Viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Were following breaking news on the rapidly escalating warfare between the president and House Democrats. Tonight, the Oversight Committee has voted along partisan lines to subpoena a former white house official seeking testimony about the handling of security clearances. Democrats are expected to authorize more subpoenas tomorrow as part of their fight to get the full unredacted Mueller Report. President trump is lashing out about that, calling the move ridiculous and a disgrace. I got reaction a little while ago in my interviews with the chairman of the intelligence and Judiciary Committees. Theyre standing by their demands, saying they cant give the attorney general the benefit of the doubt, as he reviews how much of the Mueller Report to make public. This hour, ill talk to democratic congresswoman, jackie speier, a member of both the intelligence and Oversight Committees, and our correspondents and analysts are also standing by. First, lets go to our chief white house correspondent, jim acosta. Jim, the president spoke out today about a lot of the hotbutton issues, including the Mueller Report. Reporter thats right, wolf. Hes been on a victory lap as of late, but he was angry today about this subject. President trump railed against his democratic critics today, claiming that he will never be able to meet the demands of his democratic critics when it comes to releasing the findings from the Mueller Report. The president also unveiled what could be the new gop strategy for replacing obamacare. It now sounds like repeal and retreat. Thank you so much. Reporter in his latest showdown over the russia investigation, President Trump ripped into top House Democrats, who were insisting that the administration release the full report from special counsel robert mueller. Nothing you give them, whether its shifty schiff or jerry nadler, who ive known hes been fighting me for half of my life in manhattan, and i was very successful, thank you. But nadlers been fighting me for years and years in manhattan. Not successfully. I will tell you, anything we give them will never be enough. Reporter the president then accused unnamed forces of treason for launching the probe in the first place. People did things that were very, very bad for our country and very, very illegal. And you could even say treasonous. Reporter but mr. Trump was circling the wagons on obamacare, confirming hes postponing any gop plans to announce legislation to replace the Affordable Care act, undercutting aides who said the white house would do just that. I wanted to delay it myself. I want to put it after the election. Because we dont have the house. Reporter the president previewed the pullback on twitter, saying a vote will be taken right after the 2020 election, when he predicted republicans hold the senate and win back the house. Democrats say thats because the gop is all repeal and no replace. Last night, the president tweeted that they will come up with their plan in 2021. Translation, they have no health care plan. Reporter on immigration, the president is amping up the rhetoric, warning hes prepared to close the border over the recent spike in asylum seekers. If we dont make a deal with congress, the border is going to be closed, a hundred percent. Reporter but the president left himself some wiggle room. Or were going to close large sections of the border. Maybe not all of it. Mexico, as you know, as of yesterday, has been starting to apprehend a lot of people at their southern border, coming in from honduras and guatemala and el salvador and theyve theyre really apprehending thousands of people. Reporter mr. Trump conceded shutting down the border could put a big dent in the economy. Trading is very important. The borders are very important, but security is what is most important. Security is more important to me than trade. Reporter the white house is also busy answering new questions about granting security clearances to top officials like Jared Kushner, after administration whistleblower came forward to accuse the west wing of making too many exceptions. Well, i cant comment for the white houses process, but what i can say is that over the last two years that ive been here, ive been accused of all different types of things and all of those things have turned out to be false. Reporter democratic critics counter these are valid questions, given that some aides like cukushner have been accuse of using private messaging to do government business. I mean, really, what is next . Putting Nuclear Codes in instagram dms . This is ridiculous reporter now, the president made mention of an Inspector General report that he hopes will reveal how the russia investigation got started, but the president keeps forgetting hes the one who fired fbi director james comey which led to the appointment of the special counsel. Thats likely to be a big part of the release of the other findings from the Mueller Report as the president told reporters he will live with whatever the attorney general william barr decides in terms of what is released from the Mueller Report. But wolf, as the president is taking this victory lap, theyve been doing this for well over a week now, there was a level of anxiety in the president s comments today as he was talking to reporters about all of this. Wolf . Certainly right. Jim acosta, thank you very much. Lets go to capitol hill now for more on the showdown pitting democrats against the trump administration. Manu raju is joining us now. First, lets