they re the ones that are responsible for actually making sure the white house is doing its job within the rules of the constitution. so having secret closed door meetings with the lawyers at the white house, sharing information with select members of the majority party highly problematic, not just from a lem legal standard. sean spicer tried to claim there was a letter sent by the white house seeking information whether donald trump s tweets were true. but on this program, the host of this program, lawrence o donnell has been asking over and over, why hasn t anybody asked paul ryan who essentially is devin nunes s real boss, not donald trump, whether or not nunes consulted with him what to do with the information he got from these maybe three leakers. let s listen to paul ryan answering that question today. he had told me that like a whistle-blower type person had given him some information that was new. did you encourage him to then
surveillance, continue to protect the american advisers, but also drop some of their bombs and missiles on to isis targets and to give the iraqi government a boost in the fight. speaking of the government very quickly, tuesday the parliament will be convening there. talk about the likelihood of nuri al maliki stepping down. it s very difficult to predict iraqi politics right now. we have been speaking to many different members of the opposition, political analysts. there is pressure on maliki to step down. but maliki also has the constitution in his favor and the democratic process in his favor. his coalition won the most seats in the last election. and he feels he has the right to not only form a new government but to be the next prime minister. there are meetings going on, closed door meetings to try to
any moment now. jurors in theth day of deliberations. jonathan serrie back at his post in greens borrow. any indication how close we might or may not be? reporter: it feels like the movie groundhog day. in theory this jury could reach a verdict at any second today. but yesterday the judge held a series of closed door meetings with lawyers on both sides to address a note she received from one of the jurors. though it s unclear what this latest juror issue was about, it s unusual for individual jurors to send such notes. a jury working together as a collective question. that question gets resolved and you get a verdict after that. in this case we have had repeated notes from jurors that
the future to tell us what happened and what s the mood at the white house this morning? how mad is the president? the president was told of this late yesterday, we understand, and they summoned general mcchrystal here at the white house. it s important to note, chris, as general mcchrystal arrived here about 25 minutes ago for a meeting that began at 9:45, that s 20 minutes ago in the oval office with the president the president himself has a lot invested in the afghan strategy. a lot invested in general mcchrystal himself, after firing his predecessor to take over the war in afghanistan. you recall it was last fall, chris, that the president led a series of closed door meetings in the white house and nine of them lasting hours apiece revamping, restudying the situation, the strategy, the approach in afghanistan tasking general mcchrystal to come up with that new approach and implement it and giving him 30,000 more troops with which to do so.
discussions have resumed. i think the 41 letter last week indicating that republicans wanted to see serious negotiations occur rather than political sparring has worked at least for the short term and we re hopeful that democrats and republicans on the banking committee plus those involved on the agriculture committee on the derivatives piece can come together and give us a bipartisan, truly bipartisan bill we can move across the floor of the senate. majority leader reed s office dismissing senator mcconnell s claim his letter restarted negotiations. really, senator? are you sure it isn t the blistering criticism you re receiving from closed door meetings from wall street executives or members of your own party are not buying your message. bob corker on the one hand accusing his party of misrepresenting the democrats bill as well as having moved the