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But the fight back has begun.

If there is any President who could bear such strain, who would perhaps relish the struggle, prosper amid its cacophony and be willing to cross all sorts of conventional lines to stay alive, it would surely be Trump.

As a youth at New York Military Academy, the future President learned one thing above all else: "life is about survival. It's always about survival," according to writer Michael D'Antonio in his biography of Trump.

It's been Trump's motto ever since, no matter the collateral damage and the cost of legal battles and reputational hits, personal scandals and bankruptcies.

Now America is about to be dragged along on Trump's most existential struggle yet. Survival in a personal and political sense now defines his life, with Robert Mueller's report expected to be filed soon and Democrats unfurling an oversight blitz that could lead to impeachment.

When House Democrats on Monday unveiled a mammoth document demand from a list of 81 potential witnesses linked to Trump's businesses, campaigns, presidency and family, he and aides initially pledged cooperation.

But the mask soon slipped.

Trump responded on Tuesday according to his creed, with a promise of all-out confrontation and a searing blast at his enemies.

"It's a disgrace. It's a disgrace to our country," he said, accusing Democrats of being consumed by anger at their loss in 2016, and framing the coming fight as an extension of his 2020 re-election campaign.

Trump's press secretary, Sarah Sanders, set the vituperative tone of a fight against a Democratic majority seeking to expose the President as historically corrupt.

"Democrats have embarked on a fishing expedition because they are terrified that their two year false narrative of 'Russia collusion' is crumbling," Sanders said in a statement on Monday night. "The Democrats are not after the truth, they are after the President."

An enemy in his sights

Sanders and everyone else inside the White House are about to endure the bitter, full-on misery of a multi-front oversight campaign. That means a blizzard of subpoenas, officials being hauled up to Capitol Hill to testify under penalty of perjury and a mountain of legal bills.

But Trump has lived in the eye of such storms for much of his adult life, and he comes to the fight with certain advantages.

His clash with House Democrats will give him the foil in the form of his Democratic tormentors that he's lacked ever since his 2016 campaign. This President is always most effective with an enemy to define himself against.

The duel will serve to unite the Republican Party in Washington behind the President -- amid some signs of cracks opening in the GOP edifice in the Senate, at least, over his national emergency declaration.

It will be a rallying moment that will enrage and enthuse Trump's base ahead of the 2020 campaign. That may mean he can avoid risky strategies, such as the disastrous government shutdown, to keep his troops motivated.

Republicans are already working off the Trump playbook, which is designed to present him as the victim of unfair presidential persecution by Democrats.

"He just believes they are out to take a wrecking ball to his life," Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said Tuesday after meeting the President. "They'll go nuts."

Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas warned that the Democratic investigation was less about finding the truth and more about ousting a President.

"It's all about setting up the stage for impeachment proceedings. That's pretty clear," Cornyn told CNN's Manu Raju.

Republicans make such arguments in the knowledge that the nation, despite Trump's unpopularity and widespread suspicions about his conduct, is not yet ready for the trauma of the third impeachment drama in 50 years.

Still, a new 

Quinnipiac University poll 

shows a public appetite for investigations. Some 64% of respondents thought Trump had committed crimes before he became President. Even 33% of Republicans thought so. But Trump's approval rating among GOP voters still stood at 82%, suggesting that some of their numbers think he's a criminal but don't care.

But only 35% of those polled thought that Democrats should initiate impeachment proceedings against the President -- a number that explains the party's caution in the messaging around its investigations.

Did Democrats cast the net too wide?

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Multiple presidential aides told CNN's Kaitlan Collins on Tuesday that they were surprised at the expansive nature of House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler's document request. The belief is that Democrats -- blasting the White House on multiple fronts -- miscalculated by not making a more targeted opening burst.

Officials are already planning to push back on the expansive witness demands and to preserve what they say is the President's right to confidentiality, a sign that grueling fights are looming over executive privilege.

There were already signs of that strategy rolling into action on Tuesday.

House Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings complained that the White House had refused requests for documents and witnesses for an inquiry into what he says are security clearance "abuses" in the West Wing.

"The White House's argument defies the Constitutional separation of powers, decades of precedent before this Committee, and just plain common-sense," Cummings said in a statement.

A White House official, however, told CNN's Jim Acosta that the Maryland Democrat was demanding documents he was not entitled to under the law.

The swift escalation of the dispute left the committee to consider whether to issue subpoenas to get information, a step that could spark a legal scenario that could be repeated scores of times in the coming months.

