In jeopardy. Investors are running for the exits. Why . If you look at how the market said in the past couple months, three months, it got up quite a bit. S p 500 up 17 for the year, the nasdaq up more than 20 for the year. Now investors are getting nervous because theyre Holding Stocks at high valuations and they dont know what the landscape may be if in trade deal follows through. Jim and poppy . Alisyn, stay on it for us. Well see if the futures are what plays out in the opening bill. Here in d. C. , were a couple minutes past the latest deadline for attorney general bill barr to give the House Judiciary Committee the full and unredacted Mueller Report along with some, not necessarily all, of the underlying evidence. Thats what the committee is asking for. If he refuses again, he could be cited for contempt. It wouldnt be the first time. The standoff would then move to a courtroom, maybe several courtrooms. Thats right. Mueller himself may appear before the Judiciary Committee, the
Everything. Walk us through on whats going to happen here. Dems have the. Defying a democratic subpoena that asked for the full unredacted Mueller Report, not a legitimate oversight request. They engaged in a back and forth to see whether or not they could reach any sort of middle ground. It was rejected by democrats, who came back and offered a counter offer. The Justice Department said no and then sent a very strongly worded letter last night, make a very serious threat saying essentially that the attorney general would urge the president to invoke executive privilege with respect to the materials subject to the subpoena. That could ground everything to a halt in term of what democrats are looking into as far as obstruction of justice, their investigation into potential obstruction of justice is concerned and could lead to a prolonged court fight. What could happen here today is that the democrats will Vote Along Party Lines to hold the attorney general in contempt, then the full hou
Democratic chairman of the committee and one for the republican Ranking Member of the committee. The chairman of the Judiciary Committee jerry nadler was at his new york office. He was not in d. C. The Committee Staff quickly made a digital copy and got the letter to him that way. We know those details, thanks to a Judiciary Committee Judiciary Committee was notified this evening that special Counsel Robert Mueller had completed his investigation. We are assuming that a similar process or at least a process with the same effect also unfolded at the senate Judiciary Committee around the same time today, we dont have the same kind of readout about that process, and so we know the logistics of how we got the notification. And obviously right now we have mostly just a ton of questions. How complete it is, who gets to see it. Who gets to decide who gets to see it and when. But after two years of almost entirely just questions about what mueller is doing, i mean, some answers will start to e
That hearing at the house Judiciary Committee. He would have been, he was scheduled to and now democrats are talking about the possibility of a subpoena, though nor the moment theyre focused on getting the fully unredacted Mueller Report without any of the redactions that were made and crucially with all of the underlying evidence, inste spent the day defending how he handled this is barr released and summarized that report not only against attacks from democrats but also a letter from the special counsel himself saying that he mischaracterized the special counsels findings. Manu raju is outside that house hearing. Barr is not there, he was meant to be the main attraction, so what happens today without him in the chair . Reporter democrats are going to make their objections known very clearly here. They are furious on multiple accounts with the Justice Department, not just the attorney general for refusing to show up, there is an empty chair right now in this room with a placard that s
Announcing investigation into the president s rivals. And this morning the Washington Post reports that President Trump asked attorney general william barr to publicly clear him of breaking any law on that call with ukraine. The post says the attorney general refused. The president is denying this report. He put it out in a new tweet just moments ago. Joiningous the phone is josh dawsy, part of the team that broke the story this morning. Let me just read for our viewers what your reporting found. President trump wanted attorney general william p. Barr to hold a News Conference declaring that the commander in chief had broken no laws during a phone call in which he pressed his ukrainian counterpart to investigate a political rival. Though barr ultimately declined to do so. People familiar with the matter said. The request from trump traveled from the president to other white house officials and eventually to the Justice Department. The president has mentioned barrs demurral to associate