beginning with who else, stormy daniels. the judge noted that the committee was seeking documents related to trump s reporting of debts and payments to his personal attorney michael cohen to silence women alleging extramarital affairs before the election. he went on to list several other matters of interest to the committee and stressed congress s power to investigate is broad. judge meta wrote it is not the court s role to decipher whether congress s true purpose in pursuing an investigation is to said investigation or something more sinister such as compacting political retribution. congress s motives are off limits. the president s lawyer argued to the judge last week that congress is not allowed to conduct criminal investigations. it is only authorized to conduct investigations for legislative purposes. to that, the judge said today it is simply not fathomable that a constitution that grants congress the power to remove a
fines just for laundering money for russian oligarchs in cyprus, germany and america. david, thank you very much for joining us tonight. really appreciate it. thank you. when we come back, history was made this weekend when a member of congress became the very first republican to support the impeachment will have president trump. that republican was of course, immediately attacked by donald trump and already has a republican opponent pro trump republican opponent now in his next re-election campaign. that s next. w in his next re-election campaign. that s nex t. this is a commercial about insurance and i know you re thinking. i don t want to hear about insurance. cause let s be honest. nobody likes dealing with insurance. right? see, esurance knows it s expensive. i feel like i m giving my money away. so they re making it affordable. thank you, dennis quaid. you re welcome, guy in kitchen. i named my character walter. that s great.
the latest appears to show that don mcgahn has said that he cannot appear because he s going to respect the president s claim to prevent him from testifying. what does that mean? well, it means that we have to enforce the subpoena. i think that it s clear that the president is obviously trying to obstruct this testimony just as he s trying to obstruct the presentation of financial records and i think in court we are probably going to win again because i think courts routinely uphold our constitutional system of checks and balances and the rights of congress to conduct oversight. yeah, you won a very big victory today pertaining to your committee and its subpoenas in which the judge said basically this is congress constitutional prerogative. i m 2345not going to second gue unless they re doing something wildly out of bounlds and they
falsehoods. trump saying he is not concerned. he s been against trump from the beginning. he s been a loser for a long time. reporter: neither is amash. what about president trump calling you a loser? okay. reporter: on capitol hill, gop leadership separating themselves from their colleague. the house freedom caucus voting to strongly disagree with congressman amash, yet not voting on whether he should be kicked out. a freedom caucus leader suggesting amash might not be back next congress regardless. any time you come out against the president of your own party, makes it very difficult to support in any primary challenge. reporter: a little bit more about justin amash, he is a long-time critic of the president, but he has a conservative record based on libertarian principles. he comes from the state of michigan, which mr. trump narrowly won in 2016. joe johns for us at the white house. joe, thank you. breaking overnight, at least 19 tornadoes have touched down
congress. how big a deal is that? if that s true, that s a big deal. obviously, you know, mr. sekulow is a lawyer himself, and he has certain ethical constraints that he would obviously have violated if he counseled someone else to lie. but on top of that, he would potentially be suborning perjury and that s very serious. do you feel like you understand the entirety of the facts before us? and i ask this because you just mentioned a whole bunch of things the caucus is unified about not letting them obscure, obstruct, deny things. just the public facts as they already exist in daylight, do you, congressman, feel like you have a synthesized version and you could sit down with a skpit yen constituent and give them a 60-second version? i might give them the cliff notes but there are a lot of unanswered questions. one very broad area of inquiry