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IVANKA TRUMP, DAUGHTER OF DONALD TRUMP: The president had no involvement pertaining to my clearance.

[05:59:31] UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: President Trump pressured John Kelly to grant his daughter security clearance against recommendations.

REP. ELIJAH CUMMINGS (D-MD), CHAIRMAN, OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE: When you cannot get information, you cannot be a check. It's not some witch- hunt.

DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Eighty-one people or organizations got letters. It's a disgrace to our country.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The Judiciary Committee has a right to look at all of this. I hope they just provide us all the documents.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is all about setting up the stage for impeachment proceedings. That's pretty clear.

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ANNOUNCER: This is NEW DAY with Alisyn Camerota and John Berman.

ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR: We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. This is NEW DAY. It is Wednesday, March 6, 6 a.m. here in New York. It's my daughters' birthdays today.

JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR: Happy birthday, daughters.

CAMEROTA: Thank you very much.

Up first, CNN has learned that President Trump pressured top White House officials to grant his daughter Ivanka a security clearance. Sources say the president pushed his then-chief of staff, John Kelly, and White House counsel Don McGahn to get clearances for Ivanka and her husband, Jared, over concerns from intelligence officials.

BERMAN: And Ivanka Trump denied this. She denied it out loud on TV. So based on this new reporting, that denial is either a lie or suggests there is a universe where she did not know what her father was doing. We will discuss whether the existence of that universe is plausible.

Remember, this comes after the president himself appears to have lied to "The New York Times" about directing Jared Kushner's security clearance. This apparent honestly black hole might explain why the White House just overnight rejected congressional requests for information about all these security clearances.

Let's get right to CNN's Joe Johns, live at the White House with the very latest -- Joe.

JOE JOHNS, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, John.

This business with the security clearances really has a potential to be a showdown between the White House and the House Oversight and Reform Committee with the potential for a subpoena to compel the White House to give up information it does not want to give up.

Adding to that, we have the latest reporting from my colleagues here at CNN, indicating that the president once again overruled White House officials in order to give an advantage to a member of the president's family.

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JOHNS (voice-over): Multiple sources tell CNN that President Trump pressured then-chief of staff John Kelly and White House counsel Don McGahn to grant his daughter a security clearance against their recommendations. The revelation contradicting Ivanka Trump's past denial.

I. TRUMP: The president had no involvement pertaining to my clearance or my husband's clearance.

JOHNS: Several sources say it is feasible that Ivanka Trump was unaware of the red flags raised during her background check and her father's involvement in the process, although presidents have the authority to grant clearances.

The development coming on the heels of a "New York Times" report last week that the president also ordered Kelly to grant Ivanka's husband, Jared Kushner, a top-secret clearance despite concerns raised by intelligence officials. President Trump has denied those reports.

D. TRUMP: Jared's a good -- I was never involved with his security, but I don't want to get involved in that stuff.

JOHNS: The White House rejecting a request from the House Oversight Committee to turn over documents related to the security clearance process, raising a likelihood of a potential subpoena.

CUMMINGS: Under the Constitution, we have a duty. It's not some witch-hunt. JOHNS: On Monday the president indicated he would comply with

investigators, who had requested information from 81 people and entities associated with the president.

D. TRUMP: I cooperate all the time with everybody.

JOHNS: But the following day, the president's signaling the opposite --

D. TRUMP: It's a disgrace to our country.

JOHNS: -- suggesting the White House may invoke executive privilege and falsely claiming the Obama administration had not complied with congressional probes.

D. TRUMP: They didn't do anything. They didn't give one letter of the request.

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JOHNS: Now, to correct the record, the Obama administration did hand over thousands of pages of documents to Republicans in investigations they were pursuing during Mr. Obama's administration.

There may be more trouble for the Trump administration. It's also clear the House Ways and Means Committee is looking into timing and whether it would be proper to get a hold of the president's tax returns -- John, Alisyn.

BERMAN: All right. Joe Johns at the White House. Joe, thank you.

Joining us now, Toluse Olorunnipa, White House reporter for "The Washington Post."

