doing the same thing? >>> refusing to comply. white house officials say they won't give house democrats information about mr. trump's private conversations with vladimir putin. why are they insisting on secrecy? >>> holding pattern. the trump team is on alert right now, awaiting robert mueller's report. we're learning about how the president's legal and political teams are getting ready. >>> tweeting recognition. president trump overturns a u.s. policy on twitter, saying it's time for the united states to recognize israeli sovereignty over the golan heights. was it a gift to his prime minister pal who is in a very, very tough re-election fight? >>> we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you are in "the situation room." >>> this is cnn breaking news. >> breaking news this hour. the white house braces for the mueller report to drop. there's a new escalation in the battle between the trump team and house democrats who are investigating the president. tonight, the administration is rejecting a request for documents on mr. trump'

that the white house and president trump are bracing for this probe to be over, for the mueller report to be complete and for its findings to be released. the president now says he wants the public to see the report by the special counsel, even though he has called the probe a witch-hunt many, many times. just last week he tweeted, quote the special counsel should never have been appointed and there should be no mueller report. let's start with our senior white house correspondent pamela brown. so pamela, what are you hearing about what the white house is doing to prepare for this report coming out? >> brooke, white house officials are on high alert with really the rest of the country as they wait for all of this to wrap up and for robert mueller to hand over his confidential report to the attorney general and inside the white house there's a mix of anxiety and also the sense of relief that will soon come of this cloud lifting that's been with the president since day one of his presidency, but there is still anxiety about what could be next, what could be in this report, what wi

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

the content of that secret report that has already been given to the white house. the content of that report has been speculated about for a long time. it seemed pretty clear that this was the direction that trump was going with this, but now politico today reports not only has that secret report been delivered to the white house, but it does, as expected, give the president this national security pretext that he needs to be able to institute those taxes on his own. now the reason president trump wants to do that, the reason he wants to impose thousands of dollars in price hikes on cars is because he thinks this is a genius economic deal making strategy against foreign countries. he apparently either doesn't care or doesn't believe that when he does this unilaterally to foreign-made cars, they're -- he doesn't get or he doesn't believe or he is willing to call the bluff that there will be a similar reaction in all the other countries that we export american cars to. i mean, everybody who looks at this type of economic policy believes that if we do this to other countries, they wi

. >> it is 11:00 a.m. out west and 2:00 p.m. in washington. the white house plans to deliver -- according to recording from the daily beast, white house attorneys will essentially tell the house judiciary committee to go at themselves. this after congressman jerry nadler requested documents from 81 individuals or entities connected to trump. it is not the first time the white house had been accused of stone walling democratic lawmakers. they face similar accusations from the chairman of the house oversight committee, elijah cummings. he wrote on a washington post, the white house has not turned over a single piece of paper to our committee or made a single official available for testimony. yesterday, he followed that opt-ed with a letter to the white house counsel. he gives the administration a final chance to comply with requests before resorting to alternative means to obtain them. this morning, the president was asked if he was directing his aides to ignore congress. >> are you telling your staff not to comply? >> just a continuation of the same witch hunt, they know it an

. the white house wants to get hands on the mueller report before you do. not only that, the white house wants to limit what you see from the report. overnight, cnn learned white house lawyers are expecting to review the report before attorney general bill barr hands it over to lawmakers. they want the change to claim executive privilege on documents provided by white house officials. this is sure to set up a political battle on capitol hill and potentially a legal battle that could go to the supreme court. >> we are following breaking news. u.s.-backed forces in syria captured isis fighters they believe are linked to the suicide bombing in january that killed four americans. the attack coming weeks after president trump announced he would pull 2000 troops out of syria. we have a live report with breaking details in moments. >> joining us now, former federal prosecutor, david gregory, and jeffrey toobin. jeffrey, i want to start with the news of the mueller report. the idea that the white house counsel's office want their hands on the version that bill barr edits already and they w

entering the white house, for what we're quickly told was a regularly scheduled meeting and not mueller related. adding to the intrigue, deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, also seen leaving the white house today, whenever attorney general barr does get this long awaited report, he will review it and decide what to make public. and he is notably under no time constraints during that process. aaron blake of the washington post wrote about some possible scenarios here, of what might happen. one option that has been floated for barr is releasing separate reports. former justice department officials have suggested he could deliver two reports to congress, one with unclassified information that could be given to all lawmakers and would presumably leak. and a separate one that would be given to a much smaller universe of congressional leaders. what could go wrong? blake points out another possible outcome could be the whole mueller report eventually becomes public after a legal fight. former fbi director james comey weighed in on the mueller report today and at times op ed he has no idea

