Good evening once again rather from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 851 of this trump administration. A couple of big stories have dropped just in these past few hours. Tonight we learned don mcgahn as we said who is the former white House Counsel, one of the leading voices in the Mueller Report and now a private citizen will ignore a subpoena to testify tomorrow morning before the house Judiciary Committee. The white house apparently told him not to show. Tonight the democrats are threatening what they are calling all Enforcement Mechanisms, more on that later. Another big story late today, federal judge ruled against trump in his fight to keep his financial records that would include tax returns out of the hands of congress. And Michael Cohen is both in prison and in the news. Weve learned he testified that one of the president s attorneys encouraged him to make false statements to congress. But lets go back to former white house lawyer now private citizen don mcgahn
Him to lie surrounding details of trump tower moskow. Don mcgahn will not show up for testimony tomorrow because the house told him not to. As the 11th hour gets under way now on a busy monday night. Good evening once again rather from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 851 of this trump administration. A couple of big stories have dropped just in these past few hours. Tonight we learned don mcgahn whos the former white House Counsel, one of the leading voices in the Mueller Report and now a private citizen will ignore a subpoena to testify tomorrow morning before the house Judiciary Committee. The white house apparently told him not to show. Tonight the democrats are threatening what they are calling all Enforcement Mechanisms, more on that later. Another big story late today, federal judge ruled against trump in his fight to keep his financial records that would include tax returns out of the hands of congress. And Michael Cohen is both in prison and in the news. Weve le
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Im Yasmin Vossoughian alongside nbc News White House correspondent jeff bennett. Well start with the fight over the Trump Administrations stonewalling of democratic investigations escalating. The white house has directed former counsel don mcgahn to defy a congressional subpoena to testify before the House Judiciary Committee this morning. In a letter to chairman Jerrold Nadler, white House Counsel said the Justice Department has quote advised me that mr. Mcgahn is absolutely immune from compelled congressional testimony with respect to matters occurring during his service as a Senior Adviser to the president. He went on to say the president has directed mr. Mcgahn not to appear. A lawyer for mcgahn said the former white House Counsel would respect the president s instruction and not appear today. Chairman Jerrold Nadler says the committee will still meet this morning adding mr. Mcgahn is expected to appear as legally require and if he did not testify quote the first thing were going t
Disturbing images . Those are things were working on getting answers to right now. You mentioned ive been speaking to a long time agent here, a veteran agent whos tired of seeing the conditions inside these facilities and decided to speak out. Yesterday they agreed to go on camera, only if their image and face was concealed, saying that enough is enough. The holding facility, the cells, they are, what i will say, filthy. We have a maintenance and cleaning crew that clean the general area, like the hallways. But i have never seen them cleaning counters or cleaning toilets in the cells or cleaning sinks in the cell. Sometimes you go in a cell, and theres trash everywhere. Reporter customs and Border Protection here in el paso did not directly respond to the allegations made by the agent that we interviewed but did say they take the allegations seriously and are handing them over to the office of the Inspector General. A lot of moving parts here. A lot of news today along the southern bor