And Toluse, Ivanka Trump on TV says, "My father had nothing to do with the security clearance." Our reporting is he had everything to do with it. That's a tough look.

TOLUSE OLORUNNIPA, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST: Yes, it's hard to make a more definitive statement than Ivanka Trump made, where she said President Trump had nothing to do with either the security clearance for herself or with her husband.

And now we're seeing reports not only from CNN but also from "The New York Times" that both of those statements were false. President Trump was actively involved; and it's not hard to believe that the president would involve himself in this type of thing.

You have to remember, back in early 2018, there were embarrassing stories about the president's daughter and son-in-law saying that they were not able to get a security clearance. So it's not hard to believe that the president got involved.

But the question that all of us are asking is why so many lies about this? Why did the president deny it? Why did his daughter deny it? And why are the White House lawyers trying to deny access to -- to the important documents to the Oversight Committee?

[06:05:05] BERMAN: That's exactly right. One thing we hear from the White House is the president is within his rights and power to do this. So then why lie about it?

So Toluse, what happens now? The White House has denied the initial request to turn over documents to House Democrats about these security clearances. Where does this go?

OLORUNNIPA: This could be the first of many subpoenas that we're going to see flying over from Capitol Hill over to the White House.

The committee has said that it was looking at its next options, and the next option on the table is likely to be a subpoena going directly to the White House, challenging this authority that the White House is asserting, saying that they don't have to provide documents to Congress.

This could end up being decided by the courts, like a lot of things in the Trump administration, where there's a battle between the Congress and the White House; and a judge may end up having to decide whether or not Congress does have the legitimate oversight ability to take information and take documents from the White House to fulfill its constitutional oversight role.

BERMAN: So Toluse, one of the arguments the president is making, very quickly, is this all falls into the bucket of presidential harassment. Why is that a challenging argument for this president to make?

OLORUNNIPA: Well, the president does not really cut a very -- a figure that people can sort of look at and be willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. This is a president who is disliked by more than half the country; and he's more seen as a fighter, someone who fights back and not necessarily seen as a victim.

So this idea that he's going to play the victim and be the victim of presidential harassment, it may play very well with his voters, who think Democrats are overreaching. But with the majority of the country that dislike the president, it's hard to see him in a victimhood status.

BERMAN: Toluse Olorunnipa, thank you very much. We'll talk to you again in just a little bit -- Alisyn.

OLORUNNIPA: Thank you.

CAMEROTA: All right. In just hours, Michael Cohen, the president's former lawyer and fixer will be back on Capitol Hill for yet another day of testimony. Today's will be behind closed doors with the House Intelligence Committee. And CNN's Kara Scannell is live in Washington with a preview for us.

Hi, Kara.

KARA SCANNELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Alisyn. Good morning. This is Michael Cohen's returning to the Hill for the fourth time in eight days. He is expected to be questioned about any discussions his lawyers had had with the president's legal team about pardons.

But already, Michael Cohen's public testimony from last week, his explosive public testimony, is having an impact. On Monday New York's Department of Financial Services -- that's the state's top insurance regulator -- subpoenaed Donald Trump's insurance broker, Aon, asking for documents and information going back years about this relationship with the Trump Organization. That came up in Cohen's public testimony last week. Let's listen to that exchange.

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REP. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ (D), NEW YORK: To your knowledge, did the president ever provide inflated assets to an insurance company?

MICHAEL COHEN, FORMER LAWYER FOR DONALD TRUMP: Yes.

OCASIO-CORTEZ: Who else knows that the president did this?

COHEN: Allen Weisselberg, Ron Lieberman, and Matthew Calamari.

OCASIO-CORTEZ: And where would the committee find more information on this? Do you think we need to review his financial statements and his tax returns in order to compare them?

COHEN: Yes, and you'd find it at the Trump Org.

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SCANNELL: Now, the Trump Organization has been -- they've received many document requests and information from members of multiple committees on the Hill; and they have not responded to those document requests.