erica hill back with me for a second round. >> a big day. >> first on cnn, the white house wants to get the mueller report before you do. 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 to

afternoon. let's roll into it. the white house will be holding its daily press briefing today and by daily, we mean the first time in 42 days. in moments, the white house is expected to hail the president's new budget, a fight funding for his wall with mexico. president trump is seeking more money than the last time to the tune of $8.6 billion. to build this barrier at the southern border. democrats say this whole thing is a nonstarter, but that is far from the only sticking point in trump's budget as he also aims to cut $2.7 trillion in spending. he wants to make his trump tax cut permanent for businesses and individuals. reform welfare programs, incl d inclouding a work requirement for people 18 to 65 and call for funding $15 billion school choice initiative. so as we wait for sarah sanders to take to the podium, let' bripg in cnn chief political correspondent dana bash and jim acosta. jim, you are in the room. this is the first briefing -- >> we found it. >> you remember where it was. this is, this is the first press briefing in six weeks. the white house has a lot of questions to answe

the early dawn hours. and the attorney general leaving his house and spotted at the white house. two new fights have emerged with jared kushner and trump's secret conversations with vladimir putin. all of it as the 11th hour gets underway on a consequential thursday night. >>> good evening, once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 791 of the trump administration, and washington is bracing for impact tonight. anxiously waiting for robert mueller to transmit his report to attorney general bill barr. all the fevered anticipation had photographers stationed around the d.c. metro area today, hoping to spot the key players. as a result, look at what we learned this morning. robert mueller drives a car, and owns a baseball cap. we say this because viewers of this and other broadcasts have ample reason to wonder if robert mueller does anything other than walk down hallways carrying a briefcase. less exciting, but no less important. today's photos of the attorney general, bill barr seen leaving his home today, hours later spotted entering the white house, for what we're

to our chief white house correspondent costa. jim, even by trump's standards this was truly an astonishing tweet storm by the president. >> reporter: it certainly was, wolf. the president's twitter feed is cooling down this evening after a fiery weekend of trump tweets, aimed at all the president's adversaries, real and imagined. once again, top white house officials found themselves in the surreal position of cleaning up after the president's social media messes. top white house officials had to talk about whether or not the president was suffering from some kind of mental illness today. over the weekend, one top white house official was asked whether or not the president was a white house supremacist. it started over the weekend when the president made a rare trip to church and lasted until his monday morning executive time. an unholy tweet storm airing an avalanche of mr. trump's grievances. the president lashed out at the press after the mosque massacre in new zealand tweeting, "the fake news media is working overtime to blame me for the horrible attack in new zealand. so r

dozens of document requests. 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. nothin

at the white house today. that will be an interesting press conference in the 1:00 hour. very similar rhetoric from these two. but we start with the white house as well with the world waiting for the mueller report, but the white house will get the first look and maybe a first edit. whatever part bill barr decides to submit to congress and maybe make public, sources tell us that white house lawyers expect to review it first. >> they will be considering if and when to claim executive privilege. the president does have a legal right to withhold information if revealing it would disrupt the decision making progress, but should he claim that right. pamela brown has more from washington. >> reporter: good morning. we have learned that white house lawyers expect to review whatever version of mueller's report attorney general barr submits to congress before it reaches lawmakers and the public. and this is a potential flash point, a political battle over the hotly anticipated document. the attorneys want the white house to have an opportunity to claim executive privilege over information draw

matter speaking to me and my colleague. most instances are left up to the white house personnel security office which would then determine whether staffer should be granted one after the fbi conducts a background check. after concerns were raised, president trump pushed them to make the decision saying thing like it's no big deal. they will probably be leaving soon and going back up to new york so it didn't appear the president was tainting the process in his family's favor. after both refused, trump granted the security clearances according to sources we have been speaking with. this comes on the heels of the new york time reporting that trump ordered kelly to grant ivanka's husband a top security clearance despite concerns raised. sarah sanders says the white house can't comment on security clearance issues. >> let's remind viewers of what ivanka said just last month about security clearance. >> the president had no involvement pertaining to my clearance or my husband's clearance. >> that's exact opposite of what you've learned, right? >> it is exact opposite. several sources

