his team. they have vast experience investigating terrorism and white collar crime and using federal records cnn has so far identified three who have donated money overwhelmingly to democrats. more than $50,000 since 1988. he gave tens of thousands to help democrats campaign for the white house, senate and house of representatives. these are bad people. bad people? bad people. and trump surrogates such as former speaker of the house newt gingrich are going after them tooth and nail. miller, i have no doubt he is going to do his best. but he is surrounding himself with a collective group of people that are going to engage in a witch hunt. the president s supporters have raised questions about mueller s close relationship with one person deeply entrenched in the russian story, the fbi director trump fired, james comey.
but that s the question. will they go against isis? that s not their top priority. barbara star reporting for us. that s it for me. i m wolf blitzer in the situation room. erin burnett out front starts right now. outfront next breaking news, the white house facing a deadline to turn over a crucial document to investigators. trump is bothered by the friendship between bob mueller and james comey. but how close are they and why is he saying that? and another republican coming out against the health care bill, saying it is a lie that the bill will lower premiums. let s go out front. i m erin burnett. out front tonight the breaking news, we are waiting and waiting and waiting. the deadline has passed and still we are waiting for the white house to turn over crucial documents to house intelligence committee investigators tonight. they could do so at any moment. investigators have demanded formal notification from the white house that there are no
it said with all of the recently reported intelligent electronic surveillance, intercepts unmasks leaking of information, i have no idea whether there were tapes or recordings of conversations with james comey. but i did not make and do not have any such recordings. so essentially at the end of the working day here in washington, erin, the white house simply cut and paste the president s tweet from yesterday to the house intel chairman and ranking democratic member saying that the president does not have copies of the tape. but that is not what the committee asked, of course. the committee asked if anyone here at the white house has a tape. but again this is something that officials across the government and certainly here at the white house have been telling us for several weeks. they do not believe tapes exist. they are not sure why the president tweeted this in the first place and a top republican i talked to yesterday said, look, this is a big mistake this president made. but again
who are involved in this plan you can see a situation where you could get enough of them back over on the side of supporting this bill and it could still get through. these four conservatives are in a block altogether and dean heller is a vulnerable senator in a purple state. perhaps that s the vote that mitch mcconnell lets go. maybe that s his long-term plan. all right. thank you very much. and let s go now to rick san tor rum, former senator from pennsylvania and democratic strategist and political commentator. republican senator, obviously emphasis here, purple state going to be up for re-election. he s got specific issues facing him. but he says he cannot vote for the bill because it is going to hurt too many of the poor in his state. is this bill in the senate too mean? no. i mean, first off, i ll disappointed the president said it was mean because, number one, i don t think the house bill is mean and it sets up a false narrative going into this, that