it seems like it s a joke, except it s not. what do they hope to accomplish in this? well, it is a stunt, laura. and i think probably the interesting thing here they have to reach out 45 years to find someone who s willing to go on all of the talking shows to say how bad the president is. and here s what we ve got the reason he s coming is the last convicted felon is in jail. so, this is beyond belief to have, you know, mr. dean come in and have a commentator for them. the president is serious about reducing the cost of drugs and securing our borders, nadler is not worried about getting to the truth. they should get woodward and bernstein and levitate some out
the president is a king. he also said that he may weigh the option of holding multiple administration officials in contempt of congress if they do not comply with the subpoenas that he has issued. the white house flatly rejecting house judiciary chairman jerry nadler s request for documents in its sweeping investigations into possible obstruction of justice by the trump administration. in a 12-page letter to nadler, white house counsel claiming the request was, quote, outside the constitutional authority of the legislative branch adding congressional investigations aren t intended to, quote, harass political opponents or to pursue an unauthorized do-over of law enforcement investigations conducted by the justice department this is the white house claim ing that the president is a
this so they weren t specific saying who responded, who didn t respond. is that right? reporter: that s correct. last week when i asked nadler specifically, do you expect responses from the white house, do you expect responses from president trump s eldest son, donald trump junior? he would not say. he said i don t want to talk about any individuals, and they re very careful not to single out individuals. we ll have to see in the days and weeks who does not respond, who gets subpoenas because this is probably going to be a fight that s going to play out, a document fight that s going to play out among a number of key recipients, people who may not want to give this information about what the democrats believe is are wrongdoing in the trump organization and the white house, wolf. see what these judiciary committee investigators do, they re going to have a lot of work going through those thousands and thousands of documents. there s more breaking news, manu, top democrats are d
they do say that they are encouraged by the early responses to today s deadline that they set two weeks ago as part of jerry nadler, the chairman of the committee s investigation, into what he believes are abuse of power by president trump, obstruction of justice, and an investigation that s expected to go into all aspects of president trump s business life, into what he s done at the white house and beyond. now, according to nadler, some of these individuals have said that they ll only comply if they get a subpoena. so expect some subpoenas going forward. others, he told me last week, have been defian and appears some are still being defiant and says this in a statement. it s my hope that we will receive cooperation from the remainder on the list and we ll be working to find an appropriate accommodation with any individual who may be reluctant to cooperate with our investigation. so back and forth expected in the coming days and weeks. subpoenas, more documents, they re going to go
beholden to the facts, but successful in selling a message. is that what the president is counting on with these investigations? well, in part, i mean you make lemonade out of lemons, right? congressman doug collins letter this past week to jerry nadler, the chairman of the judiciary committee has not gotten a lot of coverage. if you read it all the way through, it is devastating. it is absolutely devastating from both a political and legal standpoint. devastating to who, the president? to nadler. i mean, one of the things you commented about the promises the democrats made to bombard the white house and you are absolutely right. that is exactly what they promised. the problem is, while there is a minority of americans who really love that and cheer it on, that is not where most americans are. most americans want to see