they try to project an image of a neutral broker the trump mystery is not even trying to do that whatever proposals the white house the trumps white house may come up with do you think the palestinians will have it in themselves to consider those proposals in good faith after the trumpet ministration has been so on the bastardly pro israel no because i don't i don't think there will consider them. if it's a bad faith move but they won't consider them because i don't believe they'll be any political aspect to them i think if they ever come out what it will be was an endorsement of the netanyahu position which is effectively a slow motion implementation of apartheid in which some lip service is given to improving the standard of living of the palestinians who live in the ghettos enforced by. jewish israeli settlements and roads and checkpoints and that is not this negotiate if it's a negotiated it's just a negotiation of a political surrender so i don't really think that the p.l.o. respond to that i think that what the israeli military is concerned about is if should the americans produce such a plan it will be furiously rejected by the p

white house. the trump white house the east wing gets a lot of credit for being one of the most competent, well-managedunctioning parts of the white house. that is important to know when we talk about the chaos in the west wing of the white house. so i do think it matters because it's a symbol, it's a symbol for what the white house wants to represent. look. the president and first lady would not be the first to have it both ways. lots of politicians try to have it both ways saying one thing on the one side and saying one thing on the other side. it's more the remarkable in this white house, given all of those names you just read off, i'm not even sure which of them would apply to me for daring to talk about this topic! >> there are plenty to choose from! >> right. >> let's broaden the conversation about the president's social media. john delaney has launched a social media campaign against the president's social media. he tweeted this out. i'm calling on all americans to unfollow trump and hit him where it hurts him his ego. how effective is something like that? the last time i looked, the president i

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administration official telling cnn moments ago that the white house asked former white house counsel don mcgahn to state publicly that president trump did not obstruct justice. the new york times reporting that team trump asked mcgahn not once but twice. the request coming after the white house saw the mueller report which said that trump had ordered his white house counsel, don mcgahn, the fire bob mueller. mcgahn turn the president down then and in this request to publicly say that wasn't obstruction of justice. mcgahn is crucial to all of this. he was one of bob mueller's key witnesses. mentioned many ore than 500 tim. more than any other witness many the document. trump oddered mcgahn to fire mueller which is a request the president has publicly denied making. >> i never told don mcgahn to fire mueller. if i wanted to fire mueller, i would have done it myself. >> pamela brown is out front live outside the white house. what are you learning this hour in. >> we're learning more about the white house reaction to the episodes laid out about don mcgahn and the president's request to him to dismiss the special counsel. we have learned

the future. signed, don't j. trump, the white house, -- donald j. trump, the white house, may 8, 2019. the speaker pro tempore: referred to the committee on foreign affairs and ordered printed. the chair will receive a message. the messenger: mr. speaker, a message from the president of the united states. the secretary: mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: madam secretary. the secretary: i am directed by the president of the united states to delivered to the house of representatives a message in writing. the speaker pro tempore: the chair lays before the house the message. the clerk: to the congress of the united states, section 202-d of the national emergencies act provides for the automatic termination of a national emergency unless within 90 days before the anniversary date of its declaration the president publishes in the federal register and transmits to congress a notice stating that the emergency is to continue in effect beyond the anniversary date. in accordance with this provision, i have sent to the federal register for publication the enclosed notice stating that the nationa

helper, before going into a meeting at the white house before being invited to the white house, is letting the fbi know he was invited to the white house. if i was trump i would be like, oh, my god, they were spying on me in the white house. why shouldn't you feel uncomfortable about that? >> you should ask questions. it's probably one of the most risky things the fbi does. you have to monitor them carefully, they have to check in with you. if they're acting at your direction, fine, if they're freelancing, not so fine. i think it's appropriate for the inspector general to figure out if it's appropriate. but i can tell you about the "new york times" article, if you want. >> i do, and i'm curious about it. how complete do you feel like it is? >> it tells part of the story, but here's a good analogy. let's say the dea is working an important case against a violent and dangerous drug dealer and they're working it because an informant sort of told them where to look and who was doing what. the goal for the dea would be to remove the informant from the occasion and put an officer or an agent in that person's place. you have a professional, they can testify

