guest of the white house. will he meet trump. that, for all intents and purposes, is a campaign stop for netanyahu and once again will look like trump is campaigning for netanyahu. could there be more in store there? before this election campaign? that's certainly a possibility. as for reaction, one european diplomat tells cnn trump is essentially once again ignoring international law and u.n. security council resolutions and from that perspective, it doesn't seem they're all that surprised. we're certain to hear consternation from lebanon, iran, iraq, no doubt. what's the kind of reaction we get from the de facto anti-iran states, sawed a arabia, are they legitimately angry about this one as they try to seek better relations with the u.s.? >> we'll have more on this later in the situation room. a very important development today. we'll stay on top of it. >> meanwhile, a powerful congressional democrat says white house officials have used personal e-mail. and in the case of jared kushner, private messaging app

jeremy diamond is at the white house. cnn white house reporter with more. i know cnn has reached out to the white house for a little clarification here. what are they saying? >> reporter: we have reached out to the white house to ask them why the president has not hosted a single women's championship team at the white house and so far they have not responded to our requests for comment. no comment, no explanation for why the president hasn't hosts these teams for a solo visit at the white house. that is what is in question here. the president has hosted some women's team in november of 2017, several women's college championship teams attended a broader gathering of college championship teams, men's and women's teams but not a single one of those championship teams has attended a white house event in solo fashion to be honored by the president which has been such a common occurrence. since 1983, every women college championship basketball team has been invited to attend an event honoring them at the white house, except in this administration, the president h

this is an intentional standoff being mounted by the white house in a way that no white house really ever has before. quote, the white house has ignored more than a dozen letters requesting documents from house democratic chairman investigating president trump. the white house's refused to share e-mails and correspondence. according to two senior administration officials, the move is intentional. quote, those officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to freely discuss strategy said the white house is intent on challenging most if not all house democrats' document requests. we will give you nothing. they're not waiting to find out what they're being asked for. they're just announcing in advance, telling reporters, telling multiple news outlets in advance, no matter what they ask for, we're giving them nothing. and i am sure that is a strategy that appeals to every atom in every molecule, in every cell of this president's body, right? this is -- this fits his personality. oh, the democrats won control of congress? they're going to use congressional oversight to oversee things,

and the attorney general leaving his house and spotted at the white house. two new fights have emerged with jared kushner and trump's secret conversations with vladimir putin. all of it as the 11th hour gets underway on a consequential thursday night. >>> good evening, once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 791 of the trump administration, and washington is bracing for impact tonight. anxiously waiting for robert mueller to transmit his report to attorney general bill barr. all the fevered anticipation had photographers stationed around the d.c. metro area today, hoping to spot the key players. as a result, look at what we learned this morning. robert mueller drives a car, and owns a baseball cap. we say this because viewers of this and other broadcasts have ample reason to wonder if robert mueller does anything other than walk down hallways carrying a briefcase. less exciting, but no less important. today's photos of the attorney general, bill barr seen leaving his home today, hours later spotted entering the white house, for what w

a white house officials i have been speaking with close to the white house say they are viewing this as a win for a couple of reasons. there are not anymore indictments. through the course of this nearly two years investigation, there have not been any charges related to coordination and collusion. yes, 37 defendants a. the president never had to sit down with robert mueller for an interview. he answered written questions but never had to sit down. robert mueller did not want a subpoena fight. all and all i am talking to close to the white house views it as a win. the white house officials have also been preparing for a subpoena fight. they do want to keep this report under wrap. they do not want a lot of this to be made public. their concern is there could be, some conduct that was undietable but derogatory and could make the president looks bad. they don't know what's in this report. >> the principle points that he's going to tell congress about how extensive his summary of the mueller report going to be. they need to release the entire mueller report. they're saying we don't just

