Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Rosenstein threatening to impeach him for not providing enough records to congress yet reported when some documents are provided nunes does not actually read them nor will he answer many questions, especially not outside the friendly confines of fox news. You stepped aside from this investigation . Just like you know already im not going to talk about Intelligence Committee business. Democracy dies in darkness, my friend, get to work. The leading Democrat Party propaganda the chairman can say what he likes about the press. Keeping him honest, its his own partisanship at issue here. The house Intelligence Committee is not just any committee, one of two legislative bodies responsible for offer seeing some of the most important agencies we have and keeping the deepest secrets we hold. It matters whether or not a Committee Chairman is carrying water for their president and
Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Exactly what i saw Behind Closed Doors with the witnesses devin nunes was unwilling to call, the subpoenas hwa unwilling to issue for the record and all the efforts he made to do what he could to act as Donald Trumps fixer in congress. Now, the American People can judge it for themselves because they now heard it for themselves. Saying its his job and the republicans job to clear the president. Some people have been saying this is a partisan politician making a partisan speech at a fundraiser. To that, what do you say . America was attacked by russia. They didnt attack us to just screw around or test software, they attacked the idea of america, that if you work hard here, you can make it anywhere here. They want to undermine that so that idea doesnt go to russia. You would think republicans and democrats would unite as an antidote towards that attack and make sure it doesnt happen again. Every time we need devin nunes
on a committee that has always been bipartisan, he has chosen to put the president ahead of the country. Now, in 89 days we have a chance to go in a different direction and not make it just about politics, about us and democracy. Im sure if it was democratic president , there are democrats who would fault the same way. I hope not. Congress is supposed to be a check and balance on the executive branch. Your democratic congressman said nunes should resign for perverting the oath he took. I think that paul ryan, speaker ryan should remove devin nunes from being the chairperson. I dont think he should resign. Thats on his constituents. If they also believe we have a duty to protect our country above anyone else they should vote him out on november 6th. I hope they do. They have a strong candidate i think will work in a bipartisan
way so this doesnt happen again. You saw our reporter talking to devin nunes and trying to get a statement from paul ryan all day. There has been radio silence. Should the house leadership condemn these comments in your opinion. You said he should take him off the committee. Paul ryan should condemn this because this goes to the corruption donald trump promised americans he would clean up. When i go across the country or talk to my own constituents, theyre concerned about their healthcare and paychecks and concerned nothing gets solved in washington because its all about power and corruption. If we wanted to show the American People thats not what washington is about and they are empowered, we should get rid of a corrupt chairman doing everything he can to protect the president in the investigation. You really think he is corrupt . I think hes been corrupted with power and he believes his job is to protect President Trump. Our country suffers because of
that. Because the house Intelligence Committee chairman cannot show unity and protect us against future russian attacks, as we speak right now, the russians are attacking us. Theyre not afraid of us. They believe devin nunes and donald trump have given them green lights. I think theres too much corruption and what this election is about. Congressman swalwell, thank you. I want to get two more views, from wilson, author, and president of the Senate Conservatives fund. Rick, these comments by nunes, are they really a surprise, considering all of nunes past behavior when it comes to defending the president and the things weve seen him do . Devin nunes said out loud what everyone has known for a long time. He admitted his culpability in an effort to obstruct the investigation to the ties of the president of the United States to russia. This is a guy who is now
facilitating what is essentially a conspiracy to obstruct justice and essentially facilitating for political purposes only an investigation that could get into the heart of the russian meddling in our elections. I think it was one of the most shocking im not surprised because devin nunes is about as intelligent as a bucket of warm spit. Im shocked he did it in any room whatsoever where anyone could have had a recording device. This is 101 stuff. This guy went out there and said things that put him as a target as someone who is inordinately corrupt and Aiding And Abetting the obstruction of an investigation into russian attacks on our country. Ken, is it chairman nunes and other republicans job to clear the president . Not to clear him, no. Hes come to the conclusion, quite publicly, that there wasnt collusion. Thats different from the russian attacks on our elections. You heard the congressman just