. >> leaving the white house headed to louisiana, president trump talked to white house reporters on the south lawn, answering questions about trade negotiations with china and the possibility of military conflict with iran. pres. trump: the economy is doing very well by every measure. we are having probably the greatest economy we have had anywhere anytime in the history of our country. we are having a little squabble with china because we have

the white house has given a big thumbs down to the house judiciary committee's request for documents as it probes possible obstruction and abuses by the trump administration. the white house counsel cast the democrats' inquiry as an illegitimate do-over of the mueller investigation, while committee chairman jerry nadler says the white house is claiming president trump is a king. he says no one is above the law and warns those who defy subpoenas may face very large fines. also breaking, as president trump gets ready to unveil a new immigration plan, we're learning it does not address the young immigrant dreamers or family separations. republican senators got a preview from top trump advisers, including son-in-law, jared kushner. sources say the gop senators are, quote, underwhelmed. > i'll speak with senator bob menendez. he's the ranking member of the foreign relations committee. and our correspondents and analysts will have full coverage of the day's top stories. first, let's go straight to our chief white house correspondent, jim acosta. jim, congressional democrats are facing a new round of stonewalling by the trump administration. >> they certainly are, wolf. th

do not allow the kinds of silly statements that donald trump makes at his rallies or the silly stunts that he pulls in the white house like the stunts that he pulled today in the white house. president trump actually scheduled a ridiculous stunt in the white house today so that he could use it as the basis for an even more ridiculous stunt minutes later in the white house rose garden. the only thing that will be remembered from his stunt upon a stunt is that the president of the united states actually said this. >> i don't do cover-ups. >> no president who did not do cover-ups ever said i don't do cover-ups. the closest richard nixon came to that was "i am not a crook," and he was forced to resign the presidency because he did cover-ups. he was never buffoonish enough to say i don't do cover-ups. he said that today because this morning the speaker of the house said this. >> would you believe that it's important -- we do believe it's important to follow the facts. we believe that no one is above the law and clearly the president of the united states and we believe that the president of the united states is engaged in a cover-up. in a cover-up. that was the nature of the. >

today the man who would have been the first star witness before congress, former white house counsel don mcgahn, he was ordered by the trump white housengressional subpoena that directed him to hand over documents by 10:00 a.m. this morning. well now tonight, the judiciary committee chairman has responded to the white house taking this action to block don mcgahn for responding to this congressional subpoena. chairman jerry nadler telling the white house tonight in a letter, "mcgahn is required to appear and provide testimony before the committee absent a court order authorizing noncompliance, otherwise the committee will have no choice but to resort to contempt proceedings to ensure that it has access to information it requires to fulfill its constitutionally mandated duties." joining us now is a member of both the judiciary committee and the intelligence committee in the house. he's also a 2020 democratic presidential contender, a california congressman, eric swalwell joining us tonight. sir, thank you for your time. >> of course. good evening, rachel. >> so, tonight, chairman nadler of the judiciary committee is saying don mcgahn wi

white house reacting? we heard from sue that top republican leaders in congress are distancing tmselves. the white house? philip: it's interesting. for now, president trump and the white house have n fully embraced this alabama law. they've said very little. they've tried to avoid taking a n.ear posit although vice president pence a pro life administration and he's an interesting figure because he's the connection between trump and the religious right, evangelical christians. for pence, it's aco personal iction and for trump, political convenience. president trump was pro choice before getting into the political race. hans: you get the sense t esident doesn't have a good feel for the abortion issue.e thre not many topics that he won't weigh i on but he's very silent on abortion. this week the silence from the whiteee house has deafening. there was one short statement on wednesday on these the president likes to talk about what a good feel he has for t electorate and the economy -- he doesn't have that feel on abortion and t see be avoiding the issue. robert: maybe on statements he doesn't have the feel but o action he's filled the federal judiciary with many conservat