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and former white house lawyer. joe, we hear the white house is nervous. we hear the white house isn't nervous. in a typical administration, what would be going on when the conclusion of a special counsel investigation was believed to be imminent? how does one prepare for that? >> you would prepare a very detailed response. we face the situation in 1998. with the ken star preparing his report. we knew the rough outlines of what was in the report but we didn't know what conclusions he would draw and which pieces of evidence and we debated internally. the political people and the lawyers whether we would put our own report together. we ended up putting it together. which stood by side by side with the star report. the trump administration will be able to see the report and weigh in on what's in it and what's not in it as far as what's released to the public. so that is a distinct advantage. the one thing that i will say is there's been a number of these things where you know something is coming. bob woodward's book, for example, they all knew it was coming a

it is one written by white house counsel about this issue and that the white house hasn't responded multiple times. i asked them abiliout that. it is clearly one more issue raising tensions wean this white house and new house majority. >> tonight the white house now defending president trump's power to grant a top secret clearance and top white house adviser over the objections of career intelligence officials who raised concerns about his background check. >> was the president involved in kushner's security clearance process? >> we don't discuss security clearances. i'm not going to discuss my own. i will tell you that the president has the absolute right to do what was described. >> counselor not standing by trump's claim in an interview that her father wasn't involved in the process. >> the president had no involvement pertaining to my clearance or my husband's clearance. >> trump that she has knowledge that some of us do not have. she has a right to do that. >> new york times reports that last year trump ordered white house chief of staff of to grant kushner's clearance despite the in an

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is the white house walking on a danger line here? >> the white house is in a difficult position. broadly, they're trying to sell that the economy is strong and that it is doing well, despite the most recent jobs report that showed a hiring slowdown last month. they're facing challenges on trade and all the economic turbulen turbulence. will all this economic news prompt the president to try to strike a deal with china on trade, to maybe we assure the markets this trade war is falling off? >> kimberly? >> yeah, i mean, i think that's exactly right. you have the president using the economy, the strength of jobs, as the central part of his claim that he's had a successful presidency. now, this really below expectations job report can be a blip. you can't make a trend out of one report, but it'll be much more difficult to make this claim that, look, we have this amazing growth. this is a big factor in the success of the country. >> let me talk about a couple other things that are sort of in the discussion, ether related with the trump administration. one is the axios reporting that p

let's go straight to our chief white house correspondent. how is the president responding to all of this? >> he isn't saying much but so far the president seems to be suggesting he will cooperate with this massive congressional investigation and just about everything related to donald trump. they say attorneys probably won't be complying with the request there what is a huge investigation. an expanse f allegation and nearly every corner of trump world. >> i cooperate all of the time with everybody. >> you'll learn about that as you grow older. it's a political hoax. no collusion. >> issued demands for more than aids and associates of the president from his family members to other close advisers past and present also targeted in the probe organizations tied to the president as well adds companies and others that may have aided mr. trump's campaign. the house judiciary said it's too early to talk impeachment. it. >> we don't have the facts yes. we are going to initiate proper investigations. >> the white house signalled it won't be complying s

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i will not give it to the white house for review before congress. he writes, the president would have the right to assert privilege over parts of the report, he has stated publicly he intends to defer to me. does this at all help democrats think, at least we will not get executive privilege used on this because they have advanced look and say we cannot release. >> i don't expect democrats will praise president trump over the handling of the mueller investigation. we got details within the last 24 hours. the attorney general states this is more than 400 pages. it does not include tables or things tacked on to the end. i was talking with republicans. they said remember the vote the other week. 420-0. 420-0 in the house of representatives where the republicans in the house voted with democrats to say yes, release the report. look, if you look at any poll from rasmussen to quinnipiac or wall street journal. the american people want to see the mueller report released. sooner rather than later. >> the poll is saying that. you bring up the point. 420. unan

the white house was notified. the report was delivered at 4:45 p.m. 15 minutes later the letter was sent to the house and senate judiciary committee. the process lasted one year, 10 months and six days. the letter was sent to lindsey graham, senator dianne feinstein, representative jerry nadler and the house judiciary chairman and representative doug collins. the letter from the attorney general says i remain committed to as much transparentr parent i as d as much -- as much transparency as possible. attorney general william barr says he wants to make as much public as possible. it's up to his discretion what will be public and will not. the attorney general could update members of the house and senate judiciary committee as early as this weekend as to his principle conclusions. who he believes should be prows cuted if any out of this report. we are told the report is comprehensive. senator mark warner from virginia saying congress and the american people deserve to judge the facts for themselves. the special coun

