In the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. You are in the situation room. This is cnn breaking news. Were following breaking news on clashes between the Trump Administration and democrats investigating the president. The House Judiciary Committee chairman just responded to the acting attorney generals threat to skip his testimony tomorrow after the panel preemptivelpre having a subpoena for him. The president more furious at adam schiff tonight, because schiff hired officials who worked for the white house to help investigate the administration. I will get reaction from congressman rokana, a member of the oversight committee, one of the panels investigating the president. Our correspondents and analysts are standing by. First, lets go to laura jared. Did the Judiciary Committee chairman back down . Reporter i want to read to you the statement that was issued a few minutes ago. If you appear before the committee tomorrow morning, and you are prepare totd respond to questions from our members, then i assure you there will be no need for the committee to issue a subpoena on or before february 8. To the extent you believe you are unable to respond to any question, we are prepared to handle your concerns on a case by case basis, during and after tomorrows hearing. They wanted to grill whitaker concerning muellers probe, how he got the job and cnns reporting about how the president unloaded on whitaker in terms of how the Southern District of new york has been going after the president s former lawyer, Michael Cohen. They wanted to question him given whitakers performance just last week when he unexpectedly blurted out some news about how the special counsels probe is winding down. Take a listen to how that went down. I have been fully briefed on the investigation. I look forward to director mueller delivering the final report. The investigation is, i think, close to being completed. I hope that we can get the report from director mueller as soon as possible. Reporter now the real question is, if whitaker does not show tomorrow, how far are democrats willing to press this point to try to get him in there before bill barr is likely confirmed as attorney general next week . Probably a week from today. What happens if whitaker doesnt answer many of the questions posed by the democrats . Reporter this was the whole scenario that nadler wanted to avoid and why he said ahead of time, tell me if you plan on exerting executive privilege, if the white house plans on exerting it over any of the communications, confidential, between trump and whitaker. On this issue, Congress Really only has a couple options. If he doesnt answer questions, they can try to then serve him with a subpoena later. If they want to, to try to pursue that in the house with a context vote in the committee, then in the full house. If that is successful, they only have a few options. They can take him to court. A civil action. They could enforce the subpoena themselves with their powers. They could try to refer the matter to doj for prosecution. In this case, that would be useless as the idea of the u. S. Attorney in d. C. Going after the u. S. Attorney general just seems farfetched. Their hands are tied. Good report. Thank you very much. Lets go to the white house for breaking news on the president s fury at democrats targeting him in multiple investigations. Were joined by pamela brown. The house intelligence Committee Chairman hired former National Security officials for its investigation. Thats not sitting well, we take it, with the president. Reporter thats right. The president made that known on twitter. We have learned that President Trump is furious that adam schiff is recruiting these aitds aides. Schiff said if the president is concerned about his hiring former Trump Administration staffers, he should be a better employer. Thank you very much. Reporter tonight, President Trump fuming over multiple investigations involving his administration. According to a House Intelligence Committee aide, chairman adam schiff has hired former members of the National Security council to help with Committee Oversight of the Trump Administration. Its unclear how recently the officials worked there or if they even served under President Trump. This morning, he took to twitter to express i hhis frustrations, attacking democrats. Well beyond the initial russia scope. Trump tweeting that schiff is going to be looking at every aspect of my life, both financial and personal, even though there is no reason to be doing so. Adding, i hear other Committee Heads will do the same thing. Even stealing people who work at white house, a continuation of witch hunt. The president once again claiming he is the victim of, quote, president ial harassment. According to a new cnn poll, nearly half of americans, 48 , think Donald Trumps campaign colluded with the russian government to help trump get elected. 42 say there was no collusion. A sign the American Public may support new oversight investigations set to begin in the democrat controlled house. We will not surrender our constitutional responsibility for oversight. That would make us delinquent in our duties. Reporter oversight that could include obtaining the president s taxes. An investigation into the administrations child separation policy for undocumented immigrants. I keep hearing about investigations. Reporter the president insisted probes would be countered by the republican held senate. We can investigate. They look at us. We look at them. It goes on for two years. At the end of two years, nothing is done. Reporter the senate Judiciary Committee continuing the spirit of congressional partisanship today. Voting along party lines to confirm william barr as attorney general. The nomination will be favorably reported to the floor. Reporter as attorney general, barr will be responsible for determining how much of special counsel Robert Muellers report will be released. My objective and goal is to get as much as i can of the information to congress and the public. Reporter some democrats say they are uneasy about barrs unwillingness to commit to releasing the full report. This is particularly concerning as nothing in existing law or regulations prevents the attorney general from sharing the report. Reporter according to a new cnn poll, the vast majority of americans, nearly 90 , say they want the Mueller Report made public, while 9 say its not necessary. In terms of who schiff is hiring, its unclear who they are, how recently they worked in the Trump Administration. We should note, its not unusual for the House Intel Committee to hire former staffers for their intel expertise. This is unique, because of the fact that the house intel chair just recently announced this wide ranging investigation into the president himself. Pamela brown at the white house, thank you very much. As house investigations heat up, we are learning about an ongoing federal probe of Michael CohensCampaign Finance crimes. He isnt the only one under scrutiny. Michael cohen implicated the president in Campaign Finance violations. Prosecutors say this investigation is continuing. Should the president be concerned . Of course, we know what the department of justice what the Southern District of new york thinks about the president s involvement in the hush money payments. They say essentially that he directed and he was part of it. So he has been implicated in that. Whats interesting is that what we learned today in a filing from media organizations seeking more information