jason chaffetz is in a district that's about 70% republican. and if i had to congress, i'd say most of those people shouting at him at the town hall are from the 30% that are not republicans. and the only thing that will move members of congress is their own poll numbers. and you know, in this country, where half of the people are democrats and half are republicans, we need to see a sort of shift for people to care at all. >> well, and erin, that speaks to the wider point, which is you mentioned some of the tea party folks. some of those were in primaries and there were angry grassroots conservatives willing to challenge their own party. >> right. like rubio. >> do you think that's an important ingredient for progressives here in resistance? >> i think it's a little bit inaccurate to assume the country is even 50/50 democrat and republican with no room to budge. the reality is not every person in the country is politically active. there is a lot of room on either side to get people to feel politically active. november 9th to me and to people wh

our kuhn law was there. >> reporter: the congressman jason chaffetz. engineered, drowned out. >> i'm trying to be as representative as i can. >> reporter: a crowd of 1,000 viscerally tired of d.c. blagter. >> why don't you check out your own president right know -- >> reporter: another 1,000 people say police outside. [ chanting ]. >> reporter: congressman chaffetz seeing firsthand the angry tide of voters. in california protesters swarmed this town hall chasing out the congressman. from nebraska to pennsylvania to indiana. knocking on district doors, sitting in uninvited. channelling post election anger, a progressive movement called indivisible. >> you will have three simple targets, your two u.s. senators and your representative. >> reporter: indivisible was founded by former congressional staffers who saw firsthand the power of the tea party to stall president obama's agenda. indivisible plans 3,000 groups and 100,000 members across every congressional district. >> these are the things we need to ask jason chaffetz. >> reporter: it's organized. don

i think it's face nating, though, that jason chaffetz signed onto that letter. >> yeah. >> and i think, and maybe i'm reading too much to into it, but i think he saw this as a good opportunity to sort of put down a marker and say, we actually are going to have to pay attention to this stuff. and he starts with kellyanne conway, not with a -- not specifically with a member of the family. not with jared kushner, not with ivanka herself. >> lawrence, you just mentioned congressman chaffetz. i think we have some sound from the town hall he had tonight and this came up. [ "do your job" ] >> hold on, when kellyanne conway said what she said about buying that particular product, that was wrong, wrong, wrong. i called it out. they need to investigate it, what kellyanne conway was wrong, it should never happen again and there should be some accountability there. >> eugene, i just called you my first tv husband by the wrong name. i am deeply sorry. but, eugene, what is the cross pressure with republicans on the hill on the ethics front? republicans -- we suffered so many losses as a party for ge

and utah republican jason chaffetz, whose committee examines government wrongdoing says he won't investigate flynn either. >> when it gets into sources and methods, it really is the purview of the intel committee. >> reporter: maryland's elijah cummings is the top democrat on chaffetz's committee. >> our committee held three or four emergency hearings on hillary clinton in the matter of a week or two, and if there is any emergency at this moment in the history of this country, this is the moment. >> reporter: senate republicans showed more interest than their house counterparts, calling on flynn to testify. intelligence chair richard burr. >> we intend to cast as wide a net to get answers to all the questions. >> reporter: arizona's john mccain warned that flynn is the symptom of a larger problem. >> i think there is significant dysfunction in the national security apparatus of the trump administration. >> reporter: this afternoon the oversight chairman jason chaffetz says there is one white house move he wants to investigate. he sent a letter to white house chief of staff reince priebus ask

jason chaffetz won re-election with 73.5% of the vote. so people interviewed that were at this were not local constituents they came in from scottsdale, arizona driving over 600 miles to protest him. this is something all together different. it has a bit of a feel of grassroots, of astro turf instead of grassroots activism. and it, you know, it's definitely something real that's happening. there is a lot of outrage on the left. but this is a little bit too incoherent to be compared to a tea party protest. >> martha: just staying with you for a second, molly, are they all democrats and liberals or some of these people never trumpers? we saw what happened in utah during the presidential election and perhaps some of them weren't happy with him for sort of the flip flop on president trump? >> right. well, another place where there was a protest was tennessee where diane black had her town hall protested. that's a state that went overwhelmingly for trump. whereas with utah even though he beat hillary clinton by almost 20 points, there was a la

