And laura jarrett, cnn justice correspondent. Great to have you all here. Lets talk about where we are with impeachment. I need you guys to explain how this impasse is going to be broken. Nancy pelosi is not going to send the articles of impeachment over until Mitch Mcconnell can guarantee its going to be a short trial. Mitch mcconnell has guaranteed hell not be an impartial juror and is working hand in glove with the white house. He also says, fine, dont send them over. I dont want to have a trial in the senate. As john point eed out, the only fly in the ointment is that the president wants to have that moment of President Trump being acquitted in the senate. What is going to happen . Donald trump needs to get some serious legal advice. Hes not the worlds easiest client, but somebody needs to sit him down in a serious way and say, you do not want a circus here. You do not want a long, drawn out trial. You are not going to have that moment of vindication. You are winning right now. The
Imagine. Manu raju is on capitol hill. So you have the subpoena today, and bill barr testifying in a few weeks. What do we expect in the meantime . Reporter democrats have said the deadline for the Justice Department to turn over this information, the full Mueller Report by may 1st. There is an expectation here on capitol hill that will not happen and then they will lead to a court fight, both to get the full information as well as to get a court order to release the grand jury information that the justice said it would not provide to members of congress in a limited fashion. Now at the same time, the House Judiciary Committee has authorized five subpoenas for former white house officials to be issued and records that these officials may have gotten from the white house as a plan to testify before the Mueller Investigation and that includes the former White House Counsel Don Mcgahn who the Mueller Report said clearly the president ordered him to fire the special counsel and mcgahn ulti
Report was released. Both are stunningly unrepresentative of the picture the report paints of all the president s lies and his efforts to thwart the investigation into his campaign. Ten episodes of attempted obstruction stymied the special counsel says from becoming actual obstruction not by the president but by his aide. His advisers ignoring the president s orders to obstruct and ironically saving their boss skin. The president s son donald jr. And soninlaw law Jared Kushner saved in part by a defense of ignorance lacking, quote, a general knowledge that their conduct was unlawful. House Judiciary Committee chairman jerry nadler issuing a subpoena along with thousands of supporting documents. He wants the full unredacted story and the president is huddled at maralago, his safe haven from florida, far away from the chaos in washington firing off tweets today calling parts of the report, quote, total bullshit. His reports. We have cnn chief White House Correspondent jim acosta at the w
Week before a house committee. I believe if he were not the president of the United States he would likely be indicted on obstruction. New takes on the president s highstakes battle with congress. Plus a tale of two president s. Both speaking in the past 24 hours. Well hear from both. And we begin with new details on that synagogue shooting in california. A rabbi shot during the attack is out of surgery and talking about his experience. It happened on the last day of passover in poway, a suburb north of san diego. Police say a 19yearold man walked into the synagogue and opened fire wan saltstyle rifle. Lori gilbert kaye was shot dead. A child and two adults including the rabbi were wounded. The mayor of poway said the city was somewhat prepared. Shortly after the tree of life shooting six months and a day ago myself and members of our poway Sheriffs Department visited with the chabad family and shared some thoughts and ideas with them on what to do in a situation like this. And i suspe
That russia indeed interfered in the 2016 election. What are redoing to stop that in 2020 . And speaking of, will any of it matter to voters . Whatever is factual, whatever is proven to be true, then that will obviously have a bearing on my vote going forward. This is about the fundamental protections of our government and this needs to be thoroughly finished. We begin this morning with the country and the congress absorbing the full impact of Robert Muellers russia report. It is a lot more nuanced than the president s twitter feed would have you believe but the question this morning, where do we go from here. I have a great team to help us figure all of it out, and i want to start with the most immediate question, what do democrats do now. I want to go straight to nbcs mike memoli. We could see in the next few minutes, a subpoena being issued by jerry nadler. We heard him on the morning show saying that that could be in a matter of hours. My sources are telling me it could be any minu