nadler s offer to let the white house have a lawyer present at wednesday s hearing. the white house will not be sending an attorney. i think it would be to the president s advantage to have his attorneys there. speaker pelosi has said we are going to proceed expeditiously. that s because this relates to a matter of urgent concern. this is new day with allison and john berman. good morning, everyone. welcome to nyour new day. john berman is off. still digesting his turkey. and jim sciutto joins me now. you re stuck with me for another hour at least. thanks so much because we have a very big week ahead for the impeachment inquiry. president trump s lawyers announcing they will not participate in the house judiciary s first hearing on wednesday. according to the washington post, four constitutional scholars, three chosen by the democrats, one by republicans, are expected to testify about the standards for impeachment. today, members of the house intelligence committee will r
of that car. they became strand odd an island in the creek. they were scud by helicopter. cnn confirming this morning ten people have been injured, two of them critically after a shooting in new orleans. this happened around 3:30 this morning local time near the french quarter in the central business district. the area as we understand it was full of tourists in town for the annual bayou classic football game. police were monitoring the crowds. they were able to respond quickly. authorities are now questioning one person from that scene, but it s unclear if that person is, at the time, considered a suspect. today is the deadline for the white house to decide if they will participate in the house judiciary s impeachment hearing on wednesday. committee chairman jerry nadler inviting the white house to send attorneys to the hearings. no indication that will happen. for weeks, president trump has complained he has been excluded from the proceedings. he even called the process a hoa
be able to confirm the reporting, because the republicans would let us get the phone records. it was such an obvious investigative staff, and is an obvious and the skit of step. when that we will take very early on now that we are under way. and that s to find out who he was talking to about that meeting in trump tower. those conversations could have taken place over the phone or they could have taken place by donald jr. walking down the hall to talk to dad. so schiff is still suggesting a conversation may have taken place between the president and his son, but at this stage there does not appear to be any proof. harris? harris: evidence is always helpful. mike emanuel, thank you very much. i want to bring in a democrat who chairs the democratic policy and medications committee. he sits in the house judiciary and foreign affairs committees as well. a very busy gentleman. it s great to see you today. always making time for harris faulkner. harris: harris: your sweek you very m
he sort of just casually throws out there that the president of the united states is asking me to break the law. if you really felt that way, why aren t you talking to an investigator or congress and not in some conversation making some offhanded comment like that. so i wonder what he meant by that. and if it s as serious as people are treating it today, whying is it just being flippantly said in one these kinds of little conversations. so now i suspect democrats who control the house are going to say you ve got to come in and testify about this right? because you said it to this guy. now you have to say it under oath and then we ll know. i hope he didn t really mean break the law but those were the words he used. so you re not worried? go back to the other quell. yes, look i worry about everything. i think every republican worries how can you not? we just got beat in the house. you ve got a president who has got external factors he can t
director testifying in the house judiciary and oversight committees behind closed doors today. didn t hide his frustrations. here it is. after a full day of questioning, two things are clear to me. one, we could have done this in open setting and two, when you read the transcript, you will see that we are talking again been hillary clinton s e-mails for heaven s sakes. i m not sure we need to do this at all but i m trying to respect the institution and to answer questions in a respectful way. you ll see i did that in the transcript. okay, so listen harry comey resisted appearing, wanted to do it in public. what was this hearing really about? well, two things. as he says for them to try to whipsaw him one final time before the majority becomes the minority and beat him up about hillary. but for him, a chance to have a no holds barred statement at the end which he did have by agreement. and that s i think going to be