Russian connection. I appreciate your agenda here, but the reality is at some point report the facts. Facts are that every sinle person who has been briefed on this subject has come to the same conclusion. Im sorry that disgusts you. Youre shaking your head. Sandra salad dressing made its appearance today. John roberts live at the white house. John, every day is different when it comes to that press briefing. What did we say today . Reporter i have to admit thats probably one of the better lines sean spicer has used. There was talk about sally yates. You mentioned this at the top. Story was this morning that the white house was trying to block sally yates from testifying before the House Intelligence Committee and revealing some privileged information. That would be information that went back and forth between the white house, specifically information about deliberations. Well, when you take a look at the letters that were sent between attorneys for sally yates, the department of justice, attorneys for sally yates and the white house, it tells a different story. I managed to obtain these letters. Theres a specific clause in these letters at the end where sally yates attorney has been asking about whether or not they can get permission to put out this privileged information in the Intelligence Committee. The attorney writes, quote, if we do not receive a response by monday, march 27th at 10 a. M. I will conclude the white house does not assert executive privilege over these matters. Well, the white house didnt respond, so the attorneys did not hear back, therefore, the white house was giving defacto approval for sally yates to testify before that committee and to talk ab privileged information. Now, then theres another narrative thats running around out there that devin nunes cancelled a hearing monday which was never really scheduled to begin with, so that the white house didnt have to publicly invoke an assertion of executive privilege. That question was asked the press secretary. Heres how that went. Listen. Not to me. Hes a member of the house. Appointed by the speaker ppl that is entirely up to the speaker and the members of the house of representatives. Were not going to start commenting on that kind of stuff. I do think he is running an investigation which we asked for. Reporter okay. That was what we were hoping to run for you, sandra. That was sean spicer when he was asked whether or not the white house thought that devin nunes should step down, as Many Democrats have requested. If we have that other piece of sound, lets play for you how this back and forth went over the idea of whether or not the white house was trying to assert executive privilege by having that hearing cancelled. Listen to this. White House Counsel office ever consider invoking privilege as it relates to sally yates . No. Theres no connection between the president or the staff here and anyone doing anything with russia. And i think that the view here was great. Go share what you know. So, no. Thats why the Washington Post should be ashamed of how it handled this story. It was 100 false. The letters they published back up exactly what were saying. That she was asked about this information. The attorney asked the doj. The doj said she had to ask the white house. They made it very clear, if you dont do, this we are going to go forward. We had no objection to her going forward. Thats it. Reporter and again, sandra, when you look at these letters, youve got one to the department of justice asking whether or not she could testify. The doj said you need to check with the white house because its the president who, quote, owns that information. White house doesnt write back to the inquiry and so basically this is approval. Thats what the white house is asserting today. Sandra all right, john roberts. Thank you. Live outside the white house for us. For more on this, we are joined for a top democrat who is calling on nunes to step down arguing he breached proet srol when he viewed classified documents on white house grounds. Lets bring him in. A member of the House Intelligence Committee. Congressman, thank you for joining us. Hi, sandra. Sandra i take it that you were able to hear at least some or all of the press briefing that just went on. So be clear at the very top here, what is it that you believe should happen with nunes . Are you asking him to recuse himself from any of these russian probes . Are you asking him to step aside like some of your fellow democrats . For the sake of the credibility of our investigation on the House Intelligence Committee, i think chairman nunes should recuse himself from that investigation. Because he also needs to be credible with the other nonrussia work that we do thats so important. I have worked well with chairman nunes in the past. I have appreciated the way hes led us in a bipartisan way. If were going to do that nonrussia stuff he should allow other members to come forward and lead. Sandra please tell us why. What we have heard from nunes himself is that he went to the white house to meet with an unnamed source. We still dont know who that is. He didnt meet with the president or any of that. He said he needed a secure location to view those documents. Why are you asking for this . We were working together and going down an investigative road together, and he exited to go and work with the white house. Sandra, whats so disturbing is theres nothing that he learned that he couldnt have learned at the capitol. Theres no reason he couldnt have shared it with mr. Schiff. And theres no reason that he should go to the white house and share it with the president , Whose Campaign is under criminal and Counter Intelligence investigation. Thats a