After barr refused to show up on the hill to be questioned by Committee Staffers instead of the lawmakers themselves. No barr, but plenty of props, as republicans and saying they are making a joke of a Serious National Security issue. Plus, is the window closing to topple Nicholas Madero in venezuela . The debate whether the u. S. Military should get involved continued, we will take you to the streets of caracas later on. But first, as the dust settles on capitol hill over the barr battle, President Trump giving us a look into investigating investigators and the democrats want to relitigate what has been settled. Catherine herridge is here with more from her interview with the president. Catherine, you covered a lot of ground today. We did, 20 minutes with the president , and a number of key points that he defended attorney general barrs decision not to testify up with the committee, and after a strong backlash for the democrats called him a liar and threatened contempt, ask the presid
South korean officials and u. S. Authorities are now analyzing the details of that launch. The white house says it is monitoring the situation. Meanwhile, President Trump is at the center of a new controversy after he talked on the phone with Vladimir Putin and discussed the Mueller Report in a conversation that the president says did not include any talk about russias interference in the 2016 election and the possibility that it might seek to do it all over again in 2020. The white house says the conversation took place this morning and that it went on for over an hour. Russias staterun news agency released a photo of putin on the phone with trump. It is a call the kremlin says came, quote, at the initiative of the american side. This is the first time the two leaders have spoken since the release of the Mueller Report. The report finding that the kremlin, quote, perceived it would benefit from a Trump Presidency and worked to receive or to secure that outcome. The Trump Campaign expe
John roberts starts us off with an important phone call. Good evening, john. Good evening to you. President trump long complained the Mueller Investigation was a cloud over the u. S. Russian relations. Today the president tried to get back to doing business with russia but the Mueller Report continued to loom large. It was the first time in weeks President Trump has spoken with russian president Vladimir Putin, a phone call that lasted more than an hour. President trump saying they talked about the russian hoax and that putin seemed to muse by the findings of the Mueller Report. We discussed he actually sort of smiled when he said something to the effect that it started off as a mountain and it ended up being a mouse. House democrats are in active negotiations with Robert Mueller to appear before the house judiciary committee. Asked whether he would like to see mueller testify, President Trump said it is not up to him. Its up to our attorney general who i think has done a fantastic job
Things that came out of the Mueller Report and the things that are coming out now when it concerns whats happening with ukraine because that is important to our democracy as well. Sure. Look what happened in puerto rico. Look what happened in puerto rico. And so i think the sad thing is that i think people are becoming immune to it, and theyre just they cant take it anymore, so theyre just kind of tuning it out. And i dont know what the answer is. I know that we have to keep on top of it, but i dont know what the answer is to get people engaged. Climate change is important, but whats happening with this president now is also important, and people should be just as engaged and just, if not even more, outraged by it. Look, i get that it can be too much. You know how like you have compassion fatigue. You can have consternation fatigue also. Then you look at what happened in the midterms. You had a huge turnout. I was worried about the same type of, you know, fatigue back then that were pe
South koreas joint chiefs of staff says it was fired from an area on the east coast. South korean officials and u. S. Authorities are now analyzing the details of that launch. The white house says it is monitoring the situation. Meanwhile, President Trump is at the center of a new controversy after he talked on the phone with Vladimir Putin and discussed the Mueller Report in a conversation that the president says did not include any talk about russias interference in the 2016 election and the possibility that it might seek to do it all over again in 2020. The white house says the conversation took place this morning and that it went on for over an hour. Russias staterun news agency released a photo of putin on the phone with trump. It is a call the kremlin says came, quote, at the initiative of the american side. This is the first time the two leaders have spoken since the release of the Mueller Report. The report finding that the kremlin, quote, perceived it would benefit from a Trum