I agree with them and glad they are taking a stand about it and hopefully taking that stand will make a difference. Good morning to you. Happy mothers day to all of you moms out there. Happy to have you with us. Im christi paul. Im martin salvidglv savidgen for Victor Blackwell who is off. A man has been booked with charged with tampering evidence last night. Investigators say they have found blood linked to the little girl in his apartment but havent said if they found a body. Last saturday, vince told police that a man abducted him and malia before freeing him and the boy. Volunteers have spent the last eight days searching for malia but they never lost sight in his story. Reporter darian vance is the last known man to be with mae look a who is missing vance, malias stepfather said he was on the way to the airport with malia and her 1yearold brother on friday. He heard a noise coming from the car so he got out to check if he had a flat tire and he told police he was ambushed by three hispanic men in a blue pickup truck. One of them makes a comment saying malia looks very nice, very sweet. The other male hits darian in the head and darian loses consciousness. Reporter vance says he and the two Young Children were abducted and he didnt gain conscious ness when he woke up and his 4yearold son was with him but malia nowhere to be found. Took him five hours to go to the hospital for his injuries and report malia missing. I just want to find malia. I just want to find malia reporter malias forth doubted those against vances story. They pushed back against the critics. As the search continued, there were more questions. On thursday, the car vance was driving the night malia disappeared was spotted in a Shopping Center parking lot a few miles away from where he said he regained consciousness. Malis mother said the suspicions added about the story. Do you still believe dare i dont know . Do you believe his story . No, i dont believe his story. Only because ive been out here every single day and doing as i have to do as a mother. Ive been trying and he hasnt been by my side, not one time. He hasnt called me. I havent heard from him since monday. I dont know what is going on. And its like if youre innocent, why cant you save yourself . Why arent you out here defending yourself . I defended you in good faith thank you so much to nick valencia there. Another story here. A pilot for an americans subsidiary was arrested for a 2015 triple murder. He was indicted for killing a kentucky couple and their neighbor and burning two of the bodies. Cnn National Correspondent natasha chen has more details now. The first thing that comes to mind is why . Motive . We dont know a lot about that from the prosecutors right now. But we do know that one of our affiliates wsmv in nashville, did an investigation in this about. 2016. They discovered in their reporting at the time that during martins divorce with his exwife, the exwife and victim phillips downed some disks labeled secret in their move and they turned those over to the fbi. That resulted in a courtmartial. Who weeks before that case was set to begin the murders happened. At the time wsmv interviewed martin he said he wasnt worried about being prosecuted. Fast forward and here is what prosecutors had so day about the sa case. After two years of hard work we we have the indictment of martin for one count of arson and one count of murder and burglary in the firstdegree and three counts of tampering with physical evidence. Reporter now the pilot was arrested yesterday at the Louisville International airport. American airlines gave this stateme statement. Back to you. Thanks for that. I want to bring in criminal defense attorney Janet Johnson to talk about this. First of all, janet, talk to me about the time frame here. This happened back in 2015. Had this gone into a cold Case Scenario and then it was resurrected somehow . Thank you is what happened. The son of the victim actually went to the Attorney Generals Office and said we think this is a cold case. We still think that there is somebody out there who committed this murder and we want you to look into it and that when the a. G. s office took it over in 2017. Apparently they about find evidence that had not been uncovered by Law Enforcement before that. I actually have been involved in cold cases where if you escalated to the statewide Law Enforcement, they have access to all kind of tools that local Law Enforcement just dont have. I also read that the passengers were waiting for a flight and later learned that their pilot was arrested for murder. Apparently they thought that it was a dui. Why would they arrest him right before a flight . You know, all of the people that were inconvenienced, you can imagine if youre a nervous flyer and youre thinking is our pilot drunk or is he . But its a little scary. Its actually smart move because pilots, for the most part, are not armed at the airport and very few are allowed to carry guns. Sometimes when youre apprehending someone two a serious crime like a murder, the Law Enforcement are exposed to some danger and if they got him on the job airport, they know he is going to be there, he has to be there and probably not armed so it makes it easier to apprehend him without anyone harmed or an event so a very smart thing that they did that, actually. I want to pivot to the College Admissions scandal and Lori Loughlin. She said she pleaded not guilty. We know Felicity Huffman has pleaded guilty. Does Felicity Huffman and all of these other parents who have pleaded guilty, does that complicate louflins case . Monday is when the official plea is entered. I think huffman had great representation and told her the sooner you take responsibility and you accept responsibility and say youre sorry, the better your sentence. Sure enough. She may get house arrest at this point. Lori loughlin, i dont know if her lawyers didnt advise her. I heard her say she thought they were bluffing. The u. S. Attorney would keep digging and she added more charges. I think she is in a deeper position than Felicity Huffman, and if Lori Loughlin does not plead guilty, may get more serious time. Is it too late for her to plead guilty and have that a mitigating factor of some sort . Thats a great question. Its never too late and if she goes to trial and is convict, the sentence would be worse. The best advice if i was advises her would be to plead guilty sooner than later and do it now and take responsibility and then you can argue, listen, i was confused, im just a mother, who wanted the best for my children and, you know, i deserve the same deal that Felicity Huffman got and here is why. There was an article in the New York Times recently that said this. Prosecutors say they have sent target letters to three students raising the prospect the students could face criminal charges. The prosecutor in court said some of these kids will no idea what was going on but some who were in on this. If they find that to be the case, what do students potentially face . Its a pr nightmare, i think, for the government. Because, you know, the students are young, they, obviously, were influenced by their parents. The students, though, would if they were prosecuted, face prison time. Sometimes target letters dont result in indictments and my hope