and i like jerry nadler, personally, i like jerry. and i think jerry is in the toughest position out of every member of congress. because he is getting browbeaten by the far left, you better impeach. >> yes. all right. >> he doesn't care about that. >> there are others who are saying, look, like nancy pelosi, i think she knows, this is going to hurt us tremendously if we keep going this way. >> well, thank you both. we have a lot more coming, because that was just an initial list of 81 people and then there are subpoenas and all of that. next, trump's top officials contorting themselves to cover for him after he sides with kim jong-un. will they regret it? plus, democrats are demanding to see president trump's tax returns. >> we should be talking about taxes, taxes, taxes. >> would a subpoena succeed in getting those tax returns? to be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing it's best to make you everybody else... ♪ ♪ means to fight the hardest battle, which any human being can fight and never stop. does this sound dismal? i

i want to go to jerry nadler of new york. thank you for joining me this morning, sir. >> good morning. >> on our reporting that there will be no further indictments on the mueller probe that means no member of the trump campaign was charged with conspiring with the russian government to influence the election. do you accept that no member of the trump team engaged in that kind of criminal conspiracy with russia? >> i don't know. first of all, we don't know what indictments are forthcoming from other investigations that are in the southern district or new york. >> his main mission was about russia. do you think mueller would send that other parts of justice department? >> i don't know. that's one of the reasons i think it's crucial the entire report be released to the public. transparency is key here. i mean, obviously we know there was some collusion. i mean, we know the president's son and campaign manager were involved in a meeting with the russians to receive -- what they thought was to receive stolen information, informat

what did jerry nadler say? how does that line up with what whitaker testified not too long ago publically? >> there's a big discrepancy even between members of congress about what whitaker said behind closed doors. there's no transcript. it was just these two members and their staff. what nadler is saying is that whitaker did not deny having conversations with the president about the michael cohen investigation and prosecutors in the southern district of new york. we had previously reported that the president was venting about it, he was frustrated. he thought prosecutors had been running amok. that was one of the questions for the acting attorney general, tell us about that. he denied the idea that the president had lashed out. when pressed about whether there were conversations, he wouldn't go into it. now jerry nadler is saying, he didn't deny there were conversations. on the other hand, republican doug collins is saying, no, no, that didn't happen. he didn't bring that up at all. that's not -- that was not

you spoke to jerry nadler, the chairman of the house judiciary committee. when he says a very brief letter, that's going to disappoint a whole bunch of democrats on capitol hill. >> we'll see. the interesting part about it is that the hope among everybody, reporters, people in congress across the boefard, is that thi initial list of findings, the principal conclusions, as they're calling it, would have some meat on the bones. because we know that no matter what happens ultimately with the full mueller report, it's going to be awhile. there is going to be discussion even for those republicans who say let's get it out, they understand that there is this classified information, there will be discussion about executive political privilege and so forth. what i think is also important to underscore which jerry nadler did with me this morning on "state of the union" is that this is a letter written by the attorney general. it is not a cut and paste of robert mueller's conclusions in this two-year-long investigation that's added to the letter. it is barr's interpre

but did not commit, not enough for jerry nadler. democrats are open to the notion of going to court themselves and demanding this information. also on that same call, democrats did not come away with a clear understanding of how the administration plans to get around the executive privilege issue if the white house tries to block any information from going forward. barr said he had no plans to give the information to the white house first. barr did not give any indication of why bob mueller did not make a decision about whether to charge the president with obstruction of justice. that's a decision he left up to the attorney general and the deputy attorney general. according to the source, barr did not answer the question when asked by nadler. >> interesting. the house intelligence committee chairman, adam schiff, he is fighting back hard after president trump and republicans in congress called on him to resign. what's the latest on that? >> reporter: an explosive hearing. adam schiff faces calls to resign in the aftermath of him say