of eight intelligence briefing on capitol hill, he took that information up to the white house and told the trump white house what he had learned in that classified briefing. and i know everybody praises richard burr and the senate intelligence committee for their lack of rancor and their bipartisan proceedings. but if there was a problem with donald trump jr.'s testimony to that committee about trump tower moscow or anything, why is it only the president's son who is getting called back in to readdress the matter, when everybody else who got nailed for lying to congress on that subject and others just got nailed in court for lying to congress in this scandal? why are they bringing him back in to talk it over again? so the senate intelligence committee proceeded with that subpoena today for the president's eldest son. a source close to him says he will fight it. we will see what happens there. meanwhile, the intelligence committee in the house today issued their own subpoena to obtain mueller's fully unredacted report and its underlying evidence. they issued that subpoena under a provision of federal law tha

the white house and from the president today? >> well, the main messagfrom the white house as well as president trump is move on, let this go, the ident has been totally common rated. in conversatn is had today with white house press secretary sarasarah sanders as well as ruy giuliani, they both said the same thing, this case needs to be closed, people need to move away frothe robert mueller investigation. the issue is that robert mueller was crystal clear today. he said i'm not clearing the president, instead i have been guided by this idea that d.o.j policy says you can't indict a sitting president, thefore we didn't consider charging president trump. that's a lot different than what the president is saying. i said to sarah sanders how can you say the case is closed given what robert muellewas saying. she said we're leaning on bill barr's assessment of robert mueller's work and in tt regard wasn't guide bid d.o.j. policy but came to e conclusion president trump was cleared after having looked at the evidence. >> woodruff: so given all this, what's the political calculus? what's the calculus, perioder forks democrats. >> right n

the white house to say publicly that mr. trump did not obstruct justice. and mcgahn declined that request. why would the white house be so keen on him making that statement? the white house wants -- trump in particular -- wants to prove to the world that he is fully exonerated. i guess it is not enough that barr the attorney general has gone out of his way to exonerate the president in a press conference and through the four page summary and he wants don mcgahn to step up and do the publicly. this would not be in don mcgahn's interests. he doesn't want to get mired in this mess anymore and he already stated that barr had made the point clear that he doesn't need to get involved in this. but trump demands loyalty from all those who work for him. and so this is another example of him dehe ma manding loyalty r them to be very public in their support for him. >> 30 hours of testimony mcgahn gave to the mueller team. doesn't seem like he wants to give much more chit-chat about all of that at this point. and on another front, subpoenas have been issued for mr. trump's tax returns, but like other issues, the white house d

house judiciary chair jerrold nadler is threatening to hold former white house counsel don mcgahn in contempt if he doesn't testify before congress today. he has been directed by president trump to defy the congressional subpoena. nbc news white house reporter: president trump is directing his former white house counsel don mcgahn to defy a congressional subpoena to testify. the white house cites justice department opinions going back four decades that say senior officials like him have absolute immunity from testifying. the president speaking out. >> i think it's a very important precedent and the attorneys say that they are not doing that for me, they are doing that for the office of the president. >> reporter: mcgahn sat for more than 30 hours of interviews with special counsel robert mueller. democrats say he's a key witness on obstruction and accusing the white house of stonewalling. >> let me be clear. if don mcgahn doesn't testify it's time to open up an impeachment inquiry. >> reporter: michigan congressman justin amash a frequent critic of the president tweeting after reading the mueller report, president trump has engaged in impeachable conduct. the president calling amash a loser and a lightweight. >> i've known him and

