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President trump exerted executive privilege to block the committee from getting the report, and that was on the advice of barr. Sarah sanders said, faced with chairman nadlers blatant abuse of power and based on the attorney generals request, the president has no other option than to make a protective assertion of executive privilege. Thats not the only contentious decision today. Another move was made by republicans late this afternoon. The Republicanled Senate Intelligence Committee has subpoenaed the president s eldest son, donald trump jr. This is the first known congressional subpoena for...

More for your shoes, clothing and toys. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Breaking news. One of the most powerful democrats in congress has just issued subpoenas for President Trumps tax returns. The ways and Means Committee chairman, richard neal, is demanding six years of financial records with subpoenas to the treasury secretary and the irs commissioner who had spurned an earlier request. And faced with what they call unprecedented stonewalling by the Trump Administration, House Democrats are considering wrapping together multiple contempt citations into a single package for a f...

Democrats attempt at oversight, the white house today instructed its former counsel don mcgahn to defy a subpoena from the House Judiciary Committee now run by democrats. Mcgahn currently a private citizen and perhaps the most important witness in special counsel Robert Muellers potential obstruction of justice case against President Trump. Mcgahn declined today at the instruction of acting white house chief of staff Mick Mulvaney to provide documents subpoenaed by the house. Documents that could back up mcgahns version of events as detailed in the Mueller Report, including what mcgahn perceiv...

Fire. The roof and spire collapsing on the 800yearold building which continues at this hour to be engulfed by smoke and flames. Right now were told more than 400 firefighters mobilized to try to save whats left of the cathedral, a cathedral we should note, is not just symbolic for france and not just for catholics, but for all of us around the world, for anyone who can appreciate beauty or godliness or history or architecture. As 19th century novelist victor hugo once rode of the Notre Dame Cathedral, quote, every surface, every stone of this venerable pile is a page of the history, not only o...

Happen tomorrow morning, 9 30 a. M. Eastern time. The attorney general scheduled to go before cameras, give some sort of an overview of the Mueller Report, and then take questions. But of course given that the report will not have been released by then, its not sure not clear how informed those questions can actually be. President trump says he might also hold a press conference a short time later, but something cnn quickly learned, the report wont be out until hours after the press conference. Meaning no one will have seen it when barr takes questions on it. Meaning he can say anything he wan...