Me today the response will be comprehensive and thorough in responding to the committee s kwrs, but it doesn t mean the white house will comply with the request. clearly, the white house is working on its own timetable here. pamela, thank you very much from the white house. now, democratic congressman from california eric swalwell, who sits on the house intelligence and judiciary committees. so what s your thought? the president today seems to be singing a different tune and says let everyone see the mueller report. do you believe him? well, good evening. also, i have to say, happy new year to the persian community and muslim community in my district and across the country. but i don t believe him. because he has obstructed every step along the way. if the mueller team has a cable package, they will have seen him obstruct on cable news nightly almost. there s no exception to who could be so dumb that they would tell lester holt they obstructed justice by firing james comey. i als
The election in 2016. they say it s a white house signed off operation. that doesn t mean the white house was encouraging this in any sense of the word. they would have been doing this as a basic defensive function for the united states on election day. what needed to happen after the influence of the campaigns of the 2016 election, there needed to have been a massive private-public partnership going out with nsa and other government agencies to disrupt russia s entire influence and information warfare campaign. that is just not going to happen any time soon. we are going to find that out in 2020. malcolm, good to talk to you. our terrorism contributor and author of the plot to undermine democra democracy. on to the other story with lies, racism and cheating, trump s
With betsy woodruff. gang s all here. bob let me go to you first. you know this white house and the president. we are being told by senior administration official that the stormy daniels position does not rise to a presidential response. don lemon rose to the level of the president s response. joe biden calling him crazy that rose to a presidential response. what makes this different? it s not that different, that doesn t mean the white house doesn t have to respond. you had a press briefing offen gauging into this issue and the white house official tells me the president continues to think through this matter. nonresponse is the best strategy moving forward. what are they determining? so far they say the president has huddling with his attorney talking to other white house officials.
Declassification, which he has to do. do democrats have options remaining? we have other options in which we can seek to make it public. i would think the white house would be very hearted pressed after saying they wanted the memo to come out in the interests of full transparency, to then censor the democratic memo. that seems to be unsupportable. that doesn t mean the white house won t could it. this president seems capable of anything. i would think the pressure would be too great. when you look at what happened in the house. the president didn t want to release our response but they ve been so shamed that they recognize they have to. i think that would be the case with the white house. they would look even more like they re trying to get to the public. the concern i have is they have the power to redact it in a way that they feel would be hurtful
reporter: that s just never going to happen, really. i mean, they ve already attempted diplomatic pressures with the taliban. they re winning, though, on the battlefield now, so the taliban talking is pretty unlikely, and they have key al qaeda-affiliated militants in their command structure, so asking them to denounce terrorism is a large call as well. what is on the table for a trump administration policy in afghanistan? the u.s. has tried the troop surge, they ve tried talks, they ve tried sending in more trainers to boost the afghan military. that could be the one option they ll try more of, but very few real choices for donald trump. john? nick paton walsh for us reporting, thank you very much, nick. coming up next, out of the south pacific. that s right. the vacation is over for former president obama. just a few hours from now, he will return to the public arena with his first post white house public event. what does it have in store? we ll discuss next. little time. a