president trump's personal insistence, turns out the previous chief counsel at the irs had put down in black and white, had put down in a legal memo the bad news for the trump white house or any white house seeking to defy or wriggle out of the legal requirement to hand over a president's tax returns. quote, a confidential irs legal memo says that tax returns must be given to congress unless congress takes the step of exerting executive privilege. the memo contradicts the trump administration's justification for denying lawmakers request for president trump's tax returns. trump has refused to turn over his tax returns but has not invoked executive privilege. treasury secretary steven mnuchin has denied the returns saying there's no legislative purpose for denying them. but according to the memo the disclosure of tax return tuesday the committee is, quote, mandatory. requiring the secretary to disclose the returns and return information requested by the tax writing chairs in congress. the ten page document says the law does not allow the treasury secretary to exercise discretion in disclosing the information provided the statutory conditions are met. the memo directly rejects the reasons

afternoon, jerry nadler, the recipient hi summed up why the behavior of re the trump white house is so dangerous.it >> the white house is making the outragious claim that a president cannot be held accountable in any way through the american people. a the justice department can't hold him accountable since a me sitting president cannot be indicted and now they're saying congress cannot hold a presidens accountable. this would make the president above the law.th we of course totally reject it. >> a member of two committees trying to conduct investigations into trump, congressman jamie raskin of maryland who sits on the judiciary and oversight committees.gh what is your understanding based on the arguments before the judge yesterday and the letter received of the theory, the legal theory under the assertions that the white house counsel and the president's e personnel attorney?pr >> the theory is that the president is essentially a constitutional monarch and stands above congress and the a courts. that's a complete inversion of the constitutional design. under our constitution, congress is in article one. we are the la

trump. [cheers and applause] >> folks -- >> we want joe! we want joe! >> folks, the longer donald trump is in the white house, as long as donald trump is in the white house, critical things, if you want to know what the first and most important plan in climate proposal is beat trump. one thing we need to remember. one thing i just discussed from everything i just discussed from education, infrastructure, to health care, to climate, there's overwhelming agreement among american people, what should be done, that's true, he doesn't, but the people are not divided. it's our politics that's divided. and that gap, that is causing and worst elements in our society, people coming out of the rocks, folks, you asked me a few years if our democracy was at stake i would have smiled and laughed a little bit, no more. no more. the threat to this nation, to our democracy is real. it's clear and it's present. we've watched the president now for 3 years, look at what he's doing and instilling fear, not joking, instilling fear, sewing divisions, racial divisions, undercutting every institution that was designed to check the abuse of power by the president or anyone else,

the trump administration attempting to push the president in the direction of military action against iran. >> jim acosta at the white house, thank you very much. let's get some more on the intensifying war between the trump white house and house democrats. cnn congressional correspondent phil mattingly is joining us from capitol hill. phil, how far is the judiciary committee chairman, jerry nadler, willing to go to get what he wants? >> reporter: wolf in the latest escalation of tensions both jerry nadler and pretty much all democrats firing back, making clear that the new 12-page letter that lays out a red line from the white house is simply not going to work. they have objected to it and rejected it and made clear they will continue with their investigations and document requests and will not revise those document requests. they will continue to invite administration officials and staff to capitol hill to testify. jerry nadler making clear they believe former white house general counsel don mcgahn will testify in front of the committee, so will special robert mueller and they are willing to pursue several different ideas if they are stone walled in those efforts. we know that the attorney general has been held in

just re-enforcing this idea that the white house, president trump, cannot work with democrats while they conduct investigations. and white house officials and trump, they're doubling down on that idea today. earlier this morning, white house press secretary sarah sanders reiterated that president trump simply could not go into that meeting with congressional leaders here at the white house yesterday and look at speaker pelosi after she had accused him of a crime. take a listen. >> you can't literally have a meeting like nancy pelosi did yesterday just an hour before she got to the white house, where she accused the president of a crime, said he had engaged in a cover-up, and then show up and pretend like nothing has happened and let's just sit down and talk about roads and bridges. it doesn't work that way. she knows that. nancy pelosi's problem is she's totally lost control of her party. >> now, sanders made clear that the president is done negotiating not just on infrastructure but on all kinds of legislative issues including the white house's own stated legislative priorities like usmca, the president's new trade deal, once

