams are invited by this white house. >> least surprising news of the day. and i don't know, obviously, why they haven't. i fear it may not have even occurred to them. i can imagine them having the strategy to say we're not going to do this, we're not bringing women athletes here. but i bet it didn't even occur to them that that is something that they're supposed to do. it's not something, women's performance and excelling in sports, not a priority. >> david nakamura has written in "the washington post" that not a single women's championship team has made a solo visit to the white house under trump although several women's teams participated in an event in 2017 during which the preside

the new white house counsel, has been beefing up his office with more lawyers than the previous whiteis is exactly what they ex. pekted to happen and they're preparing for battle. >> how does this fit in, jeffrey toobin, democrats' calculations potentially on launching impeachment proceedings in the house? >> i try not to be too cynical. i think in part congress is just trying to do its job. i mean, there is a lot to look into in the white house and in the trump administration and in the campaign. and there are hhas been no over for two years. obviously, impeachment is a possibility down the road. this is a democratic party that is deeply informed by the 1998 experience of the republicans who went ahead with impeachment in the house, knowing it would never succeed in the senate. this democratic party, democratic majority, is simply not going to do that, but they're not going to stop investigating. they're going to do their job, and this, if it leads to impeachment, well, as donald trump would say, let's see what happens. >> yeah. >> but i don't think -- you know, it is not just an imp

and the white house wants to respond first. so that's going to be an interesting issue for bar to figure out. >> jeff toobin, can the president of the united states -- once he finds out that this is -- that barr has the report, can he just call barr up and say all right, so what does it say? >> absolutely. he's the head of the justice department. >> so the president, people around him, they will know as soon as barr gets the report, they will know -- will they be able to see the full report? >> that will be up to barr to a certain extent. but if the president insists on it, i don't think bar has any reason to decline it. this is the difference between a report by a special counsel who -- robert mueller who is part of the hierarchy in the department of justice and kenneth starr who was an independent counsel who reported to a set of judges completely independent from the justice department. i mean, this is a big difference. and this is why. and it could be that the first thing we hear is from the white house saying the report is

i mean, keep in mind, the white house press corps, a big part of the white house press corps, staying in the same hotel with kim jong-un and when the north koreans caught wind of that, we were booted out of the hotel. the entire press filing center with all of the journalists and cameramen and so on were booted out of the hotel. and flash forward to this pool spray where you heard jonathan lapierre from the ap asked that question and the president didn't like it. what we were told after that ended, because of sensitivities, sarah sanders said, with the north korean dictator, they were only going to law photographers into the next pool spray. when, in fact, she was clearly and the white house was clearly retaliating against the white house and those individual reporters shouting questions during that pool spray you just played. and then what happened and the resulting pool spray, some of the print pool photographers, thank goodness, the still photographers, they went ahead and rebelled and said, listen, if you don't let in some sort of editorial presence, we're not going in there. >> s

and speaking of white house communications, one of the things that has made this white house different from all the other white houses is the amount of leaking that happens inside it. this white house is so leaky last year "axios" published a piece entitled white house leakers leak about leaking, in which some of the administration's most prolific anonymous leakers spoke to "axios" anonymously about what they leak and why, and when it comes to white house leaking, there's the petty score settling kind. there's the kind designed to advance your preferred policy position if you've lost some internal debate, and in this white house, there's even leaking because maybe you think the only way to reach the president is to get something onto the tv so that he can see it during his executive time. there's also leaking out of concern, leaking that appears to be undertaken to sound the alarm. it was six months ago this week that we got the astonishing op-ed in the "new york times" in which an anonymous senior trump administration official described being one of a number of senior administration o

kaitlan collins at the white house, thank you so much for that. >>> democrat ted lew is part of the house judiciary committee. he's with us now from capitol hill. sir, thank you so much for being with us. >> thank you, brianna. >> you heard some of kaitlan's reporting there. the white house team is reporting that the trump administration was pretty surprised by just how expansive this list was and they're planning to limit the number of documents they have to produce, including those from trump's time in office like his communications with the former white house counsel don mcgahn. what recourse do democrats have here? >> thank you for your question. let me say a number of these individuals and organizations cannot claim executive privilege because they did not work in any capacity in the white house, so we expect to get all those documents. then for those who work in a senior capacity in the white house, they cannot use executive privilege to cover up other crimes or misconduct. if they try to do that, we'll negotiate with them. if we still don't get those documents, we'll look at issuin