white house. he describe him in detail in the story. what do you make of his sudden departure? >> i think he became baggage. as i wrote in the story he was getting millions of dollars still from fox news while he was the director of communication for the white house. you've got this incestuous relationship already between fox and the white house. it was too much of an issue. that's what he said when he was talking to colleagues in the white house explaining his departure. he felt he had become a distraction and that it wasn't going to go away. >> do you think the president ever worries about these optics? this incredibly cozy inappropriate relationship with fox news? does he worry about that? >> immediately after my story came out, as if to illustrate it, he tweeted yet again something about "fox and friends." if he's worried he's not showing it. he needs fox as much as fox needs him. it's a similar bio tick relationship. trump needs the fox viewers. they are his base. both fox and trump have the same sort of business model which is in order to keep their support in place they've go

state to test it out. we are live at the white house. >> new overnight the special counsel's drop in a kind of clue bomb telling a judge he is super busy this week. is that a sign somebody may see his report soon? >>> and don the diplomat, don jr., it turns out he doesn't hate saying i told you so. we have our team saying we love all of it. senior senator firing back in defense of fellow john mccain saying he has had it with the president putting down his friend. the president is going toe to toe with the person he calls the husband from hell as the white house tries to refocus on a state critical to the president's reelection. the columbus dispatch is greeting this morning with this head l headline. we are over at the white house also joining us robert costa. anita and shannon for bloomberg news. i will start with you. boy, the president has been up and tweeting this morning. we'll see him when he heads out maybe taking some questions. >> we certainly hope so. you're absolutely right. president trump starting this day by doubling down on his personal grievances. here was his tweet thi

. >>> ready for political war the white house today on the attack. the president furiously tweeting after democrats made almost everyone in trump's universe a potential witness. >>> some democrats suggesting it may be too late for him to jump in. >>> plus no fast food for you. critics say president trump is snubbing womens sports champions. why within the they getting their big moment at white house? welcome to the lead i'm jake tapper. today cummings accusing the white house of stone walling saying the trump administration is refusing to produce documents and wonss. this is one of the battles yesterday they kags a stunningly wide from 81 people, agencies and entities going after many of those close to the president. just this first wave of requests. multiple officials saying they will try to argue his right to confidentiality to restrict what they had ultimately handed over. 64% of u.s. vote rs say they believe donald trump committed crimes before he became president. americans are more divided as to whether they think any of the crimes happened once he took office. 45% say they th

lied again. he also badly wanted to work at the white house. he lied. a lot of lies going on there. not only can that tweet be considered an act of retaliation against cohen, a witness who is actively cooperating against trump, it's also a brand-new initiative that trump had a explicit conversation about a pardon when cohen was still lying on trump's behalf. we have been hearing for months about trump's witnesses and mueller's investigation but this is the first time we've been hearing trump may have been personally involved in those discussions. needless to say, trump's tweet has opened him up to even more questions about whether he dangled pardons in front of any of the other convicted felons that was once in his inner circle. and that's a topic under scrutiny by at tleeft three personal bodies. robert mueller's special counsel investigation, southern district of new york and house intelligence committee. but as if that wasn't enough potential peril on the pardon front, trump also just today appeared to leave the door ajar to, guess what? a pardon for paul manafort. >> i feel ver

, lawmakers and the white house about how much of these findings and the evidence will be disclosed to the public. i'm reading our bloomberg news right up on this now which you can find on the terminal. this fight is likely to escalate the social media wars between the president and his critics. the president just fired another wars today, that he believes social media, platforms like twitter and facebook, prioritize liberal views. the irony being the president himself is sort of the tweeter-in-chief. whatever mueller found, the completion of this investigation is a big turning point for the president. he has been dogged with increased about this almost ever since he took office. this report has been given to the attorney general, attorney general william barr. he will be taking some time to read this, and then, we will have the results. we don't know how much of the report is going to become public. i believe that is up to congress. of course, this is, again, only the beginning of what will be a many, many months long fight between lawmakers, between the trump administration, between

