Some unanswered questions. Announcer this is new day with Alisyn Camerota and john berman. All right. Top of the hour. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to your new day, it is tuesday, april 16th, 8 00 a. M. Out here on the east coast, john and alisyn are off, im poppy harlow here with john avalon. We have a lot of news. We are getting a look at the extent of the devastation of paris Notre Dame Cathedral after the catastrophic fire. They say some weakness has been identified in the structure, thats a big deal. Several neighboring buildings have been evacuated in paris today. Take a look at this, before and after images from inside of the notre dame, the now blackened cathedral but look what is shining still, the crews fix standing illuminated amid the destruction. Investigators are looking into what exactly caused it. Frances president has pledged to rebuild the iconic cathedral and millions of dollars have already been raised and pledged by private citizens to do so and to restore notre
This matter if the chairman takes it to the courts, which is the expected next move, anderson. Trying to keep it out of the publics sight for the last three decades. Thats right. The president s legal team has gone as far to block major banks Like Deutsche Bank that would involve turning over the tax returns. They have drawn a line in the sand over this, they are not going to do it. The question is how far House Democrats will go and of course, they are making the case that this is one of the Building Blocks in their case, this administration on a variety of fronts whether it be the less redacted or fully unredacted Mueller Report Robert Mueller testifying and so on. They see this white house as stone walling this administration as stone walling. There was back and forth if mueller will testify or not. I understand youre getting new reporting on that. That the right. There is discussions going on inside the white house and administration and the president tweeted that Robert Mueller sh
Admitting guilt in the Massive College Admissions Scandal is about to appear in court to make her plea. The trade war is on. Today china retaliated against the u. S. By announcing plans to slap tariffs on 60 billion of u. S. Goods. This is rocking the markets. Right now the dow is down nearly 700 points, and despite the markets negative reaction, President Trump continued to insist in a series of tweets that tariffs are actually helping the economy, but its not. Look at all of the products that might be affected, even the president s own economic adviser acknowledged u. S. Companies would likely pay a tax increase which would ultimately be passed on to the consumer. The tariff on goods coming into the country, the chinese arent paying. No, but the chinese will suffer gdp losses and so forth with respect to a diminishing export market. Its u. S. Businesses and u. S. Consumers who pay, correct . To some extent. I dont disagree with that. Again, both sides, both sides will suffer on this.
No. If no on page 180 of volume you wrote its synonymous with conspiracy as that is set forth in usc371. You said at your press conference and here today you choose your words carefully. Are you testifying Something Different than what your report states today . What im asking is if you can give me the citation i can look at the citation and evaluation whether it is let me clarify. You stated youve said within the report. I stated your report back do you. Collusion and conspiracy were not synonymous terms. Your answer was no. Page 180, volume 1 of your report it says as defined in legal dictionaries collusion is with conspiracy. Now you said you chose your words carefully. Are you contradicting your report right now . Not when i read it. You change your answer to yes then. No, no. If you look at the language im reading your report, sir, its a yes or no answer. Page 180, volume 1. From your report. Correct. I leave it with the report. So the report says yes theyre synonymous. We can put
Report, mueller saying for the first time that from the out set of the probe under Justice Department rules, his office could not indict a sitting president but indicating that now its up to congress. The opinion says that the constitution requires a process other than the criminal Justice System to formally accuse a sitting president of wrong doindoing and beyond Department Policy we were guided by principles of fairness. It would be unfair to potentially it would be unfair to potentially accuse somebody of a crime when there can be no Court Resolution of the actual charge. That was Justice Department policy. Those were the principles under which we operated and from them we concluded that we would not reach a determination one way or the other about whether the president committed a crime. That is the offices final position. We will not comment on any other con clclusions or hypotheticals about the president. Mueller made it clear he does not want to testify before congress. I hope a