But Michael Cohen right there putting members of the Trump Organization in the spotlight. He's expected to be questioned further on the various individuals at the Trump Organization when he's testifying today in a much more intense environment, following the release of the Democrats' request for documents and letters of those 81 individuals and entities -- Alisyn.

CAMEROTA: Kara, thank you very much for that preview.

Joining us now is CNN legal analyst Jennifer Rodgers. She is a former federal prosecutor.

Jennifer, great to have you here.

So Michael Cohen's public testimony opened a can of worms. Can -- are you drawing a direct line between what we all watched a week ago today and all of these new requests for documents and new investigations?

JENNIFER RODGERS, CNN LEGAL ANALYST: Absolutely. You know, you can see it as a roadmap. He's laying out who to talk to, what to get. And the Congress members were really latching onto that, and they are now following up with subpoenas. And you see other entities like DFS also following up with their own subpoenas. So it's going to be interesting.

CAMEROTA: Adam Schiff of the House Intel Committee has just hired a new investigator, a former investigator from SDNY. You were his supervisor, as I understand it. So what do we need to know about this person coming in and what he'll change about the investigation?

RODGERS: Well, people have been talking a lot about the fact that Dan did Russian organized crime cases.

CAMEROTA: Dan Goldman is his name.

RODGERS: That's right. That's not actually so important, because these are very different Russians that are involved here.

But he knows how to put together a case. He knows what witnesses to ask for, what questions to ask them, what documents to seek, what to look for. He knows, importantly, not to step on the toes of what prosecutors are doing. So he'll work well, I think, with DOJ and make sure that Congress and SDNY are not working at cross purposes.

So for all of those reasons, the ability to put together the case and make sure that case doesn't interfere with criminal matters is going to be really helpful for the committee.

CAMEROTA: But they may be hamstrung by the fact that the White House is refusing to comply with some of the -- for instance, the Judiciary Committee. So these 81 people and entities that they now want documents for. As predicted and reported, the White House doesn't want to hand those over.

So what does Judiciary do if all these -- the people -- just look at your screen for a second. This is the amount of information they want. And what does Judiciary do if the White House doesn't comply?

RODGERS: Well, they'll issue subpoenas. And you know, it's going to be a slog because some of these are going to end up in the courts. But they've cast a very wide net.

Some of those people will comply. Some of those people will come in. They'll get information from the sources that can't, you know, help but comply, like, for example on this insurance stuff, right, this insurance regulator, issues a subpoena, that company is going to comply. So some of these folks are going to give information, and then they'll build a case from there. You know, we're used to, as prosecutors, some noncompliance from people you want to speak to; and you learn to get around that.

CAMEROTA: You know that President Trump's supporters are casting this all as a fishing expedition, but again, if you go back to just a week ago with Michael Cohen, what are they supposed to do when they find new threads and new troubling information about crimes committed or alleged crimes committed? RODGERS: Yes, you know, it's a fishing expedition if you say, "Hey,

let's just start digging around without any indication of crime." Michael Cohen testified under oath that there was insurance fraud. So yes, absolutely, you follow that up with subpoenas, talk to witnesses and start to see whether there's something there.

CAMEROTA: Jennifer Rodgers, thank you very much for all of the expertise -- John.

BERMAN: All right. Breaking overnight, new satellite images appear to show that North Korea is rebuilding parts of a long-range missile testing facility. They're rebuilding it after talks between President Trump and Kim Jong-un broke apart last week.

Our Paula Hancocks is live in Seoul in South Korea with the breaking details -- Paula.

PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, John, this is a key site that North Korea had been dismantling in recent months, but it now appears as though they're reversing that.

What we have heard from this CSIS and also 38 North, two North Korean monitoring groups, and also corroborated by South Korean intelligence, is that there is activity there.

There was, for example, a door, some walls and a roof that has been rebuilt after it had been dismantled.

So course, the concern is when exactly did this happen? We don't have a definitive date. It's somewhere between February 16 and March 2, so it could have happened either before, during or after the Hanoi summit.

