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'

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

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

. >>> 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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

, 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

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,

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

the white house. that's right sarah huckabee sanders the president's spokesperson just put out a statement so first reaction from the white house i'm just going to read it to you it says quote the special counsel did not find any collusion and did not find any obstruction attorney general barr and deputy attorney general rosenstein further determined there was no obstruction the findings of the department of justice are a total and complete exoneration of the president of the united states in quote that statement just coming in from sarah huckabee sanders again she's leaving nothing to the imagination there it's very clear that the white house views this clearly as a huge huge victory she did say in her statement that the special counsel did not find any collusion it's important just remember that what we've had this four page letter is from a summary of robert muller's report that was given to the attorney general it's unclear if the white house has seen the entire report but it's very clear that they've at least seen this summary of it we've also heard from one of president tru

. here is what the president said about cohen this morning before leaving the white house. >> michael cohen lied about the pardon. he lied about a lot of things. when he lied about the pardon, that was really a lie. he knew all about pardons. his lawyer said they went to my lawyer. i can go a step above that but i won't do it now. >> of course, he did go a step above that. from the shelter of twitter and his aircraft when he wrote this. bad lawyer and fraud sister michael cohen said under sworn testimony that he never asked for a pardon. his lawyers totally contradicted him. he lied and directly asked me for a pardon. i said no. he lied again. he badly wanted to work at the white house. he lied. with that trump essentially admitted he discussed a pardon directly with cohen. trump's attack comes nine days after cohen testified under oath to congress. he accused trump of being a racist and a conman and he also added this. >> i have never asked nor will i accept a pardon from president trump. now, to state the obvious, cohen's credibility have come under fire in reports of discussions of

get a hold ofow. robert: jonathan, is the white house ready for this onslaught? jonathan: they were very slow to get ready. it was very obvious earlyast year that they were probably going to lose the. hou it still took them until november, really, to start preparing. don mcgahn was obviously his way out, the new white house counsel comes in, has to build a team quickly. they've got ready in a hurry but to add to shawna's point, what the house and particularly the judiciary, oversight committeese igence, are doing, they're assuming mueller will be narrowly constraed in his investigation, that he'll stuck to russia,si col, the campaign. and they're saying, hey, we want wa investigate trump's personal business, w to maybe look at jarrod -- reported thise morning and s the members, chairman cummings, saying we want to lk into jared kushner's family reality deal bailout last year so there are all these other threads they'll pull which really probably won't show up in mueller's report.ey shawna: on't know what they'll get from mueller's report, either, that will actually get delivered tou

. >> 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

call a rough week for the white house. the political world watched as his lawyer called him a racist liar. the white house has given him until monday to turn over documents on his son-in-law's questionable security clearance. >> and with the latest to expect today, cnn's sarah siter in is her westwood is here. >> good morning. we can expect to see president trump try to put a positive spin on this, for the fact that he was forced to walk away from vietnam, without the denuclearization that he had sought from north korea. the fact that all eyes were on, during that summit on michel cohen's testimony. we got a bit of a preview that the president might be trying to send, from vice president mike mens who spoke yesterday at this conservative gathering. pence tried to frame the president's departure as itself a victory. repeating trump's line that sometimes you just have to walk. president trump isn't going to make a bad deal, he is going to walk away. so, he tried to spin that as a victory. we expect trump to build on that message. trump has not missed a cpac since he became president. p

a separate investigations in the southern district of new york. weaving with chief white house correspondent, john roberts reporting live from the north lawn. reporter: good evening to you. things are fluid in terms of this letter that the attorney general, william barr will send up to the house with principal conclusions of the millie report. we had thought this morning that we would have it by now. there were told about noon. that will not be until tomorrow. the president's attorneys are telling us noon at the earliest. but nobody really knows for sure. that is just the principal conclusions of the report. getting into some of the meat in the details, the facts of the case will take even longer because in the facts of the case likely will be a lot of material that is classified material that is subject to executive privilege. and though barr wants to get things out as quickly as possible to show transparency, even to give this to congress little into the public, the president seemingly unconcerned about what the conclusions may show. we were told yesterday that he was glad that this part o

