Yeah. And theyll have to make a decision. Individual officials have to make a decision here how theyre going to deal with the white house inevitably telling them dont show up now that there is all of these examples of officials who did show up and said what they knew. Ambassador mckinley in that transcript released today makes it so clear his own reaction. Thats something im going to cite when i get into my coverage of it. As soon as he got the request he said of course, of course i was going to testify. Right away. Didnt have to think about it. The only question now is the divide between sort of people who have that patriotic response to it, yes, like congressional oversight is a real thing. I will tell you what i know. You can swear me in under oath and i will tell the truth. The divide between them and those saying the white house told me not to. That will get litigated or otherwise worked out. But those people are going to have to live with that for the rest of their lives. And it
Absolute immunity from compelled congressional process simply does not exist. But mcgahn wont be sworn in yet. Hell wait to testify while the case is appealed as the doj just did. May go all the way to the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court handed down a temporary win for the white house in another case blocking congress from seeing the president s tax returns for now. But the court is fasttracking the case asking both sides to make their best arguments for why the court should weigh in on the tax return fight in this term. Cnns Kaitlan Collins has been covering this story and joins us now here from new york. So first, on the white house strategy as it relates to this loss or temporary loss on mcgahns testimony. Its a pretty big rebuke to what their strategy had been. Theyd been maintaining since mcgahn, which this is dating back to mueller testimony, is essentially these people do not have to go. They had this absolute immunity. And if you read this 120page ruling you see wha
Up on the battlefield because of this. In turkey, at the pentagon, on capitol hill, and i want to start with keir simmons on the ground in Southern Turkey near the border with turkey. Keir, i understand that a little bit earlier this morning you were close to some of where this assault whas happening. What are you hearing and seeing . Thats right. This is a conflict that has kind of escalated through the day and actually we just heard a martor from the syrian side land in that direction. We heard in the last hour from the governor, you can hear the artillery fire there, we heard from the governor here where we are in turkey, that three people were killed when a mortar landed here, including a child. And you can see behind me, if i step away at syria itself, across the border, you can see there, that town of tall abad burning from south to east. That was the turkish response to the mortar fire that killed a number of turkish people earlier in the day. As ever with a battle like this, wh
Might be on the menu. So much to chew on, so little time. First the blake burman at the white house and all the latest tasty morsels. Clyde has a fantastic kids menu, by the way. I learned that a few weeks ago. The mac and cheese, i doubt they had that today. In any event, there were a lot of discussions going to this one as to whether or not they are top negotiator for the chinese, the vicepremier, would cut his trip short or not. That was a question heading into last night and into this morning. Let me give you the timeline of how the day is played out. The video youre looking at, just before 9 00 this morning, a smiling person at the front door. The trade representative Robert Lighthizer and treasury secretary steve mnuchin. Later that hour, President Trump seemed to end the doubts about whether leo would be back for discussions tomorrow as he tweeted big day of negotiations with china. They want to make a deal, but do i . I meet with the vice premier tomorrow at the white house. Th
He now wants donald trump impeached and removed from office. Two of the three people who we know were scheming together to do Donald Trumps bidding with ukraine have been indicted and arrested. Heres the one who did not get arrested today, and here is what Rudy Giuliani said about his friends getting arrested by the fbi last night. All i can tell you about this arrest is it comes at a very suspicious time. Well, we can tell you a little bit more about the arrest. The two associates of Rudy Giuliani who have been working with him on ukraine were arrested on indictments brought by prosecutors in the Southern District of new york, the very same prosecutors who got Donald Trumps former lawyer, michael cohen, to plead guilty to Campaign Finance violations that those prosecutors were said were done at the direction of donald trump in what they called a conspiracy against the United States to win the president ial election. The special agony of this for donald trump and Rudy Giuliani is that