every single person in the white house encouraged to cooperate and speak with mueller and congress. not one time did the trump white houseexecutive privilege. not once! even white house counsel which to me unfathomable again. with hillary's attorney. the president saying enough is enough, today, the president did finally say enough is enough by exerting executive privilege over all aspects of the mueller report in the white house ordered former counsel don mcgahn from testifying before congress bear they already had 30 hours. attorney general barr is refusing to be interrogated not by the house judiciary committee, by their staff. for the 206 years of that committee, not one time has that ever happened. the attorneys general says it's not going to happen now. the endless streams are now being rejected by the administration. the witch hunt is over, the democrats lost, and what the democrats are doing is nothing but radical revenge born out of a mass psychotic rage against the president. by the way, four separate independent -- four! they have an irrational inability to accept four independent results, the nine-month fbi c

questions go asked and unanswered for the white house writ large, whether it's sarah sanders or other white house folks. give the white house its due. donald trump is oftentimes speaking directly to reporters. one day he's calling "the washington post" and "the new york times" the enemy of the people and fake news and the next day he's literally having conversations with reporters from those various news agencies. there's this whacky, hyperbolic take it has. as for the press conferences themselves, the white house says one of different entities within the trump administration that has just moved away from having press conferences and having an open forum for this. there's no rule or law that says they have to, but it's definitely a step away from tradition, but for democrats and republicans having this type of forum so that reporters can ask questions on behalf of the public. >> thank you for taking my questions. good to talk to you both. >> thank you. >>> the president's former fixer, michael cohen, the parting shot he's going to take at his former boss before heading off to prison tomorrow. >>> first, a look at kate mckinnon as elizabeth warre

president trump is on record previously, publicly, praising mcgahn who served on his campaign and came into the white house and was the president's first white houseor some context in the mueller report, mueller's investigators concluded that president trump asked mcgahn at one point to try to have mueller removed from the special counsel's position because of what trump saw as conflicts of interest. mueller did finish his report but president trump is clearly still wanting to clear up this public perception that the president may have obstructed justice and his request to mcgahn to come out and publicly state that just shows the measures that the white house is willing to take to betray mueller's report as a total exoneration of trump. >> sarah, thank you for the update. >>> joe biden is respond to go rudy giuliani cancelled ukraine trip. he had decided to go up to ukraine to trump's opponent but to reverse wanted not to face that. here is elizabeth warren. >> it is highly unethical for the personal's own lawyer to meet with officials from a foreign government to see if she can influence somehow the upcoming presidential election. we have had eno

the single most important thing we have accomplished is defeat donald trump. as long as donald trump's in the white house -- as long as donald trump's in the white house, none of these things, these critical things are going to get done. so you ought to know what the first and most important plan in my climate proposal is. beat trump. [ cheers and applause ] beat trump. beat trump. >> biden's kickoff event today squaring him up to face all 22 of his democratic rivals running for president. a whole lot of contenders. here in new york with me now, democratic strategist and former clinton white house aide, keith boykin right and s.e. cupp. suggesting he should pick out new drapes, how do you think biden did in this speech? >> eight. i think if the general election were tomorrow, i think biden would clean the floor with president trump. his problem is he has to get through a primary, and while i like his message and i think that message resonates with a lot of people in the country, a message of unity and hope and on the optimism, there are a lot of people in his own party that are angry and aren't really here for the comedy, and aren't here for the talk of unity.

