Wla land. The president is still trying to defend and explain his controversial response to the deadly Charlottesville White supremacist rally after former Vice President joe biden criticized it in his Campaign Launch video. Cnns dan simon is live in poway, california, with the latest for us. Dan. Reporter alisyn, the suspect is 19yearold john earnest. He is a college student. The apparent motive seems to be antisemitism. The woman who died in this attack, Laurie Gilbert kaye, she died after putting herself between the rabbi and the shooter. The rabbi says hes al looich because of what she did. Were hearing of other incredible acts of bravery and heroism. Including from a 34yearold man shot in the leg. Moments after that he ushered several children to safety. There was also an iraq war veteran part of the congregation. He charged the shooter. Apparently the shooter dropped his weapon moments after that. Then you have this Border Patrol agent who fired several rounds at the shooter as h
Didnt fully capture the context, nature and substance of this offices work and conclusions. The two longtime friends spoke by phone with the special counsel telling barr his summary lacked muellers nuance on obstruction of justice. It also appears bill barr wasnt truthful when he spoke to congress two weeks after getting muellers letter. Heres a small portion did bob mueller support your conclusion . I dont know whether bias or prejudice supported my conclusion. Well play more of that for you. As we look ahead to barrs testimony this morning there is one man on capitol hill a lot of lawmakers on capitol hill would like to hear from. Thats bob mueller. Joining us now is the washington investigative correspondent for the New York Times and security analyst, one of the reporters who broke the explosive story. Mark, it was stunning to hear this for the first time. Its the first time we hear really how Robert Mueller who was so tightlipped during this, how he felt about bill barrs character
House. The president has invoked executive privilege over the entire Mueller Report and its underlying evidence and that triggers jerry nadler to a accuse the executive branch of sabotaging any negotiations over the report. By invoking executive privilege on all of the materials subject to our subpoena, that process has come to a screeching halt. The administration has announced loud and clear that it does not recognize congress as a coequal branch of government with n independent constitutional oversight authority. But republicans speaking up showing opposition to Holding Bill Barr in contempt. This is a first step. What a cynical meanspirited counter productive irresponsible step is meanwhile economy is surging and unemployment is low and the democrats have no plans, no purpose and no viable legislative agenda beyond attacking this administration. The house is more than four months into a democratic majority. How many bills passed by this committee have been signed into law . Lets go