It is monday, march 13th. Time to get your brackets filled out. As an american, you should. Time honored tradition. You need tips . Dont ask me. Great fun. This morning, also much of the white house. They want to advance on health care other issues, but coming back to the president s wiret wiretapping claims. Asking to hand over evidence to back up that president obama ordered the phones tapped. And the white house still offered ear o eed zero evidencet it. One lawmaker is demanding more information. We have athena jones with more rmt. Reporter good morning. The House Intelligence Committee sent a letter last week asking to provide all relevant documents regarding the president s explosive wiretapping allegations against his predecessor. There is no indication that the white house or the department of justice is pretard pare to off evidence. Many republicans very much want to see. Here is what john mccain had to say about all this on state of the i dont know cunion. Our director clappe
And in a good way. This is a man who is leading the United States of america and who engages with the Intelligence Community in ways that are sophisticated. He deals with the most complex issues. I dont think hes crazy. I think hes had a very successful 2017. All right, lets talk about it. Welcome, everybody. The white house is pushing back hard against michael wolff, his book, fire and fury, now raising questions about the president s Mental Fitness. The author today standing by his reporting on nbcs meet the press. Take a look. Did you leave out good stuff . Because it got in the way of the narrative . Like if people said positive things about him, not saying that you left it out because you thought it took away from the thesis of the book that you wanted to get out there . If i left out anything, its probably stuff that was even more damning. And earlier today, former white house strategist steve bannon apologized for his damning statements in the book about don trump jr. Bannon is
The president thinks we cannot lose in a fight like this, but now, thanks to cnbc translating this list, we have a pretty good sense of who in the u. S. Does have a lot to lose in this fight even if the president himself doesnt see it. Anybody in the u. S. Involved in the production of this very long but very specific list of americanmade things might beg to differ with the president s assertion that theres nothing to lose. The Chinese Government announced today theyre going to go after people in the United States involved in the production and exports of this whole big long list of things uncombed cotton, soy bones black or yellow, fresh and cold boneless beef, frozen beef with bones, frozen boneless beef, dried cranberries, frozen orange juice, nonfrozen orange juice. Hookah, tobacco, other tobacco for smoking. Also whiskeys, and interestingly, theres no modifier on whiskey, just which is whiskeys. If you know anyone whos involved in the production of any whiskey, if it involves expo
Talk on Long Distance phone calls meaning from boston to springfield, massachusetts. They would can you hear me . Can you hear me. Do you still have Pete Buttigieg has your guest this hour. Guess who is going to teach me how to pronounce his last name. Hes going to join news this hour. I got Great Questions from twitter. I solicited questions on twitter today. I now have 100 Great Questions, rachel. Im going to get, i dont know what, ten maybe . If im lucky. If i get off the air let you do your show, youll get in more. Thank you, raich well, you know, ive never seen a more surprising and sudden rise of a president ial candidate than the candidacy of 37yearold Pete Buttigieg who has come from really nowhere to be nowhere in politics to be a powerful new voice in the democratic president ial campaign. Weve seen surprises before. We have seen in 1968, for example, senator Eugene Mccarthy challenge the sitting democratic president in primaries but very slowly build a level of support that
Later, someone you may have heard of. He is here for First Time Ever tonight on the beat. That not all. Ill speak to the lawyer who literally wrote the special counsel rules with the biggest stories hitting us tonight. Bob muellers old boss, rod r e rosenstein, staying on at the doj after, you remember, he himself implied he would leave this month. Thats why it was reported as one of the signs that the Mueller Report was winding down. According to those signals, mueller would appear to have work left to do. You can imagine how everyone is charting the end of the Mueller Probe finds that interesting. Were learning brand new details about the scope of the investigation into Michael Cohen, newly released search warrants and there is still, even as we get these search warrants, what we dont know. Something we tend to do more and more. Although we have a Transparent Court system that released some of what the fed got out of cohen, some of it remains, to this very evening, redacted. I have e