about the former white house counsel don mcgahn's refusal to publicly say he believes president trump did not obstru obstruct justice. the mueller report, refusing two requests from the white house on that matter. abc's kyra phillips has more. >> reporter: he is one of the key figures in robert mueller's report. and tonight abc news confirming president trump wanted his former white house counsel don mcgahn, to publicly say he did not believe the president obstructed justice. the white house asked mcgahn to speak out on two separate occasions, once before and once after the report's release. mcgahn refused. his attorney saying in a statement, the ask wasn't a threat. rather, it was a request, professionally and cordially made. the news comes as the administration instructed mcgahn not to cooperate with congressional investigators, after a subpoena was issued for his records. the president's first white house counsel, and a copious notetaker, mcgahn was cited 157 times in the muller report. he recounted the president asked him to have mueller fired on multiple occasions. mcgahn says he refused and refused to lie about those conversations later. at the time the president said he h

this done -- the single most important thing we have to accomplish is defeat donald trump. >> as long as donald trump is in the white house -- as long as donald trump is in the white housene of these things, these critical things are going to get done. so if you want to know what the first and most important plank in my climate proposal is -- beat trump. beat trump. beat trump. >> and he really keyed in on that several times. is that a winning message for the democratic party? >> you know, i think the elect ability issue for the president is the key one for democrats. but i had an interview yesterday with pete buttigieg in which he demonstrated as has senator harris from california that the bar on specificity is very high. there is a whole issue sense out there where every one of the candidates is going to have to talk through these 12 debates about very specific issues with a great deal of facility and almost an awesome kpland of facts and a certain gar illousness but come binds with gentility and geniality. i don't know the vice president has that skillset for this election and these 12 debates. i defer to neara who individuals democrats but i was a panelist at four d

the single most important thing we have to accomplish is defeat donald trump. as long as donald trump is in the white house, as long as donald trump is in the white house, none ofhings, these critical things are going to get done. >> reporter: biden pushed back on the idea that he might be naive for thinking that democrats and republicans could work together to achieve consensus. biden pointing back to his own time in government saying that this is a time for people to stop fighting and to start fixing things. now, this event was held in pennsylvania which is a state that donald trump won in 2016 but it's a state where biden sees a possible opening going forward in 2020. it's clear that biden is trying to frame this election as a showdown between himself and the president. president trump will be here in the states on monday holding a campaign rally of his own but, of course, before biden gets to a general election matchup, if he gets to a general election matchup between himself and the president, he still has to make it through that crowded and diverse democratic primary field. arlette saenz, philadelphia. >>> millions of people are under a threat of severe w

the white house. >> reporter: after a busy week in washington, president trump leaving the white house today to enjoy a spring day on the golf course, but across the nation, americans are preparing for a hit to their pocket books, as tariffs on chinese goods inch closer to home. the trump administration renewing a trade war with china, after negotiations ended yesterday without a deal. >> president xi is a friend of mine, great guy, but he's for china. i'm for the usa. >> reporter: the administration adding 25% tariffs on 6,000 goods from china, pushing up prices on a wide variety of items. and business owners already seeing a downturn worry about china's retaliation. >> this winter compared to last winter, our business is down 60%. and that 60% is basically made up, 100%, of chinese exports that we do. >> reporter: back in washington, a sharp divide between the white house and congress, after a shocking revelation surfaced in the fallout of the special counsel's announcement. mcgahn refused the president's request. a statement raieads we did not perceive the request as a threat. it was cordially mad

white house counsel don mcgahn before the house judiciary committee tomorrow. mcgahn is the lawyer who advised trump throughout the mueller probe and he has the notes to prove it. let's get right to cnn's pamela brown at the white house. tamel pamela, what is the white house saying? >> reporter: we have learned that president trump is asserting immunity in order to block former white house counsel don mcgahn, a key witness in the russia probe, from testifying to congress yesterday. the subpoena deadline from the house judiciary committee was tomorrow and so late this afternoon, white house counsel pat cipollone, sent a letter to jerry nadler, the chair of the house judiciary saying that don mcgahn cannot be compelled to testify, citing a 2014 doj memo laying out the legal argument. pat cipollone also saying the white house is doing this on the advice of the department of justice. now, don mcgahn is a private citizen, he could choose to not follow the white house directive, but sources tell us that don mcgahn wants to do what the white house is telling him to do, because of the committee's interests in his time here at the white house, as white house counsel. but certainly, this sets up just yet another flashpoint in brewing battle between house demo

