Show tomorrow. Also, big question from today. How can the attorney general rationalize clearing the president on crimes that are driven by intent without knowing what the president s intent was . Thats the big question for cuomos court. Well take it on. Lets get after it. So the latest is that chairman nadler in the house says that the a. G. Is trying to blackmail his committee by not showing tomorrow and hes threatening to hold mr. Barr in contempt unless the full, unredacted Mueller Report is handed over. Now the question is, should they subpoena mr. Barr . Why did they not . They had that available to them. Mr. Barr has no interest in changing perceptions about him, given what he said today, especially when it comes to suggestions that hes just covering for the president. We saw that when he made excuses on trumps behalf, parsing words over what the president may have meant when he talked to don mcgahn and others. Heres a sample. The president never directed him to fire, and there i
Investigation goes. Reporter we know the ntsb team from d. C. Just arrived within the past hour here in jacksonville. They are going to look at the plane thats still sitting in shallow waters. They are going to document what they see and try to figure out whether there was human error involved, something with the aircraft or whether the weather events had anything to do with this. It went down in the st. Johns river. It was coming in for a landing from cuba. It apparently slid off a runway and into the water. 136 passengers and seven crew members were on board. In the cabin, a mixture of civilian and military personnel. An attorney from chicago was on the flight and spoke to cnn. As we went down, we had a really hard landing, then the plane bounced and screeched and bounced some more. Then it came to a complete, like, crash stop. Reporter fire and rescue crewed arrived shortly afterward. Some were treated at the base some going to local hospitals. Know critical injuries or fatalities.
Good morning, everybody. It is thursday, may 2nd. Im yasmin vossoughian. There is so much to cover this morning on the heels of that Senate Testimony yesterday by attorney general bill barr. The ag dug in, defending in his handling of the russian probe after special counsel bob mueller took issue with the way the findings were put out to the public. Now barr is refusing to show up for a hearing in the house later this morning. Well show you those contentious moments yesterday involving some tough exchange involving several senators president ial candidates. But first the Justice Department is also doing its part to shield the Trump Administration from congressional oversight, missing yesterdays deadline to comply with a House Judiciary Committee subpoena for the full unredacted mueller report. As attorney general bill barr pulled out of todays hearing claiming he obtuse the democrats plan to allow the Committee Counsel asking questions along with lawmakers. Justice department stating t
Thats right, fred. Lets start with the president saying that he believes he would be within his rights to ask attorney general bill barr to look into former Vice President joe biden and his son, hunter biden. This stemmed from events that took place in 2016, when joe biden was in office. Then Vice President biden was one of several western leaders to push for the ouster of ukraines then top prosecutor. That ukrainian investigator at the time, or around this time, was looking into a Ukrainian Energy company in which hunter biden had a financial interest. Biden was not alone in pressuring this ukrainian official to step down. There is no evidence that joe bidens actions were connected to his sons business activities. Nonetheless, trump said he could be interested in having the attorney general investigate this. In the same interview, he acknowledged Vice President joe biden, at the moment, looks poised to be the most likely democrat to face him in the 2020 election. This also comes as th
Of what we watched yesterday. Five hours in the u. S. Senate. It went like this. Do you expect to change your mind about the bottom line conclusions of the Mueller Report . No. Do you know bob mueller . Yes. Do you trust him . Yes. That we have those notes . No. Why not . Why should you have them . You still have a situation where a president essentially tries to change the lawyers account in order to prevent further criticism of himself. Thats not a crime. Mr. Attorney general giving for credit for knowing what the hell is going on with you. Not really. This line of questioning. Listen, you slandered this man. What i want to know is how do we get to this point . How do we get to the point bill a sample of yesterday. Well go to jerry nadler in a moment. Sarah sanders is with me now on the north lawn of the white house. We may have to interrupt this interview. Has the president told bill barr what he should do, sarah . Im not aware that he has instructed him to do anything. What i am aw