these attorneys in the white house want the white house to have an opportunity to claim an executive nformation drawn from documents and interviews with white h

how should the white house interpret the new revelations? he administration to start cooperating with congressional committees as the congressman suggested there? >> well, look, we know about what the house judiciary committee did with the request to different people. clearly newly democratic majority in the house is flexing its investigating muscles. i think the white house has to decide how cooperative do they want to be with the congressional democrats. i think the democrats have to worry that the american people are going to think that they're all about doing endless investigations and not addressing the real needs of the american people. that's the risk for the house democrats. >> what does this leak say about the inner workings at the white house? >> i think it says that fundamentally the president of the united states and his family, they're not republicans. they're not democrats. they're really moneycrats. the question is raised, why do they need this security clearance. it is meant to give you access to government secrets. we know th

white house counsel or chief of staff. none of those guardrails held, and it was the cia raising concerns. what kinds of contexts and questions did the cia have about jared kushner? >> we don't have full visibility into that. that is something we continue to report on. but whatever concerns the cia had, they were deep and not to be dismissed. the office of security at the agency is not an agency -- is not an office to be trifled with. and they weren't going to be overruled and they stood their ground. so whatever they thought -- whatever they thought the problem was to give jared tssci, they weren't going to give ground on it and they made that clear and they made that clear to the white house. so that in itself is extraordinary. >> ron klain, i don't know the people who have not been vetted understand the significance of what adam goldman just detailed. it is not standard for the cia to be the agency that stands in the way of any staffer in the government getting a clearance. but the problems for -- for the problems to ha

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the house oversight committee has been requesting specific documents and interviews relating to white house security clearances. for more than a month and last night threatened to subpoena them if they don't come soon. house democrats aren't done yet with michael cohen. after three straight days after testimony before three separate congressional committees the president's former lawyer and confidant is coming back wednesday for more closed door q&a with the house intelligence panel. joe johns is at the white house this morning. two reports, two separate papers, a lot of good reporters on the lines on the white house isn't denying reports about the president mandating kushner get the top secret security clearance. >> nothing so far from the president indicating otherwise. look, there are a couple of questions raised by the "new york times" reporting. first, what is it in jared kushner's background that's raised the issues in the first place? we have never gotten to what specifically that is. even people on capitol hill have been asking. but there are some other questions as well including t

they had a pr person inside the white house. >> right. >> they had a chief of staff inside the white an unusual machinery. >> and really off-putting machinery, all their -- and very against the spirit of what it's meant to be in government. you're supposed to go in government to serve. you're supposed to divest yourself of everything else, of all stocks and shares, any assets, you go and you don't expect to make much money for a while and serve. you're not supposed to hang on to most of your assets and cocoon yourself with our own pr people, you know, lawyer who's got his own pr person, chief of staff. i mean, it's one rule for them and, you know, and one rule for everyone else. it's -- it's so unamerican. and it's so wrong. >> where does this end, do you think? >> interesting. so i sort of say in the book as i, in the epilog, we're at a crossroads. and it's going to go one of two ways. either now that congress has subpoena power and i think, you know, mueller has sent some of the threads that are in the book about their finances to other prosecutors, other investigators, they will b

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>> reporter: yes, some of it is about 2019 and the idea that the west wing of the white house is going for a fight with democrats. he wants to talk about the border and keep it front and center with this congress and this house controlled by democrats because he and his political advisers see it as a winning issues for him. keeping this front and center is something that the president think it is going to be an advantage for him down the road. one of the themes you can look at in addition to this critical border wall money ask, is also the idea that the president breaking some promises he made. this budget cuts medicare significantly. he says relatively quickly and possibly within eight years. this budget would take twice as long to be able to do that. that's one of the themes that you will see here when sarah sanders come out for the briefing. >> let's talk about that, this is the first time in 42 days. why today? is it because they want to sell this budget? are they launching a new initiative to push back? >> got quiet so i was making sure nobody was walking behind me. >> part of it

cnn has learned that the white house has missed the house judiciary committee deadline to te turn over records that's part of the democrat sweeping investigation of president trump. i want to go to manu areraju. what is the committee prepared to do? >> reporter: this sets the stage for a clash between house democrats and the white house over scores of requests they are making, including this committee, this investigation into what democrats believe is obstruction of justice, potential abuse of the president's office. in this request that they have made to the white house, they have asked for documents and records relating to the firing of james comey, internal conversations about the recusal of then attorney general jeff sessions overseeing the russia investigation, discussions about potentially firing robert mueller as well as the hush money payments the president was involved with to silence those stories about those alleged affairs that may have come out right before the 2016 elections, all those documents, jerry nadler, the chairman had demanded by a monday deadline, yesterday dead

