of the white house counsel. i don't know if he even 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 t

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

a current senior white house official said white house aides are making an effort not to discuss it in polite company. another white house official, bemoaned the tawdry distraction. it does not seem to be a good waste of time to talk about a dead man or former employee of the white house. i offered a theory. what's yours? john costa, why are they doing this? >> there are all of those examples of republicans gently walking away from president trump's comments. based in my reporting today, the reality is quite different. sure, is there grumbling about the president's comments? yes. there's also wide prevent acceptance. if you turn on fox news or go to different outlets and twitter on conservative personalities, they're saying president trump has a point and the republican leadership in their statement are not calling out the president by name, only praising senator mccain. it underscored the president's continued power in this party. >> be robert costa, it's maddening for people with souls and consciouses but whences, bue reality check when the president did what he did yesterday. >> is

she is the trump in the white house. the interesting thing is, you know, i think i also say in the book that someone's quoted as saying, well, neither of her brothers would vote for her because it's not clear if ivanka trump run for president which party she belongs to because the republicans don't think she's supports their agenda at the democrats don't like her ethics. so i guess she's running on the ivanka ticket. >> you said and this stuck out in the is one of the little things that jump out to me, the phrase first daughter is thrown about the white house and the press a lot. you said she likes the term. >> this is the problem that everyone in the white house has. she wants it always. so it's one set of rules for her and jared because they're the first daughter and her husband. one set of rules for everyone else. and yet she also expects to be take he seriously as senior adviser to the president. and i think several of her colleagues have -- certainly steve bannon told her but other people too, you can't have it both

and, c, i'm not giving the white house a look before hand. does it make it harder for democrats to claim this is a coverup. >> it may make it harder but it doesn't make it impossible. i will predict that they're going to say, you know, we don't want's to see bill barr's version of this report, we want to say, i'm not just telling what you i predict their action will be, we want the full report. not only want to see the full report, we want to see all of the underlying documents, the investigation, all of the interviews with with its. they're going to want, they're going to fight for transparency. regardless of the fact i think that democrats are going to try and move off this to some degree and get to other instances like healthcare, equal pay and education, they see a political advantage to continuing to hammer the president on various investigations.ore the house, nowhere in the senate, you'll see adam schiff, elijah cummings, jerry nadler continue to investigate the president. i promise you what they're not going to say, this is a great id

the white house press secretary sarah sanders says the white house has not been briefed on it, but cnn reporting 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 m

more importantly, the white house wants it before congress and perhaps most importantly the white house wants to filter the report. maybe keep parts overnight, cnn learned white house lawyers seek information an opportunity to review the mueller report submitted to congress. they want a chance to claim executive privilege on information gleaned from interviews and documents provided by white house officials. this could set up a potential political battle and legal battle with the supreme court and two justices nominated by president trump deciding the ultima ultimate feat decided by the supreme court. >>> meanwhile, the president's rapid fire tweeting may have slowed the past 24 hours, the questions about the dozens of angry posts from the weekend certainly have not. bottom line according to reporting in the "new york times" no one in the white house really knows what set the president off, although george conway has been one of the president's top advisors, husband of kellyanne conway, calling the president's mental state into question. kellyanne conway disagrees with her husband at th

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

not just inside the house, inside the white house. the objection the congressional scrutiny may have been in vain. that's coming up next. n vain that's coming up next. -oh, n-no. -look, [sighs] i get it. some new guy comes in helping your mom bundle and save with progressive, but hey, we're all in this together. right, champ? -i'm getting more nuggets. -how about some carrots? you don't want to ruin your dinner. -you're not my dad! -that's fair. overstepped. >>> we had a little bit of a gut punch for the white house. the administration drew a line in the sand refusing the request for documents related to the saga of jared kushner's security clearance. as it turns out the committee may have had those documents all along. axios is reporting that someone inside the white house had already leaked them to congress. not only is the leak going to be problematic for team trump. they're evidently reckoning with the leaker as well, one who has moved by scoops to journalists and handing scoops to congress. why it matters, quote, the trump admini

their probe into the president's white house. sketch out what's happening and how the white house is reacting. >> well, i think with democrats, a lot of people originally were putting all of their eggs in robert mueller's basket, in the special counsel's basket, hoping when his report was finally released, that would kind of put all the pressure on the trump administration. but i think with reports that's winding down soon, democrats are taking it on themselves so release a flurry of investigations. we're seeing the house intelligence committee. we saw michael cohen this week come before the house intelligence committee, come before the house oversight committee, the senate intelligence committee. and they have shown that they're going to be, you know, several different areas looking at the president's finances, money laundering with the trump organization. and so they're kind of hitting him from all different directions. and i think that we expect over the next few months this to continue very thoroughly. >> so before we go on,