when i talked to people currently in the white house or previously worked in the white house, they tell me this was totally unspoken, either because people didn't want to increase their own legal visibility or because they didn't want to upset anybody else. they don't bring it up. it makes it difficult to address something if you can't talk about it openly with the princip principle. >> extraordinary. back to impeachment, i want to go a little further on that with you, john. you heard the chairman talk about the significance of public opinion. he has to bring at least some trump supporters on board. how challenging is this when it comes to the president's base. george stephanopoulos said this is a high bar. how impossible is it to clear. >> it's very high. 90% approval among republicans. don't forget back when richard nixon was in trouble in the early 1970s, republicans defended him right up to the very end. then when you had a critical mass and ultimately the exposure of tapes the president tried to conceal, you had a shift. it's not impossible you could get not only republican support

so no white house comment on this time. ali? >> in the letter he writes the special counsel report is nearly 400 pages long, exclusive of tables and appendsies and sets forth the special counsel's findings, analysis and reasons for his conclusions. everyone will soon be able to read it on their own. i'm just going to listen to my control room about where -- all right. so i will continue to get more detail about this as will kelly and julia. thank you, julia ainsley at the justice department, kelly o'donnell in west palm beach. >>> before we go, this just in from a town hall being conducted by chris hayes with new york democratic congresswoman alexandria oscasio-cortez. we have been teasing this for you in the bottom corner of your screen. one of the issues that had been front and center during this busy new week has been the green new deal, the ambitious plan to fight climate change that's been put forward by congresswoman alexandria oscasio-cortez and massachusetts senator ed markey. among the plans are a long list of goals, in

the white house has a point. but for this white house to argue they have this exclusive realm in foreign power, after just last week trying to take away a power of the article one branch of government related to the wall, the power of the purse, smacks of hypocrisy at best. i think they are sort of treading on thin ice here pursue san's arg susan's argument. >> you make an important point. congress has roles and responsibilities in foreign policy, especially the power of the purse. >> anyone heard of the power to declare war? there's no more foreign authority that's more vested in a branch of government than that. on the issue of the mrez having exclusive authority, that's too much of an overstatement. on the issue of this being a sweeping request, i think that's an overstatement as well. the fact is, it's not sweeping. it's very narrow. it's specific to the issue of what these communications are. again, it's an issue that they are looking at in terms of reviewing and overseeing. we talk about eiran contra. shoul

we learned this afternoon, the white house has rejected a request from house democrats for documents relating to trump's private discussions with vladimir putin. and oversight chairman elijah cummings of maryland, accused the administration of obstructing his committee's investigation into use of private e-mail accounts by white house officials. he's demanding documents related to jared kushner and ivanka trump. cummings said, a lawyer for jared kushner told the committee in december that kushner had been using whatsapp on his phone to communicate with foreign leaders. abby lowell argued his client was in compliance with the law. because he took screen shots of the individual text conversations and sent them to official e-mail accounts. according to cummings, lowell told the company, ivanka trump continued to receive official e males on her private account and did not always forward them to her white house address. abby lowell said kushner denied using whatsapp to communicate with foreign leaders. he said the conversation was about e-mail use prior to 2017. all this, of course, is a

jen palmieri, the white house hosted a team, searching them fast food at the white house. still, to this point, christine brennan, the great sports writer, has pointed out, there has not been a women's sports team individually celebrated at the white house, despite the wnba champs coming to washington year after year, they've done days of service but they've never been invited the way the men's teams are invited by this white house. >> least surprising news of the day. and i don't know, obviously, why they haven't. i fear it may not have even occurred to them. i can imagine them having the strategy to say we're not going to do this, we're not bringing women athletes here. but i bet it didn't even occur to them that that is something that they're supposed to do. it's not something, women's performance and excelling in sports, not a priority. >> david nakamura has written in "the washington post" that not a single women's championship team has made a solo visit to the white house under trump although several women's teams participated in an event in 2017 during which the pre

