nearly 200 oversight requests already submitted. the white house counsel telling republicans they need to resend all of those requests once they take over next week. the white house plans to work in good faith with the opposing party. those on the right skeptical to say the least. a few of the tweets. does leaking a story and sending a letter at 4:30 a.m. show good faith? the white house and media are already playing games. get ready, the oversight chair also digging in. joe biden promised the americans that he would be the most transparent president in history and i could make a strong case he is the least transparent president in history. we re supposed to provide oversight and root out waste, fraud, abuse and mismanagement in the federal government. joe biden has blocked us at every turn and surely everyone has seen by now over the past years the democrats haven t provided any oversight. we re trying to do our jobs. molly: first we go to jacque heinrich traveling with
A news show featuring the top headlines of the day from pop culture to politics, which are discussed by a rotating panel of four women and one man. A stickler for a speedy trial that he often snaps at the mueller team if he thinks they are dragging things out. The mueller team complained about the judge with emotion, protesting a comment that he made yesterday, where he urged the special counsels lawyers not to focus so much on loans that Paul Manafort was denied, he wanted them to focus on loans that he got. The mueller team didnt think it was fair, they wrote in the motion, the courts suggestion that the government was unnecessarily spending time on a loan that manafort did not receive undermines the wellestablished law on conspiracy, undercuts the charge in count 28, and is likely to confuse and mislead the jury. The mueller team wants the judge to do the same thing yesterday, explain that he may have made a mistake to the jury. But they wanted to it happen this morning. And it didn
has seen by now over the past years the democrats haven t provided any oversight. we re trying to do our jobs. molly: first we go to jacque heinrich traveling with the president live in st. croix. to you, jacque. good morning, molly. the way the white house sees it, republicans while they are in the minority have very little oversight authority. and no real oversight can come until they are officially in the majority. now one of the white house s top oversight lawyers is pointing all the way back to the reagan administration and saying that the congress doesn t delegate oversight authority to individual members who aren t committee chairmen. a spokesman says they intend to work in good faith to provide appropriate information to congress and unfortunately political stunts like subpoena threats from the minority suggest house republicans might be spending more time thinking how to get booked an hannity
the trump orbit. consider these new subpoena threats hang not only over him but people around him. now there s talk of a new career move. we ought to start our own network and put some real news out there, because they are so bad, they are so bad for our country. there s a context to this. because fox news, of course, has embraced trumpism in the modern era but there are decenting voices to be fair and accurate. for example judge andrew napolitano, a frequent fox analyst is out in public saying what trump did is criminal and impeachable. every member of his national security council said give him the aid, the russian tanks are aimed their way. but he held up that aid and instead asked for a favor, which arguably was for his political campaign. that was a violation of federal
ramped up actions and the president s wednesday meeting with president zelensky is going to be one of the most watched meetings while he s here at the united nations summit. it certainly will be, kaitlan. thank you. let s get some more on the new subpoena threats coming from house democrats. our congressional correspondent is up on capitol hill. so what are you learning about these three house committees demanding answers about mr. trump s dealings with ukraine? reporter: wolf, this is a very strongly worded statement and letter sent today by the chairs of the house intel oversight and foreign affairs committee sent to the state department demanding, again, information and documents related to president trump and rudy giuliani s conversations and efforts to pressure ukraine to investigate joe biden. they want it by thursday. they say if it is not received they will start issuing subpoenas. this, of course, comes as behind the scenes this long-simmering