congress. what information? we know the so-called agreement came in a meeting between the president, the fbi chief christopher wray and deputy attorney general rod rosenstein and it followed the president s demand for a probe into whether the fbi surveyed his campaign. kaitlan collins joins us at the white house. reporter: good morning. the white house does seem to have brokered some sort of agreement between top officials at the justice department and congressional leaders and now congressional leaders are going to be able to see some information related to the russia investigation. now this comes after a meeting here at the white house yesterday that included the president, the chief-of-staff john kelly, the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, the fbi director christopher wray and the director of national intelligence dan coats. the outcome of that meeting, sarah huckabee sanders, the press secretaries announced is that john kelly is going to set up this meeting between the jus
with all the other breaking news tonight this next story could fall under the category of any other day. any other day this could be our lead story. the new york times is reporting that before the 2016 election donald trump jr. held a meeting with a small group that included a emissary from the united arab em rats and saudi arabia. the goal was to help his father to win the election. head been pitched a social media manipulation pitch. joining me, one of the reporters that shares the by line, david kirkpatrick. can you explain what the purpose of the meeting was? the purpose was clearly to offer help to the trump campaign to help elect donald trump. the main organizer of the meeting was eric prince who at the beginning of the meeting appears to have said, my friends and i are doing everything we can to get your father elected.
and obtaining convictions. but the point here is that the principal of the objectivity and independence of the department of justice has been it s a face-saving bone to the president but has larger implications. the second thing that came out of this meeting is that chief of staff kelly will meet with the fbi, the justice department and dni with congressional leaders to review intelligence, highly classified and other information. does that concern you? is that appropriate? i m very concerned that information relating to a covert agent and informant may be made public and some of it unfortunately already has. there are criminal penalties against that kind of disclosure, ten years in prison is the punishment. but our credibility around the world depending on our ability to keep secrets is very much at risk here. there was a similar meeting last week, just as the inspector general investigation already is
general rosenstein and dan coates and all that led up to it including the deal it ended with. the question being drgs the president himself blink? let s take a look at what this incident amounts to because keeping them honest, we know what this is. we ve seen this before from president trump, his surrogates and others when special counsel mueller makes a move. here are the immediate details. late today the president met with wray, rosenstein and coats about his demand that the justice department investigate whether the fbi infiltrated or surveilled his campaign. though it was scheduled a while back, this meeting, it followed this tweet yesterday from the president. i here by demand and will do so tomorrow that the department of justice look into whether the fbi/doj infiltrated or surveilled the trump campaign for political purposes. and if any such demands or requests were made by people within the obama administration. the meeting ended with agreeing
for them to go in and sell their cars at a lower tariff. it could wind up leveling the playing field when it comes to competition. it s a big deal. zte violated this agreement to not do business with iran and north korea. they seem to get a pass. markets are open. they re looking like they re up in the green. more jolly good news about trade. the markets don t want a trade war and if the united states is backing out of tariffs and not being as hard on trump that trump promised, the markets like that. thanks for the reporting. all right. also, the white house doing battle with the justice department, congressional leaders will be brought in for this meeting very soon. joining us to discuss this now, ron brownstein, and jackie kucinich. who won in this temporary face-off between the department of justice and the white house and congressional republicans