that is one of the reasons you have jerry nadler making clear this is not meant to be an impeachment proceeding. it but if he calls up dozens of week after week for hearings, it potentially as the same politically damaging effect as an impeachment hearing even if you call it something different. >> that is important enough that jerry nadler addressed that on tv saying we're not doing that but we're making the argument as to why it should happen. >> that's right he is drawing a very, very stark line between what would take place in an impeachment proceeding and what his role is as chairman of the oversight committee. he says it is all about oversight work. that it is the constitutional mandated work that his committee has to carry out, ali. >> jeff bennet at the white house. i want to bring in one of the individuals who is on that very long list of people that congressman nadler is asking documents from. sam, good to see you. what do they want from you? do you know zlet. >> yeah,>> yeah, i received the document this morning. it was very fair considering what i would know. they want an

do you support the efforts by jerry nadler? do you think it's a good idea to have this sweeping investigation? >> i think certainly you have to start oversight. i think the house folks are in a much better position than i am. you have to go where evidence leads you. as it comes in, you just can't ignore certain things. they're going to be looking at every aspect possible. we've gone for two years with no oversight whatsoever. i do think we have to be very careful not to make this about an individual and make this about oversight and about alleged criminal activity or obstruction and not about an individual. i've seen that too many times with prosecutors. but i think certainly there's got to be this significant oversight into what's going on with the administration. >> isn't this pretty clearly, senator, about one individual, president trump? >> no, i don't think it is about one individual. i think it's about the activities of the administration at this point. clearly there are people, including the president, that are involved

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host: the resolution's main author is jerry nadler of the judiciary committee. you tweeted that the the house will vote wednesday or thursday on making the mueller report available to public and the congress. the latest to put pressure on the attorney general, he remains noncommital on releetsing the full mueller report. how will this put pressure on the department and the attorney general? guest: this is just one way house democrats hope they can do this. the chairs of six different house investigative committees have sent a letter to attorney general barr encouraging him on this subject, urging him, rather, to make it fully public, as much heas can. the only redaxes they feel are necessary are grand jury material which always remain secret, and classified information or information that would reveal sources and methods, many of which could be contained in the foo final mueller report. but those are the only redaxes house democrats will accept. host: how is this resolution part of house democrat's broader effort to investigate the trump administration? guest: t

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the house judiciary chairman, jerry nadler, is my guest. plus, the house intelligence committee chairman says the mueller report is the, quote, bare minimum. whoa! we'll talk about that. and the art of contortion. top officials twisting themselves into pretzels, denying reality, lying, just to defend the president. let's go "outfront." >>> and good evening. i'm erin burnett. "outfront" tonight, the biggest threat to president trump. his name, and it's a person, is jerry nadler, the powerful new

so there is no evidence of anything -- lou: jerry nadler has stipulated that. let's listen if you would please and share this with the audience. nadler on the investigation, if you would listen to this, he's perfectly willing to set aside -- it's a full screen that we want to put up, as he described how he's going to toss aside any concern about the witch hunt, the special counsel investigation which has wasted 25 million dollars and almost two years of america's time. congress must provide a check on abuses of power, equally we must protect and respect the work of special counsel mueller, but we cannot rely on others to do the investigative work for us. have you ever seen a more -- what's your thought about that, tom? >> well, it shows you that mueller's come up dry, and it is not just two years. it is three years because the doj and the fbi began harassment -- lou: i was talking about the special counsel investigation. >> right but the investigation generally has been going on for at least three years. they've been unable to do anything, so now -- one of the

is it your sense that something changed importantly today in what jerry nadler learned from the acting fbi director? because that's a new level of detail in the interference level the president is willing to go to. i think it was reasonable for people who have been watching his external behavior to guess that things like that could happen, but here you have an acting attorney general saying these are the kinds of conversations i had with the president of the united states. >> it's hard for me to evaluate, not having been in the room, whether this was the attorney general, former acting attorney general saying i can't remember if i discussed this with the president or i'm not going to deny we had these conversations. i'm not going to deny it. i don't know how he characterized this. i find it, you know, very difficult to believe that if he did discuss this that he would have some failure of recollection about it, but also this is a president who has had no compunction about directly interfering in an investigation which he's implicated. he does it every day by bashing mueller, by danglin

