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Departments full cooperation with congress to lift the gag order that this informant was under. Two sources said that white House Counsel don then gave directions to the justice department. Today the president s counselor, Kellyanne Conway confirmed the president did indeed want that informant to be able to speak. It is not unusual for a president to weigh in. This president , as you saw from everything with jfk files to this particular ongoing investigation, alison, is for transparency. And he believes, as many others do, frankly, that the fbi informant should be free to say what he knows. So...

Lets listen to speaker paul ryan. On thursday the house will be in order. Members, remove your conversation from the house floor. The house will be in order. Mr. Speaker, let me understand why this happened. On thursday, this house responsibly passed a bill to keep the government open and to extend the Childrens Health Insurance Program which covers nearly 9 million children from low income families. No games. No strings attached. A straightforward bill. We did our job. But Senate Democrats simply refused to do theirs. Last night, they used the filibuster to block our bill and to shut down thi...

And welcome to a special edition of americas news headquarters. Im Leland Vittert live at the white house. We have the Principal Deputy White House Press secretary standing by in just a minute. Gillian, in some ways as much as the focus is here on the white house, its just as much with you on capitol hill. Gillian absolutely, leland. There are thousands of people, theyre down by the Lincoln Memorial today and the reflecting pool, just one of the cities here in washington, holding womens rallies. Well go down there live in a few moments. So stick with us. Our own Caroline Shively is standing by...

Marches from coast to coast. As officials here in washington offer new reasons for outrage. We are now 18 hours into the federal Government Shutdown. And theres no sign that the stalemate will be broken any time soon. Our correspondents and analysts are standing by as we cover the partisan wrangling and public anger. First, to our correspondent. Is there any actual negotiating going on today . There has been a lot of activity up here on capitol hill, a lot of closed door meetings, wolf. Certainly a lot of speechifying on this floor of the u. S. House and floor senate and that speechifying cont...

Handling of inquiries into Hillary Clintons email server and possible ties between the Trump Campaign and russia. James comey has been called to appear on december the 3rd, and Loretta Lynch one day later. Already comey is signaling he will fight the subpoena tweeting this. Im still happy to sit in the light and answer all questions, but i will resist a closed door thing because ive seen enough of their selective leaking and distorti distortion. He continues, lets have a hearing and invite everyone to see. Joining me live Pete Williams and former u. S. Attorney joyce vance. Pete, let me start ...