much, laura jarrett reporting for us. >>> also breaking the growing pushback in congress to get information in the trump/russia investigation. members of the committee voting to give their chairman and vice chairman blanket authority to issue subpoenas. jessica schneider is following all the late breaking developments. there's new urgency now that the fbi has refused to turn over documents related to former director james comey and president trump. >> that's right. so much urgency that the senate intelligence committee like you said is giving chairman richard burr blanket authority to issue subpoenas in its russian investigation meaning the full committee does not have to approve it. congressional leaders are growing frustrated at the lack of information they're getting from the justice department, the fbi and special counsel robert mueller and now they're starting to pushback. tonight the fbi is declining to provide lawmakers any of the memos are documents from fired fbi director james comey detailing his interactions with president trump until it consults with special counsel

justice reporter laura jarrett is in richmond, virginia for us tonight. that's where the 4th circuit court of appeals. 10 of the 13 federal judges were appointed we should point out by democratic presidents. what happened? >> that's certainly true, wolf. but both sides face some really tough questioning from the court this afternoon. the judges jumped right in, pressing the justice department to explain exactly how they are supposed to ignore statements from then candidate donald trump on the campaign when he spoke about muslims. one of the judges said this is the most important issue in the case. another saying this is almost willful blindness. take a listen. >> surely after the executive order 2 was signed, sean spicer said the principles remain the same. trump's statement concurrent with that time, you know my plans, spicer, president trump yesterday continued to deliver on campaign promises. is there anything other than willful blindness that would present us from getting behind those statements? >> yes, judge floyd. respect for a head of a coordinance branch and acting legally w

trump international hotel right here in washington, d.c. our justice reporter laura jarrett is joining us. she's got the latest. i understand a tipster told the authorities this man may have been targeting the president? >> that's right, wolf. the suspect is 43-year-old brian molles, a former paramedic who traveled to d.c. armed with two guns, 99 rounds of ammunition. but authorities were able to catch him just after 1:00 a.m. at the trump international hotel. all thanks to a tipster who warned police, his plans. according to a source in law enforcement, moles reportedly stated to this tipster that he wanted to get close to trump, and quote, wanted to be like timothy mcveigh, a chilling reference to the oklahoma city bomber. d.c. police caution us that their investigation is still in the early stages. but source tell us that moles suffered from post traumatic stress. he is expected to appear in court later this week, wolf. >> one of the weapons was an ar-15, right? >> yeah. >> that's obviously a worrisome development indeed. laura, thank you very much for that report. we'll stay on top

and will seek review of this case in the united states supreme court." laura jarrett, looks like it is going to the supreme court. >> yeah, not a surprise here. their options were pretty limited. they could try to see if the full panel on the fourth circuit wanted to reconsider, but given the decision here that seemed unlikely. so their only path here was really to try to go to the supreme court, get an emergency stay of this decision and see if they have any hope there. but obviously, wolf, this was a decisive blow to the trump administration. it was a 10-3 decision and obviously the justice department, relying there on the dissents which were strong, three republican nominated judges came out and said the president was well within nis authority to do this. >> 10-3 vote against the president. in a white house statement, by the way, quoted one of the dissenting judges as saying the real losers in this case are the millions of individual americans whose security is threatened on a daily basis by those who seek to do us harm. phil, is there a real national security issue at stake here? >

prosecutors laura coats and cnn justice reporter laura jarrett. two lauras, laura jarrett, let me start with you. >> this investigation has been ondwog for almost year wolf since july 2016. federal investigators revealed today that after watching dozens of tapes and interviewing a number of witnesses, they same pli couldnsimply couldn't suppo civil rights charge because officers say he had a gun on him. that changed the whole evasioncation for the best. >> alton sterling did have a gun, in his pocket, is that right? >> that's what they say. >> let's show video to our viewers, laura coats. and then we will discuss. watch this. >> disturbing video. difficult for all of us to watch but explain the department of justice position, laura. the bar that they need in order to file these kinds of charges. >> you know, when you talk about a federal civil rights charge, not talking about simply homicide, talking about whether or not you can prove that the officer had the intent to act under the color of law, using a uniform or a police officer to exploit or take away someone's life to libber any this ca

. presidential election. let's bring in our political legal and counterterrorism specialist and laura jarrett, first to you. this document in "the washington post" it's pretty eye-opening. explain how this could have affected the investigation into hillary clinton's e-mails -- private e-mail server. >> so according to this report, wolf, comey felt like his hands were tied. back in the spring of 2016 they find out about this document, and it suggests that then attorney general loretta lynch had privately reassured someone in the clinton camp that the investigation was going nowhere and she had everything handled so comey felt like according to this report that with that out there, if it leaked, it would somehow compromise the investigation, especially if lynch later announced that clinton was facing no charges. but something about this just doesn't add up. number one, by all accounts the fbi doubted the voracity of this account and thought this was part of russia's disinformation campaign, but second thing is if comey truly believed that lynch had a conflict of some sort the remedy for