. >> 2024 -- [inaudible] alina, if that does come to subpoena what's the response of the white house what are they prepared to connect. >> for a while love people were worried they weren't prepared for this but over the past few months they've been working with lawyers inside white house to prepare for this investigation and like i said before at first they were worried about the release or impending release of the robert fuller report. we thought it would be released by 2017 and were well into 2019 now. now they have taken a lot of threats within the white house for what to expect with these investigations and what we saw from german nadler he said today they be releasing 60 names they want to bring in for interviews and that stems from people at the presidents family, ivanka truck, jared kushner and exciting to people within the trump organization like felix coming in to testify so a lot of things from all different corners of the white house and even the president's past life and his businesses will be affected by the. >> is there the expectation that the white house report of the

the white house just released a statement after the u.s.d forces in syria announced the final isis strong hold there has fallen. the president says in part, i'm pleased to announce that together with our partners in the global coalition to defeat isis, including the iraqi security forces, and the syrian democratic force, the united states has liberated all isis controlled territory in syria and iraq, 100% of the caliphate. but as the syrian defense forces raise liberation flags over the final isis stronghold, it's a victory that can only resonate so far. the breeding ground and ideology of isis still thrives. cnn's ben wedeman has been on the ground in syria for the past 50 days now, ben, how exactly did this historical territorial victory happen? >> reporter: well, it happened as a result of a confluence of interests between local forces, whether that be the kurds, in syria, and iraq, and the shia in iraq, and ironically, iran, the united states, the western powers, all coming together, realizing that isis was a very broad threat, threaten

jeremy diamond is at the white house. cnn white house reporter with more.d out to the white house for a little clarification here. what are they saying? >> reporter: we have reached out to the white house to ask them why the president has not hosted a single women's championship team at the white house and so far they have not responded to our requests for comment. no comment, no explanation for why the president hasn't hosts these teams for a solo visit at the white house. that is what is in question here. the president has hosted some women's team in november of 2017, several women's college championship teams attended a broader gathering of college championship teams, men's and women's teams but not a single one of those championship teams has attended a white house event in solo fashion to be honored by the president which has been such a common occurrence. since 1983, every women college championship basketball team has been invited to attend an event honoring them at the white house, except in this administration, the president has not done so-so far

you get nothing seems to be the white house strategy, sources tell cnn that the white house expects to see the mueller report before congress, perhaps with a plan to scrub it down with executive privilege. so they may get a lot less than they want in that process as well and this is all in focus, because the special counsel dropped a huge clue, a bomb if you will. they say they face impressive work this week. so could that press be the actual report? if it is, there are science we may never get to see it. >>> new this morning, another prominent republican ready to prominently call out president trump after he again attacked the late senator john mccain saying he never was and never will be a fan. the in an exclusive interview, he says he plans to take to the senate floor today, going on to tell ab, i just want to lay it on the line, that the company deserves better, mccain's family deserves better. i don't care if he's president of the united states, owns all the real estate in new york, or is building the greatest immigration system in the world. nothing is more important than the int

and there was transparency from the white house, suggestion of ty cobb, you have tens of thousands of documents that are in house white house communications, inner agency, personal communications. most of which would be subject to executive privilege. you would think the white house would want to check to make sure that whoever was reviewing this would be very prudent about what is and is not related. akoshding to the attorney general the president has turned all of the reins of that over to the attorney general to make the decision and the white house counsel's office won't be involved at all. he puts a frey amount of faith in an individual that the president doesn't know that well. bill barr's reputation, he thinks he's a stellar individual. but it's not the white house counsel, puts a lot of faith in the department of justice to scrub this thing no, items subject to executive privilege that the white house doesn't warrant out there don't get out there. >> about a week ago as you know, there were reports circumstance lating that the president in private was asking people, phoning th