Prolonged legal tussles will not just frustrate Democrats. They will take months, churn all the way through the court system and delay any final accounting for the President -- possibly until the heat of the 2020 campaign.

Executive privilege -- the idea that the President has a right to confidential counsel from top officials -- has not been widely litigated in the courts, meaning that legal cases might eventually make their laborious way all the way to the Supreme Court.

That would suit Trump just fine.

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The coming battle will be fought on a legal as well as a political front.

Some Washington veterans remember that the Republican impeachment of Bill Clinton in the late 1990s eventually backfired on the party, given that the public didn't believe the President's transgression -- effectively lying under oath about sex -- met the constitutional bar of "high crimes and misdemeanors."

Clinton, with his legendary capacity to compartmentalize, presided over a White House that fought hard against Capitol Hill investigations.

But he also went out of his way to show that he was doing his job, leading the country through a period of economic prosperity, in a way that made efforts to bring him down appear petty and inappropriate.

One of Clinton's antagonists, who voted as a House member to impeach him, drew lessons from that long-ago fight.

"You just have to put your head down, fight back and govern the country -- that's what Clinton did," Graham said, saying Trump should now challenge the Democrats to "fix problems."

There was more than an echo of Clintonian rhetoric in Trump's public statement on Tuesday, delivered as he signed an executive order tackling an epidemic of suicide among veterans.

"Instead of doing infrastructure, instead of doing health care, instead of doing so many things that they should be doing, they want to play games," Trump said of his Democratic opponents. "It's too bad because I'd rather see them do legislation."

The Clinton parallel may not be exact, however.

At the start of his impeachment drama in 1998, Clinton was far more popular than Trump, with his approval rating measured by Gallup at 58%. He never went below 60% in the brutal year that followed, hit 73% after he was impeached and settled at 66% after he was acquitted in a Senate trial.

According to the Quinnipiac poll, Trump is at 38% approval. And while a recent Wall Street Journal/NBC poll had him at 46%, his numbers rarely move beyond a narrow range, with favorability well below a majority of voters.

That means Trump may not be able to bank on high personal popularity during the most dangerous political moments of his presidency.

His scattershot approach to the office suggests he lacks the discipline that sustained Clinton. And Trump's incessant claims that he is the victim of "hoax" investigations and attempts to tear down the guardrails surrounding his office often give the impression that he has something to hide.

And for all the years of controversies and scandals that plagued Clinton, the 42nd President was never the focus of so many credible civil and criminal investigations as are bearing down on Trump.

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Could Trump be running a criminal enterprise like former Detroit mayor Kilpatrick's?

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Perhaps President Donald Trump and former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick aren't so different. Both are charismatic figures — Trump as a celebrity businessman, Kilpatrick as Detroit's former "Hip-hop Mayor." 

But there's another crucial comparison to be made between the two men, according to Barbara McQuade, former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan. According to McQuade, the new probe launched by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York into Trump's dealings looks a lot like the investigation that McQuade and her team of prosecutors led that landed Kilpatrick behind bars. 

Writing an opinion piece for 

The Daily Beast

, McQuade says the SDNY investigation appears to involve money laundering, fraud, and conspiracy —the very things that doomed Kilpatrick. The SDNY is seeking documents from Trump's inaugural committee, which brought in a record $107 million in donations, to probe whether those funds were used as part of mail fraud, wire fraud, money laundering, and violations of campaign finance and inaugural committee laws. 

McQuade says the investigation reminds her of how she was able ensnare Kilpatrick with the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO, a statute passed in 1970 that made it a crime for a mob boss to direct underlings to commit crimes. 

McQuade writes: 

In Kilpatrick’s case, he and others were charged with RICO conspiracy. The alleged enterprise in his case was an association of the former mayor, his father, a contractor, and certain members of his administration. The indictment alleged that the group constituted an ongoing organization whose members functioned as a continuing unit for a common purpose of achieving the objectives of the enterprise. Those objectives were to financially enrich the members of the enterprise, their associates, and their family members by extortion, bribery, fraud, and obstruction of justice.

"I have been asked before about whether the special counsel’s investigation could result in RICO charges, and I have thought that RICO was a bridge too far," McQuade writes, referring to Robert Mueller's investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to interfere in the 2016 election. But now that SDNY could now be investigating Trump's inaugural committee and the Trump Organization, "the theory does not seem so far-fetched," she says. 

Ironically — or, perhaps, not — Trump attorney and cheerleader Rudy Giuliani is very familiar with RICO, using it to great effect when he led the SDNY in the 1980s to take down crime family enterprises. 

