We begin tonight with one heck of a lead story. As the seeming inevitability of eventual impeachment proceedings collides with talks to reopen the government. Folks with two big stories sort of lingering today, impeachment chatter and the president s shutdown over the wall, theyre more connected than you might realize. Right now it appears that the president isnt just trying to built a wall to keep Illegal Immigrants out, hes trying to build a wall to keep his Political Base in. With this new democratic house, with all the investigations, with muellers report in the works, its very possible mr. Trump realizes that if he loses his base, he could lose the presidency as Lindsey Graham has been warning. The president met with congressional leaders at the white house this afternoon and then gave a lengthy press conference, sort of a classic trumpian press conference. What we saw at that press conference was a tale of two trumps. One who seemed intent to dig in and another who seemed a bit e
Committee. Barr had been refusing to take questions on the lawyers and now he is refusing to comply with a subpoena for the full Mueller Report. Heres chairman jerry nadler on those developments moments ago. Attorney general barr informed us that he will not attend tomorrows hearing. I understand why he wants to avoid that scrutiny, but when push comes to shove, the administration cannot dictate the terms of our hearing in our hearing room. The department of justice told us they will not comply with our subpoena for the full un redacted Mueller Report, a subpoena that was returnable today. Compliance of congressional subpoenas is not optional and if good faith negotiations dont result in a pledge of compliance, the next step is seeking a contempt citation against the attorney general. This comes after todays hearing where in case after case barr came across, defending the president rather than as the chief official. The Mueller Report said trump tried to fire the special counsel. Barr
That, Senate Republicans blocked three measures on election in Cyber Security, two of which would require them to alert the fbi and federal officials about foreign offers of help. Mississippi republican senator presiding blocked all three. She gave no reason. However Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell did. Listen. Its just a highly partisan bill from the same folks who spent two years hyping up a Conspiracy Theory about President Trump and russia and who continue to ignore this administrations progress at correcting the Obama Administrations failures on this subject in the 2018 election. Therefore, i object. Leader mcconnell also said that any such measure should be bipartisan and undertaken with extreme care. He did not, however, offer an alternative. Thement has not weighed in on this. He did tweet several times about an american hiphop artist in jail in sweden. He did a victory lap over the mueller hearings. A tweet that reads in all caps, truth is a force of nature. And hes cer
This morning on investigating the investigators when it comes to the origins of the russia probe. Will we see accountability for those who push the false collusion narrative . Plus, Foreign Policy advisor to the Trump Campaign carter page is with me this morning on the edits and omisions in the Mueller Report raising eyebrows here as we look ahead on sunday morning futures. Maria and President Trump announcing on twitter of course a signed border deal with mexico , and dropping his threat, to slap new tariffs on mexico tomorrow on our southern neighbor. The deal influencing and including plans to return migrants seeking asylum to mexico, where they will remain until their claims can be processed, joining me right now in an exclusive interview is North Carolina senator thom tillis member of the Senate Judiciary Armed Services and Banking Committee senator good to have you on the Program Thanks so much for joining us. Greetings from charlotte, maria. Maria you were those who embraced the
If i was capable of one drop of what i have been accused of. This has been an incredibly difficult time. Honestly, one of the worst of my entire life. But im a man of faith, and i am a man that has knowledge of my history. I would not bring my family from our lives, or the movement through a fire like this. I just wouldnt. Harris matt finn on the story on learning as it has been breaking in chicago. The courthouse, with the latest. Matt . Harris, Jussie Smollett was indicted on 16 felony counts of Disorderly Conduct for filing a false police report. He was scheduled to be back in here in court in april. Suddenly this morning with very little notice there was an emergency hearing in which the prosecutors filed a motion which basically means we are no longer wishing to prosecute and the judge granted it. The case dropped again Jussie Smollett and his record will be expunged. Shortly after that hearing, which only lasted a couple minutes, they stood and front of a camera and microphones a