than 60 people from the white house, the justice department, the president s son, and officials from the president s business empire. the legal process is on the president s mind today too. he tweeted this earlier. after more than two years of presidential harassment, the only things that have been proven is that democrats and others broke the law. the hostile cohen testimony given by a liar to reduce his prison time proved no collusion. and he added, i m an innocent man being persecuted by some very bad, conflicted, and corrupt people in a witch hunt that is illegal and should never have been allowed to start. let s get to the white house and cnn s boris sanchez. this bombshell from congressman nadler isn t the only piece of, shall we say, frustrating news for the president today. we also learned something rather important about who is not going to support his emergency declaration. tell us. reporter: that s right, ana. it appears at this point that the president s national emergenc
justice and that tomorrow he s going to start seeking the documents to support that. reporter: yeah, other than those tweets from president trump, we haven t seen a direct response from the white house. i asked them about the comment that chairman nadler made about that request for documents from some 60 entities or people they have yet to respond. we will likely hear from the president on this, possibly more via twitter. keep in mind his family is involved. nadler made clear he would be requesting documents from donald trump jr. so this is personal for the president. and it s not just donald trump jr. we re also learning that nadler is going to request documents from former chief of staff john kelly as well as former white house counsel don mcgahn. this is going to be a large and thorough investigation. nadler effectively said this morning he wants to make a case for impeachment to the american people, ana. boris sanchez at the white house for us. thank you. joining us now, democr
she s not necessarily angry about some of what s going on in the country at this point, but she s ready to fight and ready to fight to win. those are the kind of voters, if you re a democrat, you want to reach. nia, i understand the selma march has a special meaning for your family, especially your father. reporter: yeah, that s right. you know, my dad there were three selma marchers. he wasn t at bloody sunday, but he was at that final march. what had happened is there was essentially a call for ushers to come down and march alongside dr. king. so there he was if you look at a lot of the old footage of that third and final successful march, you see my father in those clips with his chunky black glasses and this very thick brown corduroy coat that hung in his closet for many, many years. my father died many years ago, when he was about 47. he would have turned 75 this
selma, opening up about her 2016 loss. this is a time, my friends, when fundamental rights, civic virtue, freedom of the press, the rule of law, truth, facts, and reason are under assault. and make no mistake. we are living through a full-fledged crisis in our democracy. cnn s nia-malika henderson is in selma for us. explain why this is such an important stop for any 2020 candidate. reporter: you know, easy to know that in two words. black voters. if you think about the 2016 campaign, you think about 2012, you think about 2008, the path to victory for any democratic candidate runs through states like alabama, states like south carolina, georgia as well. so you had candidates here,
file criminal charges against those officers. the 22-year-old was killed in his grandmother s backyard nearly a year ago. cnn national correspondent brynn gingrass joins us now. it was a 60-page report. there was a lot of detail. we ll get to that in a minute. really, the family says that they waited for nearly a year to find out if this district attorney in sacramento county was going to press charges on these two officers. obviously the results were not what they were wanting. they basically said even though no charges were filedi, that s not what they wanted, but they feel she smeared stephon clark s name. breaking my family s hearts again. reporter: a tierful response from the fiance of stephon clark after learning no criminal charges would be filed against the two sacramento police officers accused of fatally shooting clark in his grandmother s backyard last