and utah republican jason chaffetz, whose committee examines government wrongdoing says he won't investigate flynn either. >> when it gets into sources and methods, it really is the purview of the intel committee. >> reporter: maryland's elijah cummings is the top democrat on chaffetz's committee. >> our committee held three or four emergency hearings on hillary clinton in the matter of a week or two, and if there is any emergency at this moment in the history of this country, this is the moment. >> reporter: senate republicans showed more interest than their house counterparts, calling on flynn to testify. intelligence chair richard burr. >> we intend to cast as wide a net to get answers to all the questions. >> reporter: arizona's john mccain warned that flynn is a symptom of a larger problem. >> i think there is significant dysfunction in the national security apparatus of the trump administration. >> reporter: this afternoon the oversight chairman jason chaffetz says there is one white house move he wants to investigate. he sent a letter to white house chief of staff reince priebus askin

one thing i will give jason chaffetz credit for. he stepp out on that stage to boos and very negative reactions. they are not holding them and restricting them to online. at least he had the guts to come out and take the heat. i'll give him that. >> you think these kind of town halls will make a difference? >> yes. >> look at the last few weeks we've had, the protest, the drama, everyone calling their congressmen about these cabinet picks and guess what, they're sailing on through. >> i know of people in the white house that were cheering that those protests were going on around the country. >> why? >> because they were able to go to their constituents in kansas and say, see, we are the wrecking ball. we're showing we're making an impact, this is the evidence of an impact we're having because all these liberals are in the airport. when you take the anger and frustration into the town hall it, can have a very decisive and different kind of political impact. >> and these are town halls with congressmen. that's not the same as calling

it was questioned by the republican chair jason chaffetz. that is hardly no one. let me move on to the question about voter fraud as well. president trump, on voter fraud, suggested in a meeting with senators, that thousands of illegal voters were bused from massachusetts to new hampshire and that caused his defeat in the state of new hampshire and the defeat of senator kelly ayotte. it's prompted a response. ellen winetraub said i call upon the president to immediately share new hampshire voter fraud evidence so that his allegations can be investigated promptly. do you have that evidence? >> i actually, having worked on a campaign before in new hampshire. i can tell you that this issue of busing voters into new hampshire is widely known by anyone working new hampshire politics. it's very real. very serious. this morning, on this show, is not the venue for me to lay out all the evidence. i can tell you this, voter fraud is a serious problem in the country. you have millions of people who are registered in two states. who are dead who are registered to vote. you ha

by far. [ audience booing ] >> jason chaffetz can handle it, i can tell you that. but joining me now to discuss this, the former political director for george w. bush and chairman of the american conservative union. and cnn's political commentator and former executive director of the congressional black caucus. matt, did we all just get back into a time machine and head back to 2009? >> yeah, right. the difference this time is that, you know, those two town halls that you picked, tennessee and utah, with very republican districts, very republican constituencies, when jason chaffetz mentioned the name trump, the crowd erupted in boos. they're doing a great job of making their political points. this is an orchestrated campaign. this is smart politics but i don't think it will make much difference for legislators who see this for what it is. >> angela, do you honestly think, while i'm sure you like to see what's going on at these town halls, that it will make a difference? >> i do think it makes a difference, it's an important and fundamental part of our democracy is

take a look at it. >> paul, take a listen to republican jason chaffetz on this. >> look. it was out of bounds. there's no if, ands or buts about it. we'll call it out and needs to be dealt with. >> that sounds like much further than republicans have gone up to this point, paul. as you know, they're talking to an advisory ethics office and not anyone where you used to work with public corruption investigations on the criminal side. >> yeah. if con way worked for the u.s. fish and wildlife service she would be looking at five days suspension minimum. she might even lose her job. so, the problem here is that the office of government ethics making a recommendation. guess who gets to decide the ultimate sanction. donald trump. this is a same donald trump who owns a hotel that's on land leased from the federal government, the regulations say if you're an elected official, you can't lease land from the federal government. so i agree with norm. if the requirement to do good governments to follow the rules, if that's not coming from the top, why should kellyanne respect it? the pr