34th president. the white house historical association hosted this event. it's an hour and 10 minutes. >> and now to the lecture part of our program. our speaker tonight is dr. william hitch come -- hitchcock, author of "the age of eisenhower: america and the world in the 1950s." dr. hitchcock is the william r. corcoran professor of history at the yufere of virginia where we focuses on international, diplomatic and military history of the 20th century, in particular the era of the world wars and the cold war and in addition of "the age eisenhower," he's author of "the bitter road to freedom," a lib -- history of the liberation of europe which was a pulitzer prize finalist and also a bestseller in the united kingdom. following d. hitchcock's remarks, ann compton will join d. hitchcock for a conversation on this great biography and the 34th path of the united states. a.m. is a pioneer of journalism in america. she was the first woman to cover the white house for network television and was on the air for 41 years with abc news. her on geoffty and impact are unparalleled. ann's ca

. also it seems to be what the white house is saying to congress this morning in response to requests for all kinds of documents and testimony on sensitive subjects. overnight the chair of the house oversight committee said he hasn't received a single piece of paper from the white house despite dozens of requests. you get nothing. it also seems to be the strategy playing out before our very eyes when it comes to the mueller report. you get nothing. you, as the american people in this case. the attorney general will get the report first. he will decide what congress gets to see, but before congress gets even that version, the white house wants to scrub it down with claims of executive privilege. so in the end you may get nothing. the process is a new laser sharp focus this morning because the special counsel's office just dropped what could be a major clue bomb in a new legal filing. robert mueller's lawyer said they face a press of work this week, a press of work. could that press be the actual report this week in the one we might never actually get to see. >> well, with the

? >>> 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 state of the union and pointedly blamed

situation room." >>> this is cnn breaking news. >> we're following breaking news on the white house defying democrats who are investigating the president and his inner circle. the house oversight committee chairman says the administration is refusing to produce documents and witnesses on alleged abuses involving jared kushner's security clearance. two democratic lawmakers are calling for a criminal investigation after a report that mr. trump ordered top secret access for his son-in-law overruling intelligence officials' concerns. >>> also brag ieaking, the whit house is prepared to push back on the sweeping new probe of the president, claims of executive privilege, despite public promises to cooperate. i will get reaction from the house oversight committee democrat and our correspondents and analysts are standing by. first, let's go to our chief white house correspondent jim acosta. we heard the president's reaction to the democratic investigation. it all sounded very familiar. >> reporter: that's right. the oversight fight has begun. the white house is digging in its heels over the investi

especially in the white house and the halles of congress are bracing for impact, whatever it may be. to give you some idea of how intense the speculation was all day here, not to mention the effort to be first when and if the news broke, a number of camera crews staked out robert mueller's offices so they could get pictures of him coming in for what might have been a momentous day. when word spread that robert mueller did not go out to lunch as he often does, reporters and produce. >> politicians analyze what that meant. did it mean anything? that's how little information there is about the release of mueller's findings, trying to interpret why someone apparently stayed in their office for lunch. i was out of the office for lunge today in case anyone cares. attorney general william barr and deputy attorney general rod rosenstein were spotted coming and going at the white house. what did that made? calls were made. endless discussions, no answers. eventually, it got to the point where everything started looping back on itself. producer and reporters calling source, and the sources saying

. white house press secretary sarah sanders today calling out the the radical left the ignorance on border security. >> it is absolutely abhorrent that democrats are still refusing to acknowledge crisis on border particularly when barack obama himself even called it as i crisis in 2014 we know what it is time and fixing they should follow the president he's actually leading it is time somebody step up and follow the president and fix this problem. >> l and i would nominate first of all to follow him secretary dpght of homeland security tonight we take up national security crisis at the border, the president unseeing fight for border security. headlines tonight a new report finds george's open society foundation donating almost 300,000 dollars to an anti-israel organization. the group critical of panes doing business and what terms occupied lands. "the wall street journal" reporting chinese hackers targeted more than 27 american universities trying to steal military secrets high technology, and a intellectual property the communist hackers targeting maritime technologies specifically

white house security screeners and wrote about it in a memo. months later, the president denied any of it ever happened. listen. >> did you tell general kelly or anyone else in the white house to overrule security officials? >> no. i don't think i have the authority to do that. i'm not sure i do. >> you do have the authority to do it. >> but i wouldn't. i wouldn't do it. i was never involved with the security. >> that's maggie haberman's interview with the president. the house oversight committee has been requesting specific documents and interviews relating to white house security clearances. for more than a month and last night threatened to subpoena them if they don't come soon. house democrats aren't done yet with michael cohen. after three straight days after testimony before three separate congressional committees the president's former lawyer and confidant is coming back wednesday for more closed door q&a with the house intelligence panel. joe johns is at the white house this morning. two reports, two separate papers, a lot of good reporters on the lines on the white house is