So clearly, many analysts are a bit reticent to say this is clearly North Korea showing it was not pleased with the fact that the Hanoi summit ended without an agreement, but it is, of course, concerning that this is happening.

This is also the key site that the South Korean president, Moon Jae- in, was talking to Kim Jong-un about. It was part of their summit in Pyongyang. And they were even discussing when they could bring independent inspectors in to show that it was, in fact, put out of use. So clearly, there are many concerns about this today -- Alisyn.

CAMEROTA: Paula, thank you very much.

Now to a scary story out at sea on a cruise ship. Several passengers on a Norwegian Cruise Line were injured after the ship was rocked by really high winds.

CNN's Alison Kosik joins us with video and details of what happened. This is nerve-wracking.

ALISON KOSIK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes. Alisyn, this literally came out of nowhere. This -- there was no warning until the glasses, the plates, and the chairs started flying. It really made for some pretty scary moments for passengers on board the cruise ship, already at sea.

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KOSIK (voice-over): What began as a typical night on a Norwegian Cruise Line ship suddenly turning into chaos.

ANTHONY CIARAMELLO, PASSENGER: Wow, we all just went flying down.

KOSIK: A 115-mile-an-hour gust of wind slamming into the vessel --

CIARAMELLO: It feels like the boat's tipping.

KOSIK: -- tilting the 164-ton ship nearly 40 degrees, according to some passengers.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: My son got up, and he looked out the window; and he could see water at that port window.

KOSIK: Bottles smashing, glass breaking, tables piling up, chairs sliding across the floor.

CIARAMELLO: I was at the bar. I was sliding down. Chairs were flying.

KOSIK: The confusion causing panic among the 6,000 passengers and crew on board. Passenger Aaron Black was at this piano bar when everything started shaking.

AARON BLACK, PASSENGER: I've been on a lot of cruises. This just never happens.

KOSIK: Behind him, people struggling to keep their footing.

BLACK: It was a very surreal escalation to -- "Oh, this is normal" to "This is very unusual and probably shouldn't be happening."

KOSIK: Medical staff tending to several passengers and crew members who were injured.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: People were down, people were crying. Yes, it was a pretty traumatic experience.

KOSIK: Some passengers feared the ship would capsize.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: When the boat rocked, we were on the side that was the closest to the water. It just wasn't a good situation.

KOSIK: Others grateful they narrowly escaped disaster.

[06:15:04] MICHAEL PATTERSON, PASSENGER: Thank God we got out of here in time, because that was absolutely insane.

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KOSIK: Whoa. So it turns out the wind gust was actually part of the same storm which caused the deadly tornadoes in Alabama and Georgia. The ship wasn't damaged and did continue on as scheduled, heading to

the Bahamas. John and Alisyn, it did however stop at Port Canaveral, Florida. That was a scheduled stop. It did allow for some of the injured to get off and get some help.

CAMEROTA: OK. I would have been freaking out.

KOSIK: So would I.

CAMEROTA: I would have been freaking out.

KOSIK: And throwing up.

CAMEROTA: Well, yes, I mean, that huge ship, the fact that, I mean, 11- mile-per-hour winds, but the fact it can tilt like that, I wouldn't have been prepared for it.

BERMAN: I will say that a lot of people appear to be at the bar.

CAMEROTA: Unfazed.

BERMAN: Right. Which is where I would want to be in said circumstance. Yes.

CAMEROTA: Thank you very much, Alison.

KOSIK: Got it.

BERMAN: All right. We have this new revealing story by "The New York Times" about the parallel lives of President Trump. So could new checks coming to light that Michael Cohen says came from the president put the president in new legal jeopardy? We'll discuss next.

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[06:20:35] CNN has learned that President Trump overruled top White House and intel officials to grant his daughter Ivanka a security clearance. This news comes just days after "The New York Times" reports that the president did the very same thing for Ivanka's husband, Jared Kushner.

President Trump and Ivanka have publicly denied this. Why are they not being truthful?

Let's discuss with Toluse Olorunnipa, White House reporter for "The Washington Post"; Carrie Cordero, former counsel to the U.S. Assistant Attorney General; and Josh Campbell, a former FBI supervisory special agent.

