more missing text messages, the washington post reporting tonight that text from trump s acting homeland security secretary chad wolf and his deputy can cuccinelli are missing. they tell the post that the textbook from a key period leading up to january 6th. we have a new cnn exclusive reporting tonight that prosecutors are getting ready for a court battle to force former trump white house officials to testify about conversations they had with the former president. joining me now to discuss all of this, senior crime and justice reporter caitlin pollens, and john wood, former senior investigator for the january six committee. also with us evening, mr. marc mackinnon, the executive producer of the emmy nominated the circus and former adviser to george w. bush. good evening one and all. have to admire the hat. you gotta, mark mckinnon. you guys gotta get your hat game on. caleb got her glasses game. i don t know. i got nothing. john, you got a good luta. good evening one a
whole tour. they don t play golf in saudi arabia, there s 14 courses in the whole country, nine of those are sand, half of them are nine hole courses. this is about coming to america and showing more good guys, look, we re playing in the pro-am with donald trump, and we re paying these wild salaries, and isn t it fun? and it s shotgun starts, and we re only playing three rounds instead of four, what are they gonna do, or they re gonna have jair kushner drive the drink cart? are we gonna sell mulligan s? this isn t golf. it be like, don, if we took the nfl and took half the teams and the saudis just said, hey, we re playing you each 100 million dollars, doesn t matter how you do, you ll get that up front. and we are going to own you. and we re gonna play where we say are gonna play. wouldn t football fans be upset? that s how it feels to us golf fans. that s just one thing, you said this was all about attention for the former president in the pga, isn t about money as well? you can t
daughter, to his sons and jair kushner, his business and members of his outside legal team, it go es to the trump campaign, including every former aide already indicted by bob mueller. the house democrats are also looking directly into the lives of white house staffers, what did they do at work and what did the lawyers do in the white house counsel s office, which has leaked so much about potential requests for criminal activities by the president, whether he got people to do it or not. then new requests here to government agencies like the doj and the fbi, which donald trump has impugned and attacked and tabloid allies tied to the hush money payment itself to the women that michael cohen was testifying to last week and multiple people to wikileaks and a request to wikileaks, itself, and the people who went to the now infamous trump tower meeting. each of these people they have to provide the information
charge of then trump s transition team. we have now learned that pence hired a high powered d.c. attorney richard cullen to help him handle the russian probe-related questions. since taking off as the vice president, he s found himself among many individuals, including jair kushner currently ensnared in trump-russia probe. in miami, the vice president was asked about his decision to hire outside legal counsel, let s watch. any comments among your counsel? it s very routine. 147 days, by the way, the last past 47 days have been anything but routine. inside the white house, according to reports, administration officials are trying to subdue an enraged leader, that would be the president to no avail. look at the pictures of the guy. time magazine is reporting trump advisers feel like.the festival-inflicted wounds of the first five months are largely