white house staffers, including eight from the white house counsel's office, were interviewed voluntarily. don mcgann, chief counsel for the white house, was interviewed for over 30 hours. everybody that they wanted to talk to from the trump campaign on the ground, they were able to talk to. the president submitted himself to written interrogatories. so to the american people, mr. mueller was the right guy to do this job. i always believed attorney general sessions was conflicted out because he was part of the campaign. he was the right guy with ample resources and the cooperation he needed to find out what happened was given, in my view. but there were two campaigns in 2016. and we'll talk about the second one in a minute. so what did we learn from this report? after all this time and all this money, mr. mueller and his team concluded there was no collusion. i didn't know, like many of you here on the republican side, we all agreed that mr. mueller should be allowed to do his job without interference. i joined with some colleagues on the other side to swro deuce legislation to protect the special counsel, that he could only be removed for cause. he was never removed. he was allowed to do his job. so no collusion. no coor

journal reports that mcgahn rebuffed the requests, at least one made by president trump through white house counsel emmet flood. the times reports that the white house made one of the requests to mcgahn's lawyer before the mueller report was released publicly but after the justice department gave a copy to trump's lawyers in the preceding days. reading the report, the presidents lawyers say mueller left out that mcgahn had told investigators that he believed the president never obstructed justice. mcgahn's lawyer reportedly had told them months earlier about his client's belief on the matter and that he had shared it with investigators. in a statement, burke said we did not perceive it as any kind of threat or something sinister. it was a request professionally and cordially made. >> the mueller report investigated president trump for ten possible instances of obstruction as we have talked about on numerous occasions, and don mcgahn played a role in several of those instances including the president telling mcgahn to stop a.g. jeff sessions from recusing himself calling mcgahn at home and directing him to fire mueller, then later telling mcgahn to q

the house members are out of town. this event at the white house should get under way shortly. live here on c-span. [chattering] >> we're live at the white house. president trump will be speaking shortly to a group of farmers and ranchers, talking about the administration's trade agenda and some relief for the u.s. agriculture sector affected by the tariffs. cbs radio news correspondent and white house correspondent, i should say, mark knollenberger, identifying the guy in the red hat, make potatoes great again" is dan, a potato farmer. also joining him there is the agriculture secretary sonny perdue. we're live. staying live here on c-span. >> ahead of this gathering at the white house, "the wall street journal" reporting that the trump administration said it would spend $16 billion to offset the impact of american agriculture from the trade conflict with china with most of the money taking the form of direct payments to u.s. farmers. that's from "the wall street journal" this afternoon. the president expected shortly. chad of fox tweeting on hand there at the white house, other than the secretary of agriculture, sonny perdue, senators pat roberts, senator ho

very much a reaction to the nuclear sanctions placed on iran by the united states donald trump's white house the president from the white house attacking the framework of the deal itself limiting iran's ability through those sanctions to get rid of stockpiles of enriched uranium and heavy water in accordance with a 2015 nuclear deal iran was not allowed to keep stockpiles of potential weapons making materials and it was selling that to russia sending heavy water to oman getting enrich uranium out of the country well that abounds many follows intensifying rhetoric between the u.s. and iran its foreign minister has hit back at a tweet from the u.s. president saying iranians won't be intimidated by what he called a genocidal. post and that iran wants to fight it'll be the end of the country later said he would prefer an economic invasion. palestinians aren't going to take part in a conference about the future organized by donald trump's son in law jared cushion is expected to unveil the u.s. president's long awaited blueprint for palestine and israel in bahrain next month events being held to outline economic aspects of. where y

