Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. We now know the president of the United States asked three different people who obviously have supervised the russia investigation whose side they were on. New report tonight that early last month the president asked rode rosenstein if he was on my team. Thats after he reportedly asked then acting fbi director Andrew Mccabe ho voted for in the election and after he told previous fbi director james comey the one that he fired i need loyalty, i expect loyalty, according to comeys sworn testimony. It appears to be yet another attempt by this president to interfere in the Justice Departments investigation into whether he or his campaign conspired with a foreign adversary in the criminal sabotage of his opponents campaign. Over in congress, a separate brank of government which the framers intended to place a check on president ial power, theres no question about whos on the president s team. In fact, the undisputed team captain is house intelligen
Concerns about that, serious enough to write his old friend the attorney general. Cnns pamela brown has the details. Explain what weve learned about the letter. Reporter we are learning tonight, anderson, that special Counsel Robert Mueller sent a secret letter to the attorney general in late march, in the wake of that fourpage letter that the attorney general had sent to congress about the special counsels investigation. As you pointed out, bill barr, the attorney general, provided the principal conclusion saying that the special counsel did not find collusion and that it couldnt reach a conclusion on obstruction of justice and then went on to say there wasnt sufficient evidence to show obstruction of justice. That conclusion reached by barr. Now were learning mueller sent this letter to the attorney general expressing dissatisfaction that that fourpage letter from bill barr did not accurately capture the nuance in the more than 400page Mueller Report that we have now seen in the reda
Not disclose sooner that mueller wrote to him and basically said he didnt support the way that barr had written out the key findings. In that letter mueller wrote, quote, the summary letter the department sent to congress and released to the public late on the afternoon of march 24th did not fully capture the context, nature and substance this have offices work and conclusions. You can expect that democrats are already preparing their questions to he can to us on that letter from mueller, but we dont expect that bill barr will really address it in his Opening Statement. Instead barr will say in an expected statement, quote, i determined that it was in the Public Interest for the to announce the investigations bottom line conclusions. I did not believe that it was in the Public Interest to release additional portions of the report in a piecemeal fashion leading to public debate over incomplete information. My main focus was to release a public version of the report so that congress and
Expected to bring the president president decision to a vote as well as Disaster Relief funding. So far no democrats have broken ranks and come out in support of this proposal. With all that in mind, jegeoff bennett is live for us at the white house. Busy day in washington with what is coming out of washington. A lot of back and forth on the details, particularly about this speech. Walk us through what we are expecting now. Reporter the white house is pushing back against this power play by House Speaker, nancy pelosi, to put off the president s state of the Union Address. The senior official told us that the white house plans to have President Trump deliver this address as was scheduled next tuesday, january 29th in the house of representatives at the u. S. Capitol. The House Speaker sent a letter to the president during the shut down saying that because the department of Homeland Security and because the secret service are currently unfunded as a result of the shut down, she requeste
Were following breaking news on the uprising in venezuela. Mike pompeo told me that president Nicholas Maduro was ready to leave the country and flee to cuba until russia convinced him to stay. This after the Opposition Leader launched his boldest attempt to oust madura unleashing violent clashes and protests. New insight into why President Trump found rare Common Ground with democrats agreeing to spend 2 trillion to improve road, bridge, utilities and Broadband Internet across the country. A source telling cnn mr. Trump thought that number sounded bigger and better. There are still major hurdles ahead with no plan on how to pay for it. This hour, ill talk with democratic senator doug jones. He sits on the Arms Services committee. Our correspondents and analysts are standing by. Whats happening there right now . Reporter what is happening, wolf, were still yet to hear the sort of end of the balance from Opposition Leader juan guido. He was the member of opposition who triggered these m