Their fight for the full unredacted version. We suddenly have a lot of news this morning. Our team is here with that and lets start with hans nichols at the white house and legal analyst and former federal prosecutor anita White House Correspondent for politico and ken political reporter for New York Times. Hans, this lawsuit accuses democrats of declaring an allout war against President Trump. Whats the deal . This is an aggressive, offensive lawsuit by the president s personal teern attorn attorneys. We asked the white house if theyre in agreeance with this. We havent gotten word back on that. This is essentially a defensive posture. What the president s personal lawyers are trying to do is set up a ring fence around the president s old Accounting Firm. Now, theyre the Accounting Firm that did all kind of things for the president including his tax returns. They are trying to ring all documents according to this document. When we talked to jay sekulow he indicated this had to do with other financial documents. The basic issue here is that the Trump Organization doesnt control the financial documents that may be in the hands of their old Accounting Firm. What theyre trying to do is have a force field around that Accounting Firm and prevent them from disclosing to the House Oversight committee on capitol hill that theyll share all of these documents. So, its basically defensive, even though this is an aggressive, legal move and i think well find out shortly here how sort of unique it is. The other thing happening about this is on the legal front, the political front the president repeating on twitter if there is no under lying crime, there cannot be impeachment. Him planning for the long term. A political strategist and also a legal one. Hallie. Hans, we have a statement here that were about to show folks that is from the Trump Organization from the president s attorneys. That the committees attempt to obtain years worth of confidential information from their accountants lacks any leg legitimate legislative purposes and is an abuse of power and is an another example of overreach by the president s political opponents. Stand by for a second. Leeann, it is early yet. Just 18 minutes into this thing. Has there been any response from House Oversight . Do you expect any and remind us what theyre trying to get. Hans points out this was not the tax returns but other financial documents related to the president. Thats right. No response yet from the House Oversight committee. We do expect one, im told, momentarily, it could come. This was news to them, as well. But the company, yeah, its not about his tax returns but about financial dealings of the president. And the company is expected to hand this information over to the committee. Theyve subpoenaed and theres no expectation that theyre going to defy this subpoena. So, thats assuming while the president and his attorneys are definitely taking this defensive posture, as hans said, getting ahead of that. Cynthia, let me go to you. Part of the lawsuit talks about how oversight and transparency and the view of the president s attorneys is not legitimate legislative purpose that can justify subpoenaing a private citizen. Theyre saying House Oversight doesnt have a legit legislative purpose here. Do you see it that way or no . No, i dont see it that way. I tell you this in the case law. The House Committee has very Broad Authority to subpoena information that affects any current statutes or future statutes. The courts have deferred and tried to stay away from judging the contents of subpoenas as sort of a separation of power issue. And we know in this case that cohen has testified before congress about financial improprieties both increasing and decreasing assets and submitting things to Deutsche Bank and things that he accused the president of violating current statutes. And so it seems to me that what will happen, well have a bit of a ballot and ultimately hell have to turn the information over. Quickly, ken. This is more traditional oversight of the sort that we have seen from past congresses of president s of the opposite party and this is, in some ways, a good fight for democrats politically to be in. Because they can turn the page from impeachment and talk about some of these potential improprieties in the documents that were used to obtain loans by the president which we heard Michael Cohen testify about. Speaking of impeachment that is conversations that members of congress are having. We understand there will be a call later today with House Democrats. Walk us through what we know. Yeah, sure, hallie. A call this afternoon with House Democrats to discuss the Mueller Report. Remember, congress is not in session right now. They have been out for a week and a half now. This is the first time that democrats are going to gather and to talk as a group via by phone, not in person. But this is going to be an opening conversation on what to do to respond to this Mueller Report. House democrats are having a huge debate internally right now on if they do move forward with impeachment or if they do to continue to investigate and opening these impeachment proceedings is a major decision. One democratic aide told me that the party is at a cross roads and what they