Study shows one bill would increase taxes for Many Americans in the long term in stead of reducing them. Who would really benefit from gop tax reform . And pause button. A sudden and surprising lull in north creases missile tests and launches. Is kim jongun succumbing to pressure from china, or is he planning something sinister . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. This is cnn breaking news. Were following breaking news. The white house facing a flurry of questions about President Trumps attacks on democratic senator al franken, who apologized after a woman says he kissed and groped her a decade ago. When asked about the differences between the accusations against franken and more than a dozen women who accused the president of misconduct, the white house said the president has, quote, admitted wrongdoing and the president hasnt. Also, a source familiar with the special counsels russia investigation tells cnn that Robert Mueller and his team are in talks with an attorney for
Force in 2012 for assaulting his ex wife and intentionally fracturing his stepsons skull. Bill the air force admitting it was not properly reported. For the four purchases that he made. They did required checks and no prohibitive information that the systems that said he could not have purchased that firearm. Thats true. In this case it should have been reported and put in the database and thats why weve launched this complete full scale review to of this case and all others like it. Bill we start our coverage live in texas. Brian. Good morning. An astounding admission by the u. S. Air force and department of defense and launching that review. A violent record this gunman had. He struck and choked his exwife. Hit his stepson so hard it fractured the skull. The animal cruelty charge where he hit a husky dog with closed fist and also a rape charge that was rape accusation but was never charged. The Academy Sports and Outdoor Stores in san antonio says this gunman was able to successfully
Everything. Walk us through on whats going to happen here. Dems have the. Defying a democratic subpoena that asked for the full unredacted Mueller Report, not a legitimate oversight request. They engaged in a back and forth to see whether or not they could reach any sort of middle ground. It was rejected by democrats, who came back and offered a counter offer. The Justice Department said no and then sent a very strongly worded letter last night, make a very serious threat saying essentially that the attorney general would urge the president to invoke executive privilege with respect to the materials subject to the subpoena. That could ground everything to a halt in term of what democrats are looking into as far as obstruction of justice, their investigation into potential obstruction of justice is concerned and could lead to a prolonged court fight. What could happen here today is that the democrats will Vote Along Party Lines to hold the attorney general in contempt, then the full hou
House. The president has invoked executive privilege over the entire Mueller Report and its underlying evidence and that triggers jerry nadler to a accuse the executive branch of sabotaging any negotiations over the report. By invoking executive privilege on all of the materials subject to our subpoena, that process has come to a screeching halt. The administration has announced loud and clear that it does not recognize congress as a coequal branch of government with n independent constitutional oversight authority. But republicans speaking up showing opposition to Holding Bill Barr in contempt. This is a first step. What a cynical meanspirited counter productive irresponsible step is meanwhile economy is surging and unemployment is low and the democrats have no plans, no purpose and no viable legislative agenda beyond attacking this administration. The house is more than four months into a democratic majority. How many bills passed by this committee have been signed into law . Lets go
Could maybe last for a couple hours, right . Exactly. This is not a come in quick vote and leave. This is a process. And some of it might be akin to paint drying if they decide to read the entire. Meaning have every page, i think its 20 some pages read allowed and into the record. In addition, well see debate he here. We were at the intersection of all things happening on capitol hill today with respect to this issue of attorney general barr and the Mueller Report. The heart of this, of course, is the House Judiciary Committee led by new york democrat Jerrold Nadler wants access to congress for the complete report. So none of the redacted material in the public report that all of us were able to read, those sections blacked out, they want access to this. Negotiations back and forth trying to reach an accommodation. Part of that material is grand jury related. And under law that typically can never be passed to congress. So, they are looking for ways to negotiate around that and other a