Joy. Travel back with me to just under a year ago. When the word that was on everyone republican oos mind and every block of tv and fox news was unmasking. It all started in late march when nunez, the california congressman leading the russia investigation orchestrated a media spectacle with a press conference on the white house lawn. It was around the same time that donald trump had concocted a bogus story about president obama wiretapping him at trump tower. And that day he provided crucial backup to trumps false claim with the announcement that he had just come from briefing the president on intelligence reports. Revealing that members of his campaign and Transition Team had been incidentally surveilled by u. S. Intelligence as they surveilled foreign entities. Those Trump Associates had been victims of unmask iing. You could be forgiven for not realizing there was nothing remarkable or scandalous about any of this. Its all pretty routine for spy agencies for when they wiretap a for
Christine blasey ford has not yet been contacted by investigators. This comes after fords attorneys told the New York Times they have not heard from the fbi despite repeated efforts to speak to them. All of this happening as the white house is placing the blame on lawmakers for any limits on the scope of the federal Background Investigation. They have free rain. Theyll do whatever they have to do. Whatever it is they do. The white house is not micro managing this process. This is the senate is dictating the terms. For more, lets bring in nbcs jeff bennett at the white house. Jeff, okay. So its been ever moving here. Question being whos on the list that we know about . And who is not on the list . Great to see you, richard. There are reports that the fbi spoke with Deborah Ramirez today in the investigation into Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Nbc has not yet independently confirmed that. But we have confirmed that the fbi has not yet contacted dr. Christine blasey ford. It doesn
The photo was given. Governor northam put out a paper statement apologizing for the photo saying the decision i made to appear as i did in this photo and for the hurt that decision caused then and now. Well, when it quickly became clear that wouldnt cut it, the governor put out a oneminute video apologizing, taking responsibility and pledging to work hard to regain the trust of virginians. But the calls for northam to step down continued to pace and from within the Democratic Party. Several democratic president ial candidates called on northam to resign and so did the naacp and the black caucus had a meeting with northam late friday night that did not go well because they left that meeting calling on him to step down. As friday night turned into saturday morning, the question seemed to become not if ralph northm would resign but when. When word came the governor was planning a press conference, everyone asuchlsumed it would bs resignation announcement but suddenly, it wasnt. Virginia G
My Senate Colleagues and i called on the department of justice inspector general, and office of responsibility to investigate the way you have handled the Mueller Report. I wanted them to determine whether your actions then complied with the departments policies and practices and whether you have demonstrated sufficient impartiality to continue to oversee the 14 other criminal matters that the special counsel referred to in other parts to other parts of the department of justice. Now we know more about your you have betrayed that trust. America deserves better. You should resign. I have some questions for you. Is the white house exerting any influence on your decision whether to allow special counsel mueller to testify in congress and when . No. Now youve been clear today that you dont think that any of the ten episodes of possible obstruction that the special counsel outlined is a crime. I disagree. But you seem to think that if its not a crime, then theres no problem. Nothing to see
Day 887 of the trump administration, and on the eve of the first democratic debate of the 2020 cycle there is breaking news on another front involving special counsel Robert Mueller. He agreed to testify in public and on camera. July 17th th before both the house judiciary and house intelligence committees. One after another. About his findings and his report on russian interference in our 2016 election. Judiciary chairman jerry nadler and adam schiff announced muellers decision a few hours ago. They both indicated mueller agreed to appear, this is important, despite deep reluctance after the two committees issued subpoenas. California congressman schiff spoke about muellers decision earlier on this network. I dont think the special counsels office could character rise it as a friendly subpoena. He did not want to testify. He made that very clear. Nonetheless, they will respect the subpoena. He will appear. Es so schiff runs the Intel Committee and also said there will be a closed door