well, the white house is now firing back. white house counsel saying he will only make some documents available to the committee, and he says don't try and go around me. don't try to go around me to talk to white house staffers, especially to the person who wrote one of those memos about the president's order, the former chief of staff, john kelly. don't even think about it. today in fact the counsel to the president, kellyanne conway didn't even deny that the president overruled the intelligence committee because they realize that memo is out there. they now know that cat's out of the bag. he gave his son-in-law access to america's top secrets. here's what she says. >> the president has the absolute right to do what was described. >> okay, not denying it. absolute right. shrug. hey, who cares? wow, if it's that simple, kellyanne, if he has the right to just overrule america's intelligence leaders, why won't the white house just show the memos detailing how and why he chose to do it then? why? well, there's actually a pretty

we start at the white house.e in two weeks we learned the president overruled security officials on grounds president trump pressured aides to grant a security clearance to first daughter and senior aide ivanka trump. the revelation contradicting ivanka's admission to abc news just three weeks ago. >> the president had no involvement pertaining to my clearance and my husband's clearance. >> so, no special treatment? >> no. >> it's not clear what red flags were holding up her clearance. several sources tell cnn it's possible she was unaware there were concerns raised during her background check. or she may not have known of her father's involvement. but it followed the president's ordering a top secret clearance for her husband jared kushner. cnn pamela brown has more from washington. >> good morning, we have learned that president trump pressured his chief of staff john kelly and white house counsel don mcgahn to grant ivanka trump security clearances depend their recommendations. while the president has legal au

how's the white house responding to that testimony and the fact that michael cohen will be back there in just a matter of days? >> reporter: the president referred to what's happening on the house side as collusion delusion. they're moving on now after collusion because in the president's estimation they haven't found any collusion. we don't know that for a fact yet. we're waiting on robert mueller and his report if we ever learn what's in his report. there are a number of investigations ongoing and with the white house is essentially doing is either stonewalling or delaying for time. we had elijah cummins who has another investigation into the clearance process, security clearance process. jared kushner in the "new york times" report over the last 24 hours or so is revealed that president trump interfered with that and gave him that highest clearance over the objections of his chief-of-staff and the white house lawyer. a number of investigations ways and means is looking into his tax returns, felix seder, the president's business partner when it comes to russia also involved as well,

you cannot tell where the white house ends and fox news begins.rs of hate, violence and disgusting behavior and they created this environment. they own now tucker carlson and pirro and also as well, it's not surprising that they said these things. it really isn't. >> let me say, they don't just own the environment, they program the president. i can grab women in the bleep. when you're famous, you can do anything. tucker carlson, see you next tuesday. jeanine pirro, it's against the constitution to exercise your first amendment right and be muslim. i, donald j. trump, will ban all muslims in america. we've gone beyond that environment >> i think it's born in that environment, right? and from 2007 until he declared his presidency, he had a weekly gig. he had his entirely -- he had much of the police world view shaped by what he saw on fox news, and frankly that's why he won the nomination. he was saying things that most republicans situated in dc would not say because they were the brain child of liberal media. >> these are racist and m -- >> this w

he also badly wanted to work at the white house. he lied. the president on message as he heads down to alabama. what do we know about the truth here, matt, or do we? >> well, we don't. if what the president says in his tweet is true, that he and michael cohen discussed a pardon according to his version of it, cohen asked him about it and he said no, that would be signatsi news. we haven't seen disclosure of that and now that the president puts it on the table, i think congress has the responsibility to follow up and say what was the subject of that conversation, what did cohen say and what did the president say. because the president's publicly talking about these pardons all the time has had a poe looting effect on the entire investigation because just bringing it up puts it into all these witnesses' minds at the time when they trying to make this decision do i cooperate with the government or do i not. and if they know there is a chance of the pardon, either because neff seen the president's public remarks or their attorneys have had back

whether or not the white house gets any heads up, whether or not the white house gets to review it, the perception of it certainly could be problematic for the department of justice, which, you know, right now is trying to kind of stay -- stay away from getting in the middle of any kind of political fight. they know they're about to take on a lot once mueller is done and the report is submitted to him. bill barr is going to have to ultimately decide, the attorney general, how much he's going to release. we don't expect it to be the full report. certainly not initially. but then if the white house starts intervening and starts meddling in that, it's certainly going to create problems politically for everyone involved. >> i can only imagine. this is really about whether a.g. barr decides to give congress and maybe make public not the full report. if the white house claims executive privilege, can that be challenged in court? >> absolutely. and i'd expect there to be a very lengthy legal challenge. and, frankly, i think that's a loser for the trump administration no matter how that goes. i