here is jerry nadler. >> while he was attorney general, acting attorney general, mr. whitaker was involved in conversations about the scope of the southern district of new york u.s. attorney berman's recusal and whether the southern district went too far in pursuing the campaign finance case in which the president was listed as individual number one. >> so shan, i want to make this clear, again. jeffrey berman was a trump ally. he recused himself, so you know, if there was a discussion about trying to undo that, you know, that could matter. that could be a big development here. is this problematic if such conversations happen? >> i think it's very problematic, erin. it's obviously very problematic if he was having those conversations with the president. i would disagree with barrett. even within his own staff, the idea that he is questioning the scope of berman's recusal, that just indicates he doesn't understand recusals. you recuse because you have a conscience, you have integrity, you're conflicted, and he wants to question the scope of that? that conversation in a

sandra: the conversation goes what you heard from jerry nadler. not only the full report to be made of that, and anything less than that would be a cover-up. >> we will continue on that. sandra: the president has been pretty quiet today and we will see what happens next as we await the report expected out today. our coverage continues next. in your family tree. i learned that my ten times great grandmother is george washington's aunt. within a few days i went from knowing almost nothing to holy crow, i'm related to george washington. this is my cousin george. discover your story. start searching for free now at ancestry.com (coughing) need a change of scenery? kayak searches hundreds of travel sites and filters by cabin class, wi-fi and more. so you can be confident you're getting the right flight at the best price. kayak. search one and done. voting for your favorite has never been easier. just say "vote for world of dance" into your xfinity v-mo. um jennifer, it's called a voice remote, not a v-mo. yeah, i just think v-mo has a nicer ring to it.

in an extraordinary session today, jerry nadler, the chairman of the house judiciary committee along with the ranking member of the committee met with former acting attorney general matthew whitaker privately to discuss what he said publicly under oath to that committee about president trump interfering with the prosecution of michael cohen or other prosecutions. >> at no time has the white house asked for nor have i provided any promises or commitments concerning the special counsel's investigation or any other investigation. >> and here is chairman jerry nadler today describing what matthew whitaker now says about presidential interference. >> unlike in the hearing room, mr. whitaker did not deny that the president called him to discuss the michael cohen case and personnel decisions in the southern district. two, while he was acting attorney general, mr. whitaker was directly involved in conversations about whether to fire one or more u.s. attorneys. three, while he was attorney general -- acting attorney general, mr. whitaker was involved in conversations about the scope of the so

the committee chairman jerry nadler sent demands for testimony or documents to 81 agencies and individuals this morning including the trump organization, the trump foundation, the white house and the "national enquirer." president trump with another democratic challenger. former colorado governor john hickenlooper announced the hickenlooper on the list of candidates. i said this in the past. i won't dedicate a lot of time to democratic candidates until they sort themselves out.

jonathan: because jerry nadler, chair of the judiciary committee, puts out 8 request you look at the list. it's exhaustive. it includes people that -- are they really going to yield much information? some of these people have been dragged -- michael caputo. robert: former president trump t.mpaign adviser. jonathan: ri compare that to the elijah cummings approach on oversight. very targeted, veryelerate, very narrow and concerned with sequencing. trump wants to call this witch hunt and i've spoken to democrats who have honestly -- senior house members, who were disturbed and irritated by what nadler did because they thought he just handed trump a witch hunt. yes, we can say the publicity doesn't matter but it actually does because the trump organization doesn't have many legal tools to fight back against congress. they know. it's a political fight for them. they'll fight every step of the wa it will be a congressional fight. it will go up to the courts. and of course the ultimate question of impeachment is a political fight, too. nancy pelosi's nervous about public opinion. she does n