would be that the target letter would, you know, just basically come in and meet with the u. S. Attorney general and they might cooperate and they might know other adults who were involved in this. If they got indicted, if they were prosecuted, i still dont think they would be facing prison time but they would be convicted felons and that is the one thing that all of these people are going to have on their records for the rest of their lives and thats not a small thing for an 18 or 19yearold to start life as a felon. I cant get over the thought when you were taught about anybody would have to go to trial for this. How do you defend this . Because there is evidence, there is phone evidence, you know, conversations in many of these cases and i believe in hers as well. There is. I think what you would have to do while she is saying this, she didnt really understand the scheme that she was involved in. But that why federal trials dont happen very often because the evidence is almost insurmountable. I would say odds she goes to trial are almost zero. Again, afterwards when youre convicted, it makes it very hard to argue that you deserve some sort of special consideration and that you should get less time. Janet johnson, always appreciate seeing you and getting your protest. Thank you so much. Thank you. The Washington Post says trump and his allies are blocking more than 20 separate democratic probes in an allout war with congress. Some experts are calling it the most expansive white house obstruction effort in decades. More on President Trump stonewalling next. As u. S. China trade talks fall allow, the markets react with almost no serious losses. Why to check your 401 k to make sure youre ready for what is ahead. We will have that economic discussion. Act dress Alyssa Milano is calling for a sex strike to fight borings laws. This and even this. 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Sarah westwood it at the white house and following all of the developments. Reporter good morning. President trump fill fixated on the role of don mcgahn in the Mueller Report and his tweet about his former white House Counsel came on the heels of reports that the white house, had asked mcgahn to come out and publicly state that the president did not strouk justice. Mcgahn declined to do so, even though sources do tell cnn that macguantana mcgahn that President Trump was frustrated by the fact that mcgahn didnt want come to come out and clear trump obstruction of justice after the Mueller Report explicitly did not. Here is what trump wrote on twitter yesterday. President trump is on record previously, publicly, praising mcgahn who served on his campaign and came into the white house and was the president s first white House Counsel. Just for some context in the Mueller Report, muellers investigators concluded that President Trump asked mcgahn at one point to try to have mueller removed from the special counsels position because of what trump saw as conflicts of interest. Mueller did finish his report but President Trump is clearly still wanting to clear up this Public Perception that the president may have obstructed justice and his request to mcgahn to come out and publicly state that just shows the measures that the white house is willing to take to betray muellers report as a total exoneration of trump. Sarah, thank you for the update. Joe biden is respond to go Rudy Giuliani cancelled ukraine trip. He had decided to go up to ukraine to trumps opponent but to reverse wanted not to face that. Here is elizabeth warren. It is highly unethical for the personals own lawyer to meet with officials from a Foreign Government to see if she can influence somehow the upcoming president ial election. We have had enough of that and Rudy Giuliani should just back off. The Biden Campaign released a statement yesterday saying its great to see all of these strong progressive voices stand up to this attempt as a blatantly political smear when in and of itself reflects the urge need for change and to restore the soul of the country. President trump and his ago lies are facing off House Democrats over dozens of investigations. The Washington Post reporting that President Trump and his allies are, quote. What experts are calling the most white house effort in decades. Courting the post saying the president has failed to respond or imply with at least 79 requests for documents or other information and as we have seen, the Trump Administration has used executive privilege to keep information from public view. Its blocked aides from testifying, refused document requests and File Lawsuits to Keep Companies from complying with subpoenas here. So siraj hasmi is with us and julian zeleny. Thank you both for being here. Good morning. Absolutely. 79 requests. Julian, this, obviously, highlights two things. One, President Trumps aversion to transparency, even though he said he would be the most transparent president on the planet. It also highlights the democrats laser sharp focus on investigating him. Who is more at risk with this headline, President Trump or the democrats . Well, i think that the president is at risk and the issue is the use of executive power right now is the question on the table. This is a very expansive flexing of president ial muscle. Its a blanket note to congressional investigations i think if you look at national approve ratings the president s use of power in the spotlight rather than the democratic investigations and i think this is what constitutional crises look like. Paige yesterday was saying its really their only option because they refused to provide records and then it goes to the court and then it gets you know, refuse the subpoena and filing of briefs and appeals and motions and could go on for years. Two it be worth it for the democrats to focus their investigation, or is everything on the table out for game . Thats is the thing here. I had thoughts about this coming into the studio, do democrats really get the benefit, if they focus on, say, specifically trumps tax returns as opposed to, say, focusing on the Mueller Report . It seems a catchall here if they go after everything and get nothing, then they have at least, you know, a lot more fodder to say that President Trump and his administration are blocking every single congressional Oversight Effort that we are having as opposed to saying trumps tax returns, he is blocking those versus the Mueller Report. The specific concerns that they have there. So they cant actually hone in on one particular thing. They can just say look at these number of attempts of obstructing congress and i think the key point if the Trump Administration drags this out further, i agree it would actually help them more because democrats would probably grow tiresome of the Trump Administrations efforts and prolonging this along the 2020 effort is in trumps best interesting. I got you. So, julian, youve got an article in the Washington Post that i want to read. If House Democrats stand by as institutional norms crumble, they will down in the history books as complicit. Youre saying they need to move towards impeachment. There are people who want to see institutional norms crumble. What do you say to them . Look. We have been through a period where the criticism has been republicans had power i