decide in the next few weeks are going to really determine the 2020 election. Because not only is there a constitutional issue at play here that House Democrats or democrats in general are talking about, but its also electoral issue, as well. Do they start impeachment proceeding or try to beat the president at the ballot box . Theyll have this conversation and it will really start this afternoon with this Conference Call. And ill tell you what. I was sitting here at this set with chuck todd on meet the press and jerry nadler said something that stopped some folks in their tracks. I want to show you some of that exchange here. Do ai thiyou think this is impeachable . Yeah, i do. I do think that this if proven, if proven, which hasnt been proven yet, some of this would be impeachable, yes. Obstruction of justice, if proven, impeachable. Im not there yet, but i can foresee that possibly coming. Anita, do you get the sense that youre seeing an openness on the part of democrats to move towards this, even as House Speaker pelosi has said, hey, pump the brakes here for a second. Both things as they were just saying. First, they need more information or want a lot more information as we see the Trump Organization, the white house is responding to these investigations and theyre not giving the information they need. If they do not get other information, it will take them a while to get all the information they need to decide on impeachment. We are in year three already. A lot of people are saying wait for the election and were almost there. If this investigation takes months more, were already to the election. Cynthia, you have the president s attorneys going after, and, remember, the people who filed the lawsuit, the statement we got is from the new legal team is that brought on to represent the president in the tax returns and financial documents and his other attorneys are mounting a vigorous defense of the president , not just on this front, but also as it relates to the Mueller Report. One thing that Rudy Giuliani is talking about is the idea and im paraphrasing. Its okay if other countries interfere if the information that they give is accurate. Here he is saying that. There is nothing wrong with taking information from russians. Depends on where it came from. It is okay for political campaigns to work with material stolen by foreign adversaries. It depends on the stolen material. Cynthia, if youre sitting in the kremlin and youre in china right now and beijing, how are you hearing that and should americans be worried about that kind of language . Americans should be very worried about that language. It means its open season to interfere in the american election. Whatever was left of Rudy Giulianis reputation has now just swirled down the last bit of the drain. Thats just a shocking thing for a Law Enforcement person to say. I mean, he had a great reputation as a Law Enforcement officer and now hes just a pathetic excuse. Cynthia, i dont know where to go on that piece as you vividly put it. I mean, its so depressing that anybody would have those would say giuliani is doing what his job is which is get out there and defend his client. Im not taking a position one way or the other. His job is not to be a lawyer, i can tell you that. No lawyer would say such a thing. Hans, i know you want to jump in quickly. Yeah, just a quick point, guys. On the claims for the relief at the end of this suit, the president s legal team acknowledges that the president as a private citizen may have committed a crime. And this is sort of the interesting legal argument theyre putting forth. If he committed a crime which these Financial Disclosures and these documents withed show, it would be the purview of the executive and the Judicial Branch and not congress. So, in this back door way of trying to defend the Accounting Firm theyre acknowledging the president as a private citizen they have committed a federal crime. Hans, we have to leave it there. Cynthia, i know we had a bit of a delay, thank you. Leeann, stay close to a camera. I appreciate it. Anita and ken, stick around. We want to get to breaking news this morning, more of it out of the Supreme Court. Involves the rights of lgbt. Pete, what do we know . The Supreme Court this morning agreed to hear next term in the case that begins in october a question that has divided the lower courts. Did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that outlawed discrimination on the job based on sex, does that apply to discrimination against lgbt individuals . Now, some courts have said, yes. You cant discriminate against someone on the basis of Sexual Orientation without discrimination on the basis of sex and others have said, no, when Congress Passed the Civil Rights Act in 1964, it wasnt even thinking about the issue of lgbt discrimination. So, the Supreme Court is going to wrestle with this next term in three Different Cases that involve a man and a woman and a transgender individual. But heres the thing. Four years ago the Supreme Court said there is a right to samesex marriage. And Anthony Kennedy is the one who has written all the Supreme Courts in essence ruling. He is now gone, replaced by the more conservative brett kavanaugh. Now, normally you could sort of