jonathan: because jerry nadler, chair ofryhe judic committee, puts out 81equests. you look at the list. it's exhauste. it includes people that -- are they really going to yield much information? some of these people haveeen pagged -- michael caputo. robert: formsident trump campaign adviser. jonaaran: right. co that to the elijah cummings approach on oversight. very targeted, very deliberate, very narrow and concerned with sequencing. trump wants to call thisch a w hunt and i've spoken to democrats who have honestly -- senior house members, who were disturbed and irritated by what nadler did because they thought he just handed trump a witch hunt. ye t we can say publicity doesn't matter but it actually does because the trump organization doesn't have many legal tools to fight backai t congress. they know. it's a political fight for them. they'll fight every step of the way. it wl be a congressional fight. it will go up to the courts. and of course the ultimate question of impeachment is political fight, too. nancy pelosi's nervous aboutpi publicon. she does not wan

this is what jerry nadler just tweeted. he said special counsel mueller worked for 22 months to determine the extent of which president trump obstructed justice. attorney general barr took two days to tell the american people that while the president is not exonerated, there will be no action by doj. so clearly there are a lot of questions about exactly what the special counsel was relying on and determining not to press a case against the president but also saying he wasn't exonerated. those are the questions democrats have. jerry nadler has launched his own investigation into potential obstruction of justice. the question is what did mueller find? how will that impact what congress is going to do going forward? mueller did this exhaustive probe and has not found any crime. there's no point in retracing these same steps, but democrats say we need to hear more. that's where this fight is coming, in the coming days. this four-page letter does not suffice for democrats here. expect much more in the days ahead from democrats.

. >> it's not specifically what jerry nadler is looking for. the president is right, this is almost literally a witch hunt. howie: 81 trump world targets. legitimate oversight or partisan overreach. gayle king confronts r. kelly about the alleged sexual abuse of young girls and he explodes. the cbs morning host kept control of a tense and volatile situation. i'm howard kurtz and this is "mediabuzz." even some journalists sympathetic to house democrats are questioning whether they are going too far after jerry nadler demanded information from 81 groups and individuals. the president calling the democrats crazy, signaling his administration might not comply. president trump: the witch hunt continues, and they want to do that instead of getting legislation passed. 81 people and organizations got letters. it's a disgrace to our country. howie: joining us, mollie hemingway. gillian turner, and mo elleithee, former democratic official who runs georgetown university's department of politics. are most of of the media cheering them on because all invest

in response to the attorney general's newest letter tonight, jerry nadler released this. quote, as i informed the attorney general earlier this week, congress requires the full and complete mueller report without redactions and access to the underlying evidence by april 2nd, which is tuesday. that deadline still stands. as i also informed him rather than expend valuable time and resources trying to keep certain portions of the report from congress, he should work with us to request a court order to release any and all grand jury information to the house judiciary committee as has occurred in every similar investigation in the past. there is ample president for the department of justice sharing all of the information that the attorney general proposes to redact. again, congress must see the full report. on that issue of grand jury material and the attorney general announcing that he's going to cut all grand jury material out of mueller o's rept and not going to allow congress to see the material, chairman nadler is right that there is ample president for exact rly tt kind

i want to play you what jerry nadler, who is chairman of house judiciary tells us he will do and won't do just yet. let's listen. >> impeachment is a long way down the road. we don't have the facts yet. but we're going to initiate proper investigations. it's our job to protect the rule of law. that's our core function. and to do that, we're going to initiate investigations into abuses of power, into corruption of -- into corruption and into obstruction of justice. >> so what's chairman nadler's committee going to do, jeffrey, that the special counsel robert mueller has not done? >> they might do a lot of the same things because mueller's investigation has been in the grand jury which is, by definition, secret. but issues like obstruction of justice, all the issues related to the firing of james comey, issues that michael cohen raised yesterday, insurance fraud, bank fraud. all of that seems to cry out for further investigation. >> but isn't mueller -- is it fair to say mueller is more focused on russia and it sounds like jerry nadler is more focused on abuse of power, things like that.

