she s not saying her colleagues pushing for impeachment are wrong, though. listen to this. are you going to discourage your members at all from announcing their support for an impeachment inquiry? i never have done that. while the party graples with the question of impeachment, it is pushing forward with legal battles to obtain key information in their broad investigations. manu raju on capitol hill. so manu, we know, despite her answer to the question there, that nancy pelosi has pushed back against this growing minority within her party to begin impeachment proceedings. i wonder, speaking to members yesterday and today, does she have more of an upper hand now pushing back on that? reporter: well, i think there s a growing push for her to change from her opposition and she s signaling that she s still not ready to go there. but her messaging has not been as consistent as it has been in the past where she s been dead set against moving forward. she s signaling some openness. wh
that what they re proposing is the right way to go. so this debate about how to proceed and how to deal with some of the vulnerabilities outlined by the special counsel, there is no agreement on capitol hill on how to deal with that as calls from the left grow from moving forward on the impeachment inquiry which the leadership at the moment is showing no signs of getting behind. jake. manu raju on capitol hill. let s talk about this. it would seem that bipartisan election security legislation would be a no brainer. why would republicans oppose it? it does depend on what is in the legislation. it is like a guy that can t breathe and i ll put this ten pound weight on your chest and i m sure this will help you through the episode. today it is interesting, the nsa announced a new director to handle and coordinate this activity to protection elections. it was from a woman named ann new burger and has this new directorat and very good and that gives her the authority to
plan. they want to poke holes in the credibility of the special counsel team and raise questions about alleged bias by the special counsel, so all of the negotiations or the format really just a preview of tomorrow s very dramatic testimony as democrats hope this reshapes the narrative and the public understanding about alleged criminal conduct in the white house but others are downplaying the impact this will have and republicans hoping it does what the president has hoped, to show in his view that he was exonerated. manu raju on capitol hill. stand by. i want to bring in our crime and justice reporter shimon procku pez. why does he want the deputy by his side. he wants to protect mule tore give him cover. so they re hoping to have they were hoping to have him sit there and answer some of the questions that the committee members were going to have and what we re seeing here from the letter yesterday that the department of justice published from mueller asking for guidance about
it. reporter: now, as he walked into a mock hearing moments ago, the judiciary committee chairman of the house jerry nadler just told me the hearing will go on tomorrow. now he would not comment about this issue involving the deputies and would not comment about that but the hearing will go on tomorrow. and, jake, this will certainly be the only time we ll see the special counsel. the senate intelligence committee chairman i asked will he bring in the special counsel and he said if i wanted mueller, i would have had him by now and i said why not bring him in and he said he did a report. jake. manu raju on capitol hill. thank you so much. our team of russia investigation experts joins me now. and evan, let me start with you. mueller made the last-minute request to have his deputy, a guy named aaron zebly sworn in but not as a witness. so what do you make of this all? i think it is not unusual for a witness to have in this case he was his former chief of staff when mueller was
secretaries had had. at this point in the bush presidency, only one had. so that and in of itself is an extraordinary figure and it tells you a lot about what s going on here. this is an administration where people have had a lot of trouble staying in their jobs, whether it is because there have been unknown things in their background that have come back up that weren t thoroughly vetted or investigated before they were selected for their jobs, or because quite simply, they could not maintain the confidence of the president. so we can t let that slide by, because i think this is really extraordinary, if not unprecedented. everyone stand by. manu raju also joins me on the other breaking news that we literally got, manu, from the hill, your reporting, mid trump press conference. what do we know about mueller, the special counsel? is he still going to testify next wednesday? it could be delayed by a week. this is what we re hearing from