Private. Something that would make any citizen without regard to party very concerned tonight. Allegedly abusing the power of office to try to shut down a probe into his own white house. Words that apply to nixon that undid his presidency and words that are advanced tonight. Lets get into the story. You may know if you watch this news program, we dont typically tweet Donald Trumps tweets as news stories because most of them are not news. Many of them are not factual, some of them are outright lies and a great many of them are ploys designed to hijack the conversation, distract the media or troll the notion. Up front, this is why weaver doing Something Different tonight. President trump is telling the Attorney General to shut down the mueller probe. Hes stating it in public and in writing that Jeff Sessions should stop the probe now. To be clear, if donald trump made that order in a private meeting with Jeff Sessions, or on a phone call to the doj or held a Big Press Conference on
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Yovonovitch. All of this as the president s beefed up legal team filled with made for tv lawyers prepare to defend him. Kristin holmes is traveling with him. Good morning to you. The house released these new documents from lev parnas last night. What do they tell us . Reporter good morning, christie and martin. There is a trove of information here, but the two main take aways are about what you mentioned, that surveillance as well as devin nunes. This is new information about the apparent surveillance of the apparent former ambassador yovonovitch. She was fired by President Trump himself after a Smear Campaign was run against her that was done by her his personal attorney, rudy giuliani. Now we first learned about this appearance of surveillance in the first set of documents released by the house in a set of Text Messages by lev parnas to a connecticut man who was running for congress named robert hyde, and in this they appeared to be tracking yovonovitchs movements. We saw more docume
This afternoon, you can see sanders on top, and Pete Buttigieg, former mayor of south bend, indiana, his campaign with some momentum after the iowa caucus, shooting from Single Digits to now, within a few points of senator Bernie Sanders in New Hampshire. That new position made Pete Buttigieg a big debate target last night, by those who say he doesnt bring enough experience to the table. As to experience, i just bring a different perspective. I freely admit if youre looking for the person with the most years of washington Establishment Experience under their belt, youve got your candidate of course, it is not me. I dont know what about the past of barack obama and joe biden was so bad. What happened . What is it that he wanted to do away with . We were just beginning. It was just the beginning of what will be the future of moving this country beyond where it is now, in significant ways. What you said pete, as you were campaigning through iowa and three of us in jurors in the impeachmen
Establishment tonight. Rod blagojevich no longer in federal custody and his family is preparing a big welcome home reception for him in chicago. We are examining trump justice as the president continues to talk tough against career doj officials while admitting his approach makes the job that much harder for his own team like william barr, the president want is a lot whether democratic senator broke the law by meeting with the Iranian Foreign minister over the weekend. Molly hemingway first broke the story a day ahead of senator Chris Murphys position. She has analysis on the breaking story tonight. Lets go straight to breaking news correspondent Tracy Gallagher on what is happening between the attorney general and the president. Multiple reports that william barr told people close to the president inside and outside the white house that he is considering quitting if the president does not stop tweeting about ongoing doj investigations. This is the second back and forth between william
On those tests, and we are even in about a winning teachers on their ability to improve reading or writing, whether they teach it or not. It does not matter. When everyone is focused on that, how have you guys succeeded in pushing a social and Emotional Character Development agenda so well . We do not have much time, so lets start with you, shelley. It is necessary that you help people make the link between social and Emotional Learning and the academic curriculum. People understand the culture and climate of schools is critical. I have indicated my board, teachers, and parents. The resonance of that has been very responsive. When you state it that way, i have not found difficulty in moving forward, in any of the districts i have been in. People understand character matters. When you create a positive climate, students will do better. For me, asa started this for us, and we can now let we cannot let children fall behind. Fortunately, there is a lot of evidence that shows kids to have t