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host: this is a letter sent by several democrats to jason chaffetz, the chairman of the committee on government and oversight -- oversight and government reform. great questions have been raised about the fitness of the general to serve as national security advisor. this is a letter addressed to jason chaffetz, the chairman of the committee on oversight and government reform. that was sent yesterday. thomas in california. republican line. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. to the just like to add broadcast you are doing. we are the united states military, all ethnic groups trying to make united states safe. they are doing a great job. on the other hand, we have democrats and republicans that don't try to make the united states safe by working together with the president. the democrats would move forward if they kept a daily log of the president and at the end of four years tell the american people what he did wrong and what they would have done better. host: how does this coincide with the resignation of michael flynn? caller: if he wants to resign, that is something

>> even jason chaffetz who refuses to look at emoluments. he even said it was a clear violation. it was a clear violation. >> dershowitz, help me out. >> no, no, no. here is why it matters. i would agree if this were an isolated incident, let it go, but it's not. it's part of this enormous trump effort to capitalize on the presidency, to make millions, and that is wrong. she's just following her boss. >> well, that was originally my boss, why is she the fall guy. panel, we're out of time. thank you very much. great conversation. we appreciate you guys being here. >>> he scored the inwithing touchdown in the super bowl and he just got a super surprise. we'll show you next. fun in art class. come close, come close. i like that. [ all sounds come to a crashing halt ] ah. when your pain reliever stops working, your whole day stops. awww. try this. for minor arthritis pain, only aleve is fda approved to work for up to 12 straight hours with just one pill. thank you. come on everybody. aleve. live whole. not part. just checking my free credit score at credit karma. what the? you're wel

this is a district, jason chaffetz won his district by 47%. he is a very popular legislator there. it just seems that crowd was not necessarily representative of the people who elected him. >> share, does not seem like the congressman is really at serious risk of not being reelected. his challenge will be that he has colleagues in the republican caucus who are more vulnerable. the real question for a lot of these members is going to be figuring out what percentage of this is organized liberal activists who are never going to vote for these folks in the first place, may not even live in a district and look at something more organic peer when the tea party or came along and 2009 and 2010, they were dismissed by a lot of folks on the left as just astroturf, not really grassroots, it turned out that they were constituents and wound up voting out a lot of these conservative democrats because they had been in consecutive -- conservative issue district that voted for obamacare. so the question is not whether this congressman gets reelected, it is very likely he would come about whether or

the message to congressman jason chaffetz leaving d.c. alone. d.c. bureau chief sam ford live with what is he -- behind this protest. sam? sam: yes, jonathan. we are outside the rayburn building in capitol hill. inside the billing you have a committee meeting. the house oversight committee over with jason chaffetz is the chairman. they are considering a bill that would eliminate the law that d.c. passed in december called death with dignity. they would get rid of it. congress has the power to do that. inside, of course, it is standing room only. outside, peo because people are trying to get in there. earlier there was a protest rally at spirit park. which is just south of the ray burn building. a number of people came there, protesting the fact that congress is considering overturning one of d.c.'s laws. among the people who spoke was the mayor. she was saying for example when they passed the marijuana law earlier, i guess last year, some of the members of congress, republicans talk about putting her in jail. well, they are fighting other laws this t

. >>> rb congressman jason chaffetz face off with fiery o protesters last night but there was one thing they agree on. >> kellyanne conway was wrong. >>> millions are strugen after a massive snowstorm slammed the northeast. >>> good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs headquarters here in new york. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. it is unlikely the court battle over president trump's travel ban is over. the administration suffer a setback yesterday, though, when a federal court of appeals unanimously ruled against reinstating the ban. the justice department says it's considering its options. hena daniels is here in new york with the details. good morning, hena. >> good morning, anne-marie. president trump is vowing to keep up the fight after a major setback over his travel ban. speaking just after the ruling the president said the decision was political. president trump is not backing down after a three-judge panel in san francisco refused to reinstate his travel ban. >> we have a situation where the security of our country is at stake. >> the justice department had ar

jason chaffetz calling for investigation into the mishandling of classified information. abby: the president blasting the leaks that forces national security adviser to resign as criminal acts. heather: gary live in washington, d.c. with the latest. good morning, garrett. >> heather, abby, something the president brought throughout the day yesterday. campaign aides were in constant contact with russian officials. he dismissed the reports, the real scandal is that classified information is illegally given out by intelligence like candy. very un-american. venn a few hours later at a joint press with israel's prime minister, mr. trump was asked about former security adviseer mike flynn who stepped down after series of reports with conversations with russian embassador over sanctions, president defended flynn and blamed resignation on the media. >> i think it's really a sad thing that he was treated so bad ly. in addition to that, papers are being leaked, it's criminal act, it's been going on for a long time, before me, now it's really going on. >> growing number of leaks hav

