Phillip brucker said that the north korea Breakthrough Potential upped the stakes on the mike pompphaoeubmike pompeo. They may be playing with the one opening we have with north korea. Do you agree or disagree with rucker in. Heidi heitcamp got on or board with his confirmation. It will be close. Theres some sense there is an issue where if you oppose pompeo you open yourself up to attacks. Is and some of these red states is not supporting the president on Foreign Policy during this key moment. A lot of people a lot of democrats were forced on thursday to grudgingly acknowledge sort of admiration or respect for pompeo going to meet with kim jongun over easter. It didnt move a lot of their votes. As you saw a bunch of the democrats on the Senate Foreign realizes committee, they still had to reiterate their
opposition is. Anna palmer from politico, what do you think is is the story of the week . I think one of the most interesting stories is u. N. Ambassador nikki haley asserting herself
House democrats on the Judiciary Committee said two things. They dont believe on the merits should the president try and invoke executive privilege it would work. If he did, they point out the political ramifications. That it would look like he was trying to obstruct the testimony. These are two key consideration the white house will have to Pay Attention to as they look forward. As you noted, we dont have an answer. The day before comey appears, the Deputy Attorney general will also testify. Reporter thats right. Separate hearing, separate focus. The big question is, what can members of get out of both Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein but everybody else on the panel . The acting fbi director, the cia director and the director of the nsa. All of these individuals have played some role one way or another in this russia investigation. The reality is, what we have seen over the last couple weeks is all questions will be deferred to the special counsel, bob mueller. Thats the posture
The president himself has talked about the conversations publicly on twitter and in a letter that he and james comey had. Basically, as it stands, theres a lot of question whether he could or not. The white house is reviewing this issue. House democrats on the Judiciary Committee just released a letter saying two things primarily. First and foremost they dont believe on the merits should the president try and invoke executive privilege it would work. If he did, they point out the political ramifications. That it would look like he was trying to obstruct the testimony. These are two key consideration the white house will have to Pay Attention to as they look forward. As you noted, we dont have an answer yet. The day before comey appears, the Deputy Attorney general will also testify. Reporter thats right. Separate hearing, separate focus. The big question is, what can members get out of both Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein but everybody else on the panel . The acting fbi director
It is day 400 of the Trump Administration that brings new legal trump for two former Trump Campaign aides. The Washington Post reports tonight the Deputy Attorney general warned the white house weeks ago about problems with Jared Kushners security clearance. Were going to have more on that just ahead. But we begin with the mueller investigation. Special Counsel Robert Mueller has obtained another guilty plea. This one from former Trump Deputy Campaign chairman rick gates who stayed on during the transition. Today gates pleaded guilty to conspiracy against the United States as well as to lying to investigators. And he admitted to secret foreign lobbying, potentially illegal mortgage schemes and helping Paul Manafort cheat on his taxes. Mueller also got gates to plead guilty to lying to investigators after he was indicted. Gates is now cooperating with the special counsel. This is not good for his former Business Partner and onetime Trump Campaign chief Paul Manafort who was hit with bra
Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Im caseyhukasie hunt in for br williams who has the day off. It is day 400 of the Trump Administration that brings new legal trump for two former Trump Campaign aides. The Washington Post reports tonight the Deputy Attorney general warned the white house weeks ago about problems with Jared Kushners security clearance. Were going to have more on that just ahead. But we begin with the mueller investigation. Special Counsel Robert Mueller has obtained another guilty plea. This one from former Trump Deputy Campaign chairman rick gates who stayed on during the transition. Today gates pleaded guilty to conspiracy against the United States as well as to lying to investigators. And he admitted to secret foreign lobbying, potentially illegal mortgage schemes and helping Paul Manafort cheat on his taxes. Mueller also got gates to plead guilty to lying to investigators after he was indicted. Gates is now cooperating with the