for example, chairman jerry nadlers march 25 letter refers to my supplemental notification as a, quote, four-page summary of the special counsel's review. my march 24th letter was not and did not purport to be an exhaustive recounting of the special counsel's investigation or report. as my letter made clear, my notification to congress and the public provided pending release of the report a summary of its principal conclusions, that is its bottom line. i do not believe it would be the public's interest for me to attempt to summarize the full report or to release it in serial or piecemeal fashion" and therefore, yes, every few days i'm going to keep sending you another letter that says something about robert mueller and what he found without actually giving you anything from robert mueller, but don't say i'm sum rising it because i'm definitely just describing it and only the parts i want to describe, not actually giving you a summary. it's just bits of it that i think some people might want to hear that i'm going to call the bottom line, but it's not a summary, it's another thing, that

jerry nadler of new york responded in a statement that read in part, "congress requires the full and complete mueller report without redactions as well as access to the under lining evidence by april 2nd, it is critical for attorney barr to come to congress to explain the rational behind his letter." house democrats are gearing up to accuse barr of the cover up if the findings he releases are not complete. one house staff member told the post, if he does not include the full summary or whatever he gives to congress, that amount to a cover up. we do not want anything in the words of the attorney general's. we want to see robert mueller's words. many hope mueller's report will answer why trump was able to avoid an interview, a sit-down interview with the special counsel. he was allowed to submit written answers instead. here is how his formal white house lawyer ty cobb responded when asked by kristen welker today. >> why didn't the president ever sit for an interview with the special counsel. >> other presidents proceeded of written questions. none of them provided the degree of cooper

how the house investigators led by -- led by -- >> nadler. >> nadler, yeah, jerry nadler. of course, i've known him a million years, jerry nadler, that they're going to go into the question of tying together payoffs to the women, trying to get flynn off the hook with comey. firing comey, going after mueller. i mean, all -- how would they fit together? it sounds like a rico charge, a kind of rack ets charge. >> well, look, legally, people have been talking about that for a long time. but he's going to tie it together thematically. the umbrella term is abuse of power, obstruction of justice, and in fact, the charge he's making, and there's a lot of reason to think is there's continuity between trump, the candidate, trump the nominee, trump the president. he's run his businesses the same way, crooked and corner cutting. and he's going to try to show a general pattern. but each of these things, when you hear the charge about this fishing expedition, asked which shouldn't be fished for, each of the incidents really does sound like the sorts of things you've got to worry about i

>> well, and jerry nadler, of course, was on that committee, as well. so he was tail actually, you know, a democrat on that committee. john conyers was heading the judiciary committee at that point. so he has experience going through this. and of course, he saw the political side of that, which was clinton was impeached or that clinton was impeached. but then, of course, his polls were never higher after that. and sort of a republicans did not fare well with that, even though the republicans were impeached. so i think nadler's looking at that probably and saying, look, we need to have this investigati investigation, but i think the point is well taken that heshtd be issuing reports out of the investigation saying, here's what we're trying to do. but at the very beginning of an investigation, i think that it's very -- it's got to be from a legal perspective, this is what you would do, have a very broad scope to it. because what are you trying to do at the beginning of any investigation? you're trying to find the facts. you're in a fact-finding or discove

lindsay graham in the senate and jerry nadler in the house. basically explaining where he is in the progress of getting the mueller report ready to be released to congress and umately to the public. he's talking about painstaking process, basically, going through the mueller report, nearly 400 pages long, to make sure you're not compromising other investigations that may be ongoing, not compromising intelligence matters. sources and methods and that sort of thing. saying that this is a very painstaking process, very careful to make sure you aren't infringing on anyone's rights or giving out sensitive information to those who might want it. might use to it harm us. a detailed letter that we're just going through right now from bill barr to the chair of the respective judiciary committees on the hill. he's willing to talk publicly about the findings in this report, talk about the mueller report, but he says he probably won't be able to do that until may 1. but the senate judiciary committee, second for the house judiciary committee, a response t

