you about. after days of questions about the president surprise medical visit this weekend to walter reed. we have new information from the white house. a letter from the physician to the president saying that the check up was routine and handled the way it was due to what s being called scheduling uncertainty. trumps visit to walter reed didn t follow the protocol of a routine presidential medical examine. the letter goes onto say quote despite some of the speculation the president has not had any chest pain nor evaluated or treated for urgent or acute issues specifically he didn t under go any specialized cardiac or neurologic evaluation. mayor buttigieg surging in a new poll in iowa. another shows he has a big problem with a huge voting block. the state of the race next. d sne holidays.
energy secretary to replace rick perry who is stepping down from that post after being swept up in the ukraine investigation. deputy secretary over at the energy department has been nominated by the president for that job. all right. thank you. let s go to capitol hill where house democrats have learned that rick perry is defying their subpoena. on what grounds did perry say he won t comply? reporter: we largely see the energy department here making the exact same argument that the white house has in resisting their own subpoena requests questioning and arguing about the validity of the impeachment inquiry given the house has not formally voted yet to start informal impeachment inquiry. in the letter sent in the last 30 minute, the energy department goes onto say quote, even if the inquiry was validly authorized, much of the information sought in the subpoena appears to
of it in the report. in fact, didn t the president say quote, this is on page 116, if he doesn t write a letter then maybe i ll have to get rid of him, end quote. yes. did porter deliver that threat? i again refer you to the discussion. it s found on page 115. okay. but the president still didn t give up, did he? so the president told mcgahn directly to deny that the president told him to have you fired. can you tell me exactly what happened? i can t beyond what s in the report. well, on page 116, it says the president met him in the oval office, quote. the president began the oval office meeting by telling mcgahn that the new york times story didn t look good and mcgahn needed to correct it. is that correct? correct as it s written in the report, yes. the president asked mcgahn
trump did not have discussions with him. certainly had no discussions with him in which he told him or counseled him to lie. if the president knew that a witness was going to lie but played no role in urging him, it certainly would be unethical. we re going to call in these witnesses and get to the bottom of all of these allegation. announcer: this is new day with alisyn camerota and john berman. welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. this is new day. it s monday, january 21st, 6:00 here in new york. alisyn is off, erica hill joins thus morning. isn t it a great morning? it s such a great morning for john berman because in case you haven t heard, john, do you want to tell the world? the patriots are going to the super bowl, which only happens once every year. is it s only one were to days a year i can say that. we ve been in a little bit of a drought for the last 11 months. they ll timely get the respect they deserve. thank you all for bei
questions to be asked. questions about obstruction of justice and collusion are the obvious questions that robert mueller wants to know the answer to. jason, rudy giuliani, the president president s out spoken attorney. according to the times say quote, we are restating what we have been saying for months, it is time for the special counsel s office to conclude its investigation without delay. is this something that is actually going to galvanize voters. is this something we talk about here but voters don t really care as much about it. i have to tell you, craig, i was in detroit and i am often in ohio and georgia. everybody knows how they feel of