conflict of interest. And so i think the best thing we can do at this point is have him recuse himself from the investigation, but all have a parallel independent commission which was always the most comprehensive way to get to the bottom of what happened. Now its an insurance policy against a compromised house investigation. Sandra there are some who say you and others are making a whole lot out of nothing here. Speaker of the house paul ryan was very clear earlier today saying, no, nunes should not have to recuse himself. Listen to this. Should devin nunes recuse two, do you know the source of his information . No and no. Sandra your response to the speaker . Sandra, the fact that im talking to you today, which i enjoy talking with you and not at the public hearing that was scheduled with sally yates and James Clapper demonstrates that were no longer making progress with our work. And that progress stopped after last mondays hearing when chairman nunes chose to go and work with the white house rather than work with members on the committee. I think the fact that the American People are now in the dark as to where were going with this investigation is the reason that we need new leadership. Sandra all right. Lets get more on the Trump Administration and this report out of the Washington Post today that Trumps Administration was trying to block sally yates from testifying to congress on russia. We just heard from the white house, congressman, yates was not blocked from testifying. That coming from sean spicers mouth just a few moments ago. We have a rule around here, sandra, that if its coming from sean spicers mouth, the opposite probably happening. So when you pull all of this out one by one, you may say, well, the white house never responded so they didnt have a position or, you know, Michael Flynn forgot to tell the Vice President or Jeff Sessions forgot that he had met with the russian ambassador. But when you put all of this together, what you see is behavior consistent with a coverup. Thats why we should have an independent Commission Look at this. Because the people we are counting on to be impartial keep letting us down. Sandra we got your side of the story, thats for sure. Congressman, thank for coming on with us. My pleasure. Sandra we do want to get more on this. Michael warren, Senior Writer for the weekly standard. Michael, you were listening to that. What did you make of that . Look, i think the biggest problem with this whole issue is there are more questions than answers that we get. I think we should also separate two related but different issues here. Theres the question of the substance of what chairman nunes is claiming in these intelligence documents, which is this question of, was this conversation, these conversations that were being monitored, were they between two foreign entitys . Were they between a u. S. Person and a foreign entity . Which direction were they going . What was the Intelligence Community collecting . And whether or not the unmasking was inappropriate . Thats one set of questions. The second set is more to what the congressman was talking about which is the process for getting this information and learning about it. And that i think is where chairman nunes has some problems here, at least at the very least with the perception that hes sort of blurring the separation of powers between congress and the white house. Thats something that i think the white house could do a lot to clear up. Sandra youve got Top Democrats like chuck shumer who are saying he shouldnt just recuse himself. He should step down altogether. As we heard nunes on the Oreilly Factor last night, he said, why should i . Whats the answer were hearing to that . Well, we shouldnt be surprised that democrats are trying to take political advantage of this. That seems to actually be the story for pretty much all of the parties involved in this, which is you sort of take your own reality and say, well, this clearly indicates that the tpablgt facts that i would like to be true are true and tell this narrative. The problem is we just dont have enough facts for, for instance, who was nunes source in the white house . He told eli lake, a journalist, that its not a white house staffer but an intelligence official. Why is that intelligence official in the white house . Is he detailed to a White House Office . Is he simply working in the white house in an office space there . These are all questions that could help explain these issues and could tell us whether or not devin nunes needs to recuse himself or not. Sandra if we could finish with the sally yates story. The Washington Post saying the Trump Administration tried to block her from testifying on russia. We just heard sean spicer and the white house saying that is not the case. Yeah. I mean, look. The Washington Post article seems to leave a little more than what the evidence suggests. Theres not enough information. Again, this is a recurring theme here, whether or not the dojs letter to sally yates attorney. Theres no evidence that thats the case. Theres no evidence that chairman nunes cancelled the hearing in order to follow what the white house direction. Theres a lot of suggestion in this Washington Post article. Sandra makes me wondering how much is the conversation coming out of the white house. Well leave it there. Michael, thank you for joining us. Former Vice President dick cheney with some provocative words about russia and vladamir putin. Has moscow declared war on washington . Despite last weeks failure of the healthcare bill to dismantle obamacare, republicans are not throwing in the towel just yet. We all want a system in healthcare where everybody can have access to affordable