Nadler plans to grill him with help from committee lawyers. Seems a reasonable thing. Barr, however, the attorney general, is not having it. Cnns lauren fox is on capitol hill. Twotime attorney general, washington lawyer for decades. Why is he unwilling to answer questions from lawyers on behalf of the Judiciary Committee regarding the Mueller Report . Has he given an explanation. Reporter good morning, jim. Its going to be a blockbuster weekend on capitol hill. Bill barr set to be before the committee on wednesday. The testimony is still up in the air and that is because of the way that jerry nadler, the chairman of the committee, wants to structure the committee hearing. He essentially wants to give each member on capitol hill an opportunity on that committee to question barr for five minutes each, but then he wants to allow the committees lawyers to have questions for 30 minutes. Republicans would get 30 minutes, democrats would get 30 minutes. This is something that i am told is no
The one thats most annoying i think in our present culture is people saying right at the end of the sciencentence, you know i mean . I dont mean to get off on a small rant at the top of the show is thats annoying. I guess what im saying is i have no annoying verbal ticks. Jonathan la mere, of course our annoying verbal tick right now is the red sox suck, lost again to the yankees last night. Not the red sox themselves, but well just say some of of the decisions they made over the past year when they decided that, well, winning the world series wasnt really all that important to them. Certainly with what they did to the trading deadlines. Happier news last night, we actually had a guy that came out and pitched the opening pitch which actually was actually a better pitch than anything that porcello threw all year. He it was great to see david ortiz again last night in the is his first public appearance since he was shot back in his home, the dominican republic, a few months ago. He had a
Also injured officials are investigating the attack as a hate crime. An anonymous letter from someone claiming to be the gunman referenced recent today taattac. President trump strongly denounced the synagogue attack and antisemitism at a rally over the weekend. The president is still defending his controversial response to the deadly Charlottesville White supremacist rally after joe biden criticized it in his Campaign Launch video. It is at the center of the 2020 race. We begin with dan simon live in california with the latest on the synagogue attack in poway. Reporter the details of the attack are chilling. The woman who died, 60yearold Lori Gilbert Kay died after her husband tried to revive her. In fact, hes a physician. At first he didnt realize it was his wife. Once he did, he collapsed next to her. In the meantime, we are hearing from the rabbi who said he was in the banquet hall trying to prepare for the sermon when he heard what sounded like a loud bang. Next thing he knew he w
Good morning, everybody. It is tuesday, april 30th. Im yasmin vossoughian. Were starting with President Trump and several of i had family members taking new steps in an effort to prevent two banks from responding to congressional subpoenas regarding the president s finances. The president along with his sons don jr. And eric and daughter ivanka filed suits against Deutsche Bank and a capital one in u. S. District court in manhattan yesterday. The house intel and Financial Service committees have issued subpoenas to several banks as part of their investigations of alleged foreign influence on the 2016 election. The suit says the subpoenas have no legitimate or lawful purpose. Deutsche bank has a long history as we all know of doing business with donald trump when other banks they wouldnt do it. Trump has a personal Checking Account with capital one for which he wrote a 35,000 check to his form personal attorney, Michael Cohen, as part of a hush money payment. Now Deutsche Bank spokeswom
General bill barr threatens not to appear before the House Judiciary Committee unless the rules of questioning are changed. Chairman nadler says either show up willingly or were going to make you. Hes not going to dictate the format of the Judiciary Committee. Well use all legal mechanisms to get them to comply with the subpoenas and they will comply. And 2020 vision, Vice President biden scores a major endorsement as beto orourke unveils a new sweeping plan to combat Climate Change. Minutes from now ill be speaking to the first democrat to throw his hat in the ring about the state of the race and how it has shifted in the last month and if he thinks hes being left behind. John delaney will be with me in a few but we must begin with new details in the horrific attack on that california synagogue over the weekend. The funeral for 60yearold Lori Gilbert Kaye will take place this afternoon, this morning being remembered as a hero. She was killed at a shooting at a synagogue on saturday wh