between the branches of government. now, after making their brief comments, they departed before the meetings officially started. meanwhile, trump s outside counsel rudy giuliani told abc news quote, the president personally wanted emmitt there today. and giuliani had more to say about what the white house hoped to gain from that briefing that the president himself demanded in a tweet on sunday. asked about how it could affect an interview with the special counsel robert mueller, giuliani told politico quote, we want to see how the briefing went and how much we learned from it. if we learned a good deal from it it will shorten the whole process considerably. earlier giuliani told politico president trump wants the justice department to turn over the information that exists about the informant and the house and senate committees, all the memos they have that will indicate what the informant found. then those should be made available to us on a confidential basis. the question is, what
new legislation. a republican senator is speaking out against republican criticism of his bill to safeguard the office of special counsel robert mueller. spare me is the message from tim tillis. the first term gop senator from north carolina told politico quote, the same people who would criticize me for filing this bill would be absolutely angry if i wasn t pounding the table for this bill if we were dealing with hillary clinton. so spare me your rye shous indignation but after the bill appeared to gain traction, the congress has delayed the bill. the judiciary vote is not expected until april 26th just days before the next recess. and the war of words between the president s defenders and former fbi director james comey continue as ex- trump campaign manager lewandowski level blame at comey for incidents he had
this is what mike vickers, the former undersecretary for intelligence said to politico quote, by any measure, our strategy in iraq and syria is not succeeding or is not succeeding fast enough. we are playing a long game when a more rapid and disruptive strategy is required. thank you very much. i appreciate it. and perhaps the biggest target of the recent air strikes has been isis self-declared capital of raqqah in syria. what i want to show you now is a cnn exclusive. nick payton walsh gets extraordinarily close to the isis headquarters. reporter: air strikes can repeatedly pound raqqah, but it s here that any ground offensive would have to begin. and still, a sense of stalemate. their ultimate goal of raqqah, visible on a good day in the far distance. this base at times hit by isis
violence. well, first of all, i m not shouting. it s just when women talk, some people think we re shouting. an advisor to sanders tells politico quote, if they re going to have a campaign that attacks bernie on gun safety and implies he engages in sexism, that s unaccept jun s unacce unacceptable. we are going to have a talk about other things if they do that. a democrat from arizona, one of the only two members of congress right now that is backing bernie sanders for the democratic bid to be the next president, joins us. sir, have the gloves come off between secretary clinton and senator sanders? a battle of ideas. it is going to be a battle of ideas. you have human beings involved in this. charges of sexism on bernie and is, you know, is a serious charge. a charge that is not true. and taken completely out of
speech were quote, deliberately designed to undermine our efforts. it s curious because he sent me a really nice rand written congratulatory note thanking me for my help. i don t under. another person who doesn t understand ted cruz s version of reality is senator mitch mcconnell. cruz wrote mcconnell tried to keep donors from giving him money. he strongly denies that account. a top aide telling politico quote, any suggestion that leader mcconnell intervened to freeze out potential supporters of senator cruz is pure fantasy. the cruz campaign shot back defending the story. quote, senator cruz stands by everything he has written in his book.