Sarah Huckabee Sanders responded to questions about the president s order of lifting a gag order and in part about the Obama Administration approved uranium to a Russian Company in 2010. The top democrat says he plans to investigate President Trumps involvement. Adam schiff tweeted if the president personally interviewed with the d. O. J. To advance case against a political opponent, its beyond disturbing. I intend to pursue in new probe. Sarah sanders President Trump has pushed for transparency and shes not aware of any specific involvement from the president. Lets get to john roberts live for us at the white house. We can talk about this. Remember, the big deal about this, john, when we get john roberts up, the big deal if we can get this informant and whether the president made the order or whether the doj made the order and the president had strong influence. John . Good afternoon to you, trace. Im told by folks here at the white house that it unfolded this way. The process was alr
Are joined by other guests and analysts throughout the hour as well. I want to thank all three of you for being here. President trump making it pretty clear that he feels good about where things stand. I want to play for you what we just heard from the president in the last 20 minutes or so, just down from where we are in palm beach. Watch. Were in a very good position. Ultimately that decision is going to be made by Mitch Mcconnell, and he will make it he has the right to do whatever he wants. Hes the head of the senate. People remember they treated us very unfairly, they didnt give us due process, they didnt give us a lawyer, they didnt give us anything. Now they come to the senate and they want everything. So franchesca, you cover this white house on a regular basis. President trump is trying to publicly posture like its Mitch Mcconnell who is in charge. Where do you think this goes next . Reporter thats actually a little bit of a shift because the last time that we heard the presid
Gas, rubber bullets, and possibly live me mission. Irans government has denied shooting protesters. [chancing] angry crowds chanting fight with us, we will fight back and calling irans Supreme Leader a murderer. Meanwhile, back at home, the Trump Administration continues to face tough questions about what it calls an imminent threat, which it used to justify killing around stop general. President trump has defended the killing and claimed Qasem Soleimani was planning to attack for u. S. Embassies. Secretary of state mike pompeo is apparently refusing to testify in front of the House Foreign Affairs committee tomorrow. We have fox coverage, we we begin with Benjamin Hall reporting live from them on jordan. Benjamin . Trace, over the weekend these protests spread their round to 17 different processes. The anger that continues to mount after ron acknowledged that it was behind the shooting down and the ukrainian jet that left 176 people died, most of them iranian. Thousands took to the st
The truth . House democrats still have the right thing to do for the country. The American People want the truth. The house can turn back from the cliff and not deploy this constitutional remedy of last resort. There is a grand tradition in america. Speedy and fair trials. We want both. The leader seems obsessed with speedy and wants to throw fair out the window. Dana coverage this hour including reaction from former Republican Senate majority leader trent lot who better to ask about impeachment. First kicks things off with chief Congressional Correspondent mike owe manual who is there on capitol hill. Mike . Dana, good afternoon. There have been awkward moments. Polite yet awkward when tom coal asked maryland democrat jamie raskin about house intelligence investigation when they obtained phone records including those of republican congressman devin nunes. I understand we forcefully represented no member of the house of representatives and no member of the press was targeted with any i
Of summer, kind of a rough time for him. The House Judiciary Committee was holding impeachment hearings into the president s conduct in the watergate scandal. It was widely expected that the committee would approve articles of impeachment and send them to the full house. And by the end of that month, they would do just that. The white house was anxiously awaiting a ruling from the Supreme Court on whether it would have to hand over tapes of Richard Nixons secretly recorded conversations to the were you a were you a gait special prosecutor, leon jaworski. That would also come down at the end of july. For all those reasons in midjuly, 1974, Richard Nixon was less than a month away from resigning the presidency. Though of course no one at the time knew that. Even though all this was going on or more likely because all of this was going on, president nixon went on vacation. He boarded his specially branded air force one, the spirit of 76 and headed to california to leave the swamps of wash