anything to share with the public. a white house officials i have been speaking with close to the white house say they are viewing this as a win for a couple of reasons. there are not anymore indictments. through the course of this nearly two years investigation, there have not been any charges related to coordination and collusion. yes, 37 defendants a. the president never had to sit down with robert mueller for an interview. he answered written questions but never had to sit down. robert mueller did not want a subpoena fight. all and all i am talking to close to the white house views it as a win. the white house officials have also been preparing for a subpoena fight. they do want to keep this report under wrap. they do not want a lot of this to be made public. their concern is there could be, some conduct that was undietable but derogatory and could make the president looks bad. they don't know what's in this report. >> the principle points that he's going to tell congress about how extensive his summary of the mueller report going to be. they need to release the entire mueller

@brikeilar on cnn. >>> happening now, breaking news. bracing for mueller. white house, congress and the country are on pins and needles, bracing for robert mueller's russia report, which could drop at any time. the trump legal team preparing to react to any eventuality. >>> west wing what's app. top white house officials, including ivanka trump, have conducted government business with personal e-mails. and he claims jared kushner has used the what's app messaging system to communicate with foreign leaders. >>> just say no. the white house refuses to comply with democrats' request for information on president trump's communications with russia's vladimir putin. does the president have something to hide? >>> and in the heights. president trump drops a twitter bombshell saying it's time to recognize israel's sovereignty over the golan heights, captured in 1967. speaking of timing, is the president acting now because his support for prime minister netanyahu is in a very tough re-election fight? i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." . breaking news as the white house braces f

watching. "deadline: white house" with nicolle wallace starts right now. >>> hi, everyone, it's 4:00 in new york. with the convicted felons in donald trump's circle facing critical court deadlines in the coming days and special counsel robert mueller entering the homestretch of his investigation, this is the week we're expecting to learn more about what mueller's investigators and prosecutors have unearthed and how much of their evidence might be made public. politico writing today about the updates we're expecting the next few days and a slew of cases in court this week, quote, combined the spate of moves will generate an avalanche on the additional attention on the $64,000 question about mueller's end game and where he has more criminal indictments up his sleeve. the court's filings and hearings also could elaborate on any plans to hand off unfinished business to federal prosecutors scattered across the justice department, including the powerful southern district of new york, where probes appear to be ratcheting up between the president's business, 2016 campaign and inauguration. t

intelligence officials. a direct contradiction to what the president said, what the white house said, and what his daughter, ivanka trump said about that very security clearance. >> the president had no involvement pertaining to my clearance or my husband's clearance. >> hmm. >> and just the beginning. after three days of testimony, michael cohen will return to capitol hill next week, but it won't end with him, not at all. >> plainly, he laid out a road map to criminality by our president that needs to be followed. >> that map leading straight to the doors of trump organization's chief financial officer and a keep business partner, both now being looked at to testify. >>> and breaking news. another democrat throws his hat in the 2020 ring, as washington governor jay inslee announces he's running for president and running on one issue. >> i'm the only candidate who will make defeating climate change our nation's number one priority. >> we begin this morning with reports that the president's son-in-law, jared kushner, was given access to some of the country's most sensitive secrets, but onl

pages of the report. democrats have no idea what's in them. the white house and fellow republicans don't know what's in them. in fact barr told congress in that letter that he has no plans to share the report with the white house before it's made public, or should we say before more of it is made public. in fact as of now barr revealed 74 words from mueller's report in that four-page summary. 74 words excluding a single footnote and the title of the report, if you include all of that it jumps to a whopping 101 words. yes, those words do include the fact that mueller does not think there is a criminal case for coordination or conspiracy, but 101 words out of 400 pages leaves a lot of room for possibilities. do the 400 pages exonerate the president as he's been claiming for the past five days since we received the barr summary? or do the 400 pages reveal details about key events absent from it. details like what mr. mueller's team found out about the trump tower meeting. details about what they learned about the cover-up and lies about the trump tower meeting. details like what they

