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House intelligence committee announcing a broad new investigation of president trumps finances and whether russians or others have leverage over the president, his business, his family or his associates. lets get more with experts and gloria. how significant is this announcement today? >> i think it is very significant. if i were in the white house i would think it is extraordinarily significant. you have them saying they will open this broad investigation. by the way, they have to be very caref...

Folks in the trump organization. >> which just shows the breadth of investigations that are going on. the campaign, the transition, the foundation, the businesses, the presidency, all under investigation. and, you know, just to talk about the state of union he says oh, these investigations are terrible. he has no leverage to stop those investigations. in fact, nancy pelosi has pressure to do more investigations. shes the one whos trying to, you know, were not talking bem peachment yet. dont talk...

Plan to go even after special counsel robert muellers investigation has concluded. sarah murray is our political correspondent. sarah, the news from the chairman schiff is a big deal. he says he wants to find out if foreign actors have leverage over our current president which may be driving his actions. what else do you know? >> it is a big deal, brooke. democrats for a while were saying things like we will wait to see what special counsel robert mueller comes up with in his investigation. well...

We want to welcome our viewers in the eyes and arnold the world. im wolf blitzer. you here in the situation room. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. house democrats launch a sweeping investigation into the president undeterred by his state of the union attack on their new oversight powers or is complaints of presidential harassments. adam schiff promising to go beyond the rux election interference and possible collusion with the trump campaign. he now says the committee dig deep into the...

Probe into looking into how financial decisions and interests of the president and his associates and how thats impacting things that are happening in this administration any beyond russia. thaw they do plan to look into russia interference and the coordination between russians and this president as they did in the past and as the mueller probe is doing and also, brian a significant. adam schiff saying that theyll look into whether any foreign actor has financial leverage and as well whether tru...

Interesting driving the president and looking whether any others are influencing decisions within the white house. schiff looking into a wide range of aspects as part of this investigation going forward. >> the american people have a right to know and need to know their president is acting on that you are behalf and not for other reasons. that pertains to any critical allegations of leverage by the russians or saudis or anyone else. it is to look into the clinton

Leaders pulling apart with very different constituencies, they do see common ground. i want to say its a lot harder to do than say. working on that first step back. you had right wing groups that came in. the koch brothers. it was harder on the left. we started off with jeffreys but most held back. they said this bill is not strong enough. that created leverage. when you got to the senate, the bill got stronger. then we got critical support from the aclu. then right winger balked. they said the ...

Actions. it is also our most detailed look yet at how far democrats plan to go even after special counsel robert muellers investigation has concluded. sarah murray is on this today. this is significant. adam schiff says he wants to find out if even foreign actors have leverage over the president which could be driving him to make some of the decisions he does. what do you know? >> it is significant. its a change in posture from democrats who at first were keen to let mueller do his investigation...

He said hi wanted to see whether any other witnesses committed perjury. that could be trouble for other people who testified. >> yeah. it is a new day in washington. the house intelligence committee is being run by democrats. president trump no longer has a sort of fire wall against some of these investigations. there is potential here that some of these things that have been said behind closed doors could go to mueller leading to more charges of lying to congress or perjury or other things. it ...

Government shutdowns, because that had the most demonstrable negative impact on the economy. look, this is a president whose had two years of getting used to no oversight whatsoever by the congress. a congress that was essentially not even a rubber stamp, but no stamp at all. just absent. and so he is bridling under the fact that with a democratic majority, were going to do our job. were not going to a quo equal branch of government. were not going to turn the other way when we see corruption or...