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for example, chairman jerry nadler's march 25 letter refers to my supplemental notification as a, quote, four-page summery of the special counsel's review. my march 24th letter was not and did not purport to be an exhaustive recounting of the special counsel's investigation or report. as my letter made clear, my notification to congress and the public provided pending release of the report a summary of its principal conclusions, that is, its bottom line. i do not believe it would be in the public's interest for me to attempt to summarize the full report or to release it in serial or piecemail fashion. and, therefore, yes, every few days i'm just going to keep he had sending you another letter that says something about robert mueller and what he found without actually giving you anything from robert mueller but don't say i'm summarizing it because i'm definitely just describing it and only the pars i want to describe, not actually giving you a summary. it's just bits of it that i think that some people might want to hear that i'm going to call the bottom line but it's not a summary. it's

jon: the president is back on the ground at andrews and jerry nadler is holding a news conference in new york city right now let's listen to the chairman of the house judiciary committee. >> 22 months under evidence of obstruction with this presiden president, attorney general barr in addition to his role of the open memorandum suggesting that that it was almost impossible for any president to commit obstruction of justice as the head of the executive branch made a decision about that evidence in under 48 hours. these conclusions raise more questions than they answer given the fact that mueller uncovered evidence that in his own words does not exonerate the president. we try to expand the findings and second given the questions it is imperative with the underlying evidence as long as the evidence underlying that report and to the american people as much as can be made public should be made public without delay. i intend to fight for that transparency will ask the attorney general to testify before the house judiciary committee. the american people are entitled to know what is referen

but jerry nadler talking about a justice department cover-up as he awaits this report. what is your mess across as we hear calls for further investigations of president trump. what do you want to see happen the moment we hear more. >> i think the american people need to be patient and not rush to judgment. this is a sitting american president and people are louding serious allegations. attorney general barr * should be given the benefit of the doubt. we need to give these people the benefit of the doubt and the time to complete their report. let's not rush to judgment and speculate on whether there has been wrongdoing. let's sit back and wait for the results to be released, which i hope they will be released publicly as do most of americans. sandra: we know they are hunkered down at the justice department right now. congressman cunningham, i appreciate your time this morning. bill: discussions over the weekend with white house officials stressed two things. no new indictments they expect and no interference with the mueller matter and the department of justice. a senior

the most vocal on this is a gentleman called jerry nadler. he is fed in the light of a very concerning discrepancies, is his how he is describing them, and final decision—making at the justice department following the report, when mr muller did not exonerate the president, jerry nadler says we'll be calling attorney general bar in, to testify before the judiciary in the near future. he to testify before the judiciary in the nearfuture. he also to testify before the judiciary in the near future. he also goes on to point out that special counsel mueller worked for 22 months to determine the extent to which president trump obstructed justice, i'm quoting this word for word from his twitter feed. attorney general barr took two days, he says, to tell the american people that why the president is not exonerated there will be no action by the department ofjustice. there will be no action by the department of justice. there must will be no action by the department ofjustice. there must be full transparency in what special counsel mueller uncovered,

. >> let me read you tweets from congressman jerry nadler, chair of committee, first of all, special counsel mueller worked to determine the extent to which president trump obstructed justice, attorney general barr took 2 days to tell the american people that while the president is not exonerated they'll be no action by the justice department. he goes onto say, there must be full transparency in what special counsel mueller uncovered to not exonerate the president from wrongdoing, doj owes the public decision not to go further in work, mueller is not exonerating the president, must hear from ag barr about decision-making and see all the underlined evidence for the american people to know all the facts because he says he's moving forward, you use today chair the oversight committee, i want to get your thoughts on chairman nadler. >> it was never about collusion and never about what russia tried to do to the country in 2016, i'm not speaking for all democrats but i am speaking for jerry nadler it's about how to cast a cloud of what is left of president trump's first term in office. so,

count us as officially jealous of our colleague rachel maddow, who will have chairman jerry nadler tonight. don't go anywhere, "hardball" with chris matthews starts now. >>> did i miss anything? let's play "hardbal"hardball." >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews, back from two weeks in beautiful new zealand. getting up at 5:00 in the morning 8,000 miles away to hear michael cohen was well worth it because it gave me a clearer picture of this president. cohen testified what it was like being in the room with trump, taking orders from him, feeling his attitude toward those women he had been with. it's different than just hearing he had paid some women off. or catching his flippant attitude toward the country and the vietnam war he was fighting at the time. cohen told us how he, rich donald trump, said anyone who accepted the call to duty was a chump. he said, quote, "do you have think i'm stupid? i'm not going to vietnam." so let me go to where the investigation of donald trump is clearly headed. the committee to launch articles of impeachment house judiciary has started a new investigation,

