the chinese government has demonstrated throughout the years in acute expertise at placing specific assets and targets to really target and hone in on high profile folks. if it is the dais case we have see. we ll see where this heads. also tonight that s the deadline for some 81 individuals and entities to respond to the house judiciary request for documents pertaining to multiple investigations involving president trump. the trump administration indicated they intend to fight many of these requests. how should they respond if the white house tries to stone wall your colleagues congressional investigators? i think if there s nothing to hide i hope the administration
john kelly rereported this morning has signed off on that overhaul and the white house official told me that thirngss still very much fluid, still kind of up in the air this morning. but at the moment the plan looks like it will be flushing out some junior and mid-level aides, the senior people, the people you see on tv every day are most likely going to stay. those people have won the president s affection, obviously. he s betting this is one way to sort of if not stop then stonch some of the leaks. but it isn t clear that the leaks aren t just coming from the communication shop, there are people you ll over the administration that leak and this isn t going to stop that. andrew, including inside the oval office there s no small irony. they re look at junior and mid-level staffers when the president we know is on the phone with his friends regularly talking about stuff that s happening inside the white house. andrew, take it away? ? reporter: yeah, exactly. the president talked to
washington d.c. approved the first charges in the investigation being led by mueller. tell us about the work of a grand jury and what it means to say a grand jury has approved charges. typically what happens in a grand jury investigation they hear evidence, where it can be one day in a little case or a big dais case like this where they hear testimony and see exhibits over a matter of months. and at some point the prosecutor makes a decision to seek or decline to seek an indictment. they think they ve gotten to the place where they have probable cause to go forward. so they draft an indictment, present it to the grand jury, discuss the law and the elements of the offenses, answer any questions they have, and leave the room. leave the grand jury to deliberate among themselves and make a decision whether they prove or decline to approve they call it issuing a true bill or issuing a no true bill. it sounds like they issued a
that s true by checking to see if america s major news gathering organizations have assigned someone to do surveillance of you. there s someone being paid by all the networks to politely watch with paul ryan and rob port minute and tim pawlenty right now to watch what they re doing every single minute of the day and night, just in case. i m not kidding. at least in the dais case of governor pawlenty, you, too, can join in the surveillance very easily. this sunday, the governor on the vp short list again, he will be on meet the press on nbc this sunday morning at 9:00 eastern. in between various olympics broadcasts, and i ll be among those monitoring his activity because i m excited to be appearing on meet the press also. sunday morning, 9:00 eastern, tim pawlenty followed by that person with the bad hair. we ll be right back.