he was cabinet secretary in the white house and before that chief deputy in the house oversight committee. we begin with president trump launching his first attack on white house counsel don mcghan whose testimony was invaluable to robert mueller. we learned that he rebuffed at least two requests by the white house to declare publicly the president did not obstruct justice. president trump responding to that reporting, quote, "i was not going to fire robert mueller, false, by the way. in fact, he was allowed to finish his report with unprecedented help from the trump administration. actually, lawyer don mcghan had a better chance of being fired than mueller. never a big fan. he claims. seemingly forgetting what he said in the past. >> don mcghan's a really good guy. been with me a long time. and a lot of affection to don. he's done an excellent job. >> any concern about what he said to the mueller -- >> no, not at all. not at all. >> president trump is attacking don mcghan as he tries to prevent him from testifying on capitol hill. and the "washington post" is calling this this morning a noncooperation strategy. there have according to the "post" some 20

the white house should step in. president trump will not be in the white house forever. the power in the white house, it will not end well for conservatives in the long run. charles: allie beth, thank you very. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> in a stunning revelation the fbi sent and under cover investigator to meet with an aide in then candidate donald trump's camp. is trump right to call this big than watergate? >>> when did al sharpton become the new king-maker for the 2020 democratic party? we'll discuss that next. charles: bombshell report from the "new york times" today says the fbi sent investigators, an investigator posing as assistant to meet with the trump campaign. the woman was posing as research assistant to a london bar in 2016 to discuss foreign policy with trump campaign advisor george papdopoulus. here to discuss this report, it's a bombshell report, "wall street journal" editorial page writer gillan melcher and liberal commentator danielle mcglocklin. gillan, let me start with you, president trump was saying he was spied on, some people had misgivings on

white house the day before he was appointed special counsel. he was not seeking to return to the fbi director's position. he had been invited to the white house by the white house to give advice on how trumpreplace comey. we know this because his closest adviser steve bannon told investigators that. he said they were prepared to ask mueller to return to the fbi. we planned to beseech him but ultimately decided not to. you can find that testimony on page 81 of the mueller report. wall street very concerned about the new tariffs i was talking about. we will talk about th thatthroughout the day. the dow industrials are down better than 300 points. i will be tweeting about it on twitter. in the meantime, follow me@scottmcgrew. >> thank you very much, scott. >> this morning you might want to set your cereal or bagel aside because of this next story. we know people in san francisco love a pop-up store. next month there is a new pop-up bar opening. >> the star attraction, rats. the rats that ride bart for free. we're going to make you look at some pictures. it is called the rat bar. it is going to be part of the san francisco dungeon. there is an interactive show. they will add a rat bar where r

trump has to do them and near impossible feet and democrats will fight there. there was some breaking news, apparently the white house is going to say that president trump preparing to instruct his former white houser at the white house the subpoena began to appear and according to the source, it would deny democrats testimony from one of the most important eyewitnesses from mr. trump's attempt as they say to obstruct the rush investigation. so, i don't think it's a surprise, i think the white house will dig in and say, we will not allow people to redo this investigation. you are out there in new hampshire, is anybody talking about this? >> this is a matter for process. and this is why we have a congress and, we are not having a constitutional crisis, we are having a constitution. congress wants what it wants and it eventually will get a lot of it if not most of it. supreme court justices are going to have to make a decision about this stuff. the white house and congress are very much at odds, but we have a system that we are going to fight through. that's not about what voters in the street think, that's about what the constitution and separation of powers. >> dana: i imagine don mcgahn is not an

the house ways and means issued subpoenas to get president trump's tax returns. the battles between the white house and congress seem never ending. cay. so give me the big picture here, elliott. the whiteone walling congress at every turn with trump's taxes. security clearances and the list goes on and on o. there's been a question of whether or not year in a constitutional crisis. are we? >> year in a crisis when the constitutional order that was set up 229 and a 1/2 years ago can't sustain the behavior of the individuals running government. right now you have one party that does not recognize another party. i'm glad you tick itted off that list of subpoenas with respect to immigration and all the things in the mueller report and so on. the president doesn't respect congress. courts can still step in and resolve this. my question is if the president of the executive braench does not respect a court order and we have lots of evidence to suggest they might not therks president has spent a lot of capitol insulting courts and judges and so on, thing i think we have a problem because clearly the three braqss of government are not working together. and clearly the mechanism for fixing one p