before us conflate the two. He jumped from one to the other quite smoothly. Frankly, the president messes himself up doing this, too. There is a difference between the two. What devin nunes is doing inelegantly, i will grant you, the democrat side of the democrats saying, elect me so i can impeach the president. You have one of the biggest donors in tom stire. This is an element of the campaign this year. It is an element of the campaign, whether it should be or not, i think not, it is, on both sides of the aisle. One side wants theyre selling impeaching the president and the other side is selling protecting the president from impeachment. Thats the reality of this election. It isnt new. Rick. Ken, i want to say this very clearly. Devin nunes did not come to the conclusion that there was no collusion with russia or
conspiracy to engage with russia, he simply said he would stop any investigation that could lead to that. We will never find out if we have devin nunes in charge of this. This is the Proverbial Fox in the Henhouse Problem and nunes has stated over and over again. Hes gone out with wild claims about unmasking and all these secret reports he produced and all been completely nonentities, nothing burgers of the worst kind. We see the secret agenda underneath all this theater hes been engaged in. That agenda is to secret . To protect the donald Trump Presidency no matter what. This is not his job as a sworn member of congress. They swear to uphold the constitution, theyre a coequal branch of the government. I know you know that. Theyre not a bunch of Junior Managers at a Trump Golf Club trying to make the boss happy. Look, devin nunes can easily, and he appears to believe he is doing both of those things. He of course has not said what you just said he said, he has said the president Hasnt Colluded with the russians. That is his conclusion. You may not agree with that conclusion, youre waiting for actual evidence to show up. Why would we want that . And then of course the continuing rhetorical problem of people on both sides of the aisle that conflate the russian involvement in our elections pleural, and the question of collusion of which there is the president himself and i dont know about the ken, you pointed out devin nunes has you pointed out can i finish . You pointed out as the president impeachment, impeachment is a political
underundertaking. You can keep going. I will ask you this question. As you pointed out, the president continues to call the Mueller Investigation a witch hunt. Hes not talking about the allegation of collusion, talking about the entire thing as a witch hunt. Devin nunes in that tape says if sessions doesnt unrecuse himself, if mueller wont clear the president , its up to house republicans. That doesnt sound like a coequal branch of government. Thats the conclusion hes come to. Well, and hes done that insofar as he has the authority to do it. He hasnt seen any of the evidence. Thats not completely true. Theres Overlapping Evidence they have the mueller folks have. And what happened in watergate, there still isnt evidence of collusion, and thats because there wasnt collusion. There was involvement by the russians in the election but thats not you say based on youve
Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Conspiracy and collusion. I think we have a lot more trail to travel down with the evidence the Mueller Investigation has been gathering. What you saw in this recording with devin nunes, he doesnt care. He can have a videotape of Vladamir Putin handing trump a bag of cash and he would say, no, we have to protect the president , no, we will block any investigation, we will try to get the Deputy Attorney general fired so we can have our people short circuit into the president s investigation into russia and investigation into the interference, which is part and parcel of the president s team colluding with russia in this election. Ken, i want you to respond and we have to go. This does appear to be where you end up depends where you start. Rick starts with you heard the book title. I am a truth finder and truth seeker and also litigated in the fisa court so the unmasking is a serious deal to me. There is no collusion here. You cant say that you have not heard the evidence. Anderson, i answered that question. Asked and answered, your honor. The collusion so far, my qualifier, what weve seen so far spending more time than was spent in watergate is no evidence yet. You dont have any either. Youre describing circumstances we do not have the evidence. Im saying we should as americans to wait for the investigation to conclude. As a Law Enforcement officer i assume you believe the same thing. Yes. I just think all the information they need is available at this point. What else is there to get . Ken, appreciate it. Rick as well. For the record we requested devin nunes tonight. He did not respond to our question. Coming up new clues with what Robert Manafort is up to, the president s expartner and the citizenship of the first ladys parents and how they got through in the first place, a