. 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

still stands. joining me tonight, peter baker, chief white house correspondent for the new york times.ie ha jackson, chief white house correspondent for nbc n and anchor for msnbc le. yamiche alcindor, white house correspondent for the pbs newshour. anoneliana johwhite house correspondent for politico. peter, inside the west wing tonight, how are they intereting this letter from the attorney general? do they feel like they're in the clear legally but still have some exposure politically? >> definite political exposure, becae we don't kno what's in this 400-page report. all we know a two sentences, ar fragments of two sentences that bill quoted previously, which is he did not establish a criynal conspir 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. obviously the rest of this report is going to have things in it the psident is n going to like. what he's trying to do befores then i cement in the impression that he's completely exonerated. it's almos as if he was on law and order, and

home and the phone wrings again and it is the white house and i pick it up and it is hope, and she says hold for a moment for the president. oh, great, okay, now they're both going to rip into me, so they start to lay into me and he is laying into me for who approved this statement and i said talk to your lawyers about this, don't talk to me about this, talk to your lawyers. the idea that a 20-something press aide would put the president of the united states on the phone to talk about a federal criminal investigation without his attorneys on the phone to protect the riff ledge, and that his president was not aware of it was just astounding to me and terrifying. >> there are so many examples just like this. >> there are a lot of examples, and why i think people are still confused about the decision not to make a decision on the obstruction of justice is all of the behavior that people thought looked like collusion or obstruction or people wanted to know what is this behavior if it is not obstruction. i'm also very interesting in what are the details of which mueller wrote about. i a

lawmakers want to see this. and of course, at the white house where they're anticipating, they want to see what this report says before they decide to comment republicpublicly. >> but it was barr who planted this expectation that we should have news immediately. i'm reading this letter notifying congress of the probably being closed. he writes, i may be in a position to advise you of the principal conclusions as soon as this weekend. does this suggest that this is really a long report? because we heard last night from a doj report that it was comprehensive. >> exactly. i think that's what we're all guessing. the information hasn't really described how long mueller's report is. we don't know how detailed it is. but barr has said he expects to meet the deadline, what he calls the principal conclusions from the mueller report. one of the big questions for all of us at this hour is, blr this includes so much information that it is making it that much more difficult to come up with what barr calls the principal conclusions. one thing you can bet. this won't be the end. once barr sends th

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

fact. and that's what democrats are seizing on today. because while the white house may be trying to move bas the mueller report, democrats are not with more investigations on the way. we've got those, the reaction, the fallout, the plan for what's next, and in hour we're talking with gerry connolly, a member of the oversight committee. here onset we'll be joined by white house spokesperson hogan gidley. we're talking with voters in one key swing state. is this really changing anyone's mind? and the new reaction this morning from candidates on the 2020 trail. we are lucky to have the best team of reporters and analysts set up covering every angle this morning. and before we begin, some background about what you'll see on this show. context and clarity, we hope. this is a major political moment. and you probably have strong feelings about it no matter which side of the aisle you support. no matter where you are keep in mind it's a good thing the special counsel did not find that americans involved in the 2016 election conspired with russia. not everything in the mueller report that we

white house to capitol hill, all eyes are on special counsel robert mueller and his final report that could be completed and submitted to the attorney general as any time while the trump administration wants to see what is in the report, president trump says he is open to the public seeing it. >> does the public have the right to see the mueller report? >> i don't mind. frankly y told the house if you want let them see it. it's up to the attorney general. we have a very good attorney general. he is a very highly respected man. we'll see what happens. >> remember, it was just last week that the president tweeted that quote there should be no mueller report. what happens next? sarah westwood is at the white house. how is the white house preparing for the mueller report? >> reporter: the white house is bracing for this report to drop just like the rest of the country. but what is going to happen next is special counsel robert mueller will deliver his conclusions in a confidential report to attorney general bill barr. barr will decide what information he will pass along to congress.

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

report. congress, the white house, and the rest of us do not. here's what we know at just after 9:00 p.m. eastern. this is vild of the ag william barr leaving the justice department this evening. he was at work for more than nine hours today. alongside rod rosenstein, the deputy ag, pouring over the mueller findings. that may not have been enough for house democrats. they want the full report and they want it now. those lawmakers held an emergency conference call this afternoon led by speaker nancy pelosi. and the house judiciary chairman said the letters have been sent to the white house counsel and more than half a dozen agencies demanding any underlying evidence and investigative materials, compiled by the special counsel, be preserved. cnn senior white house correspondent pamela brown is watching it all for us. good evening. >> reporter: president trump is uncharacteristically quiet about the mueller probe in the wake of the report being delivered. this is someone who tweeted, it was a witch hunt more than 170 times during the course of the investigation. but sources close to the pre

