President ial obstruction of justice and abuse of power. Before we begin, i would remind all Committee Members that we should refrain from making inappropriate personal references to protected parties, namely the president , Vice President , members of the senate and house. This includes accusations of dishonesty, criminality, treason or other unethical motives. The issues we are addressing today go to the very core of our constitutional democracy, they understandably bring out strong passion in us, as they do in the American People. I hope that what should be a spirited discussion of these issues today, we will stay focused on the issues and take care to prevent our comments from being directed personally at the president. I will now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. Todays hearing is entitled president ial obstruction of justice and abuse of power. This hearing is the first one form only designated under the Committee Procedures adopted last week in connection with their inv
Troops from the korean peninsula. Gen. Jack keane is here to wait in line but we begin with Kristin Fisher with the latest developments. Reporter if this is true and theres historical evidence that its leaders cannot be trusted but if it is true this would be a major concession by pyongyang at a victory for donald trump and his administration. Could be Real Progress for denuclearization of the korean peninsula. According to state run tv, north Korean Leader kim jong un, tomorrow north korea. Nuclear tests and lodges of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles and shut down a Nuclear Test Site on the northern side to prove to suspend Nuclear Tests. The announcement comes three weeks after cia director mike pompeos trip to the making them and days after meeting with south korean counterpart for a rare facetoface summit in just weeks before his planned and unprecedented meeting with an american president. Tonight donald trump tweet north korea has agreed to suspend uglier tests and close a maj
Court over the Second Amendment. Breaking news tonight, the Mueller Probe reaching a new state with talk of a president ial subpoena and questions allegedly for the president leaking out through the New York Times. Former attorney telling the special counsel this isnt some game, you are screwing with the president of the United States. A key doj official, Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein facing potential impeachment driven by a group of gop lawmakers, rosenstein signals bring it on. That affirmative justice, i dont have anything to say about documents like that the leak in that way. Shannon more on that leak, we bring in it henry, he knows what is it. Theres a lot tonight. It means the showdown could now go to the supreme court. Washington post reporting Robert Mueller raised the possibility of using a subpoena to compel donald trump to testify. Fox confirming john down, the pres. s lead attorneys said this is not a game, you are screwing with the president of the United States.
We investigate what it means for the signature event of Donald Trumps predecessor. Can a farmer be banned from selling his goods because he wont condone samesex weddings in his orchard. Tonight, james will, former director of security for the Senate Intelligence Committee Walks past cameras after his first day in court charged with lying to federal investigators about his contact with reporters some of whom were reporting heavily on the russia investigation one of whom was in a romantic relationship with him. Catherine herridge is here with the latest. Reporter the fbi arrested james will, senior staffer for the Senate Intelligence committee, securing classified information to include topsecret documents. He made it through his Court Appearance facing 3 counts of lying to federal investigators. A potential violation, donald trump said he is convinced the Justice Department has tracked down a major breach. Interesting they caught a leak or, very important week or so very interesting. Im
Border between sports and politics. But we begin with a shocking allegation that a New York Times reporter has been in bed with a source of accused of leaking sensitive information. The New York Times has the department of justice has seized phone and email records of ali watkins. And according to the paper, she has been in a 3year relationship with the former director of security for the Senate Intel Committee james wolfe. He was arrested yesterday and the doj charged him with lying for denying that he even knew the reporter. And for denying that he gave her information on former Campaign Adviser carter page. The times said that it appeared that the fbi was investigating how watkins learned that russian spies were trying to recruit page back in 2013. She reported that in an article for buzz feed. 00 on april third of 2017. There is reporting tonight to that there was an effort to buy this to senate intel stafford to purposefully target carter page. That is a move that couldve been ins