Democrats withdraw his subpoena. Chief Congressional Correspondent mike emanuel is live on capitol hill. Mike . Reporter good afternoon. Quite a battle between the attorney general and the democrat leading the house Judiciary Committee. Attorney general Matthew Whitaker and new york congressman gerald nadler, the kphaeur man of the Judiciary Committee going back and forth in a power struggle over whitakers appearance before nadlers committee. Whitaker writing, quote, consisting with longstanding practice, i remain willing to appear to testify tomorrow provided that the chairman assures me the committee will not issue a subpoena today or tomorrow and that the committee will engage in good faith negotiations before taking a step down the road. The tpheb move would appear to be up to chairman nadler. Dana theres a new effort to get the president s tax return. Reporter yes. The tax writing committee, they are interested in getting at president trumps tax returns so theyre gonna talk about president ial and Vice President ial tax history in the hearing. We got a bit of a preview earlier from the house speaker, nancy pelosi. They are prioritizing their work and in terms of the taxes, its not a question of just sending a letter. You have to do it in a very careful way. The chairman of the committee will be doing that. I know this is impatience because people want to know. Reporter a freshman House Republican expressed this concern. My problem there is this really sets a precedent and a lot of privacy concerns for americans from the president down to your average teacher, taxpayer, what have you, on releasing their tax returns and having Congress Demand their tax returns and politicizing that issue. I have issues across the board. Reporter with democrats majority and the chairs of the relative committees, they can hold the hearings that interest them. Dana all right mike emanuel, thank you. Another fox news alert. New reaction to the unfolding political crisis in virginia. The states top three elected officials, all democrats, facing calls to resign. The governor and attorney general admitting to wearing black face in the past, as Lieutenant Governor battles an accusation of Sexual Assault. This just in. Another virginia lawmaker now reportedly discovered to have a year book with racist photos from decades ago. Ellison barber is live with more. Reporter we thought this was three different political scandals involving three Major Political leaders here in richmond. But that number, the number of scandals it seems to just keep growing. Now theres a new allegation against republican state senator. The Top Republican in this state. A new report in the virginia pilot alleges the states Top Republican, state senator majority leader tom normit oversaw a year book at the Virginia Military institute and it is filled with racial slurs and racist photos including photos with people in black face. We tried to ask the state senator about it asking various reporters asking if he regrets being the editor for that vmi yearbook. He said, i am just here doing my job and closed the door behind him. Weve reached out to his press team and have not gotten a response back. Governor Ralph Northam is under fire for racist photos. Both northam and the attorney general have acknowledged dressing in black face decades ago. Northam now says he wasnt in that notorious yearbook photo. Lieutenant governor fairfax is under fire after a woman went public with allegations of a Sexual Assault. Dr. Vanessa tyson said fairfax assaulted her at the 2004 convention in boston and that consensual kissing turned into Sexual Assault. With that situation, theres another figure, senior virginia congressman bobby scott, abc news reports that representative scott learned of the allegations against fairfax a year ago directly from dr. Tyson. An aide to scott confirmed that to fox news, but theyre adamant fox had very few details. He only said there was a me too moment involving fairfax. Dr. Tyson reportedly approached congressman scott as the Washington Post was looking into dr. Tysons allegation. The aide said tyson did not personally share details of the alleged assault, but scott learned more down the road with reporters with the Washington Post contacted him. The aide close to scott described it to me as him being contacted as sort of a character witness for dr. Tyson. The big thing is someone else new about that Sexual Assault almost a year ago. Dana the political spotlight burns on virginia, officials there are reportedly casting about for damage control. New york times saying some in mr. Northams circles with hoping to have the spouses begin talking in an effort to alleviate tensions between the leaders at a time of scrutiny. Joining me is managing editor of savitose chris call ball at the university of Virginia School of politics. Unprecedented whats happening in virginia . I think so. I hate to use the word unprecedented when dealing with american politics just because theres so many kind of horrible instances from history. The fact that youve got the top three elected, the only three elected executive officers in virginia all facing these questions. Just as you said, one of the other top leaders in the state, the majority leader in the state senate also under a lot of controversy right now. It is frankly just a crazy situation. Dana its not outside the realm of possibility that you will see additional people either involved in year books or their own yearbooks in virginia. What kind of moment is this for virginia, in terms of thinking about black face, racial tensions . This is the 400th year with the first black slave was brought to virginia. I was just thinking about this. We had this sort of me too moment back in 2017 where you kind of had this flood of sort of pent up allegations and people became comfortable talking about their own experiences with Sexual Assault. I just wonder if this may actually be a cultural moment in a different way. It seems clear there are a lot of yearbooks from many institutions across the south where there are a lot of offensive pictures. Who knows who are in those pictures. Ralph northam seemed like an outliar. That doesnt excuse his behavior, but it may be a much more broad than that. Dana what do you think about the idea that maybe the spouses of the three could get together and try to help things . Yeah. Potentially. Look, there was this thought that northam might resign. Well, that was before we knew the Justice Fairfax had his problems and mark herring and potentially other people in virginia government. Northam, i think, seems like hes trying to figure out way to stay governor. Other people who might succeed the governorship if he were to leave also have problems. Makes it easier for him to try to defend the idea of him remaining as governor. Dana so, Lieutenant Governor justin fairfax, his problems are not about racism, but Sexual Assault allegations. Kamala harris said this about him. I think there should be an investigation to determine what happened. But certainly her letter reads, quite detailed and suggests that theres credibility there. There needs to be an investigation to determine what happened. Dana so you have that. You have ellison barber