>>> and do your job, chaos erupts at a town hall with house ov ov oversight chairman jason chaffetz. what is behind the anger boiling over in solid republican districts? i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> we're following breaking news. sources inside the trump administration are telling cnn the white house is considering issuing a revised or even a new executive order on travel. they say it would have more clarity and be more narrowly taylored than the order now frozen by the 9th circuit court of appeals. there is growing concern meanwhile inside the white house over a report that national security advisor michael flynn discussed sanctions against russia with the country's ambassador before mr. trump took office. sources say vice-president pence who previously vouched for flynn was relying on flynn's word there was no talk of sanctions. flynn now says he's unsure whether the topic was discussed. and republican lawmakers from two solidly red districts got an earful at town hall meetings from constituents voicing their anger. c

especially that one with senator jason chaffetz, here the crowd was respectful of the representative that showed up. the representative from the 12th district here in florida. he won a resounding victory in november. and he had voted against funding the affordable care act before. so he kind of knew he was walking in to some serious opposition from the crowd. but they mostly thanked him for allowing them to voice their opinions and for listening to what they had to say. most of the anger and the vitriol was exchanged between the supporters of the affordable care act and those that were looking to have it repealed. you saw some of that there. a real debate over these quote-unquote death panels that several independent fact-checking organizations have debunked in the past. that debate continues into today, despite the fact that the representative, villa rakka said he was here to listen to his constituents, he said it was his duty. he's been pretty outspoken in being against the affordable care act. i asked several people here, if they thought that this would really make a difference on

. >> jason chaffetz said she crossed the line. not just the media. the republican chair of the house oversight committee. on that point, because it gets to a deeper issue. sean spicer, from the podium, said the decision by nordstrom to pull the products of ivanka trump is a direct attack on the president's policies. sears and k-mart have decided to pull mr. trump's home furnishing lines from their websites. is that an attack as well? >> i don't want to comment on that. i don't have any information for it. i want to say sean spicer is 100% correct. what he said is true and important. i agree with it. >> so then you are making a comment? >> i'm not going to make a new comment. i'm going to stand by the white house press secretary. i'm going to call for sanity in discussing this issue. you had a case where somebody was treated unfairly. the president stuck up for a member of his family. a white house counselor made a light-hearted, flippant comment. that nobody would interpret as being what it is cast right now the way you and others in the media have s

we asked jason chaffetz and nunez to come on the program. they declined. i spoke to congressman hoyer. some of your republican colleagues think michael flynn's resignation resolves this matter. jason chaffetz saying the situation is taking care of itself. you disagree, right? >> absolutely. the there oes no way his resignation takes care of this event. frankly mr. chaffetz nor mr. nunez would have thought that had this been mrs. clinton in the same position. absolutely positive of that. it is not enough to say okay the national security adviser has resigned. we have here a pattern, not just a single incident of failing to disclose to his superiors, at least that's our supposition, that's what they say, that it wasn't disclosed, that he had talked about an ongoing matter of sanctions, sanctioning behavior that was adverse to the united states of america. and in effect one could draw the conclusion because the russians did not respond to those sanctions that they had been assured that they would be alleviated in the future. now, i don't know that. i'm just s

what is striking don is go back to the town hall of jason chaffetz that you just reported on. crying in for him to go back and investigate the trump administration as we heard. earlier today, just what he did. announced he was going to have hearings with the house oversight committee. he's chairman and rising republican star and going to investigate this question, referred to ethics investigation about ivanka trump. that's a big break for republican from republican nangs bill crystal has been pointing out. >> former white house officials say that kellyanne conway's endorsement on tv of the ivanka trump brand breaks rules governing the employees. is that correct and what should be done? >> it is correct. as david said, the rules prohibit a government employee from promoting private product using government time and resources and official status. no question that's what she did. said giving a free commercial to ivanka trump and said go out and buy it, in the white house when she said it and appearing on behalf of the white house. that's clearcut violation. what should be done? n