of the white house counsel. i don't know if he even has the document, if he took it with him when he left the white house. you are pointing to an interesting point there that as a private citizen, he is in a somewhat different position than the people who are still employed at the white house. >> yesterday, the president said he always cooperates. he will cooperate with nadler. today, he and his team, they are sounding different. >> you saw a different -- two statements come out of the white house. first they said we have gotten this letter from nadler. we will review it. that was it. short and simple. then later on you got the statement from sarah sanders going after -- a blistering statement essentially ended with the democrats don't want the truth, they just want go after the president. that was something the president echoed on twitter. likely, ed sarah to that out. they think the democrats have overstepped. they have cast way too far -- too wide of a net. they're going to end up failing because instead of t

white house officials are sounding confident despite the fact, according to one white house official, that they have not seen the full mueller report over here at the white house, but the president is taking a victory lap after special counsel robert mueller concluded there was no collusion between the trump campaign and the russian government in 2016, but the white house is on the warpath tonight with president accusing people of doing, quote, very evil things and other top white house officials accusing democrats and the media of lying to the public. savoring what may be his biggest political victory since his election, president trump welcomed special counsel robert mueller's findings of no collusion with the kremlin, but he took some swipes at his critics. >> i wish it could have gone a lot sooner, a lot quicker. there are a lot of people out there that have done some very, very evil things, very bad things. i would say treasonous things against our country. and hopefully that people that have done such harm to our country, we've gone through a period of really bad things happenin

today the white house sent out a statement saying it has received this letter, white house counsel and other white house officials are looking at it and will respond accordingly. i can tell you, though, in speaking to white house officials this is what they've been preparing for. the new white house counsel, has been beefing up his office with more lawyers than the previous white house counsel. this is exactly what they ex. pekted to happen and they're preparing for battle. >> how does this fit in, jeffrey toobin, democrats' calculations potentially on launching impeachment proceedings in the house? >> i try not to be too cynical. i think in part congress is just trying to do its job. i mean, there is a lot to look into in the white house and in the trump administration and in the campaign. and there are hhas been no over for two years. obviously, impeachment is a possibility down the road. this is a democratic party that is deeply informed by the 1998 experience of the republicans who went ahead with impeachment in the house, knowing it would never succeed in the senate. this democrat

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at a white house event today, mr. trump charged that democrata are ng in what he called "presidential harassment." >> the witch hunt continues. the fact is that, i guess we got 81 letters.lu there was no con. it was a hoax. there was no anything, and they want tdo that instead of getting any legislation passed. 81 organizations or people got letters. it's a disgrace. it's a disgrace to our country. >> woodruff: house democratic leaders have defended the judiciy committee's investigation, and several others. they drew support today frat democratic s richard blumenthal of connecticut. >> congress has an iependent responsibility, a very solemn one, to do oversight, openly, in public, under oath. the house committees should be demanding answers, as they're doing, and demanding documents. >> woodruff: meanwhile, house oversight committee chair elijah cummings said today that the white house is refusing to provide documents about security clearances. that comes amid questions about how jared kushner, the president's son-in-

this is a pattern of the white house. anytime there is a fallout, they try to just throw people on the campaign and say everything is good. this is what happened in this case as well. >> justin, what do you make of bill shine out at the white house and headed toward the re-election campaign? >> well, look, i'll say that as a former communications director myself, for the governor of the state of florida, i can imagine being the communications director in the white house now at this time is the toughest job in show business by far. you have a president that is tweeting. you have a president that is communicating and believes he is his own best communicator. many times he is. at the same time, you have a press ferociously after the white house and the president. the communications director is caught between those forces. >> all right. justin, thank you for joining us. rashad, thank you. >>> a number of migrant children straighted separated from their parents is larger than first reported. why the trump administration has to