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and bill shine was in a very precarious position in the white house, white house communications director. this is a president who believes he's his own best spokesperson and somebody in that position will take a lot of the heat when the president is getting bad press and bill shine certainly bore the brunt of that and now he's moving on to the re-election campaign as a senior adviser. what that actually entails we don't know right now but this all points to the president getting tired of somebody and forcing them out. >> was this -- as we look at potentially a new white house communication director, what does this say about the state of the white house, claire? where it might be going next? will there be another communications director. >> there is no need for one if you ask me. the president does his own communications. he does it pretty well. i think we haven't seen the last of bill shine. he's going to this campaign 2020. it is interesting to note that omarosa was offered that job and she decided she didn't want to sign a nondisclosure agreement and took a pass on it. so perhaps bill

the white house just released a statement after the u.s.-backed 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, th

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

we start at the white house. for the second time 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 pre

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he said he wants answers from the white house. we have reached out to the white house. they said they just received the letter. they are reviewing it. we'll see what they have to say, but this is going to be part of the investigation going forward, particularly on this committee. we'll see what the white house has to say if they do respond to these questions, brianna. >> manu raju on capitol hill, thank you for that. >>> we do have more breaking news. president trump announcing a significant move involving israel. he tweeted just moments ago, quote, after 52 years, it is time for the united states to fully recognize israel's sovereignty over the golan heights, which is a critical, strategic and security importance to the state of israel and regional stability. let's go live now to michelle kosinski. she is at the state department following this. tell us why this is so significant, especially ahead of this visit. >> this is not an internally recognized sovereignty over the golan heights. in fact, just the opposite. israel seized this land from syria in the war in 1967. i

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

you'll notice that even in the white house now the people who work in the white house are not even defending this. they're just saying we can't talk about the clearances as opposed to continue to go lie about it. kellyanne conway did the same thing and abby lowell who's a very good lawyer, who is ivanka and jared's lawyer is also saying the same thing. the gig is up on this. they'll have to produce those memos to the house and if cummins doesn't get them pretty soon, there's going to be an eruption. >> frank, for a layperson as myself, when you hear somebody doesn't pass a security clearance at very high level, what is it about that person? does it basically say at the core level that that person can't be trusted with our government secrets? >> so a couple of things. first, it's not really a pass or fail. it's a recommendation that's made to the client, in this case the white house that we just don't recommend a clearance here and that's what's being reported happened. now, why would that happen? because there are vulnerabilities identified that make a person far more likely to be either dis

you cannot tell where the white house ends and fox news begins. it's 14 hours 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

catherine watson is the white house reporter for cbs news.com. catherine watson, some images from capitol hill. the budget has just been delivered to capitol hill. there is a shot of the budget on the desk, that is the house or senate budget committee. take us through what we should know about this over for chewing dollar budget. guest: this budget is going to be requesting $8.6 billion for border security. more specifically for a border wall. that is something that is not going to go over very well with house democrats. who, of course, we just had this huge fight over a national emergency. in other thing we are going to be dealing with this week. a $3.6rom there, it is billion request in addition to that. to repay those military construction funds from the national emergency that the president set into motion. another thing that probably is going to have some tension. the budget does call for a lot of cuts. about 5% aggregate cuts in nondiscretionary funds. in addition to that, we have dispensed spending increases. that is another thing that is

jen palmieri, the white house hosted a team, searching them fast food at the white house. still, 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 pre

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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 xare

this is a pattern of the white house. anytime there is a fallout, they try to just throw people on the campaign and say everything is good. this is what happened in this case as well. >> justin, what do you make of bill shine out at the white house and headed toward the re-election campaign? >> well, look, i'll say that as a former communications director myself, for the governor of the state of florida, i can imagine being the communications director in the white house now at this time is the toughest job in show business by far. you have a president that is tweeting. you have a president that is communicating and believes he is his own best communicator. many times he is. at the same time, you have a press ferociously after the white house and the president. the communications director is caught between those forces. >> all right. justin, thank you for joining us. rashad, thank you. >>> a number of migrant children straighted separated from their parents is larger than first reported. why the trump administration has to