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they have to give more than the white house does. it has all sorts of protections because of the president. they can probably get some of those documents eventually. >> even those individuals, trump or donald trump jr. don't have as much pushback. again, what is congress going to do arrest them and hold them in jail? >> yeah. >> how does that make congress look? >> lots of moving pieces to this. we'll talk more about some of the mueller related pieces. stick around for that. congratulations. thank you for coming on with us. >>> coming up we may be getting closer to the final russia report. we know that because of something the special counsel is saying. >>> why biden is closer to announcing his 2020 run. nouncing his 2020 run. it was here. i couldn't catch my breath. it was the last song of the night. it felt like my heart was skipping beats. they said i had afib. what's afib? i knew that meant i was at a greater risk of stroke. i needed answers. my doctor and i chose xarelto® to help keep me protected from a stroke. once-daily xarel

it is about the white house counsel. >> exactly white. rudy guiliani should not be talking about this and done with this. i'm personally done with him. the white house is full of very good lawyers and the hope is they exert the privilege in very limited fashion and i hope they will buy negotiating with the attorney general's office where they really need to protect the institution by asserting that and don't need that. my hope is they work that out between those two entities. >> this is about specific elements in the report. not about the report itself, certain information and documents they want to keep out of public view? >> that's right. it has to do with the advice the president wants to get from his closest circle of advisors so the president isn't afraid to ask for advice as we want all presidents to do. >> and the issues of the warrants issued for raised from michael cohen, what are you most interested seeing it? >> the problem is the things i'm most interested in seeing are redacted probably, giving a hint of who they're preparing

hans nickehols is at the white house. with us here, ken delaney, also my panel for the hour, kelsey snell, sahil kapour, thank you so all -- to all of you for being here. hans, we witnessed a president on defense overnight with all the tweets and then over the weekend delivering the longest spe speech of his presidency. >> he had a lot to say in front of a friendly audience after a hostile reception or at least an uncomfortable reception in vietnam. here's what the white house is officially saying about the investigations. they say they'll deal with things on a case by case basis. that could be a way to slow walk the investigations. when you look at the rhetoric from the president, it's clear, have a listen, he's not someone that's respectful of this process. >> and all of a sudden they're trying to take you out with [ bleep ]. okay? with [ bleep ]. >> now, when you look at what the strategy is from house democrats, it's clear they're going to be looking in every place they can look. they have constitutional authorization

these attorneys in the white house want the white house to have an opportunity to claim an executive privilege over any information drawn from documents and interviews with white house officials over the last couple of years. these sources we spoke with said, but the white house's review of executive privilege claims, anderson, are within its legal purview, but it could set up this political battle over this perception, at the very least, of president trump trying to shield certain information from the public about an investigation that has swirled around him since the first day of his presidency. as one source i spoke to close to the white house put it to me, the source said, look, there's always tension between what looks best politically and what represents the interests of the institution. but preserving executive privilege, trump's political optics in the white house in this case, anderson. >> and president trump's personal attorney, rudy giuliani, suggested that executive privilege could be used to use parts of the report from public view. it's not up to the president's persona

he's the deputy white house press secretary.was prooefeviously a deputy former white house counsel ty cobb before moving into the press office in january. thank you so much for being with us. we really appreciate it. >> thanks for having me on. >> we've seen this four-page summary from the attorney general. it's a summary of the mueller report which did not establish collusion. the description as well of barr and rod rosenstein's conclusion that the evidence in the mueller report is not sufficient to establish that the president committed obstruction as well. the process right now of determining what can go to congress, because there are certain considerations about what would be secret before a grand jury, is happening as we speak. i wonder, though, what does the white house want to see? is there a concern that if this does not become public, the president has said he doesn't have a problem with that -- is there a concern that americans won't be able to put stock in the mueller report if they don't see it? >> well, as the attor

jim acosta is at the white house. he he is getting more information. >> reporter: it sounds like the strategy for the evening for the white house is to not have the president make more comments. they called a lid over here and down at mar-a-lago where the president is. while they were creating some space in his schedule in case he felt like going out in front of the cameras, that appears to be out the window. he may tweet. we may find out later this evening when he is thinking. i did hear from one trump campaign adviser in the last few minutes who described this mueller report being turned in and this news that there's no new indictments in the mueller report as a, quote, great day for america. that is the words coming from one trump campaign adviser. we're so early on in the process, as all of you were saying, that we still haven't worked out the mechanics as to how the white house, the president's legal team, his outside legal team, when they will be reviewing this and how much they will be able to review and how th