When you look at these specific questions about outreach by the campaign to russia, arent these questions about collusion . Once again, im not going to get into a back and forth about questions leaked or anything having to do with the Special Counsel and i would refer you to the president s attorney. With the exception a swipe at schiff. The white house passes the buck. While the president says the buck doesnt even exist. Keeping them honest, the buck may not stop there. The president didnt wait long to weigh in on these possible mueller questions. Reporter while the president tweeted about these things this morning, he did not answer the question. I was in the oval office with him earlier today and asked him if he wanted to comment on these questions. And he declined to do so. It appears that be the white house and the president prefer
from House Republicans who have been backed by speaker paul ryan, turned over documents giving the republicans access. There are thousands of other doc
Wolf Blitzer looks at politics, breaking news and international stories. Undoubtedly, hes going to confirm all the suspicions mounting for the past year that hes been using his chairmanship to protect the president. We recall last year when he viewed some things he viewed as problematic in those intelligence reports. He rushed to the white house, briefed the president about it before even briefing his committee. He was forced to step aside from the Russia Investigation on his Committee Last year, but he still wielded considerable influence from the outside. He stopped democratic attempts to subpoena witnesses, to get more records, to schedule witness interviews. Behind the scenes, he mounted his own investigation to try to sew doubt on the fbi, the Russia Investigation, the mueller probe. That led to the release of the nunes memo from earlier this year, criticizing how that fisa warrant was obtained to monitor carter page. Democrats say this is all part of this effort by devin nunes to
Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Other reference in the whole Paul Manafort trial to his time on the Trump Campaign. This thing i previously mentioned about him maybe offering the job of running the u. S. Earl or the a Bank President who approved the loans for him. Thats the only other reference in the Trump Campaign thus far. Two days ago out of the blue, the manafort defense lawyer asks rick gates, did mueller ask but your time in the Trump Campaign . The prosecutor gets up and objects. The judge summons both sides to come to the bench. He flips on, i kid you not, the White Noise Machine which is a real thing. So the jury and the spectators hear crashing waves instead of the conversation. None can hear whats being said. They have this long private communication. We know it is long because we know it takes six pages to
transcribe. But we cant see the pages because they are sealed. Now, we do know after that bench conference, whatever happen there, the
and it is emblematic of the problems that we know exist. chairman of the house judiciary committee bob goodlatte there on the left has not issued an invitation for rosenstein to testify. but he is drafting subpoenas for memos that contain the rosenstein allegations. those memos redacted by former fbi director andrew mccabe who was fired for lying to federal investigators about a media leak concerning the clinton foundation. congressman jim jordan said today the two camps could meet at some point this afternoon to find a way forward. some house republicans are threatening to force a vote impeaching rosenstein effectively defying the speaker, julie. julie: all right. catherine herridge, thank you so much. you are welcome. julie: a third accuser making sexual assault claims against brett kavanaugh. what he is now facing at tomorrow s hearing. and the battle over the supreme court nominee, the most contentious we have seen in decades. plus, this breaking news after the break, we ju
they think this idea of impeaching rosenstein is cuckoo for cocoa puffs. behind this closed door, house intelligence chairman devin nunes and kathy mcmorris rodgers, they appeared to indicate that republicans in congress do support impeaching rod rosenstein. they don t want to do it yet. answering a question at this fund-raiser for rodgers, answering a question from an audience member about who are not it had any support in congress, devin nunes explained that there is support for the impeachment of rosenstein. he said you won t get an argument about that from our colleagues but he said they re not talking about it now before the election. they plan to pursue it, a, once the election is over, and b, crucially, after republicans have confirmed brett kavanaugh