but -- not long after he left the white house. and about the time that his presidential library was opening and school was opening at texas a&m, he gave a closed door address to students at texas. closed door in a sense that the press was not allow. and one of the things that presidents often have a hard time with and george h.w. bush really had this problem. he had to act presidential. so he often came across as kind of wooden. lyndon johnson had the same problem. but once he knew there were no reporters in the room an there were no cameras, he could sort of let himself go. and he did an imitation of dana carvey imitating himself. and i have to tell you, this audience of students -- these were undergraduates. they had no particular opinion of george bush one way or the other. but they were almost literally rolling in the aisles. and finally barbara bush had to pull out the hook and say get him out of here. he's not a comedian. so that's what i remember about "saturday night live" and presidents. other questions? reactions? yes, o

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and speaking of white house communications, one of the things that has made this white house different from all the other white houses is the amount of leaking that happens inside it. this white house is so leaky last year "axios" published a piece entitled white house leakers leak about leaking, in which some of the administration's most prolific anonymous leakers spoke to "axios" anonymously about what they leak and why, and when it comes to white house leaking, there's the petty score settling kind. there's the kind designed to advance your preferred policy position if you've lost some internal debate, and in this white house, there's even leaking because maybe you think the only way to reach the president is to get something onto the tv so that he can see it during his executive time. there's also leaking out of concern, leaking that appears to be undertaken to sound the alarm. it was six months ago this week that we got the astonishing op-ed in the "new york times" in which an anonymous senior trump administration official described being one of a number of senior administration o

a current senior white house official said white house aides are making an effort not to discuss it in polite company. another white house official, bemoaned the tawdry distraction. it does not seem to be a good waste of time to talk about a dead man or former employee of the white house. i offered a theory. what's yours? john costa, why are they doing this? >> there are all of those examples of republicans gently walking away from president trump's comments. based in my reporting today, the reality is quite different. sure, is there grumbling about the president's comments? yes. there's also wide prevent acceptance. if you turn on fox news or go to different outlets and twitter on conservative personalities, they're saying president trump has a point and the republican leadership in their statement are not calling out the president by name, only praising senator mccain. it underscored the president's continued power in this party. >> be robert costa, it's maddening for people with souls and consciouses but whences, bue reality check when the president did what he did yesterday. >> is

is happening and how the white house is reacting. i think a lot of people were pitting their eggs in special counsel's basking -- basket hoping when the report was released he would put the pressure on the presidents administration. i think with reports that it is winding down, democrats are taking it upon themselves to release investigations. we saw an come before the committees, and they have shown that they are going to be several different areas, looking at the presidents finances, money laundering, and so they are hitting him from all directions. i think we can expect over the next few months this to continue. pedro: we will show you a little about about the chairman had to say yesterday regarding investigations. here's jerrold nadler. >> this investigation goes beyond collusion. we have seen, of all the norms we depend on for democratic government attacked by the administration. we have seen attacks on the freedom of the press. we have seen attacks on the fbi, on judges, and all of these are corrosive to liberty and to the func

house itself. >> guest: in fact -- >> host: comments of kevin mccarthy of the white house itself. >> guest: lot of people within the white house essentially president trump look at what kevin mccarthy did as championing exactly the same talking points they have. this is exactly something we see the president they from day one after winning the election. they call for impeachment i think rally people it is based on supporters to say the same thing. as we've been discussing democrats recognize from applicable standpoint this could backfire. >> host: jonathan, declared his intention for the president of the united states so how does the white house look at the central candidates and are they waiting to see if joe biden will exit the race and go from there. >> guest: a candidate joe biden i think is dangerous politically for the white house and more of the wrong what i've heard from the forces there. we're starting to see early on a lot of or more diverse progressive candidates store their hats and throw their name to the ring early early. it's hard to see quite frankly white males start