RICO violations could lead to penalties of 20 years in prison and forfeiture of the proceeds of the racketeering activity. However, Justice Department guidelines state that a sitting president cannot be indicted, and the statue of limitations for RICO is up to five years after the last racketeering act is committed. So if, say, the Trump Organization committed any violations after Jan. 20, 2016, "the statute of limitations would not preclude an indictment from being filed on Jan. 20, 2021, the moment a president is sworn in, so long as that president is not Donald Trump." 

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The refusal to provide the documents increases the likelihood that House Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings will issue a subpoena for the information.

Cummings told CNN on Tuesday that "when you cannot get information, you cannot be a check," and said Trump's administration is "reluctant" to give the committee "the information that we need to do our job." The Maryland Democrat said that "under the Constitution, we have a duty -- it's not some witch hunt, it's a duty, a sworn duty, by the way -- to be a check on the executive branch."

The chairman added, "We will very carefully consider our next options, and we will do things that are responsible and consistent with the Constitution."

Cummings did not say if he would issue a subpoena, but said, "I am very careful in what I do," adding, "I want to make sure that there's clear transparency and that there's accountability."

White House counsel Pat Cipollone 

sent a letter

 to Cummings on Monday calling the demands by the committee "radically intrusive," and did not answer the range of questions the committee had posed. The letter argues that the committee does not have legal grounds to make the requests regarding the security clearances, and says the White House has "constitutional objections" to the requests. 

"We will not concede the Executive's constitutional prerogatives or allow the Committee to jeopardize the individual privacy rights of current and former Executive Branch employees," the letter reads. 

The letter notes an offer to make available the Executive Office of the President's chief security officer to brief the committee, and says the White House has "agreed to allow the Committee to review White House documents relating to the process for adjudicating clearances."

In January, Cummings announced his committee was launching an investigation into the White House's handling of its security clearance process. He cited at the time what he called grave breaches of national security at the highest level, including by Michael Flynn, Trump's former national security adviser, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI. 

After 

The New York Times reported last week

 that the President had personally overruled concerns by career intelligence officials to secure a security clearance for Kushner, Cummings renewed his demand for answers related to the clearance process. 

CNN reported Tuesday 

that Trump had pressured his then-chief of staff, John Kelly, and then-White House counsel Don McGahn to grant his daughter and senior adviser Ivanka Trump, Kushner's wife, a security clearance against their recommendations, according to three people familiar with the matter. 

A White House official told CNN they believe Cummings is playing games with the White House. The official said the lawmaker is demanding documents that they say he knows he is not entitled to under the law. 

Cummings said in a statement Tuesday, "There is a key difference between a president who exercises his authority under the constitution and a president who overrules career experts and his top advisers to benefit his family members and then conceals his actions from the American people." 

CNN's Manu Raju, Lauren Fox and Jim Acosta contributed to this report.

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'I Didn't Lie' About NSA Surveillance Program, I 'Didn't Understand' Question

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James Clapper: ‘I Didn’t Lie’ To Congress About NSA Surveillance, I ‘Simply Didn’t Understand’ The Question – Mediaite

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Former National Security Agency Director James Clapper said he did not lie about mass domestic surveillance programs when he testified to Congress in 2013, but rather he made a mistake and did not understand what specific program was being asked about.

CNN’s John Berman asked for Clapper’s reaction to The Intercept’s Glen Greenwald report: “The very first NSA program we revealed from Snowden documents, the mass domestic spying program of Americans’ phone records which James Clapper lied about and Obama insisted was vital to national security has been shut down.”

“Well, the original thought behind this, and this program was put in place as a direct result of 9/11, the point was to be able to track quickly a foreign communicant talking to somebody in this country who may have been plotting a terrorist plot, and was put in place during the Bush Administration for that reason,” Clapper said. “I always regarded it as kind of a safeguard or insurance policy so that if the need came up you would have this to refer to.”

“As far as the comment, the allegation about my lying, I didn’t lie, I made a big mistake and I just simply didn’t understand what I was being asked about. I thought of another surveillance program, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act when I was being asked about Section 215 of the Patriot Act at the time, I just didn’t understand that” he continued.

When Berman said because it has been reported no terrorists have been caught using the surveillance program, he asked Clapper if it suggests it does not work.

“Well, that’s true, and I think probably at the time contemporaneously back 2013 or so when all this broke that we may have oversold it a bit because, you know, we were hard-pressed to point out to a specific case in point,” Clapper admitted. “What this was was just trying to capitalize on the lesson learned from 9/11. I will say that — and I’ve said this publicly many times before, that what this did prove was the need for the intelligence community to have been more transparent.”

