Chris Cuomo asks the tough questions to newsmakers in Washington and around the world. Rosenstein look, Jeff Sessions he recused himself. Had to have recused himself because theres a regulation in place that says if you work on a campaign and theres a criminal investigation relating to that campaign the president says it was a bum move and he should have told him about it and it was a total hoodwink. Wrong, wrong, wrong. As far as it being a hoodwink, sessions would have had to have had the gift of prophecy along with the president in order to believe at the time he was ainterest poed, there was was going to be to an investigation thats why i was confused by your initial writings on this one because of my respect for your mind and that rosenstein the only thing he could do is get a prophylactic in play, get somebody who had one layer away from the president , which technically a Special Counsel does, because otherwise he could have been fired like that if he were running it. The questi
The fact is that we dont need a direction from the president to the intelligence chiefs to be on guard against russian interference with our elections, number one. Number two, as far as what the president says on any given day, frankly he says a lot of things. He is, i think, campaigning against impeachment rather than saying anything that is designed to affect the outcome of the case. So i kind of brush that off. But to go back to your first point, that we dont need the president for the intelligence community. Thats a little counterintuitive. We expect the leadership from the president to be of paramount importance when were dealing with threats like this, which to the democracy is basically existential. So for him to not be on the same page seems to be highly counterproductive. Its counterproductive, but it is not at all necessarily critical. These intelligence agencies, particularly in an administration where statements
get made all the time, i think are pretty much doing their job
facts. reporter: house intelligence chairman adam schiff writing mueller a letter calling the doj guidance, quote, another attempt by the trump administration to obstruct the authorized oversight activity and legitimate investigations of the committee. republicans insist the mueller report already vindicates the president. we re finding each and every day that this whole collusion narrative that was out there that adam schiff and jerry nadler keep talking about was really not there. reporter: democrats hope mueller s televised testimony will educate the pop what is in the report educate the public on what is in the report. we don t need robert mueller to say anything breathtaking. we need him to highlight the main parts of the report because it is so devastating. reporter: preparations have been going on for weeks with mock hearings, scripted questions. the biggest question today, of course, does anything change in terms of public opinion. of course, we won t know that unti
scholars have been saying that yes, it s not law, but it s doj guidance that you can t do this indictment. but if that s the case, that would seem to create an exception from the idea that you normally don t release information, because otherwise it would be a dead-end, and that s not necessarily what the founders had in mind either. we re going keep an eye on all of these constitutional issues. congressman joe neguse and the judiciary committee thank you so much for being here. joyce, stick around. i want to bring you back later in the hour. thanks to everybody. now coming up, michael cohen says he s got a story to tell. new clues on what he will reveal to lawmakers. do you know it starts tomorrow? and while president trump wants to keep lawyers close at hand even long after the mueller probe is overrule. a new lawsuit drops claiming donald trump kissed his staffer, someone who worked for him without consent during the campaign. the white house denying that tonight. meanwhile, aoc w
it s done with child pornographers. right. but if you ve warned him before and it s happened again, now you got a different picture, right? yeah. but you can still do it without putting him in. understood. this is the 21st century. i hear you. but at the end of the day, do you believe that the bar for the necessity for this probe must be charges against somebody from the trump campaign and maybe some connection to the president himself? in retrospect, i don t judge the bar as being charges against certainly against the president himself. can t have that. you believe in that. you don t indict a sitting president? you can t. that s the doj guidance. and i believe it s correct for a variety of reasons, including the fact that the executive power that s what the constitution says. the executive power is lodged in the president. everybody who exercises executive power exercises it based on its derivation from the president. in essence it would be the