And they tried to do it with the goal of helping Donald Trumps president ial campaign and hurting hillary clinton. So what the senate found is that these assessments from the Intelligence Community were sou sou sound. That they were not politically motivated. That when there was disagreement among the various intelligence agencies they were transparent about it and disclosed the fact that there were occasional disagreements along the way but this is interesting because its different from what republicans on the House Intelligence Committee found. They criticized the house Intelligence Communitys assessments. But the House Intelligence Committee are on their own in this assessment except when you consider the president. He is the other person who continues to throw cold water on this idea that russia meddled to help him. In fact, just last week he tweeted russia continues to say they had nothing to do with meting in our election. So weve seen bipartisan committees in the senate agree wi
The report first. He will decide what Congress Gets to see, but before Congress Gets even that version, the white house wants to scrub it down with claims of executive privilege. So in the end you may get nothing. The process is a new laser sharp focus this morning because the special counsels office just dropped what could be a major clue bomb in a new legal filing. Robert muellers lawyer said they face a press of work this week, a press of work. Could that press be the actual report this week in the one we might never actually get to see. Well, with the cloud of the russia investigation and frankly a lot more looming large over his president vcy, mr. Trump is doubling down on his grievances bringing them off twitter and into the real world once again attacking the late senator john mccain saying he never was and never will be a fan. Those come as he sat next to his new friend on the global stage. The socalled trump of the tropics. Mr. Trump taking aim at social Media Companies accusi
Monday. Im erica hill in for jake. And we begin with the politics lead. New details about the time and democrats next month in the impeachment inquiry. In a letter to colleagues, adam schiff said a report laying out the case against the president will come soon after thanksgiving. This is as a white house review of the president s decision to withhold Critical Military aid to ukraine shows a coordinated effort to come up with a just fiblgation for the hold after the fact. According to the Washington Post, some of the documents containing, quote, unflattering exchanges that could look bad for President Trump. Despite the Trump Administration insisting everything was done on the up and up. As sara murray reports that internal review is raising serious questions. It raises profound constitutional questions. Reporter House Democrats seizing today on a report that the white house went searching for a legal explanation to justify President Trumps decision to freeze nearly 400 million in aid