guess what the Supreme Court might have been thinking when it grants a case, but because these cases involve decisions both for and against this issue of lgbt being outlawed by the Civil Rights Act, you cant predict how they will decide this case. But the first hot button case that they will hear since kavanaugh came on the court. Pete, thank you much for that. Appreciate it. Just about two months up till the first democratic debate. The field is getting one bigger. Who is in and whether he can get himself ahead of the pack. But, first, horror hits slee lau sri lanka as more bombs are found. The group that the government is blaming for that devastating attack. Ing for that devastating attack. Were open just pass the ball no, i cant believe how easy it was to save hundreds of dollars on my Car Insurance with geico. Yea. [quartet singing] shoot the j shoot, shoot, shoot the jaaaaaay. 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Officials are calling it an orchestrated attack. Several americans are dead, according to the state department. With the identity of one of the americans confirmed. An employee at pierson caught in a blast at a hotel according to a statement from the company. Officials are blaming a local group that many folks may not have heard of that a critical warning could have gone ignored. Janice joins us now on the phone from sri lanka. I understand a curfew may have just gone into effect. Tell us what is happening. This is a curfew for a second night and stepped up military presence and Police Presence on the street. Were on the phone because our live location was shut down. You mentioned that explosion earlier today it was the bomb squad discovering a suspicious van. They were trying to work to defuse the device that they found inside and it went off and also found a homemade bomb near the airport and found detonators at a bus stop. Secondary explosions are a known tactic of many militant groups. Its part of the reason that the government is imposing a state of emergency starting at midnight local time tonight to try to get a handle on Public Safety as we figure out who is behind the violence. The fbi is on the ground and interpole dispatched a team here. Several members of the government are blaming a local group but theyre convinced that they had to have help from foreign terrorist groups because what they find stunning about this is how coordinated the bombings were ripping through three churches and three hotels at almost the same time. The forensic analysis they have been able to gather at six of the sites show that suicide bombers carry out the attacks and training, equipment and planning. They arrested 24 people so far. And what is troubling about this, hallie, is that Security Officials were warned about this ten days ago of potential attacks on churches and other countries shared intelligence. The big question on this investigation is why nobody acted on it. The secretary of defense today told nbc that they knew certain things were going to happen and they didnt expect it to happen so soon and not of this magnitude and it really is staggering. The death toll hovering here 300 and 35 foreigners among the dead, including two americans. Hallie. Reports that the government moved to shut down certain social media sites and the apps in the hours after the explosions happened. This was almost a snap reaction which is quite extraordinary. Not unprecedented here. The government has made this move before. But they did see that as one of their first measures. To shut down social media. Facebook, instagram, youtube. They see social media as a way for misinformation or bfake new to spread. When this happened before, they havent believed that Companies Like facebook have done enough to put in controls to stop misinformation that could have violence so the government took this extraordinary measure and it is moving into a second day. Im able to get on twitter, but a lot of these other apps are blocked unless you have a vpn, beutthe but theyre moving in on those, too. Hallie. Janice, stay safe. Thank you so much. Back in this country new problems for boeing and another one of their planes. The 737 dreamliner. That jet is being made with shotty manufacturing practices. This has been released, revealed, you could say in a new New York Times piece. Outside the boeing plant in south carolina. Gabe, not only the latest problem for boeing but pushing back on the reporting of concerns of the dreamliner. Yeah, thats right, hallie. Boeing is pushing back on this New York Times piece but the company is under major scrutiny after the two deadly crashes that claimed more than 300 lives. Those crashes involved another aircraft, the 737 max but now were talking about this dreamliner and the company broke ground a decade ago to build that plane and these new allegations are based on a New York Times investigation that looked at hundreds of documents and interviewed more than a dozen employees. We spoke with one of those former employees, hallie. Sean barnett retired after 30 years and boeing says that it has substantiated two of the ten claims he has brought up and are fixing them and one that the metal slivers created during installations were left dangling over crucial wiring and in his opinion