Let's just remind people of what Ivanka said just last month when she was asked this very question. Listen to this.

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I. TRUMP: The president had no involvement pertaining to my clearance or my husband's clearance. There are literally close to a million people in the federal

government who are in the pipeline to get their permanent clearance and are on temporary status.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: So no special treatment?

I. TRUMP: No.

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CAMEROTA: Josh, what does it mean that we now have evidence that there was special treatment for his daughter and son-in-law?

JOSH CAMPBELL, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYST: Well, when we look at her statement specifically, what we don't know at the outset is whether she actually knew what was going on behind the scenes; whether the White House was working, you know, to scoot along, essentially, her clearance; whether there were issues and red flags that were raised. That part we don't know.

But taken in totality, where we have both -- both Ivanka and Jared Kushner, who ran into these issues and then required the overruling by the president of security -- by security officials, it's obviously very troubling.

And the thing is, is that there are two big issues here. There's obviously the nepotism issue, which we've talked about since they came on the scene. Obviously, the president is entitled to, you know, whatever counsel he wants. He can hire whoever he wants. But many of us look at that and understand that there are nepotism laws for a reason, because you don't want people -- obviously, you know, family members coming on board.

The second issue is the giant glaring security threat here, where you have these two people who, you know, intelligence officials said, "Look, there are issues here. We don't think that -- they're possibly suitable."

I think the main takeaway is, you know, I know good people who have been denied security clearances. This is not a value judgment when the government says, "We don't think you're suitable." But perhaps there are financial issues in their past, some other issue, and the government decides that this isn't someone that we to have access to the highest classified secrets in the nation.

Because at the end of the day, it's not about any personal, you know, one-on-one issue. It's what is in the best interests of the company. And it looks here that the president essentially overruled these officials, possibly overruled what's best for the country.

BERMAN: And Carrie Cordero, you know, our friend Carl Bernstein likes to say -- and he's got some experience with this -- "follow the lies."

You know, Donald Trump told "The New York Times" that he had nothing to do with Jared Kushner's security clearance. "The Times" says he did. Ivanka Trump told us her father had nothing to do with it. Our

reporting is he had everything to do with it.

Follow the lies here. What kind of questions does this raise for you?

CARRIE CORDERO, CNN LEGAL ANALYST: Well, one of the biggest issues with respect to conducting security clearance investigations is the issue of foreign influence.

So one of the purposes of the investigations is to determine whether or not an individual who would have access to sensitive national security information would be under some kind of undue influence with respect to foreign governments.

These two individuals have been engaged in conducting foreign policy, apparently. They don't seem to have any qualifications to do that, but they are at international conferences, the Munich Security Conference; conducting Middle East peace talks, apparently.

And so what it raises is why weren't they approved during the normal process without their father and father-in-law, the president, intervening to get a security clearance?

Everybody else who goes through the process can take six months, nine months, a year, but individuals who work in the White House are expedited. In a normal situation, senior officials throughout the government and especially White House officials would be expedited, assuming there are no problems.

So the fact that they weren't expedited and that their clearance was somehow stuck indicates that there was some national security issue. And so it is a legitimate oversight issue for Congress to be looking into.

CAMEROTA: Toluse, the other big question is, as you know, President Trump flouts convention and protocol all the time, such as nepotism rules and having his daughter and son-in-law work in the White House.

So why -- it's so strange when you hear Maggie Haberman's audio of asking President Trump about this, to hear him lie when John Kelly and Don McGahn wrote notes about this.

[06:25:11] And so why did he -- why was he not truthful on this one?

OLORUNNIPA: That's the big mystery about this White House. There have been so many mistruths that have been told to the American public, from the Stormy Daniels situation to the security clearances, to talk about Trump Tower Moscow that it's hard to know exactly why the president and why the people around him have been so willing to lie to the American public.

