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Hinting the white house will dig in its heels, the president accused the obama administration of obstructing republican probes. >> they didnt give one letter. >> reporter: the investigations are proviegd tding the presidenh ammunition for his twitter feed. he called it a fishing expedition, december prain sear crime. >> the people who spent more than two years on the benghazi investigation or hillary clintons e-mails make bizarre champions for the idea we have gone too far. all we have done is s...

And some important medical news overnight, a patient in london may be the second person ever to be cured of hiv. good morning and welcome to "early start." >> tuesday, march 5, it is 4:00 a.m. in the east. oversight or overreach? time will tell. house democrats investigation or investigations of president trump only just beginning. the house judiciary committee sending out a stack of far raeching documeraech i reaching document requests, seeking information from the presidents son, his business ...

Years of fights over document requests, subpoenas and demands for witness interviews that the administration may ultimately resist. today in a private meeting at the white house, the president himself complained about these democratic investigations. lindsey graham, who is a republican senator who chairs the senate judiciary committee, attended this meeting. he told me afterwards that the president was concerned that the democrats are taking -- trying to take a wrecking ball to his life. he beli...

These documents. thats risky. say the white house does turn over everything and, trust me, they are not planning to do that at this point. they are going to fight it and try to narrow it. but this is a ton of documents. this is so expansive and so broad that it raises questions of what are they going to do, where are they going to go and does this actually hurt their own investigation because they are asking for so much? >> i think you need to draw a distinction between asking for a lot of docum...

Organization confidants, allen weisselberg, rhona graff, former white house officials, sean spicer, steve bannon. it tracks in the categories from the trump organization to the trump campaign to the white house, the current white house, and into these involved with the russia investigation that have been unearthed up to this point. and i think one of the big questions now is there are document requests. what comes next? particularly if some of these individuals dont cooperate? well, jerry nadler...

The obstruction of justice, the abuse of power, and the corruption. our goal is to vindicate the rule of law, to protect the rule of law in this country. >> cnns manu raju is on capitol hill. kaitlan collins is at the white house for us. manu, let me start with you. other than the harsh reality that elections have consequences, what are lawmakers telling you about all of this on the hill today? >> reporter: well, they believe -- the democrats believe that these document requests should be fulfil...

Democrats arent buying it. >> the people that spent more than two years on the investigation or hillary clintons e-mails make bizarre champions. we send out document requests. >> nearly two-thirds believe he committed crimes before becoming president. a view shared by 89% of democrats, 65% of independents and more than a third of

Designed to create a false narrative about the president. they will never talk about his success. mccarth investigation number 1 from the house chairman jerry nadler targeting president trump and his family and businesses. today he issued 80 document requests that went out to the presidents son and the trump organization, carter page, george papadopoulos. all of these people will have to hire attorneys. who will pay that fortune. many of these people have already testified. many have. remember w...

Their own report which would encompass all of these investigations. no matter what these different teams find, all they could do was write an internal report at the end. >> its interesting because you mention all these other entities and they are looking into all these things. "the new york times" i think it was today said basically what democrats are doing is gathering all the same evidence so if the mueller report doesnt pan out, they can have the same evidence with a different standard of pro...

All designed to create a false narrative about who this president is. theyll never talk about the success. they played no part in it. now its on full display because mccarthy investigation number one, that comes from how judiciary chairman jerry nadler, targeting president trump, his family, his businesses, and today he issued 80 document requests which went out to everyone from the presidents son, eric and don, jr., the trump organization, carter page, george papadopoulos. now all of these peop...