. >> reporter: this afternoon the oversight chairman jason chaffetz says there is one white house move he wants to investigate. he sent a letter to white house chief of staff reince priebus asking for more information about those sensitive national security conversations that the president appeared to have out in the open at mar-a-lago. scott? >> nancy cordes on capitol hill. >>> the president has said many times that he would prefer better relations with russia, but now moscow is putting that to the test as david martin reports from the pentagon. >> reporter: cruise missiles are a staple of the russian military arsenal, but one particular type, a land-based cruise missile with a range greater than 300 miles, is specifically banned by a treaty signed by ronald reagan and mikhail gorbachev in the final years of the cold war. now u.s. officials say russia has deployed just such a missile, capable of carrying a nuclear warhead. it happened secretly in december during the obama administration, but it is now up to president trump to respond to a deployment which u.s. officials say is such a

. >> reporter: congressman jason chaffetz vigorously led the investigation into hillary clinton's e-mails. but says he has no plans to investigate flynn's ties to russia. >> we've been asking for months for basic oversight but our chairman jason chaffetz has not lifted one finger. >> reporter: chaffetz is, however, investigating whether white house counselor kellyanne conway crossed a line by promoting ivanka trump's brand on television. >> i fully -- i'm going to give a free commercial here. >> reporter: this as chaffetz demands answers into these pictures, the president and the japanese prime minister at mar-a-lago huddling with advisers after learning north korea launched a missile. club members witnessing it all, some posting pictures on facebook raising security questions. >> look at mar-a-lago you'll look at kellyanne conway and ivanka brand but not >> at this point, i am holding out all my options. >> reporter: mary bruce, abc news, washington. >> mary, thanks. >>> the president is scheduled to hold a joint news conference at noon eastern today with prime minister benjamin netanyah

. >>> republican congressman jason chaffetz faced off with fiery protesters s last night, but te was one thing they agreed on. >> kellyanne conway was wrong. it should never happen again. >> this morning it's back to work and school but millions are stricken after a massive snowstorm slammed the northeast. >>> good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs headquarters here in new york. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. >>> it is unlikely the court battle over president trump's immigration travel ban is over. setback yesterday, though, when a federal court of appeals unanimously ruled against reinstating the ban. the justice department says it's considering its options. hena daniels is here in new york with the details. good morning, hena. >> good morning, anne-marie. president trump is vowing to keep up the fight after suffering a major legal setback over his immigration travel ban. speaking just after the ruling the president said the court's decision was political. president trump is not backing down after a three-judge panel in san francisco refused to reinstate his tra

. >> reporter: congressman jason chaffetz, the chair of the house oversight committee, vigorously led the investigation into hillary clinton's e-mails, but says he has no plans to investigate flynn's ties to russia. >> we've been asking for months for basic oversight. our chairman jason chaffetz has not lifted one finger. >> reporter: chaffetz is, however, investigating whether white house counselor kellyanne conway crossed a line by promoting ivanka trump's brand on television. >> she is just -- it's a wonderful line. i own some of it. i'm going to give a free commercial here. go buy it online! >> reporter: today, the office of government ethics said there is "strong reason to believe" conway violated ethics rules and recommended "disciplinary action against her." this as chaffetz demands answers into these pictures -- the president and the japanese prime minister at mar-a-lago, huddling with advisors after learning north korea launched a missile, club members witnessing it all, some posting pictures on facebook raising security questions. so you'll look at mar-a-lago, you'll look at

jason chaffetz and bob goodlatte written to the inspector general seeking an investigation into whether classified information was mishandled. they said we have serious concerns about the potential protection of classified information. federal laws and constitution distinguish law enforcement authorities for good reason. the release of classified information can have grave effects on national security. chaffetz's call comes days after he said his committee would not look into the circumstances that led to flynn stepping down. >> meantime, senators are interested in the facts surrounding flynn's downfall. we should add lindsey graham is looking for an investigation. while that is going on, the two on the judiciary committee have written the fbi. they want action and a sitdown and briefing within two weeks. they want transcripts of the call with the russian ambassador. they wrote, this raises questions about the content and context. the conclusions reached by the justice department and possible leaks of classified information by current and former government employees. > >> donald trump i