And I think that is the mystery that -- and that's the reason why we have so many subpoenas that are going over from Congress to the White House, to try to get to the bottom of why there's been so much deception and figure out whether there's anything nefarious about it, or whether or not the president was just trying to protect his children from embarrassment and say, "No, I didn't have to, you know, bail them out when they were being seen as potential national security threats." It's hard to know.

But we have seen and my newspaper has documented more than 9,000 lies and mistruths that the president has told, so it's not out of the ordinary for the president to mislead. But on this issue, he did have the power to, you know, overrule the security officials; and it's not clear why he decided to pretend that he didn't do that.

BERMAN: All right. Also breaking overnight, our friend Maggie Haberman, along with Peter Baker in "The New York Times," they obtained more checks that apparently were signed by President Trump to Michael Cohen over 2017 that Cohen says was reimbursement for the hush-money payments to Stormy Daniels.

And Josh, it's just interesting, if you look at some of the dates here of these checks. The February 14 check came just after Michael Flynn was pushed out of the White House. There was a March 17 check, the same day that the president was hosting Angela Merkel at the White House, suggesting the British had spied on the U.S. government.

And you go down this list; and it's just interesting to see that these payoffs were being made to Michael Cohen at the same time there was very important business that a president should be doing here. It's just a jarring juxtaposition.

CAMPBELL: It is, indeed. And obviously, the symbolism there, where you have a president of the United States who's having to interrupt his day to sign off a, you know, hush payment.

But what is also very interesting is that obviously, the president's main line throughout this campaign of attack against investigators is to say "No collusion, no crime. No collusion, no crime."

Now, the collusion question, that's obviously on the table. We don't know. But when you get to the idea of a crime, where this appears -- I've talked to a lot of law enforcement and legal experts -- this appears to be a campaign violation, a crime.

And so for the president to continue to say, "Look, I'm innocent. I did nothing wrong," what's so fascinating about this is that he was constantly reminded, time after time, as he took his pen and put it to paper to sign his name to payoff, you know, hush money, essentially, for this relationship. He had to have that state of mind knowing what he was doing.

And the larger question, which you know, this is all equally jarring, is what else has he done that we don't know about? If we're just learning about this, it's not beyond the realm of, you know, possibility that there are other things that may be coming to light.

CAMEROTA: I mean, truly, Carrie, just as John was saying, the juxtaposition of official government business -- hosting the prime minister of Malaysia; hosting senators to talk about tax cuts; pardoning a turkey -- at the same time that, you know, there's this alleged cover-up of this tawdry, personal scandal is interesting. However, won't President Trump just say, "This was actually a retainer

for Michael Cohen? I paid him $35,000 a month. This has nothing to do with Stormy Daniels. This was what I always paid him"?

CORDERO: Well, his own statements are going to cause him a little bit of a problem, because he has gone back and forth in his public statements about whether Michael Cohen was providing legal services, wasn't providing legal services.

Seems like it would be very hard for him to make an argument that Michael Cohen was providing legal services to him after he became president in a way that would generate those types of fees.

He is the president. You would think that the work that he would need legal advice from would be coming from the White House counsel in his official capacity.

But it also speaks to just the bigger issue of all of the things that are going on behind the scenes that are in the president's or his family's business interests that are different from the work of the United States and the work of the American people.

Just a couple days ago, he tweeted about a Scotland golf course, using his Twitter platform in order to market his private business. That implicates conflicts of interest; that implicates emoluments issues.

And so that's why there are these investigations; and these checks probably would not have come to light without the additional congressional investigation calling Michael Cohen.

BERMAN: On the very day he pardoned the turkey, he was signed a check to Michael Cohen --

CAMEROTA: Who would have thunk it?

BERMAN: -- says is for a porn star payoff. Is nothing sacred? The turkey pardons sullied in the national eye.

CAMEROTA: Thank you for framing it really so clearly.

BERMAN: All right. Toluse, Josh, Carrie, thank you.

CAMEROTA: All right. So with this growing list of investigations into President Trump's world, we asked Democratic voters a key question.

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CAMEROTA: How many of you think that the Congress should move forward with impeachment proceedings?

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CAMEROTA: OK, their answers are very interesting.