reporting congressman bobby scott had been approached by miss tyson. Knew there were allegations, but didnt know the details. So this web gets more tangled. Thats right. Of course, the Washington Post did look at this and decide not to publish it, as i understood it, because they basically saw it as a he said she said. One of the mistakes Justice Fairfax made here, when he released his initial response to this overnight on monday morning, he seemed to suggest that the post had found not only that they didnt report the allegation, but also that tyson had sort of gone too far in the accusations or something. The post really didnt find that. That i think has called his credibility into question here. Ultimately the only two people who really know what happened are tyson and fairfax. Thats the tricky problem here. Dana the other thing is, people sort of forget until its up upon you, virginias election schedule is different from other states. Theres a state wide election this november thats only eight months away now. Thats right. And the republicans have very slim majorities in the state house and state senate. All the seats will be on the ballot. Democrats thought they had a good chance to retake the legislature from the republicans. Obviously, with all this controversy going around, you have to at least consider the possibility that that might have some sort of effect on the elections. As weve seen developments in this story, they seem to change not just every day, but on an hourly basis. Dana anywhere you write, we should Pay Attention to you. Thank you so much. Thank you for that. Dana for thursday throw back. If all three of these virginia democrats are forced to resign, a republican will become governor all because of a tie breaker decided last year by drawing a name from a bowl. Remember this . The winner of House District 94 is davidiansy. Reporter giving the gop control of the house putting a republican in the speaker seat making him fourth in line to become governor. So ten dreadful days for democrats. Today makes 11 with the latest head lines. Karl rove is here to explain his thoughts. 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Confirmation vote for william barr will happen next week. Katherine herridge is on capitol hill with those developments. Reporter that vote was just a couple hours ago. The committee, 12 republicans, 10 democrats. That sets the table for a confirmation vote. Lindsey graham said he had some reservations about william barr, but he felt barr significantly didnt need the job. I think we need a steady hand at the department of justice and i believe he provides that steady hand. Its not based on what i believe. Its based on his experience. Reporter what we heard consistently from republicans and democrats is that when it comes to special counsel Robert Muellers investigation, they want to see that report public as much as possible. I hope that the Mueller Report is due pretty soon. Senator bloomenthal and i i have a bill to make that transparent. I think people paid for this investigation. They deserve to know whats in the report, all the findings and evidence and have Robert Mueller come to speak publicly about this investigation. Reporter bill barr testified that as he understood the regulations, the special counsels report is confidential. Its provided to the attorney general. Then the attorney general makes the decision how much is sent to congress and how much is publicly released. He made a commitment to do as much as possible, but not a full commitment to release the entire report. Dana republicans also had lingering questions about another memo that barr wrote . Reporter thats right. I think if there was a dominant theme at the committee vote, it was about this memo that william barr wrote unsolicited to Deputy Attorney general rod rosenstein. It was after he saw media reports that there may be an obstruction case against the special counsel over the firing of james comey. What we heard from both sides of the aisle is they still had questions over barrs decision to write that memo and whether it could have an impact on legal jeopardy for the president. If i were making a bet, id put my money down on the president can be indicted when you look at the nixon case and the clinton investigation and so forth. What happened at the Justice Department and at the fbi in 2016 . It will come out. All of us can make our own judgment about whether those two agencies were politicized in 2016. Im not saying they were or they werent. But the American People are entitled to know. Reporter another senator noted that whatever the outcome or findings of the special counsel is that millions of americans will see some kind of political bias depending on the lens they view their own politics, dana. Dana that is the way we are today. Catherine, thank you. Writeup in the Huffington Post said she hands out tardy slips to staffers and even makes them cry. 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It was based on my understanding from my familys stories. But family stories are not the same as tribal citizenship. Dana elizabeth warren. Democrats are facing a steady stream of negative headlines as the 2020 Campaign Season gets under way. Most recently senator warren and amy clovetar. Karl rove is a former White House Deputy chief of staff and foxs contributor. Im tripping over myself a little bit. We expect some new sound from the president in just a moment, but before we get that, let me describe how you think the last ten days have been for democrats . Dreadful. Absolutely totally dreadful. We have Kamala Harris going to iowa saying well, first we have hour schultz jumping in the race and being pummelled by democrats as he suggests hes gonna run as an independent. Kamala harris says, lets abolish private health insurance. Quote, lets get over it. We have the embroilment over abortion where they bring up a bill that would allow infantcide. The governor said if a child is born dana can i interrupt you . We do have new sound from the president. This is just from the oval office. I think this is something very, very special and very special people. Thank you all very much. Thank you very much. There could be. I hear theyre working on something. I certainly hear theyre working on something. Both sides are moving along. Well see what happens. We need Border Security. We have to have it. Its not an option. Well see what happens. Hes an outstanding person. I would say if he did testify, hed do very well. Hes an outstanding person. Very very fine man. Thank you very much. [ inaudible ] dana so, karl, not a lot new there. That was in the oval office. The president doing an event signing an executive order that is going to help ivanka trump, helping women around the world with entrepreneurship. But he brought up two issues. One, this Border Security deal that really needs to get done by tomorrow if theyre going to make the deadline to fund the government by next friday. Also the president heading to el paso, texas, monday to talk about the wall, the Border Security and calling it a rally. What do you think about all that . Well, first of all, they do need to get it done. They may have until sunday, given the house rules. But that assum