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Photo: Ernst Urhlau, former chief of BND and later the “consultant on geopolitical risks” for the Deutsche Bank, and the political ally of Gerhard Schroeder. Uhrlau was the chief of the Hamburg police when the core group of 9/11 hijackers, the so called Hamburg Cell, lived and received training there. He was uncooperative and hostile towards 9/11 Investigation inquiries.

The most successful and spectacular bankruptcy protection for Donald Trump: the Presidency of the United States

M.N.: If Trump’s (and Kushner’s) debts are held by the Russian banks, specifically by the Sberbankand VEB (who bought them at a discount, with the group of oligarchs as guarantors, from the Deutsche Bank, probably somewhere up to 10B), this might be his most spectacular win in fighting his bankruptcies. The Russians will have the great difficulty in collecting this debt in cash or real estate from the American President. And for Trump, the Presidency was the only and the only sure way to avoid this bankruptcy, by peddling his favors to the Russians. This hypothesis might be able to explain the major dynamics between the players but the details, mechanisms, persons and personalities, etc., etc. have to be investigated and elucidated. 

And this is the only thing he was really good at: the bankruptcy protection fights. 

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Representative Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said in a statement that Goldman joined the panel in February as senior adviser and director of investigations. Schiff also named a new budget director and three other people for various roles.

US Representative Jerrold Nadler.Credit:AP

The committee's probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible collusion with the Trump campaign has taken on new life since the Democrats took control of the House in November elections.

The panel is set to hear testimony from Michael Cohen, the president's onetime "fixer," for a second time on Wednesday since he turned on his former boss.

Goldman was an assistant US attorney in the Southern District of New York for a decade through 2017, serving as the lead prosecutor in the conviction of Las Vegas sports gambler William "Billy" Walters for insider trading.

But likely more relevant to the committee's probe is Goldman's tenure as deputy of the Southern District's Organised Crime Unit, where he oversaw a major Russian mob case against more than 30 individuals for money laundering and racketeering.

Goldman has also worked as a legal analyst for NBC News and MSNBC, commenting on Special Counsel Robert Mueller's 22-month-old investigation into links between the Trump campaign and Russia. NBC did not return a request for comment.

Goldman attended last northern summer's trial of former Trump campaign Chairman Paul Manafort and was at the December sentencing of Cohen, who is due to start a three-year sentence in May for violating campaign finance laws and other crimes.

As the wheels continue to turn to the investigation into Trump's ties with Russia, a federal judge said on Tuesday that the publication of a book last month by the president's former political adviser which criticised Special Counsel Robert Mueller Roger Stone may violate a media gag order.

The transgression could land the self-proclaimed "dirty trickster" behind bars.

Judge Amy Berman Jackson for the US District Court for the District of Columbia ordered Stone and his lawyers to provide her with a report by Monday explaining how he plans to comply with the order, and also demanded that he turn over certain records detailing everything he knew about the book's release.

"There is no question that the order prohibited and continues to prohibit the defendant from making any public statements, using any medium, concerning the investigation," Jackson wrote.

"It does not matter when the defendant may have first formulated the opinions expressed, or when he first put them into words: he may no longer share his views on these particular subjects with the world."

Stone, a longtime Republican operative, is the 34th person to face charges as part of Mueller's investigation into whether Trump's campaign colluded with Russia.

He has pleaded not guilty to seven counts of obstruction, witness tampering and making false statements.

Trump has denied any collusion with Russia occurred and called Mueller's probe a witch hunt.

Shortly after Stone was charged, Jackson gave him wide latitude to discuss the case against him as long as it was not in the vicinity of the federal courthouse.

But just days later, she tightened the reins with a sweeping gag order after Stone posted a photo of her on his Instagram account next to an image resembling the crosshairs of a gun and a message critical of both her and Mueller.

In issuing her gag order on February 21, Jackson warned Stone he would not have a second chance if he violated it. She also said his apologies about the posting, which was later removed, rang hollow.

After the gag order, Jackson learned that a 2017 book by Stone originally titled The Making of the President 2016 had been re-published under the name The Myth of Russian Collusion and that it criticised Mueller in its introduction.

In addition, Stone also in March posted an item on Instagram that said "Who framed Roger Stone." It was later removed.

Stone's lawyers have said the book does not violate the gag order because it came out on February 19, before the order was issued.

But Jackson blasted them for failing to disclose it to her when they had the chance, and said Stone must provide her with records including communications with the publisher, information on the publication of the book and other details related to his Instagram posts.

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