and a job at the white house and both requests he said he denied. less than 30 minutes later cohen snapped back with his own tweet accusing donald trump of lying saying the president may want to apologize for his own lies and dirty deeds to those like karen mcdougal and stormy daniels. and then he slapped a lawsuit of $1.9 million in legal fees and pardon might not be in his future but it is for paul manafort after the comments yesterday. >> i feel very badly for paul manafort. i think it is a very, very tough time for him. but if you notice both his lawyer, a highly respected man and a highly respected judge, the judge said there was no collusion with russia. this is a collusion witch hoax. i don't collude with russia. >> [ inaudible question ]. >> i don't even discuss it. the only one discussing it is you. i haven't discussed it. >> well on thursday, a federal judge in virginia sentenced the former trump campaign chairman to 47 months in prison for tax and bank fraud, well below the recommended sentencing guidelines of 19 to 24 years. he faces his final sentencing this week in wa

letter accusing the white house of obstructing his work. he said the use of private e-mail accounts by jared kushner, ivanka trump, and steve ban non was a potential violation of records laws. and he doesn't stop there he says it confirms that he continues to use what's app to don duct official business. kushner's attorney is just reponding to the letter. i'm going to have to read through it, it is a little long,ly get back to you on that in junction a moment, gjoining s now is someone who sits on the oversight committee, it is a date to have you here. you're a busy guy. in trying to get information about russian interference in the election, what the administration and the campaign has, if anything, requests for information. >> yes, just to put things in context, we're not a monarchy or a dictatorship. we're a democracy, and congress has to act as a check and balance on the president. nan and in november we we elected in the minority because of that. when the president basically refuses to produce documents in response to document requests, i believe it is an affront to our democracy.

first let's go to nbc news mike viqueira who is live at the white house. i don't think he wants to return to the white house any time soon. >> reporter: i'll tell you, this is remarkable even for president trump as unrestrained i've ever seen him in the three years we've been watching him since before the 2016 election. this is a rambling streen of consciousness and the president is coming up on the two hour mark. he started about a half hour later than scheduled at about 12:15 as you report, but it's after the 2:00 hour now, of course, here in washington. the president still going strong and some inflammatory and provocative statements as well as many of the statements that he's often made that have dubious veracity, let's put it this way. you heard his reference there to bow vine excrement. we beeped it out. it's important to put this in context because we did have that wednesday all-day hearing with his former decade long right hand man, michael cohen, testifying calling the president a cheat and a racist before the american people in this forum in the united states congress. we

report. the white house was not briefed on the report, just so that they have it. now the decision of the attorney general to release how much not only to capitol hill but the american public. we heard the president's lawyers, they are happy, official end of the russia investigation for special counsel mueller. there are other investigations still ongoing, and democrats have launched a host of investigations that likely the president is going to say should stop. we don't have the meat of what's in this report as of this hour. john roberts joins us now from the north lawn. we've been digesting as much as we can. john, what's the feeling at the white house? >> i think the feeling right now is that this is finally over. day after day after day there's been speculation about when this report will drop, what might be in this report. i was speaking with rudy giuliani on the phone that they learned yesterday that they are not recognizing any further indictments which they see is good news. you share this at the top of the hour, but since we crossed the top of the hour, we have new viewers

the white house, it's going to be at the white house, it's going to be at the ballot box in november 2020. that's the significant and you can't underline that enough, importance of what happened today, but the democrats are going to want to try and scuff him a bit, sort of rough on the edges a bit on donald trump because they still see there are questions to be answered. the only danger i see for the democrats in all of this as they overplay their hand. ithink all of this as they overplay their hand. i think an awful lot of the american public will look at this letter today, look at the conclusions. they are busy people with lives to lead and they'll think yeah, 0k, we've had this enquiry, it's done, the mueller report finds trump not guilty, he can carry on with his presidency. i think if they see the democrats are only obsessed by trying to damage the president after this then that could be counter—productive. after this then that could be counter-productive. i'm seeing the latest tweet from sarah sanders here. in it she says that the special counsel did not find any collusion an

evidence? also today, white house communications director resigned meaning this white house has gone through more communications directors than the real housewives had cast members. bill shine came to the white house from fox news and he will go to work on donald trump's reelection campaign. perhaps one day he'll end up back at fox news. yes. it's the circle of life. and speaking of white house communications, one of the things that 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 leaked about leaking in which some of the administration's leakers spoke to axios anonymously about what they leak and why. and when it comes to white house leaking, there is the petty score settling kind, there is the kind designed to advance your preferred policy position if you lost internal debate and in this white house, there is even leaking because maybe you think the only way to reach the president is to get something onto the tv so that he can