. >> reporter: congressman jason chaffetz, the chair of the house oversight committee, vigorously led the investigation into hillary clinton's e-mails but says he has no plans to investigate flynn's ties to russia. >> we've been asking for months for basic oversight, but our chairman, jason chaffetz, has not lifted one finger. >> reporter: chaffetz is, however, investigating whether white house counselor kellyanne conway crossed a line by promoting ivanka trump's brand on television. >> i fully -- i'm going to give a free commercial here. go buy it today, everybody. >> reporter: this as chaffetz demands answers into these pictures, the president and the japanese prime minister at mar-a-lago huddling with advisers after learning north korea launched a missile. club members witnessing it all, some posting pictures on facebook raising security questions. >> you'll look at mar-a-lago, you'll look at kellyanne conway and the ivanka brand but not at the trump team's ties to russia. >> at this point i am holding out all my options. >> reporter: mary bruce, abc news, washington. >> mary, than

. >> reporter: congressman jason chaffetz vigorously led the investigation into hillary clinton's e-mails. but says he has no plans to investigate flynn's ties to russia. >> we've been asking for months for basic oversight but our chairman jason chaffetz has not lifted one finger. >> reporter: chaffetz is, however, investigating whether white house counselor kellyanne conway crossed a line by promoting ivanka trump's brand on television. >> i fully -- i'm going to give a free commercial here. >> reporter: this as chaffetz demands answers into these pictures, the president and the japanese prime minister at mar-a-lago huddling with advisers after learning north korea launched a missile. club members witnessing it all, some posting pictures on facebook raising security questions. >> look at mar-a-lago you'll look at kellyanne conway and ivanka brand but not at the trump team's ties to russia. >> at this point, i am holding out all my options. >> reporter: mary bruce, abc news, washington. >> mary, thanks. >>> the president is scheduled to hold a joint news conference at noon eastern today w

it will be interesting. >> brian, the pictures from jason chaffetz. are constituents upset about everything? >> about obamacare. about what republicans will do to change obamacare to possibly dismantle it. we have seen this with several representatives. it happened in prior weeks. it is happening again this weekend. you will covering this, miguel. >> we started doing stories like this. on the other side, those who want obamacare repealed. they don't care about the replacement. what we saw in utah was about the replacement. what is coming? this white house has got to get his message straight. >> these images. several cnn reporters at several town hall meetings watching citizens interact with local legislators. the anger is palpable. some way it is a reverse of tea party and town halls where republicans are showing up in force with democratic lawmakers. now we're seeing it seems like democrats coming to the republican town halls trying to hold congress members accountable. the images are very compelling. we are seeing some congress members with security

and utah republican jason chaffetz, whose committee examines government wrongdoing says he won't investigate flynn either. >> when it gets into sources and methods, it really is the purview of the intel committee. >> reporter: maryland's elijah cummings is the top democrat on chaffetz's committee. >> our committee held three or four emergency hearings on hillary clinton in the matter of a week or two, and if there is any emergency at this moment in the history of this country, this is the moment. >> reporter: senate republicans showed more interest than their house counterparts, calling on flynn to testify. intelligence chair richard burr. >> we intend to cast as wide a net to get answers to all the questions. >> reporter: arizona's john mccain warned that flynn is the symptom of a larger problem. >> i think there is significant dysfunction in the national security apparatus of the trump administration. >> reporter: the afternoon the oversight chairman jason chaffetz says there is one white house move he wants to investigate. he sent a letter to white house chief of staff reince priebus aski

. >> we showed some video of that really rowdy town hall for congressman jason chaffetz. i want to you watch. >> so trump nominated -- [ crowd boos ] >> i get a good sense there of where we're going. [ crowd shouting "do your job" ] >> what is this all about? what's going on with congressman chaffetz? >> his district court votvoted overwhelmingly for donald trump. there were people in line outside unable to get in because the fire marshall closed the doors. you're seeing democrats taking the strategy republicans used in 2010 when we saw the rise of the tea party and turning it around, making sure they're organizing around these town halls and showing up in large numbers to oppose these policies. he got questions on land management, use but also about donald trump, that immigration order and betsy devos and other issues in capitol hill. republicans proved this kind of strategy can be effective. yesterday you saw jason chaffetz come out for the first time and really stridently oppose something that the trump administration is doing in his comments about kellyanne conway and

