Advisor George Papadopoulos. He pled guilty earlier this year and told the f. B. I. He did offer to arrange a meeting between mr. Trump and russian president vladimir putin. Republicans meanwhile will likely double down on the possibility that a special counsel could be appointed to investigate the Clinton Foundation and the controversial uranium one deal. Florida republican congressman ron desantis will be taking part in todays hearing. Well get his take in a moment. Lets begin with Catherine Herridge who is live on capitol hill. Good morning. Thank you, eric, good morning. The Justice Department sent a twopage letter to the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee will the attorney general will be testifying an hour from now in the room behind me. It laid out options saying the uranium one deal as well as the Clinton Foundation are under review and the Justice Department is considering whether to open investigations formally, provide Additional Resources to ongoing investigations an
Theyre still working away at the concrete. Engineers have told us last night it has to be done very carefully not only because we have to preserve evidence and there may be possible victim under there and we have to treat it delicately but for the safety of the rescuers as well because the unstableness of the bridge. Bill as we wait for more information steve herigan leads our coverage. Reporter this is now a recovery operation and the numbers could change through the morning as the work continues here. Theyve been out all night. The numbers stand at six dead and one on scene and 10 wounded of those two seriously wounded. We heard from people at the red light 1 30 in the afternoon yesterday when 950 tons of concrete came down. Heres what one of them had to say. I got up there as soon as the bridge collapsed to see the rubble coming down and multiple cars crushed under the bridge and i saw some people stopping their cars getting out seeing if there was anything they could do to help. Re
Bill straight to the white house lawn. Kevin does not sleep. Reporter im await and here just four. First, lets me tell you about Ronny Jackson taking over. Hes been reduced to that press conference he had in talking about the president s health but the truth is if you look at his record even with a cursory glance you can see why the president may have a great deal of confidence hell be able to get the job done. Hell be replacing outgoing v. A. Secretary dr. David shulkin. A widely respected physician. Dr. Shulkin has been kind to us in explaining the thought process in what is happening at the v. A. But now it will be in the hand of dr. Ronny jackson. By the way, dr. Shulkin was a hair obama holdover. And dr. Jackson served. A navy admiral and served in the iraq war and notably served president s george w. Bush and president obama and now President Trump. Now he takes over for dr. Shulkin whose depar tur was expected for departure for some time but dr. Shulkin isnt leaving quietly. A b
Shown a willingness to ignore basically all of it. So todays big question is how far are chairman nadler and Speaker Pelosi willing to go to hold attorney general barr accountable . Joining me, nbc news justice correspondent pete williams, White House Correspondent and msnbc political analyst gentleman moosh alcindor, sahill kapur, former Deputy Assistant attorney general at the doj Elliot Williams and editorinchief and msnbc legal analyst ben wittist. I want to start with you this letter that were getting a chance to read, seems to lay out some rationale from the white house as to why they dont consider why they would like to be able to en voc executive privilege. What should we be focused on in this letter . They dont exert executive privilege over the report. Barr has said that. This is a letter sent the day after the report was made public, sent april 19th. It is a letter from white House Counsel emmitt flood saying he wants to, in the words of the letter, memorialize his concerns.
So a really special day yesterday, whether you used to root for tiger or not. You saw two things happen. Americans stopped. A lot of americans stopped based on the often calls that were coming in from everybody. Our phone was ringing off the hook yesterday like it hasnt. My gosh, an era where you have 300 cable channels and a million youtube channels, for some reason yesterday, mika, everybody stopped, they were watching tying are and they watched mayor pete. And, i dont know, ten years from now, 20 years from now just may be a day that a lot of people look back on and see history being made. Well, we were shuffling my mom from room to room. Lets go watch tiger, lets watch mayor pete. My move loves mayor pete. Or phone started ringing off the hook from reporters, to republicans to democrats who really feel moved by this candidate. Mike barnicle, talk about, again, i dont want to overstate it but you dont usually have sunday afternoons like we had yesterday. You just for sure. You just