pictures there. >>> also it seems kushner was not the only top white house adviser to get security clearance after a personal intervention. cn th cnn learned overroad the objections of chief of staff to grant that security counsel to ivanka trump. we saw moments ago michael cohen and his attorneys walking in. what are we expects today. >> i just saw them walk into the secure facilitimenty. i try today ask whether or not he brought any new documents. he wouldn't answer. he said he will make a statement. another question whether or not he hadful any discussions about getting a pardon. he is walking into the secure location for this 9:30 a.m. eastern meeting that will take place all day long. those are the main questions lawmakers want to ask. one is how the white house may have been involved or the president's attorneys in editing a false statement that cohen initially gave to the committee back in 2017 about the trump tower project and pursuit of the trump organization during the 2016 campaign and after cohen's offices and hotel room properties were raided did he have discussions wi

is a white house that does notrepare very much. they're always short staffed. this is something they've been looking towards, waiting for it to come they've been working on talking point first all kinds o contingency plans for every possible thing that this report could have. they're hoping the president will be exodge rated. they're hoping for that more than anything else. bu they have talki points for inside the white house. they have statements ready to go for f when thed out what's geng to happen. robert: so that's the hope, michael, but what do we know so far about this report and what could be in it? >> you've seen the many newspapers in "the washington post" and politico and other places. you've had a lot of people charged an convicted. thers a l of paper out there. there's a huge trail of evidence. we haven't seen i from robert mueller. how that adds up is how the white house should be worried about. robert: l's look at the investigation. 37 people and entities have been charged. seven people have plead guilty. and five people have been sentenceonto terms in pr as congre

? >>> inside the numbers. what would happen if the white house and republicans win the battle over health care? >>> hey, hey, hey. hey. that's unacceptable. that's the difference between me and trump. >> green new deal. a spirited tongue hawn hall lea to express how she is different from president trump. that's next. >>> new today, the political and legal fight escalating over congress and the public will see from the mueller report as the house judiciary chair insists it should all be released with no redactions. the attorney general writes in the letter to congress, he is prepared to release a version in april. he is prepared to release the material and ongoing cases and information that would infringe on the personal privacy and reputation interests of peripheral third parties. jerry nadler says there is ample precedent for the attorney general. this to the appropriate committees. that is a position echoed by the house intel chair. >> bill barr said i will be as transparent as possible as much as the law or policy allows. if he was true to those words as jerry nadler said, he wo

>>> first look at the mueller report goes to the white house. why the president's lawyers will review it before it goes to congress and the public. >>> the death toll rising from the floods in the midwest, historic nebraska flooding blankets dozens of counties. the vice president heads there today. >>> and boeing ceo has a message for air travelers in the wake of two plane crashes. what he says the company is doing to prevent more disasters. good morning, even. welcome to "early start." >> it is tuesday, march 19, will:00 a.wil4:00 a.m. in the east. the white house will get the first look at the mueller report and maybe a first edit. whatever part of the report attorney general bill barr decides to submit to congress and maybe make public, sources tell us that white house lawyers expect to review it first. >> they will be considering if and when to claim executive privilege. the president does have a legal right to withhold information if revealing it would disrupt the decision making process. but should he claim that right? pamela brown has more from washington. >> reporter: g

calling for documents prodozens of current and former white house officials from trump family members even wikileaks and the nra. the president tweeting this morning that democrats have gone and i'm quoting him here, "stone cold crazy." i've got a great team to help me break it down. but first, let's break down what we've learned. the judiciary committee is spearheading one of six congressional investigations happening in the house. but it's the only committee, of course that, can initiate impeachment proceedings. last night chairman jerry nadler said what he is looking into and it's a lot. >> we have to look at the three major threats of the rule of law that we've seen and that is corruption, personal enrichment and violation of the clause. it means abuse of power, attacks on the press, attacks on the judiciary, attacks on law enforcement agencies and obstruction of justice, interference with the various investigation that's are going on. >> he also said that his investigation is different from the ones being run by robert mule eastern the sdny. listen. >> our job is very different f

for our round table taking a look at issues happening in congress and the white house this week are two guests, jonathan at thtamari an elena treen. the news as of yesterday, we'll start with you, when it comes to the house judiciary committee expanding 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