the white house certainly will. so i think it will be the difficult position we see all of these players going forward. >> i think we are going to see a lot more than we think. i think the fact that they are doing this this weekend and doing it as quickly as they are doing it this line in this letter to congress i may be in a position to advise as soon as this weekend that's a big shocker for all of us. >> it may have to go through some kind of declassification process. they may have already scrubbed it. mueller wasn't born yesterday. he knows that whatever he is submitting, no matter how comprehensive is some day going to be out there. he has got to -- i'm sure that's what was going on with scrubbing things and making sure there are no privilege issues that the white house could object to. you know they are not going to tell us about deck lynn nations. i think mueller has been around washington long enough to know this is going to get out and he is going to brief the committees and maybe, you know, maybe the attorn

house, and so far, according to the house oversight committee chairman, the white house hasn't provided a single document in response to their request for documentation. that is an extraordinary escalation for this white house and it seems to signal that they are aggressively trying to slow down these investigations, trying to put the brakes on what the president has considered to be democratic overreach. he's called it presidential harassment and i think it sets us up for at least another several weeks and months of combat between the president and the house committees even after potentially after this mueller investigation wraps up. it seems, brooke, that the president is waiting just like we are for that report to come out, but he's -- i'm sorry, brianna, but he's waiting for that report to come out, but he's taking a combative approach to it -- to the house and to the mueller report on both of those fronts because this is about to be, i think, a pretty difficult period for him and for his presidency, brianna. >> and he has been attacking a lot of people, but he's also been attacking

, the white house says it doesn't know what's in the report. but my sources tell me the white house does expect to have an opportunity to exert executive privilege with whatever barr hands to congress. now, we don't know what what barr is going to give to congress. but you're already seeing democrats, chuck schumer, nancy pelosi say we don't want the white house and the president to have a sneak preview before it goes to congress. so this is like the first big test for bill barm. >> pam, stick around. before word came down the report had been handed off to the department of justice president trump had already left for a weekend at marq. the latest reporting from there that he's surrounded by a larger group of staffers than unusual. jim acosta at the white house with the reaction coming from the administration. so what is the latest? what have been been hearing the. >> reporter: well, anderson, i will say really to echo what pam was just saying a few moments ago that they are celebrating quietly i think, tonight, would be the way to describe it,

at the time, the white house cited national security risks. but according to ward's interviews, then white house chief of staff, rines priebus said the concerns came from jared. this is interesting. and remember, lloyd -- if you don't know, lloyd blankfein, involved in cadre, mike fos telly, former goldman sachs partner involved in cadre. this is a major business for both jared kushner and his brother, josh kushner. and when jared did any sort of divestiture, it was just to his direct family members. joining me now, "new york times'" annie karni. she has written about the book. we have to lead with this, jared kushner's spokesperson, his lawyer has said, this is a book of fiction. here's the issue. they do not offer any specific rebuttals. i believe they said they didn't have time to go through it all, which is somewhat stunning. if someone wrote a tell-all book eviscerating you and your character, you're staffed up and your lawyer is getting paid by the hour certainly has time for you. you've spoken to vicky ward and you read the book. what s

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and eliana johnson, white house correspondent for politico. peter, inside the west wing tonight, how are they interpreting this letter from the attorney general? do they fee like they're in the clear legally but still have some exposure politically? >> definite political exposure, because we don't know what's in this 400-page report. all we know are two sentences, or fragments of two sentencesat bill barr quoted previously, which is he did not establish a criminal conspiracy with russia and he did not charge that the president committed a crime of obstruction, even though he's not exonerating him. we don't know anything else. obviousy the rest of t report is going to have things in it the president is not going to like. what he's trying to do before then is cement in the impression that he's completely exonerated. it's almost as if he was on law and order, and he's saying, look, they gothe wrong guy. the d.n.a. tests came back and its not me. what mueller is saying is, i don't have enough to charge crime, but we'll see what else he found. >> i

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the white house will be fighting executive privilege for keeping things out, and the white house said they made a lot of things available when it came to hillary clinton's investigation. they made things available. they fought it but ultimately they handed a lot of things over to the hill. if this goes to a judge and the judge says, why shouldn't you hand it over this time, you've done it before, that's something the doj has to think about. >> unless they're very happy with what they see this afternoon, this report, or maybe they feel like the attorney general has cleared the president. maybe we get a whole different tone from the white house altogether. let's see how far this goes and how far william barr is willing to go to explain the president's vovrmt involvement in all of this. that's what everybody wants to know, how far does the attorney general go? >> we'll be following this today -- z >> we'll be here. >>> much more on the mueller report and the political battle with congress. more after this. so recently my son's band was signed by a record label. while we're on the road, i

tonight there are more signs the white house is gearing up for battle with house democrats and robert mueller. "l.a. times" is reporting the administration has moved a veteran lawyer to its press shop, as has been reported earlier 17 hires have been made in all in the white house counsel's office in just the recent months. chris magerian writes, "together these actions show that a white house known for lack of planning is scrambling to prepare for mueller's findings about russian support for trump in the 2016 election and for the gathering storm of democratic-led congressional inquiries into trump's businesses, private foundation, and activities in office. we're fortunate to have with us tonight bob bauer, former white house counsel to president obama. and counselor, if you were advising the trump legal team, and i'm sure not insinuating that you are, how would you recommend they ramp up for what you and i can both guess they're about to be facing? >> well, you anticipated my first answer. i'm definitely not advising the trump legal team. they're going to be gearing as white houses tr

