putin meets. ukraine is turning the tide in the war and taking key territory. first, 20 hours that matter a whole lot, very lot to your life. the biden white house has a deal in place to avert a major rail strike. the 20 hours of negotiations included a call from president biden, who reportfully sided with union real workers. amtrak is scrambling to get back on the rails trains its canceled as it anticipated the strike. the president holding a rose garden event to savor the moment. it would have meant shortages of key goods and price spikes on everything from gas to key groceries and more. every good you need, is delivered on a rail where it needs to go. today is a win, i mean this sincerely, a win for america. straight to the white house. k walk us through how this happened. reporter: it s not only a big win for president biden but a big relief for the white house, who thought economic consequences would look severe. had they not gone to the deadline on friday. that
we have the data driven program that show where the fraud was committed. that s bogus. there was no such fraud committed. that s after the election, tall way up to january 6th, where he is getting incoming. from mick mulvaney. the president needs to stop this. president needs to stop this. rinse priebus, tell them to go home. meadows had eyes on just about everything. the significance of where does he have privilege and where does he not? going back to richard nixon in the 1970s, courts haven t looked very favorably on executive branch employees claiming privilege with respect to criminal investigations. meadows and everyone else has an uphill battle here. exactly as you said, these are senior white house employees engaging with the president on possibly white house business. and they might have some claim to executive privilege.
see just a i don t mean to minimize it, but just a false statement or perjury charge? or is this, you know, going to be a collection of charges against roger stone that are not just lying to congress but also the broader conspiracy in the election? we won t know that, obviously, until so michael cohen, the final thing he pleaded guilty to before his sentencing was one count of lying to congress. we now have this reporting, great reporting from the washington post that securing an official transcript from the committee would be a necessary step before pursuing an indictment. on the list of all the people that went up before congress, it includes the president s son, includes jared kushner and steve bannon and rinse priebus. do you think we re entering a period where all of these people should be crossing their ts and dotting their is? i think all of them that lied should be worried. look, i think there are a couple of things here. let me just say, congressman
trump team constantly undermining the rule of law and slagging the credibility of law enforcement officials who now are going to put evidence in front of the public. what does it mean that federal problems, the mueller probe and judge here in new york cited the crime of lying to congress. a whole bunch of people, much wider universe than just jared. steve bannon was before congress. rinse priebus. a bunch of these folks went up to congress and it is a known/unknown whether they were truthful. the message sent today was a couple of things. there s an understanding now that when you lie to congress, you are lying to the american people. you are lying to the folks we elected to represent us, number one. it s serious. number two, you are right. the list of people who went before congress in various committees and hearings and may have been directed to say what they said, may have had their material prepped, edited,
can you talk about the stakes and i think there s a list of press staffers on it that s become public that mueller is seeking to talk to some of the aides on that flight. can you talk about the stakes for anyone involved in that and how that s really fallen apart and become a real flash point in the investigation? a number of staff. the communications staff, mueller wants to talk to hope hicks, sean spicer, rinse priebus and others.resistance. it s not easy to tell the president, sir, i don t think we should do it this way. there somewhere that suggested, i m not comfortable with this. some staff back at the white house who suggested we should do this differently. the president stepped in and said we need to, and whether he dictated word for word what he wanted to be said or said this is the thrust of what i want. and that s a story that fell apart. and that story fell apart the white house s story. the reporting was never challenged. phil rucker was on and this reporting they ne