from documents that have been sealed, were asking the court there in new york to unseal some of the documents as it relates to the Michael Cohen investigation, there are still ongoing investigations relating to the hush money payments. What Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to also in terms of the tax violations and other issues, thats done with. In a filing from the court today, we learned that the hush money payments investigation is still very much ongoing. Therefore, the prosecutors are objecting to anything being released from that investigation. It still spells trouble for the president. People close to the president and most importantly probably the trump organization, because it seems that prosecutors in new york are still pouring over the information that they obtained concerning the hush money payment. Shimon, were learning more about the special counsels investigation for transcripts released of manaforts sealed hearing earlier this week. This is really interesting. Its a lengthy hearing. Theres over 100 pages from the hearing. Some of it redacted. What we have learned is that what the special counsels office has been very much concerned about and they say is at the heart of their investigation is Paul Manaforts relationship with a russian intelligence official, someone the fbi and department of justice have said is a russian intelligence official, has had a relationship with Paul Manafort. Its a man by the name of kalimnik. They told the government that Paul Manafort shared this information. Its the relationship that really has the special counsel and the department of justice alarmed. They are seeking more information. Particularly to an august 2 m d meeting in 2016 while Paul Manafort was the chairman of the campaign. They dont specify too much information. Some is redacted. Is their relationship its the relationship with Paul Manafort that the special counsel says is at the heart of their investigation. Shimon prokupecz updating us. Thank you very much. Joining us now, a democrat on the oversight committee, one of the multiple house panels investigating the president. Thanks for coming in. Thanks for having me on. The acting attorney general Matt Whitaker agreed to testify voluntarily. Says he cant answer certain questions, citing privileged conversations he has had with the president. Now it looks like jerry nadler backed down a bit in saying, come and testify, we will talk about subpoenaed down the road. Do you think the chairman of the committee perhaps overplayed his hand . I do not. I think he needs to come and answer the questions. He needs to understand settled law. Nixon invoked executive privilege. This went to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court said, you cant invoke executive privilege when theres a criminal investigation. This concerns a criminal investigation. This is not whitaker talking to the president about syria or some sensitive information. He can invoke executive privilege for that. He should answer whether the president tried to obstruct justice. Does this give whitaker i know the democrats and republicans would like to have him answer a lot of questions. Does it give him an opportunity, an excuse to not show up tomorrow . No. I think he will come. He is going to come and he is going to look awful if he tries to duck and say that he is going for executive privilege when thats not the law. The question is whether he is going to be transparent. No one is out to score points. They want to know what happened. If he doesnt answer tomorrow, citing executive privilege, private conversations that he has had with the president , will jerry nadler, the chairman, immediately on the scene tomorrow issue a subpoena . I think he should. I think we should take it to court. You have alluded to his run out the clock. He wants to get barr in and hope the focus doesnt remain on him. The American People deserve to know what conversations he had with the president about law enforcement. No one wants the confidential conversations about National Conversation or economic policy. Whitaker said he is not showing up if theres any threat of a subpoena if he doesnt answer certain questions tomorrow. He potentially he wrote a long letter to jerry nadler on that point. He has an excuse if he doesnt want to show up. I think it would look awful. It will look like he is trying to hide. The American People deserve to know whether the president told him to shut down the Southern District of new york prosecution. The American People deserve to know whether the president told him to shut down the Mueller Investigation. These are simple questions. He should answer them. Nadler could have said, were not going to issue subpoenas tomorrow. If you dont answer, you can leave. Immediately after, we will issue subpoenas. Whitaker is trying to run out the clock. The president hasnt invoked executive privilege because he wants this to delay. No one will outlast jerry nadler. He will be persistent. We will go after whitaker, even if he is not in the news for some simple answers as to what happened. Where do you think this is heading . You are now on the House Oversight committee. You have a lot of investigations of the Trump Administration. Where is it heading . Its not personal to the president. The president keeps making it as if someone is out to get him. This is about basic conflicts of interest. It goes back to the 1920s when there was the tea pot dome scandal and handing had the administration and an official was accused of bribery. The congress said, we need to know. Do they have financial conflict of interest . We want to know, does the president and administration officials, do they have financial conflicts of interest overseas . This is what the president tweeted today. The dems and their committees are going nuts. The republicans never did this to president obama. There would be no time left to run government. How do you respond . The president has never been in elected office before. Im sure when he was a billionaire in the private sector, he was used to getting his way. We have a separation of government, a separation of powers. We have a duty of accountability. Its not personal. Here is the basic question the American People want to know. Was his tax policy influenced by his financial interest . Is his policy to russia influenced by his overseas interests . Is his policy in saudi arabia influenced by business dealing snz those adealings . Those are fair questions. Theres an effort to have transparency. The fact that he is, were told, furious that adam schiff and the House Intelligence Committee hired former National SecurityCouncil Officials to come work as congressional staffers investigating all of this on the committee, your reaction . Its the president not understanding how washington works. The president hired a lot of former house officials to work for him. He should be allowed to hire former house aitddes. Here is the thing. You have been around washington a long time. Its much better for the president to get the information out. Even if theres something embarrassing. By him hunkering down, blaming the investigatorinvestigators, g his case. If i were him, i would say disclose everything. Get it out and let people decide. Congressman, thanks for coming in. Thanks for having me. We will have you back. Appreciate it. More on the breaking news. Despite new reassurances, might democrats slap the attorney general with a subpoena after all . 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