House chairman jerry nadler responding today with this statement, quote, the president has no lawful basis for preventing these witnesses from complying with our request. We will continue to seek reasonable com dapgs accommodation on these and all discovery requests. The house also announcing its plan to vote next week to hold attorney general william barr and former white House Counsel Donald Mcgahn on contempt and proceed with hearings from the Mueller Report tuesday. The twin announcements were the partys latest attempts to kickstart stalled investigations into accusations of malfeasance and force key witnesses resisting oversight demands into compliance. On the more aggressive posture from the democrats, steny hoyer, the number two democrat in the house issuing this statement, quote, this Administration Systematic refusal to provide congress with answers and cooperate with congressional subpoenas is the biggest coverup in american history. And congress has a responsibility to provi
Which time, jake . You can pick your time. About the trump tower deal. Hes pleading guilty to get a reduced sentence which means hes saying what the prosecutor wants him to say. Youre saying trump might have talked to him about his testimony. So what . Is it not possible if its the truth. Im asking you for what happened or what didnt happen. Its not possible. He left the conversation thinking this is what the boss wants me to say . Not possible. Sara westwood is at the white house for us. Giuliani also had a colorful idea of what he thinks qualifies as obstruction of justice. Reporter thats right, ana. Making the argument simply removing a cabinet official, even one involved in an investigation is not itself obstruction of justice. Rudy giuliani arguing that would require an additional act of wrongdoing in order to become obstruction in what would otherwise be a lawful exercise of the president s Constitutional Authority to fire someone in his cabinet. This, of course, comes as the pre
Democratic governor begging aids to give him more time to dethe controversy after this photo showing a man in black face and another was discovered on the medical School Yearbook page. He just learned in a cabinet this morning he said if he resigns now he would be doing so as a racist for life. He wants time so he can clear his name. The only way to do that is to stay in office according to a source inside that meeting. This is all despite near universal calls. In fact we cannot find any current Democratic Office holder who has called for him to stay put in his job. He initially apologized and changed his story saturday saying its not him in the picture. He did however admit to having used black face to dress up as Michael Jackson during a dance contest in 1984 marking i believe the first time in american political history that a politician attempted to explain away one racist black face incident. He said he does not remember that he does remember. We are live from richmond. We have br
It was a terrible, terrible mista mistake. In the time since i have been a doctor, i have been a patriot, i have been a public servant. Many people calling for his resignation now would support. Is there ever any room for grays for somebody like Ralph Northam or Brett Cavanaugh or al franken . At laieast any room for grac . Is there any room for grace here in particular . Theres always room for grace but grace always comes with consequences, to be forgiven, to be extended a branch of love in ones fall i dont knowness, but there are also consequences that follow. And particularly in the context of black america, theres always the expectation of immediate forgive nishs as if we have this over developed forgiveness gene, among people who claim to be otherwise. So i think its important for us to understand that Ralph Northam can be extended grace, he has a life ahead of him but he no longer has the right to lead virginia. He has an jaagenda that is set speak to the most vulnerable in the s
The photo was given. Governor northam put out a paper statement apologizing for the photo saying the decision i made to appear as i did in this photo and for the hurt that decision caused then and now. Well, when it quickly became clear that wouldnt cut it, the governor put out a oneminute video apologizing, taking responsibility and pledging to work hard to regain the trust of virginians. But the calls for northam to step down continued to pace and from within the Democratic Party. Several democratic president ial candidates called on northam to resign and so did the naacp and the black caucus had a meeting with northam late friday night that did not go well because they left that meeting calling on him to step down. As friday night turned into saturday morning, the question seemed to become not if ralph northm would resign but when. When word came the governor was planning a press conference, everyone asuchlsumed it would bs resignation announcement but suddenly, it wasnt. Virginia G