paul mannerford, gates, a number of people were a part of that case if you remember so for the former president i m sure a lot of disappointment in what happened today. thank you very much, evan perez reporting for us. thanks very much, i m wolf blitzer the situation room, erin burnett outfront starts right now. outfront next, the shocking admission from texas officials, we now know the teacher who propped open the door before the school massacre closed that door before the gunman entered that directly contradicts what police told the public days ago. also, a texas republican and longtime gun owner turning in his ar-15 a weapon similar to the weapon used by the uvalde gunman, and what new gun laws does he think our nation needs? he is our guest tonight, plus celebrations in shanghai. millions able to move about freely after two months of
their real estate assets. i ll read you just a part of what her response is. she says to be clear, neither mr. trump nor the trump organization get to dictate if and where they will answer for their actions. wolf? evan perez reporting. thank you very much. let s get more on this. our senior law enforcement analyst, the former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe is joining us. he s the author of the book the thr threat. we know president trump is litigious. does this new suit, from your perspective have any merit? very, very little. it s almost impossible to imagine, wolf. and it s absolutely easy to understand why he is doing it. this is, you know, this is a very basic and time-honored strategy of the former president. he files lawsuits in order to delay legal action that s pending against him. as you know, he s been
its staff to no longer contact jeff sessions, the former attorney general, after he had recused himself from the russia investigation. these are things we ll find out more from these dozens and dozens of pages of this transcript that have just now been relationed. but it gives you a sense of the effort that the white house is going to prevent some of these answers from being made to the house committee. very interesting indeed. evan, thank you very much. evan perez reporting. joining us now, congressman steve cohen. he s a democrat. he serves on the house judiciary committee. congressman, thanks so much for joining us. as you know, your committee just released written answers from annie donaldson. she was the chief of staff to the former white house counsel don mcgahn. she was a really important witness in the mueller report. but white house lawyers blocked her from responding to more than 200 questions, citing executive branch confidentiality interest. is your committee going to fig
evan perez reporting for us. evan, thank you very much. joining us right now, democratic senator, jack reed of rhode island, has a seat on the intelligence committee, as well as being ranking member of the armed services committee. senator, thank you so much for coming in. thank you, wolf. so he worked longer, presumably, you just heard evan say, for robert mueller than he actually worked for donald trump. how significant is that? i think it s very significant. because one of the key elements in the presentation that director mueller made was flynn has first-person knowledge of many activities. this is not hearsay. this is not someone told me. this is i was there, i heard someone say this. i think also, which is critical, is the fact that other people having knowledge of flynn s testimony have cooperated also. so he s been a very critical element in this investigation. were you surprised when you heard the details that were included in this document last night?
at that hearing. all right. we ll see what happens. evan, thank you. evan perez reporting. joining us is democratic congressman ted deutch of florida, a member of the jou dishry and foreign affairs committees. congressman, thanks so much for joining us. let s start with secretary pompeo. he says the saudi investigation will be complete, thorough and transparent. you ve called for an independent investigation. why do you believe the trump administration is putting any some in what saudi arabia is going to report? yeah. thanks for having me, wolf. it s interesting. you just did a story about the president and his campaign re rally. he s going to go tout his campaign rally and demonize immigrants and talk about the tough action he s prepared to take against mexico and other countries, but in this case where there s a journalist who lived in the united states, who was tortured, dismembered and decapitated, he is prepared