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Meanwhile, the pressure on pelosis caucus continues to grow as the administration stonewalls. that pressure could ratchet up even more at this hour. the attorney general and commerce secretary are facing contempt votes unless they comply with a set of subpoenas by the close of business today. in just a moment, im going to speak with a member of the oversight committee who has backed pelosis commission. who says his patience appears to be wearing thin and the administrations defiance with these h...

Demonstrate a commitment to full transparency. one thing that was in the letter that i found encouraging, lawrence, was a commitment on his part, that he would continue consulting with robert mueller, it is certainly the case if theres any hint or suggestion on our part, that the report that we get is overly redacted or concealing some critical elements of muellers work that i think we can count on chairman ed that letter in the house to promptly call for both barr and mueller to appear before t...

Wont get everything we want. because i dont think trump would have named barr without some reason to believe he would appoint someone who would cover for him. he wanted to have roy kohn at justice. thats an awful thing to think about. he wanted someone like that. he wanted someone that would be in his corner. i think i saw that bill barr recently visited the white house, in like the last day or two, and that was probably a bit unusual. hes got a chance to be elliott richardson, one of the good g...

The justice department has provided information, including underlying evidence about decisions about who to prosecute, about who not to prosecute. including in 2018 when republicans in the house got information from the justice department not to prosecute hillary clinton in 2016. thats one precedent. im learning on this call, jerry ed that letter talked about timing, when to expect those principle conclusions to come to capitol hill. he said he did not know. its all up to bill bar, the attorney ...

Democrats on the campaign trail, and generally in the party, really trying to steer this and put the pressure on trump with regard to the election, whether he should be re-elect ed. >> you know mueller so well, given all the research youve do done. weve seen a lot of muellers indictment how he crafted his report to take care. would he craft a report around exposing classified security information. around the threat of executive privilege being invoked. so that it could largely be made public? >>...

There? could the i.g. be investigating this at this point and we dont know yet? >> he could be. i think the bigger issue here is probably congress. one of the lines that i didnt think -- we havent talked about yet in this new york times report, its not the conversation between whitaker and the president. whitaker talked to associates of the department of justice and said to them, there needs to be more adult supervision of sdny. the judiciary committee is going to ask about those conversations a...

Conversations with the president after those briefings. ed that letter says he doesnt find whitakers insistence that he didnt have conversations with the president completely credible. jerry ed that letter is once again threatening a subpoena if its necessary to get those answers. jessica schneider, cnn, washington. fast food lover and exercise avoider, president trump just had his second physical in office. what does it say about his health? dr. sanjay gupta has that for us next. they help re...

His public and private explanations for doing so. didnt exactly line up. for that and other reasons, the fbi officially started investigating president donald trump as a possible threat to national security. this just in to cnn, a statement from the chairman of the house judiciary committee. jerry ed that letter is worried the president could retaliate against the fbi agents that investigated him. in the coming weeks, the judiciary committee will take steps to better understand the presidents ac...