now, of course, jerry nadler is asking bill barr to seek a court order to allow him to to do that. as it stands, jerry had in wler is asking for something that is legally impossible. now, what will happen on wednesday you ask? i don't think there is a whole -- there is not a lot that jerry nadler can do to force the justice department to do something it legally cannot do. one of the things i found interesting in bill barr's letter, he mentioned there were discussions between him and jerry nadler in between the letters each have been accepting back and forth. they have been on the phone, they have been talking. i'm sure chairman nadler has been trying to persuade attorney general bar tore seek that court order to allow him to do that. now, will bill barr do that? i'm getting the impression, no really he doesn't have a lot of motivation to do so. i thought the letter was interesting he says he is working with special counsel mueller to work on those redactions. i think that's a great move. i suspect he's doing it to you know give himself more credibility. he cannot -- democrats canno

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jerry nadler of new york responded in a statement that read in part, "congress requires the full and complete mueller report without redactions as well as access to the under l p lining evidence by april 2nd, it is critical for attorney barr to come to congress to explain the rational behind his letter." house democrats are gearing up to accuse barr of the cover up if the findings he releases are not complete. one house staff member told the post ", post, if he does not include the full summary or whatever he gives to congress, that amount to a cover up. we do not want anything in the words of the attorney general's. we want to see robert mueller's words. many hope mueller's report will answer why trump was able to avoid an interview, a sit-down interview with the special counsel. he was allowed to submit written answers instead. here is how his formal white house lawyer ty cobb responded when asked by kristen welker today. >> why didn't the president ever sit for an interview with the special counsel. >> other presidents proceeded of written questions. none of them provided the degr

take a listen to what jerry nadler said just yesterday. >> we will be issuing document requests to over 60 different people and individuals from the white house to the department of justice, donald trump jr., allen weisselberg to begin investigations to present the case to the american people about obstruction of justice, corruption and abuse of power. >> it's very clear that the president is obstructing justice. >> that last comment frg from the chairman of the judiciary committee. it's important to note how they are doing this. this is a step by step approach. these are not subpoenas. these are document requests. these are not hearing requests but document requests. they don't want to rush into anything. they will make the case starting the process by sending out those document requests. we are told by the white house press secretary the white house has received their letter. we expect to get more information about the sheer scale of those requests sometime in the near future, but this is the starting point. this is the first step of what are expected to be many steps in these investi

jerry nadler, (d) chairman, judiciary committee: "we are going to initiate investigations into abuses of power, into corruption and into obstruction of justice." nadler is seeking information from the president's son donald trump jr. and the c-f-o of the trump organization allen weisselberg, who mr. trump's former lawyer michael cohen repeatedly referred to during his congressional testimony when discussing potentially criminal behavior, including alleged hush money payments to stormy daniels. michael cohen, president trump's former attorney: "allen weisselberg made the decision that it should be paid over the 12 months so that it would look like a retainer."president trump again denying wrongdoing and railing against the investigations he's facing. president trump (no font needed): there's no collusion so now they go and morph into let's inspect every deal he's ever done. we're going to go into his finances, check his deals. these people are sick." (grant)in what some are describing in what some (grant) (grant)in what some are describing as a miracle... two young sisters rescued afte

now they morph into heather: jerry nadler announcing a sweeping investigation into donald trump. dozens of the president's associates have been asked to produce documents so have democrats gone fishing for a crime? david bruno joins me to weigh in. thanks for joining us. we have a long list and you bring up some of them, 81 people, companies as well. who is involved in this? organizations? >> this is the fallback from mueller -- this is for two reasons, to impeach him. it is up until 2020. who was on the list? i can't believe they request information, attorney-client privilege. there are other things that are executive privilege, are they over the line? possibly but this is in their responsibility and they have oversight and are within the law. heather: is this a is it going to work, do they think they have a case they can win? leading up to the 2020 investigation which some, >> they are the ones who have to vote in a number of years. we have to see that. heather: an additional investigation adding on to many investigations, donald trump and his family and finances and people hea

