Obstruction effort in decades. This woke the two sides could be headed for more clashes. Democrats are giving the irs and the Treasury Department until friday to turn over six years of the president s personal taxes, and democrats are considering multiple contempt charges against Trump Administration officials, including u. S. Attorney general william barr for not turning over the unredacted version of the mueller report. Here the Trump Administration has decided to say a blanket no, no to any kind of oversight whatsoever, no witnesses, no documents, no nothing, claiming executive privilege over things that it knows there is no basis for. Theres no basis executive privilege over hundreds of thousands of documents regarding events that took place before donald trump was president. You cant have a privilege, an executive privilege when youre not the executive so they know that vast categories are inapplicable to the privilege here, so they are just stonewalling. Cnns Jeremy Diamond is at
Hell meet with european allies to discuss recent threatening actions and statements by the islamic public of iran. Secretary mike pompeo will coordinate with our allies and partners to ensure the security of our interests in the middle east and around the world. The European Partners that hes meeting with want to keep whats left of the iran nuclear deal. But since last week iran said it is no longer going to keep parts of the deal, european allies agree there needs to be some response if that is, indeed, what iran is going to do. That will likely come in the form of sanctions. The u. S. Wants to talk about the threat as well. This comes days after the u. S. Sent additional ships, bombers and patriot missiles to the persian gulf in the face of what it perceives to be a threat from iran that it or its proxies could imminently attack u. S. Interests or allied interests in the region. It also comes one day after there was some incident involving commercial ships off the coast of the uae in
For ukraine and whether it created a conflict of interest for the former Vice President. Here is randi kaye with more on giulianis accusations and the holes in those claims. The president s lawyer wants to know whether or not joe biden used his political power as Vice President to shut down an investigation into a Ukrainian Company his son hunter biden was working with. Big story. Its a dramatic story. I guarantee you joe biden will not get to election day without this being investigated. It will be a massive scandal. Reporter giuliani says he stumbled to upon the biden story while investigating democrats efforts to spread misinformation about trump. He claimed to cnn in 2016 as part of a broad anticorruption push by the u. S. ThenVice President biden pressured the Ukrainian Government to oust its top prosecutor. He claims that prosecutor was investigating the Ukrainian Company, a Natural Gas Company which bidens son hunter was on the board of. After that prosecutors removal ukraines n
President s taxes. A powerful House Committee chairman has formally issued a subpoena for President Trumps tax returns. Its the strongest official demand yet for papers that trump has, of course, so far refused to give up. The speaker of the house could get involved if that subpoena is not honored. Then, the attorney general. The House Judiciary Committee voting to recommend that congress hold him in contempt over his refusal to hand over the full, unredacted mueller report. That same committee might hit other Administration Officials with contempt charges this week and issue them all at once. And what about Robert Mueller . Will he ever testify before congress . Judiciary officials say, yes. Not this week. Theyre working on another date. President trump either doesnt want mueller to testify or doesnt care. His position on the subject has changed several times. And look at all of these democraticled investigations. At least 20 of them. The white house is pushing back on every single on
Known to be with him the missing 4yearold. But since the beginning police say his story has been full of holes. A pilot has been indicted for killing three people in 2015 and then burning their bodies. Today, we can announce an indictment of Christian Richard martin. Do you worry that you fully prosecuted in the murder case . No, i have most worries about that. The battle over abortion laws is intensifying. We are taking a stand. Our industry is taking a stand. 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. 7 01 on this sunday. Youre up early. We are glad for it. Im christi paul. Im Martin Savidge filling in for Victor Blackwell who is off. Developments after tragic nature of a missing girl in the houston area. The man who reported the disappearance has been arrested now. He was pooked into tbooked l. Investigators say they found blood linked to the little girl in his apartment but have not said i