Wolf Blitzer looks at politics, breaking news and international stories. Undoubtedly, hes going to confirm all the suspicions mounting for the past year that hes been using his chairmanship to protect the president. We recall last year when he viewed some things he viewed as problematic in those intelligence reports. He rushed to the white house, briefed the president about it before even briefing his committee. He was forced to step aside from the Russia Investigation on his Committee Last year, but he still wielded considerable influence from the outside. He stopped democratic attempts to subpoena witnesses, to get more records, to schedule witness interviews. Behind the scenes, he mounted his own investigation to try to sew doubt on the fbi, the Russia Investigation, the mueller probe. That led to the release of the nunes memo from earlier this year, criticizing how that fisa warrant was obtained to monitor carter page. Democrats say this is all part of this effort by devin nunes to
David Gura hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Opportunity for a politicians challenger. In this case it is a democrat named nate mcmurray. I reached out to him a couple of hours ago and got this statement. He says this. It is absolutely true that Chris Collins should not be running for this or any other seat, a fact that the local Republican Party knew full well when they endorsed and celebrated him while he was under investigation for securities fraud. So the question now is, if this seat, this safe republican seat is now in jeopardy, can the democrat, nate mcmurray, raise enough money, secure enough outside support, and then win over enough rightleaning voters to pick up this seat and unseat any republican challenger, if it is Chris Collins or someone else . We have to see if that will be the case. One thing we know for sure is that democrats know all too well they only have to flip about two dozen seats to take back control of the house, d
That is our show for today. Hi to the kendrick clan in south carolina. At the family barbecue. Sorry i couldnt be here. Thats it for am joy. Richard lui has the latest. Also, the kendrick clan jonathan. Youll invite me one day. Youd love it down there. Thank you, jonathan. Im richard lui in for alex witt on this saturday. Heres what were watching, charlottesville, one year later, the president tweeting the city under lock down. And new protests planned. What changed since those clashes. Today, the citys mayor weighs in on that. And the white house is firing back over omarosa, her latest book. The moment were living in is grave. The Democratic Party must be a
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A recap of the days news. Truth is a choose your own adventure kind of thing because he cant explain away the following fracts. So listen, write dedown if you have a pen, if you have your phone on record it. So the White House Counsel Don Mcgahn sat down for 30 hours of interviews with Robert Muellers team and the white house doesnt know exact lewhat he said. The fact that in a matter of days the president s former attorney and socalled fixer Michael Cohen could Face Criminal Charges related to possible fraud and Campaign Finance violations. The fact that former Trump Campaign chairman Paul Manafort is on trial on charges that could land him behind bars for the rest of his life if convicted, and the fact that so far the special Counsel Robert Mueller has brought a total of 191 criminal charges against 35 defendants. There have been five guilty pleas. Those are the facts. That is truth. And the president cannot
distract and deflect from that. Facts matter. Now i want to bring in a man w
on the committee and i m going to beat them at their own game? do you think he was afraid to do that? i think that he has a very hard time telling the truth, chris. and i think if he is under oath in the front of the judiciary committee in such a judicious moment in the history of our country, it could be very dangerous for him. and i do think that it s the reason why he has obstructed this entire time. he has obstructed many witnesses from coming forth in front of the judiciary committee. we have been trying to go with an investigation for this president for months. and he hasn t allowed key witnesses to appear before the judiciary committee. so that s why i m not surprised he s not coming. do you think he would be in a perjury situation, to put it lightly? you know, i can t make any assumptions because obviously he s not going to be coming in front of the committee, but what i ve seen from this president is say one thing one day and then say a completely different thing the nex