and jerry nadler made it very clear that while obviously beemt is a long way down that road, he does believe there has been obstruction of justice. nadler say careful person who knows he has a difficult role to play. he has been methodical over time in how he frames this and rolled out this investigation particularly since the democrats took back control of the house. and his methodical fashion is kind of how house democrats have been trying to do their investigations in the various committees under the trump presidency. because they know that republicans are going to go after them for overreaching, they know that the president himself derives a lot of, you know, a lot -- he thrives on a political opponent. so that's why you've seen, for instance, investigating the president's tax returns the ways and meenans committee has been slow on delivering the merits of the tax returns. passion legislation later this week, mandating that presidential candidates release tax returns and then making that final request to the treasury department for them. this is all part of a strategy, spearheade

manu raju spoke with jerry nadler yesterday. nadler revealed he spoke to bill barr for the first time since barr handed his summary over to congress on sunday. during the call, nadler could not get bill barr to commit to releasing the full mueller report and said he would find it to be ununacceptable. let's hear what he said. >> i am most concerned that when i asked whether we could commit that the american people and the congress would see the entire unredacted report and the underlying evidence he would not make a commitment on that. that's not acceptable. >> so nadler saying there it is unacceptable for that. we are also learning from him that bill barr said he would not give the white house a sneak preview of the report before he sent it to congress. doj lawyers working with some staff from mueller's team are continuing to go through the report, scrubbing it for classified information and materials that might be related to the grand jury criminal proceedings. as of now there is no deadline. but the democrats seemed to acknow

they demand to see the evidence that the mueller team gathered and how judiciary chairman jerry nadler wants t explain doing, particularly those who claimed that they saw clear evidence of collusion. so let's begin with cnn's sara murray. she is live in washington for us, sara. >> reporter: good morning. the attorney general's overview of the special counsel's report is no doubt a major victory for president trump, but there are still these lingering questions about obstruction of justice and those questions are setting the stage for a political and legal fight ahead. attorney general william barr releasing a four-page summary of special counsel robert mueller's report concluding that investigators found no evidence that president trump or his campaign conspired or coordinated with russia in its efforts to influence the 2016 u.s. presidential election. this, despite multiple offers from russia-affiliated individuals to assist the trump campaign. trump and his allies seizing on the findings. >> it was complete and total exoneration. it's a shame that our country had to go through this.

jerry nadler saying he might ask for more. what's the danger here of the committee looking like it's redoing the special counsel's work? is that dangerous? and possibly partisan looking? >> i think what's important for people to understand is the role that congress plays versus what mueller does. mueller is investigating violations of existing laws. congress has to look at whether there are laws that should exist but don't currently exist that would protect us from things that are just corrupt and wrong. and i think they have to look at all of the things that they are looking at. i think it's very fair to look at his business, his transition team, his campaign, his foundation to see whether that is affecting how he is running the country. is there something in his business dealings with russia or saudi arabia that is influencing decisions being made in the white house? those are things that need to be understood. and if there is not a law that says you have to turn over your financial information or your tax returns, maybe the

house democrats wrapping up their investigation into president trump with judiciary chairman jerry nadler issuing a slew of document requests this week targeting 81 individuals and entities as part of a speeching probe into his campaign, business and administration. the president calling the move a big, fat fishing expedition and a disgrace. >> 81 people or organizations got letters. it's a disgrace. it's a disgrace to our country. i'm not surprised that it's happening. basically, they've started a campaign. so the campaign begins. but the campaign's actually been going on for the last two and a half years. charles: all this as former trump campaign chairman paul manafort is sentenced to just 47 months in prison on tax and bank fraud charges, far shorter than what was recommended by the special counsel's office. let's bring in "the wall street journal"'s deputy editor, dan henninger. kim strassel and bill mcgurn with us as well. it just never stops, but going into the weekend, everyone's still kind of reeling from the manafort sentencing. >> yeah, the 47 months instead of the 21 years tha