Hes semple exasperated at the fact that this current president is talking about the fact that he authorized, he personally authorized a wiretap which they simply say of course is not a fact, that it did not in fact happen. President s normally have a sense of decorum and dont talk about their predecessors in office. So far president obama has kept to that but his aides have not been nearly as quiet, the army of obama supporters, if you will, have been rallying to his defense the former president has been silent, im told he has no plans to speak out about this in the future but john and poppy, exasperated and irked are two words that describe his feelings after hearing the report on saturday. Im sure hes more than happen to let his irkedness leak out. House Republican Leaders are getting ready to hold a News Conference about their repeal and replace obamacare plan which could be in trouble because theyre losing support in the House Republican membership. Two committees, largely republic
1860s to empower qui tam relaters or whistleblowers to help the government identify and prosecute fraud on the taxpayers. The false claims act is the most effective antitrust tool that we have. And since the 1986 amendments that congressman berman, then a member of the house, and i was a member of the senate, got passed, the taxpayers recovered more than 53 billion in public funds lost to fraud. And we had people in the Justice Department when we first passed this that didnt like it because if a relater came to them or a whistle blower came to them and they said, that was like saying they werent doing their job. We had a district job in the late 80s i think told some prosecutor for the Justice Department that was trying to argue that a relater shouldnt have a certain amount of money. He said, do you realize you wouldnt even have a case if this whistle blower hadnt brought it to your attention . I think were over that now. But, you know, the Defense Department and the pharmaceuticals ov
Trump campaign. Nunes having served on the trump transition team. Now, while some republicans say the memo shows the fbi is biased against President Trump and they want to see they want the public to see that, so does the president. The Justice Department does not. Cnns manu raju is on capitol hill with more on this. Is there a sense that republicans are going to actually vote today to release this memo . It is a very likely possibility there could be a vote as soon as tonight. The republican chairman devin nunes is not saying one way or another what will happen. Keeping members of his own committee and aides guessing about what will happen, he just ran into our colleague in the capital who asked whether or not there would be a vote tonight and his quote was this, i dont talk about committee business. Really keeping members guessing ahead of a key meeting tonight at 5 00 p. M. This comes as there is a sharp divide between House Republicans and Senate Republicans about whether or not to
Know how many we know what you have done in the lower court, thats the best basis for knowing whether or not you ought to be on the Supreme Court. So we have 307 cases that this nominee has written decisions on as a basis for that and and weve got 488,000 other pages and maybe the senators havent read them but their staff is fully informed because last night before 11 00 on the 42,000 pages that have come to our attention, the staff on the republican side has gone through them but why did you ask for the white House Counsel document . They were not germane to this hearing. Why would you ask them. Thats a rate of 7,000 pages per hour. Thats super human. Theyre amazing. Theyre amazing. Mr. Chairman, if i may proceed. Ive been through Nine Supreme Court hearings is this your Opening Statement . Its part of it. Why dont you make your Opening Statement . Shall i . Would you please i ask an opportunity to respond to my colleague from texas because he is directly challenged us with i said you
Under renewed scrutiny. Good morning and welcome to early start. Im christine romans. Im dave briggs. Good friend, my friend. Good morning to all of you. 4 00 a. M. In east. Much of what we want ton we w to know is behind bars with special Counsel Robert Mueller recommending no jail time for president trumps former National Security adviser, Michael Flynn because of, quote, substantial help in the russia probe. Much of what flynn told the special counsel remains shrouded in secrecy. The report was heavily redacted, but mueller says, quote, flynns early cooperation convinced others to be forthcoming and that flynns lies about his contacts with the Russian Ambassador in late 2016 were repeated by senior Trump Transition Team members. Flynns full account of events has been one of the bestkept secrets in washington as mueller puts together the final pieces of his case. More now from cnns sara murray in washington. Reporter good morning. President trumps former National Security adviser Mic