door of their soninlaw trying to slam shut for others. And director spike lee and a story from decades ago rings terribly true today. Board of directors the chili pepper sweatout. Not cool. Freezing away fat cells with coolsculpting . Now thats cool coolsculpting safely freezes and removes fat cells with little or no downtime. And no surgery. Results and Patient Experience may vary. Some common side effects include temporary numbness, discomfort,and swelling. Ask your doctor if coolsculpting is right for you and visit coolsculpting. Com today for your chance to win a free treatment. The judge in the Paul Manafort tax fraud case made headlines saying he was wrong. And that wont the other news. Rick gates could signal how important he is. What are you learning about a Discussion Lawyers had with the judge about gates . Reporter anderson, as the president continues to attack the whole Mueller Investigation as a witch hunt thats run its course, we learned more evidence in fact the focus of this investigation, beyond the Manafort Trialy the question of russian interference and the question of whether the Trump Campaign cooperated with that russian interference is still an open investigation. There was testimony on tuesday, rick gates, the former Deputy Campaign chairman for the trump
campaign, was questioned about his interviews, more than 20 interviews with the Special Counsel. The prosecutor said he wanted that testimony kept secret, because as the prosecutor described in papers presented to the judge, that relates to an ongoing Criminal Investigation in his words. What are the two lines of investigation Special Counsel are looking at. Manaforts financial crimes weve been following these last few days at court and also russian interference and was there any cooperation from the Trump Campaign. By the prosecutors saying that is part of an ongoing Criminal Investigation, you get an indication that line of inquiry is still not closed. There have also been clashes between the prosecutors and the judge and the judge at one point admitting he was wrong. What else did he say . Thats one of the interesting qualities of this trial. The judge is a very vocal judge. Ive been there several times as
he chastised a prosecutor almost like a schoolteacher, telling him to look him in the eye and give a yes answer instead of a yeah answer. There was a moment yesterday the judge disputed the prosecutions ability to keep an Expert Witness inside the courtroom, in this case, a former irs agent and expert tax witness, the crime involved tax evasion. The prosecutor said, wait a second, judge, you approved this decision earlier, just look at the transcript. Lo and behold they looked at the transcript and the judge did in fact approve that. Today, a bit of mea culpa from the judge, i did say that was okay, my fault, my bad. Thanks very much. A happy moment for First Lady Melania Trump as her parents became u. S. Citizens and the parents controversial calls to end the Immigration Policy that brought them here. According to a source with
direct knowledge, she did what many children do, sponsored her parents green cards. This is what the president is trying to eliminate. He calls it chain migration. Under the current broken system, a single immigrant can bring in virtually unlimited numbers of distant relatives. We want to get rid of chain migration. Ending chain migration. Ending chain migration. This was a schumer deal. Schumer wanted this. We have to get rid of chain migration, all of these things were talking about. A guy comes in and then you have to bring his aunt, his uncle, his father, his grandfather, his grandson. A total desires that threatens our security and economy. And by a different marriage provides a gateway for terrorism. They think its good politically. I tell you what, i think its horrible politically. What do i know . But i did become president in a year and a half. The first inlaws attorney calls it family reunification, not immigration and bedrock policy. The first ladys office declined to comment. What can you tell us about the process the first ladys parents 20 went through to become citizens . Were learning how melania trumps parents came to this country and became citizens earlier today. It was in fact the first lady who sponsored her parents for their green card. To be clear, and you made clear, this is not out of the ordinary, a way Many Americans bring their Family Members to this country. The first ladys parents are from slovenia. Weve seen them around washington, d. C. , and sometimes travel with the president and first lady. Up until this point we didnt have clarity how they had gotten their green cards, turns out the first lady took advantage of the
family Migration Card like so many others do so they could settle down. All in contrast from the president s personal position. Has the white house had anything to say about the disconnect . Its incredibly noteworthy melania did this for her parents and a practice her husband does not like. We heard President Trump, you just played a great clip there, rail against the Family Migration Policy many many times, refers to it as chain migration. That particular part of family visa is a Category Trump wants to get rid of all together because he says they are harmful to this country. The first ladys office is not commenting on any of this, however, we do have a statement from victor and his wifes immigration lawyer, he told me earlier today, i cant comment on the president s politics when it comes to my clients but i have stood up against the
president s Emigration Policies personally. Youre seeing a disconnect between the president s policy views and the fact his wife has taken advantage of that policy for her parents. A source close to the white house tells cnn President Trump is scheduled to have dinner with his personal attorney, Rudy Guiliani and going back and forth whether t