that will be handed down. >>> and we'll have a former white house counsel with us tonight to talk about what these next few months might be like on the inside as "the 11th hour" gets under way on a wednesday night. well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 776 of the trump administration, and michael cohen has reportedly just today offered up new evidence of possible wrongdoing by this white house. cohen testified at another hearing today. he spent eight hours behind closed doors in front of the house intelligence committee. this is his fourth capitol hill hearing, mind you, in a little over a week. according to our folks at nbc news, cohen "provided the documents to the house intelligence committee with the intention of supporting his public testimony before congress in which he said members of trump's legal team made changes to his statements on the moscow real estate talks." cohen's going to federal prison, let's not forget, two months from now for tax and bank and campaign finance violations and for lying to congress. last week cohen testifie

anticipated on capitol hill and at the white house. it could come any day now. tonight, multiple sources telling cnn that white house lawyers expect to have an opportunity to review mueller's findings before attorney general bill barr submits them to congress. sources saying attorneys want an opportunity to claim executive privilege over information drawn from documents and interviews with white house officials. that sure to set up a political battle with congressional democrats and it could also lead to the perception that president trump is trying to keep information from the american public. there's lots to discuss. so joining me now, shimon prokupecz, garrett graff. garrett is the author of "the threat matrix: inside robert mueller's fbi and the war on terror." gentlemen, good to be with you. let's get to the details here. how significant is it that white house lawyers are preparing to review mueller's findings before the public or even congress gets to see it? >> right, it certainly could be significant in terms of the perception and the view that the white house is getting

chilly in the west wing because the white house is putting requests from house democrats on ice with michael cohen just arriving back on the hill today. he is putting the president in the spotlight and another trump joins him there. ivanka. more on what we know about how she got her security clearance as we follow all those threats, and that exclusive report we first broke here on nbc news. kim jong-un rebuilding a missile launch site days after the nuclenuke summit collapsed. >> plus tex ploesive cbs interview out this morning. r. kelly speaking for the first time since being charged with sexually abusing girl. he's angry, emotional, and undone. >> i need somebody to help me not have a big heart, because my heart is so big. people betrayed me. and i keep forgiving them. >> you sound like you're playing the victim here. >> he's in court today. our team is set up and ready to cover all of it. in washington and the around. we start in d.c. with developments on three different fronts focussed on the white house and the legal and political problems facing the trump administration. first,

president trump pressured top white house officials to grant his daughter ivanka a security clearance. sources say the president pushed his then chief of staff john kelly and white house counsel don mcgahn to get clearances for ivanka and her husband jared over concerns from intelligence officials. >> and ivanka denied this outloud on tv. so based on this new reporting, that denial is either a line or suggests there's a universe where she did not know what her father was doing. we will discuss whether the existence of that universe is plausible. remember this comes after the president himself appears to have lied to the "new york times" about directing jared kushner's security clearance. this apparent honestly black hole might explain white white house just overnight rejected congressional requests for information about all these security clearances. let's get right to cnn's joe johns live at the white house with the very latest. joe. >> reporter: good morning, john. this business with the security clearances really has the potential to be a showdown between the white house and the ho

announcer: road to the white house coverage continues thursday as president trump holds a campaign rally in grand -- grand rapids, michigan. live coverage beginning on 7:00 eastern on c-span, and you can listen live on the free c-span radio app. this is the headline at politico.com is the president's aid is gearing up for the mueller report. joining us on the phone this sunday is anita kumar, white house correspondent for politico. explain that headline. what is happening next within the administration and who will lead the effort? who will lead the effort? guest: good morning. we are hearing that the white house and the trump reelection campaign and republican national committee have been getting ready for this day. the day where we actually find out some of what is in that report. they are thinking it is going to exonerate the president, but they have come up with language for a lot of contingency plans. it is not just going to be black or white. we might see something that says other people close to the president did something wrong even though they are not being indicted. they

manner. jared kushner was rejected by two secure white house specialist after an fbi background check raised concerns of foreign influence on him. a supervisor approved the clearance. while this new reporting from the new york times confirmed by "the washington post." it was clear that trump was behind that reversal. that's not the story he told "the new york times" back in january. >> did you tell general kelly or anyone else in the white house to over rule security officials? >> i don't think i have the authority to do that. i would not do it. jared is a good -- i was never involved with his security. i know from reading, i know there were issues back and forth about security for numerous people actually. i don't want to get involved in this stuff. it is not what first daughter and senior adviser to the president, ivanka trump, told abc news a couple of weeks ago. >> the president had no involvement pertaining to my clearance or my husband's clearance. >> what were the problems early on? >> there were not any other than a backlog. >> so no special treatments. how do president trump