These are bad policies that will hurt people. We begin today with the house investigation into Trump Campaign ties to russia. Now stalled indefinitely. Hearings and meetings cancelled while intelligence chairman devin nunes is defying calls to step aside. But in the senate, something to keep an eye on today because they are forging ahead. The chair and vice chair, republican and democrat of the Intelligence Committee set to brief the press. Ive got a great team with me to break it all down. I want to start with kasie hunt. So, kasie, lets start with all of this on the house side first. How do they get this investigation back on track . Well, chris, its still not 100 how they are going to do that. Theres still a lot of rancor, partisan anger between a chairman and vice chairman ranking member, excuse me, who had previously gotten along pretty well. Have known each other for a long time. But what happened with this new information that devin nunes brought to the table has really sparked
Unprecedented for any president that preceded him. They said we couldnt renegotiate nafta, we did. We said we couldnt get the chinese to the table and admit theyre forcing all this. We did. Bill peter doocy leads our coverage on a wild friday. How is the white house reacting on the jobs number . It followed a shaky few days on wall street where the 90day break in the trade war between the u. S. And china was basically overlooked by traders when the Justice Department arrested a powerful Chinese Telecom executive. Something white house officials insist they did not know was going to happen. Regardless the president says china talks are going very well. He said last night statement from china. The teams of both sides are having smooth communications and good cooperation with each other. Were full of confidence that an agreement can be reached within the next 90 days. I agree. President trump is heading to missouri momentarily i just heard marine one land back on the south lawn. So there
Knew in advance about a Wikileaks Dump of democratic emails and indirectly suggested cohen should lie to congress about plans do build a trump to youer in moscow. Details on that and more in a moment. A word we heard a lot today from both cohen and the lawmakers questioning him, lying. Michael cohen says that was and still is a requirement for working for President Trump. Everybodys job at the Trump Organization is to protect mr. Trump. Every day, most of us knew we were coming in and we were going to lie for him on something. And that became the norm. And thats exactly what is happening right now, in this country, and its exactly what is happening here in government, sir. Dana President Trump says Michael Cohen did bad things unrelated to trump and is lying to reduce his prison time. Cohen of course pleaded guilty to lying to congress and other crimes, sentenced to three years behind bars. That starts in a couple of months. Chief intelligence correspondence Catherine Herridge is live
Request within the last hours. Whats with that . Is because maybe robert moore doesnt know the report that well . Ainsley he wanted to take questions and they said he can come with un sit next to you. Steve he was not sworn in before the judiciary, but he was sworn in for the Intel Committee that will talk about russia visions of that is it. Ainsley first house judiciary in the judicial. Brian this is live outside the Office Building. Reporter good morning. Im outside that Judiciary Committee in its Robert Bullard tied and it will be a long day for him. The two committees expecting about five hours of testimony. Let me show you the breakdown. You see the doors opening as they are getting ready. 8 30 a. M. , two and half hours from now starting with chairman jerry nadler of about five minutes Opening Statement and then Ranking Member gets a fiveminute Opening Statement and then at that moment they swear Robert Mueller in and he will give his Opening Statements and then questions again w
Administration. One of the signal moments in the scandals and investigations that have plagued this presidency from the start was the somewhat inexplicable decision by President Trump to allow don mcgahn to give totally unrestricted testimony to the investigators who were working for Robert Mueller. The New York Times was first to report this last year. Quote, last fall so meaning the fall of 2017 mr. Muellers office asked to interview don mcgahn, to the surprise of the white houses counsels office President Trump and his lawyers signaled they had no objection, without knowing the extent of what mr. Mcgahn was going to tell muellers investigators. Mr. Mcgahn was stunned, as was his own attorney william burke, who mcgahn had recently hired out of concern knowing he need helped to stay out of legal jeopardy. Mr. Mcgahn explained to others he told white house advisers they didnt appreciate the president s legal exposure. He also told them that it was insane that President Trump did not fi