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

just to set the scene, it is the waiting game at the white house, kasie. it's really reached a fever pitch. you have officials here huddling, trying to determine next steps, meeting with officials, reporters trying to determine if they know more than we know. everyone wants to know when this report will come out. you are seeing the president start to pre-but this report, even as he tries to discredit the investigation, special counsel robert mueller, saying he didn't get into trumps, trying to paint him as somehow conflicted without offering any evidence. the big headline, president trump saying he does want it to be made public. of course that's up to one person, attorney general bill barr. and we're all waiting for him to give us the word that he's gotten that report, kasie. >> ken dilanian, to that very point, how do we expect events to unfold in the event this actually happens today? >> kasie, we expect the justice department will acknowledge receipt of the mueller report but will not say what's in it, initially. and at some point later, we don't know

>>> we want to turn to politics and we move to the white house. president trump facing new backlash. the president seeming to anger the parents of otto warmbier who died after being in prison by the regime. the warmbiers issuing a blistering statement after the president defended kim jong-un over their son's death. terry moran is at the white house. >> reporter: while president trump was enjoying his time with north korean dictator kim jong-un in hanoi -- >> i think very importantly the relationship is very strong. >> reporter: -- fred and cindy warmbier kept silent. today, they broke that silence, declaring in an extraordinary statement -- "we have been respectful during this summit process. now we must speak out." their son, otto warmbier, arrested in north korea in 2016 while on an adventure tour, paraded before cameras. his terrified, anguished confession -- >>le stkef mystt by kim. 17 months later, otto warmbier was dead, flown home in a coma after being brutalized in north korean custody. in 2018, president trump invited the warmbiers to the

we just got a statement from the white house. the president is traveling to alabama and he just landed there where he's surveying storm damage. but the deputy chief of staff and de facto communications director is leaving the white house. he offered his resignation to president trump last night and the president accepted that resignation. they added that he is going to continue to support president trump and his agenda, and this is news. they say he'll be senior adviser to the president's re-election campaign. then they put out several statements from bill shine, the president and chief of staff and sarah sanders. but president trump said, bill shine has done an outstanding job working for me and the administration. we'll miss him in the white house but look forward to working together on the 2020 presidential campaign where he'll be totally involved of the thank you -- thank you to bill and his wonderful family. he made sure to say he'll be involved in his re-election campaign, but there had been talk lately of just how pleased

is joining us now from the white house lawn. the president says his dislike for john mccain is because of obamacare. over the weekend, though, it was about the so-called steele dossier. what is the root of some of his disdain for john mccain who most consider, even if they didn't agree with his politics, a lion of the senate and a hero? >> reporter: that's right, brianna. we were just in vietnam when the president had that summit with kim jong-un, and a bunch of us went by the hanoi hilton where john mccain was held in captivity. there is no question that john mccain is an american hero despite what the president of the united states thinks about him. you have to go back to, i think, the t they like to throw out these shiny objects to get out there other things than what might be under the president's skin. and you're right, the president was accusing john mccain of that dossier, of misdeeds before he was elected to the white house. putting all that aside, the president does bear a grudge against mccain for giving that now famou

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here is the white house statement, the white house has received the chairman cummings letter and the oversight process is going forward. there is also also an issue with jared kushner and what's app. you can communicate away from the mean that's are kept up and swept up in records. kushner's attorney disputes there is any acknowledgment from their side. they said abby lowell said he is continuing to use that for official business. there is a dispuce on that. there is lawyer's statements back and forth, disputes on facts, and that raises more questions and cloud what is happening making it harder and harder to see where are the facts here. that is something that sometimes works to the white house's advantage but to the same time now with the power of the gavel, chairman cummings is trying to be very organized in how he is pursuing these investigations. >> and i will just read you the paragraph from abbey lowell, she says i never said his his communication through every app was with foreign leaders, i said he uses it, he has numerous friends and contacts abroad. i also said the convers

