About these elections would russians go to the polls knowing there was almost no doubt president Vladimir Putin would be reelected well, history is set to repeat itself as russians are voting right now. And putin is running against no real opposition. Thank you so much for watching news night. Laura coates live starts right now. Hush. Money, classified documents in a ruling that could change everything. And Donald Trumps criminal cases tonight, and Laura Coates Live well ill, if you add march 25th on your bingo card, looks like you are out of luck. My friends, because thats when Donald Trumps first criminal trial was supposed to start. Now i say supposed to start because its so often happens in the universe of trump legal cases, its delay, delay, delay in this case, delayed all over again. He should actually put on some tshirts just a thought there, like he did when he was with his Fulton County mug shot. See, you thought i was kidding for a second. That was a real thing. Now, manhatta
committees july 17th, republican senators said they may try to call him up to the judiciary on the senate side as well. the testimony will likely have the feel and type of a political super bowl. some of that hype stepped up as president trump called mueller a criminal, chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge has details. the democratic chairman of the house judiciary and intelligence committee sent him a letter and subpoena securing public testimony from special counsel robert mueller for july july 17th. from the beginning, robert mueller publicly resisted testifying saying any testimony would not go beyond the four corners of his report but after weeks of negotiations, democrats confirmed the special counsel s appearance. he says it to the american people so they can hear it, that will be very important because they have been subjected to months of deception. house republicans say they
i think both sides have something to be gained by his appearance. bret: that s why we are hearing that this potentially could backfire. i agree on this point, if mueller sticks to what he said in his press conference and doesn t go beyond the four corners of his report, both sides will be disappointed because he will refuse to say that trump obstructed justice and he will refuse to answer questions about peter strzok and lisa page. if there isn t news value to it which might help some cable networks which i m all for but where it leads is unknown. bret: it will be a political super bowl. there s another component we haven t talked about it yet. republicans are going to want to talk about some things, democrats are going to want to talk about others. the other thing that was in the mueller report that we haven t talked about and folks are
reporter: mostly. i think the purpose of the hearing is to figure out what we re reading in the newspaper is true. reporter: some calling a political super bowl. not to fire the fbi drishgt but the man who replaced him and three other top intelligence officials, facing questions about the reports the president asked them to get involved in the fbi s russian investigation. i do not recall being pressured to do so. i have never felt pressure to intervene or interfere in any way. reporter: asked to elaborate, they didn t. i m not going to discuss the specifics of conversations with the president of the united states. ist inappropriate for me to share that with the public. i m not going to answer any questions. why are you i feel its inappropriate. what you feel isn t appropriate, admiral. why didn t you get answers? you have to ask them. i was very unhappy about it. that was the whole purpose of my questioning. reporter: the committee s top republican, just
all right. anyway. what a day it is in washington. the so-called political super bowl is over, so now what? (woman) when you have type 2 diabetes, there s a moment of truth. and now with victoza®, a better moment of proof.