Background . A live report from Kensington Palace. Im all about the royals. Lets begin on capitol hill where democrats are on the defensive as Congress Returns from the thanksgiving break theyre dealing with Sexual Misconduct scandals with senator al franken whos broken his silence and john conyers whos giving up a key leadership post. Garrett haake joins us from capitol hill. Garrett, nancy pelosi caught in the cross fire this morning. Yeah, chris, she was. This from an interview yesterday on meet the press. It just shows how supercharged this whole issue is. Its almost impossible for lawmakers to talk about these questions of Sexual Harassment and Sexual Misconduct. Particularly when it comes to members of their own party because of the perception of tribalism out here that everyone is looking out and watching out for the backs of their own. Heres what happened. Listen. We are strengthened by due process, just because someone is accused and is it one accusation, is it two, i think th
Covering the story every step of the way. Break it down for us. This latest development, give us the details and what does it mean. One thing that is really important is the context of this firing order by President Trump. It came in june. The Mueller Investigation only just begun at that point but it was already clear that it was going in dangerous directions for the white house. Recall President Trump told russians that he thought by firing james comey hes would relieving pressure on him regarding russia but that was not the case. The white house learned in june that Robert Mueller was investigating whether the president himself obstructed justice in addition to russia collusion. And so now trump gives the order, mcgahn refused to carry it out and now this is part of the Mueller Investigation into obstruction of justice along with trump asking comey to drop the fbi investigation into mike flynn, the firing of comey, and trump asking intelligence chiefs to state publicly there is no c