talk about todays vote and the Committee Investigating security clearances. There were plenty of fireworks. Reporter no question about it. The fireworks came before the Vote Along Party Lines to authorize a subpoena for a former white house official who was in charge of the security clearance process for personnel. That individual, carl kline. His name came into the news after democrats said they had a whistleblower by the name of Tricia Newbold who worked in the white house and raised concerns about the security clearance process, saying that there were at least 25 individuals whose security clearances were denied only to be overruled by mr. Kline. The question for democrats is who overruled and why did mr. Kline have those orders to do so . Now, what we have learned that Jared Kushner and ivanka trump were on the list of those 25 vigilance. And earlier this afternoon, i asked elijah cummings, the house Oversight Committee chairman about what he hopes mr. Kline will tell them nabt Jared Kushner and ivanka trumps security clearances. What i do know is that he apparently got certain information that was contrary to the decision that was finally made to give them the security clearances. And so, i need once i know that, then i can figure out, we well, whether this was a decision on his part, a decision on the president s part, but more significantly, why that decision was made. I just dont know. Do you take any of those concerns seriously . I think we take seriously the process that should be played out when were doing an investigation and the idea that the democrats are going to interview one witness and do a Big Press Conference like theyre getting ready to do, issued a big press statement yesterday, and then subpoena someone whos already said they would come in voluntarily, i think thats a problem with an investigation thats being run in the manner its being run by the democrats. Reporter now, with the republican jim jordan there was saying was that mr. Klines attorney said he would come in kline would come in voluntarily, but democrats said that what hed agreed to talk to was not what they were asking for. They wanted individual questions about individual security clearances. They were not getting any commitments, according to elijah cummings, which is why they issued a subpoena over what they say are serious concerns about National Security, wolf. Serious concerns, indeed. Manu, tonight was also the deadline set by House Democrats to receive the unredacted Mueller Report from the attorney general, bill barr. Where is this going from here . Reporter i expect tomorrow to be a contentious session in the house Judiciary Committee, when they will vote to authorize subpoenas for the full Mueller Report, the underlying evidence, and for five white house officials who may have gotten documents from the white house as part of their preparation to speak with the special counsel. Jerry nadler just told you, wolf, that he would issue those subpoenas as necessary, suggesting that he would not wait until midapril, when bill barr plans to release a redacted version of the Mueller Report, a significant ratcheting up of this fight that could end up in court, wolf. And that could be a long, long legal battle. Manu raju, thank you very much. Also breaking tonight, were learning about a very disturbing Security Breach at the president s florida resort this past weekend, while the president was there. Lets bring in our Justice Department correspondent, jessica schneider. Jessica, charges have now been filed. Tell us what happened. Well, wolf, a Woman Holding two public of china passports, she got through that first initial security at maralago. That happened around noon on saturday and she allegedly made it all the way to the main reception area of the club all while carrying several electronic devices, one of which carried malicious malware. Authorities say yujing zhang presented herself at that checkpoint, showed her passported, and gained entry under guise that she was the daughter of a Maralago Club member. She made her way into the Club Reception area, where she was actually questioned by a receptionist about why she was inside maralago. When zhang mentioned an event that wasnt actually happened, the receptionist then flagged a secret service agent, who eventually questioned her offproperty. Agents say she became verbally aggressive and claimed that her chinese friend, charles, told her to travel from shanghai to palm beach, florida, to attempt to speak with a member of the president s family about chinese and American Foreign economic relations. Now, zhang says that she had communicated with this socalled charles over the popular messaging app in china called wechat. And zhang was also found by the authorities to have several electronic items, including four cell phones, one laptop computer, one external hard drive, and one thumb drive. And Authorities Say that that thumb drive actually contained the malicious malware. This woman now faces two felony charges. She had her initial appearance in court and she will be back for a detention hearing in palm beach, florida, on monday. But wolf, its important to note here that President Trump wasnt actually at maralago when this was all happening, right around noon on saturday. We know that he was about ten minutes away at his Trump International golf club. So there was no immediate danger to the president , since he wasnt there. But of course, this whole incident does raise a lot of questions about how tight and good the security is at maralago