President. And thats not the only Court Action Going on. Today, the Justice Department said theyll fight a federal judges ruling requiring them to give democrats grand jury material thats related to the mueller report. The impeachment Battle Ground expands, theres growing anxiety within the president s party. The post saying gop senators voiced exasperation at the expectation that they defend the president against the troublesome picture that has been painted. With neither convincing arguments from the white house, nor confidence that something worse wont soon be discovered. Joining me now from capitol hill is msnbcs garrett haake. And washington correspondent for the New York Times and msnbc contributor charlie savage. Hes also offer of power wars. The relentless rise of president ial authority and secrecy. Theres the book. Garrett, a judge has yet to be assigned to kuppermans lawsuit. But how long could this take . And whats at stake here . Chris, an update within the last few minute
The hill today, the First White House political appointee was deposed behind closed doors. Republicans calling his testimony today a loss for democrats. Tim morris and was on the ukraine call, reportedly said ht anything illegal, but was concerned about the conversations being leaked. Breaking tonight, tragedy in chicago, the city of violence not taking a break for trickortreaters. Now a little girl is fighting for her life, that heartbreaking stories, the details and an update straight ahead peered hello and welcome to fox news night. Im Shannon Bream in washington. We begin tonight with correspondent lehman bidders on todays houseboat on inquiry rules. Make it down for us. People dont agree on a lot right now. Scripture tells us if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. Lincoln said something similar, in the years before the civil war. The house is about as divided as it can be. The final vote on todays impeachment inquiry came down strictly on party lines, to sa
The Trump Administration reaches agreement with congressional leaders on a budget deal to raise the debt ceiling, democrats are on board but what about conservative republicans. And kims submarine. North korea shows photos of kim jongun inspecting a new submarine under construction. Given the norths Nuclear Arsenal and missiles the implications may be ominous for the u. S. And its allies. Im wolf blitzer and youre in the situation room. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Breaking news. Tension is building ahead of tomorrows landmark testimony by Robert Mueller and the former special counsel has just added to it with a lastminute request that his deputy be sworn in alongside him. The deputy is expected to provide advice but not to testify. Feverish preparations are underway for the back to back hearings by the House Judiciary Committee and the Intelligence Committee. Judiciary democrats want to explore alleged obstruction by the president while the Intelligence Committee will focus in
She and omar are as you know two of the four congresswoman of color whom the president has been attacking repeatedly. There are also whatever you may think of politics or political talents legislative backed ventures that occupy the nations mind space, the National Mind space they do because the president targeted them. But this is what the president wants. He wants the diverse, the diversion from the real concerns over the economy and rash of gun violence weve seen over the past few weeks and wants division. He wants to cast congresswoman talib and omar as foils of us against them never mind the consequences they warn such as fracturing the tradition of support for israel and instead, promoting the notion that israel should root for one side or another in the u. S. Elections. Consequences such as setting a president for using a foreign power albeit an ally to punish adversaries at home. Something no president has done until now. Bringing a foreign power, getting a foreign power to pun
The most extreme, of course, was the assassination that he ultimately decided to initiate. But the president made that decision to go forward. It was a bold choice. It was something that president bush and president obama did not decide to do because it was seen as too provocative. But trump surprised military leaders in choosing to go forward and assassinating the top iranian general and there are disagreements within the administration about how strategic this was. How sort of thought through the next steps might be dealing with the likely retaliation from iran and then what next. Its a bit risky. Also, by the way, reporting about some uncertainty about the u. S. Intelligence regarding the general. Regarding what sort of actions he had been plotting and planning and how serious those were. And that is likely to be the center of a lot of political debate here in washington in the days to come. Sort of what exactly was the intelligence that the president was presented before he made th