but republican house oversight chairman jason chaffetz is not satisfied. he's demanding a full review by the office of government ethics. the white house says pres trump "absolutely" continues to support conway. meanwhile, president trump says he intends to roll back regulations and promote investment in airports. he made the remarks yesterday during a white house meeting with executives from more than a dozen airports and airlines. he said he'll announce a plan in the next three weeks to reduce taxes on businesses. the executives who emerged from the meeting called it a positive session. the sister-in-law of one of the san bernardino shooters will be sentenced in november, in a case involving immigration fraud. tatiana farook pleaded guilty yesterday. her attorney admitted.. farook sought permanent residency for her sister, by claiming her sister was married to enrique marquez. investigators say marquez is suspected of having ties to the 20-15 mass shooting that left 14 people dead. if convicted, tatiana farook faces up to five years in federal prison. th

and utah republican jason chaffetz, whose committee examines government wrongdoing says he won't investigate flynn either. >> when it gets into sources and methods, it really is the purview of the intel committee. >> reporter: maryland's elijah cummings is the top democrat on d thfetz's committee. ri our committee held three or four emergency hearings on hillary clinton in the matter of a week or two, and if there is any emergency at this moment in the history of this country, this is the moment. na reporter: senate republicans showed more interest than their house counterparts, calling on flynn to testify. intelligence chair richard burr. >> we intend to cast as wide a net to get answers to all the questions. >> reporter: arizona's john mccain warned that flynn is the symptom of a larger problem. >> i think there is significant dysfunction in the national security apparatus of the trump administration. >> reporter: this afternoon the oversight chairman jason chaffetz says there is one white house move he wants to investigate. he sent a letter to white house chief of staff reince priebus ask

. >> reporter: congressman jason chaffetz, the chair of the house oversight committee, vigorously led the investigation into hillary clinton's e-mails, but says he has no plans to investigate flynn's ties to russia. >> we've been asking for months for basic oversight. but our chairman, jason chaffetz has not lifted one finger. >> reporter: chaffetz is, however, investigating whether white house counselor kellyanne conway crossed a line by promoting ivanka trump's brand on television. >> she is just -- it's a wonderful line. i own some of it. i'm going to give a free commercial here. go buy it today, everybody. you can find it online. >> reporter: today, the office of government ethics said there is "strong reason to believe" conway violated ethics rules and recommended "disciplinary action against her." this as chaffetz demands answers into these pictures -- the president and the japanese prime minister at mar-a-lago, huddling with advisers after learning north korea launched a missile, club members witnessing it all, some posting pictures on facebook raising security questions. so yo

even jason chaffetz and elijah cummings had signed a note on this one. the chair and the leader of the oversight and government reform committee, they were critical of what she had done. i think the bigger problem is, they don't have a communications director at the white house right now. this is one of the issues for them right now, whatever happens, they need to have a message and they need to be able to deliver it consistently. president trump has taken it on, doing it badly. they should put their heads together, came to the executive order, poorly rolled out. whenever it comes to a lot of the news they had this week they wanted to get out there, whether it was the new intel factory in chandler, arizona, whether it was the faa, all of these things got lost in this over -- all of that got lost, they just need somebody to say, look, let's put our heads together, let's figure out what message we want to put across. >> there may not be a communications director, but a lot of communications, some would say too much. leaks, there always leaks from the white

why then do you think jason chaffetz and bob goodlatte are not doing that? >> i couldn't begin to answer for either one of them. >> what questions do you have about the trump administration's ties to russia. >> the questions i have are things i would want to ask and get answers behind closed doors. i would want to ask them, what is your intechks, how do you view russia? are you viewing them maybe not necessarily as an enemy but absolutely as a major aggressor on all fronts concerning the united states of america. i don't expect to say them in front of the media because we don't want to get them into a situation that we can't walk back from by saying, this is what ywe're going to do, russia if you do this. yeah, i want to hear the answers on how they view russia and what it is they plan to do in response to russia putting a ship off our coast, what it is they plan to do in response to russia trying to participate in anything having to do with our elections or any other way that they're trying to manipulate anything having to do with the united states of ameri

just so you know jason chaffetz and trey gowdy on last hour. gowdy's point as a former prosecutor there is no there there and may not be anything there there. chaffetz said we'll do the investigation and figure out what's behind it. >> two issues need to be investigated. one is the trump's administration campaign era communications with the russian government and the matter of who leaked this information during what -- during their time in office? so both are, i think, important national security issues. both warrant investigations. i think you muddy the waters when you pursue them together, though. that's where they become politicized. i don't think that either are really political issues. >> bill: can you find leakers in this town? name one. >> part of the problem here is the obama administration came down really hard on leakers. they looked for these people, they would then prosecute them. i think the trump administration is reluctant, came in reluctant to do that but they are now starting to see what the real problem it is and feeling the b