from the white house. they're asking for more information about security clearances, like that of jared kushner. also cnn has new reporting that the white house is working behind the scenes to mitigate the trove of documents requested from some in president trump's inner circle. letters you may recall sent out to 81 people and entities within the president's orbit. mr. trump for his part publicly condemning the inquiry just moments ago. take a listen. >> i guess we got 81 letters. there was no collusion. it was a hoax. there was no anything and they want to do that instead of getting legislation passed. 81 people or organizations got letters. it's a disgrace. it's a disgrace to our country. i'm not surprised that it's happening. basically, they've started the campaign, so the campaign begins. >> the chairman of the house judiciary committee says he won't hesitate to issue subpoenas if he needs to. let's go through these developments. gloria borger is with us now. let's start with what we're hearing most recently. at the white house, perhaps not surprising that we're seeing the pushback

objections of career white house security and kelly wrote about all of it in the memo to get his version on the record. house democrats already have a probe of white house clearances underway and now they are threatening to subpoena documents if they have to. if you thought that you heard the end of it by now from michael cohen, you would be wrong. he is due back on capitol hill next week for more closed door testimony. let's bring in sarah west wood at the white house. >> reporter: whether senior officials lied about that process. recall that prior to last may kushner had a temporary security clearance because of some concerns about his business ties among other things. cushner has a very broad portfolio. the interim clearance he was not able to see the most sensitive information in our government. now, according to these reports in may of last year president trump ordered chief of staff john kelly to grant kushner a clearance. that prompted two memos one from kelly acknowledging he had been ordered to grant a clearance and another from dawn mcgan who created a memo compiling ob

white house, congress, all of us on pins and needles with the mueller report expected to drop at any time now. the report that's been in the works for 674 days and counting. all the signs are there. mueller's team shrinking, down from 16 attorneys to 10. staff members seen carrying out boxes. prosecutors bringing their families in to visit the office. no sign of a grand jury in two weeks, and as the white house braces for the report that's been a dark cloud over this administration for almost two years now, sources are telling cnn that team trump is taking a, what me worry approach to this. a source familiar with what's going on inside the white house saying there's growing optimism that the report will not accuse the president of committing any crimes, but that hasn't stopped the white house special counsel emmet flood and his team from gaming out possible responses to mueller, based on scenarios ranging from a report damaging to the president to one that clears him. another source admitting, quote, we're tea leaf reading like everyone else. ask let's not forget this word salad from

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

orbit became a potential witness for congressional investigators, the white house is pushing back calling the 81 letters of inquiry sent by house democrats, a quote, fishing expedition that is harassing and shameful. all those names were given two weeks to respond to the judiciary committee. if they try to assert executive privilege, house judiciary chairman jerry nadler says he won't hesitate to issue subpoenas. kaitlan collins is at the white house and i know you have some new reporting about how the white house is preparing behind the scenes. >> reporter: yeah, they were expecting an onslaught of investigations since the democrats won the house, but they were not prepared for just how broad that scope is. the white house is saying publicly they're going to cooperate, but behind the scenes, erica, they are getting ready to push back on this. they believe the president has a right to confidentiality and especially related to those documents that have to deal with the president's time in the white house, they are going to try to limit the production of those types of documents, wh

have 20 veterans a day. focus on these issues. these are the issues i beg the white house to pay attention to. >> i'm surprised because i think it is a new bizarre low. >> i will say attacking someone is a bizarre low. >> this is very difficult for their family including their sons who i believe are in harm's way. they are both min the military. >> when you people in the republican party who standby and don't call out this behavior for what it is that's not a political party that's a cult. people have to start addressing the real issue. it is to not address the issue at hand. it isn't what he says it's how it responds. they cheer this on. they laugh about it. it's not what it should be. >> we should note it is is not if first gold star family president trump has attacked. remember the cons who came out and spoke against him. their son believed his name was of what was killed in iraq. mccain spoke at that time in 2016. it is time for donald trump to set the example for our country while our party bestowed upon him. it is to defame those who are the best among us. >> he's got a for

learned that the president pressured top white house officials to grant his daughter ivanka trump 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 kushner against the recommendations of intelligence officials. >> this revelation contradicts denials from president trump and ivanka in interviews in the last month. >> the president had no involvement pertaining to my clearance or my husband's clearance. there are literally close to a million people in the federal government who are in the pipeline to get their permanent clearance and are on temporary status. >> so no special treatment? >> no. >> well, the white house has rejected congressional requests for information about these security clearances. joining us now to discuss this and so much more, we have david gregory, dana bash, and ellie hogin, he's a former federal prosecutor and now a cnn legal analyst. great to have all of you hear with us. dana, she gave that unequivocal no special treatment. it's possi

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