have referred it to the white house. the white house has to respond for former officials. how they decide to respond is going to influence how they will proceed. >> manu raju on capitol hill, thank you. >>> let's get more on this. a congressman serves on the judiciary and the foreign affairs committee, i want to get to your committee's investigation in a moment. first, what strikes you about the scope of these special counsel warrants for michael cohen? >> thank you, wolf, for your question. i'm a former prosecutor. i'm very aware the government can bring a vast array of resources to any investigation. in this case, the investigators were thorough, meticulous. they made sure they is and dotted their ts. >> what are the implications of this for president trump? >> if i was donald trump, i would be scared. they have information from michael cohen from early on, months before his office was raided. they have e-mails. they were tracking his incoming and outgoing phone calls. michael cohen was donald trump's fixer.mind the am

he also badly wanted to work at the white house. he lied. the president on message as he heads down to alabama. what do we know about the truth here, matt, or do we? >> well, we don't. if what the president says in his tweet is true, that he and michael cohen discussed a pardon according to his version of it, cohen asked him about it and he said no, that would be signatsi news. we haven't seen disclosure of that and now that the president puts it on the table, i think congress has the responsibility to follow up and say what was the subject of that conversation, what did cohen say and what did the president say. because the president's publicly talking about these pardons all the time has had a poe looting effect on the entire investigation because just bringing it up puts it into all these witnesses' minds at the time when they trying to make this decision do i cooperate with the government or do i not. and if they know there is a chance of the pardon, either because neff seen the president's public remarks or their attorneys have had back

she is the trump in the white house. the interesting thing is, you know, i think i also say in the book that someone's quoted as saying, well, neither of her brothers would vote for her because it's not clear if ivanka trump run for president which party she belongs to because the republicans don't think she's supports their agenda at the democrats don't like her ethics. so i guess she's running on the ivanka ticket. >> you said and this stuck out in the is one of the little things that jump out to me, the phrase first daughter is thrown about the white house and the press a lot. you said she likes the term. >> this is the problem that everyone in the white house has. she wants it always. so it's one set of rules for her and jared because they're the first daughter and her husband. one set of rules for everyone else. and yet she also expects to be take he seriously as senior adviser to the president. and i think several of her colleagues have -- certainly steve bannon told her but other people too, you can't have it both

how do you expect the white house to navigate this? what are the chances that they don't have to have anything withheld, they sit back and let this all playout, however ag barr chooses. >> sitting back and laying things play out is not in the dna of donald trump. i think frankly unless there's a direct correlation with russia, collusion, collaboration, cooperation, meaning it's not circumstantial, that will have an impact, but if it's circumstantial, it's very easy to discredit circumstantial evidence. >> what about you, noelle, the president's allies are celebrating the news of this investigation, all wrapped up, no additional indictments, but we don't know what the report even says yet. do you think the trump supporters are celebrating too soon? >> i think part of what you're seeing from the republicans is a feeling of relief that it's finally come to a conclusion. this has been a black cloud that has been hanging over the presidency for a long time, and i think getting the report and have it moving forward and releasing everything t

and, c, i'm not giving the white house a look before hand. does it make it harder for democrats to claim this is a coverup. >> it may make it harder but it doesn't make it impossible. i will predict that they're going to say, you know, we don't want's to see bill barr's version of this report, we want to say, i'm not just telling what you i predict their action will be, we want the full report. not only want to see the full report, we want to see all of the underlying documents, the investigation, all of the interviews with with its. they're going to want, they're going to fight for transparency. regardless of the fact i think that democrats are going to try and move off this to some degree and get to other instances like healthcare, equal pay and education, they see a political advantage to continuing to hammer the president on various investigations.ore the house, nowhere in the senate, you'll see adam schiff, elijah cummings, jerry nadler continue to investigate the president. i promise you what they're not going to say, this is a great id

the white house press secretary sarah sanders says the white house has not been briefed on it, but cnn reporting the white house was made aware the doj had the report about one hour ago. i want to get to craig, our washington bureau chief. you have been waiting for this now for 22 long months. we knew this was coming, but now that it is here, now that the report has been handed over to the department of justice, it is in many ways the beginning. what are you watching for? craig: we are told, attorney general william barr may tell us as soon as this weekend, so say goodbye to this weekend, about the principal conclusions about the mueller report. that is much faster than we expected. we had been given some guidance from the department of justice that he was going to move it rather quickly, in a few days. that would be literally a day or two. that is obviously the top concern right now. i think one of the things we will be looking for is when does the white house find out what is in this report? hard to imagine they will find out the same time as us, partly for the reasons mr. barr was m