jason chaffetz is a unique character in that he's ao the held of the house government oversight reform committee, and there's a lot of concern about that on the ground there. but there are a thousand people not just in the build bug outside of the building. we saw this with justin amosh, who got a friendly reception in michigan, but he had 600 people with another couple hundred outside too. everyone is motivated here. what republicans are being reminded are what democrats learned in 2009, is when you make a large-scale change or threat on the make a large-scale change to the health care provision in this country, it affects people right where they live and they're not going to take it quietly. so i think it's going to add urgency to the fact that they own health care right now in this country because we federalized this issue so much. and so they're going to i think have increased motivation to not just repeal or tinker or repair but actually have something on the table to replace it and i'm sure they are panicking right now. >> we know also yamiche at the republican retreat there were

and jason chaffetz was booed at. van jones is our political commentator and host of "the messy truth." we'll get to your town hall. i can't wait to see it this evening, but first i wanted to pick your brain on these moments we saw playing out in tennessee and in utah. it's like you have this momentum, these moments, and three the women's march in there as well. you have a president who is such a catalyst, i don't know if that's really the right word though for democrats. what do you make of this and what do you do with the energy? >> you know, this is very reminiscent to the reaction to obama but actually sped up. with the tea party town hall protest that didn't happen until august of 2009. we're still in the winter. we've got snow advisories and people are already mobilizing at this level. even with goreorge w. bush. so the day after trump. we can't tell yet. is this just a few sore losers that just happened to get a crowd together or is this a beginning of a really serious fightback, but if they aren't planning to

. >> martha: brought about the letter that has come from jason chaffetz and the house that has gone to the government ethics board? they say they consider that to be a very serious, potentially a serious violation of the government ethics code. >> we are aware of that letter and we are reviewing that internally. i am just really happy that i spent an awful lot of time of the president of the united states this afternoon and that he supports me 100%. >> martha: you spoke about that matter and he is not -- doesn't have any intentions to suspend you? >> we spoke about a range of matters, he supports me 100%. it was was a heartening moment. all i can say, at some point in your life, you ought to have a boss who treated me the way that the president is treating me today. >> martha: kellyanne conway, a lot to talk about tonight.

. >> republican representative jason chaffetz and steve lynch at the house oversight committee investigating russian hacking. >> if you want me to start issuing subpoenas on the dccc i'm probably not going to do it but go ahead and suggest it. >> how about some of -- >> the gentleman's time has expired. >> you asked me a question. >> no, i did not. >> will the gentleman yield? will the gentleman yield? i think we need to calm down here a little bit. >> all c-span programs are available at c-span.org on our home page or by searching the video library. >>> now, tennessee governor bill haslam gives his annual state of the state address at the state capitol in nashville. this is just over 30 minutes. [ applause ] >> thanks. thank you. thank you. all right. all right. thanks so much. speaker orwell, lieutenant governor mcnally, happy birthday, randy, speakers pro tem tracy and johnson, members of the 110th general assembly, justices, constitutional officers, general slatery, commissioners, friends, guests, fellow tennesseans, and for the seventh year in a row the woman voted best first lady in th

top house republican jason chaffetz gets a rude awakening back home this as he breaks with the white house over kellyanne conway. all of that, much more ahead, this busy hour, we begin though with our top story. donald trump is going to court. or is he? a federal appeal's court upholding the suspension of his controversial immigration ban, now nbc news reporting that the white house may repeat may be looking at a different plan of action. instead of going to court, maybe ripping up the executive order, rewriting it to address the courts concerns, and then reissuing it. now, trump teasing a move in the next few days. >> we are going to keep our country safe, we are going to do whatever is necessary, we'll be doing something very rapidly having to do with additional security for our country. you'll be seeing that some time next week. >> hallie jackson standing by at the white house. hallie, what are the signals we're getting here? is it full steam ahead with the court case or plan b now on the table potentially? >> reporter: it's not an either/or question, steve, not based on our repor