coverage. We dont want a Government Run Health Care system. We all agree on these things. From engineering and manufacturing. To stealth bombers. To nextgeneration fighters. To landing an unmanned vehicle on a carrier for the first time in history. Just wait till you see whats next. Thats the value of performance. Northrop grumman sandra dick cheney not just accusing russian president putin of trying to interfere with the u. S. President ial election, but calling it a hostile act. There is not any argument at this stage that somehow the election of President Trump was not legitimate, but theres no question that there was a very serious effort made by mr. Putin and his government, his organization, to interfere in major ways with our basic fundamental democratic processes. And some quarters that would be considered an act of war. Sandra mr. Cheney speaking at a conference in india, saying he expects russia to con these kinds of efforts in the future including attempts to undermine nato. House republicans not giving up on replacing obamacare. Speaker paul ryan saying theyll Work Together until they get it right. Chief Congressional Correspondent mike emanuel live on capitol hill. Mike, does this mean there are signs of compromise . Reporter sandra, good afternoon. Thats the question i asked House Speaker paul ryan. Last week he had members of his own party who could not get to yes on the bill. Ryan told me today he is not giving up hope. I dont want us to become a factionalized majority. I want us to become a unified majority. That means were going to sit down and talk things out until we get there. We saw good overtures from those members from different parts of ourb conference to get there. Because we all share these goals. Were just going to have to figure out how to get it done. Reporter last week was an artificial timeline for action on health care. Speaker ryan said hes not going to do that again on this critical issue. Sandra . Sandra mike, what are we hearing about democrats and what theyre saying after Party Leaders celebrated the failure of the gop bill last week . Reporter well, top Democratic Leaders are reaching out to their leaders asking for input on how to fix obamacare, how best to improve it. Nancy pelosi sending a letter to her colleagues today c congratulating them on their fight to repeal and replace obamacare. Now she has shifted her focus on improving the Affordable Care act. The focus now should be on improving obamacare. Were at the table. Were ready to negotiate. We just need them to abandon the purely political attacks on obamacare theyve obsessed over for seven years. If republicans and President Trump honestly want to work with democrats on healthcare, youll find a partner in democrats. Reporter democrats are saying give up your efforts at repeal and theyre ready to talk. That seems rather unlikely here with the climate on capitol hill. Sandra mike emanuel, thank you. Ford announcing a big investment here at home. That could mean a significant number of new jobs. Where those jobs could end up. Plus, house Intelligence Community chairman devin nunes dismissing calls to step down from the investigation into russian muddling in our election. What hes saying today. Umbrellas you need one of these. You wouldnt put up with an umbrella that covers you part way, so when it comes to pain relievers, why put up with just part of a day . Aleve, live whole not part. Tell you what, ill give it to you for half off. Sandra a federal judge approving a plan to replace Water Service lines at 18,000 homes in flint, michigan. The deal will settle a lawsuit over flints lead tainted water crisis and require michigan and the federal government to pay for the nearly 100 million fix. Consumer confidence surging to a 16 year high, jumping to the highest levels seen since december 2000. Joining us is Charles Payne the host of making money with Charles Payne. An awesome show in the evenings. This is notable. A 16 year high. This is an harbinger of thins to come. You can feel the momentum. Its happened since the november election. But the rate that its happening is mind boggling. You cannot dismiss the fact that this sort of enthusiasm, this sort of confidence feeds on itself. I continue care what your tax plan is. If the public doesnt buy into it, it doesnt work. Part of success is selffulfilling. This tells us the American Public is thrilled. This has already materialized into reality. Sandra this is a reflection of the average american just feeling more confident right now, feeling like were in a business friendly environment . Is this attributed to the president . You can go to Something Like the National Federation on business, small business, they break it down before november 8 and after november 8. Clear distinction that this has happened. What i love is that its continued since then. Market has slowed but the need to surface, these things keep bubbling up. It means great news for the economy. Sandra i dont know if its you talking or me, but im watching the big board. The dow is up 170 points, at the highest levels of the session as we speak. And this is coming off the longest losing streak for american stocks in like six years. So why are we seeing this bump up today . I think you have a couple things. That whole healthcare, gop debacle is behind us. Feels like theres a concerted effort now to focus on tax cuts, tax reform, things that have an Immediate Impact on the economy. People are feeling a sigh of relief sandra the failure of the healthcare bill was bad for markets, but now were moving on. The disarray was bad for markets. Sandra ford is a huge story today. This 9 billion u. S. Investment saying theyre going to create or retain 8500 job