and of course, maralago being this place that the president frequents. He goes there pretty much every weekend during the winter. And theyre trying to investigate the malicious malware. That seems like the most disturbing element of this mysterious case. Thats exactly rice. Joining us now, congresswoman jackie speier, thanks so much for joining us. Reporter great to be with you, wolf. I want to get to the latest on the subpoenas, the Mueller Report. But first, whats your reaction to this report we just heard from jessica about this apparent Security Breach at the president s palm beach, florida, resort . Its astonishing. And it is yet another example of how willing this president is to violate the rules when it comes to cybersecurity and cyber hygiene. Whether its carrying his cell phone that could be hacked easily by the chinese when he does his midnight calls to one of his colleagues or in this case, where a woman was able to get through, under the guise of being a member and then wanted to talk to one of the family members about economic relations. Again, we cant forget that shortly after President Trump became the president , his daughter miraculous received over 30 trademarks in china that they had been trying to get for many years. I think the economic interests of the president oftentimes play out in a way that may jeopardize the United States of america. But in fairness to the president , you cant blame him if the chinese we dont know if there was a if this was an official government intrusion or what it was, you cant blame him if someone is trying to hack or do whatever they want to do with some phones or computers at maralago. Well, i think we can, in part, because, why did she even get in, in the first place . And lets not forget that i believe the Prime Minister xi or president xi was in maralago at another point in time. Theres a reason why theres camp david. Theres a reason why it is created for the president s to be able to retreat there on weekends. Its costing us millions of dollars a year to operate and the president doesnt like it, so he doesnt go there. And so once again, we have a porous maralago that we spend a lot of money, every time he goes down there, its 3 million. And all the attendant costs associated with him playing golf on the weekends. Lets turn to some other work of your committee, the house Intelligence Committee. I just spoke with the chairman of your committee, adam schiff. He says he doesnt give the attorney general of the United States, bill barr, the benefit of the doubt on publishing the full Mueller Report. Do you agree . I would agree with adam schiff. I would say that, you know, 420 members of the house voted, unanimously seeking to have the full Mueller Report made public. And thats what we expect. The taxpayers paid for it, the taxpayers deserve to have all of that information. We dont need to be spoon fed by the attorney general, as to what he thinks is in the Mueller Report. Were adults. We can read it ourselves. And theres plenty of information, im sure, in there, that will pique a lot of our interests. The house judiciary Committee Chairman, jerry nadler, he just told me he wont commit to holding off on a subpoena until barr publishing his redacted version of the Mueller Report. Supposedly thats coming by midapril, but barr promised, he promised to do so and he promised to be as transparent as possible, although he said there were four categories of redactions. Why not wait, though, and see what barr makes public before going ahead with these subpoena threats . Well, i think that mr. Nadler is taking action to allow him to issue subpoenas. Whether or not he actually issues them would be a question to ask him. But this would give him the official authority to do so. But, lets be clear about this. Mr. Barr wants to redact a sizable amount of information. And i dont think thats acceptable to us. If, in fact, its just grand jury testimony or third parties, well, many third parties, frankly, maybe persons of interest that we would want to investigate, so im not at all sanguine with the idea that were giving the attorney general, who has already said that he thought the Mueller Investigation was bogus, so, hes not a Third Party Independent voice here. He is a he is an attorney for the president , which has never been the case for the attorney general of the United States. Lets turn to the work of your other committee, the Oversight Committee. You voted today to subpoena carl kline, a former white house official, who apparently played a key role in granting security clearances to officials who had initially been denied those clearances. What do you hope to learn from him . We need to find out, first of all, why they were denied. You know, typically, they are denied because someone has a conflict of interest, has foreign financial interests, has a criminal record or bad behavior. So under all of those circumstances, we want to know, of those 25 people, why is it that even though they were declined, that that was overruled by the white house . This is a civil servant, someone who has served for 18 years in both republican and democratic administrations, who has come to congress because its her last hope is what she said. She is fearful, shes already been retaliated against. She started making a list of 25 people. There may be many more who were basically given security clearances, but were not persons that should have gotten security clearances. So we need to know why they werent going to get the security clearances and why, in the e