don jr. and eric, allen weisselberg, cfo of the trump organization, jared kushner, former white house counsel don mcgahn, former comes director hope hicks among many others. they re asking for documents tr the white house, trump s campaign, trump s foundation, as well as the fbi and the nra. a request was also made for information on that 2016 trump tower meeting to get dirt on hillary clinton about trump s intervention on the fbi on behalf of michael flynn, about the firing of james comey, the efforts to build a trump tower in moscow, possible russian financing and the hush money payments that michael cohen testified about just last wednesday. it s been noted before, it will be noted again, this committee, house judiciary has the power to draft articles of impeachment, which is what makes this new inquiry especially significant. earlier on this network tonight committee chairman nadler talked to rachel maddow.
for by the democrats, but nonetheless, the democrats say in their response to the nunes memo, the court was told that anti-trump political factions were involved in his work. so they say the court was a red flag about his bias. and. building on that summary, over to you, jeff. in addition to that in the memo, nunes saying that republicans are, quote, now part and parcel to an organized effort to obstruct mueller s probe. again the nadler s analysis that representing really the democrats most e detailed public response so tar. has there been a response to the response tr the white house. we re only an hour in to jerry nadler s six-page memo. not to the memo itself. i have reached out to officials and haven t received a response yet. but white house officials were echoing the president s own statement, his tweet this morning, which effectively laid the groundwork to discredit the
that occurred. the president was very clear in his tweet, it was wiretapping. that spans a host of surveillance options. the house and the senate, intelligence committees will now look into that and provide a report back. i think there s been numerous reports from a variety of outlets over the last couple months that seem to indicate that there has been different types of surveillance that occurred during the 2016 election. what you are saying is the president doesn t have an obligation to provide i m not saying that at all. what i m saying is the request made from the house is from the department of justice. i think that s an appropriate question to ask them. from a white house perspective, there s no question that there had been an abundance of report regarding surveillance and other activity that is occurred during the 2016 election.
employees and reforming the medical malpractice system so doctors are not forced to perform costly procedures and tests out of future litigation. our health care system is large, complex and critically important not only to the health of our citizens but to the health of our economy. through common sense, patient focus reforms, the president will work with congress to create a new system that doesn t impose a one size fits all government knows best vision on the american people. we will empower the american people to make their own choices about health care that make them best work for themselves and their family that will bring cost for everyone down. after the listening session, the president had lunch with vice president pence and secretary of transportation chow. later this afternoon, the president will welcome all his confirmed cabinet members to the white house for their first cabinet meeting. this is an important opportunity for the president to share his vision with the country
tonight we celebrate. tomorrow we go back to work. dana bash is in manchester. christine romans is in the election center digging into who voted and why. peter ham by is in south carolina, the next stop in this grueling presidential primary. let s begin with dana there. romney s two for two. he won iowa, he won new hampshire. this victory wasn t a surprise, not to most. he was expected to win. it s the size of his win that s really grabbing attention, however. is it enough to get the party to finally rally behind him? reporter: well, fred, that s probably not going to happen immediately because as you mentioned, all of these other candidates are still in the race. effectively, look, this was no question a huge win for mitt romney. you said certainly he was expected to win here because he was governor of a neighboring state, but the size of his win in terms of the overall number, but also the kind of voter that he got, namely the conservative voters in this state. there