For the second time in two weeks a top military official expresses regret for his role in the debacle. Senator Lindsey Graham backing the apology from general mark milley in substance and spirit. Even with growing push back to the president s tactics were seeing right now, hes not giving up on stoking a culture war. I made the statements we have to dominate the street. They said, oh, thats such a terrible thing. Guess what, you know who dominated the streets . People you dont want to dominate the streets and look at the damage they did. So ill stick with that and i think most of the people in this room, maybe every person in this room will stick with that. Were doing it with compassion. If you think about it, were dominating the street with compassion. Corporate america making changes. Even nascar moved to ban the confederate flag. The president so thirteenth thirsty for his approval cant even count on fox tv. This week he relied on a fringe right winged group about an elderly proteste
Would be only the second ag then to be held in contempt. And this isnt even the first committee, this congress to vote to hold him in contempt. Then, of course, add the second cabinet official, wilbur ross, on top of that. Lauren fox has been following all of this on capitol hill. It has been ongoing. Lauren, even before this vote takes place in the House Oversight committee, President Trump is trying to step in with another assertion of executive privilege. What is going on here . Reporter well, kate, there was quite a bit of drama just minutes before this hearing actually got under way. Thats when the department of justice and the Commerce Department sent letters to Elijah Cummings, the chairman of this committee, saying that the president planned to assert executive privilege over the documents. I want to read just a little bit of that letter from the department of justice. It said, this letter is to advise you the president has asserted executive privilege over subpoenaed documents