And author of the playbook, and contributor jake sherman. Nancy pelosis trip to the white house today isnt her only high stakes meeting today. Shes set to meet with her rank and file as some president ial candidates are calling for impeachment proceedings against the president. Heres part of what the House Speaker told me on monday. This isnt about politics. Its not about passion, not about prejudice, not about polit politics. It is about patriotism and the presentation of the facts. So the American People can see why were going down a certain path. And it is i dont know. I feel very confident that the American People know that they deserve to know the truth. Thats what we want to present to them, in a way that they dont perceive to be without the presentation of the facts. So were going to get to the impeachment debate just ahead. Theres so much with that. Plus, were joined by congresswoman katie porter, who had this exchange on capitol hill with trump cabinet secretary, dr. Ben carso
Coming at him from 20 different directions. Here is a sample. His taxes, a powerful House Committee chairman has issued a subpoena for President Trumps tax returns. If nothing happensth in a couple days, the speaker of the house could get involved. The attorney general voting to recommend that congress hold him in contempt over the release of the full mueller report. It may come up with contempt charges for other Administration Officials this week. And issue them all at once in a package. What about Robert Mueller . Will he ever testify before congress . Yes, not this week, but they are working on a date. President trump either doesnt want mueller to testify or doesnt care. His position on the subject has changed several times. Look at all of these democrat led investigations. You have to read quickly, there are at least 20 of them. And the white house is actively resisting on every single one. Jeremy diamond is at the white house. Jeremy, a lot of things on the president s plate, all
Thanks antivaxxers. Welcome to the lead. We begin with the politics lead. Nancy pelosi accused attorney general bill barr today of breaking the law. He lied to congress. He lied to congress. If everybody else did that, it would be considered a crime. Nobody is above the law. Now, the attorney general disputes that and the department of justice said this afternoon that the attack was baseless. Barr also added fuel to the fire today when he refused to testify before the House Judiciary Committee objecting to the format which allowed Committee Lawyers to ask questions as well as lawmakers. Partisan theatrics and fireworks dominated capitol hill and jerry nadler opened the hearing with a prop, an empty chair for the nations top Law Enforcement officer, nadler threatening to hold barr in contempt of congress. Sara murray begins our coverage. Reporter House Speaker nancy pelosi the highest ranking democrat calling the nations top Law Enforcement officer a liar. The attorney general of the Un
Moscow. Desperate plea. Desperate housewives star Felicity Huffman breaks down in tears as she enters a guilty plea in the College Admissions cheating scandal. Will she face prison time . And by george. A twitter rant by President Trump sparks a twitter tirade in response as conservative lawyer George Conway, the house of trump adviser, Kellyanne Conway, calls the president , and im quoting him now, a malignant narcissist who should be removed from office. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. R announcer this is cnn breaking news. Breaking news. President trump is threatening new moves against china in a sharply escalating trade war. U. S. Stock markets went into free fall today. The dow dropped 617 points while the s p 500 closed down nearly 2. 5 and the nasdaq fell nearly 3 . The plunge came after china raised tariffs on u. S. Goods, retaliating for an earlier move by the president. President trump insists americans will benefit from tariffs, even though consumers, manufactu
Indicate a strong understanding, perhaps, that there was prior intelligence. As the minister said, both the indians and the United States warn the sri lanka there was a complex attack in the offing. That was backed up by sri lanka intelligence. That intelligence was never fully acted upon by the Security Services here. Now, the government has apoll jie jazzed. This was above all a cold and calculated series of attacks. Three churches hit almost simultaneously, and then the hotels, and an explosion earlier on today, i think we just heard it there, of another device near st. Anthonys church here in colombo, the capital. That was found midmorning, and detonated by explosive experts. The scale of the calculation here, i think, can be revealed by when we look at a a cc tv footage we obtained about 45 minutes out of town, in it you see a young man with a backpack pat a young girl, a toddler on the head as he crosses the courtyard on the way in to the church. Without really showing any signs