i'm told the white house probably won't comply. they said this is under review and they expect to put out a statement later in the week. to the larger point about the president's attacks on john mccain, i have to tell you when you talk to people close to the president about what accounts for this, they're reluctant to wager a guess. they say there's no strategy behind it. they don't think it benefits the president politically, but it speaks to what animates hip. he's animated by grievances and score set. that said, you are seeing a hand full of republicans, a small hand full of republicans break with the president on this issue. you have dan crenshaw who subjected the attacks are beneath the office of the presidency. you have someone saying she spoke with the president to communicate to him how she and arizona feel about the late senator. she said the president heard her. and you also have joe lieberman who wrote an op ed in the washington post saying mccain probably wouldn't have responded to the comments but the person who suffer

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to officials in the white house or close to the white house, there's also the sense of victory in that it appears that this is all going to end without the president sitting down with robert mueller. that was always a big sticking point from the very beginning and it appears that that is not going to happen, that robert mueller is wrapping all of this up without that sit down interview with the president. that is looked upon as a victory. now inside, there has been some planning and strategizing about how to respond when the report is handed over and when all of this comes to an end. emmet flood within the white house has been meeting with a small group of officials gaming out different scenarios in terms of whether some of the information that comes out is skull tri, they're outlining it, it's a wait and see approach in the white house right now, brooke. >> what about it's wait and see, a lot of places outside the white house for this report, that is certainly not the end of the speculation, pamela. so what are some of the other key questions that still remain? >> reporter: that's rig

by the white house. the counsel's office and relevant white house officials will review it and respond at the appropriate time. we've rushed nbc's geoff bennett back to the camera to tell us what he can. i know you've been tracking this entire story, geoff, throughout the weekend. what can you tell us about this latest development? >> rushed back to the camera indeed, kristen. look, we expect the chairman of the house judiciary committee to issue sweeping documents requests for as many as 70 people, entities connected to donald trump, both his campaign and his businesses. so you saw sarah sanders in her statement there makes clear that the white house is in receipt of this letter and that the white house counsel's office, which handles this sort of thing, is going to pour over the requests and look at this line item by line item and make a decision, as to whether it will cooperate or whether it will reserve to claim executive privilege. now, nadler is gathering information that could be used to make a ca

white house press secretary sarah sanders says the white house cannot comment on security clearance issues nor can it respond to every anonymous source. kelly could not be reached for comment and mcgahn declined to comment for this story, anderson. >> let's just remind, pamela, our viewers of what ivanka trump herself said just last month about security clearances. >> the president had no involvement pertaining to my clearance or my husband's clearance. >> so what's -- i mean, it's the exact opposite of what you've learned, right? >> it is the exact opposite. but several sources tell us, anderson, that it is feasible that ivanka was unaware of the red flags that were raised during her background check process as well as the president's involvement in it. a person familiar with her process, she said she did not seek nor have outside counsel involved in her process, as no issues were ever raised. and then a separate person added that she was notified by career officials that her clearance had been granted. now, we should also note just because concerns are raised about a person getting a sec

the white house missed that deadline. part of the request for information jerry nadler asked to learn more about that hush money scheme that the president apparently was involved in to silence stories about those alleged affairs that he had. these are something this committee wants to look into. nadler last night in a town hall in new york was asked about michael cohen, asked about the president. he said the president has committed crimes. >> we're not talking about what michael cohen said. he was indicted. michael cohen was indicted for illegally paying off a woman to not talk about what had happened to her in order -- no, he was indicted for this and he pleaded guilty. in order to affect the election. that is a crime. he pleaded guilty to that. the indictment said that he did so at the request of individuals numb number one. individual number one being the president, makes him part of the crime. >> reporter: he went onto say the president was not protected by justice department guidelines preventing a sitting president

