when the intelligence community and the law enforcement community raised objections to jared kushner and ivanka trump getting security clearances and the president ordered that they get them anyway and then lied about them, there is a lot of concern about what is going on here. the lesson is cooperate and furnish the documents so we can do our oversight because there are whistle-blowers sharing the information because they re concerned about the national security of the united states. that is david sicilini revealing that a white house source provided documents on jared kushner and ivanka trump s clearances to the oversight committee in february. joining me now is rashaad richy and justin safy. earlier this week the white house shot down the oversight committee s request for related documents. how should the white house
cohen and asking whitaker to bring back berman. i think this is just more evidence of a president who really doesn t understand the separation of powers in this country. he cannot ask people to do things personally for him for his own benefit. these people work for the united states of america. they do not work personally for donald trump. there s also some fascinating details. david, you read the article in the new york times about the rollout of the firing of michael flynn, the president s national security adviser and how they came up with all sorts of convoluted answers, including at one point the legal counsel at white house drafting a memo that sean spicer had actually gone into the briefing room and misled reporters and the american public about the details. right. i think we still need to know more about that as well. i think one thing that strikes me about the resignation or the
justice allegations against president trump. the new york times reports the president tried to influence the investigation of michael cohen by asking his acting attorney general to put a trump supporter in charge of the probe. that supporter, the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york, had already recused himself from the case. tonight, mr. trump is denying the report which offers a very detailed portrait of a president at war against investigators as they close in on him and his inner circle. i will get reaction from david sicilini. our correspondents and analysts are standing by. first, let s go to kaitlan collins. the president is denying he interfered. this report is detailed and potentially very damaging. reporter: it s a major report. it really details how the president has tried to undermine or end the investigations he feels could threaten his presidency. the big one is right at the top.
let s get more on the major new revelations by the former acting fbi chief andrew mccabe. mccabe is confirming, david, that he has been interviewed by robert mueller, the special counsel, and has said he has given mueller and his team all of the contemporaneous notes about his meetings, his exchanges with the president. how significant is that ? it s significant. it means there s more information potentially coming from mccabe than we know from his his interview and his book and statements he made recently, some op-eds. it s significant because you have these writings that are contemporaneous recordings of what his reactions were and what his comments were to and from president trump in various meetings. there will be questions like there were with james comey when he testified about whether he
it s not even under campaign financial. number two, even if it is, it s not a violation. number three, it s a civil matter. you have to remember at what point in time this matter came about the, two weeks or so before the election, post the billy bush comments, so, yes, he was very concerned about how this would affect the election. cohen was sentenced to three year in prison for this week payments that were not reported to the federal election commission. joining me now is congressman david sicilini. a good friend to us. let s get right into it here. the president says, as you know, this was not a crime.