both at the white house level but also in the agencies and departments. they are pushing for documents. they are pushing for people to come testify. they could issue subpoenas. there is a lot of other avenues where they could get information about a variety of other things. host: we talked to sarah lynch in the first hour, i will ask you the same thing. what is your day going to be like, covering one of the most consequential reports of the administration? guest: my colleague is with the president in mar-a-lago. he is our main person with president trump today. i am here, standing by. i expect to write some sort of bigger picture story about the president. i am also waiting to find out what is in the mueller report. we have a lot of our folks on capitol hill dilettante -- dealing with that part of it. i'm not sure what it will be like if they day goes by and we don't know what is in there. the attorney general indicated it would be today or tomorrow. i think he is very mindful that a lot of people both in washington and around the country are waiting. i t

white house press secretary sarah sanders says the white house cannot comment on security clearance issues nor can it respond to every anonymous source. kelly could not be reached for comment and mcgahn declined to comment for this story, anderson. >> let's just remind, pamela, our viewers of what ivanka trump herself said just last month about security clearances. >> the president had no involvement pertaining to my clearance or my husband's clearance. >> so what's -- i mean, it's the exact opposite of what you've learned, right? >> it is the exact opposite. but several sources tell us, anderson, that it is feasible that ivanka was unaware of the red flags that were raised during her background check process as well as the president's involvement in it. a person familiar with her process, she said she did not seek nor have outside counsel involved in her process, as no issues were ever raised. and then a separate person added that she was notified by career officials that her clearance had been granted. now, we should also note just because concerns are raised about a person getting a sec

house counsel of really expert lawyers in the white house. you can just walk right next door there. so it doesn't pass the smell test. >> it's a good point, but you do have two sets of lawyers in the white house. you have your white house counsel's office which represents the institution of the presidency, but you also may have your personal attorneys as well. so i'm sure that's what he'll argue, this was my personal attorney. but, again, it's inconsistent with all the evidence and inconsistent with michael cohen's testimony and common sense. >> exactly. he was asked pointblank at the very beginning of his very lengthy public testimony did you have a retainer or did the president have a retain we are you and his answer was no. >> and i think that it's also pont important to note the president trump said he i had nothing to do with michael cohen. he wasn't serving any functiony now, michael cohen was saying this for the second time before congress or he spoke -- he's spoken before congress many times. one of the reasons he's going to jail is b

this white house has not acted the way other white houses have acted. therefore, there is a suspicion that has been created. why? because there's a network of lies. there's a web that's been spun by this white house from the very beginning at every level. so i think it's only right that the congress that is impaneled now has a responsibility to make sure that what is going on is clear, fair, and reasonable and in order to make sure that they are the balance and the check to what is going on in the executive office, they've got to will their legislative authority. >> dyson went with web, ying. i usually go with mountain of mendacity, but he's much smarter. the point remains when you look at the meat of the matter, nobody should be arguing whether or not the president had the right to do anything. i see that as a distraction. we all know he has that kind of purview. the question is did he do it the right way? did he lie about it as the reporting suggests with the memos to back it up? why did they handle it this way? legitimate questions? >> sure. they're

the president's back in the white house now. the president people say it was better to walk away from a bad deal than accept the bad deal. but should he have ever been in that position in hanoi if they weren't going to make a deal? >> usually what transpired is that all the work is done by the underlings and by the time that the principals get together they're dotting the is and crossing the ts. so i'm critical of the president for being there if the deal wasn't already cut. but, willing to give him credit for walking away because i was one of those who, as the michael cohen hearing was under folding, the public hearing, i was very worried that as a diversionary tactic the president would cut a deal, any deal, just to try to change the narrative of what was being discussed at home. to his credit, he did not to do that. instead, he packed his bag and got on that plane. >> michael smerconish, great too to talk to you. thanks so much. >> you too. >> be sure to watch his show tomorrow morning at 9:00 a.m. eastern right here on name.

house, and the white house counsel office, are resisting. for example, letters to 81 individuals and agencies that were set out by jerrold nadler's house judiciary committee seeking information "into alleged obstruction of justice, public corruption, and other abuses of power by president trump." the president indicated yesterday that he may invoke executive privilege and not provide any of that information. listen here. >> president obama, from what they tell me, was under a similar kind of a thing. didn't give one letter, they didn't do anything. they didn't give one letter of the many caress that were made. >> that was jerrold nadler's committee. not elijah cummings' oversight committee is asking for all the information regarding the security clearances of many white house personnel. the white house is not going to give them the information for the white house counsel pat cipollone, writing, "the committee has failed to point to any authority establishing a legitimate purpose for the committee's unprecedented and extraordinarily intrusive