Impeachment Not Off the Table; Final Day of a National Referendum Vote in Egypt.
HOWELL: Welcome back to viewers here in the United States and around the world. This is CNN Newsroom. I am George Howell with the headlines we're following for you this hour. In Egypt, people are preparing for the third and final day of a national referendum vote. The constitutional amendments would allow the president of that nation to remain in office until 2030 and they could give him more power over legislative and judicial branches. Critics say the proposals are a step toward authoritarianism. Police in Northern Ireland are asking anyone with information for help about of death of Lyra McKee, the fatal for people to come forward about that. The prominent reporter was killed on Thursday as she covered a riot in London Dairy also known as dairy. Two teenagers had been arrested in connection with her death. They were released on Sunday without any charges. Also the deadly bombings in Sri Lanka. Policy say they have arrested two dozen people since that wave of attacks. At least 290 people were killed in eight different blasts across the island. The U.S. State Department is warning its citizens to increase caution when traveling to the island. It says terrorist groups continue plotting other possible attacks. The Catholic Archbishop of Colombo says his churches were targeted in those blast but after the members of his congregation were killed, he isn't turning the other cheek.</s>MALCOLM RANJITH, ARCHBISHOP OF COLOMBO: I would also like to ask the government to hold a very impartial strong inquiry and find out who is responsible behind this act and also to punish them mercilessly because only animals can behave like that.</s>HOWELL: Again, that was Catholic Archbishop of Colombo speaking about the Easter Sunday bombings that hit Sri Lanka. Here in the United States, Congressional Democrats are considering whether to impeach President Donald Trump this following the release of the Mueller report. The House Speaker will hold a conference call with party members on Monday afternoon to discuss what's next. Our Boris Sanchez has more on the President's reaction to the fallout from report.</s>BORIS SANCHEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: According to sources, President Trump spent the weekend and Mar-a-Lago fuming over news coverage and details in the Mueller report from former White House officials that depict a White House in chaos. President Trump is an angry and paranoid president and aides who either refuse or ignore many of his orders. Meantime, the President's attorney, Rudy Giuliani took to the Sunday morning talk shows. He spoke with Jake Tapper on "STATE OF THE UNION" and did any press him on a question about the behavior of some Trump campaign officials and whether they behave ethically or morally. Listen to what he said.</s>RUDY GIULIANI, PRESIDENT TRUMP'S ATTORNEY: There is nothing wrong with taking information from Russians.</s>JAKE TAPPER, CNN CHIEF WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: There's nothing wrong with taking information --</s>GIULIANI: It depends on where it came from. It depends on where it came from. You're assuming that the giving of information is a campaign contribution. Read the report carefully. The report says we can't conclude that because the law is pretty much against that. Do you -- people get information from this person, in that person.</s>SANCHEZ: The strategy being deployed by the White House is one that we've seen before, they're now calling into question the credibility of many of those that were interviewed by the Special Counsel. We should also point out, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is set to hold a conference call at 5:00 p.m. on Monday with the Democratic Caucus to discuss potential for impeaching President Trump. Impeachment was on the President's mind on Sunday evening when he tweeted this. He writes, "How do you want to impeach a Republican President for a crime that was committed by the Democrats? Make America great again." Boris Sanchez, CNN, traveling with the President in Palm Beach, Florida.</s>HOWELL: Boris, thank you for the reporting. Now, for context, let's bring in Peter Mathews. Peter is a political analyst joining us this hour from Los Angeles. A pleasure, Peter.</s>PETER MATHEWS, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST: Good to hear from you, George.</s>HOWELL: Let's start with the President's Attorney, Rudy Giuliani essentially saying there's nothing wrong with taking information from Russians, he says, it all just depends upon where it came from. What do you make of that assessment?</s>MATHEWS: I think it's absolutely wrong because United States Democracy means that the Americans people choose the leader who will choose our policies not some foreign government's influence. That's against principle for sAUDIBLE) contribution is totally illegal. So he was way off. And Giuliani is striking off widely, by calling people hit men, you know, investigators for the Mueller team calling Andrew Weissmann a hit man. What kind of counter attack is this? He should just accept what is happening and let the procedures of regular investigations by the House of Representatives going to through</s>HOWELL: Boris did point out in his report. Mr. Trump is angry about former staffers who according to sources describe a White House that is in chaos with some of his own people refusing to carry out his orders. He is angry about that apparently, but isn't that the case, Peter, that the actions of some of some -- of some of those staffers may have saved Mr. Trump from actual obstruction of justice?</s>MATHEWS: Exactly. That's the irony of the whole thing because for example, Mr. Trump ordered the White House Counsel Don McGahn to get in touch can sold on McGahn get in touch with to recuse himself, against the advice of other people who said not to do that. The fact is Don McGahn disobeyed the President and state the President's height, otherwise he would have been in big trouble and this would have been a clear quite obstruction of justice case. That's the kind we're talking about, it's very ironic actually but it is true.</s>HOWELL: Now looking ahead for Democrats it does come down to the question of whether they should lean in into more investigations whether they should consider impeachment proceedings or whether they should focus rather on the issues that are important to people on Main Street ahead of the 2020 election. Republicans warned if they don't do that, Peter, it could backfire on them. Which hand do you see Democrats playing most aggressively in the months ahead?</s>MATHEWS: I think they should really try to play both hands because it's both their duty to pass legislation, the legislative branch after all but also it's important the executive branch which the constitution says they're the ones who supposed to investigate. The House represents clearly given the duty as being a grand jury to investigate that the president has committed so-called high crime misdemeanors. If so, they have to come out and vote for impeachment. But first of all, investigate I would say. Don't do it prematurely but investigate right now and then decide whether you can come up with an article of impeachment or not, will it need to. As far as the duty of the Congress, a very important duty of the House and the trial on the Senate for trial or removal of the President, that remains to be seen it can be done or not. But the Congress should not give up its duty just because of Trade cannot do it or cannot do in the next election. That's not very conducive to Democracy, George, in my view.</s>HOWELL: OK. But when it comes down to public perception, here is the question, Peter, you know, obviously lawmakers on Capitol Hill, they are focused on many of the details of this report. Do people care about those details looking ahead at this --</s>MATHEWS: Well, I can tell you this. In the most recent polling after that report hit, the President has lot three percent of his approval rating, he's down to 37 President percent off from 40 percent because people saw this -- Mr. Mueller cannot clear him. Mr. Mueller came and report and said that he conclude that he cannot assure that no criminal conduct had occurrence. So</s>HOWELL: Peter Mathews at Los Angeles. Peter, thank you.</s>MATHEWS: My pleasure. Thank you.</s>HOWELL: And the note to viewers, you can hear five of the Democrats hoping to take Mr. Trump's job next year. Later on Monday, CNN is hosting back to back town hall meetings with Senators Amy Klobuchar, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris and Mayor Pete rounds up. The five town halls. It all starts at 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time in the United States, midnight London here on CNN. Eight years ago, a devastating earthquake Northeastern Japan. Unleashing a savage tsunami and a nuclear disaster. And now a soccer field reopened more than just half ways to kick the football though. It's a symbol of hope. We'll have that story ahead. Stay with us. Plus, a severe weather in Canada. It's brought deadly results. We'll bring you the details.