adam schiff is demanding an investigation, calling out the trump white house for what they call a terrible abuse of power. speaker nancy pelosi is saying trump s actions, quote, appear to be yet another egregious assault on our democracy waged by the former president. let s go right to cnn s laura jarrett to lay out exactly what we re talking about here, laura. yeah, john, so i was covering the justice department when all of this happened. it s important to remember how it all starts. then attorney general jeff sessions was under enormous investigation. he was recused from the investigation. trump is furious. at the same time the house is investigating the connection between trump associates and russia and it has access to all kinds of highly sensitive documents. trump sees all of this incredible reporting that s trying to flush out the russia investigation. he s tweeting non-stop. he says his administration is going to find the sources for the leaks. what does the justice department
in the that s one possibility. that sounds like something that can be in play, certainly. meantime, you know, mr. trump is furious. he s been lashing out on twitter. now we have christian magazine saying that you should be put out of office for his im morality. could this give others pause? . well, i do think this is very interesting. the evangelical base has been important to donald trump and it s been strongly united behind him at least in terms of the polling that we ve seen in terms of public statements. there s a little bit of a split or some noise after trump made the decision to put america s
she is an associate fellow at the royal institute of international affairs. commonly known as chatham house. good morning, amy. thanks for being with us. . good morning. where would you like to start this interview? first of all, i guess it s with nancy pelosi not sending impeachment articles until senate democrats agree excuse me, senate republicans agree to the rules. trump is furious. what do you think of her power play here? it s really interesting to watch this play out. and as a political matter, it s not clear which way it will go. you remember we went into this whole thing with the democrats really reluctant to take on impeachment because of their concern that ultimately impact the elections in 2020. and so the fajt thct that she s choosing to prolong it now really suggests she feels like either the process in the senate is completely broken. and she wants to point out the
his way. we have a separation of government, a separation of powers. we have a duty of accountability. it s not personal. here is the basic question the american people want to know. was his tax policy influenced by his financial interest? is his policy to russia influenced by his overseas interests? is his policy in saudi arabia influenced by business dealing snz those adealings? those are fair questions. there s an effort to have transparency. the fact that he is, we re told, furious that adam schiff and the house intelligence committee hired former national security council officials to come work as congressional staffers investigating all of this on the committee, your reaction? it s the president not understanding how washington works. the president hired a lot of former house officials to work for him. he should be allowed to hire former house aitddes. here is the thing. you have been around washington a long time. it s much better for the president to get the information out
let s go to the white house for breaking news on the president s fury at democrats targeting him in multiple investigations. we re joined by pamela brown. the house intelligence committee chairman hired former national security officials for its investigation. that s not sitting well, we take it, with the president. reporter: that s right. the president made that known on twitter. we have learned that president trump is furious that adam schiff is recruiting these aitds aides. schiff said if the president is concerned about his hiring former trump administration staffers, he should be a better employer. thank you very much. reporter: tonight, president trump fuming over multiple investigations involving his administration. according to a house intelligence committee aide, chairman adam schiff has hired former members of the national