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Weeks and months. expect potentially public hearings. i talked to a committee aide this morning, john, who said that were talking about weeks, not months, in terms of having hearings potentially in public. they want to be, quote, as tran transparent as possible. and theyve made these document requests and have been green lighted to move forward. essentially, john, this is continuing for some time in this investigation involving this committee. this will touch on almost every aspect and controver...

This is a step by step approach. these are not subpoenas. these are document requests. these are not hearing requests but document requests. they dont want to rush into anything. they will make the case starting the process by sending out those document requests. we are told by the white house press secretary the white house has received their letter. we expect to get more information about the sheer scale of those requests sometime in the near future, but this is the starting point. this is the...

Whether or not the president dangled any pardons to people who flipped like michael cohen. they want to know everything about those details. well wait and see. a big investigation announced moments ago by jerry nadler. >> 81 document requests is what you are talking about. that is definitely more than the 60. they said more than 60. that is this long investigation. also, as you lay it out this is looking into almost every facet of trump world from trump organization to before being in the oval o...

Its a political hoax. >> the president taking questions from the north dakota football team about document requests. two things. one, he said i always cooperate. democrats might oppose that. number two, its a political hoax. we know what he thinks about it. the question is what do they do about it? >> he says theres no collusion. hes still focused that this is only about russia and the election interference, which it is about. i mean, they are investigating that and i think one of the motivation...

Going on on capitol hill later today. the house judiciary committee chairman jerry nadler from the great state of new york is going to request all sorts of documents. and this is just a preview of what the democrats have got in store for the man screen left in the run-up to the election. they are going to have all sorts of document requests. thats going to come today. all sorts of witnesses are going to be called in front of congress to try to figure out how donald trump and whether or not he ch...

Pass a lot of bills that the president has to veto or get blocked in the senate, those become issues democrats can run on as a way to get their candidates and their presidential candidate elected in 2020. >> bret: all right, as always, with looking at the document requests. it will be fascinating to cover. appreciate it. >> thinks. >> bret: stocks down to start the week. analyst say the markets were jittery about what may what may or may happen with china. the dow lost 207. s&p 500 off 11. nasda...

Launching an aggressive investigation of president trump and his administration, targeting dozens of people and entities and thousands of documents in a bid to prove obstruction, corruption and other misconduct. catherine herridge is live in washington. what else are we learning from these document requests? >> reporter: good afternoon. fox news obtaining this letter to carter page. page is one of more than 80 individuals and entities tied to the president that are now under congressional invest...

Obstruction of justice, threats to the mueller investigation. threats to witnesses. all of these have to be an -- they have to be investigated and laid out to the american. >> harris: the deadline, democrats have set for the white house to begin turning over documents on security clearances. they are investigating reports the president ordered a top-secret clearance for his son in law, jared kushner, over the objections of some of the intelligence community and top white house officials. chief i...

>> that wraps up this hour of msnbc live. ill see you tomorrow morning on "today." "andrea mitchell reports" starts right now. >> right now on andrea mitchell report, torn apart. tornadoes ripping through the deep south killing at least 23 people in alabama and leaving a devastated community to pick up the pieces. it only lasted a minute, two minutes at the most. >> and i just stood there in disbelief. everything was wiped out. like, was there nothing left. >> it feels not real. it really does...

Fishing expedition. they dont see any one issue that will necessarily take down the president, but this is a fr strategy of a slow bleed. presenting everything he has done and try to show a common pattern. >> all of the different committees on capitol hill was a line including in all of these. congress has the right and duty to have oversight over this president. and as much as we respect the mueller investigation, our duty is as equally as important. today i was talking to white house officials...