way to do it. and this is a dangerous way to do it. chris, your reaction to that as an attorney. i spent eight years on the house oversight committee. i took dozens of depositions. not a single deposition was attended by somebody who was not on the committee. and the transparenty here is even broader. it s not only the 47 other members. this could have been depositions just conducted by the house intelligence committee. but chairman schiff widened that to include two other committees along the way. so it could ve been only a dozen republicans. it s actually 47. and lindsey graham knows better. he was one of the impeachment managers and he understands this is a different posture than both the nixon and the clinton impeachment cases when there was a special counsel who had done months or in the case of nixon years of investigation. those investigative reports along with the witness testimony were provided to the house. in 1998, the house judiciary committee held no meaningful hearing
work that went into transparenty way they made a personal commitment to me and the crowns prince also made a personal commitment to the president when he spoke to him. reporter: after meeting with president trump secretary of state mike pompeo stressed u.s. ties to saudi leaders who are facing mounting accusations of a cover-up. i think it s important for us all to remember, too, we have a long, since 1932, a long strategic relationship with the kingdom of saudi arabia. reporter: still, the administration is taking steps to distance itself from the kingdom with treasury secretary steve mnuchin announcing he won t be traveling to saudi arabia for a global investment summit late they are month. democrats argue that s not nearly enough and accused the white house of trying to block lawmakers from finding out what happened to the journalist. it appears you ve got an administration that wants to shut down our own intelligence agency and not let them tell members of coming what s goi
senator udahl on capitol hill sent this letter to the pa asking about the incident and asking about the issue of transparenty. it is outrageous, somebody reporting on these kind of issues for a long time. that this is happening right now it is awful and we ll stay on top of this story certainly for our viewers. thanks very much. we re also following breaking news in hawaii. where fountains of lava from a volcano are shooting from cracks that are opened up at multiple points and the resulting pllava flow have forced people in shelters. stephanie elum is live on the scene. what are you seeing right now? reporter: well it is almost like a never ending disaster for the people affected by this eruption here, wolf. what we do know is that 3:45 there was another ash explosion from the summit and the plume up as high as 8,000 feet into the sky. luck you willy in the middle of
undermine the credibility of the mueller probe. and if it s the latest in a series of steps with that stated well stated or railroad clear intention, is it not from the firing of james comey with the president admitted in public was about the handling of the russia investigation to a series of tweets attacking a thousand players and institutions sara, involved in this, right. right and it s hard to believe the white house argument that this is suddenly a president who is particularly worried about transparency. because i certainly isn t worried about transparenty with anything else has to do with his government or his personal finances. he didn t release his tax returns. it s the rich explanation from the white house. but i think it s really fascinating when you go back and read the debate that these committee members went through on the house intelligence committee about the vote, the decision to release this memo, because there were so many options thrown out about ways to make
tillerson, you asked him about pledging to bring the press with him when he traveled around the world. he pledged that he would be transparent, that he would support full transparency. he s about to go to asia on his first major trip to asia as secretary of state. he s not bringing any reporters with him. did he go back on his pledge to you. look, what i m seeing now with the secretary of state, i hope he gets it because it s outrageous, but there s no transparenty or accountability. we are in a pry sis in our country. and the secretary of state, god bless him, he s new in there, when he was flying around the world for exxon mobil, he didn t take the press with him and didn t have shareholders. this is not america inc. this is the united states of america. we are a republic, we are a democracy, and the founding fathers wrote it in, ideas of the importance of the freedom of the press. and so for you to turn your back right now on the press and the