decisions, any questions about whether any foreign interests are influencing the president, his family, inner circle. they re expecting a multi-house panel probe, multiple committees looking into this, and the president s ire is probably only going to be sparked time and time again. and yeah, the president is concerned about the ramping up of staff too, bringing in some former national security aides to help with that investigation, accusing them of stealing the staff, but the committee is hiring of these folks for one reason, to look into potential money laundering and if that occurred in the trump organization, that s going to be one focus of this committee in the coming weeks and months. obviously that s a big development. there s also, manu, a battle between the acting attorney general, matt whitaker, and the white house judiciary chairman. this is over whether whitaker is going to get served tomorrow or appear tomorrow. it has been high drama.
centrist democrats. 2020 hopefuls kamala harris, elizabeth warren, cory booker and kirsten gillibrand support the resolution, but will it fly with the party s center? democrats have to stay united on climate change to face down donald trump s climate nihilism. i think we can do that. we can t let resolutions like this divide us. reporter: now, we should underscore that this is a resolution. it s not a piece of legislation. it s not a bill that will become law, but there are house and senate members that are interested in it. they want to push legislation based on this thing. will it in part or many whole become law? the devil is in the details. we ll see what they come up with. thank you very much, miguel. next, jeanne moos on the art exhibit that has ivanka trump fighting back. i hear it in the background and she s watching too, saying
e-mail from the general counsel of the national enquirer, that bezos would need to say, quote, he has no knowledge or basis for suggesting that ami s coverage was politically motivated for influenced by political forces. that s in an e-mail. we won t publish the pictures as long as you say this, jeff. bezos says he will not agree to that statement because it is a lie and he references president trump in there who is a long-time personal friend with the founder of ami. oliver darcy is out front. this post is extraordinary, right? it is an extraordinary set of information. he has put it all out there. you re not going to blackmail me because i m going to put it out there. what are we learning? this is explosive so we need to take people back. what happened is the national enquirer published a big expose showing that mr. bezos was having a romantic relationship with lauren sanchez, a tv anchor, and they published this
pecker, long-time associate of donald trump. jeff bezos owns the washington post which the president regularly pill ories for its coverage and says he wants it to stop. he specifically says certain powerful people experience washington post news coverage will wrongly conclude i am their enemy. president trump is one of those people, obvious by his many tweets. also the post s coverage of the murder of its columnist, jamal khashoggi, is unpopular. david pecker was a long-time ally of trump. bezos is naming trump personally in this post. right. it s a very complex web of characters here. mr. pecker who owns ami and has been a long ally of trump for the campaign in 2016 we saw them run stories that were favorable
and lazy. and now these former nsc officials, people who could know the inner workings of the administration are going to work with schiff and democrats. by the way, there are a lot of investigations into president trump, his administration and his inner circle. we know of more than 20 tonight. but what they see as oversight president trump sees much differently. he calls it presidential harassment in all caps, saying it should never be allowed to happen again. i want to go straight to hill. manu raj ju is out front there. this is nasty and personal between president trump and adam schiff. reporter: it s going to get more intense because the house intelligence committee is only going to ramp up this investigation going forward. adam schiff announced yesterday his plan to not just look into russia interference in the 2016 election, any collusion or coordination that occurred between the trump campaign and the russians but also any financial interests, any business interests that are d