more importantly, the white house wants it before congress and perhaps most importantly the white house wants to filter the report. maybe keep parts overnight, cnn learned white house lawyers seek information an opportunity to review the mueller report submitted to congress. they want a chance to claim executive privilege on information gleaned from interviews and documents provided by white house officials. this could set up a potential political battle and legal battle with the supreme court and two justices nominated by president trump deciding the ultima ultimate feat decided by the supreme court. >>> meanwhile, the president's rapid fire tweeting may have slowed the past 24 hours, the questions about the dozens of angry posts from the weekend certainly have not. bottom line according to reporting in the "new york times" no one in the white house really knows what set the president off, although george conway has been one of the president's top advisors, husband of kellyanne conway, calling the president's mental state into question. kellyanne conway disagrees with her husband at th

house about the fact that it is the white house. all of our white house. >> and, you know, title nine signed by richard nixon tine signed by a republican, i could make the case that title nine is the most important over the last 46 or 47 years. a lot of competition for that. i think it's that big of a deal. for donald trump to not celebrate that and to say bring it in you can have them there as i have seen where you have eight or ten all at the same time. it's mind boggling especially 2019 for him to be making this decision. >> it's one they can fix right now. thanks so much. >> thank you. >> you can follow me on facebook and twitter. our coverage continues right now. thanks for watching. >>> happening now breaking news, white house pushback. the president stops at demands for documents and complains democrats are taking a wrecking ball to his life. the white house plans to push back against congressional investigators. lawmakers have already calling for a criminal probe on the kushner security clearance. >>> cohen returns. the pres

parts of the mueller report as house democrats battle with the white house. the committee is focusing on possible obstruction of justice, corruption and abusive power over on the intelligence side. she plans to pursue about russian interference. they will follow the trump money trail in ties to the bong amongest others. help us understand your biggest take aways. he helped host during the course of the tcampaign. the fact, it kind of looks that way. it is sort of reading the tea leaves and it looks like we don't really have a read on what mueller feels is going forward. the president is an exception because of the olc memo. the president below who have -- there has been discussion about collusion or obstruction of the mueller investigation it does appear without knowing for sure but while we are reading that they are in the clear. >> i guess the question is could any other sdny, anybody else pick that up or is that it? >> well, it would depend if they come with creative theory. it looks to me like no. >> that's interesting. i think that's one of the biggest t

so far, no comment from the white house. we are working on that. >>> up next, an nbc news exclusive, our reporting on ben carson and his shall we say pretty chilled sched. it's your monday watch or swamp watch, who knew bipartisan watch can be a tweet? apparently why washington is so fired up this morning. next. hy washington is so fired up this morng.in next when did you see the sign? when i needed to create a better visitor experience. improve our workflow. attract new customers. that's when fastsigns recommended fleet graphics. yeah! now business is rolling in. get started at fastsigns.com. yeah! now business is rolling in. [laughter] ♪ ♪ "i'm okay." ♪ ♪ >>> so here's your morning's magic number. 50. the number of tweets or re-tweets from president trump over the weekend and he is still going strong at it this morning. this is maybe a new record as he takes on topics from general motors to google to fox to "snl," which by the way was a repeat with the late senator john mccain, nearly seven months after his death.

and the white house wants to respond first. so that's going to be an interesting issue for bar to figure out. >> jeff toobin, can the president of the united states -- once he finds out that this is -- that barr has the report, can he just call barr up and say all right, so what does it say? >> absolutely. he's the head of the justice department. >> so the president, people around him, they will know as soon as barr gets the report, they will know -- will they be able to see the full report? >> that will be up to barr to a certain extent. but if the president insists on it, i don't think bar has any reason to decline it. this is the difference between a report by a special counsel who -- robert mueller who is part of the hierarchy in the department of justice and kenneth starr who was an independent counsel who reported to a set of judges completely independent from the justice department. i mean, this is a big difference. and this is why. and it could be that the first thing we hear is from the white house saying the report is